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Dennis Potter - Humphrey Carpenter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Dennis Potter - Humphrey Carpenter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Dennis Potter''s death in 1994 deprived British television of its most controversial figure. Potter was a prolific writer of genius. Yet while his subversive television plays, such as Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective , scandalized and delighted the nation, they also made him the butt of the tabloids, who nicknamed him ''Dirty Den'' for his 1989 serial Blackeyes. Humphrey Carpenter, acclaimed biographer of Tolkien, Auden, Pound, Britten and Robert Runcie, interviewed everyone who came close to Potter, and had exclusive access to Potter''s archives, including the many unmade television and film scripts. Carpenter portrays a very different Potter from the aggressive public image: a deeply shy and reclusive man, who was psychologically as well as physically scarred by the illness which struck him down at the age of twenty-six. Potter was a man with a vast interest in sex but also a terrible loathing of it, thanks to an appalling experience he suffered in childhood.Potter was a man much gossiped about. Carpenter''s remarkable biography establishes the extraordinary truth behind the rumours; describes Potter''s strange, obsessive relationships with women such as Gina Bellman, who played Blackeyes; and gives a vivid portrait of the backstage dramas and fights behind Potter''s screen triumphs. ''What is valuable about this book is that it reveals Potter''s real private life, which barely features in his plays ... A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man: his generosity and cruelty, his coarseness and tenderness, and the thwarted sexual yearning that underlay everything.'' Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph

DKK 227.00
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Orlando - Sally Potter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Orlando - Sally Potter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Orlando is Sally Potter''s bold, unsentimental re-working of Virginia Woolf''s classic novel in which an innocent aristocrat journeys through 400 years of English history - first as a man, then as a woman.The film has won more than twenty international awards and enjoyed considerable box-office success around the world.Addressing contemporary concerns about gender and identity, the screenplay is remarkably true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf. But it also skilfully adapts the original story to give it a striking, cinematic form. How Sally Potter has achieved this is described in the book''s Introduction, which outlines the process by which Woolf''s novel has been transformed into Potter''s film.

DKK 136.00
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Naked Cinema - Sally Potter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Naked Cinema - Sally Potter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Sally Potter has been renowned for her rapport with actors, and for the luminous performances she works with them to produce. Now she strips bare the art and craft of directing actors for the camera, from casting a film to the moment of first screening when the work goes public. A brilliant writer for the screen, here Potter shows herself to be expert at translating the experience of film directing to the page. She addresses us in prose that is both unsentimental and inspired, tracing the energies that pass between actor, director and audience; shaping for the reader the acts of transmission and imagination, performance and witness, the sum of which make up a film.In addition to the core text, the book contains interviews with actors with whom Sally Potter has worked, whose voices will counterpoint Sally Potter''s, and will inform and illuminate the reader''s sense of her work. Those interviewed include: Julie Christie, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Simon Abkarian, Annette Benning, Timothy Spall, Steve Buscemi, Riz Ahmed, Elle Fanning, Alessandro Nivola, and Lily Cole.

DKK 214.00
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Blue Remembered Hills - Dennis Potter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Blue Remembered Hills - Dennis Potter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Dennis Potter here introduces three of his acclaimed works, Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Joe''s Ark (1974) and Cream in My Coffee (1980), and discusses the artistic potential and the limitations of a constantly evolving medium. Blue Remembered Hills : ''The novelty is that the leading characters, a group of seven-year-old children, are played by adult actors. It is a brilliant device, employed not as a gimmick but to suggest that youthful behaviour is carried over into the grown-up world . . . Blue Remembered Hills won the BAFTA Award for Best Play in 1979 and is a landmark in television drama.'' The Times

DKK 183.00
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Potter on Potter - Dennis Potter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Potter on Potter - Dennis Potter - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

British television''s pre-eminent playwright - latterly a novelist and film-maker - talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour and acerbic wit about the early influences that shaped him and led to his pioneering use of non-naturalism, to his self-reflexive subversion of film and TV cliches, his controversial approach to sex, politics, religion and the double-edged puritanism of the English condition. The book presents a remarkable portrait of a man for whom writing is, first and foremost, a vocation.

DKK 166.00
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A Potter's Book - Bernard Leach - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

A Potter's Book - Bernard Leach - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''I have tried to formulate a criterion by which good pots may be judged . . . a pot in order to be good should be a genuine expression of life. It implies sincerity on the part of the potter and truth in the conception and execution of the work.'' Bernard Leach (1887-1979) is generally reckoned to be the ''father of British studio pottery.'' Born in Hong Kong, profoundly influenced by both an upbringing and studies in Japan, Leach developed a vision of pottery that interwove art, craft, design and philosophy. In 1920 he co-founded the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall, and A Potter''s Book was first published in 1940. Within these pages Leach communicates his deeply-held convictions, through an account of the standards and materials essential to English slipware, stoneware, Japanese raku and Oriental porcelain. Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost or neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children''s books. For a full list of available titles visit www.faberfinds.co.uk. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please see our blog, www.faberfindsblog.co.uk.

