This collection of original critical essays, newly available in paperback, launches an ambitious, long-term project marking out a new period and style in twentieth-century literary history.
An advanced introduction to multilingualism and its interdisciplinary dimensions
A fresh and exciting approach to this great work of classical literature, which brings it alive for today's students and gives them the tools to appreciate and explore the work themselves.
With a particular emphasis on how documentary films address the historico-political dimension of their time, this book introduces students and scholars in Film Studies to this fascinating and largely unexplored cinematic tradition.
Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception. Newly available in paperback.
This volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day.
This Glossary explains the key concepts, institutions, personalities and events most commonly referred to in the teaching of US politics and government.
A wide-ranging introduction to film history, this anthology covers the history of film from 1895 to the present day.
A theological, sociological, anthropological, psychological and political science analysis of the causes and consequences of Islamic Political Radicalism.
This engaging textbook provides a critical assessment of British literature produced between 1900 and 1945.
An accessible introduction to a wide range of theoretical perspectives on the modern state and a comprehensive overview of modern state theory.
This book introduces the relationship between the American government and the American film industry during the Cold War.