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Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 26
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This twenty-sixth volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together essays on leading figures in time geography and regional theory, on GIS, on regional, cultural and political geography, on scriptural geography, historical geography and methodology, and on African exploration. Each...
Beyond the Bottom Line
The Producer in Film and Television Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This is the first collection of original critical essays devoted to exploring the misunderstood, neglected and frequently caricatured role played by the film producer. The editors' introduction provides a conceptual and methodological overview, arguing that the producer's complex and multifaceted...
Rhythms of Writing
An Anthropology of Irish Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture. Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena Wulff explores the social world of contemporary Irish writers, examining fiction, novels, short stories as well...
Amateur Filmmaking
The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
With the advent of digital filmmaking and critical recognition of the relevance of self expression, first-person narratives, and personal practices of memorialization, interest in the amateur moving image has never been stronger. Bringing together key scholars in the field, and revealing the rich...
A Philosophical Walking Tour with C. S. Lewis
Why it Did Not Include Rome
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Although it has been almost seventy years since Time declared C.S. Lewis one of the world's most influential spokespersons for Christianity and fifty years since Lewis's death, his influence remains just as great if not greater today.
While much has been written on Lewis and his work, virtually...
Women's Voices in Ireland
Women's Magazines in the 1950s and 60s
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Women's Voices in Ireland examines the letters and problems sent in by women to two Irish women's magazines in the 1950s and 60s, discussing them within their wider social and historical context. In doing so, it provides a unique insight into one of the few forums for female expression in Ireland...
by Eleanor O’Leary
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Focusing on a decade in Irish history which has been largely overlooked, Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Irelandprovides the most complete account of the 1950s in Ireland, through the eyes of the young people who contributed, slowly but steadily, to the social and cultural transformation of Irish...
by Dr Mick Wallis, Simon Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, the book explores the essential...
Radical Decadence
Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered discourses of decadence that perpetuate anxieties about women's power, consumption and pleasure are...
Cult Film as a Guide to Life
Fandom, Adaptation, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Cult Film as a Guide to Life investigates the world and experience of cult films, from well-loved classics to the worst movies ever made. Including comprehensive studies of cult phenomena such as trash films, exploitation versions, cult adaptations, and case studies of movies as different as Showgirls,...
by Craig Staff
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Contemporary art is often preoccupied with time, or acts in which the past is recovered. Through specific case studies of artists who strategically work with historical moments, this book examines how art from the last two decades has sought to mobilize these particular histories, and to what effect,...
The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound
Composition, Revision, Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Drawing extensively on archival research, The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound critically explores the textual history of Pound's late verse, namely Section: Rock-Drill (1955) and Thrones (1959). Examining unpublished letters, draft manuscripts and other prepublication material, this book addresses the composition,...
by Dr Alexander Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The first American surrealist poet, a prolific literary editor and a seminal influence on the New York School of poetry, Charles Henri Ford was a key figure in the transition from late modernist to postmodern culture in America. Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism is the first...
Weekend Societies
Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events. From free party teknivals proliferating across Europe...