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Octave Mirbeau was born in Trévières, Normandy, on 16 February 1848. He had a quiet childhood, which seemingly came to an abrupt end when he was sent to a Jesuit college at Vannes in 1859. The next four years were a miserable experience for the young Mirbeau, and the barbarity, tyranny and snobbery he encountered there - which seemed to him a microcosm of French society - would never be far from his writing for the rest of his life. Mirbeau registered to study law at university in 1866 but in 1868 would claim that 'he had been eating nothing and smoking up to 180 pipes of opium a day' (Levi, 1
French drama. --- Interpersonal relations --- French literature
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Basil Macdonald Hastings’s dramatization of Joseph Conrad’s Victory enjoyed a run of over eighty performances at London’s Globe Theatre in 1919 with actor-producer Marie Löhr in the role of Lena. It remains the most successful stage adaptation of Conrad’s fiction and Conrad himself was closely involved in the development of the script. This generously illustrated volume presents the complete script of Macdonald Hastings’s play, the collected theatre reviews of the production, and the stage censor’s confidential report on the script. The volume also features a substantial introduction placing the original novel and its subsequent dramatization in a stimulating critical and cultural context.
Conrad, Joseph, --- Hastings, Basil Macdonald, --- Stage adaptations --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Europeans --- Women musicians --- Abused women --- Revenge --- Stage adaptations. --- Adaptations, Stage --- Drama --- Literature --- Authors and theater --- Battered women --- Victims of crimes --- Women --- Battered woman syndrome --- Musicians, Women --- Women as musicians --- Musicians --- Ethnology --- Technique --- Adaptations
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The first full-length study of British horror radio
Digital media --- Radio broadcasting --- Horror radio programs --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- Radio programs --- History. --- Telecommunication services --- Theatrical science --- radio programs --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Film and Media. --- Radio. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / History & Criticism. --- Adaptation. --- Audio. --- BBC. --- Horror. --- Performance. --- Podcasting. --- Popular Culture. --- Radio Drama. --- Sound. --- Thriller.
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Drama --- Mass communications --- Hörspiel. --- Radio plays --- Radio --- History and criticism. --- Production and direction. --- Authorship.
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A collection which considers the crucial role of radio in small nations, presenting diverse voices and diverse themes and held together by passionate and scrupulous research.
Radio broadcasting --- Broadcasting --- Broadcasting industry --- Communication and traffic --- Cultural industries --- Telecommunication --- Social aspects. --- Planning. --- Radio broadcasting. --- Radio programs. --- Radio audiences. --- Audiences, Radio --- Radio listeners --- Audiences --- Radio programs --- Programs, Radio --- Radio shows --- Shows, Radio --- Radio scripts --- Radio --- Radio industry and trade --- Mass media --- Social aspects --- Rating
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This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations.
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This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other disciplines.
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