Ann Kaplan takes four films from different decades and analyses the traditional ways in which women have been represented in the cinema, pointing out the recurring patterns within patriarchal images that serve to objectify and degrade. more »

'An important resource for anyone interested in drug history and politics, and an indispensable one for those who would understand cocaine in a global context.' - David Courtwright, University of No... more » more »

... of post-Roman English society. After a general survey of the main developments from the fourth century to the eleventh, the book offers analysis of: * social organization * the changing character of kingship, of royal government and the influence of the church * the history of settlement * the making ... more »

A practical handbook for the parents of autistic children and professionals involved in their education, which dispels the myths associated with this condition and provides relevant, up-to-date information that makes sense. more »

Explores the breadth of British sci-fi films through readings of key films, examining the factors that shaped them, and the concerns they reflect, through the postwar boom years to the more sporadic production of recent times. more »

Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians, confined by the forms of argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past more »

This brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences and, in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is not naively populist. more »

... east and west, which still exist in post-unification Germany. Dividing and Uniting Germany covers all important aspects of the subject including: * the role of the allies in the post-war division of the country * the integration of West and East Germany into their respective blocs * the problems of ... more »

Higgs presents a history of gay space in cities from early modern times to the present. Providing an interdisciplinary analysis of extensive source material - diaries, poems, legal accounts and journalism, he explores the reality of gay space. more »

Ang's ethnographic perspective on the television audience gives new insights into our television culture, with the audience seen not as an object to be controlled, but as an active social subject. more » more »

This book gathers together for the first time J.S. Mill's On Liberty and a selection of important essays by the eminent scholars Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees C.L. Ten and Richard Wollheim on Mill's seminal work. more »

A collection of sixteen autobiographical essays by Africans in America, Afro-Caribbean and bi-racial college students, which explore the process of self-discovery and realization of cultural identity. They are accompanied by commentary from prominent African-American scholars Jewelle Taylor Gibbs and ... more »