A landmark and critical edition presenting the English translations of Cesare Pavese's film treatments for the first time along with complete correspondences with Hollywood actresses the Dowling Sisters and unearthed interviews.Offering a comprehensive collection of Cesare Pavese's film treatments, this volume includes the previously unpublished English translation of The Serpent and the Dove, translated by Pavese himself in collaboration with Doris Dowlin...

The first detailed discussion of Richard Rorty's understanding of literature and aesthetics, which engages with a broad range of writers, including Emerson, Nietzsche, and Proust.For most of his career, at least since the publication of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature in 1979, Richard Rorty called his readers' attention to the importance of the poet's work. Indeed, Ulf Schulenberg argues that Rorty's version of pragmatism should be regarded as a poetic...

Ko Woon Lee examines the ways in which the rule, or kingdom, of God is manifested and operates in the narrative of the Gospel of Mark. Lee presents an innovative approach by applying Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, particularly their three abstract lines, to biblical hermeneutics. While traditional Markan scholarship has focused on secrecy and narrative structure, Lee argues that the rule of God should be understood as a dynamic force that operates across various planes...

An exploration of how contemporary horror films focusing on the internet engage with society's material, functional and ideological reorientation to new digital realities, this book shows how subjects can resist the age of data capitalism and the authority of the algorithm.Upending the notion that the horror genre – arguably the seismograph of cultural unease – has remained unresponsive to the unprecedented dangers of the digital age, The Post-Internet...

Feminist Apocalypse explores how the post-apocalypse is best seen as a narrative mode rather than genre, and its use in cinematic narrative began in the 1950s, largely fueled by the Cold War and fear of nuclear annihilation.In this book, Ezekiel Crago argues early post-apocalyptic films were primarily concerned with the plight of their usually white male protagonist, but this changed in the 1980s, as films and television shows started focusing instead on w...

Carmen Celestini analyzes social media posts from both mainstream and alternative platforms to demonstrate how “anti-woke” extremists in Canada capitalize on perceived injustices to co-opt a fabricated social identity of victimhood, both online and off.Using a networked thematic analysis framework, Celestini examines posts from white, Christian Canadian nationalist and far-right social media accounts to identify tropes of persecution used by these groups to perpetu...

The slippery and mutable boundaries between humans and nonhumans are frequently figured queerly in twenty-first-century U.S. literature. This innovative book examines the ways that nonhumans are brought into intimate, estranging contact with humans in contemporary novels, short stories, poems, and nonfiction. Through detailed attention to a selection of real and imagined flora, fauna, and other phenomena in the bestiary form—from horses to taxidermy to dogs and extinction—the book probes t...

Melissa Beattie explores the promises and pitfalls of fabricated nations as a setting and subject of fictional narratives, interrogating the methods and motivations of their creation and, more importantly, who they purport to represent.Drawing upon aesthetics, industrial analyses, and postcolonial theory, Beattie argues that in (re)combining elements of real nations into constructed ones, we introduce the opportunity for existing perceived-stereotypes to be either ...

On 1 March 1979, voters went to the polls in Scotland's first national referendum to decide whether to establish a Scottish Assembly, nearly three centuries after the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament in 1707. Held just two months before the general election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, the referendum was Scotland's first opportunity to determine the constitutional question that had dogged its politics for nearly a century and, as in 1997 and 2014, it shaped the country's ...

Since the 1970s, market economics - which is concerned with opening markets for international trade and finance - has been guiding policymaking in many states, with the focus being on giving market actors a free reign in deciding where economic activity takes place. As a result, corporations have been globalizing their supply chains to take advantage of specialization and maximize efficiency, giving rise to a deepening economic interdependence across the globe.Governments and polic...

Bad Faith and the Culture War retraces recent campaigns against “wokeness” to a convergence of colorblind ideologies that insidiously entrench traditional racism beneath a veneer of “common sense.”Probing interconnections between legal originalism, cultural invocations of “Western tradition,” and reactionary backlash to Critical Race Theory and antiracist activism, Amien Kacou devises an eclectic political psychology approach that exposes ...

Following on previous publications Sonic Rupture (Bloomsbury, 2016)and Urban Roar (Bloomsbury, 2022), which cover soundscape design and urban transformation, Jordan Lacey's Ritualizing Sound tackles how to ethically apply sound and ritual to creative arts and design practices.Techno-capitalism is extractive of resources and of people's capacity to connect meaningfully with the earth and one another. Extractive practices are those that dra...