A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels
In this illuminating comparative study, three generations of leading American and German scholars...
'A new play by one of Britain's greatest playwrights is an event...the severity and seriousness o...
Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying a vigorous revival
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels
This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First Worl...
When the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, culture was held up to be one...
Across Western cities, there is an increasing obsession with producing manicured landscapes.Stand...
Goth Culture explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relat...
Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated f...
- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and th...
Despite acts of female heroism, popular memory, as well as official memorialization in monuments ...
Postwar German culture -- East and West -- and the political implications of various cultural dev...
This important new book considers many of the ways in which national identity was imagined, imple...
What does the portrayal of gender in film reveal about Spanish society? To what extent and in wha...
Most people conceive of gender as a culturally informed response to a biological imperative.But s...
Why do fashion houses pay exorbitant rents for retail space in London and New York from which the...
'Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety' Gua...
An intense portrait of friendship, betrayal and the birth of jungle music
For the first time, a collection of Britain's top comedy performer's plays and TV scripts in one ...
A new version of Holland's most popular play, brilliantly adapted by Lee Hall
The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and soci...
This book analyzes the ways in which women were viewed by men through a variety of literary and o...
Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how t...
Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, exp...
If fashion is an expression of individuality, why do we all dress alike? Can modernity be describ...
Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art a...
This book examines the contemporary situation of women in France and makes an essential contribut...
Transnational movements of people, cultural objects, images and identities have played a vital ro...
The past two centuries have witnessed an increase in the commodification of tourist sites across ...
Is shopping for food really a political act? Why is it that, in a world with enough food for ever...
During the colonial period, Pacific Islanders acceptance of clothing was seen by Europeans as a c...
How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West so ofte...
Oriana Fallaci (b. 1930) is an awkward presence on Italian bookshelves, in world journalism and a...
Romain Rolland's life coincided closely with the span of the French Third Republic, an age of whi...
How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West so ofte...
This book examines how groups of young male fans come to be defined and identified as football `h...
Before the outbreak of WWII, French fashion represented the very pinnacle of style, and French wo...
This book examines the clothing worn by African Americans in the southern United States during th...
This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to1938, a critical p...
In tracing the process through which monuments give rise to collective memories, this path-breaki...
Liverpool Football Club, in stark contrast to its competitors, remains locally owned, not a congl...
This book is the first to address the relationship between gender and immigration in contemporary...
Valorised as 'la perle de l'Extrême Orient', Indochina was France's rival to Britain's 'jewel in ...
'David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama' (Guardian)
'Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition' (Ne...