This book brings together academics, writers and politicians to explore the range and nature of the media in Scotland. The book includes chapters on the separate histories of the press, broadcasting a
This book covers alphabetically both the major concepts in political theory and the key writers in the field. While ensuring accuracy and objectivity, the entries represent interpretations that are bo
From the inhabitants of an iron-age fort to the medieval village clustered beside the Cathedral walls, and onwards right up to the men and women who worked the land and sea through two World Wars, thi
As a writer of fiction, a literary critic, thinker and political commentator, Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) fulfilled and exhausted some of his century's pressing challenges. The twentieth century, the
Explores the cultural, social and historical contexts of Christmas in the UK, USA and Australia, covering such topics as fiction, film, television, art, newspapers and magazines, war, popular music an
How do we understand Christmas? What does it mean? This book is a lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study. It explores the cultural, social and historical co
Presenting a literary-historical study, this book examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period. It shows how the topic is cen
Deleuze, Altered States and Film offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, memory, trance and ecstasy in their cinematic expression. The book presents altered states films as
New in Paperback'This is one of the standout books of the year. Martin-Jones provides a profound and original reassessment of Gilles Deleuze's own concepts of style and history in modern cinema. At th
"Examines the political perspective of French thinker and historian Jacques Rancisere. Rancisere argues that a democratic politics is one that emerges out of people's acting under the presupposition o
This volume brings together the previously uncollected stories of this exceptional modernist writer, from fairy tale to fable and social drama.Covering a range of situations--broken engagements, encou
An innovative exploration of ways of thinking about and doing politics that presents a challenge to liberal assumptions. The author tackles four key areas in contemporary politics which work at 'the e
This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Straumann's close reading of selected films and litera
The fully revised and updated version of this classic text examines the link between three key obsessions of the 21st century: the media, sport and popular culture. Gathering new material from around
This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers. As a British colony, Hong Kong used English in composing the language o
Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued and understood. The Reader includes essential statements from w
How do we construct national identities in discourse? Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand,
This is the first anthology to unite Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory. Paul Patton and Simone Bignall assemble leading figures, including Reda Bensma?a, Rey Chow, Nick Nesbitt, Patricia Pi
