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Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us? In the classics of science fiction cinema, humanity is nearly always represented by a male, and until recently, a white male.
Spanning landmark American films from Blade...
Naked Exhibitionism
Gendered Performance and Public Exposure
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
What does it mean to be naked in public? Approaching this question from across the disciplines, this book examines the evolution of female exhibitionism from criminal taboo to prime-time entertainment. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which brings together all fields of popular culture including...
Freedom and Vengeance on Film
Precarious Lives and the Politics of Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Films both reflect and construct social reality, especially in the way they employ, affirm and critique the discourses through which we grasp political life. This book examines five contemporary feature films that engage our deep attachments to two core political ideas- freedom and vengeance - asking:...
The Quest for Classical Greece
Early Modern Travel to the Greek World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
'Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were criss-crossed by adventurers, merchants, diplomats and men of the cloth. In particular, John Covel (1638-1722) - chaplain to the Levant Company in the 1670s, later Master of Christ's...
Geography and Vision
Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Vision and visual imagery have always played a central role in geographical understanding, and geographical description has traditionally sought to present its audience with rich and compelling visual images, be they the elaborate cosmographic images of seventeenth century Europe or the computer and...
Women and Violence in India
Gender, Oppression and the Politics of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and activism. In recent years, related studies on India and South Asia have proliferated but their analyses often fail to identify why violence flourishes. Unwilling to simply...
The Euro-Western
Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
The Western has always been inextricably linked to the USA, and studies have continually sought to connect its historical development to changes in American society and Hollywood innovations. Focusing new critical attention on films produced in Germany, Italy and Britain, this timely book offers a...
Styling South Asian Youth Cultures
Fashion, Media and Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have all, in related and distinctive ways, been producing confident...
Islam
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Many existing introductions to Islam focus predominantly on the Middle East and on historical background at the expense of Islam as a lived faith. Assessing Islam as a truly global phenomenon, Catharina Raudvere engages thoroughly with history, (explaining the significance of the revelation of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
People are on the move across the Arab world, organizing politically in new ways. The Arab media have also undergone a transformation and are still in a state of flux. It is therefore crucial to be able to discuss political initiatives in the region in the light of media developments. This authoritative...
Being Bionic
The World of TV Cyborgs
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The cyborg – an organic body augmented with technology – is an enduring figure that can be found across science fiction stories, novels, films, and, more recently, television. What can its marked presence in cult TV shows tell us about the rapidly changing world we live in, and indeed about the...
by Maria Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century and numerous encounters between art and psychoanalysis have sparked illuminations and connections that would otherwise have remained...
Battlestar Galactica
Investigating Flesh, Spirit and Steel
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
The West Wing' or 'Generation Kill' in Space? A show about God-fearing sex-obsessed robots? Or a complex meditation on fate, dreaming and eternal recurrence?
Of all recent television science fiction series, the reimagined 'Battlestar Galactica' is the most highly praised and consistently inventive...
Photography Reframed
New Visions in Contemporary Photographic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
At a critical point in the development of photography, this book offers an engaging, detailed and far-reaching examination of the key issues that are defining contemporary photographic culture. Photography Reframed addresses the impact of radical technological, social and political change across a...