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

ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay covers a variety of angles, using queer, feminist, historical, and close textual reading methods to grapple with the complicated and contradictory politics and...

Shyam Benegal is widely perceived as one of the most influential Indian filmmakers, yet his voluminous body of work remains relatively under-studied in contemporary film scholarship. To help fill...

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...

ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America's most important and successful directors, with an emphasis on the "literary" aspects of his...

Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social...

Based on unprecedented ethnographic access to a regimental community in Germany during a period of deployment to Afghanistan, this analysis of the ambiguities of gendered agency focuses not on the...

While armed forces in several countries underwent deep transformations after the end of the Cold War, few if any, however, experiences more radical changes than Germany and Italy, and Japan. The book...

The 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achievements of Romanticism and the Victorian era proper, or, at best, as a time 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...

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific Islands re-orients the intellectual biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by presenting him in the distinctive cultural environment of the Pacific. The book...

Analysis of gender dynamics is providing some of the most exciting and innovative research in the field of contemporary Romantic studies. This collection reflects that interest and examines in...

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:...

Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 aims to show the importance of Scotland's relationships to Europe and its part in a broader European story, as well as to dispel...

Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 aims to show the importance of Scotland's relationships to Europe and its part in a broader European story, as well as to dispel...

Unique subject guide to over 20,000 Scots words.* Subject-by-subject access to Scots words with definitions in English* Wide-ranging coverage of different subjects including animal and plant life,...

The law of contract forms the basis of our civil society. Without the law of contract we could not buy food, clothing or a place to live, nor could we book holidays, run a business or manage a...

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:...

This book demonstrates the ways in which Virgil's are poems that Heaney 'lived with long and dreamily', especially the descent into the underworld in Aeneid VI. It shows that in his original English...

[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...

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerging from other languages, growing and sometimes...

There are around 340,000 Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, but the ways in which they experience migration is largely hidden in the homes of their employers. This book helps us to understand the...

Published in France in 2018, Henri Atlan's book Cours de philosophie biologique et cognitiviste: Spinoza et la biologie actuelle (Odile Jacob, 2018) represents a turning point in Spinoza's...

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

This book collects 8 thoroughly revised articles and book chapters, together with a new introductory theoretical chapter, based on P?l Kolst 's 30 years of study of nationalism and ethnic conflict in...