Stage & Screen

26 September, 1937, was the day the infamous blues singer Bessie Smith died. This tragic event is the setting for Edward Albee's The Death of Bessie Smith, which addresses the myth that Bessie was refused admittance to a 'whites-only' hospital before she died. The Sandbox is an absurdist play detailing ...

Cardiff East 'As scene melts into scene, onea?Ts appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life.

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden.

The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain.

Film directors recognize that neurologic disease impacts mind and motility and often use it in a plot or defining scene. It should be informative and educational to deconstruct neurologic representation in film. Neurocinema: When Film Meets Neurology is a collection of film essays that summarize the ...

For more than 90 years, Disney has captured imaginations with pioneering entertainment and storytelling for all ages.
With amazing, rarely seen art and artifact from the archives and libraries of the Walt Disney Company, experience the magic of Disney in one beautiful and captivating book.

Sebastian Barry's new play explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival, reconciliation and love.

Disaster never made it to court. Since 2012 the government has made sweeping cuts to the provision of legal aid. This book tells the stories of ordinary people whose access to legal aid has been denied, examining how the cuts are driving ever deeper cracks into the fabric of our society.

The riveting, poignant, star-studded and hilarious memoir of award-winning author Clancy Sigal's time as a film agent on the make in Blacklist-era Hollywood.

Analysing the film's narrative system, issues of genre, authorship, social history, homesickness and 'family values', Diane Negra shows how the film's impeccable narrative structure is wedded to radical ideological content, linking the film's terrors to the punishing effects of looking beyond conventional family and gender roles.

Ealing Studios, located in the West London suburb from which it takes its name, is one of the best loved and best known of all British cinema institutions. It has become a brand name representing a particular kind of institutional practice, a community of film-makers working together in a defined location, ...

Notable for his uncompromising honesty and a wit both fierce and fearless, Simon Gray's voice was uniquely his own - intelligent, probing and often outrageously funny. He faced life - and death - with unflinching courage and defiant humanity;

This book gathers 110 of the most outstanding TV series of recent decades, offering insightful overviews of storylines, themes and characters, while providing recommendations, tasters, trivia and teases.

Tells the story of William Shakespeare, from his birth in Stratford-upon-Avon and life as a married man, actor, playwright, poet and businessman to the enduring legacy of his work through various media.

Exploring the relationship between film and other art forms, this book looks at new approaches to thinking about film. Peter Wollen's new book is based on the premise that there are no fixed ways of writing about cinema, but, rather a plethora of paths leading in very different directions.

With an introduction by Richard Eyre, the contributors include Alan Bates, Eileen Diss, Lindsay Duncan, Simon Gray, David Hare, Ronald Harwood, Douglas Hodge, Patrick Marber, Louis Marks, Ian McDiarmid and Jonathan Kent, Edna O'Brien, Peggy Paterson, John Pilger, Hilary Wainwright, Janet Whitaker, Penelope Wilton, Robert Winder, and Henry Woolf.

Warm, funny, surprising, and energetic photos of the world's most popular action star - The Rock - featuring twenty years worth of candids, family photographs, and snapshots from movie sets.

American Movie Audiences examines the place of Hollywood cinema in the everyday life of its spectators from its beginnings to the arrival of sound. Previously, little has been known of early audiences and their response to the films of the day and this book brings together an array of fresh research ...

Examining performance and politics in post-revolutionary Cuba, Dangerous Moves challenges the understanding of performance art and political engagement through a sustained analysis of the contemporary experience in Cuba. Coco Fusco analyzes the ways that the Cuban state has wielded influence over artists ...