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Mermaids
Women with fish tails are among the oldest and most popular of mythological creatures. This book presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centu...
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The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings
For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel world of the ‘social supernatural’. The social supernatural realm mirrored and interacted with our own, causing disasters and providing fertility. Bringing together eighteen experts, this book explores how diverse cultures across Europe envisioned t...
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The Boggart
The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Using long-forgotten sources as well as social media surveys and personal interviews, this ground-breaking book reveals that almost everything we thought we knew about the boggart is wrong.
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Fairy Encounters in Medieval England
Strange tales from many medieval genres prove that experience, not fiction, underlay fairy beliefs. Supernatural beings took on similar forms whether they were supposed to be ghosts or goblins, saints or demons. First-person oral testimony is backed up by place-names which show how wells, pools a...
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Virginia Woolf & Cornwall
This book explores Virginia Woolf’s lifelong relationship with Cornwall, from her childhood holidays in St Ives to periodic visits as an adult. The county offered Woolf an alternative to metropolitan Bloomsbury, a haven and a respite from illness, and became a source of much of her literary work.
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Detectorists
This book explores the affectionate portrayal of amateur archaeology in the comedy Detectorists, placing the show within a febrile climate shaped by Brexit and evolving masculinities. Drawing on philosophy, history, TV studies, and cultural analysis, it explains how the series celebrates a deep c...
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Sensing and Resisting Environmental Crises Through Visual Culture
This book explicates the role of the senses in perceiving and dealing with urgent environmental concerns. Chapters thoroughly investigate the aesthetics of the ongoing crises through different vectors, emphasizing the role of the senses in recognizing environmental harm and in the work to reduce it.
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TV-Philosophy
The first book to explore the hold of the TV series on ordinary life from a philosophical and ethical perspective.
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TV-Philosophy in Action
This book gives Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to selected TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times.
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Decoding the Movies
This book “decodes” 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved as they did. Representing the summation of Richard Maltby’s four decades of scholarship in the field, it uses a series of case studies to demonstrate how an appreciation of these movies is enhanced by examining th...
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The Green Children of Woolpit
This book introduces the story of the ‘Green Children’ and how it has been interpreted, retold, and reworked. Analysing the two accounts, and offering fresh translations from the Latin originals, it considers what the historians tell us happened, and then the children’s own story of their homeland.
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Cinema on the Front Line
Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how British soldiers engaged with and were engaged by the medium of cinema during World War I. Utilizing extensive archival records and soldier testimony, the book offers a unique perspective on the cultural value and...
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The Cornish Overseas
The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic, told here by one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people. Accessible narrative includes the US, Canada, Australia, and S Africa. Fully revised and updated with almost two decades of additio...
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Gulf Women’s Lives
This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women’s narratives offers critical perspectives on how Gulf women construct themselves as gendered selves and authors, how they exist in public and private spaces, and how voice and agen...
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Eating Disorders in Public Discourse
Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This book uncovers compelling insights on the intersection of language, discourse and mental health.
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The Screen Censorship Companion
This companion gives an exhaustive overview of how screen censorship touches our lives, from historical studies to today’s intrusions into how screen content is controlled, made available, or taken away. The cases studies range from the forbidden over politically ‘subversive’ materials, to plain ...
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Madness and Literature
This book engages with literature’s multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature that depicts issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder and PTSD from multiple theor...
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Picturegoers
This book shows the impact of cinema on individuals across the globe, from the 1890s to the present day. It analyses and celebrates the audience’s point of view, shaped by time, experience and place, providing a rich, entertaining portrait of a medium that became so transformative because anyone,...
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1948
1948 offers an answer to the question, what would George Orwell have written after 1984, had he lived? It quotes, parodies, and pastiches Orwell’s Diaries of the period just before his death, and offers the reader a prequel to 1984 that explores the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwe...
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Paganism Persisting
Paganism Persisting is a history of revivals of pagan religion in Europe from late antiquity to the 20th century. It explores the motives, beliefs and circumstances behind a series of attempted revivals in antiquity, the Byzantine empire, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Victorian era, and...
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Film, Cinema, Genre
This Reader brings together for the first time key works by Steve Neale, one of the founding figures of UK film studies. It includes selections of his influential writing on genre, together with other critical work encompassing film analysis, representation, cinema history, technology, and the fi...
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The Dhofar War
Between 1965 and 1975, Britain discreetly supported the Sultanate of Oman in achieving a historic Cold War-era counterinsurgency win in its remote Dhofar Province. This book posits that UK military and non-martial assistance to Oman was the primary war-winning factor.
