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Advertising Menswear
Masculinity and Fashion in the British Media since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
In what was a golden age of British advertising, the notion of the 'peacock male' was a strong theme in fashion promotion, reflecting a new affluence and the emergence of stylish youth cultures. Based on a detailed study of rich archival material, this...
Photography
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography, this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography.
Photography is a part of everyday life; from news and advertisements,...
by Rachel Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Regional newspapers around the globe are fighting to survive in the face of challenges to their economic model, due to the constant influx of new technology. At the same time, while studies of the national press have created a continuous narrative on the newspaper, the history of the regional press...
by Pete Astor
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970s wearing a T-shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of determined nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into the pre-punk UK. Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic...
Music/Video
Histories, Aesthetics, Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored in a 21st century context....
Greek Homosexuality
with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 16
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known, including explorers,...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known, including explorers,...
Writing the 9/11 Decade
Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Writing the 9/11 Decade investigates the relation of the novel to reportage, and the role of both in shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to the September 11 attacks.
Journalist and academic Charlie Lee-Potter argues that novelists were entrapped by the expectation...
States of Trial
Manhood in Philip Roth’s Post-War America
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This study of five towering Philip Roth novels - Operation Shylock, the American Pastoral trilogy, and The Plot Against America - explores his vision of a turbulent post-war America personified in trial-racked Jewish American men. These works collectively register the impact of post-1945 upheavals...
Poe and the Subversion of American Literature
Satire, Fantasy, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at...
by Krishnendu Ray
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Academic discussions of ethnic food have tended to focus on the attitudes of consumers, rather than the creators and producers. In this ground-breaking new book, Krishnendu Ray reverses this trend by exploring the culinary world from the perspective of the ethnic restaurateur.
Focusing on New...
Religion and Innovation
Antagonists or Partners?
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
It is often assumed that religion is the backward-looking servant of tradition and the status quo, utterly opposed to the new. This refrain in so much of recent polemical writing has permeated the public mind and can even be found in academic publications. But recent scholarship increasingly shows...
Interreligious Studies
A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The notion of Interreligious Studies signals a new academic perspective on the study of religion, characterized by a relational approach. Interreligious Studies defines the essential features of interreligious studies compared with alternative conceptions of religious studies and theology. The book...