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This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Examines the influence of film noir on visual narrative and technique in global cinematic traditions. This book suggests that the film noir style continues to appeal on such a global scale because no other cinematic form has merged style and genre to effect a vision of the disturbing consequences of modernity.

This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.

Compares trust and patrimony laws in England, Scotland, Quebec and the Netherlands. This volume explores the multiple ways in which the private law concepts of trust and patrimony interact in various jurisdictions, with a view to advancing the understanding of the trust as a fundamental legal concept. It features papers written by law scholars.

Drawing on a range of contributors, case studies and examples, this book examines ways in which we can think about design through Deleuze, and likewise how Deleuze's thought can be experimented upon and re designed to produce new concepts. It uses Deleuze and Guattari to provide a theoretical framework to address the theory and practice of design.

Drawing on a range of contributors, case studies and examples, this book examines how we can think about design through Deleuze, and how Deleuze's thought can be re-designed to produce new concepts. It taps into the emerging networks between philosophy as an act of inventing concepts and design as the process of inventing the world.

Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears, with consideration given to visual, performative and musical arts, as well as to written records.

Offers a collection of 16 essays on Rome Season Two. This book explores the second season of this critically acclaimed and commercially successful drama. It engages with the authenticity of the production and considers its place in the tradition of epic films and television series set in ancient Rome.

Includes chapters through which the scholars explore the party both as a literary device and as a forum for developing modernist creative values, opening up new perspectives on materiality, the everyday and concepts of space, place and time. This book addresses gender and sexuality, race, genre, class, sociality and privacy.

'The cast of authors assembled here is of an exceptionally high quality, and the range of topics and approaches is very well judged. It seems reasonable now to start speaking about the "new short story studies". This book is at the forefront of that movement, and is likely to remain so for some time.' Adrian Hunter, University of Stirling Foreword by Ali Smith New critical essays on modern British women short story writers What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers, and what this can tell us about the society and culture they inhabit. From the rise of the modern printing press at the end of the nineteenth century through to the present digital age, these essays examine how the short story has been deployed and reworked by women writers and how they have influenced and shaped the genre's development. Considering the effect of literary inheritances, societal and cultural change, and shifting publishing demands, this collection traces the evolution of the genre through to its continued appeal to women writing today. From the New Woman to contemporary feminisms, women's anthologies to microfiction, modernist writers to the contemporary works of Ali Smith and Helen Simpson, the chapters in this collection investigate a crucial yet under-examined field of British literature. Key Features - 11 new chapters which discuss a range of gender and genre issues from the fin-de-siècle to the present day, together with an Introduction by the editors and a Postscript by Clare Hanson - Provides the background to the genre's development giving readers a unique insight into a largely neglected aspect of women's writing - Includes new readings of women authors such as 'George Egerton', E. Nesbit, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Angela Carter, Michèle Roberts, Helen Simpson, Tessa Hadley and Holly Howitt-Dring - Uses recent critical approaches to explore themes such as haunting and trauma, class and feminist politics, and women's experimentation with form James Bailey is researching and writing on Muriel Spark at the University of Sheffield. Emma Young is a Learning Development Tutor at Bishop Grosseteste University. Cover design: Richard Budd [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

An exploration of some of Deleuze's key concepts and an introduction to Deleuze's Cinema books. It takes up Deleuze's idea that the true objects of the theory of cinema are the concepts that cinema generates when understood as a practice of images.

When it was published in 2011, Law Making and the Scottish Parliament offered the first wide-ranging critical analysis of legislative developments in those areas of law and policy devolved to the Scottish Parliament under the devolution settlement. This paperback edition makes it more accessible to a wider audience. It begins with a brief account of the devolution settlement and summarises the themes emerging from the seventeen chapters. Each chapter is dedicated to a discrete area of the law and is written by an acknowledged expert in the field, providing a critical overview of the Scottish Parliament's contribution, highlighting what it has achieved, what it has failed to do and what might be done in the future. In a single volume, Law Making and The Scottish Parliament: The Early Years provides a scholarly evaluation of the legislative achievements of Scotland's devolved parliament in its first decade. It will appeal to legal and other scholars and students, lawyers and anyone with an interest in Scottish politics, policy-making and law. Edited by Professor Elaine E. Sutherland, Dr. Kay E. Goodall, Professor Gavin F.M. Little and Professor Fraser P. Davidson, all of the School of Law, University of Stirling.

Explores Chinese artistic and stylistic influences on Modernist practice in early twentieth century Britain. This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism. It offers a coverage of literature, painting and poetry, as well as performance and visual media, and more.

The Sasanian Empire was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan. This book explores key phenomena which contributed to its wealth and power, from the empire s armed forces to agriculture, trade and treatment of minorities. The latest discoveries feature prominently.

The Style of Sleaze' reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation demarcations blaxploitation, horror and sexploitation indicate a concurrent evolution of filmmaking that could be seen as an identifiable cinematic movement.

Explores how the study of modern Arabic literature was transformed by Mustafa Badawi. This book illustrates the critical affiliations and teaching methods of the outstanding scholar of modern Arabic literature in the 20th century. It assesses some of the problems faced by an intellectual and translator in bridging Arabic and western cultures.

This collection of essays explores how the 2014 Scottish referendum was presented in the media not only in Scotland but elsewhere in the United Kingdom, in Europe and beyond.

This collection of essays explores how the 2014 Scottish referendum was presented in the media not only in Scotland but elsewhere in the United Kingdom, in Europe and beyond.

Offers a collection on social science methodologies for approaching Roman legal sources. This book furthers the ongoing debate about law and society in the Roman world. It focuses on themes such as the interaction between legal history practice, Roman legal thought, and law and economics.

The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work in English

This is a unique, systematic comparison of empires and of their consequences for sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia. It brings theory on empire and sovereignty to bear on empirical variation across the two regions.

Explores the actual and possible roles of evil in contemporary political theory

How do we prove the existence of God? The second volume in the Reason and Religion series tackles head-on this fundamental question.