This book explores the politics and aestheticization of the Ugly in contemporary Malayalam cinema. Analyzing unconventional characters and raw storytelling, it challenges conventional notions of beauty and highlights societal realities through the lens of identity and gender.
This book analyses the sociocultural adaptation and integration of temporary migrants and refugees. Based on global research, it explores the interpersonal dimensions of these processes, from the friendships of students to the family dynamics of refugees in camps.
Tracing Henry James brings together 28 essays by established and newer scholars from eight countries. This diverse collection explores James’s shorter and longer fiction, his travel essays, criticism, and letters.
Processability Theory (PT) explains the developmental sequences in second language learning, providing insights into what learners are ready to acquire. Taking PT as its point of departure, this book applies, tests, and extends the theory.
Towards a Theory of Whodunits
This volume follows the evolution of detective fiction from the late eighteenth century to its contemporary multi-media expressions. Tackling well-known and forgotten authors, classic texts, and films, the book explores the impact of whodunits on highbrow and popular culture.
Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis
This volume shows the impact of trauma on memory and identity, foregrounding the suffering of the marginalised to give them a voice. It shows how victims confront the past to (re)assert their shattered identity and challenge official history by rewriting the past.
Negotiating a Meta-Pedagogy
A vital new resource for rhetoric and composition teachers. While other collections are not updated to reflect current research, the field needs this book. Rhetoric now has an official meta-pedagogy resource to call its own. — Cynthia Haynes, Clemson University
Teaching Shakespeare in Film and the Arts Today
Explore past, present, and future approaches to Shakespeare on Film. This volume offers practical case-studies for teaching textual analysis through film and the arts—perfect for instructors to adapt or for any reader interested in the field to enjoy.
This book analyzes former President Trump’s domestic and foreign policies, from trade wars to nuclear programs. It details their successes, failures, and negative impact on the US and its allies, while offering recommendations to resolve the conflicts they generated.
This book explores drama as an intervention in conflict. It maps theatre’s transformative role in contexts from South Africa to New Zealand, addressing violence in prisons, cities, and families. Includes two new play scripts on xenophobia and family violence.
This collection of essays explores Neo-Baroque tendencies in contemporary art. Scholars reveal how artists and architects fold past traditions into the present, finding parallels between the Baroque’s spectacle and fluidity and our own diverse, pluralistic culture.
Matter and Meaning
What is matter? Can it point us towards meanings outside itself? This book offers new historical, scientific and theological insights from leading figures, exploring the complex dialogue between these disciplines beyond its presentation in the popular media.
It takes a virtual village to raise a child. Millions of mothers worldwide are creating online communities to construct modern motherhood together. Motherhood Online explores the multifaceted lives they live online and the new space they create to maintain sanity.
We Need to Talk about Family
As the dream of upward mobility dissipates, the family ‘haven’ is unravelling. This collection explores the hypercompetitive neoliberal family, which seeks to maximize its children’s futures amid the anxiety of being left behind.
This book explores the history of migration in India. In contrast to the 19th century’s mass migration of labourers, it investigates the comparative immobility of the people of Andhra, discussing causes including their traditional attachment to their native locale.
The road inspires freewheeling adventure, but it is also a site of our vulnerabilities. This collection highlights artists, writers, and filmmakers who have drawn upon the road as a cultural landscape, revealing our curiosity, anxieties, sorrows, and disquiet.
This volume provides concise, essential information on common non-neoplastic liver diseases. It is a useful guide for pathologists and trainees, with checklists to guide workup and reporting. It is also a good reference for hepatologists, other clinicians, and researchers.
Alshdaifat argues that nation states throughout the world, particularly in Asia and Europe, have, since ancient times, been vulnerable to invasion by other nation states. He contends that the fight against terrorism is long and complex, but the end is known in advance.
Religious Minorities’ Migration from Iran
This book explores the marginalization of non-Muslim religious minorities by state authorities and the mechanisms these groups develop to survive. It examines the dynamics of extremism, its impact, and the responses of these communities in Iran.
Psychotherapy in Pain Management
This timely, neuroscience-based guide presents the Clinical Biopsychological Model for treating chronic pain. It offers novel strategies for addressing negative memories, interpersonal stressors, and depression, with detailed guidance for assessment and treatment.
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