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An incisive, witty and comprehensive textbook that looks at the many genres of comedy from silent film onwards. Covering film, televison and radio it is not only up-to-date but also provides full historical context. It focuses on all of the key issues studied on university courses. -- .

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This book examines the complex relationship between style and ethics in the early modern period by focusing on Leonardo da Vinci's exemplary status in the narrative history of art. -- .

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Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa who use the arts in their university classroom teaching, their research and in service. -- .

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Explores the role of a widespread urban social movement in the revolutionary process that accompanied Portugal's transition from authoritarianism to democracy. -- .

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The first full-length study of British horror radio -- .

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Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its cultural and political context -- .

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Specialist researchers; academics in Cuban Studies/Latin American Studies/Cultural Studies; postgraduate students; undergraduate students (all years); enthusiasts. -- .

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Students and lecturers in English and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature -- .

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This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, which has remained for the most part stubbornly un-theorised and un-examined. The book aims to set a distinction between 'deep' and 'broad' contexts, arguing that we need to counter the prevalence of the latter if literary studies is to avoid becoming a minor branch of history. -- .

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Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in Victorian England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. The work also analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider comunities to extra-legal partnerships. -- .

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Students and lecturers in film studies -- .

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This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain. -- .

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A definitive examination of higher education in Ireland -- .

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Offers a unique and fascinating insight into how two of Europe's longest serving prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, sought to radically reshape the EU policy making process in the UK and Ireland in order to further their strategic policy agendas -- .

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This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general. -- .

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First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director. -- .

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Who said that the suburbs are boring The suburban trick is to look ordinary and be extraordinary, as Lynne Hapgood's absorbing discussion of the suburbs in fiction from 1880-1925 reveals. -- .

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Explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation, analysing the defiance of compulsory military service and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign. -- .

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Focusing on the cultural politics of eating and drinking and the importance of cafes and teashops to the literary culture of the time, Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London, Dublin, Paris and Prague. -- .

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In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change Material goods and moving hands combines material culture and visual culture approaches to explore

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An interdisciplinary study of 'medieval film' and its cultural functions -- .

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This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory. -- .

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This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. -- .

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This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies by focusing on the relationship between that authority and the development of the international economy through the twentieth century. -- .