Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture
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A powerful female, preadolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming...
Farming Cuba: Urban Agriculture from the Ground Up
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Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba found itself solely responsible...
Sir Curtly Ambrose: Time to Talk
Richie Benaud, Curtly Ambrose, Richard Sydenham and Steve Waugh
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Sir Curtly Ambrose is one of the most famous cricket players of all time. He is also notorious for...
The Lure of the Honey Bird: The Storytellers of Ethiopia
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In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching...
The New Shostakovich
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Who was Dmitri Shostakovich? The USSR's official figurehead composer and son of the revolution that...
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice
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Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African...
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
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The sequel to the classic memoir I Saw Ramallah, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the...
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years...
Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla
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One of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodovar has won international recognition for his...
Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema
Miklos Kiss and Steven Willemsen
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Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a...