Theatricality in the Horror Film

Theatricality in the Horror FilmAs is well known, the horror film generally presents a situation where normality is threatened by a monster. From this premise, Theatricality in the Horror Film argues that scary movies often create their terrifying effects stylistically and structurally through a radical break with the realism of normality in the form of monstrous theatricality.

The first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance

It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media and politics to an unprecedented extent

and Congo Rivers

Topics considered range from why Patrick Pearse's ideas about education were ignored to why Ireland has been recently so open to large-scale immigration

Interpreting the Corrib gas conflict as a microcosm of the Irish state's approach to hydrocarbon management

Taking the South Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies

A thought-provoking contribution to a number of disparate fields

the persistence of tradition and the role of genius

It examines processes of criminalisation

illegal practices

manhood and gendered difference from the nineteenth century to the present

This short primer traces the origins of the concept of the living wage and seeks to explain its current rise in fortune as an economic instrument with a social objective