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This title raises issues that question European culture and the nature of national cinema, including: the cultural relationship with Hollywood, debates over cultural plurality and diversity; and postcolonial travels and the hybridization of the national formation.

Numerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has ignored them to a large extent. Based on a conference organised in conjunction with the University of London, Professions in Contemporary British Drama presents nine papers discussing the educational professions, the medical profession, priests, archaeologists and artists.

The city's sprawling structure and rapid redevelopment - embodied by the high-rise apartments taking over historic districts - render Beijing's streets hard to navigate and its culture is just as difficult to penetrate. This book offers a revealing introduction to both.

Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is a megalopolis of diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its slums. This title includes scene specific reviews and short essays exploring the ways filmmakers from India and abroad have represented Mumbai's diverse urban and human landscape.

World Film Locations: Melbourne serves as a guide to films set wholly or partially in one of Australia's most diverse and culturally important cities. Offering analyses of iconic scenes, essays on key directors, recurring themes, notable locations, photographs, film stills and city maps, the contributors examine the city's relationship to cinema.

One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exuberance, devastation, division and reconstruction. World Film Locations: Berlin offers a broad overview of these varied cinematic representations.

Since the 1990s, filmmakers in Turkey have increasingly explored notions of gender, genre, cultural memory, and national and transnational identity. Taking these themes as its starting point, this book provides an extensive historical overview of the country's cinema since the early 1920s.

The 1930s were a period of triumph and turmoil in Poland, yet the decade saw the production of a number of exceptional dramatic works. This book provides a glimpse into period of Polish literary culture unfamiliar to most English readers and scholars. It demonstrates why author was one of the leading voices of the Polish interwar era.

A collection of 13 essays exploring the diversity of innovative drama works in prisons. The contributors explore key aspects of practice - "problemitizing", theorizing and describing specific approaches to working with offenders.