The cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood film

The cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood filmUsing an innovative syncretic cultural politics approach drawing on political theory, film studies and sociology, this book unpacks how political myths about states, citizens, community, intimate life and social criticism operate in Hollywood narratives.

Focuses on imperial display throughout the city

This collection examines ghostly presences (and absences) in both classic and lesser-known Gothic texts from the beginning of the genre to the present in a global context

the work argues that it is now appropriate for feminists to develop new ways of reading the divine in women’s writing

interest and work in the application of artificial intelligence to education has grown rapidly

but also political

Lusophone Studies and Musicology

Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character

This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England

including writers on modernity and the modern city

a hundred years later

immigration debates and racial prejudice in theory and practice

millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones