Idols of the Odeons

Idols of the OdeonsThis book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry.

Free sample: Introduction by Kate Aughterson

It also charts the development of an array of financial visualisations

In this lively and stimulating book Derek Birley looks at the part it played in shaping British society

Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent

The realistically depicted setting

Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible

and how its effects are still felt internationally today

these two currents share in common a rejection of Enlightenment humanism

Frontiers of Screen History is an edited collection that provides an insightful exploration into the depiction and imagination of European borders in cinema after the Second World War

Performing presence combines extensive analysis

His is the first book to consider in detail Sleepwalkers

Using a broad range of contemporary source material