This new book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking to date and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style. -- .
Cue & Cut is a ‘practical approach to working in television studios’ for anyone who might want to work in that medium. Written by a... Læs mere
A new approach to art history from an inter-disciplinary and global perspective with a focus on the event and its repercussions. -- .
This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and intellectual aspects of diplomatic life and practice between 1750 and 1830. -- .
this book offers a practical and reader-friendly introduction to the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. It combines an emphasis on how to read... Læs mere
This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish Empire in the years, 1750-1850, taking a transatlantic approach to the history of science. -- .
A major reconsideration of one of British cinema's finest film directors, offering fresh insight into Carol Reed's distinctive work, and his place in the history of British cinema. -- .
This text is designed to introduce students not only to ethnic American writers, but also to the cultural contexts and literary traditions in which their work is situated, with sections on African American, Asian American, Chicano/a and native American literature.
The first full-length critical study of the British television director Alan Clarke, whose varied career included the gritty social realism of the banned 'Scum', the fantasy 'Penda's Fen' and the influential terrorist short, 'Elephant'. -- .
This book focuses on explaining why the EU agreed to eastern enlargement and the (uneven) pattern of accommodation of the applicants' preferences in substantive policies. -- .
An innovative and valuable text for students and specialists on the intellectual and political context of Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, The Arcades Project... Læs mere
A comprehensive study of Dada’s images of the body in various media and geographical centres. Mask or machine-part, grotesque or iconoclastic, the bodily... Læs mere