The scholars included in this collection sought to indicate more contemporary working definitions for the expression 'American Dream', or rather Dreams. The multidisciplinary selections come from many countries and represent ...

The discovery in 1959 of the fossil fragments that would become the Zinjanthropus boisei skull propelled Olduvai Gorge, the Leakey family, and the search for human origins into the glare of the world's media. This triumvirate ...

In a recent article, Sonia Livingstone has attempted to summarise some of the many problems, complexities and challenges which researchers face when conducting cross-cultural audience projects. This essay tells the story ...

Following the release in 2001 of the first film of Peter Jackson's adapted trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of The Ring, a wave of 'Ring Fever' swamped the world, with reprints of the novel, ...

Shifting Sands Summary. In Shifting Sands, I was examining how historical fact and myth combine forming stories on the boundary of truth and fiction. The performance itself took place as a site-specific, hour long ...

I entered the collection with an agenda: I wanted to locate the material it held on stage machinery; trap doors, revolving stages, fly towers and winch systems, and - if I was lucky, trick props and stage effects, items ...

John Cavanagh began collecting books on theatre when he was studying at Oxford in the late 1940s and at the point of his death the library amounted to 22,000 books (at one point it had been in excess of 30,000) and a large ...

In search of Neher: notes from a presentation A few days before I came to the archive a theatre director called Annie Castledine phoned me after many years silence, Annie had been a significant person in my early career ...