Search results for ""author david kidd""
Eland Publishing Ltd Peking Story
A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, "Peking Story" is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared. As the American son-in-law of a revered official from an ancient Chinese family, David Kidd had unqiue access to the life - their sprawling mansion, the visits to ancestral temples, the moonlit picnics, demure servants, opulent ceremonies, lavish entertainments and cherished antique heirlooms, such as the set of braziers which had never lost the heat of their original founding due to the meticulous care of successive generations of owners. But it is the brooding sense of the inevitability of great change, and Kidd's sympathy with many of the goals of the revolution, which transforms this memoir into something tragically profound.
£13.49
Countryside Books Buckinghamshire Stories of the Supernatural
The county has a wealth of sightings from a malevolent presence, known as The Flincher, which stalks the corridors of the Former Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital at Taplow to a phantom with impeccable manners who helped a guest on with her coat in a house in Buckingham. The book reveals other strange hauntings and mysteries too. The author describes these and other chilling encounters, many of them first hand accounts, in a spine-tingling way which provides compulsive reading.
£10.45
Pluto Press Crime and the Media: The Post-Modern Spectacle
This book brings together key debates within cultural studies, media studies, criminology and sociology on the relationship between the media and crime in a postmodern society – highlighted by recent controversies on the effects of media portrayals of violence and crime on the community at large. Real-life crime, crime reconstruction and crime as entertainment are categories that are now so interdependent that the media itself is in danger of confusing the genres as it seeks to profit from their undoubted appeal. This intertextuality is a key theme in this collection. The contributors highlight and theorise the symbiosis that exists between real crime and its representations, from media moral panics, policing the crisis and representing order to the postmodern confusion of crime and spectacle, trial by media and trials on media. As recent debates have shown all too starkly, the media's neutrality in this critical area is ever more problematic. This is an invaluable introduction to new thinking in a pressing contemporary debate.
£25.19
