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Carme
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 77.00Since Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet (with his librettists Meilhac and Halévy) brought the figure of the Spanish Carmen to prominence in the nineteenth century an astonishing eighty or so film versions of the story have been made. This collection of essays gathers together a unique body of scholarly critique focused on that Carmen... more...
The Zombie Handbook
Ulysses Press 2010; US$ 16.95? The Zombie Handbook is a must-have for anyone who wants to make it home alive.? ?Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero A few years ago, building an acid pit and stocking skull-splitting machetes would have been seen as an overreaction to the zombie threat. No longer! To survive the coming zombie apocalypse?and it is coming?you need to know... more...
Philosophers and Thespians
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 22.95This book investigates the discursive practices of philosophy and theater/performance on the basis of actual encounters between representatives of these two fields. more...
The Restoration Newspaper and its Development
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 34.00A major survey of the English newspaper and the way it developed from 1660 to the early eighteenth century. more...
A Different Direction
Hillcrest Media Group, Inc. 2010; US$ 7.50The living theatre is potentially the most affecting of all the arts. It not only explores who we are and where we are going, but how we are connected. As we are inundated with other versions of mass media, we have nearly forgotten how important that connection is. We cannot afford to lose the power of this art at this time in our history. more...
Useful Fictions
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 40.00We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling.... more...
Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 41.00Explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of film and cultural studies. more...
Literary Journals in Imperial Russia
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 26.00Originally published in 1998, this was the first volume to examine the extraordinary history of literary journals in imperial Russia. more...
Post Cinematic Affect
John Hunt Publishing 2010; US$ 9.99Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of... more...
Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on métissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism. Hybridity is examined in the light of globalization, indicating how postcolonial discourse could become a counter-hegemonic ethics of resistance to global neoliberal doxa. more...









