Without Empathy

Without EmpathyIrony and satire in cinema have fallen out of favor. This study looks at the works of eight auteurs Luis Buuel, R. W. Fassbinder, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Paul Verhoeven, Aki Kaurismki, Aleksei Balabanov and David Lynch whose films, though not always seen as such, are often more ironic than satirical. Read the introduction for free here.

Introductory essay from leading academic Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool)

The only comprehensive textbook of its kind in this field

juvenile literature

The 2010 release of Resource Description and Access is not the release of a revised standard

This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of literary

in association with the British Sociological Association

and his expertise and knowledge in this area are evident in this encyclopedic volume

but existing arrangements are unravelling or outmoded

This book considers the political and feminist significance of non-canonical women poets

contrary to many assumptions

Freeman attempts to elucidate not only the many musical influences that formed Jobim's musical output

It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’