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The Cinema of Robert Gardner

• Paperback | Engels
• The most artistic of ethnographic filmmakers, and the most ethnographic of artistic filmmakers, Robert Gardner is one of the most original, as well as... Lees meer

In the Wake of War

Antoine Prost

• Hardcover | Engels | Legacy of the Great War | nr. 3
• Translated from the French by Helen McPhail, this important study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served... Lees meer

Second-Hand Cultures

Louise Crewe, Nicky Gregson

• Paperback | Engels | Materializing Culture
• 'Antique', 'vintage', 'previously owned', 'gently used', 'cast-off -- the world of second hand encompasses as many attitudes as there are names for it... Lees meer

Appearance and Power

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Appearance has repeatedly been shown to have a potent and immediate effect on others in a wide range of circumstances. In particular, the consequences... Lees meer

Hitting the Jackpot

Pasi Falk, Pasi Maenpaa

• Hardcover | Engels
• What happens to a person when she or he wins an enormous amount of money? One widespread belief is that hitting the jackpot kick-starts a downward spi... Lees meer

Gramsci and the Anarchists

Carl Levy

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is the first work in English to deal comprehensively with Italian anarchism from the beginning of the century to the rise of fascism. It reconstr... Lees meer

Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport

Victoria Robinson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and cultu... Lees meer

Surrealism and Cinema

Michael Richardson

• Paperback | Engels
• Surrealism has long been recognised as having made a major contribution to film theory and practice, and many contemporary film-makers acknowledge its... Lees meer

Radicals Against Race

Brian Alleyne

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book interrogates the ideas and practices of the New Beacon Circle's activists as relatively stable elements in the fast-changing scene of contem... Lees meer

Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945

Lisa Pine

• Paperback | Engels
• Although the Third Reich has been extensively researched, there has been no thorough examination of Nazi policy towards the family. In tackling this i... Lees meer

Consuming Fashion

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture | nr. 4
• Clothing the body is one of the most complicated acts of daily existence. When a nun ponders red shoes, an architect knots his bowtie, a lesbian laces... Lees meer

The Clothed Body

Patrizia Calefato

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clot... Lees meer

Women, Business, and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe

• Paperback | Engels
• Looking at women, business and finance in the long nineteenth century, this book challenges our traditional understanding of 'separate spheres' - wher... Lees meer

Quilting

Marybeth C Stalp

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global phenomenon, internatio... Lees meer

A History of Visual Culture

• Paperback | Engels
• A History of Visual Culture is a history of ideas. The recent explosion of interest in visual culture suggests the phenomenon is very recent. But visu... Lees meer

Textile Futures

Bradley Quinn

• Hardcover | Engels
• Textiles connect a variety of practices and traditions, ranging from the refined couture garments of Parisian fashion to the high-tech filaments stron... Lees meer

Occupied Economies

Hein A M Klemann, Sergei Kudryashov

• Paperback | Engels | Occupation in Europe
• What were the consequences of the German occupation for the economy of occupied Europe? After Germany conquered major parts of the European continent,... Lees meer

Hollywood's American Tragedies

Mandy Merck

• Paperback | Engels
• Theodore Dreiser's dissection of the American dream, An American Tragedy, was hailed as the greatest novel of its generation. Now a classic of America... Lees meer

Inventing Van Eyck

Jenny Graham

• Hardcover | Engels
• Van Eyck is now seen as the artist who bridged the gap between the medieval and the modern. His story is the story of modern art - the turbulent clash... Lees meer

Doing Research in Design

Christopher Crouch, Jane Pearce

• Paperback | Engels
• Doing Research in Design presents new ways of thinking about the relationship between design and research by positioning design as a social as well as... Lees meer

Visual Culture and Tourism

• Hardcover | Engels
• From postcards and paintings to photography and film, tourism and visual culture have a long-standing history of mutual entanglement. For centuries ar... Lees meer

Living with Globalization

Paul Hopper

• Paperback | Engels
• The term 'globalization' generally refers to the homogenization of cultures across the world due to Western encroachment. However, as this book explai... Lees meer

A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Histories
• The Enlightenment was a time when people began to take stock of their intrinsic worth as individuals. Of course, slaves were still property, servants ... Lees meer

American Cinema of the 1950s

Murray Pomerance

• Paperback | Engels | Screen Decades S
• America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and ... Lees meer