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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureJune 2024Round our way
Sam Hanna's visual legacy
by Heather Nicholson
Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the 'Lowry of filmmaking' by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna's remarkable output. Hanna's intimate glimpses into the lives of strangers enable us to imagine the possible stories that lie behind the images. Away from mid-century exponents of documentary filmmaking and photography, Hanna shows us humanity and a microcosm of a world in change, where his subjects are caught up in issues far beyond their grasp that we, as onlookers years later, encounter and see afresh. Written and curated by historian Heather Norris Nicholson, Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document Hanna's unique visual record on film, particularly in northern England, but also further afield, during decades of profound change.
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Business, Economics & LawMay 2024Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making
The pandemic and beyond
by Caroline Redhead, Melanie Smallman
This book is a powerful addition to a developing literature informed by arts and humanities research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic. Investigating the impacts of crisis governance and decision-making on people and populations, the book brings together microbial organisms and humans, children and data, decision-making and infection prevention, publics and process, global vaccine distribution and citizens' juries. Through its eight chapters, the book stimulates broadly-drawn discussions about exceptional executive powers in an emergency, the role of trust, and the importance of the principles of good governance - such as selflessness, ethics, integrity, accountability and honesty in leadership. The lessons drawn out in this book will support future decision-makers in both ordinary times and extra-ordinary emergencies.
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Film theory & criticismFebruary 2014The Encyclopedia of British Film
Fourth edition
by Edited by Brian McFarlane
With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with detailed listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. Brian McFarlane's meticulously researched guide is the definitive companion for anyone interested in the world of film. Previous editions have sold many thousands of copies and this fourth edition will be an essential work of reference for enthusiasts interested in the history of British cinema, and for universities and libraries.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2026Anti-racism in Britain
by Saffron East, Grace Redhead, Theo Williams
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The ArtsNovember 2011Real and Reel
The education of a film critic
by Brian McFarlane
From a little before ten years of age Brian McFarlane became addicted to stories told on the screen, and the mere fact that he had difficulty in getting to see the films he wanted - or any for that matter - only made them seem more alluring. But it wasn't just seeing the films that mattered: he also wanted, and quite soon needed, to be writing about them and these obsessions have been part of his life for the next sixty-odd years. Real and reel is a light-hearted and but deeply felt account of a lifetime's addiction. It is one particular writer and critic's story, but it will strike sparks among many others. Though many other interests have kept Brian McFarlane's life lively, nothing else has exerted such a long-standing grip on the author's imagination as film. Editor of the Encyclopaedia of British Cinema, co-editor of Manchester University Press's British Film Makers series, and author of over a dozen critical works on film and adaptation, Brian McFarlane's autobiographical Real and reel can also be read as a biography of the subject of Film Studies itself. ;
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March 2026Penny, Prince und Ginny
Die Hunde meines Lebens
by Brian Sewell, Sally Ann Lasson, Claudia Feldmann
Voller Zuneigung schildert der »berühmteste und umstrittenste« (The Guardian) Kunstkritiker und Kolumnist Großbritanniens, Brian Sewell, die besonderen Beziehungen zwischen Mensch und Hund – ehrlich, berührend und mit feinem Humor. Ein außergewöhnliches Buch über Freundschaft, Vertrauen und das Glück, sein Leben mit Hunden zu teilen. Hunde begleiteten Brian Sewell von frühester Kindheit bis ins hohe Alter. Sie teilten sein Zuhause, sein Leben und oft auch sein Bett, waren ihm Freunde, Vertraute und Tröster in schweren Zeiten. Vom edlen Whippet über Schäferhund, Boxer und Jack Russell bis zum undefinierbaren Mischling – meist waren es Tiere mit Schicksal: ausgesetzt, verletzt, im Tierheim zurückgelassen, und doch voller Lebensfreude, mit unverwechselbarem Charakter und von unerschütterlicher Treue.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2006British representations of the Spanish Civil War
by Brian Shelmerdine
