This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.
With a strong interest in the performance of ancient Greek tragedy, Graham Ley’s short text explores the dynamics of physical interaction between performers and of the dramaturgical construction of scenes.
Silent Features is a collection of essays on seventeen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features, their diverse... Læs mere
Contains 29 essays on subjects relating to the French Enlightenment, written in 1975 to mark the retirement of Professor Robert Nicklaus, Head of Department of French and Italian at the University of Exeter.
Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize – 2016New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in... Læs mere
A companion to UEP’s Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). London’s Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at... Læs mere
In the first book-length study to concentrate specifically on Britain, Jamie Sexton examines the rise of avant-garde and experimental film-making between the wars.
This offers an understanding of British Cinema between 1928 and 1939 through an analysis of the relationship between the British film industry and other ‘culture industries’ such as the radio, music recording, publishing and early television.
In this study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the... Læs mere
New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre ResearchThis volume... Læs mere
This is the first full-length study of one of the most popular, profitable and persistent genres in British cinema. It redraws the map of British... Læs mere
A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and... Læs mere