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The special issue responds to two concurrent phenomena: the re-emergence in the 21st century of religion as a political and cultural force, and its resurgence in a range of theoretical discourses, from postsecularism to New Atheism. Mirroring this theoretical and cultural turn, cinema across the world is renewing its acquaintance with religion as private practice, public display and political force and exploring overlapping material, spiritual and doctrinal concerns in the new millennium. This issue probes intersections between contemporary cinema and diverse theoretical, philosophical and theological engagements with religion. It compares cinema's capacity to present visual expressions of faith, evoke embodied experience and varied modalities of love, correlate earthly and divine realities and inspire belief and doubt with writings on religion and postsecularism. Contributors explore ideas about transcendence, vocation, affliction, love, doubt and forms of religious practice and expression that connect specific films with theoretical accounts that look beyond the secular. Key Features -Covers a wide range of cinemas from the United States, France, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia and China. -Juxtaposes responses to Judaeo-Christian thought with Islamic feminism, theology from the Arab-speaking world and Buddhist ethics. -Situates recent films within traditions of idiosyncratic thinking about God that stretch back to the work of Søren Kierkegaard and Simone Weil. -Challenges the established (male, white) canon of religious film criticism and filmmakers, from Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson to Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier. Libby Saxton is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is author of Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust (Wallflower, 2008), co-author of Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium (Legenda: 2013). She is writing a book on iconic images, photography and cinema. Anat Pick is Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2011), co-editor of Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human (Berghahn, 2013), and has published articles on animals, ethics and film. Her new book project is on the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil and cinema.

With contributions from an international range of specialists, and with considerations of works by contemporary directors like Rachid Bouchareb, Abderrahmane Sissako and Rithy Panh, Cinema-monde explores the porous borders around francophone spaces and the ways in which languages and identities 'travel' in contemporary cinema.

Addressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars explore the pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices.

This is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Her career overlapped with a transformative period in Japanese history, and this close analysis of her fascinating life and work offers new perspectives, subjectivities and modes of analysis for the classical era of Japanese cinema.

Female Agency and Documentary Strategies centres on how self-portraiture and contemporary documentary manifestations such as blogging and the prevalent usage of social media shape and inform female subjectivities and claims to truth.

A range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of James Benning's practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work.

New ideas for teaching contemporary social justice throughShakespeare and Renaissance literatureThis book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social formation and action. Its twenty-one chapters provide diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and Renaissance literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices. They model ways of mobilizing social justice with early modern texts and claim the intellectual benefits of integrating social justice into courses. The book reconceives the relationship between students and the Renaissance in ways that enable them-and us-to move from classroom discussions to real-life applications.Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now presents. Innovative teaching methods informed by recent cross-disciplinary scholarship. Strategies for effective advocacy amidst the growing complexities of higher education. Discussions of the relevance of historical literary study to contemporary cultural conversations. Multiple, multicultural, and accessible Shakespeares. Critical connections of Shakespeare's plays to democratic conversations and social justiceHillary Eklund is Provost Distinguished Professor, Associate Professor of English, and Chair of the department at Loyola University New Orleans.Wendy Beth Hyman is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College.

Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theoryFrom experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the ways in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing. The eleven chapters present new scholarship on Bowen's inventiveness and unique writing style and its attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit and new technologies such as the telephone.Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland.Patricia Juliana Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York.

Explores the literary connection between Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth von Arnim is best remembered as the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898) and The Enchanted April (1922), as well as being the elder cousin of Katherine Mansfield. Recently, new research into the complex relationship between these writers has extended our understanding of the familial, personal and literary connections between these unlikely friends. We know that they were an influential presence on one another and reviewed each other's work. By bringing the work of Mansfield and von Arnim together - including on matters of artistry, on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance - this book establishes shared preoccupations in ways that refine and extend our knowledge of writing in the period. It also deepens our understanding of the historical and literary contexts within which both of these extraordinary authors worked.Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society.Isobel Maddison is Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University.

The 11 essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recording as the point of departure for an investigation of the sounded field in music and its relationship to literature and writing.

Since 2000, numerous heroes of the ancient world have appeared on film and TV, from the mythical Hercules to leaders of the Greek and Roman worlds. This collection brings together a range of perspectives on twenty-first century cinematic representations of heroes from the ancient world.

Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. Through 10 case studies drawn from television drama, theatre, animation and documentarythis collection offers wide-ranging insights into the significance of ancient Greece on British television.

Marking the first twenty years of the Scottish Parliament, this collection of essays assesses its impact on Scotland, the UK and Europe, and compares progress against pre-devolution hopes and expectations.

Marking the first twenty years of the Scottish Parliament, this collection of essays assesses its impact on Scotland, the UK and Europe, and compares progress against pre-devolution hopes and expectations.

Examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and India, highlighting their transgressive, transnational and provocative nature.

'Pathbreaking analysis of Armenian migration under the Ottoman Empire, a refreshing departure from Western-centric studies of migration policies. Gutman's attention to internal politics, and to the convergence of Ottoman and US migration policies, makes this study of critical interest to Ottomanists and migration historians alike. A powerful examination of the state's mixed success in using migration and nationality laws to target minority groups.'Lucy E. Salyer, University of New HampshireA study of migration, mobility control and state power in the late Ottoman EmpireThis book tells the story of Armenian migration to North America in the late Ottoman period, and Istanbul's efforts to prevent it. It shows how, just as in the present, migrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were forced to travel through clandestine smuggling networks, frustrating the enforcement of the ban on migration. Further, migrants who attempted to return home from sojourns in North America risked debarment at the border and deportation, while the return of migrants who had naturalised as US citizens generated friction between the United States and Ottoman governments.The author sheds light on the relationship between the imperial state and its Armenian populations in the decades leading up to the Armenian genocide. He also places the Ottoman Empire squarely in the middle of global debates on migration, border control and restriction in this period, adding to our understanding of the global historical origins of contemporary immigration politics and other issues of relevance today in the Middle East region, such as borders and frontiers, migrants and refugees, and ethno-religious minorities.Key Features. Sheds light on the phenomenon of migrant smuggling from a historical perspective. Demonstrates the effects of different regimes of mobility control on the migration process. Examines the limits of citizenship and nationality in the context of global migration. Demonstrates the surprising convergence of anti-migrant politics and policies in both the Ottoman Empire and United States at the turn of the 20th centuryDavid Gutman is Associate Professor of History at Manhattanville College.Cover image: Photograph of Ohannes Topalian (lying down) in his US Army uniform ca. 1898 © Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives, Watertown, Massachusetts, USACover design: Stuart Dalziel[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4524-5Barcode

Gavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a wide range of thinkers, which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the radical-juridical perspective; Foucault and Agamben the biopolitical; Derrida the bio-juridical which Rae argues produces the most nuanced account.

A unique angle on the topic of sovereignty and violenceSovereign violence is a dominant issue in contemporary political theory and has attracted much attention from proponents of biopolitics, critical theory, deconstruction and post-structuralism.Gavin Rae offers an original approach to the topic by looking at a wide range of thinkers which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the radical-juridical perspective, Foucault and Agamben are biopolitical and Derrida is bio-juridical.Gavin Rae offers an original approach to the topic by looking at a wide range of thinkers which he organises into three models: the radical-juridical perspective (Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari); biopolitical (Foucault and Agamben); and bio-juridical (Derrida).Rae engages with new translations of Derrida's late seminars on The Beast and the Sovereign as well as The Death Penalty to show that Derrida offers a radical and alternative angle in which violence is placed between law and life, simultaneously creating and regulating each through the other.Gavin Rae is Conex Marie Sklodowska-Curie Experienced Research Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

[headline] Explores the Canada-US border through a variety of theoretical, cultural and literary approaches Moving beyond border studies paradigms dominated by the Mexico-US border, this collection aims to contextualise cultures and communities within a wider global understanding of border thinking. It builds on recent considerations of, and changes to, the cultural life of (and across) the Canada-US border, to prioritise theoretical reflections on representations, identities and policies. Approaching the border as a place, a theory, a practice and a process, this collection draws attention to the ways in which aspects of the Canada-US border itself (re)frame discussions of the borderlands as sites that continue to evoke, invoke and provoke ideas of nation and post nationalism; negotiation and imposition; resistance and refusal. [bios] David Stirrup is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Visuality and Visual Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Writing (2020) and Louise Erdrich (2010), and co-editor of Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary (2012, with James Mackay), Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border (2013, with Gillian Roberts), and Enduring Critical Poses: Beyond Nation and History (2021, with Gordon Henry, Jr. and Margaret Noodin). Jeffrey Orr is Associate Professor of Digital Communication and Associate of the Centre for Global Development at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include visual rhetoric, border studies, and micro-rhetorical communication. His current research examines the rhetoric of governmental health communication, and public rhetoric pertaining to border policy on the Arctic.

[headline] Explores the Canada-US border through a variety of theoretical, cultural and literary approaches Moving beyond border studies paradigms dominated by the Mexico-US border, this collection aims to contextualise cultures and communities within a wider global understanding of border thinking. It builds on recent considerations of, and changes to, the cultural life of (and across) the Canada-US border, to prioritise theoretical reflections on representations, identities and policies. Approaching the border as a place, a theory, a practice and a process, this collection draws attention to the ways in which aspects of the Canada-US border itself (re)frame discussions of the borderlands as sites that continue to evoke, invoke and provoke ideas of nation and post nationalism; negotiation and imposition; resistance and refusal. [bios] David Stirrup is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Visuality and Visual Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Writing (2020) and Louise Erdrich (2010), and co-editor of Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary (2012, with James Mackay), Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border (2013, with Gillian Roberts), and Enduring Critical Poses: Beyond Nation and History (2021, with Gordon Henry, Jr. and Margaret Noodin). Jeffrey Orr is Associate Professor of Digital Communication and Associate of the Centre for Global Development at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include visual rhetoric, border studies, and micro-rhetorical communication. His current research examines the rhetoric of governmental health communication, and public rhetoric pertaining to border policy on the Arctic.

This collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers in politics, philosophy, economics, history and literature.

This pioneering interdisciplinary collection works across mainstream and alternative spaces such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Grindr and gay men's health websites. These digital platforms are then situated within the socio-political situation in India, offering a new way of understanding queerness and Indian-ness.

Published in honour of Professor Yasir Suleiman, this collection acknowledges his contribution to the field of language and society in general, and to that of language analysis of socio-political realities in the Middle East in particular.

Examining the 21st century presidencies of the United States and their comparative policies, strategies, attitudes and behaviours towards the People's Republic of China.This book draws critical attention to the core security challenges that have defined U.S. foreign policy in relation to China and its rise on the international stage. During the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama the traditional safeguards and stabilizers to strategic competition were broadly adhered to, albeit in some cases not without great difficulty. Under the leadership of Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping, however, these bulwarks have alarmingly diminished. Abrupt departures in engagement platforms and asserting regional defensive postures have become the new norms.With brevity and nuance, this book provides much needed connective tissue in examining these departures and their antecedents across the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. It reveals Washington and Beijing are moving towards a new period where, unlike previous ones, this one will be characterised by an amplified preponderance of competition, and the enhanced probability of conflict and confrontation.Aiden Warren is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne. Adam Bartley is a lecturer and China foreign relations specialist at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne.

Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern Britain This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations. Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University. Bill Angus is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Massey University in New Zealand.