Subversive Champagne

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326141714

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Subversive Champagne re-examines the 1960s cult television series, The Avengers, through a close analysis of 25 filmed episodes. The book examines how The Avengers - during the classic Emma Peel era (1964-1967) - was continually shifting the boundaries of audience expectation, defying both genre classification and viewers' traditional desire for kitchen sink drama. Subversive Champagne centres on eighteen episodes from the monochrome Peel Season 4 - widely acknowledged as the artistic pinnacle of the series. It is in this era - caught between video-tape and colour film - that The Avengers was undergoing arguably its most profound stylistic and thematic transitions, from mild eccentricity to something genuinely experimental. The author extends his journey into the exhilarating but 'uneven' colour Season 5, adding chapters on seven more episodes, thus allowing us to explore the entire Emma Peel era. Entertaining froth or groundbreaking art? Rediscover the most iconic show in television history.

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326461799

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Avengerland: A Critical Guide by Rodney Marshall Pdf

Author : Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Denis Chauvet,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Frank Hui,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,Roger Marshall,JZ Ferguson,Dan O'Shea
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326120054

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Bright Horizons by Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Denis Chauvet,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Frank Hui,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,Roger Marshall,JZ Ferguson,Dan O'Shea Pdf

Author : Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Frank Hui,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Sunday Swift,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Dan O'Shea
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326120092

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Mrs. Peel, We're Needed by Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Frank Hui,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Sunday Swift,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Dan O'Shea Pdf

Author : Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Frank Shailes,Piers Johnson,Frank Hui,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Sunday Swift,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Matthew Lee,Mark Saunders,Dan O'Shea
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326118204

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Anticlockwise by Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Frank Shailes,Piers Johnson,Frank Hui,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Sunday Swift,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Matthew Lee,Mark Saunders,Dan O'Shea Pdf

Author : Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Matthew Lee,Dan O'Shea,Cindy Dye
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781326308117

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Avengerland Regained by Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Matthew Lee,Dan O'Shea,Cindy Dye Pdf

The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. The creation of The New Avengers, in 1976, saw John Steed re-emerge, alongside two younger co-leads: sophisticated action girl Purdey and Gambit, a 'hard man' with a soft centre. The cultural context had changed - including the technology, music, fashions, cars, fighting styles and television drama itself - but Avengerland was able to re-establish itself. Nazi invaders, a third wave of cybernauts, Hitchcockian killer birds, a sleeping city, giant rat, a deadly health spa, a skyscraper with a destructive mind...The 1970s series is, paradoxically, both new yet also part of the rich, innovative Avengers history. Avengerland Regained draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans as it explores the final vintage of The Avengers.

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781326194277

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Wolf's Hook by Rodney Marshall Pdf

It was a sunny Saturday lunchtime in June 1944. Most of the inhabitants of a sleepy village situated in the 'Free Zone' of war-ravaged France were sitting down to a leisurely meal. Without warning, an attachment of Das Reich soldiers (the elite force of the Nazi's Waffen-SS division) arrived. Hours later, 642 defenceless people had been massacred; their homes were smouldering ruins. From these embers emerged life-affirming stories of survival as individuals defied machine-guns, snipers, explosives and burning buildings to escape the clutches of the deadly Wolf's Hook (the Das Reich emblem). Wolf's Hook is a factionalised account of the Das Reich attack on a hillside village. It recaptures the essence of what happened that day, using four first-person narrative strands: a waiter, a young boy, an SS soldier and a grandmother. Through their eyes we see the terrifying day unravel. Not suitable for readers under 12.

Author : Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Matthew Lee,JZ Ferguson,Geoff Dodd
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780244715052

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Day of Execution by Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Matthew Lee,JZ Ferguson,Geoff Dodd Pdf

Television drama is frequently marginalised as a piece of fleeting popular culture rather than 'a more lasting art form'. The emergence of television studies has helped to question this mind-set. Innovative television drama can rival any field of the arts in terms of material worthy of critical exploration. This series of books focuses on 'outstanding' examples of British television dramas, centring on a single episode in an attempt to explain what makes both the episode in particular, and the series in general, remarkable. The social context, script, characters sets/locations, music, and direction are all focal points. This Classic British Television Drama (CBTD) series of books continues with an exploration of Man in a Suitcase's episode Day of Execution. Elements of Cold War espionage, American gumshoe, British thriller and 'Swinging' London combine in a series which is hard to define and was, arguably, ahead of its time.

Author : Rodney Marshall,Matthew Lee
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326325152

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Man in a Suitcase: ITC-land Volume 1 by Rodney Marshall,Matthew Lee Pdf

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326862121

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Blurred Boundaries by Rodney Marshall Pdf

In the mid-1980s, in Edinburgh, Ian Rankin was hatching a plot for a 'crime thriller' from his student digs. Knots & Crosses - like its frayed protagonist John Rebus - was rough around the edges but marked a promising debut. More than a quarter of a century later, Rankin and Rebus have a global following. The series has been both critically acclaimed and commercially popular. Detective John Rebus is anything but conventional. The same can be said of Ian Rankin's innovative texts which take crime fiction far beyond formulaic genre, producing radical, disruptive, borderline texts. In the first ever full-length study of all twenty-one Rebus novels, Rodney Marshall argues that Rankin's fiction continues to break new ground, blurring the boundaries between traditional detective novel and modern literature. November 2016 fifth edition: now includes an exclusive eighteen page interview with Ian Rankin and a chapter on Rather Be The Devil, Rankin's new Rebus novel.

