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After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas and techniques more usually associated with post-modernism.

Beyond inspiring the New Wave movement and continuing to reflect, and reflect on, its central tenets, Rivettes enduring contribution to the history of film is unquestionably evident in his sensitive treatment of the histories and destinies of women, especially through strong roles for actresses.

Drawing on a vast range of sources - philosophy and theology, ethics and law, biblical commentary, Hebrew poetry, medical literature, and a host of family and communal records from the Cairo Genizah - this is a ground-breaking study of ageing as both a reality and a cultural paradigm in medieval Jewish society.

Produced by an international team of experts, the volume offers the sources in their language of origin - Old English, Old Norse, Welsh, Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Early Modern English - with facing-page translations and explanatory notes.

Human zoos, forgotten symbols of the colonial era, have been totally repressed in our collective memory. This book puts into perspective the spectacularization of the Other, a process that is at the origin of contemporary stereotypes and of the construction of our own identities. It allows us to understand the genesis of identity.

Paul Delaroche: Painting and Popular Spectacle explores the connections between painting and an emergent popular visual culture in the early nineteenth century, which included new forms of optical entertainment such as Panoramas and Dioramas and innovation in fields such as illustration, art reproduction, and stage decor.

This book takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music in a set of six sonatas (Op.

Martin Sohn-Rethel brings a lifetime of teaching film and media to bear on developing a new approach to analyzing the "realism" of the moving image

Reality TV has emerged as a significant category of television production, fueled by new technologies that offer unprecedented intimacy, immediacy, and interactivity.

Featuring the input of highly experienced instructors, this exciting textbook explroes key concepts and develops students analytical, research, and production skills. A section outlining approaches to production work considers the creation of texts in different media forms, and practical advice aides in developing research skills.

Gladiator was one of the great commercial successes of the early twenty-first century, a fascinating example of how an old genre can be resuscitated for a new generation. Audience - how did the makers of Gladiator 'win the crowd' and appeal to today's block-buster audience?

A guide to the stylish and spectacularly successful film. It considers: cinematography, narrative, genre, representation, realism, ideology, institutions, and audiences. Whether new to Film Studies or an experienced teacher, it offers a fresh look at the skills necessary for a successful analysis.

Splice bridges the gap between contemporary cinema and intelligent discourse. It is a serial publication that facilitates the study of contemporary cinema, and selected films fall into the category of popular, sometimes blockbuster, cinema - the success of these films often excluding them from serious analysis. Published three times a year, Splice is a practical solution for teachers and students of film studies, media studies, and related disciplines

If Christianity in Indonesia has not been sufficiently considered, works published in English on Christianity among the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia are even scarcer, notwithstanding the fact that almost half of the Chinese minority are either Protestant or Catholic.

This study considers howBritish literature from the late-Victorian era to the 1930s draws upon Gothic andsupernatural narrative and imagery in its representations of place, whethermetropolitan, suburban or rural; it argues that this period of dramatic socio-culturalchange is shadowed by a corresponding evolution in Gothic literaryrepresentation.

This collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on various aspects of his interests and career, such as politics, the legal system, his role as Irvings stage manager, and analyses his work in relation to these.

W. B. Yeats's A Vision is notoriously dense. This book provides an authoritative, clear and straightforward guide to the system of A Vision, the framework within which he created many of his most important works.