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The Official World by Mark Seltzer
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's... -
The Official World by Mark Seltzer 9780822360865
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $152.69In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's... -
Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals) Mark Seltzer 9781138829527
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $96.45Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines, first published in 1992,... -
Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture by Mark Seltzer
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $81.46In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political... -
True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity Mark Seltzer (Cornell University) 9780415977944
Booksplease Price: $101.83True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at... -
Serial Killers in Contemporary Television: Familiar Monsters in Post-9/11 Culture Brett A B Robinson 9781032205175
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $87.09This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma by Colin Davis 9781032570358
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $98.26Literary trauma studies is a rapidly developing field which examines how literature deals with the personal and cultural aspects of trauma and engages with such historical and current phenomena as... -
The Imaginary and Its Worlds - American Studies after the Transnational Turn by Laura Bieger 9781611684070
Booksplease Price: $59.96The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the reproduction of the social, the imaginary... -
Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body by Paul A. Komesaroff 9780822316886
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Setting out the implications of the postmodern condition for medical ethics, Troubled Bodies challenges the contemporary paradigms of medical ethics and reconceptualizes the nature of the field... -
A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839-1945 by 9780820335216
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $67.24Literary critics have traditionally suggested that the invention of photography led to the rise of the realist novel, which is believed to imitate the detail and accuracy of the photographic image... -
Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that... -
Fear: An Alternative History of the World Robert Peckham 9781788167253
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei 'Brilliant' Simon Schama Fear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical change... -
Fear: An Alternative History of the World by Robert Peckham 9781788167239
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces... -
The Knockout by Andy Clarke 9780711294851
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $20.77'This book delivers the knockout.' -- Steve Bunce'The knockout is the ultimate way of victory. What Andy has captured in this book is everything great about it.'-- Tony Bellew, former WBC World... -
The Knockout: Sport's Most Decisive Moment Andy Clarke 9781836001591
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.98'This book delivers the knockout.' -- Steve Bunce'The knockout is the ultimate way of victory. What Andy has captured in this book is everything great about it.'-- Tony Bellew, former WBC World... -
Trinity, Trinity, Trinity Erika Kobayashi 9781662602108
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.76"Delicately weaves generations of women to the lasting wounds of nuclear destruction and the hubris of war. A unique and unforgettable novel." Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Woman of Light. A... -
A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought by Stephen Kern 9780691127682
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.77This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing...