This book explores the possible meanings of the 'Global South' and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it for understanding the contemporary world.... Læs mere
Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love seeks to transform current narratives of midcentury literary, cultural, and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective.
The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts... Læs mere
Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.
Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological... Læs mere
This landmark study explores replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Replication, defined by Victorian artists as... Læs mere
Stein’s modernist fascination with life connects her writing to late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers.
Jon Solomon’s new book offers an exciting and detailed study of the Ben-Hur brand, tracking its spectacular journey from Wallace’s original novel through to twenty-first century adaptations, and encompassing a wealth of previously unexplored material along the way
Second Death seeks to revitalise our understanding of the soul as a philosophically profound, theoretically radical, and ultimately—and counterintuitively—theatrically realised concept.
Persian cities are part of a corridor of civilisation with settlements straddling thousands of years. Taking Maibud as a case study, Eisa Esfanjary traces the evolution of ancient settlements chronologically, thematically and methodologically.
Reconsidering tropes such as the male juvenile delinquent figure, the makeover and the teen vampire, the book uses a series of detailed case studies to provide an innovative overview of the Hollywood teen movie and its construction of teen identity.
Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, Claudia Leeb discusses guilt and democracy in the case of Austrian Nazi... Læs mere