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This work brings together writings on television published in
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, from essays by Nick Browne and
Beverle Houston to the latest historical and critical research. It
considers television's economics, technologies, forms and audiences
from a cultural perspective that links history, theory and
criticism. The authors address several key issues: the formative
period in American television history; the relation between
television's political economy and its cultural forms; gender and
melodrama; and new technologies such as video games and camcorders.
Originally published in 1993.
Former Glories and New Beginnings takes us on a nostalgia-filled
journey through Aberdeen FC’s glory years, while looking ahead to
a promising future. The mere mention of the word ‘Gothenburg’
to older Dons fans instantly conjures memories of European nights
under the floodlights, of Simpson and Strachan, McLeish and Miller,
of Munich and Madrid. Mention ‘Gothenburg’ to younger fans and
they know – it is a story etched in the annals of Scottish
football. This book recreates not just one magical European
trophy-winning night in May 1983, but the club’s trophy-laden
golden era of the late 1970s to mid-80s. The moment a young manager
called Alex Ferguson arrived, the balance of power began to shift.
Only the best win championships, only the best win trophies at home
and abroad. Forty years on, Aberdeen has been away from the top
table for too long. Under the stewardship of Dave Cormack, the club
is entering a new era, giving fans high hopes for the future.
Seventy-four years is a long time to wait. A whole generation of
supporters has come and gone since Brentford were last in the top
division of English football. Now, under the astute management of
Thomas Frank, the Bees are back in the big time. The 2021/22 season
has seen the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United
visit the Community Stadium, the dreams of years past now a
reality. A lifetime of gazing up the football ladder and wondering
what it would be like to be in the top tier has become a reality.
So how would their trip into the unknown go? Would the Premier
League turn out to be the land of milk and honey or would the
dreams turn to nightmares? Follow their progress in this
season-long diary of the highs and lows of the biggest season in
the history of Brentford Football Club. Only one thing is certain -
whatever the season would bring for the Bees, the players, staff,
supporters and everyone connected with Brentford Football Club
would be buzzing!
This volume brings together seminal articles from the years
1969-1972, when Cahiers du Cinema writers were elaborating a major
materialist account of the history, theory and criticism of cinema.
This work brings together writings on television published in
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, from essays by Nick Browne and
Beverle Houston to the latest historical and critical research. It
considers television's economics, technologies, forms and audiences
from a cultural perspective that links history, theory and
criticism. The authors address several key issues: the formative
period in American television history; the relation between
television's political economy and its cultural forms; gender and
melodrama; and new technologies such as video games and camcorders.
Originally published in 1993.
The Cashiers du Cinema has played a major role in establishing film
theory and criticism as an essential part of the late twentieth
century culture. The volumes reprinted here contain articles from
1951 through to 1972. This is the only source where Cashiers is
systematically represented in English.
272 AD The Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia and
crushed the Palmyran revolt. Faridun's Banner, hallowed battle
standard of the Persian Empire, has fallen into Roman hands and is
to be returned to the Persians as part of a historic peace treaty.
But on the eve of the signing the banner goes missing. Recalled to
Syria, imperial agent Cassius Corbulo is charged with recovering
the flag. Accompanied by his faithful servant Simo and ex-gladiator
bodyguard Indavara, Cassius must journey across the dangerous
wastes of Syria to the equally perilous streets of Antioch. He and
his companions face ruthless brigands, mysterious cults, merciless
assassins and intrigue at every turn.
Unable to make any progress in locating the missing Indavara, a
desperate Cassius has been given an unrewarding assignment in
Antioch. But when an old ally's daughter is kidnapped, he feels
duty-bound to repay a long standing debt. Disillusioned with the
tawdry demands of the Imperial Security Service, he disobeys his
superiors and leaves Syria, determined to do some good. Accompanied
by nomadic chieftain Kabir and a trio of warriors, Cassius soon
finds himself in Greece hunting a vicious band of slave-traders
trafficking women across the Empire. But these are no common
criminals, and as Cassius sets out to bring them down, he finds
himself up against ruthless, cunning men with powerful friends and
a lot to lose. For the Agent of Rome, desperate times call for
desperate measures.
The Soldier's Gene cleverly fills a gap between factual history
books and the general historical novel. Tracing the passage of
genes for nearly 850 years through the descendants of one man, is
an interesting departure from the norm and adds an intriguing slant
to what remains a novel. The mixture of facts of the various
battles fought by the British Army during those years, and the
fictional descriptions of the experiences of the soldiers, in
battle and otherwise, has been skilfully written and little
imagination is needed to make the reader feel as if they are there
with the soldiers. The characters experience the vagaries of war on
a very personal level and recount their different tales at first
hand although not all are willing soldiers. They fight for
different reasons and differing causes both in their homelands and
foreign fields. They are not always on the winning side and some
don't come through unscathed. Some don't come through at all.
