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Intermingled Fascinations

Migration, Displacement and Translation in World Cinema

Edited By: Jane Ramey Correia, Flannery Wilson

£34.99

This collection of essays analyzes Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema, exploring films about migration, exile, and imprisonment. United by themes of displacement and liminality, this anthology reveals how cinema represents diasporic communities.

a Wilderness of Signs

Ethics, Beauty, & Environment after Postmodernism

Edited By: Joe Jordan

£34.99

While postmodernism displaced "grand narratives," it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.

While postmodernism displaced “grand narratives,” it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.

The Postmodern Mythology of Michel Tournier

By: Melissa Panek

£34.99

In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier's mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.

In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier’s mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.

Out of the Ordinary

Representations of LGBT Lives

Edited By: Ian Rivers, Richard Ward

£34.99

This book challenges the ordinariness of heterosexuality by exploring the politics of representing LGBT lives. It demonstrates how representation is a battleground for the visibility of ‘non-normative’ voices and a site for fruitful reinvention.

Women and Depression

Edited By: Iffat Hussain

£34.99

This multidisciplinary collection of essays offers a comprehensive understanding of women and depression. Experts from psychology, public health, and other fields integrate research, personal experiences, and self-help strategies in an accessible guide for all.

Kaleidoscopic Grammar

Investigation into the Nature of Binarism

By: Junichi Toyota

£34.99

This book explores binarism—pairs of binary features—as a powerful tool in the evolution of civilization, cognition, and language. It argues that binarism provides a base for complexity, proposing that the first verbs evolved from a split in early nouns.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Keith Huneycutt, Claudia Slate

£34.99

This volume includes essays on Florida literature and history. Of special interest are studies of 19th and 21st-century literature, the contributions of African-American figures like Zora Neale Hurston, and suggestions for teaching Florida Studies.

Middle-earth and Beyond

Essays on the World of J. R. R. Tolkien

Edited By: Janka Kaščáková

£34.99

This volume of essays on J.R.R. Tolkien takes new directions and challenges received wisdom. It covers new ground on sources, characters like Tom Bombadil, linguistics, and the environment, taking scholars and readers further into the world of Middle-earth.

Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond

By: Aleš Erjavec

£34.99

This book examines the relationship between modernism and postmodernism, visual culture, and East-West aesthetics. It argues that recent postsocialist visual art contradicts canonical theories of the avant-garde, offering a global view on the philosophy of art.

Freedom of Expression

Counting the Costs

Edited By: Glen Newey

£34.99

Freedom of expression is under assault from religious activists, political establishments, and technology. This collection explores these new challenges, asking how to weigh free expression against other rights and if free speech can survive its costs.

Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe

Edited By: Chris Bishop

£34.99

From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.

Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema

Edited By: Marcelline Block, Angela Laflen

From £34.99

This wide-ranging collection breaks new ground in feminist film theory, offering close analyses of films from Hitchcock to 21st-century horror. Praised as a “splendid contribution,” it lends readers ‘new eyes’. “Should be required reading for students and scholars.”

Dolls & Clowns & Things

Essays for a Symbolic Self

By: Lisa Pavlik-Malone

£34.99

Through the lens of cognition, this work explores the symbolic relationship between self and object. It studies how objects are vehicles through which cognitive processes transform our understanding of Self as an ongoing, imaginative endeavor.

From Plato’s Cave to the Multiplex

Contemporary Philosophy and Film

Edited By: Stephen Rainey, Barbara Gabriella Renzi

£34.99

This rich collection of articles explores the productive interaction between philosophy and film. The pieces offer philosophical analyses of specific films and the cinematic medium, revealing surprising connections and provoking philosophical reflection.

In Levinas’ Trace

Edited By: Maria Dimitrova

£34.99

This book explores human relationships from the perspective of phenomenology. More than an abstract academic work, it is essential for those interested in ethics and political philosophy, offering new ways to articulate humanism and justice for scholars and policymakers.

Diefenbaker and Latin America

The Pursuit of Canadian Autonomy

By: Jason Gregory Zorbas

£34.99

John Diefenbaker’s Latin American policy was driven by Canada’s national interest. He sought greater foreign policy autonomy from the US and expanded exports to lessen Canada's dependency, pursuing a policy aligned with, but not subservient to, the US.

John Diefenbaker’s Latin American policy was driven by Canada’s national interest. He sought greater foreign policy autonomy from the US and expanded exports to lessen Canada’s dependency, pursuing a policy aligned with, but not subservient to, the US.

Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces

By: Catalina Florina Florescu

£34.99

This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.

Florida without Borders

Women at the Intersections of the Local and Global

Edited By: Judy A. Hayden, Sharon Kay Masters, Kim Vaz

£34.99

This anthology explores women’s activism across borders, highlighting global issues like human rights, poverty, and trafficking. Feminist scholars investigate the gendered body in activism, the obstacles women face, and the fight for feminist social change.

Men in Color

Racialized Masculinities in U.S. Literature and Cinema

Edited By: Josep M. Armengol

£34.99

This collection analyzes ethnic masculinities—including African American, Asian American, Chicano, and white—in U.S. literature and cinema. It explores the intersection of gender and race, highlighting both the differences and recurring stereotypes among them.

Art, Myth and Deviance

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

£34.99

Myths are the blueprint for creativity. This volume presents an innovative theory of the creative process, explaining how authentic art transcends time to communicate with us today. It also explores the fascinating link between madness and creativity.