I imprint: 1291 books
by Carole E. Newlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature. And of the three, arguably it is Ovid (43 BCE-CE 17/18) who has the most enduring legacy. Carole Newlands introduces her subject as an ancient author with a vital place in the modern cultural...
Latin American Women Filmmakers
Production, Politics, Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years. Notably political in their approach, figures such as Lucrecia Martel, Claudia Llosa and Bertha Navarro have created innovative and often challenging films, enjoying global acclaim from critics and festival audiences alike. They undeniably mark a 'moment' for Latin American cinema.
Hollywood Catwalk
Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new clothes and starts to attract the men. Cinderella and Pygmalion stories still provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romantic comedies, dramas,...
Dress Behind Bars
Prison Clothing as Criminality
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over prisoners' lives. Vividly illustrated and based on original research, including throughout the voices of the...
Delft Blue to Denim Blue
Contemporary Dutch Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Contemporary fashion in the Netherlands shows a unique mix of playful individualism, conceptual strength, and organisational innovation. Delft Blue to Denim Blue maps the landscape of Dutch fashion in all its rich variety and complexity.Luxuriously illustrated in colour, the book uncovers the cultural...
Contemporary Art from the Middle East
Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
This timely book tackles ongoing questions about how 'local' perspectives on contemporary art from the Middle East are defined and how these perspectives intersect with global art discourses. Leading figures from the Middle Eastern art world, western art historians, art theorists and museum curators...
Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western
Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Ever more popular in the age of DVDs and online fandom, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s have undergone a mainstream renaissance which has nevertheless left their relationship to the troubled politics of 1960s Italy unexamined. Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western reappraises the genre in...
by Graeme Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
What does it mean to call Western society 'secular'? What is 'secularism'? And how should we understand the the concept of 'secularism' in international relations, particularly the clash between radical Islam and the West? The Latin term from which the word 'secular' is derived - 'saeculum' - means...
Once Upon A Time in the Italian West
The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2006
Howard Hughes has written a well-researched, detailed, no-nonsense and above all enthusiastic guide to twenty of the best Italian Westerns from 'A Fistful of Dollars' to 'My name is Nobody'. He has aimed for the heart, and unlike the bad guy in 'Fistful' he has hit it.'
- Christopher Frayling
Cinema Italiano
The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
UNCOVERING A TREASURE TROVE OF ITALIAN FILMS FROM THE LEOPARD TO PUMA MAN
Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century heyday, Italy's film industry was second only to Hollywood as a popular...
Children of War
Child Soldiers as Victims and Participants in the Sudan Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The use of child soldiers in the Sudan Civil War has shattered the accepted understanding of why children join armies. Thousands of children signed up to participate in Africa's longest running civil war, yet so far the international community and the academic world have viewed them as victims rather...
The New Elizabethan Age
Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turned
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England
Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
At the beginning of the Victorian period, most of England's population lived in the countryside; by its end, the balance had tipped towards living in urban and suburban spaces. In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working...
Remaking London
Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Contemporary urban regeneration seeks to encourage diverse, creative new neighbourhoods that are rich in economic potential. Yet the end result frequently displaces precisely those qualities, activities and communities it claims to engender. Are people best served by a preoccupation with regeneration...