DKK 203.00
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More Adventures According to Humphrey - Betty G. Birney - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

More Adventures According to Humphrey - Betty G. Birney - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

To celebrate his tenth birthday the whole Humphrey series has a smart new livery, repositioning him alongside perennial favourites such as Winnie-the-Pooh and Paddington. When Humphrey hears about a sailing competition on Potter''s Pond, he longs for a BIG-BIG-BIGGER adventure. And believe us, he gets one . . . but it isn''t all smooth sailing. He helps out his classmates, takes an unsqueakably dangerous voyage of his own, and even comes face-to-face with a pirate!Praise for Humphrey: ''An effective exploration of the joys and pains of making and keeping friends, which will strike a chord with many children.'' Daily Telegraph ''A charming, feel-good tale.'' Irish Times ''Humphrey''s matter-of-fact, table-level view of the world is alternately silly and profound and Birney captures his unique blend of innocence and earnestness.'' Publisher''s Weekly ''Humphrey, a delightful, irresistible character, is big hearted, observant and creative.'' Booklist

DKK 100.00
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Projections 4 - - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Projections 4 - - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Projections is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. In this edition we celebrate the centenary of film with articles ranging from an interview with Louis Lumière - the inventor of the cinema - to James Toback''s tales of contemporary Hollywood. Included in Projections 4 :Louis Lumière - Founding FatherMartin Scorsese - AnamorphobiaJames Toback - A Journal for 1994Penn on PennKen Burns - Raising the DeadSidney Howard - The Gone with the Wind Letters and The Story Gets a TreatmentLouis Malle, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Fred Berner, Larry Pine - Chekhov''s ChildrenWalter Murch - Sound Design: The Dancing ShadowEddie Fowlie - Playing Cowboys and IndiansJohn Seale - Lunch and a BookGene Kelly - An American in ParadiseSally Potter - The Tango LessonFederico Fellini - Creation and the ArtistViggo Mortensen - Missing Sandy DennisLindsay Anderson - On John FordThis edition also includes contributions by Percy Adlon, Kevin Brownlow, Roger Corman, Alex Cox, Andre de Toth, Nora Ephron, Monte Hellman, Huang Mingchuan, Richard Lowenstein, Dusan Makavejev, Arthur Penn, Vincent Sherman, Istvan Szabo, Michael Tolkin, Vincent Ward and Fred Zinneman.

DKK 227.00
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Ban This Filth! - Ben (music Critic) Thompson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Ban This Filth! - Ben (music Critic) Thompson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the ''propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt'' being poured into homes through the nation''s radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement for censorship: the National Viewers'' and Listeners'' Association, now Mediawatch-uk.For almost forty years, she kept up the fight against the programme makers, politicians, pop stars and playwrights who she felt were dragging British culture into a sewer of blasphemy and obscenity. From Doctor Who (''Teatime brutality for tots'') to Dennis Potter (whose mother sued her for libel and won) to the Beatles - whose Magical Mystery Tour escaped her intervention by the skin of its psychedelic teeth - the list of Mary Whitehouse''s targets will read to some like a nostalgic roll of honour.Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow reaction, Mary Whitehouse was held in contempt by the country''s intellectual elite. But were some of the dangers she warned of more real than they imagined? Ben Thompson''s selection of material from her extraordinary archive shows Mary Whitehouse''s legacy in a startling new light. From her exquisitely testy exchanges with successive BBC Directors General, to the anguished screeds penned by her television and radio vigilantes, these letters reveal a complex and combative individual, whose anxieties about culture and morality are often eerily relevant to the age of the internet. ''A fantastic read . . . I can''t recommend it highly enough.'' Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6 Music

DKK 155.00
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The Lunar Men - Jenny Uglow - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Lunar Men - Jenny Uglow - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles Darwin). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical. Led by Erasmus Darwin they joined a small band of allies, formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham (so called because it met at each full moon) and kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals, launched balloons, named plants, gases and minerals, changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms, and plotted to revolutionise its soul. Jenny Uglow''s The Lunar Men is a vivid and swarming group portrait that brings to life the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. It echoes the thud of pistons and the wheeze and snort of engines, and brings to life the tradesmen, artisans, and tycoons who shaped and fired the modern age. Winner of the PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize for history, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, The Lunar Men captures the creation of the modern world with lucid intelligence, sympathy and wisdom. Jenny Uglow is also the prize-winning author of Nature''s Engraver, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories and most recently, In These Times.

DKK 168.00
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Secret Classrooms - Harold Shukman - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Secret Classrooms - Harold Shukman - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''Here is a vivacious account of how in the 1950s, under Eden and Lloyd at the Foreign Office, some 5,000 young men doing national service were quietly siphoned off from their units, secluded in Cornwall and Fifeshire, or, more boldly, next door to the Guards depot at Coulsdon in Surrey, and put through crash courses in Russian till they could speak it fluently ...'' M. R. D. Foot, Spectator Lambasted by the Soviets as a ''spy school'', the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL) was a major Cold War initiative, which pushed 5000 young National Servicemen through intensive training as Russian translators and interpreters, primarily to meet the needs of Britain''s signals intelligence operations. Its pupils included a remarkable cross-section of talented young men who went on to a diversity of glittering careers: professors of Russian, Chinese, ancient philosophy, economics; the historian Sir Martin Gilbert; authors such as Alan Bennett, Dennis Potter and Michael Frayn; screenwriter Jack Rosenthal; stage director Sir Peter Hall; and churchmen ranging from a bishop to a displaced Carmelite friar. Geoffrey Elliot and Harold Shukman, both of whom emerged from JSSL as interpreters, have drawn on many personal recollections and interviews with fellow students, as well as once highly classified documents in the Public Record Office, in order to reveal this fascinating story for the first time.''A highly entertaining read ... No one interested in late 20th century theatre or literature can afford to ignore this book.'' Spectator ''Elliott and Shukman write with style and wit ... They record something more than a byway in the history of the cold war, a true contribution to British history.'' Michael Bourdeaux, Times Higher Education Supplement ''An engaging, quirky account of this strange offshoot of the Cold War ... a kind of Virgin Soldiers for clever clogs.'' Michael Leapman, Independent

DKK 181.00
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