Thomas Austin

The Ancient Cookeries edited in this volume have been copied from Harleian MSS. 279 & 4016, in the British Museum, dating from about 1430 or 1440 & 1450 A.D. respectively. The volume also contains recipes from Asmole MS. 1439, Laud MS. 553 (Bodleian Library), & Douce MS. 55. Many of the recipes given would astonish a modern cook, as they are strongly seasoned. The Foreward suggests stronger stomachs may have been fortified by outdoor life. Spices used include pepper, ginger, cloves, garlic, galingale & vinegar. Wine is used in the recipes for Roast Partridge, Partridge Stews & Brawn in Poivrade. Some of the meats used were whale, porpoise, seal, swan, crane, heron & peacock.

Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books

This book traces the circulation in Britain of three Hollywood films--Basic Instinct, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Natural Born Killers --from marketing and critical reception to consumption in cinemas and on video. It draws on economic discursive contexts and original audience research to trace how meanings, pleasures, and uses are derived from popular film. A significant intervention into methodological debates in film studies and a timely investigation of film culture, it focuses on key questions about genre, taste, sexual pleasure and screen violence.

Selling and Watching Popular Film in the 1990s

Hollywood Hype and Audiences

Martin Barker

Taking account of the major developments in the field of star studies, this book explores the political economy of stardom, questions of performance, the effect on stardom of convergence between the film industry and other leisure industries, and the role of audiences. The book combines a review of current trends with case studies of individual stars enabling students and researchers to widen their knowledge of the field and explore new ways of approaching the star phenomenon.

Contemporary Hollywood Stardom

Excerpt from Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books: Harleian Ms. 279 (Ab, 1430),& Harl; Ms. 4016 (Ab, 1450), With Extracts From Ashmole Ms. 1429, Laud Ms. 553,& Douce Ms. 55 The Ancient Cookeries edited in this volume have been copied from Harleian MSS. 279 and 4016, in the British Museum. The first MS. was copied, and partly prepared for the press, by the late Mr. Faulke Watling, of the University of Oxford, but his untimely death prevented his seeing it through the Press. This MS. is divided into three Parts, the first, headed Kalendare de Potages dyners, containing 153 recipes: the second Part, Kalendare de Leche Metys, has 64 recipes, and the third Part, Dynerse bake metis, 41 recipes. This MS., besides the Cookery, contains the Bills of Fare of several Banquets which are noticed more fully below. The date of this MS. is about 1430 or 1440, and has been given a little too early on pages 1 and 5. This has been collated with Ashmole MS. 1439, in the Bodleian, noted as A. in the text. For the second MS. it was originally intended to publish Douce MS. 55, in the Bodleian Library, but this was found imperfect, and was replaced by Harleian MS. 4016. They are similar books, and contain the same recipes in nearly the same words, the latter having a few that are not in the former, and vice versa. The Harleian Cookery has 182 Recipes, while the Douce Cookery has 184. The two have been collated, and are of about the same date, c. 1450. Two Banquets are prefixed to this MS., which are also more fully noticed below. Several of the recipes of the Douce Ms. are appended at page 115. Some recipes for sauces, taken from Ashmole MS. 1439, are given at page 108. This MS. is about the same date as Harleian MS. 279, and has the same Feasts added, though some of the leaves are missing. These recipes are followed by others taken from two odd leaves in Laud MS. 553, in the Bodleian Library; see page 112. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Harleian Ms. 279 (Ab, 1430),& Harl; Ms. 4016 (Ab, 1450), With Extracts From Ashmole Ms. 1429, Laud Ms. 553,& Douce Ms. 55 (Classic Reprint)

Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismäki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original essays aims to redress such neglect by assembling diverse critical inquiries into Kaurismäki's oeuvre. The first anthology on Kaurismäki to be published in English, it offers a range of voices responding to his politically and aesthetically compelling cinema. Deploying various methodologies to explore multiple facets of his work, The Films of Aki Kaurismäki will come to be seen as the definitive book on Kaurismäki.

