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Steve Waters

    Discover Australia
    A Life in 16 Films
    The Contingency Plan
    • Discover Australia

      • 413 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Describes points of interest and itineraries for each region of Australia, and recommends hotels, restaurants, sights, historic landmarks, and entertainment.

      Discover Australia2025
      3.9
    • The Contingency Plan

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

      The Contingency Plan2022
      3.1
    • Steve Waters examines how the very idea of film has defined him as a playwright and a person in this book. Through the the lens of cinema, it provides a cultural and political snapshot of life in Britain from the 2nd part of the 20th century up to the present day. The films spanning almost a century, starting with The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) and moving most recently to Dark Waters (2019), each chapter examines aspects of Waters's journey from his working-class Midlands upbringing to working in professional theatre to living through the Covid epidemic, through the prism of a particular film. From The Wizard of Oz to Code Unknown, from sci-fi to documentary, from queer cinema to world cinema, this honest, comic book offers a view of film as a way of thinking about how we live. In doing so, it illuminates culture and politics in the UK over half a century and provides an intimate insight into drama and writing.

      A Life in 16 Films2021