Comparative literature

The basis of a full-length documentary.

Winner of the ACT Book of the Year AwardIt was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America s Cup and the Bicentenary.

"e;Looking Backward: 2000-1887: Julian West, a young American, towards the end of the 19th century falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up 113 years later.

All countries, regions and institutions are ultimately built on a degree of consensus, on a collective commitment to a concept, belief or value system.

How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.

A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology.

In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codesspiritual, cultural, and embodiedthat people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world.

Beyond representation explores whether the last thirty years witnessed signs of 'progress' or 'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US.

Beyond representation explores whether the last thirty years witnessed signs of 'progress' or 'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US.

Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults who should know better , in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the Ninth Art and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema.

At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy.

This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s.

Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their 'incredible-seeming reality'.

For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story.

For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story.

The study of literature and culture is marked by various distinct understandings of passages - both as phenomena and critical concepts.

Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives.

Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media.

Der aus dem Krieg zurückkehrende Soldat ist eine paradigmatische Sozial- und Reflektionsfigur des 20.

Advances in digital communication have affected the relationship between society, journalism and politics within different contexts in varied ways and intensities.

Advances in digital communication have affected the relationship between society, journalism and politics within different contexts in varied ways and intensities.

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could deliver' James Acaster'If you read only one book by Josh Widdicombe this year, make it this one' Jack Dee'Beautifully written, cleverly crafted and charmingly funny' Adam Hills'This is a book about growing up in the '90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched.

The successful return of horror to our television screens in the post-millennial years, and across a multi-media range of platforms, demonstrates that this previously moribund genre is once again vibrant, challenging and long-lasting.

The successful return of horror to our television screens in the post-millennial years, and across a multi-media range of platforms, demonstrates that this previously moribund genre is once again vibrant, challenging and long-lasting.

For fans of Made in Chelsea, I'm a Celeb and Celebs Go Dating, ALWAYS SMILING is the first book from the nation's favourite reality TV star Toff!

Inclusive language remains a hot topic.

At least since the Romantic era, poetry has often been understood as a powerful vector of collective belonging.

Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante presents new research by international scholars on the themes of ethics, politics and justice in the works of Dante Alighieri, including chapters on Dante's modern 'afterlife'.

In the past decades, translation studies have increasingly focused on the ethical dimension of translational activity, with an emphasis on reflexivity to assert the role of the researcher in highlighting issues of visibility, creativity and ethics.

New technologies are changing our reading habits.

The Modernist Bestiary centres on Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee (1911), a multimedia collaborative work by French-Polish poet Guillaume Apollinaire and French artist Raoul Dufy, and its homonym, The Bestiary or Procession of Orpheus (1979), by British artist Graham Sutherland.

President Vladimir Putin is a figure of both fear and fascination in the Western imagination.

President Vladimir Putin is a figure of both fear and fascination in the Western imagination.

First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons.

First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons.

*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019**Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019*Why Marxism?

*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019**Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019*Why Marxism?

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?

Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades.

In terms of visual impact, television has often been regarded as inferior to cinema.

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?

Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades.

In terms of visual impact, television has often been regarded as inferior to cinema.

Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany.

Newly available in paperback, this book looks at how rap and metal have been highly engaged with America's role in the world, supercapitalism and their own role within it.