John Russell Taylor

Orson Welles offers a fascinating peek behin d the mask, looking at the ascertainable facts of his life, his loves and his collaborations, and examines the ways in w hich the Welles legend has been constructed by himself, his friends and his enemies. '

A Celebration

Orson Welles

One of cinema's greatest directors, a virtuoso visual artist, and a genius of the suspense genre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) is universally known for such masterpieces as Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. The author, a distinguished film critic and friend of Hitchcock's, enjoyed his full cooperation. Based on numerous interviews, with photos from the private family albums, and an in-depth study of the making of his last film, this biography of the director is as intriguing, revealing, perverse, and entertaining as any Hitchcock classic.

The Life And Times And Alfred Hitchcock

Hitch

Impressions of France

The Life and Art of Claude Monet

Profiles the complex actress whose career included such legendary films as "Casablanca" and "Notorious" and whose personal life was touched by scandal

Ingrid Bergman

Photographs from the Kobal Collection

Vivien Leigh

Alec Guinness

Noel Langley

Presents the complete screenplay of the popular fantasy film, including scenes cut in the final version, and briefly describes its historical background

The Wizard of Oz

In the 1970s the revolution that had swept the British theatre in the 1950s had already become accepted as the new establishment. Areas that had been previously regarded as remote ideals - including permanent repertory companies, a lively provincial theatre and an extensive spread of avant-garde and fringe theatrical activities - were now considered commonplace. In this title, first published in 1971, John Russell Taylor assesses the prospects of the British theatre at the start of the 1970s and indicates its points of weakness and its strengths. In this context are placed the key figures among the Second Wave of dramatists, and detailed critical commentaries on the work of writers such as David Mercer, Tom Stoppard and Peter Terson. This is an indispensable introduction for any student with an interest in the history and development of the British theatre and the people who have played instrumental roles in this.

British Drama for the Seventies

The Second Wave (Routledge Revivals)

Maggie Bollaert

Published to complement the London Plus One Gallery show by the same name, a guide to the achievements and significance of contemporary figurative and hyperrealist artists includes examinations of the works of such creative masters as Clive Head, Cynthia Poole, and John Salt.

Hyperrealist Art Today

Exactitude

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne

This authorized biography covers the entire span of Hitchcock's career, from his early successes, and offers revealing insight into his relationships with his stars and his eccentric working methods.

The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock

John R. Taylor

The possessive morpheme in English occurs in a variety of constructions - prenominal possessives (the man's hat, the plane's arrival), postnominal possessives (a friend of mine), -ing nominalizations (without my saying so), and possessive compounds (a girls' school). What does this morpheme actually mean, what is its syntactic category, what is its semantic contribution to the expressions in which it occurs, and how can various restrictions on its use be accounted for? Dr Taylor proposes a unitary account of the possessive morpheme. He takes as his theoretical framework Cognitive Grammar, as developed over the past 15 years by Ronald Langacker and others. In the earlier chapters of the book he introduces and motivates the conceptual apparatus of the theory, and in later chapters he develops a coherent account of the full range of possessive constructions in English. A special feature of the book is that it offers a wide-ranging critique of both traditional and more recent accounts of possessive expressions. Focusing particularly on Government and Binding theory, the author highlights the profound conceptual differences underlying the two theoretical approaches represented by GB and Cognitive Grammar, while also observing some points of convergence between them.

An Exploration in Cognitive Grammar

Possessives in English

Arthur Jackson

In addition to a survey of the Hollywood musical's development, the authors provide an index to the major personalities and films which have contributed to this medium of entertainment.

The Hollywood Musical

One of cinema's greatest directors, a virtuoso visual artist, and a genius of the suspense genre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) is universally known for such masterpieces as Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. John Russell Taylor, a distinguished film critic and friend of Hitchcock's, enjoyed his full cooperation. Based on numerous interviews, with photos from the private family albums, and an in-depth study of the making of his last film, this biography of the director is as intriguing, revealing, perverse, and entertaining as any Hitchcock classic.

John Russell Taylor

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