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Cultural Studies

Hunting the Dark Night

Publishing alongside the world premiere of Christopher Nolan's third Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, Will Brooker's new book explores Batman's twenty-first century incarnations.

Innovative, unflinching and pertinent, Naked Exhibitionism explores naked bodies in the public gaze and critically reformulates the feminist and cultural debate around the performance of gender.

Written for all those who are interested in Tolkien's work, and of course for all those interested in hobbits, this is the first book to focus on the changes made to the hobbits' characters not only by Tolkien but also by other artists - actors, writers, directors, lyricists and choreographers.

Festival of Britian

With A Foreword by Mary Banham. The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. The book explores exhibitions in Poplar, Battersea and South Kensington in London; Belfast, Glasgow and Wales; a touring show carried on four lorries and another aboard an ex-aircraft carrier.

Creatures of the Night In Search of Ghosts Vampires Werewolves and Demons Cover

Why is our culture obsessed by the eerie and the macabre? Why, despite its horrors, does the 'dark side' of the supernatural - its seances and ghost-hunting, demonic possession and the occult - call to us with such dangerous allure? This title offers an exploration of a secret and secretive subculture.

Arab Cultural Studies Mapping the Field Cover

Reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history, epistemology, language, method, politics, literary and cultural criticism, institutionalization, popular culture, creativity and much more.

Cultural Encounters in the Arab World On Media the Modern and the Everyday Cover

Bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life, this title offers fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world.

Inkstained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors Superwomen in Modern Mythology Cover

From Wonder Woman to Buffy Summers, "Charlie's Angels" to "The Powerpuff Girls", Superwomen are more than just sidekicks who stand by their Supermen. Featuring spies and sexuality, daddy's girls and super-mothers, this is a guide to female detectives, meta-humans and action heroines, as well as their creators, directors, performers, and consumers.

Gertrude and Alice Cover

Gertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on Sunday 8 September 1907, in Paris. From that day on they were together, until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. This title presents story of their remarkable life together, of the paths that led them to each other, and of Alice's years of widowhood after Gertrude had died.

Lorca Bunuel Dali Forbidden Pleasures and Connected Lives Cover

Lorca, Bunuel and Dali were, in their respective fields of poetry and theatre, cinema, and painting; their impact was felt far beyond the boundaries of their native Spain. But if individually they have been examined by many, their connected lives have rarely been considered. This work focuses on the ties that bind them.