Hollywood Girl: The Peg Entwistle Story
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Period Costume for Stage and Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress 1800-1909
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Offers a collection of designs and patterns for women's dresses from the nineteenth century, with comments on the changes in fashion through the years and sewing and fabric hunts for costume makers
Making Poldark: Memoir of a BBC/Masterpiece Theatre Actor
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This is the long-awaited memoir from BBC/Masterpiece Theatre actor Robin Ellis, the original Captain Ross Poldark in the BBC's classic television series Poldark. Includes a new chapter with recent photos highlighting Robin’s return as Rev. Hulse in the new series, with Aiden Turner as the new Poldark. First broadcast in the 1970s, this saga of thwarted love, passion and swashbuckling adventure set against hard times in 18th century Cornwall became an international sensation, popular in over ... [Read More]
Upstairs and Downstairs : British Costume Drama Television from the Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey
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This collection addresses the social and political contexts that have shaped the British TV costume drama as well as the changing historical contexts in which such programs are viewed again and again (in syndication, on DVD, youtube, etc.) and are reinterpreted by a thriving twenty-first-century global fan
Rival Queens : Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
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Historians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In "Rival Queens," Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the