Tony Wright's Very Short Introduction to British Politics is an interpretative essay on the British political system, rather than merely an abbreviated textbook on how it currently works. He identifies key characteristics and ideas of the British tradition, and investigates what makes British politics distinctive, while emphasizing throughout the book how these characteristics ...(展开全部)

阿希什·拉贾德雅克萨（Ashish Rajadhyaksha）是印度电影与文化研究理论家，印度班加罗尔的 “文化和社会研究中心”研究员。著有《你不属于：印度电影的过去与未来》《胶片时代的印度电影：从宝来坞到紧急状态》 （Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid：From Bollywood to the Emergency，2009）和《印度电影百科全书》（Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema，2011）（与保罗 · 威尔曼合著）。

Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. In the first book in English to focus on Angelopoulos's unique cinematic vision, Andrew Horton provides an illuminating contextual study that attempts to demonstrate the quintessentially Greek na...(展开全部)

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value ...(展开全部)

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value ...(展开全部)

This collection of 200 posters from the archives of British Airways provides a stunning visual history of air travel from the earliest days to the present. Airline posters often evoked the glamour of