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Quality TV
$130.00In his seminal book “Television’s Second Golden Age”, Robert Thompson described quality TV as ‘best defined by what it is not’: ‘it is not “regular” TV’. Audacious maybe, but his…
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Stagecoach to Tombstone
$26.95This is the true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them…Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford’s “Stagecoach”…
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The Delirious Museum
$24.95“The Delirious Museum” is a remarkable, illuminating work, which presents an original view of the idea of the museum in the twenty-first century, re-imagining the possibilities for museums and their…
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The Greek Idea
$120.00How do those living in diaspora form their own national and transnational identity? “The Greek Idea” offers a new critical paradigm from which to explore these identities. Drawing upon postcolonial…
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The Muslim Brothers in Pursuit of Legitimacy
$150.00Hesham Al-Awadi argues that the growing impact of the Muslim Brotherhood on Egyptian politics and society is part of the movement’s struggle to gain official legitimacy since its ban in…
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The New Orientalists
$32.95The west’s Orientalism – its construction of an Arab or Islamic ‘Other’ – has been exposed and examined under the critical theory microscope and thoroughly expelled, it seems, from academic…
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The Palestinian National Movement in Lebanon
$39.95Hosting over 30,000 inhabitants and governed by competing militias, ‘Ayn al-Hilwe in the south of Lebanon is one of the most contested refugee camps in the Middle East. Known as…
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The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman
$115.00Derek Jarman has been called the ‘godfather’ of the early 1990s cinematic movement now known as ‘Queer Cinema’. ‘Queer’ rejects labels, challenges fixed ideas of gender and sexual identity and…
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The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman
$25.95Derek Jarman has been called the ‘godfather’ of the early 1990s cinematic movement now known as ‘Queer Cinema’. ‘Queer’ rejects labels, challenges fixed ideas of gender and sexual identity and…
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The Sacred and the Feminine
$29.95The notion of a special intimacy between ‘the feminine and the sacred’ has received significant attention since the publication of Julia Kristeva and Catherine Clement’s famous ecumenical “Conversation” of the…
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The Watch on the Rhine
$48.00The Rhineland, scene of European conflict for generations, remained an intensely contentious area following the end of the hostilities of World War I. Under the Treaty of Versailles, the Rhineland…
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The Witches of Warboys
$35.00On a foggy November day in 1589, when one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Throckmorton suddenly fell sick, no one in the small English village of Warboys…