Bøker av Michael Keane

Walk-about, vision-quest, spirit-walk, pilgrimage are journeys of discovery, first of this world, then of your inner and outer selves and ultimately of another world. The author of this book hiked thrice across Europe on El Camino de Santiago, and across America twice, Florida to Canada: once on a monstrously mountainy Appalachian Trail, once by a route of his own design: El Camino Americano, described within.All that after early retirement, he circled Earth on earth too, hiking where Great or Grand insisted: Grand Canyon to the Great Wall of China; Great Lakes to the greatest lake, Baikal in Siberia. On Grand Tour, the wanderer necessarily circled all of Ireland, every foot on foot. The wildest trek took the writer from agnostic to gnostic.

Can you still remember a time when footballers played in shirts numbered 1-11? Or when a ticket for a match only cost as much as a ticket for the cinema? Or maybe when you used to stand up to cheer your team on? If you can answer yes to these, the chances are that you will have witnessed the enormous changes that ran through the nineties, a time when the national game was commercially rebranded and brought back from the margins.Take a nostalgic stroll back to an era in which footballers began to wear their names on their backs, their collars high and their white suits at Wembley. It was a time when Gazza mania was rife, when Fergie's United rediscovered their winning gene, when Alan Shearer could not stop scoring and Roy Keane could not stop snarling.Football in the 1990s is an affectionate look at all the essential action and anecdotes from the decade and will take you back to a time of seismic change in the national game. As football became hip and some footballers became hipsters, it was a time of overseas stars, over-whelming TV coverage and oversized wage packets. Read on for the best seat in the stand . . .

"Discover the inspiring, unknown, against-all-odds story of how the classic animated holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas almost never made it onto television. Professor and cultural historian Michael Keane reveals much in this nostalgia-inducing book packed with original research and interviews. Keane compellingly shows that the ultimate broadcast of the Christmas special-given its incredibly tight five-month production schedule and the decidedly unfavorable reception it received by the skeptical network executives who first screened it-was nothing short of a miracle. Keane explains why the show, despite its technical shortcomings, has become an uplifting and enduring triumph embraced by millions of families every Christmas season, even more than fifty years after its premiere. This gripping and joyful behind-the-scenes story of how the creators of A Charlie Brown Christmas struggled to bring the program to life will also help readers (and loyal fans) understand how America's favorite Christmas special changed our popular culture forever. Keane masterfully weaves the momentous events of 1965 (the turbulent year of the program's production) into his story, providing critical context for a profound new understanding of the program's famous climactic scene, Linus's spot-lit soliloquy answering the question repeatedly posed by Charlie Brown-'Can someone tell me what Christmas is all about?'"--

From Saint & Greavsie to 'the Hand of God'

From the earliest days of Singers FC, to the glory-filled promotion years under Jimmy Hill, from cup calamities to winning at Wembley, and from the thirty four unbroken years of top-flight football to recent relegations, all Coventry City topics are covered here.

The Coventry City miscellany

The FA Cup Miscellany collects together all the vital information you never knew you needed to know about the world's oldest cup competition, from irresistible anecdotes to the most mindblowing stats and facts. A brilliantly researched collection of trivia, essential for any football fan who holds the riches of Cup culture close to their heart.

Written by a recognized international scholar in the China media field, this book analyzes China's creative economy and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understandings of culture.