Explores contemporary depictions of less-than-adequate mothers to show how caring does not rest on empathy but on other-centredness.
Examines the role of the arts in everyday peace-making, peacebuilding and social transformation in conflict-affected contexts.
Rethinks the place of film theory in a global context.
Provides the first in-depth examination of complaints issues through the lens of access to informal justice and alternative dispute resolution.
Reshapes the narrative and its trajectory in how the working class is discussed in relation to British Cinema.
The life story of Esther Inglis, a French Huguenot refugee and one of the most creative women working in early modern Britain.
This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inauguration.
Cinematicity in Media History makes visible the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one other, demonstrating how cinematicity makes itself felt in practices of seeing, reading, writing and thinking both before and after the ‘birth’ of cinema.
Theories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies.
This book is an examination of Derrida's philosophical reconstruction of Saussurean linguistics, of the paradigm shift from structuralism to post-structuralism, and of the consequences that continue to resonate in every field of the humanities today.
Examines the use of Islamic referents and themes in literary writings by European authors.
The first critical edition of J. G. Lockhart’s classic biography of Walter Scott.