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Noël Carroll on Film: A Philosophy of Art and Popular Culture (Film Thinks)

Mario Slugan

The Origins of the Film Star System (International Library of the Moving Image)

Andrew Shail

Cinema of Jia Zhangke, The (Tauris World Cinema Series)

Cecilia Mello

Patternmaking History and Theory

Jennifer Grayer Moore

Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf: Urban Transformation in the Middle East

F. Wiedmann and A. M. Salama

The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Marine Areas

Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War: Espionage, Security and International Relations

Egement Bezci

Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema (Film Thinks)

Catherine Wheatley

“Film is made for philosophy,” asserted Stanley Cavell. In addition to his work on scepticism, morality, and the intentions and meanings of ordinary language, the American philosopher wrote fascinatingly about cinema, arguing that film can reveal new ground for thinking through old philosophical problems. In this book, Catherine Wheatley draws upon Cavell's explicitly film-inspired works, key ... read more

Twelfth Night: Arden Performance Editions

William Shakespeare

For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features easily accessible facing page notes – including short definitions of words, key textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation; a larger font size for easier reading; s... read more

Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics (Film Thinks)

Patrick ffrench

Suspicious of what he called the spectator's “sticky” adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a hypnotic trance, the philosopher warned, an audience can become susceptible to ideology and “myth”. In this book, Patrick Ffrench explains that although Barthes was wary of film, he engaged deeply with it. Barthes' thought was, Ffrench argues, pun... read more

The Rebirth of Area Studies: Challenges for History, Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century

Area Studies became increasingly common after World War II as a means of responding to perceived 'external threats' from the Soviet Union and China. After the Cold War and in the face of increasingly rapid globalisation, it seemed inevitable that Area Studies – institutionally and intellectually – would slowly degenerate. But this has not been the case, and there has recently been a resurgence... read more

Costing for the Fashion Industry

Nathalie Evans, Michael Jeffrey, Susan Craig

Costing for the Fashion Industry is a practical, easy-to-use guide to the manufacture, sourcing and risk management methods essential to make a new fashion business venture financially viable.Each chapter focuses on a theme, such as entrepreneurship, time constraints, global awareness and new markets and sourcing, alongside practical exercises and detailed industry case studies to put the theo... read more

Theatre Blogging: The Emergence of a Critical Culture

Megan Vaughan

Megan Vaughan contextualises the key debates and writings of more than forty bloggers with current research, and brings past and present practitioners into conversation with one another. The work of prominent and influential early adopters such as Encore Theatre Magazine and Chris Goode in London; George Hunka and Laura Axelrod in New York; Jill Dolan at Princeton University and Alison Croggon... read more

Jihadist Terror: New Threats, New Responses

The past 18 months have seen a radical increase in incidents of jihadist terrorism within the United Kingdom – from the Manchester Arena attack, to the Houses of Parliament, to London Bridge. As a result, there are renewed calls for a high-level national conversation about the causes of, and the responses to, this particular terrorist problem. This book identifies policy and research gaps from... read more

The Future of Petroleum in Lebanon: Energy, Politics and Economic Growth (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)

What is the future of the oil and gas sector in Lebanon? Following the recent discovery of these valuable resources in the southern Mediterranean, including in the Cypriot and Israeli offshore reserves, the possibility of Lebanon also becoming a petroleum-producing country has been raised. This collection of essays addresses the major challenges and opportunities that accompany the country's h... read more

Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment

Philippe Le Goff

Few individuals made such an impact on nineteenth-century French politics as Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881). Political organiser, leader, propagandist and prisoner, Blanqui was arguably the foremost proponent of popular power to emerge after the French Revolution. Practical engagement in all the major uprisings that spanned the course of his life – 1830, 1848, 1870-71 – was accompanied by t... read more

Hegel on Possibility: Dialectics, Contradiction, and Modality

Nahum Brown

Providing a clear interpretation of Hegel's characterizations of possibility and actuality in the Science of Logic, this book departs from the standard understandings of these concepts to break new ground in Hegelian scholarship. The book draws out some of the implications of Hegel's view of immanent possibility, especially as it relates to Leibniz's thesis of modal optimism: his view that thi... read more

Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Interviews and Debates

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. His impact has been felt across many disciplines: sociology; cultural studies; art theory and politics. This volume presents a diverse selection of interviews, conversations and debates which relate to the five decades of his working life, both as a political militant, experimental phi... read more

Kierkegaard: Existence and Identity in a Post-Secular World

Alastair Hannay

In his perceptive and provocative new book, Alastair Hannay contests two prejudices that have dogged the appreciation of Soren Kierkegaard's writings. These are that to grasp their contemporary impact, the religious focus must be referred to his personal background, and that their varied voices mirror a fragmentation in his own relationship to self and society. It was for paying lip-service to... read more

Once Upon a Time Lord: The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who (Who Watching)

Ivan Phillips

'Every story ever told really happened...' (The Doctor, 'Hell Bent', 2015)Stories are, fundamentally what Doctor Who is all about. In Once Upon a Time Lord, Ivan Phillips explores a wide range of perspectives on these stories and presents a lively and richly-varied analysis of the accumulated tales that constitute this popular modern mythology. Concerned equally with 'classic' and 'new' Who, P... read more

Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)

Scandalous Times: Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy

Alex Ling

We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and ultimately our judgment. The transgressive nature of these scandals leads many to understand them in revelatory terms: as offering a tantalising glimpse of what really goes on, cutting through the multiple layers of artifice to reveal an underlying 'truth'. Others, however, contend ... read more

Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy

Simone Kotva

Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal of happiness bestowed with little effort. As such, the historical juxtaposition of effort and grace grounding modern spiritual exercise can be seen as the essential tension between the secular and... read more

The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice

Pierre Hadot

This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in some cases untranslated materials from one of the world's most prominent classical philosophers and historians of thought. As a passionate proponent of philosophy as a 'way of life' (most powerfully communicated in the life of Socrates), Pierre Hadot rejuvenated interest in the ... read more

Shakespeare / Sense: Contemporary Readings in Sensory Culture (Arden Shakespeare Intersections)

Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds and his stagecraft. 15 substantial new essays by leading Shakespeareans working in sensory studies and related disciplines interrogate every aspec... read more

The City in American Cinema: Film and Postindustrial Culture (International Library of the Moving Image)

Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb (Eds)

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s? And what role have films and film industries played in shaping and mediating the “postindustrial” city? This collection argues that cinema and cities have become increasingly intertwined in the era of neoliberalism, urban branding, and accelerated gentrification. Examining a wide range of... read more

Wonder Woman (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)

Joan Ormrod

Wonder Woman was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and beauty and her near eighty-year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes. In this book, Joan Ormrod analyses key moments in the superheroine's career and views them through the prism of the female body. This book explores how Wonder Woman's body has changed over the years as her mission has shifted fr... read more

Screen Acting Skills: A Practical Handbook for Students and Tutors

Roger Wooster, Paul Conway

Whether you are a young actor seeking to land your first screen role or a workshop leader looking for relevant exercises that won't involve vast technical support, this book belongs on your shelf. Many screen actors begin their careers lacking the appropriate pre-shoot preparation and knowledge of studio protocols. This book helps actors new to screen performance to be fully prepared artistica... read more

There's No Place Like Home: The Migrant Child in World Cinema

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from home. In There's No Place Like Home, distinguished film scholar Stephanie Hemelryk Donald offers a fresh interpretation of... read more

Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience

Vlad Petre Glaveanu

This book is dedicated to wonder and wondering, mundane phenomena that, despite their great value for education and other spheres of human experience, often go unnoticed both inside and outside the classroom. Praised as the origin of philosophy in ancient times, the concern for understanding and educating wonder has been present throughout history. It is not only the case that this basic psych... read more

The South China Sea Arbitration: Toward an International Legal Order in the Oceans

Yoshifumi Tanaka

Beyond the scope of the dispute settlement between the Philippines and China, the South China Sea arbitral award can be thought to significantly influence the development of international law and the law of the sea. Accordingly, this book seeks to examine the South China Sea arbitration from the perspective of the development of public international law and its limitations. Specifically it add... read more

A Free and Regulated Press: Defending Coercive Independent Press Regulation

Paul Wragg

This thought-provoking monograph provides a systematic, philosophically-grounded reconceptualisation of press freedom and press regulation. In a major departure from orthodox norms, the book argues that press freedom and coercive independent press regulation are not mutually exclusive; that newspapers could be made to compensate their victims, through regulation, without jeopardising their fre... read more

The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel's Les Ballets C de la B: Emotions, Gestures, Politics (Dance in Dialogue)

Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984. Since then it has become a company that enjoys great success at home and abroad. Over the years, Platel has developed a unique choreographic oeuvre. His motto, 'This dance is for the world and the world is for everyone', reveals a deep social and political commitment.Through the three topics of emotions, gestures and politics, this boo... read more

The Art of Living Well: Moral Experience and Virtue Ethics

Tongeren, Paul van, Heij, Thomas

Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes That Define Philosophy

Cox, Gary

Kierkegaard: Existence and Identity in a Post-Secular World

Hannay, Alastair