Manchester University Press: 1049 books
The life of mise-en-scène
Visual style and British film criticism, 1946–78
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the postwar period
A table for one
A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. Drawing on a wide range of cultural resources - including web columns, blogs, advice columns, popular clichés, advertisements and references from television...
Games are not
The difficult and definitive guide to what video games are
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In Game are not, David Myers demonstrates that current controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of videogames are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's unique and paradoxical aesthetic form: a form critical to human creativity, knowledge, and sustenance of the species.
The TransAtlantic reconsidered
The Atlantic world in crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Is the Atlantic World in a state of crisis? At a time when many political observers perceive indeed a crisis in transatlantic relations, critical evaluation of past narratives and frameworks in Transatlantic Relations and Atlantic History alike become crucial. This volume provides an academic foundation...
Human remains in society
Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Human remains and society presents a groundbreaking account of the treatment and commemoration of dead bodies resulting from incidents of genocide and mass violence. Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publically displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social,...
The power of vulnerability
Mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This book investigates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and antiracist debates on media, taking a particular interest in the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language. Contributors such as Jack Halberstam and Sara Ahmed examine how...
Literary visions of multicultural Ireland
The immigrant in contemporary Irish literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The first full-length monograph to address the impact that Celtic-Tiger immigration has exerted on the poetry, drama and fiction of contemporary Irish writers
The extended self
Architecture, memes and minds
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In this wide-ranging study of architecture and cultural evolution, the author argues that underlying the global environmental crisis is a general resistance to changing personal and social identities shaped by a technology-based culture and its energy-hungry products. The book traces the roots of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
A sustained and systematic attempt to draw together political and historical scholarship on the Sunningdale experiment and the Ulster Workers' Council strike (1973-4) in Northern Ireland, revisiting the period to explore its lessons and echoes today.
Pulp fictions of medieval England
Essays in popular romance
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England.
Dancing in the English style
Consumption, Americanisation and national identity in Britain, 1918–50
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses in particular on the relationship between dancing and national identity construction, in a period when Britain participated in increasingly global markets of popular cultural production, consumption, and exchange.
Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’
Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period.
Civilians into soldiers
War, the body and British Army recruits, 1939–45
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
An examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War
A history of the case study
Sexology, psychoanalysis, literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of...