In the 1961 Romanian socialist realist film, The man next to you (Omul de lângă tine, director Horea Popescu), Corina, a city girl and lawyer accustomed to urban living, renounces her life in the... READ MORE
De-centering queer theory – a synopsis
In the 1961 Romanian socialist realist film, The man next to you (Omul de lângă tine, director Horea Popescu), Corina, a city girl and lawyer accustomed to urban living, renounces her life in the... READ MORE
Cinemas are opening again, and the film industry is hoping audiences want to go back to ‘business as usual’. This seems evident through the most recent high-profile cinema releases, including... READ MORE
New Gothic books in 2020 We’re very proud of the fantastic Gothic books we’ve published this year, take a look at our overview below… Here’s to another exciting year of... READ MORE
Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in genre film by Kinga Földváry This book started out as a dilemma, as I suppose many books do, with a simple question, yet one that seemed to present... READ MORE
By Jonathan Bolton Author of The Blunt Affair: Official Secrecy and Treason in Literature, Television and Film, 1980-89 In writing a book about the cultural response to the Blunt Affair in the 1980s,... READ MORE
There were lots of questions asked in the How media and conflicts make migrants Armchair Event and not enough time to get through them all! The panellists have now answered all the remaining questions... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? Beautiful and useful. What book in your field has inspired you the most? I like Fifty-one days on Mount Abu by Francesco... READ MORE
Dr Kara McKechnie, July 2020 ‘Alan Bennett is trending on Twitter’ is a sentence I thought I would never say. The iconic Talking Heads monologues were created for the BBC in 1988 and 1998... READ MORE
1. How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? Provides a fascinating and insightful overview of this world-renown director. 2. What book in your field has inspired... READ MORE
By Andrew Roberts To witness the career of Hattie Jacques during the 1970s is, to borrow a phrase coined by Joe Queenan, to witness the efforts of the ‘working famous’. When the telephone did... READ MORE