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Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young peoples style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young peoples generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them in the history of 19601970s Italian society.

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By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .

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By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain. -- .

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A new edition of Jill Liddingtons classic work on Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries, which inspired Gentleman Jack

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Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organization, formed in 1900, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It sheds light on women's involvement in imperialism, and on the history of 'conservative' women's organizations. -- .

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This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loie Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. -- .

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This book provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England from c.1968-1995. It explores how feminist activists initially rejected Freud before using psychoanalysis to enhance their politics; examines the development of feminist therapy; and charts the influence of feminism on national mental health charities.

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The case-study outlines the inherent dangers in international mergers, as well as explaining the acute problems associated with City practices that avoided issues that would bring down Ferranti in spectacular fashion. -- .

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This book is about the most sweeping reform in the history of the French monarchy: the creation of assemblies at all levels of administration. The resistance of lords and office holders exposed their hereditary power over commoners, who sought to throw off their subordination when the crisis of the monarchy offered the opportunity in 1789.

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This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two decades of heightened political controversy. -- .

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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. -- .

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Fight back examines the different ways punk as a youth/subculture may provide space for political expression and action.

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Fight back examines the different ways punk as a youth/subculture may provide space for political expression and action.

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This landmark book reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands of fighters, including communists, Jews and POWs, joined networks across Europe, greatly affecting the course of the long Second World War.

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A new work that looks at the struggle against fascism in Britain between the wars, argues that the British left have been overlooked in studies of anti-fascism, and maintains that the Labour Party, the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a par with those of European socialists and communists.

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A new work that looks at the struggle against fascism in Britain between the wars, argues that the British left have been overlooked in studies of anti-fascism, and maintains that the Labour Party, the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a par with those of European socialists and communists.

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A work about Belfast in the middle of the nineteenth century. It looks at how and why Ireland's most prosperous and industrialized town began to tear itself apart. It tells that through a series of steadily escalating riots, working-class Protestants and Catholics forged a tradition of violence that profoundly shaped their own identities.

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This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and words in this discipline operate on different logical levels.

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This examination of the film editor's craft ranges from the beginning of cinema to the 21st century. Film editing, at its best when it goes unnoticed, is the least understood of the cinematic crafts. This book explains not only the "how" but also the "why" of this pivotal film making activity.

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A wide-ranging, informative, stimulating and inventive study of light - an essential element of cinema. -- .

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An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film. -- .

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An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film. -- .

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A collection of essays on the concept of film stardom, and the shifting definition of a 'star'. The collection ranges across contemporary stars such as Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, those from Hollywood's past like Clara Bow and Charlton Heston, and those from other arenas, such as Prince and Cynthia Rothrock. -- .

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A highly readable account of film theory and is an indispensable resource for students -- .