Politics – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

(1968) Episodes of Culture in Contest

Edited By: Cathy Crane, Nicholas Muellner

£34.99

This critical and historical anthology looks at 1968, bringing together scholars, critics, and media-makers. Their work engages the period’s international activism through close readings of cultural production, from mass media to avant-garde practices.

Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions

Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£39.99

An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art

Edited By: Miguel de Baca, Makeda Best

£41.99

Explore the powerful relationship between American art and conflict. This anthology discusses visual works in relation to national identity and politics, revealing how conflict—armed and rhetorical—inspires new identities to emerge.

Geopolitics to Geocriticism

A Study of TV Series in Türkiye, Serbia, Romania and Beyond

Edited By: Deniz Bayrakdar

From £38.99

This collection analyses TV series (‘dizi’) from Türkiye, Serbia, and Romania. It explores their role in identity building, social reflection, and soft power, stressing the importance of these cultural products for public diplomacy in the Balkans and their global reach.

Images of War and War of Images

Edited By: Karine Hildenbrand, Gérard Hugues

£39.99

This volume addresses the representation of warfare, assessing the veracity of war images and their impact. War images may trigger horror or paradoxically attain sublimity, blurring the narrow margin between ethics and aesthetics, information, and propaganda.

Nationalism in Indian Cinema

Edited By: Shri Krishan Rai, Anugamini Rai

From £33.99

This book celebrates the unsung heroes of Indian cinema and their unacknowledged contribution to nation building. This collection of essays examines the role played by cinema in narrating, inspiring, and challenging our comprehension of India as a nation.

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Activating Cloth to Enhance the Way We Live

Edited By: Claire Barber, Penny Macbeth

£39.99

Artists, scholars, and philosophers explore cloth’s value and impact on society, revealing its potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion.

The Empathic Movement

Empathy, Essence and Experience

Edited By: Menotti Lerro

From £29.99

This book explores the Empathic Movement, which created a new cultural pole in southern Italy. It rejects individualism to give voice to the silent masses, sharing genuine emotion and seeking to reunite the arts, once torn apart by the mythic killing of the Total Artist.

The Odyssey of Communism

Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture

Edited By: Michaela Praisler, Oana-Celia Gheorghiu

From £30.99

This interdisciplinary volume explores how film has shaped culture and memory. From the Berlin Wall to China, it journeys from the terror of communist prisons to the rosy image of propaganda, arguing that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation.