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The ArtsJanuary 2019The secret life of romantic comedy
by Celestino Deleyto
The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre.
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October 2022My Father's Secret
The BND, my family and I
by Corinna von Bassewitz
For a long time, Corinna von Bassewitz believed her father was a soldier, later on that he was a diplomat. Then, at the age of 16, she learnt something unbelievable: he had been a secret agent for the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, Germany's Federal Intelligence Service). Once the secret had been at least partly uncovered, she became something of a spy herself and eventually found some confidential documents in her parents' attic. Later, she realised that her father had been living as a double agent for the FRG and the GDR. So what effect does it have on a girl if her father conceals his true identity and eventually disappears without trace? Along with her family history, the author provides multi-layered and exciting insights into the historical context of the Cold War. A very personal book, intriguingly told and emotionally touching.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2023Republican passions
Family, friendship and politics in nineteenth-century France
by Susan K. Foley
Republican passions demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the creation of the French Third Republic. Based on the family archives of Léon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, this study paints a rich picture of republican intimacy, sociability and political activity during the Second Empire and early Third Republic. It explores republican friendships and family connections as men and women worked together for the cause. In republican circles, as the book illustrates, the intimate and political realms were not separate but deeply intertwined and interdependent.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2024The Official Record
Oversight, national security and democracy
by Peter Finn, Robert Ledger
The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. Those seeking greater openness and (democratic) accountability argue 'sunlight is [...] the best of disinfectants', while others seek stricter information control because, to their mind, sound government arises when advice and policy are formulated secretly. This edited volume explores the intersection of the Official Record, oversight, national security and democracy. Through US, UK and Canadian case studies, this volume will benefit higher level undergraduate readers and above to explore the Official Record in the context of the national security operations of democratic states. All chapters are research-based pieces of original writing that feature a document appendix containing primary documents (often excerpts) that are key to a chapter's narrative. As a result, this book interrogates the boundaries between national security, accountability, oversight, and the Official Record.
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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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The ArtsFebruary 2009The secret life of romantic comedy
by Celestino Deleyto
The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience - intimate matters - through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre. ;
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Politics & governmentDecember 2016Intelligence, security and the Attlee governments, 1945–51
An uneasy relationship?
by Daniel W. B. Lomas
Drawing on recently released documents and private papers, this is the first book-length study to examine the intimate relationship between the Attlee government and Britain's intelligence and security services at the start of the Cold War. Often praised for the formation of the modern-day 'welfare state', Attlee's government also played a significant, if little understood, role in combating communism at home and overseas, often in the face of vocal, sustained opposition from its own backbenches. This book tells the story of Attlee's Cold War. From Whitehall vetting to secret operations in Eastern Europe and the fallout of Soviet atomic espionage on both sides of the Atlantic, it provides a fresh interpretation of the Attlee government, making it essential reading for anyone interested in the Labour Party, intelligence, security and Britain's foreign and defence policy at the start of the Cold War.
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The ArtsOctober 2024Secret Cinema and the immersive experience industry
by Sarah Atkinson, Helen W. Kennedy
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Business, Economics & LawNovember 2024
The Island Book of Records Volume II
1969-70
by Neil Storey
The second volume of this highly collectable series, covering the pivotal years of 1969-70. The Island Book of Records Volume II documents the years 1969-70, during which Island sought to build on its success with the Spencer Davis Group by seeking out new British rock talent. By the end of the period, Island was emerging as a major British label, one that could boast releases from Jethro Tull, Nick Drake, King Crimson, John and Beverley Martyn, Fairport Convention and Cat Stevens. Featuring material from recent interviews and from media interviews of the time, and including a comprehensive discography of 45s, The Island Book of Records Volume II is lavishly illustrated with gig adverts (very many at venues that no longer exist), concert tickets, flyers, international LP variants, labels, LP and 45 adverts and other ephemera collector's dream.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2004Secret Shakespeare
Studies in theatre, religion and resistance
by Richard Wilson
Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage. In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the atrocities he survived. Shakespeare constructed a drama not of discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise, where, for all his hopes of a 'golden time' of future toleration, 'What's to come' is always unsure. Whether or not 'He died a papist', it is because we can never 'pluck out the heart' of his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential to resist. This is a fascinating work, which will be essential reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2021Doing digital history
by Jonathan Blaney, Jane Winters, Sarah Milligan, Martin Steer
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January 2022Das Meckertier
by Mareike Postel / Ann Cathrin Raab
The Grumbly‘The Grumbly’ is in a bad mood! It doesn't like to play or laugh and can't be happy about anything - instead it grumbles on and on. But lastly, it looks for a cozy place and falls asleep. Lo and behold, the next morning ‘The Grumbly” has turned into a real happy-go-lucky animal!The board book series on classic everyday topics, in this case: bad moods that have no particular reason. The topic ‘Being grumbly’ is implemented with a lot of humor and without a ‘raised forefinger’, not intentionally pedagogical. Also told in rhyme and focusing on a goat, a familiar animal. The message becomes clear: Everyone has a bad day and is tired sometimes - but you can be sure: it passes!
