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9780415726818 | Routledge, November 13, 2013, cover price $170.00

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9781138994089 | Routledge, May 16, 2016, cover price $47.95

This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors, designers and fencing masters, as well as of the stars themselves, and devotes several chapters to the principal subjects if the swashbucklers – pirates, highwaymen, cavaliers and knights. The result is to recall, however fleetingly, the golden days of the silver screen. Reviews of the original edition: ‘An intelligent, scholarly, well-written account of adventure films, this work is sensitive both to cinema history and to the literary origins of the "swashbuckler"….Essential for any library with books on film, it may very well be the definitive book on its subject.’ – Library Journal

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9780415726702 | Routledge, November 13, 2013, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977.

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9781138996663 | Reprint edition (Routledge, February 29, 2016), cover price $47.95

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Product Description: Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 192060 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period. It explores, for the first time in print, the creative symbiosis that developed between the two, including regular film versions of popular radio series as well as radio versions of hit films...read more

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9781784991104 | Manchester Univ Pr, February 1, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 192060 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period.

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Product Description: This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political...read more
By Jeffrey Richards (editor)

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9780719091698 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 30, 2016, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base.

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9781138777569 | Reissue edition (Routledge, June 20, 2014), cover price $170.00

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9781138777620 | Routledge, October 30, 2015, cover price $48.95

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There has been a tendency to the view the history of the early medieval papacy predominantly in ideological terms, which has resulted in the over-exaggeration of the idea of the papal monarchy. In this study, first published in 1979, Jeffrey Richards questions this view, arguing that whilst the papacy’s power and responsibility grew during the period under discussion, it did so by a series of historical accidents rather than a coherent radical design. The title redresses the imbalance implicit in the monarchical interpretation, and emphasizes other important political, administrative and social aspects of papal history. As such it will be of particular value to students interested in the history of the Church; in particular, the development of the early medieval papacy, and the shifting policies and characteristics of the popes themselves.

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9781138777842 | Routledge, June 20, 2014, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: There has been a tendency to the view the history of the early medieval papacy predominantly in ideological terms, which has resulted in the over-exaggeration of the idea of the papal monarchy.

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9781138777880, titled "The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: 476-752" | Routledge, October 5, 2015, cover price $54.95

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Product Description: Queen Victoria and her family loved the pantomime, so did her subjects of all classes.The English Pantomime is one of the most popular, least analysed of all theatrical forms. It's been the festive mainstay of the English stage since the eighteenth century, and it has survived by its ability to evolve...read more

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9781780762937 | Tauris Academic Studies, December 12, 2014, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Queen Victoria and her family loved the pantomime, so did her subjects of all classes.

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Product Description: Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 192060 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period. It explores, for the first time in print, the creative symbiosis that developed between the two, including regular film versions of popular radio series as well as radio versions of hit films...read more

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9780719081668 | Manchester Univ Pr, March 15, 2011, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 192060 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period.

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Product Description: The period between the two world wars is often named ""the golden age of the cinema"" in Britain. This definitive and entertaining book on the cinema and cinema-goers of the era is herewith reissued with a new Introduction.Jeffrey Richards, described by Philip French as ""a shrewd critic, a compulsive moviegoer, and a professional historian,"" tells the absorbing story of the cinema during the decade that produced Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, the musicals of Jessie Matthews and Alexander Korda's epics...read more

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9781848851221 | Reissue edition (Tauris Academic Studies, January 15, 2010), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: The period between the two world wars is often named ""the golden age of the cinema"" in Britain.

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Product Description: The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms...read more

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9780230229365 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2009, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land.

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Product Description: This is the first book to explore the involvement of John Ruskin with the popular theatre of his time. Based on original archival research, this book offers a fresh look at the aesthetic and social theories of Ruskin and his direct and indirect influence on the commercial theatre of the late nineteenth century...read more

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9780230524996 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2010, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This is the first book to explore the involvement of John Ruskin with the popular theatre of his time.

