Tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice after Nuremberg.
Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art is the first book to undertake a comprehensive survey of the literature produced by nineteenth-century settler emigration.
Offers the first book-length investigation Albert Brooks’ more than six-decade comedy career.
Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the... Læs mere
Focusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some polities of the time were not aspiring to be empires.
By casting a wider net on the definition of torture, the author promotes a radical, theoretical reframing of our concept of torture and suggests that audiovisual products can help... Læs mere
A comprehensive study of Channel 4’s film production, distribution and broadcasting activities from 1982 to 1998.
Using Chow’s transnational and trans-regional star persona as a case study, Lin Feng investigates stardom as an agent for mediating the sociocultural construction of Hong Kong and Chinese identities.
This collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard’s poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.
This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.
Provides nine detailed case studies of translation between and among European and Middle-Eastern languages and between genres.
This study compares ?ikayah, a mysterious text surviving in a single manuscript, to other comical banquet texts and party-crashing characters, especially from Ancient Greece and Rome.