Explores how Hollywood’s superhero genre has shaped US foreign policy and security discourses.
Traces the representation of the Jacobites in cultural memory over a 300-year period.
One of the first academic books devoted to vampires in silent cinema.
The first comprehensive study of the English-language press published in non-Anglophone countries.
Examines representations of the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors and their descendants in animated documentaries
This volume decentres dominant discourses on so-called jihadist actors and deradicalization contexts to offer more nuanced understandings of the political and socio-cultural contexts.
A new critical edition of Our Cousins in Ohio, showcasing the transatlantic collaboration between best-selling English author Mary Howitt and her emigrant sister in America.
Presents a new way of examining the historical significance and endurance of Mary, Queen of Scots
Situates the work of Kinoshita Keisuke both within Japanese cinema and contemporary world cinema
The first book to theorise literary back-translation, distinguishing it from retranslation and indirect translation, and delineating its aesthetic, ethical, political and philosophical implications.
Explores the role of violence in relation to Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s literary productions, receptions and cultural legacies.
Positions the sensation novel, and nineteenth-century popular fiction more generally, as vital to the history of feeling