Pageantry and Power

Pageantry and PowerPageantry and Power is the first full and in depth cultural history of the Lord Mayors Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeares time and beyond.

theatrical communication and aesthetics and the cognitive reception of design by the audience

development and techniques of Griersonian documentary in New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century

written from a radical sociological perspective

Austria and the former Yugoslavia

poets and performers including:

it is guaranteed to appeal to anyone who has ever closed the last page of The Return of the King and wished it to never end

war blogs and eyewitness reporting

to hold to a reasonable number the cross references that I inserted whenever I found that a point I try to make in one chapter is supported or amplified by an argument offered in another

it argues for an expanded repertoire of practices to recognise authors who have been overlooked

Listen to Kate Kretz' 'Beyond Cheap Tricks' here

Geographically isolated from the fashion hubs of Paris and New York

It explores topics such as reality TV