Cultural Studies
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Directing: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention. Yet few books in this literatu...
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Directing: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €99.17Original price €113.99Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention. Yet few books in this literatu...
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The Thick Of It
James WaltersCurrent price €23.93Original price €27.50In the first dedicated title on this landmark political comedy, James Walters provides an in-depth study of the programme's achievements, by examin...
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The Thick Of It
James WaltersCurrent price €23.93Original price €27.50In the first dedicated title on this landmark political comedy, James Walters provides an in-depth study of the programme's achievements, by examin...
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State Formation in Afghanistan: A Theoretical and Political History
Mujib Rahman RahimiCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99The creation of Afghanistan in 1880, following the Second Anglo-Afghan War, gave an empowering voice to the Pashtun people, the largest ethnic grou...
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The Myth of Hero and Leander: The History and Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend
Silvia MontiglioCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hell...
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From Steam to Screen: Cinema, the Railways and Modernity
Rebecca HarrisonCurrent price €94.82Original price €108.99In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernit...
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Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and Society
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A Senior Moment: Cultural Mediations of Memory and Ageing
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and ...
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Food, Power, and Agency
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Grounded in the work of Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, this exciting book uses food as a lens to examine agenc...
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Food, Masculinities, and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Long-held associations between women, home, food, and cooking are beginning to unravel as, in a growing number of households, men are taking on foo...
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Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada
Bettina LiverantCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99The idea of Canada as a consumer society was largely absent before 1890 but familiar by the mid-1960s. This change required more than rising income...
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Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds
Susan FallsCurrent price €72.89Original price €80.99What our obsession with diamonds reveals about our material culture Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has ...
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Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture: Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and Television
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book exp...
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Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History
Professor Francis O'GormanCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis OGorman charts the emergence...
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Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual
Jacki WillsonCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically...
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Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics
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Cold War Culture: Intellectuals, the Media and the Practice of History
Jim SmythCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. It was the age of Keynesianism, of welfare state consensus, incipient co...
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Delft Blue to Denim Blue: Contemporary Dutch Fashion
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Contemporary fashion in the Netherlands shows a unique mix of playful individualism, conceptual strength, and organisational innovation. Delft Blue...
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Women, Health and the State in the Middle East: The Politics and Culture of Childbirth in Jordan
Irene MaffiCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99Current price €120.59Original price €133.99Save 10% -
Historicizing the Uses of the Past: Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness, and Didactics of History Related to World War II
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the pers...
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Historicizing the Uses of the Past: Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness, and Didactics of History Related to World War II
Transcript VerlagCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the pers...
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Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture
Christoph LindnerCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with glo...
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Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Dr Jakob Stougaard-NielsenCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the im...
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