What are you reading? ¨C 9 August 2018

Maria Delgado, professor and director of research, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is reading N¨²ria Triana-Toribio¡¯s Spanish Film Cultures: The Making and Unmaking of ?Spanish Cinema (BFI Palgrave, 2016). ¡°With Pedro Almod¨®var shooting his 21st film, Dolor y Gloria/Pain and Gloria, I have turned to this erudite account of 바카라사이트 emergence of Spain¡¯s film industry over 바카라사이트 period from 1986 to 2011. His films haven¡¯t fitted easily into 바카라사이트 brand of social realism that 바카라사이트 Spanish Film Academy has tended to reward. Examining 바카라사이트 central role of 바카라사이트 academy, 바카라사이트 book looks at strategies employed to protect film-making post-Franco, promote certain trends and genres, and shape what constitute ¡®good¡¯ films through 바카라사이트 annual Goya awards. A vision of Spanish cinema, where 바카라사이트 Catalan was in effect marginalised, was sold both nationally and internationally, through 바카라사이트 boom years of early democracy and into 바카라사이트 post-2007 economic crisis.¡±

A. W. Purdue, visiting professor in history at Northumbria University, is reading E. F. Benson¡¯s The Complete Mapp and Lucia (Wordsworth Classics, 2011). ¡°These three novels are set among 바카라사이트 middle-aged leisured elite in 바카라사이트 small town of Tilling, closely based on Rye, immediately after 바카라사이트 First World War. Lucia, recently widowed, moves to 바카라사이트 town, bringing in tow her bachelor friend Georgie; she fears he may wish to marry her, and is relieved, if slightly miffed, when she discovers his dread of such a relationship. She quickly arouses jealousy and resentment in Elizabeth Mapp, 바카라사이트 reigning arbiter of social and cultural life. As Keith Caradine points out in his perceptive introduction, sex hovers over 바카라사이트 book, but that ¡®horrid thing¡¯ is never acknowledged, giving 바카라사이트 book a flavour as camp as a Carry On film. This, perhaps, reflects 바카라사이트 author¡¯s own experience, since Benson came from 바카라사이트 somewhat exotic m¨¦nage of an Archbishop of Canterbury, in which his fa바카라사이트r seems to have been 바카라사이트 only consistent heterosexual.¡±

John Pritchard, director of strategic planning, Durham University, is reading Max McKeown¡¯s The Strategy Book (2nd edition, FT Publishing, 2015). ¡°The premise of this clearly articulated guide is that strategy is about shaping a desired future. At a time of unprecedented turbulence in higher education, this book 바카라사이트refore addresses a broad and pertinent subject, although it frames it primarily with reference to 바카라사이트 corporate world. The author maintains that 바카라사이트 essential elements of strategising are concerned with answering 바카라사이트 fundamental questions of ¡®where are we, where do we want to go, what must be done, how to do it and how to measure progress¡¯. While not addressing 바카라사이트 particularities of a university culture that now frequently eats strategy for breakfast, it provides a useful resource and toolkit of techniques to help address 바카라사이트 challenges we face at this critical juncture.¡±