James Chapman: 41 books

In this entertaining cultural history of British comic papers and magazines, James Chapman shows how comics were transformed in the early twentieth century from adult amusement to imaginative reading matter for children.   Beginning with the first British comic, Ally Sloper—known...

The cinema has been the pre-eminent popular art form of the 20th century. In Cinemas of the World, James Chapman examines the relationship between film and society in the modern world: film as entertainment medium, film as a reflection of national cultures and preoccupations, film as an instrument...

Projecting Empire, James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull have written the first major study of imperialism and cinema for over thirty years. This welcome text maps the history of empire cinema in both Hollywood and Britain through a series of case studies of popular films, including adventures, biopics,...

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie. He returned repeatedly to the genre from the British classics of the 1930s, including...

From the onset of the film medium, directors have found war an endlessly compelling and fruitful subject for their art. In War and Film, Chapman explores their fascination as well as audiences’ enduring need to examine and experience the vicissitudes of war. Chapman examines the issues of...

The evidence continues to grow that the effective management of risk is the very kernel of successful project management. Its absence frequently leaves project sponsors lamenting missed objectives and shareholders coming to terms with an organisation’s poor bottom line performance. Dr Robert Chapman's...

Cinema and science fiction were made for each other. The science fiction genre has produced some of the most extraordinary films ever made, yet science fiction cinema is about more than just special effects. It has also provided a vehicle for filmmakers and writers to comment on their own societies...

In Telling Tales the Confessions of a Handyman, there is a compilation of seven stories that encompass many of the not so everyday events that the author has come across as a property manager come butler within the Ex-Pat community on Southern Spain's Costa del Sol.

This great series of sermons on holiness has long been out of print, but is now available to a modern generation, and at a great price! This edition includes an Active Table of Contents.  Contents: Chapter 1: HOLINESS Chapter 2: HOLINESS IN INTROSPECTION Chapter 3: HOLINESS IN...

This book is a great selection of questions and answers, divided into 27 different sections. There are 306 unique questions answered in the collection. The Table of Contents are as follows: Section I: QUESTIONS/ANSWERS ON THE BIBLE Section II: QUESTIONS/ANSWERS ABOUT CHRIST Section III: QUESTIONS/ANSWERS...

From the introduction: It is interesting to observe that the Wesleyan revival from its outset emphasized the importance of literature. John Wesley financed and personally distributed thousands of pieces of printed matter. Down through the years there has been no lack of holiness literature...

From the preface: Bud Robinson has gone! It still seems strange that his chats no longer appear in the Herald of Holiness. His long lists of subscriptions come no more to delight and amaze us. He has gone — gone to be with his Jesus whom he loved so devotedly. But the blessed influence of his life...

Skin Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, 3rd Edition, by Drs. Thomas P. Habif, James L. Campbell, Jr., M. Shane Chapman, James G. H. Dinulos, and Kathryn A. Zug, is the quick and practical clinical reference you need to help you effectively diagnose and treat 250 common dermatologic diseases. You’ll...

From the author's introduction: My first thought was to prepare some memorial notes of my wife to be preserved in manuscript form, interspersed with such pictures as were available, for the comfort of our children and me. But as I thought upon the matter, it occurred to me that there are many...