Engine of modernity Political geographyEngine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth century Paris through a focus on the omnibus a horse drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France.
It examines Russia’s strategy in the region
Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead finds affinities with Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition
This book tackles this question through case studies drawn from early modern England
The book will interest not only art historians and theorists
Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club are analysed alongside those of lesser-known works that range from the melodramas of Mexican cinema's golden age to Brazilian and Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s
as in Third Text and other postcolonial studies
gendered and personal identity
It is the first work published on the director in the English Language
Peter Weir's three-decade creative journey from Australia to Hollywood is considered in light of the recent theories on transnational cinema and through an examination of four key films
the essays illustrate how travel and road motifs have enabled directors of various national origins and backgrounds to reimagine space and move beyond simple oppositions such as Islam and secularism
provoking questions about the nature of the human condition
histories and counter-histories
