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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2018Darts in England, 1900–39
A social history
by Patrick Chaplin, Jeffrey Richards
Drawing on an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources Chaplin examines the development of darts in the context of English society in the early twentieth century. He reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of the most popular recreations in England, not just amongst working class men and, to a lesser extent, working class women but even (to some extent) among the middle and upper classes. This book assesses the social, economic and cultural forces behind this transformation. This work also considers the growth of the darts manufacturing industry and assesses the overall effect the growing popularity of darts had on interwar society and popular culture, with particular reference to the changing culture and form of the English public house. This original study will be of interest to sports historians, social historians, business historians, sociologists and sports scientists.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2012Darts in England, 1900–1939
by Patrick Chaplin, Jeffrey Richards
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2009Darts in England, 1900–1939
by Patrick Chaplin, Jeffrey Richards, Rebecca Mortimer
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March 2016The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema
Präsentiert von Slavoj Žižek
by Slavoj Žižek, Sophie Fiennes
Slavoj Žižek hat zwei große Leidenschaften: Das Kino und die Psychoanalyse. Was liegt da näher, als Hollywood – das Theater der Träume – auf die Couch zu legen? Für die Regisseurin Sophie Fiennes hat Žižek seine Lieblingsszenen aus etwa vierzig Klassikern (von Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch u. v. a.), ausgewählt, die er in diesem Film – oft an Originalschauplätzen – mit dem begrifflichen Instrumentarium von Freud und Lacan analysiert: Inwiefern korrespondiert die Architektur des Hauses von Norman Bates (»Psycho«) mit Freuds Strukturmodell der Psyche? Was hätte der Entdecker des Ödipus-Komplexes zu dem Konflikt zwischen Luke Skywalker und Darth Vader gesagt? Als »150-minütige Achterbahnfahrt durch die Geschichte von Kino und psychologischer Filmtheorie« bezeichnete die »Frankfurter Rundschau« Žižeks cineastischen Crashkurs, dem Philosophen selbst attestierte sie »beachtliches Starpotenzial.«
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November 2003Riding with Mary
10mal Sehnsucht
by Patrick Roth
Patrick Roth, geboren 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau, lebt als freier Autor in Los Angeles und Mannheim. Er begann seine künstlerische Karriere in den USA als Regisseur und Drehbuchautor. Zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre wechselte er in die Prosa und entwickelte seinen charakteristischen Stil als Erzähler von biblisch-mythischen Stoffen, so im letzten großen Roman Sunrise. Das Buch Joseph (2012) und den früheren Texten der Christus Trilogie (1998). Neben die Bilder der Bibel tritt im weiteren Werk die Welt des Films, so in Meine Reise zu Chaplin (1997), Die Nacht der Zeitlosen (2001) und Starlite Terrace (2004). Der lebenslangen Liebe zum Kino geht der autobiographische Erzählband Die amerikanische Fahrt (2013) auf den Grund. Für sein literarisches Schaffen wurde Patrick Roth vielfach geehrt und mit Poetikdozenturen an den Universitäten in Frankfurt, Heidelberg und Hildesheim ausgezeichnet.
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March 1996Corpus Christi
by Patrick Roth
Patrick Roth, geboren 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau, lebt als freier Autor in Los Angeles und Mannheim. Er begann seine künstlerische Karriere in den USA als Regisseur und Drehbuchautor. Zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre wechselte er in die Prosa und entwickelte seinen charakteristischen Stil als Erzähler von biblisch-mythischen Stoffen, so im letzten großen Roman Sunrise. Das Buch Joseph (2012) und den früheren Texten der Christus Trilogie (1998). Neben die Bilder der Bibel tritt im weiteren Werk die Welt des Films, so in Meine Reise zu Chaplin (1997), Die Nacht der Zeitlosen (2001) und Starlite Terrace (2004). Der lebenslangen Liebe zum Kino geht der autobiographische Erzählband Die amerikanische Fahrt (2013) auf den Grund. Für sein literarisches Schaffen wurde Patrick Roth vielfach geehrt und mit Poetikdozenturen an den Universitäten in Frankfurt, Heidelberg und Hildesheim ausgezeichnet.
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The ArtsDecember 2012Laughing matters
Understanding film, television and radio comedy
by Glyn White, John Mundy
Laughing Matters takes an analytic approach to film, television and radio comedy and provides an accessible overview of its forms and contexts. The introduction explains the value of studying comedy, concisely outlines the approach taken and summarises the relevant theories. The subsequent chapters are divided into two parts. The first part examines the specific forms comedy has taken as a constant and key element in film and broadcast comedy from their origins to the present. The second part shows how the genre gravitates towards contentious issues in British and American culture as it finds humour in the boundaries of class, gender, sexuality, race and logic. The authors cover silent cinema comedy including Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton, sound film comedies including the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, Romantic film comedy, radio, television situation and sketch comedy, comedy and genre (including parody and spoof), animations from cartoons to CGI, issues of gender and sexuality from drag comedy to queer reading, issues of taste and humour from Carry On to contemporary 'gross-out' , and issues of race and ethnicity including a case study of African-American screen comedy. Numerous opportunities for following up are highlighted and advice on further reading, writing academically about comedy and an extensive bibliography add to the value of this textbook. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 100/2
Higher Learning and Civic Cultures of Knowledge: Manchester 1824–2024
by Stuart Jones
The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2023The imperial Commonwealth
Australia and the project of empire, 1867-1914
by Wm. Matthew Kennedy
From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Australian settler colonists mobilised their unique settler experiences to develop their own vision of what 'empire' was and could be. Reinterpreting their histories and attempting to divine their futures with a much heavier concentration on racialized visions of humanity, white Australian settlers came to believe that their whiteness as well as their Britishness qualified them for an equal voice in the running of Britain's imperial project. Through asserting their case, many soon claimed that, as newly minted citizens of a progressive and exemplary Australian Commonwealth, white settlers such as themselves were actually better suited to the modern task of empire. Such a settler political cosmology with empire at its center ultimately led Australians to claim an empire of their own in the Pacific Islands, complete with its own, unique imperial governmentality.
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January 2006Shadow/Schatten
by Edgar Allan Poe, Patrick Roth, Arno Schmidt, Patrick Roth
Schatten, Manuskriptfund in einer Flasche, William Wilson, Morella, Ligeia, Eleonora, Der Fall des Hauses Ascher, Siope - Neun Erzählungen Edgar Allan Poes im Original und in der kongenialen Übertragung von Arno Schmidt, ausgewählt und mit einem Vorwort von Patrick Roth.
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 1999Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
by Patrick Williams, John Thieme
Ngugi is one of the most important novelists on the contemporary world stage, and someone whose name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and political struggle. Patrick William's lucid analysis offers the most up-to-date study of Ngugi's writing, including his most rcent collection of essays. Focusing on important aspects of Ngugi's work which critics have hitherto ignored, and drawing on a wide range of relevant theoretical perspectives, this study examines the growing complexity of Ngugi's accounts of the history of colonised and post-colonial Kenya. The cultural and anti-imperial politics on Ngugi's experimentation with language and form in both novel and drama is discussed, including the important role of culture as a source of historical memory and strategies of resistance for oppressed groups. All the novels and the major plays are studies in detail, and in addition a substantial chapter examines Ngugi's contribution in the area of non-fiction. ;
