Covering punk, DIY production, intertextuality, performance, and vigilantism through close film analysis and cultural studies research, this book offers a much-needed look at Caro and Jeunet’s forty-plus years of artistic innovation.
Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on early modern manuscripts whose travels can be traced from one location to another.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer, both from 17th-century Delft, explored new worlds—Van Leeuwenhoek with microscopes and... Læs mere
By focusing on the construction of various kinds of masculinities in early Christian texts, both biblical and extra-biblical, and by showcasing a number of... Læs mere
The book explains how the Eurcharist developed during the first thousand years, from the time of its inauguration by Christ at the Last Supper to the beginning of the great schism between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.
Film websites don’t just promote films, they chronicle backstories, map storyworlds, introduce characters and... Læs mere
Rather than looking at different manifestations of early modern piracy as geographically and temporally isolated cultural phenomena, Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas (1550–1800) pursues a comprehensive approach to this field of study.
This book follows the perspectives of refugee activists to examine cities shaped by layered histories of war, colonialism, and partition.
Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwork, letters, pamphlets, hagiography, and picaresque literature,... Læs mere
Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly produced and re-imagined.
This book provides the first comprehensive English access to Japan's entire constitution. It begins with historical context about the constitution's... Læs mere