Madness on trial

Madness on trialThis book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey.

the book reveals a fan culture that is vibrant

from his inauspicious beginnings on the comic book page to the cult television series of the 1960s and the critically acclaimed films and video games of today

generating new approaches

Reconstructing this ‘woman’s world’ from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources

and the ways in which it has contributed to national achievement

An analysis of how nuclear weapons states have been able to 'normalise' nuclear weapons by practising elements of ‘nuclearism’

Pleading in the Blood explores how Athey’s visceral practice foresaw and precipitated the central place afforded sexuality

Shakespeare’s adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare’s plays

Congdon draws on her years of studying and teaching art at all levels – from universities to correctional settings – to identify three traits that are regularly found in successful artists: desire

in addition to those interested in local history

Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image by providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs

The first major study of mock-documentary – one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'