Ludic Engagements

The Films of Aki Kaurismäki

Younghee Park

Divyesh Jadav

This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the First Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, held in San Jose, USA, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a virtual format. The 9 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They present most recent research on dependability, reliability, and security to address cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities,faults, and errors in networks and systems.

First Conference, SVCC 2020, San Jose, CA, USA, December 17–19, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference

Harleian Ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. Ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole Ms. 1429 Laud Ms. 553, & Douce Ms. 55

Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books

Excerpt from Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books: Harleian Ms. 279 (Ab, 1430),& Harl; Ms. 4016 (Ab, 1450), With Extracts From Ashmole Ms. 1429, Laud Ms. 553,& Douce Ms. 55 Some of the designs; or Subtleties, exposed on the Tables, as ornament, were of rather an ambitious character; far more so than most of those mentioned on pages 57 58, etc. These were devices in sugar and paste, and apparently in Jelly, and were, at any rate at times, made to be eaten. Those displayed at the Enthronement of Abp. Warham in 1505, must have been of considerable size, as their description Shews. They represented silvan and hunting scenes, and one displayed the interior of an Abbey Church with its various altars. In other cases such devices as a Ship, fully armed with her ordnance, with the Barons of the Cinque Ports on board, or buildings with vanes and towers are exhibited. A great Custard, planted, is displayed in a banquet given by Leland in his Collectanea. The dishes were also gilt at times, for purpose of display, as a Leche Lombard in the same volume; a Peacock also is mentioned with a gilt nib. The Subtleties mentioned in this volume are of a much more modest Character, representing simply an Agnus Dei, an Eagle, a Doctor of Law, etc. Though those at the Stalling of John Stafiord, on page 68, are more complicated. They seem both to have preceded the various courses, and also to have closed them, the first being called Warners, as giving warning of the entry of a fresh service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Harleian Ms. 279 (AB, 1430),& Harl; Ms. 4016 (AB, 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole Ms. 1429, Laud Ms. 553,& Douce Ms. 55 (Classic Reprint)

Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books: Harleian Ms. 279 (Ab. 1430), & Harl. Ms. 4016 (Ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole Ms. 1429, Laud Ms. 553, & Douce Ms. 55

This book offers a reappraisal of star studies in light of the arrival of the internet and the explosion in materials such as glossy magazines and merchandise meaning that stars are visible as never before. It explores the political economy of stardom, questions of performance, the effect on stardom of convergence between the film industry and other leisure industries, and the role of audiences.

"This collection explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across Europe in flux. It brings together scholars from Spain to Estonia, Hungary to Britain, in order to trace European filmmakers' diverse responses to the interlinked upheavals and emergencies of the past three decades."--

Film and Contemporary Europe

Cinema of Crisis

Everybody analyses films. Ordinary viewers, chatting on the way home afterwards. Reviewers, telling us just enough to tempt or put off. Critics, ‘situating’ films for us. Moralists, hunting for the (harmful) message. So what exactly is it that film academics do that’s different?Martin Barker and Thomas Austin provide a jargon-free, accessible and student-friendly introduction to film analysis. They begin with a discussion about audience and a detailed case-study on four conflicting analyses of Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life. The authors examine a range of popular Hollywood films in a variety of genres, including Titanic, Deep Impact, Sleepless in Seattle, The Lion King, Starship Troopers and The Usual Suspects, and provide vivid demonstrations of what can and can’t be achieved with close textual analysis. The book ends by proposing a list of measures for assessing the adequacy of film analyses: measures intended to lay the basis of a way of doing film analysis which goes beyond theoretically-predetermined and often obscurantist assertions.Explicitly rejecting much of the theoretical baggage that dogs contemporary film analysis, Barker and Austin strip the subject down to its bare essentials. The result is a provocative and timely reexamination of many of the basic tenets in film theory and analysis.

Thomas Austin

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