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Book SynopsisWho was Dan Leno? In 1901 everyone in Britain knew who he was. They had seen him live on the music hall stage, listened to his jokes on the new gramophone and watched his funny antics in some of the earliest moving pictures. Even King Edward VII was a fan and the popular press dubbed Dan Leno 'The King's Jester'. But his path to fame was a hard one: he journeyed from being a child performer in the London and Liverpool slums to a chaotic career in hard-bitten northern variety theatres. Dan became the nation's favourite comedian, but as one of the first mass media stars he suffered from this continual exposure and died at the early age of forty three. Drawing on many previously unused sources, this is first, authoritative, biography of Dan Leno. Only Charlie Chaplin, often compared to Dan in style and appearance, was to occupy a similar position in the hearts of the British public. In telling the full story of Dan's life and career on the stage and screen, Barry Anthony brings to life the everyday life of Victorian Britain, as well as Dan's unique brand of humour and its resonance with later comedians such as Spike Milligan and the Monty Python team.Trade Review'Barry Anthony has learned so much more than I about the great little clown who became the King's Jester. He has brought it all together in this fascinating and so well documented story of Dan Leno's life and times.' - Roy Hudd President of the British Music Hall SocietyTable of Contents1 Prelude 2 An Inconvenience 3 The Infant Wonder 4 Nightmare Years 5 Monarch in Wooden Shoes 6 Leno's Grand Varieties 7 The Talk of London 8 Dame Durden & Mr Tambo 9 The War between the Sexes 10 Muffins and Mumpets for Tea 11 A Large, Genial Gentleman 12 Popularity 13 Regime Change in Drury Land 14 The Funniest Man on Earth 15 Orlando Dando 16 Grimaldi's Scissors 17 The Living Image 18 Postscript Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the cinema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not have come into existence.Identified with directors such as Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Peter Bogdanovich, Monte Hellman, Bob Rafelson, Hal Ashby, Robert Altman and James Toback, American cinema of the 1970s is long overdue for this re-evaluation. Many of the films have not only come back from oblivion, as the benchmark for new directorial talents. They have also become cult films in the video shops and the classics of film courses all over the world.Table of ContentsTable of Contents - 6 Part One Introductions - 8 The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976 - 10 ”The Last Good Time We Ever Had”: Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema - 20 American Auteur Cinema: The Last – or First – Great Picture Show - 38 Part Two Histories - 72 The Decade When Movies Mattered - 74 A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction) - 84 The Exploitation Generation. or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold - 108 New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot - 132 Part Three People and Places - 154 Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile - 156 ”The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman - 166 Nashville contra Jaws, or “The Imagination of Disaster” Revisited - 196 For Wanda - 224 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock - 250 Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick’s War Movie - 268 Part Four Critical Debates - 278 The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975] - 280 Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood’s Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) - 294 Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback and 1970s American Cinema - 310 Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling - 334 Bibliography - 360 List of Contributors - 372 Pictures (with credits) - 376 Index of Film Titles - 378

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Book SynopsisFascinating F1 Facts is the perfect gift for the hundreds of millions of Formula 1 motor racing fans around the world. Written by Joe Saward, who has been a fulltime F1 reporter for 30 years, the book delves into the amazing stories behind the drivers, the races and the teams. Each story is short, so it's the perfect book for picking up and putting down, when you have a moment to spare, You will be astonished by some of the stories. Saward is a storyteller with a passion for the sport - and for spinning yarns. His World Atlas of Motor Racing, in the 1980s, had a huge influence on creating interest in the sport for a whole generation of new young readers.

