Theatres on film

Theatres on filmThis book focuses on the significance and effect of theatrical subject matter in key films in several genres, and ranges from Busby Berkeley to Ingmar Bergman, and from the haunted backstage world of The Phantom of the Opera to the sinister glamour of The Red Shoes and the theatrical politics of Mephisto and The Lives of Others.

A masterpiece collection of historical ghost stories depicting the pathos of lower-class samurai who live for and are held captive by the sword

the documents and the fictions of 1851

This book interprets the later murals of the Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros in light of his Marxist internationalism

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politics and society of Weimar and in particular at the role of the elites in the rise of Nazism

To navigate these many and complex topics

This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections

Shaping a global women’s agenda documents the crucial and central role of women’s international organisations played at the League of Nations and at the United Nations as the NGOs interjected concerns for women’s and human rights into the global governance system

The Atlantic community seems to be in crisis and it is time to critically rethink past narratives and traditional frameworks of transatlantic relations

exploring how theatre goes beyond norms and nationalistic concepts to intersect with politics

updated interviews with artists in the field and a critique of the commercial videogame industry

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