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Le Jour se Lève
French Film Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Le Jour se leve (1939) directed by Marcel Carnè, is widely recognised as the classic French Poetic Realist film. Told in flashback, it recounts the story of a man who has committed a murder, and who awaits his fate as the police close in. Carnè shuttles between different registers, tones and textures...
Charles Sheeler
Modernism, Precisionism and the Borders of Abstraction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Charles Sheeler was the stark poet of the machine age. Photographer of the Ford Motor Company and founder of the painting movement Precisionism, he is remembered as a promoter of - and apologist for - the industrialised capitalist ethic. This major new rethink of one of the key figures of American...
Moroccan Dreams
Oriental Myth, Colonial Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Morocco has long been a mythic land firmly rooted in the European imagination. For more than a century it has been appropriated by writers, artists and explorers such as Pierre Loti, Edith Wharton, Eugene Delacroix, Paul Bowles and Elias Canetti. In Moroccan Dreams, the authors explore the ways in...
Rebuilding Babel
Modern Architecture and Internationalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel – built, so the story goes, by people united by one language...
José Martí, Cuban Apostle
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Once called 'the wellspring of the revolution' by Fidel Castro, José Martí (1853-1895) is revered as one of the greatest figures in the history of Cuba. Not only was he instrumental in the late 19th-century cause of securing Cuban independence from Spain. He is also considered one of Cuba's most...
Image Politics in the Middle East
The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Politics in the Middle East is now 'seen' and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region - and particularly with the politics of the image, its...
Politics and Palestinian Literature in Exile
Gender, Aesthetics and Resistance in the Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Despite, or even because of their tumultuous history, Palestinians are renowned for being prolific cultural producers, creating many of the Arab world's most iconic works of literature. In particular, the Palestinian short story stands out for its unique interplay between literary texts and the political and historical contexts from which they emerge.
Laughter in Occupied Palestine
Comedy and Identity in Art and Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Although the political situation in Palestine is more serious than ever, contemporary Palestinian art and film are, paradoxically, becoming more humorous in their responses. Laughter in Occupied Palestine looks deeply into this trend, and is the first book to provide an overview of Palestinian art...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Is there a truly Arab feminist movement? Is there such a thing as 'Islamic' feminism? What does it mean to be a 'feminist' in the Arab world today? Does it mean grappling with the more theoretical elements of the movement? Or does it mean an involvement at the grassroots level with everyday activism?...
A Korean Conflict
The Tensions between Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war - this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North. This book charts the course of the UK-US 'special relationship'...
Light and Photomedia
A New History and Future of the Photographic Image
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Light and Photomedia proposes that, regardless of technological change, the history and future of photomedia are essentially connected to light: it is a fundamental property of photomedia, binding with space and time to form and inform new, explicitly light-based structures and experiences
by Susan A. Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature. Susan A Stephens here reveals a cultural world...
by Denise Eileen McCoskey, Zara M. Torlone
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The three major Roman love poets - Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid - are celebrated for the ways in which they used social and historical contexts, as well as a highly developed sense of place and landscape, to inform their explorations of passion and desire. These writers pursued both men and women,...
Antiquity and the Meanings of Time
A Philosophy of Ancient and Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Society and contemporary culture are forever fascinated by the topic of time. In modern fiction, Ian McEwan (The Child in Time) and Martin Amis (Time's Arrow) have led the way in exploring the human condition in relation to past, present and future. In cinema, several recent cultural texts (Memento,...