The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, b...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly This enormous compendium may be Ford's swan song as a designer, as he recently announced that he was quitting fashion to direct movies. But for the last 10 years, as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, he took the brands in fresh directions. This huge, slipcased Festschrift checks in at 11"×14", and covers each of the Gucci years indivi...(展开全部)

Beginning with the development of the first Ford tractors in 1917 and finishing in 1991 with the purchase of the Ford tractor brand by Fiat, this is one of the few books to tell the complete story of

In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and...(展开全部)

Known as the "bible" of theatre history, Brockett and Hildy’s History of the Theatre is the most comprehensive and widely used survey of theatre history in the market. This 40 th Anniversary Edition retains all of the traditional features that have made History of the Theatre the most successful text of its kind, including worldwide coverage, more than 530 pho...(展开全部)

The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. He can't decide how to refer to his subject, so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he decides to renounce the most addictive of twentieth-century inventions. As he spe...(展开全部)

In Theatre , W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa –introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting. It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers...(展开全部)

In Theatre , W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa –introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting. It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers...(展开全部)

让-菲利普·图森（Jean-Philippe Toussaint，1957年出生），比利时法语小说家，法国“新小说”新一代的代表人物之一（图森自己称其作品为“新新小说”）。图森1957年出生于比利时，1972年起定居法国，他的小说均由法国著名的午夜出版社出版。 截至2005年图森已出版的小说包括有：《浴室》（1985年）、《先生》（1986年）、《照相机》（1989年）、《迟疑》（1998年）、《电视》（1998年）、《自画像（在国外）》（2000年）、《做爱》（2002年）和《逃跑》（获得2005年法国“美第奇图书奖”）、《齐达内的忧郁》（2006年）。此外他还导演电影《先生》（改编自同名小说，1990年）、《塞维利亚人》（改编自《照相机》，1993年）以及《溜冰场》（1998年）。《玛丽的真相》是让-菲利普·图森发表于2009年的新作，与《做爱》...(展开全部)