The Cinema of the Real Jian QinAlters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an "emancipatory drive" in transnational cinema. A significant intervention into Lacanian film studies, this book sets forth a new theory of the psychoanalytic Real in cinema. In psychoanalysis, the Real ruptures the Symbolic that organizes law, ideology, and other systems of belief, revealing fissures in this underlying order. The Cinema of the Real explores how transnational cinema and
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The author assesses the strains within the ‘Special Relationship’ between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence
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The small sabil–kuttab (a charitable foundation particular to Cairo that combines a public water dispensary with a Quranic school) built in 1760 opposite the venerated Sayyida Zeinab Mosque is almost unique in Cairo: it is one of only two dedicated by a reigning Ottoman sultan
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An acclaimed biography of one of Britain's most popular writers
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impoverished group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa
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