Publications
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Turkish Drama Serials
(2023)
The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three different regions to explore its ramifications ...
Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind
(2023)
This collection of new work on the philosophical importance of television starts from a model for reading films proposed by Stanley Cavell, whereby film in its entirety—actors and production included—brings its own ...
The Radical Campaigns of John Baxter Langley
(2021)
Once notorious but now largely forgotten, the political idealist and radical John Baxter Langley was typical of the well-educated and ethical Victorians who struggled to create a fairer, more equal society. Through a long ...
The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema
(2021)
This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company – also known as ‘B&C’– in the years 1908-1916, the period when ...
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900–1950
(2021)
This book is one of the first to study the regional role of women in public and professional life, breaking new ground in early twentieth-century local and gender history.
Covering politics (Eleanor Acland and Clara ...
Screening Europe in Australasia
(2022)
Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having always dominated global ...
The Boggart Sourcebook
(2022)
Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, ‘Boggart Ephemera’, is a selection of about 40,000 words of nineteenth-century boggart writing ...
1948
(2024)
Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contested media. He continues to attract a large readership.
This book is about ...
Imagining Air
(2023)
This book tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as pollution and ...
Chapter 5 A Critical Analysis of Women’s Petitions and Gender Reform in Saudi Arabia
(2024)
Arabian Gulf, Persian Gulf, dissent, Gulf women’s petitions, Divorce in Gulf countries, Gulf women’s narratives, Women in Gulf media, Gulf women’s politics, gender reform in Saudi Arabia, Gulf societies