This book looks at the reception of the Spanish Civil War in British popular culture, and how supporters of both sides in Britain used the rhetoric and imagery of the conflict to bolster support for their respective causes in the arena of British public opinion. Brian Shelmerdine finds that traditional notions of Spain as a country of bullfighting, bandits and flamenco were pervasive and were significant in shaping wider UK government policy towards Spain. He carefully assesses the different political perceptions of the 1930s Spanish scene, the role of the Catholic Church, the depiction of the two sides in terms of class, race and ethnicity, humanitarian appeals, and the plight of the Basques. The book is fluently written, and should make fascinating and entertaining reading for scholars of British society and culture in the twentieth century, as well as those investigating international impact of the Spanish Civil War. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2013Comedy, caricature and the social order, 1820–50
by Brian Maidment
Offering an overview of the marketplace for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the interest and importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It considers the impact on the development of print culture of the emergent, but soon widespread, use of lithography and wood engraving, both capable of integrating texts and images cheaply and imaginatively on the printed page. Drawing on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures, this book traces the ways in which Regency and early Victorian visual humour both sustains some of the characteristics of an earlier caricature tradition while also beginning to develop new ways of analyzing and coping with social change through comic forms and genres. ;
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October 2024Today I’ll Steal His Heart (2)
Humorvolle Fake-Dating-Romance. SPIEGEL-Bestseller (Die Today-Reihe 2). Mit Farbschnitt. Exklusiv nur in der 1. Auflage: Charakterkarte
by Bianca Wege
Die heißersehnte Fortsetzung der Today-Reihe von BookTok-Bestseller-Autorin Bianca Wege! India braucht dringend ein Date für die Hochzeit ihrer Mutter. Wie gut, dass sie versprochen hat, ihren Freund mitzubringen – den es gar nicht gibt. Da kommt ihr die neue Dating-App der Uni gerade recht und das Match mit Brian gibt ihr Hoffnung auf eine passende Begleitung. Doch India hat die Rechnung ohne Asher Woods gemacht. Der Volleyballspieler hat eine Mission: India den Kopf zu verdrehen. Diese ist leider nicht so einfach zu überzeugen, wie er dachte. Als er ihr anbietet, sie auf die Hochzeit zu begleiten, ist das Chaos perfekt. Denn nun muss India sich entscheiden: Entweder für Brian, den sie noch nie getroffen hat oder für Asher, der bei ihr mehr Gefühle auslöst, als sie sich eingestehen will … In Band 2 der Today-Reihe bekommt Laylas Mitbewohnerin India endlich ihre eigene Romance. Mit Farbschnitt und exklusiv nur in der 1. Auflage mit Charakterkarte! »Ich habe schon lange nicht mehr so viel gelacht wie mit India, Asher und Brian. Selten war Fake Dating so amüsant!« Stella Tack, SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Weitere Bücher von Bianca Wege:Today I’ll Talk to Him
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2025China as context
Anthropology, post-globalisation and the neglect of China
by Di Wu, Andrea E. Pia, Ed Pulford
Decades-old calls to promote the significance of China for anthropological theory and the social sciences more generally ring more urgently today given China's importance to social, political and economic life globally. Yet Chinese-grounded ideas remain marginal to the discipline, and scholarly discussions retain a sense of China as an 'Other' apart from the 'real' world, and thus unsuitable or generating widely applicable theoretical ideas. Inspired by East Asian postcolonial scholarship, this volume tackles this unsettling situation head-on, arguing that without taking China seriously as a powerful agent, a locus of knowledge production, and a new discursive topos of an emerging post-global imaginary, anthropologists and other social scientists may fail to adequately analyse the global present and make sense of both the material and immaterial forces that animate it, wherever and however they work. Amid the end of Western globalisation and shifting anthropological understandings of relations between ethnography and theory, we show how 'China' must be understood as the ordinary 'context' for anthropological research practices worldwide.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Revolution in China and Russia
Reorganizing empires into nation states
by Luyang Zhou
Most scholars believe that China's nationality policy, like that of other socialist states, imitated the Soviet nationality model, a system which has been termed an "affirmative action empire." This book offers two contributions to the literature which run counter to this convention. First, it argues that the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Soviet Union (USSR) were different; while the PRC was aimed to build an ideal-typical nation-state, the USSR was an open union of nation-states that was only temporarily confined to a physical territory. Second, while scholars who have noted this difference attribute it to contextual factors, such as ethnic structure, geopolitical status, and Russia's intervention into the Chinese Revolution, this book contends that context shaped the Sino-Soviet difference, yet it did not determine it. Rather, there was significant leeway between the implications of the contextual factors, and what the policy-designers ultimately established. This book probes who held agency, and how these individuals bridged this gap.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Britain in China
by Robert Bickers
This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.
