14 Comments New Regency Releases for March The boy’s name was Boris, and this special gift from his sister, Georgette, would be edited to become her very first published novel, The Black Moth.Ĭontinue reading “Regency Turns 80 - The Black Moth“ → Posted on JanuSeptemby Kathryn Kane Posted in Regency Turns 80 Tagged Beau Monde, Georgette Heyer, Georgian Romance, Historical Romance, Members' Books. This story was set in the mid-eighteenth century and was filled with much swashbuckling and derring-do. His sister decided to write a story for him in the form of a serial, producing multiple new installments for his amusement, which she usually read aloud to him as they were finished. The children’s father had always encouraged them to read, and there were many books in the house, but after a time, the teenage boy was running out of new stories. Like him, she was an avid reader, especially of adventure stories by authors such as Baroness Orczy, Rafael Sabatini and H.
Oh, the tedium of it all!įortunately, this boy had an older sister who was very fond of him. Most of the time, the air waves were silent. The radio had only recently become available to the public, but the sets were expensive and stations only broadcast a few hours each day. At this time, there were no game consoles, computers, the Internet, or even television. To a bright, eager thirteen year-old, this was a devastating sentence of unutterable boredom. Divided into five sections, the Companion discusses the social and cultural forces shaping British and Irish cinema during different periods, the contexts in which films are produced, distributed and exhibited, the genres and styles that have been adopted by British and Irish films, issues of representation and identity, and debates on concepts of national cinema at a time when ideas of what constitutes both ‘British’ and ‘Irish’ cinema are under question.Ī Companion to British and Irish Cinema is a valuable and timely resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, media, and cultural studies, and for those seeking contemporary commentary on the cinemas of Britain and Ireland.Almost a century ago, a teenage boy, suffering from hemophilia, was ordered to bed for an extended period of rest.
Offering a broad scope of commentary, the Companion explores historical, cultural and aesthetic questions that encompass over a century of British and Irish film studies-from the early years of the silent era to the present-day. Twenty-nine essays from many of the most prominent writers in the field examine how British and Irish cinema have been discussed, the concepts and methods used to interpret and understand British and Irish films, and the defining issues and debates at the heart of British and Irish cinema studies. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema addresses arguments surrounding film historiography, methods of textual analysis, critical judgments, and the social and economic contexts that are central to the study of these cinemas. A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemasīritish and Irish film studies have expanded in scope and depth in recent years, prompting a growing number of critical debates on how these cinemas are analysed, contextualized, and understood.
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