Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. -- .
Explores the relationship between industry and the visual arts in the long nineteenth century, using new research to reveal surprising collaborations between craftspeople, inventors, engineers and educators. -- .
The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space. -- .
A detailed examination of how certain Gothic bodies have taken on mythical status within western culture. -- .
This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. Suitable for students of films studies and... Læs mere
This latest edition of a prestigious and venerable series surveys the build up to the tumultuous 2019 General Election and its immediate aftermath, offering reasoned conjecture about the future of British party politics and democracy. -- .
This title is an historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. -- .
Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the... Læs mere
This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future. -- .
This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. -- .
This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which... Læs mere
This book is an historical examination of the impact short-term political expediency played in the positions adopted by members of... Læs mere