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The Hollywood Renaissance
Revisiting American Cinema's Most Celebrated Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a 'renaissance'. For the next few years, a wide range of formally and thematically challenging films were produced at the very centre of the American film industry, often (but...
Inhuman Networks
Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature...
Fashion Studies
Research Methods, Sites, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to explore fashion and dress in wide-ranging contexts. With an emphasis on material culture and ethnographic approaches in fashion studies, this groundbreaking...
by Maria Mellins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Unique and exciting, this ethnographic study is the first to address a little-known subculture, which holds a fascination for many. The first decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever increasing fixation with vampires, from the recent spate of phenomenally successful books, films, and...
The New Age in the Modern West
Counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
New Age culture is generally regarded as a modern manifestation of Western millenarianism - a concept built around the expectation of an imminent historical crisis followed by the inauguration of a golden age which occupies a key place in the history of Western ideas. The New Age in the Modern West...
Teaching Virtue
The Contribution of Religious Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In much of the world, religious traditions are seriously valued but, in the context of religious plurality, this sets educationalists an enormous challenge. This book provides a way forward in exploring religious life whilst showing how bridges might be built between diverse religious traditions....
by Amy L. Sayward
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The United Nations in International History argues for a new way of examining the history of this central global institution by integrating more traditional diplomacy between states with new trends in transnational and cultural history to explore the organization and its role in 20th- and 21st-century...
Anime
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its generic landscape. From the battling robots that define the mecha genre through to Studio Ghibli's dominant...
Assessment for Social Justice
Perspectives and Practices within Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Assessment for Learning (AfL) has become an established idea within higher education, based on the evidence that assessment is one of the most powerful drivers of student learning and thus can be harnessed as a means to improve learning. Assessment for Social Justice looks at assessment in higher...
Learning Communities in Educational Partnerships
Action Research as Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Learning Communities in Educational Partnerships shows how theory and practice come into lived interplay in social spaces where theory informs practice and practice turns into theory. Drawing on their own experiences of becoming a learning community, the authors introduce the ideas underpinning self-study...
The Battle of Britain on Screen
‘The Few’ in British Film and Television Drama
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This new, updated edition of The Battle of Britain on Screen examines in depth the origins, development and reception of the major dramatic screen representations of 'The Few' in the Battle of Britain produced over the past 75 years. Paul MacKenzie explores both continuity and change in the presentation...
by Eric Eidelstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The Suburbs is an incredibly sentimental and nostalgic album, which generally moved critics but was jarring to others. But it also made a heavy impact on fans and – to the surprise of many – won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards. This immensely visceral album triggers a sincere celebration...
by David Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
During the Long Classical Millennium (fourth century BC to eighth century AD), Northwest Jordan was part of two worlds, looking west to the Mediterranean as well as east towards the Arabian desert. It was not only a collection of distinctive micro-regions but a 'virtual island', isolated by geography...
Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States
One Hundred Years of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Between 1914 and the present day the political makeup of the Balkans has relentlessly changed, following unpredictable shifts of international and internal borders. Between and across these borders various political communities were formed, co-existed and (dis)integrated.
By analysing one hundred...