This book of essays examines the conditions of cultural production in the first decade of the twenty-first century. With an emphasis on how current neoliberal... Læs mere
Through the analyses of select films of New Zealand, this title examines the role of the national cinema in nation-building, and explores how the signifying strategies of cinema have been harnessed to attribute meaning to this country's evolving history.
Hong Kong New Wave Cinema analyzes specific films from Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s and the historical and social conditions that allowed them to flourish. Pak... Læs mere
This work explores the questions and conflicts of gender, sexuality, and identity in contemporary European cinema. It covers the varying deployments of lesbian, gay and queer... Læs mere
Exploring the role of street choirs in political culture, and based on oral histories from more than 40 members of UK street choirs, this book... Læs mere
A collection of oral histories that guides readers through through the decades (1944–92) in which the Communist Party controlled everything in... Læs mere
Updated collections of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia... Læs mere
Contains English-language translations of four plays by Polish writers in the modernist tradition: "Snow" by Stanislaw Przybyszewski; "In a Small House" by Tadeusz Rittner; "Ashanti" by Wlodzimierz Perzynski; and "All the Same" by Leopold Staff.
Covering picture books, middle-grade books and young adult fiction, this was the first survey of... Læs mere
The feminist survival manual you wish you had read as a teenager. It is written by Feminist Webs, a cross-generational youth project for girls and young women based in Manchester, UK. Many of their resources are not geographically specific.