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The notion of seriality and serial identity performance runs as a strong undercurrent through much of the fields of feminist theory, gender studies and queer studies. Defining gender as a serial and discursively produced entanglement of different practices and agencies, this book argues that serial storytelling can offer such complex negotiations of identity that the 'results' of televisual gender performances are rarely separate from the processes that produce them. As such, gender performances are not restricted to individual television programmes themselves, but are also located in official paratexts, such as making-of documentaries, interviews with writers and actors, and in cultural sites like online viewer discussions, recaps and fan fiction. With case studies of series such as Girls, How to Get Away With Murder and The Walking Dead, this book seeks to understand how gender as a practice is generated by television narratives in the overlapping of text, reception and production, and explores the viewer practices that these narratives seek to trigger and draw on in the process. Maria Sulimma is an American Studies scholar working in the intersecting areas of cultural studies, urban studies, feminist media studies, and gender studies. Based at the University Duisburg-Essen, she is the Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Group City Scripts.

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects.

Brings together previously dispersed sources to argue for a tradition of Scottish colonial writing before the Union of Parliaments This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). Analysing works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic, it examines how the Atlantic influenced seventeenth-century Scottish literature and vice versa. The relationship between art and ideology is key to the author's discussion as Sandrock argues early modern writing employed utopianism as a tool for empire-building and as a means of claiming power over the Atlantic. Kirsten Sandrock is Assistant Professor at the English Department at the University of Goettingen, Germany.

Animating Truth examines the rise of animated documentary in the 21st century, and addresses how non-photorealistic animation is increasingly used to depict and shape reality. Confronting shifts in the status and aesthetics of the real, Nea Ehrlich analyses how contemporary technoculture has transformed the relationship of animation to documentary by mapping out two parallel trends: the increased use of animation within documentary or non-fiction contexts, and the increasingly pervasive use of non-photorealistic animation within digital media. As the virtual becomes another aspect of our contemporary mixed reality (physical and virtual), the book aims to understand how this visual paradigm shift influences viewers, both ethically and politically, and questions the wider ramifications of this transformation in non-fiction aesthetics. Nea Ehrlich is a lecturer in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

'Asian Cinema: A Regional View is a turning point. It replaces the idea of Asian cinema as a set of national cinemas with a proliferation of transborder linkages across the region. Its chapters on regional co-productions, remakes, film festivals, streaming services, cinema archives and more will fundamentally change how we perceive Asian cinema.' Chris Berry, King's College London, co-editor of Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia: What a Difference a Region Makes. Asia's film industries have undergone significant transformation in the last 30 years. From bilateral co-production agreements to pan-Asian financing, Asian cinema has assumed a regional identity well beyond its constituent national cinemas. This book explores the collaborative models of film production, distribution, exhibition and reception that have enabled greater co-operation and integration between Asia's film industries. In doing so, it contributes to the burgeoning international fields of transnational and world cinema, providing a fresh perspective on Asian cinema through the lens of comparative film studies. Olivia Khoo is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia. Cover image: The Assassin, 2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien (c) Central Motion Pictures Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN Barcode

Bringing together a range of international scholars, European Film Remakes discusses for the first time the textual, socio-cultural, political, and industrial mechanisms and singularities of the film remake in a European context. Offering a variety of historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches, the book is illustrated by a wide range of case studies from across Europe, including films like A Bigger Splash, Open Your Eyes and Perfect Strangers. Although commonly understood as a typical Hollywood practice, this book demonstrates how film remakes are, and always have been, a significant part of the European film culture and industry. Eduard Cuelenaere is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University. Gertjan Willems is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Literature and Communication Sciences at the University of Antwerp and Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) in the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University. Stijn Joye is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University.

Galt's tragi-comic novel of conflicted desires presented in historical, legal, and local contexts.

The Ayrshire Legatees; The Steam-Boat; The Gathering of the West

Builds an ethical framework for responding to the urgent crisis of global displacement In this book Phillip Cole calls for a radical review of what international protection looks like and who is entitled to it. The book brings together different issues of forced displacement to provide a systematic overview. It draws attention to groups who are often overlooked when it comes to discussions of international protection, such as the internally displaced, those displaced by climate change, disasters, development infrastructure projects and extreme poverty. The study draws on extensive case studies, such as border practices by European Union states, the United States with regard to its border with Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Cole places the experiences of displaced people at the centre and argues that they should be key political agents in determining policy in this area. Phillip Cole teaches Politics and International Relations at the University of the West of England, Bristol