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9781847250070, titled "Hollywood's Ancient Worlds" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2008, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: This work charts Britain's reaction to World War II by examining 13 key films produced between 1939 and 1945, including the work of Noel Coward, George Formby, Leslie Howard and Carol Reed. The book is illustrated with stills from each film, and considers script, reviews and box office returns to place each in its social and political context...read more

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9780631135494 | Blackwell Pub, February 1, 1986, cover price $6.98 | About this edition: An examination of Britain's reaction to the Second World War through thirteen key films produced between 1939-45.

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9780748605088 | 2 edition (Edinburgh Univ Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This work charts Britain's reaction to World War II by examining 13 key films produced between 1939 and 1945, including the work of Noel Coward, George Formby, Leslie Howard and Carol Reed.

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Product Description: Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age and was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary. He transformed the theatre, in Britain and America, from a disreputable and marginal entertainment into a respected, civilising and uplifting art form...read more

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9781852853457 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 16, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age and was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary.

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9781852855918 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, January 20, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age and was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary.

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This is the first book to consider the relationship between British imperialism and music. With its unique ability to stimulate the emotions and to create mental images, music was used to dramatize, illustrate, and reinforce the components of the ideological cluster that constituted British imperialism in its heyday: patriotism, monarchism, hero-worship, Protestantism, racialism, and chivalry. It was also used to emphasize the inclusiveness of Britain by stressing the contributions of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland to the imperial project. (view table of contents)

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9780719045066 | Manchester Univ Pr, March 20, 2002, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: This is the first book to consider the relationship between British imperialism and music.

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9780719061431 | Manchester Univ Pr, March 20, 2002, cover price $35.95

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Product Description: A group of film historians chart a map of 1930s British cinema. They reassess the films, stars, genres, and directors omitted from accounts of the decade, and they evaluate its forgotten and recently discovered films. The book includes assessments of the British shocker and the British musical, popular 1930s genres, and views of cinema and national identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jeffrey Richards (editor)

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9781860646287 | Reprint edition (Tauris Academic Studies, March 1, 2001), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A group of film historians chart a map of 1930s British cinema.

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Product Description: Cultural critics across disciplines present here a thoughtful, illuminating discussion of the myth of Diana--her career, appeal and iconicity. Chapters include: the Hollywoodization of Diana; Diana as a symbol of global consumption and suffering; Diana and Islam; spatial Diana; Diana as exemplar of a new religion; Diana and the therapy culture; and much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781860643880 | Tauris Academic Studies, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Cultural critics across disciplines present here a thoughtful, illuminating discussion of the myth of Diana--her career, appeal and iconicity.

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Product Description: This is a revised and expanded edition of the classic book on film history. The authors examine how aspects of British society are reflected in and shaped by cinema. Films studied include, among others, Sanders of the River, A Canterbury Tale, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Guinea Pig, The Blue Lamp, The Ladykillers, I'm All Right Jack, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, If ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781860642883 | Subsequent edition (Tauris Academic Studies, April 15, 1999), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This is a revised and expanded edition of the classic book on film history.

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Product Description: A group of film historians chart a map of 1930s British cinema. They reassess the films, stars, genres and directors omitted from accounts of the decade, and they evaluate its forgotten and recently discovered films. The book includes, for example, a view of British audiences over the period, a fresh look at the producer Julius Hagen and his independent Twickenham film studios, and the story of how MGM dealt with the dictates of the Films Act...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jeffrey Richards (editor)

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9781860643033 | Tauris Academic Studies, April 1, 1998, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A group of film historians chart a map of 1930s British cinema.

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Product Description: This book seeks to examine the ways in which the cinema has defined, mythified and disseminated British national identity during the course of the twentieth century. It takes the form of a series of linked essays which examine chronologically, thematically and by specific case studies of films, stars and genres the complexities and ambiguities in the process of evolution and definition of national identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780719047428 | Manchester Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: This book seeks to examine the ways in which the cinema has defined, mythified and disseminated British national identity during the course of the twentieth century.

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9780719047435 | Manchester Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Jeffrey Richards is a regular radio and television commentator on popular culture.

Hardcover:

9780810832794 | Reprint edition (Scarecrow Pr, June 1, 1997), cover price $61.00

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