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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Relations between the Arab world and Iran have rarely left the headlines in the last few years, and remain a vital component of international relations in the Middle East. From early disputes over border issues to the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, and from later antagonisms between Iran and Saudi Arabia...
Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition
Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body has meant that Islamic and Western art being perceived as inherently...
Dawn of a New Order
Geopolitics and the Clash of Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The most significant development in global politics following the end of the bi-polar Cold War era has been the rise of a multi-polar state system. This has led to the emergence of major potential super-powers, global rivalry, international terrorism and the gradual weakening of the one remaining...
by Jonathan Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
From a near-standing start in the 1970s, the emergence and expansion of an aesthetically and culturally distinctive Scottish cinema proved to be one of the most significant developments within late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century British film culture. Individual Scottish films and filmmakers...
The Myth of Hero and Leander
The History and Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across...
Ismaili and Other Arabic Manuscripts
A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2000
Ismaili and Other Arabic Manuscripts is a supplement to Adam Gacek's two-volume Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, published in London, 1984–1985. This new catalogue includes 189 Arabic manuscripts not listed earlier by Gacek or which have been acquired...
How to Look at Stained Glass
A Guide to the Church Windows of England
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The magical qualities of stained glass have an enduring appeal, but church windows tend to be ignored as a form of creative and artistic expression. How to Look at Stained Glass is a fresh, unstuffy guide, which explores the medium by themes, patterns, designs, and effects. Using an A-Z format to...
Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us? In the classics of science fiction cinema, humanity is nearly always represented by a male, and until recently, a white male.
Spanning landmark American films from Blade...
Naked Exhibitionism
Gendered Performance and Public Exposure
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
What does it mean to be naked in public? Approaching this question from across the disciplines, this book examines the evolution of female exhibitionism from criminal taboo to prime-time entertainment. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which brings together all fields of popular culture including...
Freedom and Vengeance on Film
Precarious Lives and the Politics of Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Films both reflect and construct social reality, especially in the way they employ, affirm and critique the discourses through which we grasp political life. This book examines five contemporary feature films that engage our deep attachments to two core political ideas- freedom and vengeance - asking:...
The Quest for Classical Greece
Early Modern Travel to the Greek World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
'Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were criss-crossed by adventurers, merchants, diplomats and men of the cloth. In particular, John Covel (1638-1722) - chaplain to the Levant Company in the 1670s, later Master of Christ's...
Geography and Vision
Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Vision and visual imagery have always played a central role in geographical understanding, and geographical description has traditionally sought to present its audience with rich and compelling visual images, be they the elaborate cosmographic images of seventeenth century Europe or the computer and...
Women and Violence in India
Gender, Oppression and the Politics of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and activism. In recent years, related studies on India and South Asia have proliferated but their analyses often fail to identify why violence flourishes. Unwilling to simply...
The Euro-Western
Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
The Western has always been inextricably linked to the USA, and studies have continually sought to connect its historical development to changes in American society and Hollywood innovations. Focusing new critical attention on films produced in Germany, Italy and Britain, this timely book offers a...