Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Alison Bancroft

• Paperback | International Library of Cultural Studies
• In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanal... Lees meer

Art and Trauma in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies | nr. 21
• The traumas of conflict and war in postcolonial Africa have been widely documented, but less well known are their artistic representations. A number o... Lees meer

"The Waltons"

Mike Chopra-Gant

• Hardcover | International Library of Cultural Studies
• Examines "The Waltons" drama series' deployment of key myths, and its vision of family as against TV depictions, featuring the likes of "The Addams", ... Lees meer

Narratives of Cyprus

Jim Bowman

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• Unease has marked relations between modern travel writers and the people of Cyprus. Visitors like Lawrence Durrell, Colin Thubron, Christopher Hitchen... Lees meer

Little Madnesses

• Hardcover | International Library of Cultural Studies
• 'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture. The term was coined by the child psycho... Lees meer

Poetics and Place

Kristen Kreider

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies | nr. 34
• How do artworks 'speak', and how do we 'listen' and respond? These questions underlie the investigation here of Roni Horn's Pair Object III: For Two R... Lees meer

Reporting Genocide

David Patrick

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. So argues David Patrick in this essential new con... Lees meer

The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman

Niall Richardson

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies | nr. 1
• Derek Jarman has been called the 'godfather' of the early 1990s cinematic movement now known as 'Queer Cinema'. 'Queer' rejects labels, challenges fix... Lees meer

Birth Control and the Rights of Women

Clare Debenham

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies | nr. 31
• After the granting of the vote to women in 1918, the struggle for women's rights intensified with a nationwide campaign for the right to birth control... Lees meer

Breaching Borders

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• As migration is described as a problem, mobility is seen as a goal. In a 'Europe without Borders', a place that prides itself on multiculturalism whil... Lees meer

The Female Body in the Looking-Glass

Basia Sliwinska

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• In his writing on the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan describes the female body as lacking: a mere symptom of man, an object... Lees meer

Orientalism Versus Occidentalism Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution

Laetitia Nanquette

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies | nr. 24
• At a time when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and whilst France is portrayed in the Ira... Lees meer

Art and Trauma in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• The traumas of conflict and war in postcolonial Africa have been widely documented, but less well-known are their artistic representations. A number o... Lees meer

The Female Body in the Looking-Glass

Basia Sliwinska

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• In his theory of the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan argued that the female body is defined by its lack of male attri... Lees meer

Indiewood, USA Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema

Geoff King

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies | nr. 2
• In this book, the author has published extensively on American cinema. It covers a range of well-known films and film-makers. This is the first book t... Lees meer

Little Madnesses

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• 'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture. The term was coined by the child psycho... Lees meer

Roots & Culture

Eddie Chambers

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognise... Lees meer

Abject Spaces in American Cinema

Frances Pheasant-Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies | nr. 18
• American cinema abounds with films set in prisons, asylums, hospitals and other institutions. Rather than orderly places of recovery and rehabilitatio... Lees meer

Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance

Somaya Sami Sabry

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies | nr. 19
• The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Oriental... Lees meer

Birth Control and the Rights of Women

Clare Debenham

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• After the granting of the vote to women in 1918, the struggle for women's rights intensified with a nationwide campaign for the right to birth control... Lees meer

Shi'i Islam in Iranian Cinema

Nacim Pak-Shiraz

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• In recent years there has been a remarkable surge in Iranian films expressing contentious issues which would otherwise be very difficult to discuss pu... Lees meer

Queering Buñuel

Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albill

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• As the father of cinematic Surrealism, extensive critical attention has been devoted to Luis Buñuel's cinema. Much has been written about his first Su... Lees meer

Terrorist Transgressions

Sue Malvern, Gabriel Koureas

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• Terrorism has a variety of contexts, histories and forms which have all been the focus of intense scrutiny in recent years, whilst cultural representa... Lees meer

Naked Exhibitionism

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Cultural Studies
• What does it mean to be naked in public? Approaching this question from across the disciplines, this book examines the evolution of female exhibitioni... Lees meer