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Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe
With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts, and impacts of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe.
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Forging Tomorrow’s Military
Forging Tomorrow’s Military explores how the Second World War changed the U.S. military. It shows how frontline officers innovated and how those lessons were retained or forgotten during the Cold War. Ultimately, the book offers timely insight into military learning for future conflicts.
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The Banshee
Explores the social contexts and functions of belief surrounding this legendary herald of death. The new edition of this book unravels attitudes towards life and death, drawing on a large body of written and oral sources, including literary accounts from the Old Irish period to contemporary times...
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Sensory Aesthetics of the More-than-Human in Crisis
This book urges readers to recognize that the more-than-human is in crisis and offers a framework for sensory environmental sustainability, bringing new perspectives from related disciplines. It also searches for ways to evoke pro-environmental behaviors via the senses, foregrounding the intercon...
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Onward with Stanley Cavell
International scholars explore the enduring legacy of philosopher Stanley Cavell by engaging with his posthumous volume, Here and There: Sites of Philosophy (2022). The contributors chart connections to the rest of Cavell’s work, offering an essential guide to his impact on the arts and humanitie...
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Waste and the Hygienic Imagination
This book considers how twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature uses a hygienic imagination, centering on waste and bathroom spaces, to address cultural, national, and ethical concerns. It argues that literary texts help to develop and to dismantle an idea of hygiene tied to moral...
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Tourism and the First World War in Britain
This book explores how state attempts to regulate holiday travel in Britain during the Great War worked only to a limited extent. Based on extensive data sources, it highlights the resilience of society and the tourism economy during the First World War, challenging the notion that stability and ...
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The Phantom Hitchhiker
A cultural history of the phantom hitchhiker motif across oral tradition, literature, and modern media. Centred on twentieth-century Italy and shaped by a distinctive dialogue with Japanese ghostlore, the book explores how this enduring tale reflects shifting cultural imaginaries.
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The Geology of Cornwall
The geology of Cornwall has been the subject of continuing investigation since the end of the seventeenth century. A literature of great historical interest exists, and this is analysed in this book alongside a wide-ranging review of the current position and assessments of the environmental conse...
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Parallel Tracks
This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture.
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Theatre Workshop
Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the el...
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La Vie de Saint Alexis
This is the first critical edition of a neglected version of the Life of Saint Alexis found in a late twelfth century manuscript written in England containing several other saints’ lives, and now, after many adventures, in the Bibliothèque nationale.
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West Britons
West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book also includes transcriptions of a number of previously unpublished documents, and a list of some 300 C...
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'Film Europe' and 'Film America'
A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of the American film industry to these plans to rival its hegemony.
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William Morris and John Ruskin
Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects include promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, division of labour, education, environment, art and architecture and the contrasts between Ruskin’s (1819-1900) Tory pat...
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God's Exiles and English Verse
This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts, seen as devout yet cosmopolitan expressio...
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Loyalty And Locality
This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War, in particular the way in which regions and cities allied themselves with either side and the social and cultural roots of this choice.
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The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 3
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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The Folklore of Devon
Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before drawn together into one serious study. This book consolidates more than a century of research by eminent Devon folklorists into one valuable volume.
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Green Screen
This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'green...
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Exeter's University
Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the history of the institution and its community. Includes interviews with leading university figures, contributions from former students, and a postscript look...
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Streetology
Streetology overturns traditional studies on working-class neighbourhoods. Based on ethnographic research guided by the author's experience as an activist, the book offers a new approach to street culture that highlights its political aspirations. It analyses phenomena such as riots, political pa...
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World War Two Simulated
This book examines how World War Two is simulated through serious computer games. It argues that a particular dynamic emerges in such ‘simgames’, especially when curious players begin to look beyond gameplay for how to understand the past.
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Nonhuman Cinema
This book proposes a radical new nonhuman cinema: it examines how cinema challenges human superiority and the anthropocentric gaze while opening up new sensory, ethical, and material encounters between human and nonhuman, including the cinematic apparatus itself. It raises key ethical questions a...
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Reactions to Social and Economic Change 1750-1939
The middle of the eighteenth century up to the Second World War was a period of dramatic and rapid social and economic change in Britain. This volume collects five papers.
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Screening Europe in Australasia
This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s.
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Reading the Cinematograph
The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.
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Picturing Cornwall
This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s portrayal on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Innovative new research looking at amateur film and newsreels, avant-garde and documentary works alongside mainstream popula...
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Beunans Meriasek - The Life of St Meriasek
Beunans Meriasek—the Life of St Meriasek—is one of only two surviving early saints plays in Britain. Written in Cornish, about a Breton saint, and found in Welsh library, it offers unique insights in drama, language, and religious and cultural history. This new critical edition has a full introdu...
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Celluloid War Memorials
British Instructional Films was at the centre of a number of issues important to Britain and the Empire in the 1920s: the memory and history of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature...
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Eighteenth-Century Brechtians
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians is a collection of essays by a well-known author on comic and radical political theatre. It looks at stage satires by John Gay, Henry Fielding, George Farquhar, Charlotte Charke, David Garrick and their contemporaries through the lens of Brecht’s theory and practic...
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The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore
The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore is the first multi-author study of changelings and the first to centre on West Eurasia and the Mediterranean. Challenging orthodoxy, it shows that changelings are largely restricted to this area and that our changeling records are older than has been apprec...
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The University of Exeter
This 1982 book by Brian Clapp records the development of the University from its beginnings in the School of Art founded in 1855, through the Royal Albert Memorial College and the University College of the South West. He draws lively portraits of two Principals of the University College - Hector...
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Book of Devotions/Libro de Devociones y Oficios
The first edition of the devotionary composed by Constanza de Castilla. Comprising a variety of prayers and liturgical offices in Spanish and Latin, the book provides evidence of the beliefs, experience, and expression of religious women in Spain of the later Middle Ages.
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An American in Victorian Cambridge
A richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.
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Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language
This timely book focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations.
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Faction and Faith
In this book, Anne Duffin draws upon new source material, combining national documents and local family collections with an analysis of churchwardens' accounts, borough records and over 350 wills. She challenges the view that Cornwall was naturally royalist and presents a picture of a politically...
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Bill Douglas
This book uses new source material to reappraise the work of Bill Douglas – one of Britain’s most significant and singular filmmakers. Douglas’s poetic and moving films continue to inspire filmmakers today but his struggles within the film industry raise questions as to whether it is possible to...
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William Morris’s Socialism and Politics
A selection of key articles published over 40 years by the Journal of William Morris Studies on Morris’s politics and socialism. It makes available fine scholarship from the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, showing both the breadth and depth of William Morris’s achievements as a creative and pio...
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Music and Musicians in Early Nineteenth-Century Cornwall
Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held captive aboard ship during the French wars of the 1790s before being abandoned in Falmouth, the story of Joseph Emidy deserves telling in its own right. Emidy became a prominent figure in the musical scene in...
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The Big Show
The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the War, and contends that the War’s significant effect was to expedite the cultural acceptance of...
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Mining in a Medieval Landscape
This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.
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Making Theatre in Northern Ireland
This book examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern Ireland since 1969. It explores key theatrical performances which deal directly with this context. The book is aimed at a student readership: it is largely play-text-based, and it conta...
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The Appreciation of Film
This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film exhibition and challenges the general assumption that the study of film began with university courses on ‘...
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Vaccination Wars
This is the history of the grassroots anti-vaccination movement in nineteenth-century Cornwall. The book examines the lives of those who publicly opposed the procedure, the earliest phases of vaccine objection, the rise of middle class resistance and opposition societies, and the influence of pro...
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Piers Plowman
The earliest version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century poet inventing the forms that his life’s work will take. This is the first critically considered edition of the A -text supported by an introduction, side glosses, and on-page ex...
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Poetics of the Pretext
Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautréamont (1846-1870). It analyses closely the texts, pretexts and intertexts of this innovative poet.
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John Betjeman and Cornwall
Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a ‘foreigner’. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of ‘Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Ang...
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Teaching Religion (New Updated Edition)
TEACHING RELIGION is the first book to trace the developments in religious education in England and Wales in the half century to 1994. It starts with the 1944 Butler Act and ends with the DFE Circular of 1994 which was issued to take further the RE provision in the 1988 Education Reform Act.
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Soledades
This edition of Antonio Machado’s work offers a complete revision of the interpretations advanced by critics on the first version of Soledades (1903). Based on Machado’s original edition it will be the only reliable text on the market of this work, the very embodiment of Spanish modernism.
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Introducing Roman Declamation
A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano presents an original way of looking at aspects of major relevance to Roman culture of the imperial period.
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Cornish Mines
This is the seventh volume in a series of The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913 and completes coverage of the South West of England. Cornwall was the greatest mining district in the country during this period, and this book shows the industry at its peak and through the first yea...
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Going to the Movies
This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South ...
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Forms of Conflict
This is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the ‘new wars’ of the global era.
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