Böcker av Professor Andrew Spicer

Provides a history of masculinity in British films from World War II onwards. The study explores in detail the changing nature of the dominant male cultural types: the debonair gentleman; the Byronic hero; the Angry Young Man; the delinquent; the maladjusted veteran; villains; and comic fools.

A lucid and informative account, drawing on unpublished material, of the career of one of the most successful and significant producers in British cinema. It provides discussion of all his films, including The Seventh Veil (1945), and affords an exceptional insight into the workings of the wartime and postwar British film and television industries. -- .

This title is a history of the Black Death, the greatest catastrophe in human history which wiped out 50 per cent of Europe's population.