Silent-era film scholarship has all too often focused on a handful of German directors, including Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch, but little attention has been paid to arguably one of the most influential filmmakers of the period: Paul Leni. This collection - the first comprehensive English-language study of Leni's life and career - offers new insights into his national and international films, his bold forays into scenic design and his transition from German to Hollywood filmmaking. The contributors give fresh insights into Leni's most influential films, including Waxworks (1924), The Cat and the Canary (1927) and The Man Who Laughs (1928), and explores such lesser-known productions as The Diary of Dr. Hart (1918), Backstairs (1921) and the Rebus film series (1925-7). Engaging with new historical, analytical, and theoretical perspectives on Leni's work, this book is a groundbreaking exploration of a cinematic pioneer. Erica Tortolani is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in Communication with a concentration on Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Martin F. Norden teaches film history and screenwriting as Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

Studies the making and unmaking of the Ottoman Empire's Kurdish nobility This book is a study of the rise and fall of Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Focusing on one noble family based in Palu, a fortressed town in Kurdistan, the book provides the first systematic, longue durée analysis of the Kurdish hereditary nobility in the Ottoman Empire. The author offers a fresh perspective on what enabled the Kurdish nobility to survive for so long; the dynamics of Ottoman-Kurdish relations on the ground; the processes that brought the privileged status of the Kurdish nobles to an end; and the consequences of the destruction of the Kurdish nobility. The abolishment of the Kurdish begs' hereditary privileges and the confiscation of their lands triggered a 5 decade-long conflict between begs, Armenian financiers, Armenian and Muslim sharecroppers and the Ottoman state over the fertile lands of Palu. The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire examines the escalation of the intercommunal conflict in Palu within the context of the changing careers - and diminishing wealth and authority - of the Palu begs and the growing hostility between them and the district's Armenian population. Nilay Özok-Gündoğan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Florida State University.

'Like P. B. Shelley, calling upon "the phantoms of a thousand hours", Mark Sandy conjures the mind and spirit, the sentient presence in nature, animating the literary heritage. Liberating the transactions of Romanticism from timebound chronologies, Sandy illuminates brilliantly the literary engagement with dynamic nature in a wide diversity of American authors of the last century.' Frederick Burwick, University of California, Los Angeles A critical re-evaluation of the imaginative transformations of Romanticism by major American writers This book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought. It traverses the traditional critical boundaries of prose and poetry in American and Romantic and post-Romantic writing. Analysing significant works by nineteenth-century writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson, as well as the later writings of William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison and Wallace Stevens, the book reasserts the significance of second-generation Romantic writers for American literary culture. Sandy reassesses our understanding of Romantic inheritance and influence on post-Romantic aesthetics, subjectivity and the natural world in the American imagination. Mark Sandy is Professor of English Literature at Durham University. Cover image, Portland Head Lighthouse, Jerry McElroy, 2016 Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2148-5 Barcode

Explores the relationship between US presidents, sport and athleticism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries This book presents an overview of the symbiotic relationship between US presidents and some of the nation's most popular pastimes. Starting with Theodore Roosevelt's significant role in linking the presidency with advocacy of - and active participation in - sports, this book traces how occupants of the White House continued to develop these connections in various guises across the following century for both pleasure and political purposes. Split into three thematic sections, the book approaches the topic from different but related angles to create a multidimensional portrait of the evolving relationship among the US presidency, sports and individual athletes, from the dawn of the twentieth century through to the Trump administration. Adam Burns is Head of History and Politics at Bristol Grammar School in the UK. Rivers Gambrell is a research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

The first biography of William Roy, exploring his life, career and legacy

Contributes a genealogical approach to debates on critical transnationalism

Assesses estimative intelligence and warnings as an integral part of foreign policy across three major contemporary cases of surprise This book develops a new framework for conducting postmortems guided by a normative model of anticipatory foreign policy. It is the first assessment of the performance of three leading European polities in providing estimative intelligence during an era of surprise. The comparative analysis focuses on how the UK, the EU and Germany handled three cases of major surprises: the Arab uprisings, the rise to power of the Islamic State (ISIS), and the Russian annexation of Crimea. It considers government intelligence assessments, diplomatic reporting and expert open sources, and how organisational leaders received these assessments. The book tests and develops new theories about the causes of strategic surprises, going beyond a common focus on intelligence versus policy failures to identify challenges and factors that cut across analyst and decision-maker communities. Drawing on insights and chapters provided by former senior officials, the book identifies lessons to learn from European polities to better anticipate and prepare for future surprises. Christoph Meyer is Professor of European and International Politics at King's College London. Eva Michaels is Beatriu de Pinós Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies. Nikki Ikani is Assistant Professor in Intelligence and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. Aviva Guttmann is Lecturer in Strategy and Intelligence at Aberystwyth University. Michael S. Goodman is Professor of Intelligence and International Affairs and Head of the Department of War Studies at King's College London.

