Examines the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the post-Communist period.
This classic study, now made available again to readers, shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism.
This book attempts to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. The author contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims.
This book, newly available in paperback, relates Wittgenstein's philosophy to a range of problems and trends in contemporary political theory.
Newly available in paperback, this study places Woolf´s writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s
This collection of essays, newly available in paperback, seeks to explore Agamben's work from philosophical and literary perspectives, thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.
Explores the questions of language and canon-formation in philosophy and ‘theory’.
A textbook introduction to Japanese horror cinema, divided into broad thematic areas.
This book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective.
An overview of all aspects of Indian English.
Discusses the dominant cultural forms in 1970s America, providing a clear overview of the major cultural forms - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual culture; music and fashion; and sports - and influential texts of the decade.
This volume brings together aspects of Middleton's craft through a detailed study of representative plays.