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The Pharmakon of Shame

Séan Kennedy and Joseph Valente, editors of Irish Shame, explore the intricate relationship between empathy and shame in this blog.

May 7, 2025
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Five Influential Psychiatric Films

by Tim Snelson, William R. Macauley and David A. Kirby In the ‘long 1960s’, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by…

Edinburgh University Press
March 4, 2024

A collage of screenshots from various William Wyler movies. Moving clockwise, a black and white photo of a group of people standing in a garden, a man sitting in a chariot that is being pulled by four white horses, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck look at a carved face in a stone wall, Barbra Streisand stands at the front of a boat wearing an orange coat and fur hat, and a black and white photo of a couple sitting together intimately

A Q&A with John Price on ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler

by John Price Tell us a bit about your book ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler is a collection of critical essays, by contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, on one of the most successful and awarded directors of…

Edinburgh University Press
April 7, 2023

The Pharmakon of Shame

Five Influential Psychiatric Films

A Q&A with John Price on ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler

The Pharmakon of Shame

Decolonizing the human: Beginning from Edward Said’s humanism

Arriving with Deleuze

Five essential Shakespeare plays on radio

Q&A with the author of Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century