Laughing matters

Laughing mattersAn incisive, witty and comprehensive textbook that looks at the many genres of comedy from silent film onwards. Covering film, televison and radio it is not only up to date but also provides full historical context. It focuses on all of the key issues studied on university courses.

Emigrant homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives

World Film Locations: Moscow compares and contrasts images from the past and present

London presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century

It is also the first textbook for students in this field

a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory

Alejandro Amenábar makes a serious and socially aware ‘middlebrow’ cinema designed for global audiences

It stresses how the upsurge of right-wing extremism within and outside the Conservative party materialized into the formation of a myriad of organisations which conceived violence as a legitimate instrument of politics

This edition

'mannerist' and 'neo-baroque' aesthetics

and it does so by emphasizing diverse performances in changing socio-political contexts

this volume brings together a diverse range of experts to discuss people and issues of core significance in the region

Warshawski series