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Working across a range of formats, from video art and gallery installations to independent cinema, Hollywood and the BBC, Steve McQueen's prodigious output has been marked by formal ambition and political urgency. ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen interrogates the director's body of work, its political, aesthetic and institutional dimensions, and the interfaces between them. It offers critical insights into McQueen's engagements with race, gender, the body, love and pain, and his abiding self-reflexive interest in the potential of multiple audio-visual forms. The first director to win both the Turner Prize and an Oscar for best picture, McQueen is probably the most important working British filmmaker. This vital collection explores the controversies as well as the achievements in McQueen's stellar career to date. Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

Identifies and contextualises a new work within the Animal Apocalypse, dated to the dawn of the First Jewish Revolt.

[headline]Offers a literary and cultural critique of the concept of true feeling, using affect theory to analyze post-war realist literatures Is emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenised self, encouraged to comply only with accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is the primary value of literature, literary texts too often become agents of conformity. Nowhere is this risk explored more fully than in a range of American realist texts from the Cold War to the end of the twentieth century. The works of writers such as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Kathleen Collins, Paula Fox, Ralph Ellison and Richard Yates formulate trenchant critiques of true feeling's aesthetic and social imperatives. The arguments at the heart of this book aim to re-frame emotional processes as visceral constructions, which should not be held to the standards of static ideals of accuracy, legitimacy or veracity. [bio]Nicholas Manning is Professor of American Literature at Université Grenoble Alpes and a fellow of the Institut universitaire de France.

A provocative study of the intersection of Spinoza and Marx that shows how their respective philosophies engage overlapping questions and problems Spinoza and Marx would seem to be two very opposed philosophers. Spinoza was interested in contemplating eternal truths of nature while Marx was interested in the history of capital. Franck Fischbach suggests that by reading the two together we may better understand both history and nature, as well as ourselves, making possible a new understanding of human nature. Rather than see history and nature as opposed, history is nothing but the constant transformation of nature. Central to this transformation is a new understanding of alienation not as loss of the self in a world of objects, but as loss of objects in a world that disconnects us from nature and social relations, leaving us isolated as a subject. The isolated individual, the kingdom within a kingdom, as Spinoza put it, is not the condition of our liberation but the basis of our subjection. Franck Fischbach is Professor of the History of German Philosophy at the Sorbonne (University of Paris 1). He is the author of Après la production. Travail, nature et capital (Vrin, 2019), La privation de monde. Temps, espace et capital (Vrin, 2011) and L'être et l'acte. Enquête sur les fondements de l'ontologie moderne de l'agir, (Vrin, 2002) Jason Read is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, USA.

This book offers new historical, legal and literary explorations of a status held by uncountable formerly enslaved persons in the Roman Empire: Junian Latinity.It is the first book in any language to provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary study of this status. Divided in two parts, the book sets the scene with six chapters that discuss the legal innovations that created Junian Latinity, as well as the historical contexts in which the status was conceived and in which it developed - from the late republican period to the early medieval world. Four chapters in the second book part offer then new research on key Latin literary texts to provide fresh insights into the role of Junian Latinity in Roman imperial society. The book makes a strong case for the centrality of Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire and the importance of its modern study.

The seventh volume in EUP's highly acclaimed Atlas of Global Christianity, which takes the analysis of worldwide Christianity to a deeper level of detail.

Women in East Asian Cinema brings together new and emerging work to highlight and explore the understudied contributions of women to the films and creative industries of East Asia. It foregrounds the importance of re-historicising women's creative labour in film, not just as actors on screen, but as voices who have steered the production, circulation and consumption of these films across global contexts. Over three sections, it provides perspectives on gender representation in East and South-East Asian cinema; new explorations of women's labour contributions as directors, screenwriters, and editors; and considerations of the contemporary circulation processes through which such work reaches global audiences. By re-centring women's film histories within the broader history of cinema and interrogating the geo-political boundaries of what might constitute 'East Asia' in the process, this volume makes a robust intervention into studies of East Asian cinema and women in film. Felicia Chan is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester Fraser Elliott is Lecturer of Film, Exhibition and Curation at the University of Edinburgh Andy Willis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford

The first book to comprehensively address Don DeLillo's deep and lasting engagement with the arts across the entirety of his writing career

Presents Shakespeare's theatre as a powerful forum for shaping our capacity for virtue

Analyses the cultural exchange of two important and highly entangled European film nations of the silent era

Ten chapters from five continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Africa) provide a global perspective on current anti-feminism and anti-gender discourses

Examines the film practice of the Chilean-French filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky

Taking off from Hegel's invocation of philosophy as a painting of 'grey on grey', this collection of essays explores the rich scope of possibilities implicated by the colour and concept of grey.

