Pinter’s World presents an analysis based on recently published biographies and reminiscences and extensive consultation of Pinter’s... Læs mere
The historical analysis, theological reflections, and sociological observations found in the chapters of Christian Social Activism and... Læs mere
Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman’s best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation. The essays in this... Læs mere
This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, and dream-like and hypnotic states,... Læs mere
This collection of essays charts the shifting representation of World War II in Italian literature and film from 1943 to the present. The essays examine film genre, cultural history, gender, the Holocaust, emotion studies, shame theory, and environmental studies.
This collection of essays by both theater scholars and practitioners examines the political and aesthetic consequences of the marriage of Shakespearean text and realist performance style, considering productions ranging from the early twentieth century to 2016.
New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment examines religious belief and practice during the age of Enlightenment from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including theology, the natural sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.
America’s Changing Icons examines nationalism and gendered national roles via the lens of popular culture, to... Læs mere
This book focuses on ten key figures of the so-called Johnson circle. It explores their characters, their contributions to society, their relationships with one another, and their indebtedness to Samuel Johnson.
America’s Two Constitutions examines the history of treatment of antiwar dissenters from the American Revolution by the government and by vigilantes down to post-9/11, concluding that the United States has two constitutions, one for peacetime and another in time of war.
Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry examines the poet's major works to unmask English... Læs mere
Carl Theodor Dreyer was a visionary director whose films were based less on his screenplays than on his... Læs mere