The Standard Theatre of Victorian England

The Standard Theatre of Victorian England
Author: Allan Stuart Jackson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838633922

This is the first major study of the Douglass family of England and the institution of the National Standard Theatre. It includes an examination of the theatrical aesthetics of the mid-Victorian theatre and the methods used by the Douglasses to achieve their success, as well as biographical material on a number of the actors and actresses and on the Douglass family itself.

Exiles in Hollywood

Exiles in Hollywood
Author: Gene D. Phillips
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780934223492

The book deals with five European film directors who were forced to remain in exile in the wake of the rise of Hitler and who subsequently enriched the American motion picture industry with a reservoir of new talent that had been nurtured in Europe. The directors treated are Fritz Lang, William Wyler, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Billy Wilder.