Books by Peter Marks

Placing literary creativity within a changing cultural and political context that saw the end of Margaret Thatcher and rise of New Labour, this book offers fresh interpretations of mainstream and marginal works from all parts of Britain.

Offers a comprehensive study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film. This title features, the ways in which the writers, filmmakers and thinkers have envisioned alternative worlds in which surveillance in various forms plays a key concern.

This book is the most sustained and comprehensive examination to date of one of cinema's most challenging and lauded auteur. It proposes new ways of seeing Gilliam and his films that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. It analyses Gilliam's work over nearly four decades, from Monty Python, to Brazil and Tideland. -- .