By James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim and Stephen Mamber This year marks a significant turning point for a number of…
Category: Cultural Studies
The initial impulse for our book, Screening Youth, originated from the observation that, while the topic of youth has informed…
By Lucy Bolton This special issue of Film-Philosophy on film stardom is designed to do two things: to demonstrate the…
English speakers use the term “belly dance” to describe solo, improvised dances from the Middle East and North Africa that…
Kharita dispatching On 2 Ramadan 1316 AH/ 15 January 1899, Amir Abdul Rahman Khan of Afghanistan (r. 1880–1901), sent an…
Cultural History
Stick ‘em Up: How a South African Horror Film Prophesised Apartheid’s Road to Nowhere
By Calum Waddell Last year’s superior possession shocker Hereditary (from director Ari Aster) and the recent release of Jordan Peele’s…
Events such as the Arab Spring and the civil war in Syria have brought Middle Eastern Christians into the public…
Written by Stephen Bamforth Michel Jeanneret was a great friend of Nottingham French Studies, and we were greatly saddened by…
Written by Romanticism editor, Nicholas Roe. The 25th publishing anniversary of Romanticism offers an opportunity to reflect on the origin…
How did Abū Naṣr Yehuda, a Jewish landowner from 11th-century Bāmiyān, conduct his business affairs with his Muslim neighbors? What…