270 AD Rome has ruled Syria for over three centuries. But now the
weakened empire faces a desperate threat: Queen Zenobia of Palmyra
has turned her Roman-trained army against her former masters and
the once invincible legions have been crushed. Arabia, Palestine
and Egypt have fallen and now Antioch, Syria's capital, stands
exposed. Cassius Corbulo is a young intelligence agent fresh from
officer training. He has been assigned the menial task of rounding
up wounded legionaries but then urgent new orders arrive. He is the
only ranking Roman officer left in the line of the Palmyran
advance. He must take command of the fort of Alauran, the last
stronghold still in Roman hands, and hold it against the enemy
until reinforcements arrive. What Cassius finds at Alauran would
daunt the most seasoned veteran, let alone a nineteen year old with
no experience of war. A mere scattering of divided and demoralised
legionaries remain, backed up by some fractious Syrian auxiliaries
and a drunken Praetorian Guardsman. With the Palmyrans just days
away, Cassius must somehow find the discipline, resourcefulness and
courage to organise the garrison, save Alauran and secure Rome's
eastern frontier...
When archaeologist Steve Watkins fled to the Greek island of Samos
to escape the horror he had unearthed at Skendleby, he'd hoped to
have found refuge. But the ancient terror that had spawned at
Skendleby was waiting for him. Across the island an enigmatic and
haunted detective, Theodrakis, is baffled by a series of brutal
ritual killings infecting the island like a plague and spreading
violent anarchy. Now the fates of these two men will be drawn
together; against a backdrop of mayhem, fire and violence they
begin to uncover the horrifying cosmic significance of this most
ancient evil.
Now spanning three centuries, Spiritualism has evolved into a
movement that reflects the highly individualistic spiritual
experience of its adherents, and the anarchic and complex nature
therefore of its many and various groupings. The New Spiritualists'
Society seeks to allow a networking of those who share its declared
views in an attempt to bring some order to this chaos, without
coercion or imposing rules and regulations. Among the matters of
the procedure, belief, proscriptions and prescriptions that are
attached to each of these groupings, the debate around the singing
of hymns has become a particular 21st century debating point,
possibly overtaking the issue of reincarnation...
Having betrayed King Darius, Miltiades a duplicitous Athenian
renegade on the run from the Persian Empire, is forced to make for
the churning instability of new democratic Athens. He has to
convince the hostile, frightened Athenians that if they don't fight
the Persians then, like him, they are doomed. Athens seethes with
enemies who want him dead and the only person he can trust is his
Luck Bringer the ungovernable teenaged Mandrocles. Against a
background of treachery and violence Miltiades fights his battles
in the courts and councils while Mandrocles fights his in the
streets, theatre, bars and brothels. As the Persian threat grows
and the danger within threatens Miltiades chooses to fight at
marathon where the ragged citizen army, including some of the
greatest figures in the ancient world faces the overwhelming might
of the Persian Immortals in 24 hours that changed history.
AD 273. Obsessed by the solar religions of the east, the emperor
Aurelian sets out to obtain every sacred object within his realm.
But one - a mysterious rock said to channel the power of the sun
god - lies beyond his reach. Warrior-priest Ilaha has captured the
legendary stone and is using it to raise an army against Rome. For
Imperial agent Cassius Corbulo and ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara,
stopping him constitutes their greatest challenge yet. Assisted by
a squad of undercover soldiers and a Saracen chieftain, they trek
south across the deserts of Arabia, encountering sandstorms,
murderous money-lenders and a ruthless German mercenary. And when
they finally reach Ilaha's mountain fortress, they face thousands
of warriors who will give their lives to protect him ... and the
black stone.
When the deputy commander of Rome's Imperial Security Service is
assassinated on the island of Rhodes, Cassius Corbulo swiftly finds
himself embroiled in the investigation. Assisted once more by
ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara and servant Simo, his search for
the truth is complicated by the involvement of the dead man's
headstrong daughter, Annia. Braving hostile seas, Cassius and his
allies follow the assassin's trail south aboard a ship captained by
a roguish Carthaginian smuggler and manned by his disparate,
dangerous crew. Their journey leads them to the farthest reaches of
the empire; to a ruined city where the rules of Roman civilization
have long been abandoned, and a deadly battle of wits with a
brutal, relentless foe.
A spiritual community of women hides a dark secret as a city is
infested with an ancient evil. The terrifying, long awaited climax
to the series that began with the cult supernatural thriller, soon
to be a film, Skendleby. Described as having echoes of the ghost
story master, MR James.
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