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Jeremy Corbyn
Literary Nonfiction. History & Politics. A few months ago, few had heard much about mild-mannered backbench MP Jeremy Corbyn. Now he is the surprise leader of the Labour Party, after winning a grassroots campaign. But who is this man who divides his own party, the media, and Britain in general. Is he an accidental hero, a footnote waiting to happen, or is he a new kind of politician, one who no longer plays by the rules of spin? W. Stephen Gilbert has crafted a brief, lucid, compelling and readable study of the politician we will all be talking about for years to come. This is the necessary primer to find out what you need to know.
Ratman's Notebooks
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The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
The first critical biography of the innovative television writer whose off-kilter creations helped spark the Golden Age of modern television. TV writer Dennis Potter is widely credited with revolutionizing television. The innovative shows he created for the BBC, including The Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven, trailblazed new paths for genre-bending entertainment and demonstrated the creative possibilities of episodic television. Potter also adapted both of those shows into critically acclaimed major motion pictures: Pennies from Heaven starring Steve Martin, and The Singing Detective starring Robert Downey Jr. In The Life and Work of Dennis Potter, W. Stephen Gilbert analyzes Potter...
The Gay Detective Novel
Gertrude Stein called it "the only really modern novel form that has come into existence," yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel. Since then, gay and lesbian detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre. It incorporates gay and lesbian cultural elements and offers crossover appeal. Its authors call upon a century of development in the mystery genre, while providing new, more accurate images of lesbians and gay men than generally found in mainstream literature and popular media. This groundbreaking study of gay and lesbian detective fiction examines mystery series and historically significant stand-alo...
The Chekhov Theatre
Many now consider Chekhov a playwright equal to Shakespeare. Senelick studies how his reputation evolved, and how the presentation of his plays varied and altered from their initial productions in Russia to recent postmodern deconstructions.
The Savoy Operas
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Stewart Parker
Meticulously researched and engagingly written, this is the first biography of the important Irish playwright Stewart Parker. It illuminates the genesis and meaning of such classic plays as Spokesong and Pentecost - works that continue to shed light on Northern Ireland's past, present, and future - in the context of Parker's life and times.
Contemporary Quality TV
Ever since HBO's slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television has reached a new level of marketing, recognition, and indeed quality. With other networks imitating the formula, the "HBO effect" triggered a wave of creative output. This turn to quality set off two shifts: (a) Contemporary television staged an international resurgence of the auteur, and (b) America transformed into an "on-demand nation." The chapters in this volume analyze new television lifestyles including marginalized perspectives, fan participation, and an emerging nostalgia correlated with trash aesthetics. Saskia M. Fürst is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of The Bahamas. Ralph J. Poole is Professor of American Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
Network Nations
In Network Nations, Michele Hilmes reveals and re-conceptualizes the roots of media globalization through a historical look at the productive transnational cultural relationship between British and American broadcasting. Though frequently painted as opposites--the British public service tradition contrasting with the American commercial system--in fact they represent two sides of the same coin. Neither could have developed without the constant presence of the other, in terms not only of industry and policy but of aesthetics, culture, and creativity, despite a long history of oppositional rhetoric. Based on primary research in British and American archives, Network Nations argues for a new tr...
Promise of a Dream
Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world. Sheila Rowbotham, best known for A Century of Women, Threads Through Time and Hidden From History, turns her hand here to memoir. The result is a wryly amusing account of her younger self, and a sparkling portrait of the exhilaration and enthusiasm of the sixties.