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2024Inner empire
Architecture and Imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950
by Daniel Maudlin, Alex Bremner
Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from the sixteenth century through to the twentieth century. It asserts that Britain's four-hundred year entanglement with global empire left its mark upon the British Isles as much as it did the wider world. Buildings stood as one of the most conspicuous manifestations of the myriad relationships that Britain maintained with the theory and practice of colonialism in its modern history. Divided into two main sections, the volume's content considers 'internal' colonisation and its infrastructures of control, order, and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architecture, the imperial economy, and cultural identity. Taken together, the essays in this volume present for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure.
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September 2020Lotte, are you daydreaming again?
A book for dreamy children and their parents
by Stefanie Rietzler, Fabian Grolimund
Rabbit girl Lotte, 10 years old, has a hard time: "Don't dawdle around!", "Stop dreaming!" - Her parents and the strict teacher, Mrs. Luchs, constantly have something to criticize about her. Fortunately, Lotte’s best friends stand by her side: the hard-working and somewhat anxious duck Merle and the cozy bear Frieda, who would love to be a ballerina. Lotte is close to despairing over endless homework, exams, bad grades, and her forgetfulness when she meets a strange woman who dwells in the deserted forest. She knows the value of dreaming and lets Lotte in on an ancient secret … This book is for dreamy primary school children and their parents who would like to learn how to concentrate better when studying at home and at school why dreaming is important, too how to identify your strengths how to get better organized and forget less. A story about school, friendship, and the parent-child relationship, which makes you think and inspires discussions. For: dreamy children and their parents parents of children diagnosed with ADHD teachers psychologists and psychotherapists psychiatrists
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June 2024Dangerously Close
by Lana Rotaru, Moon Notes
Mit schönem Farbschnitt in der Erstauflage – Lieferung je nach Verfügbarkeit Hochspannung garantiert! Im Kampf für die Wahrheit kommt Liv der Liebe gefährlich nah. Seit seiner Verurteilung hat er beharrlich geschwiegen, doch jetzt erzählt er ihr seine Geschichte: Die ambitionierte Studentin der Journalistik Liv beschließt, ihre Abschlussarbeit über einen der aufsehenerregendsten Kriminalfälle der jüngeren Zeit zu schreiben: den Mord an der beliebten und erfolgreichen Influencerin Sarah Mills. Der Fall scheint glasklar, der Mörder hat gestanden und sitzt seine Strafe bereits ab. Nach dem Prozess hat er sich nicht mehr zu dem Fall geäußert. Bis heute. Überraschenderweise lässt er sich auf Interviews mit Liv ein. Je öfter sie mit ihm spricht, desto mehr zweifelt Liv an der offiziellen Version der Geschichte. Und sie beginnt sich zu fragen, ob es nur noch Angst ist, die ihr Herz höherschlagen lässt, sobald sie das Gefängnis betritt. Romance hinter Gittern: „Dangerously Close“ erzählt von jenem unwiderstehlichen Prickeln, das nicht sein darf. Die starke, ambitionierte Protagonistin Liv agiert fernab von Rollenklischees und begeistert mit ihrer Entschlossenheit und ihrem Mut Leser*innen ab 16 Jahren, die Crime-Romance-Geschichten lieben. Du zählst zu den New Adults? Du magst Tropes wie „Forbidden Love“ und „Morally Grey Characters“? Dann ist dieser aufregende Mix aus Romance und Thrill perfekt für dich. Spannender Twist: Wenn du spürst, dass die offizielle Version der Geschichte nicht die wahre ist, gerät die Grenze zwischen Gut und Böse ins Wanken. Autorin Lana Rotaru schreibt seit Jahren romantische Bücher für junge Erwachsene – dies ist ihr erster Gefängnisthriller. Genial ausgestattet in der Erstauflage: Softcover mit Klappen, trendig illustriertem Buchschnitt und coolem Lesezeichen zum Abtrennen.