Examines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Reveals the importance of social networks and identities to defining Highland Scots' engagements with Empire and its lasting legacies This is a book about the social in Highland entanglements with Empire - the networks, relationships and identities that made it possible for Highland Scots to access the Empire and its benefits. It explores - from a range of perspectives - the impact that these Scots had, as sojourners and settlers, on the different places they encountered. It is also a book about the present-day legacies of their engagements with Empire, and of the ongoing process of forging social and cultural identities with Highland roots. The book represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of Highland Scots, influenced by their culture and language, in creating the Empire and its legacies. It advances knowledge of just how diverse the impacts of Highland Scots were on forging landscapes and lifescapes across the Atlantic, and how their exposure to the colonial world influenced and reshaped their Diasporic identities. While the British Empire was a collaboration of diverse interests, this book will shed light on one important interest: the Highland one. Key features  Individual chapters that suit individual specialisms, while still being accessible to readers from other disciplines/professions  Important (re)considerations of understudied perspectives and areas of scholarship, presenting new histories of under-studied social groups or situations and new insight on social networks and entanglements as a key aspect of Empire  International material to allow comparison and contextualisation and broaden readerships S. Karly Kehoe is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia. Her work concentrates on Scottish and Irish Catholic settlement and colonisation in the north Atlantic. Chris Dalglish is a Director of Inherit, the Institute for Heritage and Sustainable Human Development, which is part of a UK-based charity, the York Archaeological Trust. Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University and Head of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Her work interrogates land issues in the modern period including ownership, management and reform.

The Feminist Library Series Editors: Jackie Jones, Alison Light & Gill Plain Brings together the pioneering work of leading feminist cultural and literary critics for a new generation of readers. Alison Light - Inside History: From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work. Inside History addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of popular culture and the question of pleasure; women's relation to ideas of national identity and other forms of belonging; and finally, their contribution to life-writing in its different genres. The volume offers a lively, wide-ranging way into feminist debates, touching on a number of major authors from Alice Walker to Virginia Woolf, on genre fiction, and on the writing of memoir and biography. Chronologically arranged, the essays and short 'think-pieces' chart Alison Light's own intellectual formation as a critic and writer within a wider collective politics. This is explored and contextualised in an autobiographical introduction. Alison Light is a writer and Honorary Professor in the Department of English, University College London; she is also an Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University and a non-stipendiary Senior Research Fellow in English and History at Pembroke College Oxford. She is the author of a number of books, including Common People: The History of an English Family (Penguin 2014), which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize, and her most recent, A Radical Romance, which won the 2020 PEN Ackerley prize for memoir. She writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

'The Politics of Muslim Identities brings together nine case studies from across Asia. The discussions in each chapter together illustrate the contested diversity of Islam as it is understood and practiced by Muslims, and contributes to a growing and much-needed literature which emphasises the need for historicised and anti-essentialist understandings of Islam.' Syed Farid Alatas, Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore Explores the intersection between Islam and politics in contemporary, Southeast Asia, South Asia and China Approaching religious identity with an emphasis on agency and contestation, this book offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on the development of Muslim identities in Asia and examines the contingent politics that influence how Muslims constitute themselves as modern subjects. Through 9 country-based case studies, the book analyses how Muslims articulate their religious identity vis-à-vis the state and society in which they live and how their position relates to specific social and political contexts. The contributors survey the contemporary ways in which religious affiliation sparks a politics of difference in contexts where Islamic practices, beliefs and aspirations are contested, as well as where Muslims are framed as the 'Other'. Key Features - Gives a comparative view of Asia's diverse Muslim identities, looking at the complexity of identity politics and the instrumentalisation of religious difference that create social divides - Situates the contemporary contestations of identity and belonging amid new waves of Islamic revivalism, ethnic nationalism and political repression - Includes 9 country-based case studies: Singapore, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Philippines, India, Myanmar and China - Features contributions from experts in political science, anthropology, Islamic studies, sociology including: Irfan Ahmad, Syed Imad Alatas, Nazry Bahrawi, Syafiq Hasyim, Imrul Islam, Nazneen Mohsina, Matthew J. Nelson, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo and Joanne Smith Finley Iulia Lumina is an independent researcher who specialised in the comparative study of Islam at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Cover image: Indonesia, Jakarta (c) Afrijal Dahrin / EyeEm / Getty Images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6683-7 Barcode

