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Books by Robert Shail
  | | Seventies British Cinema by Robert Shail Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-273-1, ISBN: 1-84457-273-0 "Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic collapse, turned to 'unacceptable' low culture genres such as sexploitation comedies or extreme horror. The contributors to this new collection argue that 1970s cinema is ripe for reapprais ..." |
 | | Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender) by Samantha Holland, Robert Shail, Steven Gerrard Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-898-7, ISBN: 1-78769-898-X "The horror genre will always remain current because it reflects our anxieties, shining a light onto our worst fears whilst creating worlds defined by darkness. Horror as a genre has always engaged with era-specific societal mores and moral panics, often about isolation or abandonment, changing family values and the role of women. It is often specifically about how gender is constructed in everyday life. Women are commonly defined in hor ..." |
 | | Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television by Steven Gerrard, Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, Robert Shail 264 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-104-9, ISBN: 1-78769-104-7 |
 | | British Film Directors(1st Edition) A Critical Guide (International Film Directors): A Critical Guide (International Film Directors) by Robert Shail Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-2230-6, ISBN: 0-7486-2230-6 |
 | | British Film Directors(1st Edition) A Critical Guide (Paperback) by Robert Shail Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 2007 by Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Tx) ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2833-8, ISBN: 0-8093-2833-X "With its witty, literate script and suitably disdainful performance from Dennis Price as Louis, the poor relation of the grand D'Ascoyne family who murders his way towards the family inheritance, the film adopts a uniquely taciturn attitude towards its dark subject matter. Alec Guinness is suitably outlandish playing all eight victims (one of them female) and the film still seems remarkably modern in both its critique of class and ..." |
 | | Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender) by Robert Shail, Samantha Holland, Steven Gerrard Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Group Pub Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-108-7, ISBN: 1-78769-108-X "Contemporary popular media has been marked by its startling ability to morph into a wide variety of formats, fed by the ongoing revolution in digital technology. Despite these significant changes, the horror genre has retained its attraction for audiences, and the representation of gender has been crucial to that appeal. Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comic, Games and Transmedia examines the impact of media convergence on the horror ..." |
 | | Crank it up(1st Edition) Jason Statham: star! by Steven Gerrard, Robert Shail Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-4277-1, ISBN: 1-5261-4277-5 "Jason Statham has risen from street seller through championship diving and modelling to become arguably the biggest British male film star of the twenty-first century. This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of his work across a variety of media, including film, television, video games and music videos. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of Statham’s career, from his distinctive screen presence to his style, brandin ..." |
 | | The Children's Film Foundation History and Legacy by Robert Shail Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2016 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-858-0, ISBN: 1-84457-858-5 "From the 1950s to the 1980s the Children's Film Foundation made films for Saturday morning cinema clubs across the UK - entertaining and educating generations of British children. This first history of this much-loved organisation provides an overview of the CFF's films, interviews with key backstage personnel, and memories of audience members. " |
 | | Stanley Baker A Life in Film by Robert Shail Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Wales Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2126-3, ISBN: 0-7083-2126-7 "For a small nation, Wales has produced a unique roster of acting talent. Few, however, could equal the level of film stardom experienced by Stanley Baker. His remarkable rise to fame took him from an impoverished childhood in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales to international stardom and acclaim in films such as "Zulu" and "Accident."As well as being an important figure in front of the camera, he became a producer and studio executive, ..." |
 | | British Film Directors - A Critical Guide(1st Edition) by Robert Shail Hardcover, 246 Pages, Published 2007 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2832-1, ISBN: 0-8093-2832-1 "Robert HAMER The output of Ealing Studios tended to be dominated by the house style imposed by its head, Michael Balcon. Occasionally, one or two of its directors broke away from Balcon's ethos to produce work with a more personal, individual quality. This is certainly true of Robert Hamer, a tragic figure in the history of British cinema whose career ended early due to alcoholism, but who left a small, deeply impressive body of wo ..." |
 | | British Film Directors A Critical Guide (International Film Directors): A Critical Guide (International Film Directors) by Robert Shail Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-2231-3, ISBN: 0-7486-2231-4 "British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This tradition continues today with the work of directors as diverse as Neil Jordan, Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. This concise, authoritative volume analyses critically the work of 100 British directors, from the innovators of the si ..." |
 | | Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender Ser. Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia by Robert Shail, Samantha Holland, Steven Gerrard 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Group Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-109-4, ISBN: 1-78769-109-8 "As Danforth reacts with a 'No!' he looks down the track into the tunnel beyond. The words 'Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li [...] TEKELI-LI' emerge from the blackness beyond. It is clear that Lovecraft's most ambitious tale of forbidden knowledge is not readily ..." |
 | | Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film by Samantha Holland, Robert Shail, Steven Gerrard 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Group Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-899-4, ISBN: 1-78769-899-8 "As Mary T. Hartson explains, 'Filmic representations of men from the 1970's reflect the confusion that this change effected in masculine subject formation with the result that male characters are often seen as self-destructive, confused, violent or ..." |
 | | Seventies British Cinema by Robert Shail 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-83871-806-0, ISBN: 1-83871-806-0 "Art director Bernard Robinson resigned, and then died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-eight on 2 March 1970, minutes after tentatively agreeing to come back for one last production.20 In 1971, Roy Skeggs, Hammer's accountant, became ..." |
 | | Crank It Up Jason Statham: Star! by Steven Gerrard, Robert Shail 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-4279-5, ISBN: 1-5261-4279-1 "... of action and treats every major, life threatening situation with a sense of detachment. The fact that he performs the majority of his own stunts also contributes to this performed masculinity and is frequently raised in interviews. Philip G. Atwell ..." |
 | | Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television by Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, Robert Shail 264 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Group Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-105-6, ISBN: 1-78769-105-5 "Her book, Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture: Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog was published in 2016. ... Dahlia Schweitzer is a pop culture critic and writer based in Los Angeles, California. ... the author of Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses and the End of the World and Cindy Sherman's Office Killer: Another Kind of Monster." |
 | | Tony Richardson(1st Edition) (British Film Makers MUP) by Robert Shail, Brian Mcfarlane, Neil Sinyard Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2012 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-8100-2, ISBN: 0-7190-8100-9 "Tony Richardson was one of the key figures in the revolution which hit British cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. Having established his radical credentials as director of the first production of John Osborne's landmark play Look Back in Anger, he became the most productive of the New Wave film makers who brought realism to the fore in British cinema. He went on to make some of the most significant films of the 1960s including the multi Osc ..." |
 | | Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film by Samantha Holland, Robert Shail, Steven Gerrard 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Group Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-897-0, ISBN: 1-78769-897-1 "... bought by Constantin Films in 1997, and in 2001, Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired distribution rights and hired British film director Paul W. S. Anderson to both write and direct the first movie. Anderson continued working in the franchise ..." |
 | | Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television by Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, Robert Shail 264 Pages, Published 2019 by Emerald Group Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-103-2, ISBN: 1-78769-103-9 "But, as authors like Charlotte Brunsdon (1990), Sarah Cardwell (2007) or Brigitte Frizzoni (2012) have already argued at length, the terms like 'Trash' and 'Quality' are first and foremost actively constructed categories meant to organize and ..." |
 | | The Children's Film Foundation History and Legacy by Robert Shail 208 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-860-3, ISBN: 1-84457-860-7 "History and Legacy Robert Shail ... In Britain he is under the care of Dr Fielding ( Ivor Danvers) and makes friends with the latter's two children, Kate (Debby Padbury) and Peter (Ian Sears). Enter the villains, intent on kidnapping Poochook to use his powers to generate electricity, but the children come to the rescue and fetch him away to the house of their aunt (Diana King). The story culminates in a lengthy chase around a car s ..." |