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  1. Clarence Brown

    Clarence Brown: Hollywood's Forgotten Master [Paperback]

    Gwenda Young (Author); Kevin Brownlow (Author)

    £23.00

    ISBN: 9780813198408
    Published by : University Press of Kentucky
    Series: Screen Classics
    Not yet published - available for pre-order
    Greta Garbo proclaimed him as her favorite director. Actors, actresses, and even child stars were so at ease under his direction that they were able to deliver inspired and powerful performances. Academy–Award–nominated director Clarence Brown (18... .... Learn More
  2. Hans Christian Andersen – A Cultural Icon

    Hans Christian Andersen – A Cultural Icon [Hardback]

    Anne Klara Bom (Author)

    £42.00

    ISBN: 9788772190174
    Published by : Aarhus University Press
    Not yet published - available for pre-order
    Hans Christian Andersen is an cultural icon. But what is an icon exactly? And how did Hans Christian Andersen become one? In Denmark and abroad. This book looks into the different meanings and uses of the word icon and into the making of the cultu... .... Learn More
  3. Jessica Lange

    Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart [Hardback]

    Anthony Uzarowski (Author)

    £32.00

    ISBN: 9780813197258
    Published by : University Press of Kentucky
    Not yet published - available for pre-order
    Brilliant, beautiful, driven, uncompromising, elusive, iconic - Jessica Lange is one of the most gifted and fascinating actors of her generation. From her rise to fame in Dino De Laurentiis's remake of King Kong (1976) and her Oscar-winning perfor... .... Learn More
  4. Denmark’s Catalyst

    Denmark’s Catalyst: The Life and Letters of N.F.S. Grundtvig [Hardback]

    Edward Broadbridge (Author); Hans Raun Iversen (Author)

    £57.00

    ISBN: 9788772198262
    Published by : Aarhus University Press
    Not yet published - available for pre-order
    Denmark’s Catalyst: The Life and Letters of N.F.S. Grundtvig is the last book in the 6-volume series ‘N.F.S. Grundtvig. Works in English.’ Translator Edward Broadbridge joins forces with Grundtvig scholar Hans Raun Iversen in this new bio... .... Learn More
  5. Dance Works

    Dance Works: Stories of Creative Collaboration [Paperback]

    Allison Orr (Author); Liz Lerman (Author)

    £16.50

    ISBN: 9780819500243
    Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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    Ride along with choreographer Allison Orr and her civic collaborators as they reflect on their dances together

    In 2001, Allison Orr made a dance with 13 City of Austin firefighters. Over the next 20 years, her unique practice of collabora... .... Learn More
  6. Stone Breaker

    Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England [Hardback]

    Kathleen L. Housley (Author)

    £18.50

    ISBN: 9780819500281
    Published by : Wesleyan University Press
    Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
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    Percival probed the volcanic origins of rock via geology and the seething nature of his psyche via poetry.

    Stone Breaker is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstabl... .... Learn More
  7. The Woman Who Dared

    The Woman Who Dared: The Life and Times of Pearl White, Queen of the Serials [Hardback]

    William M. Drew (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 9780813196831
    Published by : University Press of Kentucky
    Series: Screen Classics
    In the early days of motion pictures - before superstars, before studio conglomerates, before even the advent of sound - there was a woman named Pearl White (1889-1938). A quintessential beauty of the time, with her perfectly tousled bob and come-... .... Learn More
  8. The History of King Richard the Third: by Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels

    The History of King Richard the Third: by Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels [Hardback]

    Arthur Kincaid (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 9780854313044
    Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
    Series: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London
    Volume: 83
    Sir George Buc (1560-1622), one of the careful antiquarian scholars of the English Renaissance, is famous in literary history as Master of Revels under King James I, a position in which he was responsible for censorship of Shakespeare’s later play... .... Learn More
  9. Katherine Jackson French

    Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector [Paperback]

    Elizabeth DiSavino (Author)

    £27.00

    ISBN: 9780813196701
    Published by : University Press of Kentucky
    The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University
    face=Calibri>– and the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so
    face=Calibri>– Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. ... .... Learn More
  10. Ida Lupino

    Ida Lupino: A Biography [Paperback]

    William Donati (Author)

    £23.00

    ISBN: 9780813196480
    Published by : University Press of Kentucky
    British-born actress, singer, director, and producer Ida Lupino (1918-1995) cut one of the most alluring profiles of any Hollywood persona during the forties and fifties. The star of classic films such as They Drive by Night (1940), High Sierra (1... .... Learn More

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