Bronson (film) Bronson (film) Bronson is a 2008 British biographical crime drama film co-written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Tom Hardy as Michael Peterson, known from 1987 as Charles Bronson. The film follows the life of this notorious prisoner, known for violent attacks against other prisoners, guards, and governors in prison; protests, armed robbery, and art. He was renamed Charles Bronson by his fight promoter, for his bare-knuckle fighting years. Born into a respectable middle-class family, Peterson became known as one of the United Kingdom's most dangerous prisoners. Because of his violence, Bronson was repeatedly put into isolation or
The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain Press between 1988 and 1991. Ford was a graduate of Cambridge University and had been Education Secretary to the Cambridge University Press in 1957-58. He had experience of editing large multi-volume works, having previously edited the "Pelican Guide to English Literature" in seven volumes (1954-61), and the new edition of that guide issued from 1982 to 1988. The guide was an ambitious attempt to give a picture of the arts as a whole in each age of Britain and to allow comparison between the ages and of how the different arts had treated the themes of their age. Ford wrote