Applys a noir lens to films which defy easy generic categorization
Revisits Taiwan New Cinema in relation to film festivals from cultural, historical, and geopolitical standpoints.
Examines the use of cinematography and mise en scène in contemporary Indonesian cinema.
The first in-depth study to combine social, economic, cultural and material cultural perspectives on linen in eighteenth-century Scotland, showing definitively how the colonial context helped drive the industry.
Offers the first book-length study of archiving in the Cairo sultanate.
Examines how the arts popularised militant resistance to the monarchy in 1970s Iran
Explores how military medical practitioners articulated and represented their spatial and sensory experiences of caregiving.
Explores the ways in which Palestinians negotiate physical and symbolic erasures by producing their own archives and historical narratives
Deals with the exploration and theorisation of Modern and Contemporary art of Iran through the examination of art movements and artistic practices in relation to other cultural, social and political discourses during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Builds a theoretical model of tribe-state relations through historical political analysis of tribal politics in Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman
Explores how and why adherence to the liberal democratic norms of the European Union vary between Central European states.
Explores extremity in films and it's ethical, theoretical and film-philosophical implications