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Global Literature and the Environment (2024)
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Whittle, M., & Munslow Ong, J. (in press). Global Literature and the Environment. London and New York: Routledge

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of imperialist-c... