Böcker av Trevor Griffiths

How to make life-enhancing choices when all around is in chaos.

Insight and practical guidance on how to harness negative and unpleasant emotions for their true purpose - to come back stronger and more resilient as a result of understanding what these feelings are telling us

What did our Scottish grandparents and great grandparents see at the cinema? What thrilled them on the silver screen?This is the first scholarly work to document the cinema habits of early twentieth-century Scots, exploring the growth of early cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. The author draws extensively on archival resources concerning the cinema as a business, on documentation kept by cinema managers, and on the diaries and recollections of cinema-goers. He considers patterns of cinema-going and attendance levels, as well as changes in audience preferences for different genres, stars or national origins of films. The thematic chapters broaden out the discussion of cinema-going to consider the wider social and cultural impact of this early form of mass leisure. Trevor Griffiths' book is a major contribution to the growing body of work on the history and significance of British filmKey FeaturesFirst major study of early Scottish filmNew archives and researchFascinating diary entriesEarly cinema as businessImportant addition to Scottish film studies Key words: cinema, Scotland, history, cinema-going, society, films, Scottish

The commentary at the heart of the book introduces readers to the challenge of reading The Tempest as a text and responding to the play in performance. A wide-ranging sample of critical responses accompanies consideration of key performances and productions on stage and film.

A powerful teleplay by one of Britain's best-known and most-acclaimed living playwrights.

'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent's man from London.