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Category: Cultural Studies

Language and Literature

Stands Scottish Literature Where It Did? Revisiting Devolution

posted by Kirsty Crosbie May 11, 20228 min read4 Views

It’s been fifteen years since the last fat volume of essays on contemporary Scottish writing. Only a blink of historical time, but it’s been quite an eventful period. When the chapters of Berthold Schoene’s brilliant Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature were being written, both the country and its debates looked rather different.

Cultural Studies

Mary Queen of Scots in British Cinema & Society

posted by Daniel Miele April 13, 20227 min read37 Views

by John White In the first of a short series of extracts from British Cinema and a Divided Nation (EUP,…

Pedro David de Oliveira Castello Branco: Suffocation #12, from project ‘Hardwood’, Cerrado, Brazil
Cultural History

Surveying the Anthropocene: Destruction of natural systems: forests

posted by Daniel Miele April 12, 202210 min read95 Views

by Patricia Macdonald This is the first of a series of blogs featuring themes and participants from the book Surveying…

Cultural Studies

Q & A with the author of ‘Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and photography now’

posted by Daniel Miele March 31, 20229 min read193 Views

by Patricia Macdonald Tell us a bit about your book… The purpose of the book is to explore the range…

Cultural Studies

Why Focus on Director Robert Altman’s Last Quarter Century?

posted by Daniel Miele February 17, 20227 min read55 Views

by Lisa Dombrowski and Justin Wyatt Film director Robert Altman was one of the leading creative forces of the last…

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Cultural Studies

Q+A with the Author of The Revival of Evangelicalism

posted by Daniel Miele February 7, 20226 min read204 Views

by Andrew M. Jones Tell us a bit about your book The Revival of Evangelicalism: Mission and Piety in the…

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

How ISIS Fights: New Books in National Security

posted by Helena Heald February 4, 20221 min read52 Views

In this great interview from New Books in National Security, Omar Ashour, author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in…

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Five Essentials of Friday Preaching in Modern Turkey

posted by Helena Heald January 20, 20227 min read220 Views

by Elisabeth Özdalga The core of her new book Pulpit, Mosque and Nation, author Elisabeth Özdalga explores five key aspects…

Cultural History

Folk Songs as Communication, Resistance, Lament, and Entertainment Among Women in Northeastern Afghanistan

posted by Teri Williams December 14, 20215 min read169 Views

By Wolayat Tabasum Niroo In the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan, talented women sing folk songs to entertain each other in…

Film and TV

Japanese High School Films: My 4 Favourites!

posted by Helena Heald December 10, 20215 min read62 Views

By Peter C. Pugsley In Japanese High School Films: Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline, I write about how high school-based films capture…

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