Inside Australian Culture

Inside Australian CultureInside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate how the public sphere continues to derive its values from the British Enlightenment.

it examines not only the law and procedure of criminal justice and punishment

setting the stage for the bitter conflicts of the next century

outlines how to prevent

‘The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde’ offers the best contemporary work on Gabriel Tarde

it resituates feature films from the 1940s in relation to narratives of domestic

exploring both its historical specificity and its far-ranging cultural resonance

In the history of Western ideas of love

locating André Téchiné within historical and cultural contexts that include the Algerian war

this book delivers a rare glimpse into the history of film production practices in Hong Kong

and otherwise maltreated

Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture

Using Walter Benjamin's theory of the dialectical image as a critical tool