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Book SynopsisManuscript paper - 50 pages - 12 stave . www.EncoreMusicBooks.com

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Book SynopsisMark Edward is a pracademic and Reader in Creative Arts at Edge Hill University, UK. His publications include Mesearch and the Performing Body (2018). Professionally he has worked for Rambert Dance Company and performed with the renowned American performance artist Penny Arcade in her work Bad Reputation (2004) and in Jeremy Goldstein's Truth to Power Café (2018). Mark is also the writer and producer of the immersive performance and film installation Council House Movie Star (2012) featuring his drag persona Gale Force.Stephen Farrier is Reader in Theatre and Performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. With Alyson Campbell he has coedited Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (2015) as well as a themed edition of RIDE, The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance named the Gender and Sexuality Issue'.Trade ReviewA necessary, nuanced and well heeled step in understanding the scope, diversity and impact of our art. * Cheddar Gorgeous *This is the drag book we have been waiting for: critical, entertaining, political. It provides us with a timely and much needed collection of analytical, provocative and engaging encounters with drag. Ranging widely over theoretical and methodological approaches, and drawing on and giving expression to a colourful cast of queens and kings, this book is a fabulous read with something for academics, activists, audiences and artistes alike. Unafraid to engage with the complexity of drag, it pushes at the paradoxes and potentialities of contemporary drag across diverse settings and in mainstream as well as countercultural formations. With a queer politics at its beating heart, it also puts drag to work in performing, challenging and understanding gender and sexuality in the 21st century. * Dr Cath Lambert, University of Warwick, UK *Kick off your heels, peel down your stockings and get your complexly gendered bare feet on the gorgeous sticky floors of this fantastic book. Ferociously sexy, rigorously theorized and joyously kinky, Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers is a major mapping of fierce gender-queer space. Take this book to bed right now and read it! * Tim Miller, performer and author of A Body in the O *Offers a nuanced cross-section of drag studies at a watershed moment when drag is increasingly being assimilated into mainstream Western visual and popular culture, and finding new homes in various cultural contexts, media and academic disciplines. As such, it is a valuable contribution to the literature in the field. * Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies *Edward and Farrier have edited a collection that offers both a taste of Drag for the uninitiated undergraduate and opens intriguing avenues for the more seasoned academic explorer and/or performer. * New Theatre Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Forward by Mark Ravenhill Introduction by Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier Chapter 1: Applying Foundation and Setting The Scene by Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier Chapter 2: ‘Dragging the Mainstream: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Moving Drag Practices Between the USA and the UK’ by Joe Parslow Chapter 3: ‘RACE FOR THE MONEY: The Influence of RuPaul's Drag Race on the Livelihood and Aesthetics of New York City's Drag Culture’ by Kalle Westerling Chapter 4: ‘Hen.faChinoiserie Drag: Masquerading as the Oriental Other’ by Rosa Fong Chapter 5: ‘It’s Always Better Performing with the Troupe’: Space, Place, and Collective Activism’ by Jae Basiliere Chapter 6: ‘Of Hills and Wheels: Tilda Death in the IDF Disabled Veterans’ Club’ by Raz Weiner Chapter 7: ‘A Transfeminist Critique of Drag Discourses and Performance Styles in Three National Contexts (US, France and UK): from RuPaul’s Drag Race to Bar Wotever’ by Kayte Stokoe Chapter 8: ‘Not a cock in a frock but a Hole story. Holestar and the mark of the bio-queens’ by Stephen Farrier Chapter 9: ‘Destabilisation through Celebration: Drag, Homage, and Challenges to Black Stereotypes in the Practice of Harold Offeh’ by Kieran Sellars Chapter 10: ‘Gender Euphoria: Trans and Non-Binary Identities in Drag’ by Olympia Bukkakis Chapter 11: ‘The Tranimal: Throwing Gender out of Drag?’ by Nick Cherryman Chapter 12: ‘Drag Kings and Queens of Higher Education’ by Mark Edward Chapter 13: ‘Drag publique: the spectacle of queerness, queer placelessness and the emaciated spectator’ by Allan Taylor Chapter 14: ‘"Blessed is the fruit" Drag Performance, Birthing, and Religious Identity’ by Chris Greenough & Nina Kane Notes Bibliography Index

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