American Presidents and Oliver Stone

American Presidents and Oliver StoneSynthesizing detailed film criticism with thorough political and historical analysis, examines the Oliver Stone films JFK, Nixon and W. that transmute these presidencies into works of historical fiction. Wide ranging, accessible and highly original, this book will fascinate everyone interested in the intersection of American politics and cinema.

Each chapter explores the nature

Society and Empire is a new book of essays by distinguished US and UK scholars on this most influential and prolific of Victorian writers and thinkers

the book offers a new narrative that challenges conventional understandings of politics

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this book will appeal to scholars

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This collection brings together leading international research

Postcolonial Criticism and Gender/Sexuality Studies

What does it mean to say that politics is personalised

A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated

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