MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

(P/B) ABJECT VISIONS
This major new volume brings together leading international scholars to debate the continuing importance and relevance of the concept of abjection for the interpretation of modern and contemporary culture. This genuinely interdisciplinary collection includes important new essays that draw on the work of Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva and other key critical thinkers to provide innovative readings of works of art, film, theatre and literature. The clear and accessible essays in this volume extend the existing literature on a...
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(P/B) EUROPE'S PATH TO CRISIS
The EU's single currency crisis and the ensuing human costs have led to Europe's biggest disaster since 1945. This book examines each of its stages and the political and social impact, and reveals the longer-term origins of the crisis, particularly the failure of elites to promote a genuine European partnership grounded in democratic values and a desire to co-exist with a national outlook. The author defends an orderly retreat from the existing model of monetary union, arguing that an alternative is needed in order for countries enduring a...
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THE ART OF ALLEGIANCE

(H/B) THE CHILD IN SPANISH CINEMA
In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema. Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, 'art-house horror', science-fiction, social realism and fantasy. It includes reference to Erice's The Spirit of The Beehive, del Toro's Pan's Labyrint...
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(H/B) HISTORY, HERITAGE AND TRADITION IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POLITICS
History, heritage and tradition in contemporary British politics explores the different stories political parties tell us about British history and about their own historical roles. It examines archives, written histories and commemorations and focuses in particular on a number of explicit negotiations and historical narratives. These include the disputes over the National Curriculum for History, Conservative attempts to re-assess their historical role in 1997, the assertion of a "lost" social democratic tradition by the SDP and New Labour...
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(P/B) THEATRE, EDUCATION AND THE MAKING OF MEANINGS
This book is a study of theatre's educational role during the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorized, the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre as 'art': between theatre's aesthetic dimension and the 'utilitarian' or 'instrumental' role for which it has so often been pressed into service. Following a preliminary discussion of some key theoretical approaches to aesthetics, dramatic art an...
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(P/B) LAW ON THE BATTLEFIELD
This book, now fully updated and in its third edition, explains the law relating to the conduct of hostilities and provides guidance on difficult or controversial aspects of the law. It covers who or what may legitimately be attacked and what precautions must be taken to protect civilians, cultural property or the natural environment. It deals with the responsibility of commanders and how the law is enforced. There are also chapters on internal armed conflicts and the security aspects of belligerent occupation. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) EUROPEAN GOTHIC
The only collection to concentrate on the European Gothic - writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation, especially regarding Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel. Emphasises the importance of the impact of translation on the development of the Gothic novel. Uses a variety of critical perspectives to reassess the work of authors such as Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Charles Maturin, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Jan Pot...
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(P/B) EMIGRANT HOMECOMINGS
Emigrant homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained comparatively under-researched, despite evidence that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between a quarter and a third of all emigrants from many parts of Britain and Europe ultimately returned to their countries of origin. Emigrant homecomings analyses the motives, experiences and im...
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(P/B) MEDIEVAL FILM
MEDIEVAL FILM explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period. What does it mean to create and watch a 'medieval film'? What is a medieval film and why are they successful? This is the first work that attempts to answer these questions, drawing, for instance, on film theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies and the growing body of work on medievalism. Contributors investigate British, German, Italian, Australian, French, Swedish...
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(P/B) MODERN MOVEMENTS IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
In this now classic textbook, Richard Kearney surveys the work of nineteen of this century's most influential European thinkers, and acts as an introduction to three major movements: phenomenology, critical theory and structuralism. This edition includes a chapter devoted to Julia Kristeva, whose work in the fields of semiotics and psychoanalytic theory has made a significant contribution to recent continental thought. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) CASINO CAPITALISM
'Casino Capitalism ... remains one of the definitive discussions of the development of the international financial system during the post Second World War era ... essential to anyone wishing to secure a clear understanding of the sources of current international financial integration and the role of governments, individually and collectively...' (R. J. Barry Jones, University of Reading) Susan Strange's critical commentary on the weaknesses of the international financial system as they developed in the 1970s and early 1980s is as timely to...
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(P/B) THE UNCANNY
This study is of the uncanny; an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and queer theory. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's essay of 1919, "The Uncanny" (Das Unheimliche). Where he was perhaps the first to foreground the distinctive nature of the uncanny as a feeling of something not simply weird or mysterious but, more specifically, as something strangely familiar. As a co...
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(P/B) THE POSTMODERN CONDITION: A REPOST ON KNOWLEDGE

(P/B) SUBVERSIVE SPINOZA

(P/B) POLITICAL SHAKESPEARE
The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces. Ten years on, this second edition presents additional essays by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) MALE WITCHES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
This study of male witches addresses incidents of witch-hunting in Britain and Europe, using feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, and in some regions more men were accused than women. The book advances a balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms, and critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting, challenging the marginalization of male witches by feminist and ...
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(P/B) MARXISM AND HISTORY

(P/B) REFLECTIONS ON THE MARXIST THEORY OF HISTORY
A decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the 'End of History', anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply 'another world is possible'. More than anyone else it was Marx who showed that slogans such as this were no utopian fantasies, and that capitalism was just as much a historical mode of production, no more natural and certainly no less contradictory, than were the feudal and slave modes which proceeded it. Paul Blackledge opens this study with a defence of the Marxist approac...
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(P/B) THE MAGNETIC LADY
This is the paperback edition of the first fully annotated volume of Ben Jonson's The Magnetic Lady written in 1632. It contains textual and explanatory notes and the text is modernised for student use. The introduction places the play in the context of Jonson's later dramatic and poetic works and discusses the political context of the Caroline court. A performance history of the play and fresh material relating to its seventeenth-century reception are also provided. (from the publisher)...
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