An excellent introductory volume for those wishing to know more about the hitherto neglected cinema from the African continent, including directors from ...

In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century ...

This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's Richard II. This edition, ...

Videogame, player, text examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames.

This book is a unique analysis of truth recovery in post-conflict Northern Ireland. It proposes a new model of victim and perpetrator dialogue that is ...

This book provides the first comprehensive evaluation of Britain's food laws from the 1860s to 1930s and the first analysis of the Victorian anti-adulteration ...

French crime fiction and the Second World War explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture ...

Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria

Fears of conspiracy and political terrorism are not confined to our own time - they were central to the French Revolution. This is the first major study ...

Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the ...