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Examines Polish director Agnieszka Holland's films and television works from the perspective of transnational screen culturesAuthor: Elzbieta OstrowskaPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication...

The first English-language book on the Greek Experimental Cinema director, Antoinetta AngelidiAuthor: Penny Bouska, Sotiris PetridisPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 31,...

Critically examines the work of Québécois filmmakers Denis VilleneuveAuthor: Jeri English, Marie PascalPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

The first book-length academic study of the work of Norwegian director, Joachim TrierAuthor: Anne GjelsvikPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Jul 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Showcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell's career and workAuthor: Matthew MeliaPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 31, 2024Number of...

The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard LinklaterAuthor: Kim Wilkins, Timotheus VermeulenPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 31, 2024Number...

Offers the first collection of critical essays on Wallace Fox, one of Hollywood's first Native American film directorsAuthor: Gary D Rhodes, Joanna HearnePublisher: Edinburgh University...

Examines the work of Hindi film director, screenwriter and producer Zoya AkhtarAuthor: Aakshi Magazine, Amber ShieldsPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of...

Brings the concept of gross negligence to the fore and highlights how distributive justice forms a better foundation for risk allocation in the offshore energy industry Drawing on the momentum of the...

Brings Romanticism into dialogue with current understandings of consciousness With explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period's porousness to the...

Reinterprets Rousseau as a political thinker by reconstructing his Epicurean theory of tasteAuthor: Jared HolleyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Sep 30, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Explores the political aspects of sainthood, martyrdom and relics in late antique CaucasiaAuthor: Nikoloz AleksidzePublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages:...

Highlights the continued flourishing of Scottish philosophy after the Enlightenment by exploring the work of underappreciated figures (such as Alexander Bain, J. F. Ferrier, Thomas Carlyle and John...

Takes a cognitive approach to screen actingAuthor: Dan LebergPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

[headline]Argues for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art and everyday life, taking Shakespeare as a guide and travel companion Shakespeare's Theater of Judgment delves...

Provides the first commentary on the full second book of Sidonius Apollinaris' letters The works of Sidonius Apollinaris, poet, politician and bishop, have long been the subject of interest in...

Examines the multi-layered construction of film couples as a characteristic of Philippine stardom and cinema.Author: Chrishandra SebastiampillaiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date:...

Discusses the ways in which post-independence novels and films understand the relationship between subjectivity and decolonisationAuthor: Sarah JilaniPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication...

Establishes the existence of an important school of Sufi thought developed by Ibn ?Arabi This book is not about Sufism. It is about the nature of the Shari?a. In the first three centuries of Islam,...

Explores the relationship between television and deathAuthor: Helen WheatleyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Apr 30, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Focuses on the California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Author: Bernice M MurphyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first timeAuthor: Peter D McDonaldPublisher:...

Examines state-middle class reciprocities in the making, persistence and failure of the Egyptian social contract The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the...

Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international lawAuthor: Edwin BikundoPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Explores the ways in which affect, colonial histories and militarism organise global security workforces within private military and security companies This book locates its analysis with Gurkhas: a...

Explores the relationship between geography and David Foster Wallace's novels The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels takes a fresh look at David Foster Wallace's novels through the lens of...

Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms A lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell...

[headline]The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as...

Shows how digital capitalism has shaped human rights practices What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed into data, and...

Advances the method of isnad-cum-matn analysis for unravelling complex aspects of early Islamic historyAuthor: Seyfeddin KaraPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Jul 31, 2024Number...