Presents a fresh approach to questions of masculinity and sexuality in contemporary French narrative and cinema. This book uses analysis of AIDS narratives, mainstream films, popular novels, more mainstream novels, a graphic novel, and rightist polemics to explore the changing meaning of masculinity in French society.

Offers fresh insights into American cinematic classics. Covering the period from the 1910s up to the Second World War, this book provides insights into classics like The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath , discussing major writers' critical writings on film and active participation in film-making.

Explores the ways in which the London Underground/Tube was 'mapped' by a number of writers from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf. This book offers a chronological study that ranges from the opening of the first underground in the 1860s to its role in WW2. It draws on fiction and uses poetry, art, journals, postcards and posters to illustrate.

Argues that cinema and television in Spain only make sense when considered together as twin vehicles for screen fiction. This title analyses films by Almodovar and Amenabar as well as top rated, prize winning television drama. It helps you make the connection between Spanish television and the Latin American genre of telenovela.

Offers an approach to reading and 'repairing' the trauma decolonisation. This book provides fresh insight into Algerian independence and the cultural repercussions.

Offers an approach to reading and 'repairing' the trauma decolonisation. This book provides fresh insight into Algerian independence and the cultural repercussions.

Argues that cinema and television in Spain only make sense when considered together as twin vehicles for screen fiction. This book analyses films by Almodovar and Amenabar as well as top rated, prize winning television drama. It traces the attempt to establish a Latin American genre, the telenovela, in the different context of Spanish scheduling.

If you had been behind the Titanic on that fateful night in 1912, the last word that flashed before your eyes as the great ship was lost to the sea would have been 'Liverpool'. This book explores the history and myths surrounding the sinking, highlighting the stories that link Europe's pre-eminent port and its most famous maritime loss.

Offers insight into six of the world's most 'edgy' cities. Published to coincide with international 'Cities on the Edge' cultural programme, this title provides a visual journey through six cities sharing common cultural, historical, social and economic ties (Liverpool, Naples, Marseilles, Istanbul, Gdansk, Bremen).

Makes the case for a cross-disciplinary, but literature-centred, approach to postcolonial studies. This book looks specifically at the intersections between literary criticism, history, anthropology, geography and environmental studies.

A collection of essays draws together questions of value and evaluation in relation to studies of historical and contemporary art and artists, within a broad 'social history of art' conceptual framework.

Showcases the work of international artist Ben Johnson. This volume provides the official portrait of Liverpool as European capital of Culture for 2008. It showcases the Liverpool cityscape alongside Jerusalem, Zurich, Hong Kong, Chicago and Paris in artist Ben Johnson's World Panoramas series.

Intended for students, scholars, politicians and the interested general reader, the essays in this book illuminate the peace process through the words of some of its pivotal figures.

An account of the whole day of the worst disaster in Britain's sporting history, which occurred at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield on 15 April 1989. The disaster ultimately claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans as a result of crushing on the Leppings Lane terrace.

Lady Eastlake (1809-1893) is a pivotal figure in the history of art criticism. She is an English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist. This title brings together a comprehensive collection of her work.

Intends to look at how obesity has transcended art, Literature and the history of medicine. This book sets out to put the obesity crisis in historical perspective. It examines the meaning of 'fat' in the public consciousness: from circus freaks to pharmacology, from 'John Bull' to Billy Bunter.

Highlights the importance of contemporary Spanish poetry in Spanish contemporary culture. This book addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambitiousness of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century.

Explores art in contemporary Liverpool and engages with the view from outside the City and outside Britain. This book explores the often made but rarely challenged claims that Liverpool is 'the most significant UK centre for art outside London', and examines the key institutional players, such as the Bluecoat and the Walker Art Gallery.

Tells about Liverpool, and about what the city means to the average man or woman in the street. This title mixes short stories, autobiography and 'guest' contributions from actors, musicians and writers. It is suitable for the people of the city and for those interested in the music, football, working class life and culture of Liverpool.