Cinema provides entertainment, but it also communicates a set of values, a vision of the world or an ideology. European cinema has dealt with the tension ...

Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Rethinking Equality provides a clear ...

This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city's role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this ...

These lively and candid letters from Rose Macaulay to her first cousin Jean Smith are previously unknown. Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful ...

More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated ...

Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints ...

The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East ...

The book advances a new performance theory or mode, 'trauma-tragedy', that suggests much contemporary performance can generate the sensation of being present ...

This book presents a comprehensive history of the modern Middle East and Arab-Israeli conflict through the Cold War, focusing on relations between the ...

The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War.

At the end of the Second World War, some 12 million German refugees and expellees fled or were expelled from their homelands in Eastern and Central Europe ...

Offers a new theory of citizenship applicable beyond the nation-state. It brings political and moral philosophy together with current debates in citizenship ...

Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia ...

A book about how Scotland's Catholics participated in the extension of citizenship in Scotland and how it was transformed from an underground and isolated ...

An accessible and innovative analysis of how political groups used and contested spaces and places in protest. It uses a wide range of interesting sources ...

This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of ...

This volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the 'new' ...

Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between ...

This volume is an ideal introduction to Freud's work, and gives a clear sense both of the context of Freud's text and of its influence throughout the twentieth ...

The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author's close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University ...

Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption, and human memory. Critical comparisons are made across ...

Why do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France's ...

Central Asia is a fascinating region yet remote and unfamiliar to many people. This new study provides an introduction to the politics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan ...

Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical ...

A full-length modern study of the Diggers, among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. Provides ...

Examines the 'New Soviet Man' not only as an ideal of masculinity presented to Soviet cinemagoers, but also, precisely, as a man in his specific, and hotly ...

This book defends the Marxist theory of history through, first, a critique of its empiricist and postmodern critics, second, a practical demonstration ...

Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international ...

An analysis of Britain's domestic policy during Harold Wilson's tenure as Prime Minister.

One of the most gifted French directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Rebert ...