Sophia Loren

Sophia LorenEuropean stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars. This unique book sets out to highlight the career of Sophia Loren as a prime example of a highly original rise to fame in a European context. Pauline Small emphasizes that although primarily an Italian star, Lorens career crossed the boundaries of a shifting network of film making ventures that spanned

and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) deal with the European Union (EU)

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this study offers a reading of Rego’s work that interrogates

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heterosexual constructs of gender

Peter Weir's three-decade creative journey from Australia to Hollywood is considered in light of the recent theories on transnational cinema and through an examination of four key films

A Manchester Guardian journalist for over four decades

and contradictions between Brecht's theatrical practices and his everyday life

the French Socialist Party (PS)

What explains the remarkable recovery now underway in Asia

including Russian and Islamist assaults on the West

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