Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of 'post-classical' Hollywood cinema - its coherence, its historical justification and how it can help or hinder our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to the present.
Critiques the politics of cultural identity, exploring the difference between political roles and collective identities.
Featuring a wide range of authors - from canonical figures such as Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Annie Proulx, to increasingly influential writers such as Jeffrey Eugenides, Gish Jen and Richard Powers - the book combines detailed readings of key texts with informative discussions of their historical, social and cultural contexts.
An overview of English as it is spoken in the Northern dialect regions of Ireland.
This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays performed between 1608 and 1613.
This book is an advanced introduction to acquisition of phonology and is the first textbook on normal (non-disordered) phonological acquisition.
The book introduces Memento as an important independent film and uses it to explore relationships between "indie," arthouse and commercial mainstream cinema, independent film marketing practices and online fan communities. The book also locates Memento within debates around key film studies concepts such as genre, narrative and reception.
This book is a study of Far from Heaven, a commercially successful film that nevertheless sits rather ambiguously on the boundary between independent and mainstream cinema, operating as an alternative to 'blockbuster' fare.
This book covers Rome and its empire from the accession of Augustus's successor Tiberius to the strangulation of would-be gladiator, Commodus, the deranged son of the philospher-emperor Marcus Aurelius.
This book is about the formative period of the Roman state.
Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience.
Focuses on the dramatic cultural transformations of the last decade of the millennium, providing a clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1990s America.
How democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different political arenas
A step-by-step guide to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A critical introduction to Slavoj Zizek's key areas of interest in politics.
Looks at the Scottish elections of 2007 and asks: was the outcome of the 2007 Scottish election revolutionary or a natural progression in Scottish Politics?
An introduction to corpus linguistics for students of English language.
A study of the quiz and game show format which has proved to be consistently popular with viewers since the growth of the medium in the 1950s.
A new study of the link between three key obsessions of the 20th century: the media, sport and popular culture.
A step-by-step guide to Descartes' Meditations
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of media audiences as well as new research on the emotional engagement viewers have with television texts.
The book focuses on the thought of twenty-four mainly European and North American thinkers, ranging historically from the Renaissance to postmodernism.
This book provides a thorough introduction to James Joyce's works presenting detailed textual analysis of each of his major works, including Finnegans Wake; an extended discussion of the biographical, historical, political and social contexts that inform his writing; and a wide-ranging discussion of Joyce criticism over the last eighty years.
Everything you need to know about Plato's Republic in one volume.
A fresh and exciting approach to this great work of classical literature, which brings it alive for today's students and gives them the tools to appreciate and explore the work themselves.
A concise alphabetic guide to the main concepts, figures, topics and important movements of thought that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last three thousand years.
Outlines the need for effective and sustainable peacebuilding in order to restore the conditions for co-existence in fractured communities around the world.
Taking a comparative approach, this book considers the ways in which political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa have changed since the Arab Spring.
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