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Advertising and Reality
A Global Study of Representation and Content
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Advertising and Reality: A Global Study of Representation and Content offers, for the first time, an extensive study of the way our life is represented in advertising. Leading scholars from different countries, who specialize in marketing communication and media studies, review and analyze different...
Cinema and Unconventional Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Insurgency, Terrorism and Special Operations
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Cinematic representations of unconventional warfare have received sporadic attention to date. However, this pattern has now begun to change with the rise of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing importance of jihadist terrorism in the wake of 9/11. This ground-breaking...
Ali Smith
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her complete oeuvre, from the short stories to her most recent novel There but for the, this is the first comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction?
The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended...
The "Disguised" Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood
A Genre's Construction
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
With strict guidelines on methodology and time frame -- films produced after September 2001, and a socio-semiotic theoretical framework -- Betty Kaklamanidou unpacks the problematic terms and ideas that go along with defining a new genre. Kaklamanidou considers a different sub-genre per chapter, placing...
by Gautam Basu Thakur
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The second book in the series, Postcolonial...
Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace
Interrogating Peace and Peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
In an age where official and sponsored violence are becoming normalised and conceived of as legitimate tools of peace keeping, a number of leading academics and activists represented in Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace interrogate and resist the intensification of the militarisation of civil...
Exploiting East Asian Cinemas
Genre, Circulation, Reception
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
From the 1970s onward, "exploitation cinema†? as a concept has circulated inside and outside of East Asian nations and cultures in terms of aesthetics and marketing. However, crucial questions about how global networks of production and circulation alter the identity of an East Asian film as...
Between Levinas and Lacan
Self, Other, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them.
At first glance, Levinansian and Lacanian approaches may seem more or less incompatible, and in many ways they...
by Professor Mari Ruti
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti traces the development of feminist film theory from its foundational concepts such as the male gaze, female spectatorship, and the masquerade of femininity to 21st-century analyses of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, postfeminism, and the revival...
by Jan Bardsley
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan offers a fresh perspective on gender politics by focusing on the Japanese housewife of the 1950s as a controversial representation of democracy, leisure, and domesticity. Examining the shifting personae of the housewife, especially in the appealing texts of women's...
Remaking the Classics
Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published...
Leibniz on God and Religion
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Bringing together Leibniz's writings on God and religion for the very first time, Leibniz on God and Religion: A Reader reflects the growing importance now placed on Leibniz's philosophical theology. This reader features a wealth of material, from journal articles and book reviews published in Leibniz's...
Plato's Progeny
How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a Socrates...