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Novelist, comics writer, scriptwriter, poet, occasional artist - a master of several genres and inadvertent leader of many cults - there are few creative avenue

First published in 2001. The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the "silent c

Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, social theory,