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All-American TV Crime Drama
Feminism and Identity Politics in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative?
Historic English Churches
A Guide to Their Construction, Design and Features
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
The ancient churches and cathedrals of England's towns and countryside are among the glories of our national heritage, the church spire one of the quintessential features of the landscape. Yet how were our ancestors able to construct these often substantial edifices without the benefit of modern techniques?...
Derrida Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva?
Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'. Contemporary Thinkers Reframed instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice...
Muslim Identities and Modernity
The Transformation of Egyptian Culture, Thought and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
What have the concepts of modernity and secularisation meant for Islamic tradition, culture and society? How have the discourses which surround all of these issues influenced Muslim self-perception and individual identity? There have been many attempts to describe and analyse the problem that the...
Islamic Reform and Conservatism
Al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The famed reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo, one of the most influential centres of religious study in Sunni Islam, were enormously influential for twentieth-century Islamic thought. Here Indira Gesink offers a revisionist history of these debates over curricular and administrative...
The Dissident Mullah
Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at the time of his death, Montazeri was considered one of the Islamic Republic's fiercest critics. What made this man, who was once...
A Muslim Diaspora in Australia
Bosnian Migration and Questions of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In a world of increasingly mixed identities, what does it mean to belong? As western democracies increasingly curtail their support for multiculturalism, how can migrants establish belonging as citizens? A Muslim Diaspora in Australia explores how a particular migrant group has faced the challenges...
Cold War Culture
Intellectuals, the Media and the Practice of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. It was the age of Keynesianism, of welfare state consensus, incipient consumerism, and, to its detractors - the so-called 'Angry Young Men' and the emergent New Left - a new age of complacency. While Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
Cosmopolitan Cinema
Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Cinema is a fertile ground for the production of cosmopolitan ideals. Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore,...
by Sheri Klein
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is the first book to take seriously - though not too seriously - the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art.
'Art and Laughter' looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. It explores the use of...
China and the Chinese in Popular Film
From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted...
The Lancashire Witches
A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness...
Visualising a Sacred City
London, Art and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
William Blake famously imagined 'Jerusalem builded here' in London. But Blake was not the first or the last to visualise a shimmering new metropolis on the banks of the River Thames. For example, the Romans erected a temple to Mithras in their ancient city of Londinium; medieval Londoners created...
The Copts of Egypt
The Challenges of Modernisation and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
The Coptic Christians of Egypt have traditionally been portrayed as a 'beleaguered minority', persecuted in a Muslim majority state and by the threat of political Islam. Vivian Ibrahim offers a vivid portrayal of the community and an alternative interpretation of Coptic agency in the twentieth century,...