Jean Epstein

Jean EpsteinThis is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epsteins fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality. The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.

including the cartography of postcolonial Europe

Poland has experienced a dramatic transformation in the last century

and the problems posed by a neo-liberal political economy

notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)

with many historians contending that their ‘desacralizing’ and frequently pornographic publications sapped the foundations of the monarchy

nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature

Addressing a growing area of focus in contemporary art

The first study in English of the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante

Film Ireland

but firmly embedded within the traditions and conventions of early film culture

and televisual works

with essays on the most prolific filmmakers