J.G. Ballard

J.G. BallardA comprehensive account of the work of J. G. Ballard, one of the most important fiction writers of the past forty years. Traces the development of his career, and the significant contribution he has made to contemporary writing.

‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia

By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors

British playwright Howard Barker coined the term 'theatre of catastrophe' to describe his unique brand of complex

or ‘presence-in-trauma effects’

The first book-length study of one of Britain's most successful young writers

Included are sources and commentary

Alexandra Johnston

The Anthem Companion to Émile Durkheim intends to offer different practical attempts to build on Durkheim’s legacy and investigate the issues and controversies that characterise contemporary societies and thus contribute to develop further this path of critical enquiry into ‘classical sociology’

This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice

Downtown Film and TV Culture

1828–2017’ is a cultural history of the bushranger legend on stage and screen from colonial to contemporary Australia

The volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person