Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture
Hardback. Translator(s): Carley, Lionel. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill.mus.exs. BIC Classification: AVH; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714529615
- ISBN
- 9780714529615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.51
€ 26.99
€ 23.51
Paperback. An examination and celebration of the Baroque culture of excess. Translator(s): Fontanive, Karen. Num Pages: 240 pages. Dimension: 253 x 291 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714838601
- ISBN
- 9780714838601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.11
€ 50.11
Paperback. This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Chris Killip - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer. Series: Phaidon 55's. Num Pages: 128 pages, 55 photographs. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714840284
- ISBN
- 9780714840284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.98
€ 11.98
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718829483
- ISBN
- 9780718829483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.11
€ 54.11
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718893224
- ISBN
- 9780718893224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.39
€ 40.39
Paperback. After making an initial impact with his first film "Les 400 Coups", the French film director Francois Truffaut went on to make 23 films in 26 years. This appraisal of his work provides a socio-political contextualization, and gives an overview of his films and film-making methods. Series Editor(s): Holmes, Diana; Ingram, Robert. Series: French Film Directors. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719045547
- ISBN
- 9780719045547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.70
€ 37.70
A wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the impact of the European Reformation on the architecture, arrangement and appearance of places of worship. Series: Studies in Early Modern European History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 83 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; AMN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719054877
- ISBN
- 9780719054877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 151.91
€ 151.91
hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KLCM; ABA; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719056789
- ISBN
- 9780719056789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.51
€ 149.51
Paperback. A major reconsideration of one of British cinema's finest film directors, offering fresh insight into Carol Reed's distinctive work, and his place in the history of British cinema. Series: British Film Makers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719063671
- ISBN
- 9780719063671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.77
€ 26.99
€ 26.77
Hardback. This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly's Heroes, The Sweeney, and Edge of Darkness. Thiswill appeal to anyone with an interest in television drama, screenwriting, and the history of British television over the last fifty years. Series Editor(s): Bignell, Jonathan; Cardwell, Sarah; Peacock, Steven. Series: Television. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: APT; BGF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719067020
- ISBN
- 9780719067020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.00
€ 149.00
Hardback. This book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and colonized via analysis of the domestic interiors and public spaces of empire within the Indian Subcontinent, contrasting representations of such spaces within contemporary discourse with analysis of the evidence of actual interiors and the social practices there engendered. Series Editor(s): Breward, Christopher; Sherman, Bill. Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1FK; AMR; HBTB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 171 x 20. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719069420
- ISBN
- 9780719069420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.51
€ 150.51
Hardback. The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening - the Lumiere Brothers' showing of their Cinematographe show at London's Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 - through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema. Series Editor(s): Richards, Jeffrey. Series: Studies in Popular Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; APF; HBT. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719069444
- ISBN
- 9780719069444
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.63
€ 149.63
Hardback. An excellent introductory volume for those wishing to know more about the hitherto neglected cinema from the African continent, including directors from Egypt, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1H; APFB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719072024
- ISBN
- 9780719072024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.89
€ 138.89
Hardback. This book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA and analyses the compositional principles of texts (technologies, institutions, economics, cultrual trends). Drama examined include Oz, Buried Carnivale, Blackpool, The Sopranos, Shameless, and Shooting the Past. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719073106
- ISBN
- 9780719073106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.69
€ 138.69
Paperback. James Thompson's book explores the problems of theatre practice in communities affected by war and exclusion. It is compellling reading for anyone interested in applied theatre, theatre practice and performance studies, and provides an invaluable commentary on the interface between practice and its context. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: ANC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719073151
- ISBN
- 9780719073151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.84
€ 38.84
Hardback. 'The art of poverty' is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that such images largely conformed to two paradoxical, though complimentary, traditions: the one ironising, the other idealising. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Illustrations, colour|Line drawings, unspecified. BIC Classification: ACN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719075827
- ISBN
- 9780719075827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.83
€ 151.83
Hardback. The first book devoted to the study of horror film and adaptation. Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this anthology includes analyses of such under-examined films as Thomas Edison's Frankenstein, John Barrymore's Jekyll and Hyde, Jean Epstein's La Chute de la maison Usher, Gus van Sant's Psycho and Guillermo de Toro's Cronos Editor(s): Hand, Richard J.; McRoy, Jay. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719076039
- ISBN
- 9780719076039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.65
€ 160.65
Hardback. In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades. Editor(s): Campbell, Sean; Coulter, Colin. Series Editor(s): Martin, Peter. Series: Music and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, ill. BIC Classification: AVH; JFC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719078408
- ISBN
- 9780719078408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.06
€ 150.06
Hardback. Paints a picture of the study of music in eleventh- and early twelfth-century Germany. This book focuses on the activity of a group of prominent intellectuals based in the monastic and cathedral schools of the German Kingdom, charting their sources and shared concerns, while examining their reception and modification of each others' ideas. Series Editor(s): Rigby, Steve. Series: Manchester Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3H; AV; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719078897
- ISBN
- 9780719078897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.55
€ 149.55
hardcover. Pageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor's Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare's time and beyond. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; ASZP; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 38. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719080104
- ISBN
- 9780719080104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.78
€ 150.78
Discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice. Num Pages: 224 pages, Halftones, black & white. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ABA; ACX; AJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719081569
- ISBN
- 9780719081569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.16
€ 151.16
paperback. This book examines the benefits and limits of cultural nationalism, and describes the preliminary steps taken by contemporary filmmakers in order to establish a new popular African cinema. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1H; APFA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780719083365
- ISBN
- 9780719083365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.56
€ 38.56
Analyses images of the maternal and pregnant body in historical art Num Pages: 375 pages, 41 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AGH; AGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 176 x 18. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719083488
- ISBN
- 9780719083488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 152.75
€ 152.75
Hardback. Students of Television, Film, Media and Theatre studies Num Pages: 336 pages, figures. BIC Classification: AP. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719084461
- ISBN
- 9780719084461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.91
€ 138.91