Product Description: The sports film is a major genre in both English-language and world cinema. This trailblazing book examines the sub-genre of sports films that centre on female athletes. It addresses how cinematic depictions of sportswomen have, at times, challenged received ideas about femininity, sexuality and sport...read more

Product Description: Like an analyst listening to a patient, this study attends not just to what is said in David Sylvester's interviews with Francis Bacon, but also crucially to what is left unspoken, to revealing interruptions and caesuras. Through interpreting these silences, After Francis Bacon breaks with stereotypical ideas about the artist's work and provides new readings and avenues of research...read more

Product Description: This deeply persuasive book presents a new and profound approach to the testimony of the Holocaust.  Nicholas Chare offers a critical reassessment of the writings on the abject by Julia Kristeva, including her best known, highly influential work Powers of Horror, first translated into English in 1982...read more