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This study examines three long documentaries from Europe, each tracing the lives of individuals or groups as they mature from childhood to adulthood. It explores the reasons why long documentaries are so popular with television and cinema audiences, as well as addressing some of the issues faced by the documentary makers in producing them.

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This is the first detailed study of the rich vein of mockumentary television programmes, covering series such as The Larry Sanders Show, The Daily Show, and the British and American versions of The Office to discuss how producers have experimented with mockumentary as a distinctive approach to storytelling. -- .

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This book is the most sustained and comprehensive examination to date of one of cinemas most challenging and lauded auteur. It proposes new ways of seeing Gilliam and his films that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. It analyses Gilliams work over nearly four decades, from Monty Python, to Brazil and Tideland.

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This instructive study examines how a transnational discourse on 'modern' social policy - based the guiding principles of 'activation' and an 'activating welfare state' - intervenes in the concepts and practices of citizenship. -- .

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As the world marvelled at a black family moving into the White House, arguments raged over whether America's race relations had truly been transformed. This book looks at the hard facts of life for minorities on both side of the Atlantic, providing an illuminating comparative picture of diversity. -- .

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The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation. -- .

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Thinking through original empirical research, this book explores the relations between girls' bodies and images from a Deleuzian perspective. Holding in suspension models of cause-and-effect and of subject(ivity)/object(ivity) it asks, what do images make possible for the becoming of bodies -- .

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A book in English on Beethoven's songs. It provides full texts and parallel translations, making these songs accessible to English-speaking performers, enthusiasts and scholars. It refers to contemporary contexts in the discussion of words and music, enabling readers to understand the historical background from which these works arose.

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This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power. -- .

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The changes and divisions on the British Left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study. -- .

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This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. Taylor presenting a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films. -- .

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This book is designed as both a framework text - setting out concepts by which to understand the British question - and a synthetic text - providing a digest of significant academic work on historical, conceptual and political matters relevant to that question. -- .

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This book considers the White House's approach towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity, and same-sex marriage. It not only offers an account of policy-making but assesses the role of the Christian right, evaluates the political significance of moral concerns, and throws new light on George W. Bush's years in office. -- .

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Examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime.

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The first book in English about lex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protg of Pedro Almodvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesias cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde strategies with forms such as comedy and horror.

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A comprehensive study of the relationship between the Conservative party and the far-right in Britain from 1945 to 1975. -- .

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This book is an intellectual biography of EP Thompson, as well as an exercise in the sociology of knowledge: as such, it considers not just Thompson's ideas and arguments, but also the question of why he adopted those ideas, and made those arguments. -- .

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The first comprehensive account of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in Ireland -- .

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Looks at when, why and how Spain declined in status from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century, examining the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse and how historians' perceptions have been influenced by time and circumstance. -- .

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Examines the rise of the British empire and the various debates among historians of imperialism over the past two hundred years. It discusses why the empire is so attractive to historians, why there is so much debate and controversy surrounding the subject. -- .

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Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier, Looking for Bosnia is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of responding to extreme political violence in the context of the Bosnian war. -- .

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This book deals with the scope and nature of the EU's external influence over South-Eastern Europe in the present enlargement. Theory-oriented and comparative, the book provides rich insight into the dynamics of the current enlargement and offers comprehensive analysis of the EU's external leverage in justice and home affairs. -- .

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Looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years -- .