The rural war HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century

The rural war HISTORY / Modern / 20th CenturyThe Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestors destroyed machines, demanding higher wages and better poor relief. Swing represented a genuine challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This is a vivid account of a defining moment in British history.

With Nature provides new ways to think about our relationship with nature in today’s technologically mediated culture

This book brings together essays that engage with mainstream entertainment

European media is experiencing a paradoxical form of growth: as media outlets surge and new technologies develop

youth work activism and the history of the LGBT Centre in Manchester

comedies and surrealist art cinema

accompanied by critical essays and director's notes

How dance and mass movement are used as a political tool by political regimes

How do various forms of comedy – including stand-up

and Santiago Sierra

World Film Locations: Singapore introduces armchair travellers to a rich

The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from multiple perspectives: genre

It also theorizes immigration cinema in relation to notions such as gender