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Provides the first comprehensive history of the politics of film finance in Britain from the end of the Second World War to 1985

Dr. No introduced the James Bond formula that has been a box-office fixture ever since. An explosive cocktail of action, spectacle, and sex, the film transformed popular cinema. James Chapman provides a lively and comprehensive study of Dr. No, marshaling a wealth of archival research to place the film in its historical moment.

A brightly illustrated comic guide to sayings and expressions from around the world, comparing the ways different cultures interpret the same ideas.

The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically 'British' in content and outlook. This book analyses eight of these dramas - Spooks, Foyle's War, Hustle, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Downton Abbey, Sherlock and Broadchurch - which have all proved popular with audiences and in their different ways represent the thematic and formal paradigms of post-millennial drama. James Chapman locates new British drama in its institutional and economic contexts, considers their critical and popular reception, and analyses their social politics in relation to their representations of class, gender and nationhood. He demonstrates how contemporary drama has mobilised both new and residual elements in re-configuring genres such as the spy series, cop show and costume drama for the cultural tastes of modern audiences. And it concludes that television drama has played an integral role in both the economic and the cultural export of 'Britishness'.

Did you know that in German, a pig doesn't say oink, it says gruntz, and when you sneeze in Japanese it's hakushon, not achoo? With vibrant comics and fun facts, Sounds All Around will teach you interesting and funny onomatopoeias from all over the world!

Murphy's Law states that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, and has claimed almost all of us as a victim at one point or another. However, there are several other laws that can cause havoc. Chapman and his family fell prey to the lesser-known `law of the journey', which states that the longer a trip is, the more likely things are to go wrong...

In Telling Tales the Confessions of a Handyman, there is a compilation of seven stories that encompass many of the not-so-everyday events that the author has come across as a property manager-cum-butler within the expat community on southern Spain's Costa del Sol.

Doctor Who enjoys the distinction of being the longest-running science fiction series in the world. In this study of a television institution, the author explores the history of Doctor Who from its origins onwards. It also shows how the series has evolved to meet changing contexts inside the BBC and in the wider culture.

Offering a unique cultural history of British comic papers and magazines, Chapman argues that British comics are distinct from their American, French and Japanese counterparts. British Comics showcases the major role that comics have played in the imaginative lives of British youth - and some adults.

Follows Bond from the 1962 'Dr No', through the subsequent Bond films, exploring them within the culture and politics of the times, as well as within film culture itself. This work provides coverage of Brosnan as Bond in The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day; and includes a chapter on Casino Royale and Daniel Craig's new-look Bond.