Whitehouse: 89 books

Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary.

Alrededor del volcn Popocatpetl, los tiemperos, cuidadores del temporal o graniceros incursionan cada noche al mundo onrico para comunicarse con el volcn mantenindolo contento, propiciando la lluvia y apaciguando el granizo que daa sus cosechas. Para los graniceros, la comunicacin con el volcn es...

'What I know about is absence; the endless geography of yearning...’ For Nedim Gürsel, the state of exile isn’t a static condition, applying to a single person in a specific place, but an entire landscape of longing, through which he, and countless other émigrés, must travel; a mobile...

Lone Buffalo is a fictionalised account of the life of a man who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time – northeastern Laos in the autumn of 1969. With the Secret War building to its climax, American bombers had just razed the last buildings in Muang Khoun – the provincial state capital...

In the autumn of 1775, the year prior to the Battle of Long Island, four young women meet their destinies at an inn called Harts Tavern on the south shore of Long Island. Hannah Hart is the motherless 14-year-old daughter of Peter Hart, the inns proprietor. She is strong, independent and curious,...