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The latest issue of this regular publication for studying contemporary film considers the resurgent genre of science fiction cinema. Essays include the star persona of Tom Cruise in relation to his many science fiction projects (such as "War of the Worlds" [2005] and, most recently, "Edge of Tomorrow" [2014]) and the theme of the double in science fiction cinema, using "Moon" (2009) and "AI: Artificial Intelligence "(2001) as the most prominent examples while also drawing on older works.

An explanation of how and why mountains are formed. The age, location, life cycle and key features of different mountain types are described.

This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald's double role as writer and academic.

This book studies Penelope Fitzgerald's writing and the compositional method behind it.

Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.

Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century - whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France's overseas colonies in the 1940's, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.

This book provides much needed attention to the best public sculpture and monuments in Lancashire and Cumbria. With an invaluable introduction and extensive notes, the work highlights in particular works of art that in need of restoration or protection by local authorities and other owners.

The world is becoming more hazardous as natural and social processes combine to create complex situations of increased vulnerability and risk. There is increasing recognition that this trend is creating exigencies that must be dealt with. The common approach is to delegate the task of preparing an emergency plan to someone. Often that person is expected to get on with job but rarely is the means and instruction of how to write such a plan provided to them. There are a host of instances in which the letter of the law, not the spirit, is honoured by providing a token plan of little validity.David Alexander provides, in this book, the assistance needed to write an emergency plan. It is a practical how to manual and guide aimed at managers in business, civil protection officers, civil security officials, civil defence commanders, neighbourhood leaders and disaster managers who have been tasked with writing, reviewing or preparing emergency plans for all kinds of emergency, disaster or catastrophe. He takes the reader through the process of writing an emergency plan, step by step, starting with the rationale and context, before moving on through the stages of writing and activating a basic, generic emergency plan and concludes with information on specific kinds of plan, for example, for hospitals and cultural heritage sites.This practical guide also provides a core for postgraduate training in emergency management and has been written in such a way that it is not tied to the legal constraints of any particular jurisdiction.

Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism covers a specific period of time (1988-2015) that has taken on a significantly different socio-political configuration to that of the first 25 years of post-independence Algeria (1962-1987).

This study of the waterscapes of the Anglo-Saxon world will assist serious students of the Anglo-Saxon period in both perceiving and understanding both the textual imagery and the archaeology of water in Anglo-Saxon England.

This book demonstrates how Macbeth can be read as part of the British Folk tradition, strengthening the reading of the film as a horror movie in its own right through its links to The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Witchfinder General (1968).

The book analyses the development of political relations between the Kingdom of Poland and the hasidic movement, and demonstrates the distinctively modern character of hasidic political activity.

Based on the women's own writings, this engaging study demonstrates their intellectual proclivities and social activities, as well as their attitudes to marriage and religion.

Demonstrates the ways post colonial studies has adapted Bourdieu's sociology of literature to examine the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of postcolonialism as a field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to the popular; and more.

Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies demonstrates how women have used photographic practices to find places for themselves to belong as citizens, denizens, exiles or guests, within or beyond the nation as currently conceived.

Frenzy (1972) was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film and arguably one of his most misunderstood. This Devil's Advocate discusses the evolution of the film; its production, reception and place in Hitchcock's oeuvre; and its status as, Ian Cooper argues, a key film of `sleazy Seventies' British cinema.

RoboCop, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's first American film, was both a commercial and (surprise) critical hit on release in 1987. Marking its thirtieth anniversary, this volume explores the film from a variety of critical approaches.

GeoBritannica concerns the geological legacy of Britain, an inheritance bequeathed by its bedrock to the peoples who have lived on the island for the eleven millennia since the Ice Ages. The authors explain the geological foundations of the landscape and the raw materials it provides. They show how this geology has been made use of by society and by individuals in creative acts of the imagination. The reader will discover how regional environments and interests have been tackled by geologists in endeavours as diverse as mining, quarrying, architecture, literature and the visual arts.This is a book which puts a modern interpretation of the geological history of Britain into its historic, social and artistic contexts. Why is geology so fascinating to us? How do geologists do their science? Why are the differing landscapes what, where and how they are? What is the nature of the geological foundations of the British landscapes? How have geological discoveries developed our understanding of the landscape of Britain over the past two hundred years? What is the geological context of the raw materials used in past and present industries and for historic and vernacular buildings? How have geological landscapes and materials influenced past and present architects, visual artists and writers?This is a book for those wanting to develop a better understanding of where we live and how we develop our love and understanding of the island which we inhabit.

This is the only English edition of The City of God with Latin text and facing-page translation as well as a detailed introduction and commentary. In Books XIII- XIV, Augustine turns to the problem of death as punishment for the sin of disobedience, resumes his attack on the Platonists and pursues topics emerging from consideration of Adam's sin.

Michael Mann is a formidable filmmaking personality. This book ranges not only over his films--from 1979's The Jericho Mile to 2015's Blackhat--but also over the scope of intellectual interests they exemplify to mine the commonalities, themes, and traits that may suggest the presence of an auteur.

This book is a collection of twelve important but little-read orations of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, providing an English translation for each with a thorough introduction and copious notes.

Considers the complex ways that Sergio Argento weaves together light, sound, and cinema history to construct one of the most breathtaking horror movies of all time, a film as fascinating as it is ultimately unfathomable.

Unravels the never-ending fascination exercised by the film and provides a clear guide to the film's contexts, cinematography, and possible interpretations, covering the political and social contexts.

This study explores how Jack London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic 20th-century writers.

A new translation of Un rio, un amor (One River, One Love) by Luis Cernuda (1902-1963). Written in France and Spain in 1928-1929, this collection reflects the influences, conflicts and impulses that governed the poet's life then and is faithful to the author's quasi-Surrealist intentions.