Books published by Manchester University Press

A penetrating and illuminating series of essays that looks at some of the most distinctive directors in world cinema. Sam Rohdie is one of the most distinguished film scholars currently writing. He moves from the very well known - Hitchcock, Truffaut, Visconti, Welles - to those that he feels need more attention - Painleve, Vigo and Franju. -- .

This book explores the uses of the past in modern British politics. It looks at the way in which political parties construct and remember their pasts through archives, histories and commemorations. -- .

A study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. -- .

Provides an in-depth study of agrarian capitalist developmental in Brazil. -- .

A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class 'volunteers' in Great Britain's 1926 General Strike. -- .

First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director. -- .

Food is fundamental to soldiers' morale and performance and yet to date it has received little attention from historians, who have reiterated army statistics without an investigation of their veracity. . Extensively researched with a wide range of sources so that theoretical concepts are illuminated with the men's own accounts of lived experience. -- .

Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history.

In the post-Ryan Report (2009) on child abuse in the modern state, this book is the first study to document and analyse the issues in a frank expose that challenges many of the myths about children and young people in Ireland. -- .

Most comprehensive and up-to-date study of Tavernier's oeuvre. In-depth discussion of every major film through 2010. First to examine Tavernier's work through the lens of genre. -- .

The only scholarly account of Irish corruption from 1922-2010. It empirically maps the decline in standards since Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of economic sovereignty in 2010. -- .

A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British. -- .

This book explores the evolution of Ireland's national television service during its first tumultuous decade addressing how the medium helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland into the 1960s. -- .

Students of Television, Film, Media and Theatre studies -- .

A sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish society -- .

Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War. -- .

In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War -- .

Analyses films, paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of hispanic visual culture 'manage' or 'mediate' risk, as articulated stylistically and ideologically in the visual artefact. This title includes essays on visual cultural artefacts and their histories/modes of consumption and reception.

In the last decade Ireland's immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. This is the first major academic book to offer a detailed account of how immigrants in Ireland are faring and is the first to address the challenge of integration and social cohesion. -- .

A comprehensive reference book for anyone interested in Britiush politics, covering modern history, institutions, ideas, key terms and key political biographies. -- .

Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. Model Experts reveals the human relationships, controversies, and political projects which surrounded the artificial bodies. -- .

Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales -- .

An authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of reform of the UK parliament across the past century, addressing significant debates about the balance of executive-legislative relations in Britain, and which employs historical and institutional perspectives for the purposes of analysing and explaining political change at Westminster. -- .

Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture -- .

The first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema -- .

Explores the history of the royal city during the civil war and interregnum -- .

Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage -- .

The first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War -- .

Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change -- .