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...English in 1906 - Tolstoy suggests King Lear shows Shakespeare up as something of a hack...Altho I know that the majority of people so firmly believe in the greatness of Shakespeare that in reading this judgment of mine they will not admit even the possibility of its justice, and will not give it the slightest attention, nevertheless I will endeavor, as well as I can, to...

...English...Week 1: The value of film: 3 Thinking about the value chain - In the film industry, the term ‘value chain’ is used to describe the series of steps that run from the first creative spark that inspires the film-makers to begin the project, through to the end of the commercial life of the completed feature film. The same term is used in a slightly different way...

...English speech and promoting gangster life (Beaven, 2005, pp. 187–90). Perhaps it is little wonder then that when governments had the ability to control mass media they took to the task with great energy, as was the case with radio broadcasting. In Germany, radio broadcasting was ‘to be above party politics – unlike so many of Germany’s great and influential...