Ryan Johnson reveals that Deleuze’s provocative reading of ancient Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas. Including previously untranslated French Stoic scholarship, Johnson unearths new possibilities for bridging contemporary and ancient philosophy.
This book includes twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from across the arts, reassessing Lawrence’s relationship to aesthetic categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical contexts.
This collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philosophy, across a range of media and across the theory/practice divide.
Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political contexts.
Analysing key commercials over the decades that feature new technologies and film aesthetics that were subsequently adopted by feature filmmakers, the book establishes the television commercial as a vital form of film art.
Formulates generalised just war principles that are applicable to all forms of armed conflict.
In this collection, contributors from a range of disciplinary positions present the latest empirical research evidence and social theory to examine and debate fundamental issues about bigotry in Scottish football and society.
The Besieged Ego critically appraises the representation, or mediation, of identity in film and television through a thorough analysis of doppelgangers and split or fragmentary characters.
The launch of Channel 4 redefined the place of film on television. This special issue will investigate... Læs mere
An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history.
This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. .
In this first reappraisal of his filmography (1958-2009), readers are introduced to a new Chabrol, one influenced by Balzac, Magritte, Kubrick.