Bound by Love
The bonds of love can bring bliss or demand sacrifice; they can save us or destroy us. This book explores how familial bonds in film and television reveal a cultural dialogue about the changing nature of love and the American family.
Seeing in Spanish
Seeing in Spanish explores visual cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee, these essays traverse centuries and continents, addressing film, photography, art, graffiti, and digital media from Europe, the Americas, and cyberspace.
Research in Management Accounting
This book addresses the gap in management accounting research focused on Malaysia. It provides research-oriented articles on key issues and is an essential reference for researchers, academics, managers, accountants, and policy makers.
This book explores the intricate relationships between language, culture and social connectedness in our diverse local and transnational communities. Language education is no longer about memorization, but using language to connect to others around the globe.
Looking Through Gender
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
The Case against Christ
Are the Gospels good history or bad propaganda? Who should shoulder the blame for the crucifixion of Jesus? This book seeks answers by treating the matter as a forensic death investigation to determine who should be held criminally responsible.
Messages
Drawing on clinical experience and quotes from movies, TV, and music, this book helps you navigate real-world issues. Discover the direct, practical advice about ourselves hidden in the everyday echoes of popular culture, from finance to love and loss.
Fiction Unbound
This book shows how Bernardine Evaristo is not simply a “multicultural” writer. It reveals an author who questions concepts like “Englishness,” race, and gender, giving marginalized characters the chance to tell their own stories.
Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters
This book offers fresh insights into medieval bodies from multiple perspectives. Ten essays by renowned scholars explore diverse, interdisciplinary approaches, connecting medieval literature with history, theology, gender studies, and the arts.
Other Combatants, Other Fronts
Much discussion of the First World War remains confined to the Western Front. This volume pushes the focus away to examine forgotten theatres and neglected experiences, exploring what ‘total war’ meant for people around the world implicated in this event.
The Black Musketeer
Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France’s debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.
Selling Sex Short
Pornography and sexology are redefining sexuality, but is the model they promote selling sex short? This book investigates the connections between these industries, revealing they promote a sexual ideal resembling prostitution for couples to mimic.
Quality Issues in ICT Integration
This publication discusses the quality of integrating technology into teaching and learning. Drawing on the experiences of researchers and tutors, it offers students and teachers an insight into various applications of technology and their critical evaluation.
The Home Entrepreneur Systems Model
This book chronicles a PhD student’s research into home-based businesses. Using Grounded Theory, it develops the Home Entrepreneur Systems model, a new way to understand how home business meets our needs for security, autonomy, balance, meaning and community.
This book presents a qualitative analysis of how Irish entrepreneurs use technology, such as LinkedIn, to form, develop and maintain professional business networks and manage social capital.
Just Images
This collection of essays explores the role ethics plays in the study of moving images. Scholars discuss how film engages with history, politics, trauma, and representations of the Other to reshape our thoughts on subjects like terrorism and conflict.
ELT
This volume brings together diverse researchers and educators to optimize English Language Teaching worldwide. As both practitioners and investigators, the authors present research that reflects back on teaching, connecting theory with practice.
Speech Act Theory and Communication
This study investigates the pragmatic value and meaning-creation strategies of second-language students at the University of Venda. The analyses demonstrate the multi-dimensional thought processes involved and the nature of linguistic interaction.
Arthur Danto
This original monograph presents Arthur Danto’s aesthetic theory as part of his larger philosophical system. For the first time, his themes are viewed as a whole, placed in the context of his broader commitments to action, knowledge, and metaphysics.
Mixed Metaphors
This collection of essays reveals the lasting influence of the Danse Macabre, a European motif where Death summons us all—rich or poor. Mixing dance and violence, it inspired artists and dramatists like Shakespeare, and shaped culture from the Middle Ages to today.