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Nietzsche challenges the tenets of received political wisdom in a number of ways and his thinking contains resources for revitalising political thinking. This book offers fresh insights into Nietzsche's relevance for contemporary political thought in light of recent advances in …
The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture, particularly through the media of fi lm and television, since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. This collection argues that the serial killer performs a unique role, specif…
Contemporary politics is faced, on the one hand, with political stagnation and lack of a progressive vision on the side of formal, institutional politics, and, on the other, with various social movements that venture to challenge modern understandings of representation, particip…
Within multi-platform films and dramas the fourth wall - the invisible barrier that separates the onscreen fictional world from the audience - has crumbled. The adoption of technologies such as mobile devices for digital media consumption and social networking, has led to the em…
Revolution and rebellion in Mexican film
by Thornton
fromTopics and issues in national cinema
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Type: Book
Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film' examines Mexican films of political conflict from the early studio Revolutionary films of the 1930-50s up to the campaigning Zapatista films of the 2000s. Mapping this evolution out for the first time, the author takes three key events u…
Portuguese film, 1930-1960: The Staging of the New State Regime' provides groundbreaking analysis of Portuguese feature films produced in the first three decades of the New State (Estado Novo), a right-wing totalitarian regime that lasted between 1933 and 1974. These films, spon…
This book is the first study of Lars von Trier that employs a materialist framework to discuss the formal complexity that characterises the films of the Danish auteur. Through a detailed formal analysis of five films -The Europa trilogy: 'The element of crime, ' 'Epidemic' and '…
This innovative collection of essays on post-WTO Chinese cinema features contributions from an international community of scholars in the fields of media and film studies, comparative literature, and history. The iGeneration describes a post-cinematic, post-reform era phenomenon…
This unique and engaging study argues that the Western concern with achieving happiness should be understood in terms of its relationship to the political ideologies that have emerged since the Enlightenment. To do so, each chapter examines the place that happiness occupies in t…
Cyprus is better known as a site of conflict between Greek and Turkey, rather than for its film output. The authors seek to rectify this dearth of information by discussing the work of a new generation of filmmakers striving to engage with the island's traumatic legacies: anti-c…
This volume reassesses the nature of the current global economic crisis and its implication for the 21st century, through the unique lens of Marx's theory of the value-form as the unconscious matrix of modern society. Going beyond orthodox Marxist and postmodernist accounts, the…
Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from 'Don Quixote' to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Moder…
John Cage was among the first wave of post-war American artists and intellectuals to be influenced by Zen Buddhism and it was an influence that led him to become profoundly engaged with our current ecological crisis. In John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics, Peter Jaeger asks: what …
A critical exploration of one of the most exciting, original and influential figures to emerge in contemporary film, this book offers an in-depth discussion of Del Toro's output and investigates the key ideas, recurrent motifs and subtle links between his movies. In addition the…
This book offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between literature and cinema. It does so by articulating an 'affective turn' for adaptation studies, a field whose traditional focus has been the critical castigation of film adaptations of canonical plays or nove…
How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercis…
The 1970s. A decade of contemporary British fiction
by Hubble, Nick, McLeod, John, Tew, Philip
fromDecades series
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Type: Book
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contemp…