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The process of globalization has had an impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. This text explores the experiences of women in diverse local contexts within different cultures and faiths, drawing on case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Places Trollope's work in the wider context of nineteenth century culture - an area of growing interest in literary studies - and combines three aspects, the Victorian novel, media history and gender issues. By applying feminist criticism the book challenges the traditional view of Trollope as a conservative.
In the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES series,a cross-national analysis of the changing identities of various national and ethnic groups.It features case studies of contemporary Eastern European national identities and ethnic minorities looking at their new political influence and efforts to revive suppressed cultures.
This text introduces modernity, postmodernism and postmodernity through a series of debates between prominent thinkers in literary theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It explores this topic through thinkers who are at odds, considering the wider implications of postmodern thought.
War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. This text explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time.
Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of the grotesque body to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the translinguistic critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.
This book introduces historical and contemporary philosophical reflections on love. It brings together philosophy with cultural analysis to provide an accessible and engaging account of conventional theories of love as well as the controversial reformulations evident in same-sex desire, cross-cultural love and internet romance.
Contemporary American Fiction introduces the work of a range of American authors, all of whom can be said to engage with postmodernism.
Paul Wells looks at animation in the United States afresh, discussing the distinctiveness of the cartoon form, and the myriad others types of animation production, insisting upon the 'modernity' of the form, and its crucial importance as a barometer of the social conditions in which it was made, and which it reflects.
This book explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. Its distinguishing feature is the focus on the close connections between history, theory and textual criticism.
In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of 'Victoriana' from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction, film, biography and literary studies.
Visions of the City is a dramatic account of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes.
This volume examines the phenomenon of laddishness and the cult of the girlie in film, TV, advertising, music, politics, literature and society. It interprets these trends as a nostalgic longing for a pre-feminist society.
This work asks, How do culturally determined political conflicts arise? , and suggests that most religions share core values, and that difference only leads to intolerance and violence when politically ambitious leaderships exploit it.