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 ...

A striking new interpretation of white settlement in early colonial Kenya

Rhetoric and the writing of history provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe between c. ...

Based on newly discovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LGBTQ people in the USSR.

This lucid, comprehensive and fascinating study shows Robbe-Grillet’s contribution to the evolution of the cinematic art both in France and internationally ...

Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how ...

This book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. ...

How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad cross-section ...

The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the leading role Germanophone women artists have played in deploying surrealism to respond ...

The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing whereby the right to trade in foundational activities would be dependent on the discharge of social ...