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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 Reenactment in Contemporary Screen Culture
$39.95During the first decades of the 21st century, a critical re-assessment of the reenactment as a form of historical representation has taken place in the disciplines of history, art history…
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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 Shepherd of Hermas
$39.95Jonathon Lookadoo guides readers through the early Christian apocalypse known as the Shepherd of Hermas, providing a clear overview of the numerous literary, historical, and theological insights that this text…
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The State of Resistance
$44.95This indispensable book offers a panorama of social resistances to neoliberal globalization in the South. Writers and activists from forty different countries or regions offer snapshots of the latest mobilizations,…
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The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera
$39.95This volume focuses on the story of Judith as presented by composers, librettists and playwrights over four centuries. Helen Leneman analyzes numerous examples of music, librettos and the librettists’ views…
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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…
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Tudors and Stuarts on Film
$130.00Why should films be historically accurate? Why are some monarchs popular subjects in film and others virtually ignored? Leading historians analyze films set in Tudor and Stuart Britain, exploring their…
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Tudors and Stuarts on Film
$42.95Why should films be historically accurate? Why are some monarchs popular subjects in film and others virtually ignored? Leading historians analyze films set in Tudor and Stuart Britain, exploring their…
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UFO Religion
$22.95Lines laid across the plain near the Peruvian site of Nazca have been explained as ancient roads or features of a long-forgotten religious calendar. So why did Erich von Daniken…
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Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity
$39.95This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were…