Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age
Ian Gregory Strachan and Mia Mask
Book
Sidney Poitier remains one of the most recognizable black men in the world. Widely celebrated but at...
STARZ Spartacus: Reimagining an Icon on Screen
Antony Agoustakis and Monica Cyrino
Book
The figure of Spartacus often serves as an icon of resistance against oppression in modern political...
The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema
Book
Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation's narratives of...
The Odin Teatret Archives
Book
The Odin Teatret Archives presents collections from the archives of one of the foremost reference...
Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
Book
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums,...
Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics After Apartheid
Louise Meintjes and T.J. Lemon
Book
In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a...
Entertaining Lisbon: Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century
Book
During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of...
Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United States: Conservatism in the 1960s and 1970s
Book
Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United States examines the unprecedented...
Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo
Book
What did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often...
Jihad Academy
Nicolas Henin and Martin Makinson
Book
Framed by Henin's personal experience as a hostage of ISIS alongside James Foley, Jihad Academy...