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Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings by David Patrick Frisby 9780803986527
Booksplease Price: £74.82The German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858-1918) is recognized as a leading early twentieth-century European social theorist. This collection enables the reader to engage with the full... -
Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist: Narrative Ethics of the Bard and the Buffyverse by J. Douglas Rabb 9780786474400
Booksplease Price: £22.90Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence... -
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism by Mike Featherstone
Booksplease Price: £117.72The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes: a fully revised... -
The Affect Theory Reader 2: Worldings, Tensions, Futures by Gregory J. Seigworth 9781478020196
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what... -
Orientalism: A Reader by Alexander Lyon Macfie 9780814756645
Booksplease Price: £90.87In the period of decolonization that followed World War II, a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalismthe theory and practice of representing the "East"... -
Medievalism and Nationalism in German Opera: Euryanthe to Lohengrin by 9780367640163
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.04Medievalism, or the reception or interpretation of the Middle Ages, was a prominent aesthetic for German opera composers in the first half of the nineteenth century. A healthy competition to... -
A World without Wall Street? by Francois Morin 9780857420312
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £16.34As the aftershocks of the latest economic meltdown reverberate throughout the world, and people organize to physically occupy the major financial centers of the West, few experts and even fewer... -
This Strange Idea of the Beautiful by Francois Jullien 9781803090573
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.01An exploration of what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, Francois Jullien challenges the assumptions underlying... -
Macbeth: New Critical Essays Nick Moschovakis 9781138828452
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This volume offers a wealth of critical analysis, supported with ample historical and bibliographical information about one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular and globally influential plays... -
Orientalism: a Reader (PA): A Reader by Alexander Lyon Macfie 9780814756652
Booksplease Price: £31.32In the period of decolonization that followed World War II, a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalismthe theory and practice of representing the "East"... -
Surrealism and Film After 1945: Absolutely Modern Mysteries by Kristoffer Noheden 9781526149985
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £84.96This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period. The collection features eleven original contributions by... -
Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence by Rebecca A. Adelman 9781517907471
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering... -
Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence by Rebecca A. Adelman
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering... -
Energy Perspectives on Singapore and the Region by Mark Hong 9789812304100
Booksplease Price: £35.35This book published by ISEAS contains selected papers based on some of the lectures delivered over 2005/2006 at the ISEAS Energy Forum. The aim is to educate the public on a whole range of energy... -
Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity by Mike Featherstone
Booksplease Price: £119.86In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate... -
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism Georges Bataille 9781804296592
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an... -
The Affect Theory Reader 2: Worldings, Tensions, Futures by Gregory J. Seigworth 9781478024910
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.90Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what... -
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony Richard Allen 9780231135740
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £97.86Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen... -
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony by Richard Allen 9780231135757
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen... -
Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia by Alastair Bonnett 9780826430076
Booksplease Price: £30.87This title looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left. In "Left in the Past", Bonnett re-assesses the place of nostalgia... -
A New History of German Cinema by Jennifer M. Kapczynski 9781571135957
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.13A dynamic, event-centered exploration of the hundred-year history of German-language film. This dynamic, event-centered anthology offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of... -
Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966 by Andre Breton 9780872869394
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time."Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, Andre Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile...