Manchester University Press imprint: 1048 books
Beginning film studies
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Beginning film studies offers the ideal introduction to this vibrant subject. Written accessibly and with verve, it ranges across the key topics and manifold approaches to film studies. Andrew Dix has thoroughly updated the first edition, and this new volume includes new case studies, overviews of...
Reframing health and health policy in Ireland
A governmental analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This edited collection is the first to apply the theoretical lens of post-Foucauldian governmentality to an analysis of health problems, practices, and policy in Ireland. Drawing on empirical examples related to childhood, obesity, mental health, smoking, ageing and others, the collection explores...
Reimagining North African immigration
Identities in flux in French literature, television, and film
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This volume takes the pulse of French post-coloniality by studying representations of trans-Mediterranean immigration to France in recent literature, television and film. The writers and filmmakers examined have found new ways to conceptualize the French heritage of immigration from North Africa and...
That devil's trick
Hypnotism and the Victorian popular imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
That devil’s trick is the first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of the subject. Drawing on the reports of mesmerists, hypnotists, quack doctors and serious physicians printed in popular newspapers from the early years...
by Ruth Barton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
An accessible, comprehensive overview of contemporary Irish cinema, this book is intended for use as a third-level textbook and is designed to appeal to academics in the areas of film studies and Irish studies. Responding to changes in the Irish production environment, it includes chapters on new...
by Sian Barber
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book is a hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources. It is aimed at those who want to use film and moving image as the basis for research and offers advice on research methods, theory and methodology, archival work and film-based analysis. It draws...
Mental health nursing
The working lives of paid carers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. It develops new research questions by drawing together a concern with exploring the class, gender, skills and working conditions of practitioners with an assessment of the...
Against the grain
The British far left from 1956
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century
The Blair identity
Leadership and foreign policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Why did Tony Blair take Britain to war with Iraq? This book argues that he was following the core political beliefs and style - the Blair identity - manifest and consistent throughout his decade in power. It reconstructs Blair's wars, tracing his personal influence on British foreign policy and international politics during his tumultuous tenure.
Fifty years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Fifty years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
A living instrument
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This is the very first edited collection on ICERD, the oldest of the UN human rights treaties. It provides a unique combination of members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and academic and other experts, to discuss the importance of the treaty on its fiftieth anniversary.
by Laura Chrisman
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Both polemical and scholarly, this text is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. Chrisman provides important paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism.
Rethinking equality
The challenge of equal citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Do contemporary theories of equality provide an adequate response to the inequalities that afflict contemporary societies? And what is the connection between theories of equality...
The politics of identity
Place, space and discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that deal with citizenship, security, migration, subjectivity, memory, exclusion and belonging, and space and place. It explores the political and social effects and possibilities of identity practices, discourses and policies.
Class, ethnicity and religion in the Bengali East End
A political history
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical analysis of the evolving relationship between progressive left politics and ethnic minorities, and an incisive critique of political multiculturalism....