Shifting Landscapes
An innovative understanding of Europe’s rapidly changing film and media scene. Eighteen analyses re-examine what “European” media means in an era of technological change, globalization, and shifting cultural and geographical borders.
Shifting Paradigms in Culture
This book frees Jean Genet’s plays from the overpowering Sartrean perspective, revealing the hidden spaces of the prison and brothel. It traverses challenging issues—the ghettoized existence of social discards and others rotting on the margins.
Shifting Positionalities
Shifting Positionalities examines the surveillance of sexual, racial, and ethnic identities in the post-9/11 era. It reveals how individuals and communities utilize techniques of actively resisting the policing of their daily lives across borders.
This book is about shifting road users’ negative attitudes towards positive mindsets. It presents a new spectrum of attitudes to replace outdated binary systems, showing attitudes are not expressed as approve-disapprove but as a range of at least ten distinct mindsets.
This edited volume analyses shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain.
Shifting the Compass
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
Shifting the Geography of Reason
In a world offering few options, this courageous celebration of thinking asserts the value of intelligence and the urgent need to build new intellectual homes.
Shifting Toponymies
Place-names are dynamic tools used to shape our surroundings and identities. This book explores the fascinating and often controversial relationship between toponyms and identity, showing how (re)naming practices convey values and visions of the world across space and time.
How do we motivate employees and maximize human potential in a competitive global marketplace? What drives job satisfaction, and what are the outcomes for individuals and organizations? This volume discusses these pressing questions facing the organizations of today.
When geopolitical changes occur, they alter our identity. This book looks at contemporary history with new eyes, from a scholarly perspective that cancels borders. It explores migration, geopolitics, and human rights, making the old self-other dichotomy obsolete.
Shifting Viewpoints
To understand a turbulent century, German writers turned to Cervantes. Don Quixote, recast as either fool or hero, became a powerful lens for grappling with fascism, war, and a divided world.
Shifting Visions
This global, interdisciplinary collection explores how gender and language create lived experience. Studies analyze topics from religion and politics to education and sexuality, with scholarship from Britain, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
Shining Humanity
This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.
Shirley Gorelick (1924–2000)
The first in-depth study of Shirley Gorelick (1924–2000), a master of psychological realism. This book illuminates her compelling, large-scale portraits that captured the complex inner lives of her subjects. A major artistic voice, rediscovered.
Short Stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was one of the most prolific writers of her day. This collection of short stories brings her most popular and culturally significant works of short fiction to modern audiences for the first time.
Short Stories by Werner Bergengruen
Long-ignored Nobel nominee Werner Bergengruen is reintroduced in this selection of his best short stories. From learning to smile at death in “Death from Reval” to tales of honor, love, and power, his works offer timeless messages couched in rich historical settings.
Showing the World to the World
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these “political fictions” contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
Elizabeth I’s controversial marriage proposal angered courtiers Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, who used their writing to express their dissent. This book interweaves history and literature to analyze the workings of gender, desire, politics, and poetics in her reign.
Sights Unseen
Many British films never make it to the screen. This book uses archival resources to reconstruct the stories behind these thwarted productions, providing an illuminating insight into the factors which have undermined the stability of the film industry in Britain.
Signs of Hope
Three deafhearing families challenge the view of deafness as loss, celebrating deaf culture and sign language as vital for family life. Winner of the 2013 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
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