Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film.
A study of a little-known author – al-Sharif al-Murta?a – whose views are still a major influence for Shi?i Muslims.
Although it remains an official language, Israel has made continued attempts to marginalize Arabic on the one hand and securitize it on the... Læs mere
This new critical edition situates After London in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural issues of the period.
This volume brings together a range of scholars from different disciplinary areas in the field, examining the challenges of transition into a (new) workplace, team or community, as well as transitions within different professional communities.
With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to the early twenty-first century, as well as the worldwide Scottish diaspora.
This book explores why anti-militarists resist, considers the politics of different tactics and examines the tensions and debates within... Læs mere
Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture.
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaken the region in recent years, the contributors to this volume interrogate a range of case studies from across the region - examining how museums engage inclusion, diversity and the politics of minority identities.
Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes.
The book offers a radical rethinking of Michelangelo Antonioni’s work. It argues against prevalent understandings of it in terms of both cinematic purity and indebtedness to painting.
Laura Hengehold presents a new, Deleuzian reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenology, the place of recognition in The Second Sex, the philosophical issues in her novels, the important role of her student diaries and her early interest in Bergson and Leibniz.