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By charting the history of the philosophy of conflict in Western discourse, the author offers a critique of contemporary notions of war and terror.

Brings together essays written just after World War II. This title features essays that range across the author's reflections on collaboration, resistance and liberation in post-war Europe, his thoughts and observations after his extended trip to the USA in 1945, and an examination of the failings of philosophical materialism.

Explains how and why cartoons work, why they matter and why the reactions of the offended are often an even blunter political weapon than the cartoons themselves.

Attempts to disentangle the varieties of offence, to trace the origins of our situation to the failed identity politics of the 1970s and the new language of human rights, and to distinguish between the duty to offend and the temptations of cultural chauvinism.

Presents ten personal interviews with the poete Adonis, the author's father, about his education, his feelings about Islam, poetry, women, the veil, monotheism, terrorism, Lebanon where they lived before the war and his native Syria.

Che Guevara's death began a legend and closed an era. This book shows how, in theory, immense disparity in local wealth combined with the heavy hand of "Yankee imperialism" laid the ground for revolution. It tells that in practice, however, circumstances conspired to thwart the plans of the revolutionary guerrillas.

Examines the various kinds of censorship which have oppressed homosexual men and women. Discussing artists as diverse as Marcel Proust, Benjamin Britten, WH Auden and Terence Rattigan, Saki and Ronald Firbank, this book explores the true nature of "camp" and the rich tradition of subversive and comic art created by the censoring of the sexual.

From the late 18th century, Calcutta, first city of the British empire, has been a hub of ideas and movements of change. This study of the history of the Bengali theatre looks at the plays mounted in the city in the 18th and 19th centuries and their reception, and goes on to study the cultural efflorescence known as the "Bengal Renaissance".

Features plays such as "Waxing West", "Eyes of the Heart", "My Political Israeli Play", "America Dreaming", "The Black Eyed", and more.

Allowing us access to short films from the 1900s, British Durbar films, the precursors of the newsreel genre, and Empire adventure movies, this book explores Melies, Lumiere and Jean Renoir, moving on to the Raj films of the 80s and international cinema of the late 20th century. It traces the trajectory of changing images of India abroad.

The city of Amritsar has been a focus for political and religious conflict since the partition of 1947. This work brings together 25 first-hand accounts of life in a city at the epicentre of one of the largest and bloodiest forced migrations in history. It explores experiences from the time of partition.

Analyses the experience of modernity in South Asia. Arguing that South Asia's experience of modernity has to be understood in a global context, this book explores a wide range of topics such as: the emergence of 'Assam Fever' in colonial discourse; an experiment with fusion music in early colonial India; among onial India; among others.

Presents an atlas of one of the world's richest historical musical traditions. This atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. It provides an ethnographic survey of musical traditions.

Brings together the important essays from the Vsevolod Pudovkin's two key books, "Film Technique" and "Film Acting". These essays highlight the development of his revolutionary thinking on scripts, directing, time, sound, and acting. His films - "The Mother", "The End of St Petersburg" and "Storm Over Asia" - are classics of silent cinema.

Focuses on culture, ideology and philosophy in the context of building an alternative vision of socialism. This book brings together the author's key writings on socialism and its culture from the Manuscripts. It explores the realization of the concept of total man, the problems of freedom, equality and hierarchy, the role of the Party, and more.

Explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. Illustrated throughout with halftones and accompanied by a compact disc of musical examples from many of the traditions discussed, this title is of interest to scholars of ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology.

Traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to focus on the lived experiences of dancers from a wide cross-section of society, this book narrates the history of Kathak from baijis and tawaifs to the global stage.