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Dip into The A to Z of Alfie Zeller to find: Petty Officer Sam Zeller, who swam the Channel long before Captain Webb, in a straight line, without body grease in search of escargots; Pierre, who invented Chicken Marengo and was promoted to corporal by Napoleon; Alicia Zeller, who ran the séances at which Arthur Conan Doyle saw fairies. Meet Trooper Zeller, who survived the Charge of the Light Brigade, or would have done, if he’d been there; Zeb Zeller, whose diaries made those of Sam Pepys read like the tedious account of bowel movements which they mostly are; Herman Zeller, who put Franz Kafka on to surrealism; the Zeller who was defenestrated in Prague and fell into a rose bush; and finally meet the Zeller who, although a staunch Royalist, fought in the Parliamentary ranks at Naseby. It is all explained somewhere and Alfie does not spare the details. If short of a few, he admits to perhaps having made them up. What, he argues, is a slightly dubious fact, if it gets in the way of the truth?
First published in 2001.The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the "silent cinema" to the present day. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film--an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, and coverage has been extended through 1994.Together, these two volumes provide a unique, authoritative source of information for historians, archivists, librarians, and film scholars.
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Son las dos grandes pasiones de nuestro tiempo. Fútbol y cine. Cine y fútbol. Coetáneas, universales, populares y abiertas a todas las posibilidades de disfrute imaginables. Sin embargo, pese a nacer al mismo tiempo y evolucionar en paralelo, siempre cerca pero de espaldas desde finales del siglo XIX, han mantenido tradicionalmente una relación embarullada, un encuentro de campo embarrado. Esta desacomplejada y heterodoxa lista de 50 películas singularísimas, que reflejan la esencia, la personalidad y la vigencia del fútbol, quiere convencer al lector, espectador e hincha de que, pese a todo, cine y fútbol, dos tótems contemporáneos con la capacidad de hacernos soñar, de generar sentimientos e ingresos ingentes, de crear ídolos de masas y hasta de alegrarnos (o amargarnos) el día, tienen muchos vínculos entre sí. Buscamos el rastro de dos creaciones, la de la cámara y la del balón, que nuestra mente y nuestro corazón convierten en realidad a través de obras reveladoras: medio centenar de razones para entender mejor el fútbol y analizar las victorias de su extraña simbiosis —que es también rivalidad— con el cine.
Identifying 'permissive populism', the trickle down of permissiveness into mass consumption, as a key feature of the 1970s, Leon Hunt considers the values of an ostensibly 'bad' decade and analyses the implications of the 1970s for issues of taste and cultural capital. Hunt explores how the British cultural landscape of the 1970s coincided with moral panics, the troubled Heath government, the three day week and the fragmentation of British society by nationalism, class conflict, race, gender and sexuality.
From the editor of the Complete Index to World Film comes an equally comprehensive, if specialized, sourcebook on the output of the British film industry in the sound era. A vast range of theatrical styles and talents are covered in II fast-access indexes, including: -- 12,900 film entries with information on title, year, director(s), actor(s), type of film, length, alternative title, production/releasing company, and coproducing countries -- 3,900 directors -- 24,600 actors -- 1,100 cinematographers -- 1,200 composers -- 2,400 authors whose literary works were adapted to the screen
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