The first English-language book to cover Danish cinema from the 1890s to the present day, this wide-ranging collection places well-known auteurs such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Lars von Trier and Susanne Bier in their cultural context, and introduces a number of genres and themes that are less familiar to international audiences, including film stars of the silent era, children's film, folk comedies, porn film, trends in documentary and Greenlandic cinema. With twenty-two chapters, all of them specially commissioned for this volume, A History of Danish Cinema explores the role of screen representations and film policy in shaping Denmark's cultural identity, but also emphasises just how internationally mobile Danish films and filmmakers have always been -- showcasing this small nation's extraordinary contribution to world cinema. C. Claire Thomson is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Film at UCL and the author of Short Films from a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965 (EUP, 2018) Isak Thorsen is the author of Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906-1924: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Bear (John Libbey, 2017) Pei-Sze Chow is Assistant Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Transnational Screen Culture in Scandinavia: Mediating Regional Space and Identity in the Øresund Region (Palgrave, forthcoming)

'Binge-watching' has become an umbrella term for a number of analytical questions in contemporary television studies, serving to describe the structure, marketing and publication model of Netflix and other streaming platforms. Because the term describes a range of different ideas linked to streaming television programming, research on binge-watching can bring together a number of different and related questions. This edited collection explores binge-watching and its role in contemporary television from the perspectives of fan studies, audience research, transnational television studies and narratology. This breadth of scope makes it possible to explore a broad variety of meanings and functions of the term and concept in contemporary television studies. Mareike Jenner is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University

Ground-breaking new essays comparing Shakespeare and Montaigne Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprising depth of engagement with history, literature and philosophy. With celebrated subtlety and incisive humour, both authors investigate abiding questions of epistemology, psychology, theology, ethics, politics and aesthetics. In this collection, distinguished contributors consider these influential, much-beloved figures in light of each other. The English playwright and the French essayist, each in his own fashion, reflect on and evaluate the Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of new modern perspectives many of us now might readily recognise as our own. Lars Engle is Chapman Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of English Studies and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University and William M. Hamlin is Professor of English at Washington State University and Bornander Distinguished Professor in the WSU Honors College

[Front cover flap copy] In Lawrie Todd (1830; rev. ed. 1832), John Galt paints an optimistic portrait of Scottish emigration to North America. Designed as a fictional autobiography, the novel charts the fortunes of its protagonist from his departure from Scotland - to avoid being tried for treason over his French Revolutionary sympathies - to his rise to prosperity as a shopkeeper in New York City and imaginary towns near Rochester. This edition of the novel provides a contextual introduction, explanatory notes, and maps that connect Todd's life story with boom times in New York and with Galt's own efforts at social entrepreneurship in Canada as well as with debates over emigration and political reforms in Britain. It sheds light on Galt's methods of characterisation, including his use of Scots and 'Yankee' speech habits and adaptation of real-life models, and on his popularity with readers in his own time.

The first scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's controversial collection of medical stories from the height of his initial fame in 1894 Arthur Conan Doyle trained in medicine at Edinburgh University in the 1870s and then spent eight years as a General Practitioner in Southsea, before deciding to become a professional author in 1890. The stories collected in Round the Red Lamp are gathered from his medical training and incidents in his life as a provincial GP. Some of the stories are daring - dealing explicitly with child birth, sexually transmitted diseases and malpractice. Some are sentimental or comic vignettes. Some are Gothic horrors. On publication the shades of dark and light bewildered some of his readers and the medical realism outraged others. Round the Red Lamp is a vital collection in understanding Conan Doyle's shift of profession from medic to author. [Bio]Roger Luckhurst is Geoffrey Tillotson Professor of Nineteenth Century Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on science fiction and the Gothic, and specialises in the late nineteenth century.