Colonial Sequence 1930-1949 (1967) presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain's colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire.
This collection brings together twelve essays published between 1988 and 2014, two of which are here translated into English from (respectively) their original French or German.
British India's Relations with the Kingdom of Nepal (1970) uses original documents and confidential papers never before available to examine the relations between Nepal and British India from 1857 to 1947.
Chatham's Colonial Policy (1917) examines Britain's colonial plans and ambition in the mid-eighteenth century, under the leadership of the Earl of Chatham - William Pitt the Elder.
Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link between colonialism and capitalism.
This collection brings together twelve essays published between 1988 and 2014, two of which are here translated into English from (respectively) their original French or German.
Buddhism, Imperialism and War (1979) is a lively, provocative and informative study of two of the most important Buddhist countries of South East Asia - Burma and Thailand.
Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link between colonialism and capitalism.
British India's Relations with the Kingdom of Nepal (1970) uses original documents and confidential papers never before available to examine the relations between Nepal and British India from 1857 to 1947.
The 1950s was the decade of the Queen's Coronation and the Festival of Britain; of family shops and pea-souper smogs; listening to the wireless and watching the box; when money was counted in pounds, shillings and pence and weights were in pounds and ounces.
The 1950s was the decade of the Queen's Coronation and the Festival of Britain; of family shops and pea-souper smogs; listening to the wireless and watching the box; when money was counted in pounds, shillings and pence and weights were in pounds and ounces.
Blindness, or vision loss, is a major medical concern that has also drawn the attention of artists, writers, musicians, mythologists, filmmakers, religions, philosophers and others.
Spanning several generations-from newcomers to Oscar Award-winning veterans-this volume features a discussion of the movies that shaped the careers of these filmmakers and, in turn, cinema history.
Thanks to his prolific movie career (seventy-eight movies and counting) and endearing real-life persona, Keanu Reeves has become the universal screen saver of pop culture-nobody can go a few days without some reference to Keanu or his movies popping up.
This book provides detailed insights into how space and popular culture intersect across a broad spectrum of examples, including cinema, music, art, arcade games, cartoons, comics, and advertisements.
Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected.
Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media.
Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media.
This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound.
One of the most influential thrillers in media history, Jaws first surfaced as a best-selling novel by first-time novelist Peter Benchley in 1974, followed by the 1975 feature film directed by Steven Spielberg at the beginning of his storied career.
Hollywood Confidential is the first truly in-depth look at the sexy, humorous, violent, and tragic history of the mob in Hollywood from the 1920s, when Joe Kennedy decided to buy a motion picture company, to the 1980s when the last vestiges of mob influence were revealed through investigations of former Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan and his union backers.
This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as science fiction technology), in which forms, processes, and productions of space and time collide - a multiplicity of spaces produced and (re)configured.
Jedes Jahr werden mehr Dokumentarfilme produziert, im Fernsehen steigt der Anteil non-fiktionaler Programme und Dokumentarfilmfestivals erfreuen sich wachsender Beliebtheit.
Das orts- und zeitunabhängige Konsumieren von filebasierten Medieninhalten Setzt sich zunehmend durch, leistungsstarke Technologien und schnelle Übertragungswege bringen Bewegtbilder auf alle Geräte.
Das orts- und zeitunabhängige Konsumieren von filebasierten Medieninhalten Setzt sich zunehmend durch, leistungsstarke Technologien und schnelle Übertragungswege bringen Bewegtbilder auf alle Geräte.