Confronts the world's key global security issues and challenges in the twenty-first century This book presents a range of analyses across the security spectrum, bringing a deep understanding of core global security challenges into contention with ongoing theoretical debates between critical and traditional approaches. Chapters analyse the evolving and shifting dynamics of geopolitics, prolonged armed conflicts, large-scale public health emergencies, and economic fractures. Additionally, authors discuss climate shocks, deepening social and economic inequity, trends in nationalism and populism, gendered violence, as well as challenges pertaining to cyber insecurity, emerging technologies, nuclear weapons, and global terrorism. The book illustrates how these unparalleled circumstances, taken together with the epochal juncture expressed in the global pandemic, have evolved and coalesced to redefine the many complexities and oscillations of global security. Aiden Warren is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia.

Studies translation into and among the Ottoman Empire's many languages A vigorous translation scene across the 19th-century Ottoman Empire - government and private, official and amateur, acknowledged and anonymous - saw many texts from European languages rewritten into the multiple tongues that Ottoman subjects spoke, read and wrote. Just as lively, however, was translation among Ottoman languages, and between those and the languages of neighbours to the east. The proliferation and circulation of texts in translation and adaptation leads us to ask: What is an 'Ottoman language'? Following on from Booth's earlier volume, Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean, this volume challenges earlier scholarship that has highlighted translation and adaptation from European languages to the neglect of alternative translations, re-centring translation as an Ottoman 'hub'. Through 8 collaboratively written case studies, stretching linguistically and geographically from Bengal to London, Istanbul to Paris, Andalusia to Bosnia, it peers over the shoulders of working translators to ask how they creatively transported texts between as well as beyond Ottoman languages. In doing so, it also ponders broader issues of cultural transfer and culture production in the Ottoman Empire, its European and Arabophone territories and south Asia in a period of emerging nationalist ferment. Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. Claire Savina is an independent author, translator and researcher. She pursued Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne and was research associate at the University of Oxford.

Examines the purpose that place serves in films

Scotland's Transnational Heritage draws on the expertise of academics, museum professionals and creative practitioners working together to re-think the way that the transnational histories of Scotland are being told today. The contributors emphasise Scotland's role in networks of colonialism and outline new historical examples of how Scottish trades and institutions benefited from empire and slavery, providing examples of contemporary case studies and innovative practices in storytelling that engage and inform. The book will inspire heritage and museum staff and academics to create new approaches to these histories, both in Scotland and beyond. Within the current context of calls to decolonise both the museum and the academy, this is a timely snapshot of the exciting and diverse work taking place in the field in Scotland today. Emma Bond is Professor in Italian and Comparative Studies at the University of Oxford. Michael Morris is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Dundee.

Calls for re-imagining the datafied city as a project for the common good Data Justice and the Right to the City engages with theories of social justice and data-driven urbanism. It explores the intersecting concerns of data justice - both the harms and civic possibilities of the datafied society - and the right to the city - a call to redress the uneven The contributors propose frameworks for understanding how data-driven technologies affect citizens' rights at the municipal scale and offer strategies for redress by both scholars and citizens.The contributors propose frameworks for understanding how data-driven technologies affect citizens' rights at the municipal scale and offer strategies for redress by both scholars and citizens. Morgan Currie is Lecturer in Data and Society in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Jeremy Knox is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. Callum McGregor is Lecturer in Education at the Institute for Education, Community and Society, University of Edinburgh.

A cultural history of the precious balsam of Matarea: a substance traded for its weight in gold This book is the first to examine the complete history of balsam from ancient times to the seventeenth century. It also surveys the evidence for the symbolic value and practical applications of the product in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Using written sources, visual data and archaeological material, Marcus Milwright reconstructs the fascinating history of the balsam tree from Jericho and En-Gedi to Egypt. He also establishes links with resin-producing trees from the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. Chapters address the symbolic associations of balsam and the site of Matarea (where the last balsam tree died in 1615), the distribution of products from the tree through trade and diplomacy, and the applications of these products in medicine, ritual and the domestic environment. The Queen of Sheba's Gift is an exploration of the complex socio-cultural factors that contributed to the sense of value accorded to rare commodities. Key Features  Uses archaeological and textual sources to trace the cultivation of balsam trees from the 4th century BCE to the 17th century CE  Establishes the many uses of balsam in pre-modern medicine, religious ritual and royal ceremonies  Correlates modern botanical studies with historical sources in the identification of the trees that once grew in the plantation of Matarea in Egypt  Illustrated with 65 images Marcus Milwright is Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Victoria. His books include The Arts and Crafts of Syria and Egypt from the Ayyubids to World War I: Collected Essays (2018), The Arts and Crafts of the Islamic World: An Anthology (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), and An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).