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326251505

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Blake's 7: A Critical Guide to Series 1-4 by Rodney Marshall Pdf

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-04
Category : Fathers and daughters
ISBN : 9781326879594

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Why? by Rodney Marshall Pdf

Father of two, David Jennings is divorced and working as a professor of literature in Singapore. Out of the blue he receives a phone call from his ex-wife, Anne. Their daughter, Kate, a promising university student, has been found dead on a bleak hillside outside Brighton. The police are convinced that she has taken her own life. The coronerÕs Open Verdict encourages him to start his own, guilt-ridden investigations into her death. As Jennings journeys into his daughterÕs past, the harrowing mission takes us to London, Bogot+ and the English coastline, in a search to understand ÔWhy?Õ But what if the truth is worse than not knowing?

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781326277369

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Travelling Man: A Critical Guide by Rodney Marshall Pdf

Drawing inspiration from the private detective and Western genres, as well as the cult 1960s series The Fugitive, Roger Marshall's mid-1980s drama Travelling Man was both critically acclaimed and commercially popular, drawing audiences of up to 13.2 million viewers. Ex-Drugs Squad detective and jailbird Alan Lomax is a fascinatingly flawed protagonist, but it is the setting of the canals and inland waterways of Britain which provide the unique charm of Travelling Man, offering the perfect backdrop for Lomax's nomadic quests. The canals also dictate the show's leisured pace. Avengers expert Rodney Marshall offers a critical guide to all thirteen episodes, exploring the scripts, direction, characterisation, acting and music. ""One thing about quiet waterways, you can hear footsteps.""

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1482356902

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Subversive Champagne by Rodney Marshall Pdf

2014 edition, now covering 25 episodes. (Back cover blurb has not been updated)."We highly recommend Subversive Champagne. It isn't every day that a book comes along that says something new about The Avengers and makes you approach the series from a fresh perspective, but this is one of those books that is both thought provoking and enjoyable. It's written by Rodney Marshall, son of Avengers writer Roger Marshall, and you really should buy it!" (The Avengers Declassified)Subversive Champagne re-examines the 1960s cult television series, The Avengers, through a close analysis of 1 video tape episode and 24 filmed episodes. The book examines how The Avengers - during the classic Emma Peel era (1964-1967) - was continually shifting the boundaries of audience expectation, defying both genre classification and viewers' traditional desire for closure and simplicity.Subversive Champagne centres on 18 episodes from the monochrome Peel Season 4 - widely acknowledged as the artistic pinnacle of the series. It is in this era - caught between video-tape and colour film - that The Avengers was undergoing arguably its most profound stylistic and thematic transitions, from mild eccentricity to something genuinely experimental.The author extends his journey into the exhilarating but 'uneven' colour Season 5, adding chapters on 6 more episodes, thus allowing us to explore the entire Emma Peel era. Entertaining froth or groundbreaking art?Rediscover the most iconic show in television history.Episodes featured: Season 3: MandrakeSeason 4: The Town of No Return, The Murder Market, The Master Minds, Dial A Deadly Number, Death at Bargain Prices, Too Many Christmas Trees, The Cybernauts, The Gravediggers, Room Without A View, A Surfeit of H20, Man-Eater of Surrey Green, Silent Dust, The Hour that Never Was, Castle De'ath, The Danger Makers, What The Butler Saw, The House That Jack Built, Honey for the Prince.Season 5: Epic, Something Nasty in the Nursery, The Joker, Who's Who?, Death's Door, Murdersville.

Author : Alan Butler,Janet Wolter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620553985

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America: Nation of the Goddess by Alan Butler,Janet Wolter Pdf

Explores how a secret cabal of influential families has shaped the United States according to the principles of sacred geometry and Goddess veneration • Exposes the esoteric influences behind the National Grange Order of Husbandry • Examines the sacred design and hidden purpose of the Washington Monument • Reveals how the three obelisks in New York City depict the stars of Orion’s Belt • Explains how every baseball diamond is actually a temple to the Goddess In America: Nation of the Goddess, Alan Butler and Janet Wolter reveal how a secret cabal of influential “Venus” families with a lineage tracing back to the Eleusinian Mysteries has shaped the history of the United States since its founding. The evidence for such incredible assertions comes from American institutions such as the National Grange Order of Husbandry and from the man-made landscape of the United States where massive structures and whole cities conform to an agenda designed to elevate the feminine within religion and society. The authors explain how the Venus families, working through the Freemasons and later the Grange, planned the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. It was this group who set the stage for the Founding Fathers to create Washington, D.C., according to the principles of sacred geometry, with an eye toward establishing the New Jerusalem. The authors explore the sacred design of the Washington Monument, revealing its occult purpose and connections to the heavens. They reveal how the obelisks in New York City depict the stars of Orion’s Belt just like the Giza pyramids and how the site of one of them, St. Paul’s Chapel, is the American counterpart to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. Exposing the strong esoteric influences behind the establishment of the Grange in the United States, they connect this apparently conservative order of farmers to the Venus families and trace its lineage back to the Cisterians, who were a major voice in the promotion of the Crusades and the establishment of the Knights Templar. The authors conclude with the startling revelation that nearly every city in America has a temple to the Goddess hidden in plain sight--their baseball diamonds--exposing the extent to which the Venus families are still at work behind the scenes.