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First published in 1957, Modern Italy examines the complex political and economic challenges Italy faced during the 1950s.

Es ist keine Ehre, in Gefangenschaft zu sein.

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In Gay Print Culture, Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s.

New York City is more than a place—it is a living legend.

In Nordrhein-Westfalen begeistert Handball die Menschen.

Le nirvana, c'est dans cette vie meme qu'il se realise.

Dedalo, el gran arquitecto de Atenas, es celebre por sus obras prodigiosas: edificios que desafian el tiempo, ingenios asombrosos y estatuas que parecen cobrar vida.

In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India, Gerritsen explores the circulation of images of a movie star named Rajinikanth.

This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past.

In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long duree' of the 20th century and into the 21st.

This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations.

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief.

The act of drawing a line or uttering a word is often seen as integral to the process of making art.

What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian?

Das finstere Mittelalter und seine Geheimnisse.

This exciting collection of unpublished essays on Ernst Lubitsch addresses multiple gaps in scholarly and critical engagement with the director.

Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny.

The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time.

In contrast to physicists, biologists already have the Theory of Everything.

The Battle of Errozabal (Rencesvals) is the one of the most significant historical events of eighth century Vasconia and in all Western Europe.

Drawing on the papers presented at CEEJA's

This volume presents a batch of incisive new essays on the relationship between Roman imperial power and ideology and Christian and Jewish life and thought within the empire.

Japan is widely regarded as having a unique culture and a strong national identity.

Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrapped in temporal spaces and their peculiar communication with visibility, enclosure, space, and time in the context of sexual and temporal discord.

This tenth volume in the series, comprising some fifty essays, offers a further wide-ranging selection of essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically, from portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton to the history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK at Peterlee and Mitsubishi Electric in Scotland, from scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain, to international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro.

Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama.

When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country's long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945.

Rene de Challant, whose holdings ranged from northwestern Italy to the Alps and over the mountains into what is today western Switzerland and eastern France, was an Italian and transregional dynast.

Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema.

The diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) have a special place among the Jewish-Dutch testimonies of the Shoah, so much so that Etty Hillesum studies has become its own field.

From a much neglected Portuguese colony to independence, Timor-Leste travelled a belated, long and troubled journey that included a 24-year Indonesian occupation.

This pioneering collection of nine original essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of games and warfare inform and illuminate each other in the early modern cultural imagination.

This is a translation and new edition of Masaniello.

Do narratives make nations, and if so, did networks make this happen?

During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication.

Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think.

This book provides an in-depth account of how judicial decisions are published and used in the Netherlands as a source of law.

This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world.

Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later explores the legacy and historiographical impact of Johan Huizinga's 1919 masterwork a century after its publication.

This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across China's marginal spaces and against the backdrop of the state-sanctioned 'China Dream'.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the international phenomenon of enlightened paternalist capitalism and social engineering in the golden age of capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France.

Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think.

The Amsterdam ring of canals is a much beloved location for Dutch book publishers.

Fosterage was a central feature of medieval Irish society, yet the widespread practice of sending children to another family to be cared for until they reached adulthood is a surprisingly neglected topic.

In all of the literature on Anglo-Saxon England, rarely has the question of social class been confronted head-on.

The significance of the media and communications revolution occasioned by printmaking was profound.

The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture is a contribution to the revival of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English that began in the 1980s.

This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918.

The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence.