Understanding heritage and memory

Understanding heritage and memoryWritten by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by virtual, intangible and multicultural heritage. New international case studies demonstrate that while interest in the memorialisation of the great national upheavals of the last century has never been more acute, many of the problems of conserving

from the first Tudor translations to its many literary transformations and cultural re-appropriations in the Elizabethan and Stuart periods

Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council

fantasy and desire in modern cinema

film and new media to ask whether public spaces are viable in an age of globalized consumerism

The first book in English about Álex de la Iglesia

Each chapter compares Tocqueville’s ideas on a given subject with those of other leading social theorists

from disciplines including Classics

(un)happiness

transnational

Provides detailed analysis of key films within the historical context allowing for further comparative study of an unusually diverse corpus of films

Social democracy and urban politicsdelves into the changing relationship between social democratic

This is the first full-length critical study of the work of Barry Hines