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MedicineJune 2025Head in the game
Sociocultural analyses of brain trauma in sport
by Stephen Townsend, Murray G. Phillips, Gary Osmond, Rebecca Olive
Head in the game brings together international scholars from multiple humanities, social science, and scientific disciplines to critically examine one of the most vexing issues in global sport: concussion. It argues that science and medicine alone cannot solve the concussion crisis: sociocultural factors must also be considered. This edited collection draws attention to the ways that social, cultural, historical, political, literary, philosophical, and legal factors have shaped the concussion crisis in sport. Head in the game is essential reading for those who want to understand how the concussion crisis came to be, and provides guidance for developing ethical and evidence-based solutions in the future.
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May 1989Spectaculum 48
Sechs moderne Theaterstücke
by Inge Greiffenhagen
Sechs moderne Theaterstücke Brian Friel Väter und Christopher HamptonGefährliche Liebschaften Bodo Kirchhoff Die verdammte Marie Felix Mitterer Stigma Marco Antonio de la Parra Solo für Carlos und Sigmund Bernard-Marie Koltès In der Einsamkeit der Baumwollfelder Beiträge von Michael Fröhling, Ernst Grohotolsky, Peter Iden, Walter Methlagl, Marco Antonio de la Parra und Michael Raab Brian Friel: Vater und Söhne „Väter“, das ist die Generation liberaler Aristokraten des 19. Jahrhunderts, die das Elend der Leibeigenen sehen, aber zu radikalen Konsequenzen außerstande sind. Ihre „Söhne“, rebellische Studenten, die sich selbst Nihilisten nennen, stellen dagegen alles in Frage: „Die Welt muss neu geschaffen werden.“Brian Friel, der bedeutendste irische Dramatiker der Gegenwart, hat den Roman von I. Turgenjew zu einem Gesellschaftsstück umgearbeitet, das zeigt, wie über alle Zeiten der Generationskonflikt aktuell geblieben ist. Christopher Hampton: Gefährliche Liebschaften Den berühmten Briefroman von Choderlos de Laclos, der ein grelles Sittenbild der mondänen Gesellschaft des Ancien régime gezeichnet hat, ist von Christopher Hampton in ein brillantes Konversationsstück verwandelt worden. Von New York bis London, an der Royal Shakespear Company, wurde das Stück mit überwältigendem Erfolg gespielt und mit den begehrtesten Theaterpreisen ausgezeichnet. Bodo Kirchhoff: Die verdammte Marie Ein wenig erfolgreicher Dramatiker hat auf einem Empfang die Adresse einer Geldverleiherin aufgeschnappt. Dort wird er unfreiwilliger Zeuge einer Verhandlung; es geht um harte Politik, um ein Geschäft. Mit geliehenem Geld will die Stadt ein Bordellhochhaus bauen. Der junge Dramatiker, so scheint es, ist einer Skandalstory auf der Spur. Bernard-Marie Koltès: In der Einsamkeit der Baumwollfelder Dealer und Opfer, sie existieren gleichsam die Regeln des Warenverkehrs. Wer zuerst sagt, was er will, hat verloren. Die Waffen der beiden Männer sind Wörter, es entsteht ein kunstvoll verknotetes Sprachgeflecht voller Anspielungen und Doppelbödigkeiten. Felix Mitterer: Stigma Eine Passion nennt Mitterer die 17 Stationen seines Stückes. Die Bauernmagd Moi leidet aus verzweifelter Liebe zu Jesus dessen Passion nach. Die Dorfbewohner verehren sie als Heilige, sie kämpft bis zu ihrem Tod gegen die menschenverachtende und engstirnige Einstellung der klerikalen Gemeinde. Marco Antonio de la Parra: Solo für Carlos und Sigmund Carlos und Sigmund sind zwei Exhibitionisten wie aus dem Bilderbuch, die einander das streitig machen, das vornehmste Mädchengymnasium Santiagos. So scheint es jedenfalls. Aber ist Carlos wirklich ein Exhibitionist, oder ist er ein Spitzel, der Sigmund aushorchen soll und für wen? Und warum können beide die Namen der Minister, die gerade das Gymnasium besuchen, auswendig hersagen? Oder sind sie nur einfach ganz normale Verrückte?
