This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and presen..
This book explores sexualities and sexual experiences in a variety of rural and marginal spaces, with contributions from a wide range of disciplines...
This edited collection brings together international scholars and filmmakers with research expertise across a range of non-Western film cultures, but who have one shared aim: to challenge and offer alternatives to Eurocentric theoretical, historical perspectives in film studies...
This edited collection brings together international scholars and filmmakers with research expertise across a range of non-Western film cultures, but who have one shared aim: to challenge and offer alternatives to Eurocentric theoretical, historical perspectives in film studies...
The book as a whole follows a double thread: offering a series of critical-theoretical commentaries on geopolitical events from the Kosovan conflict to the Iraq war, combined with a sustained analysis of the political thought of Jacques Derrida as it appears in his writing since Specters of Marx...
The book as a whole follows a double thread: offering a series of critical-theoretical commentaries on geopolitical events from the Kosovan conflict to the Iraq war, combined with a sustained analysis of the political thought of Jacques Derrida as it appears in his writing since Specters of Marx...
This is the first comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetics. It includes contributions from many of the writers at the forefront of contemporary debate, including Raymond Williams, Roger Scruton and Tony Bennett...
In examining the visual culture of the "classic" African and Jewish diasporas, contributors address different aspects of the multiple viewpoints inherent in diasporic cultures...
Diets and dieting have concerned--and sometimes obsessed--human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmon..
In this major book, renowned art historian Griselda Pollock makes a compelling intervention into a debate at the very centre of feminist art history: should the traditional canon of the Old Masters be rejected, replaced or reformed?..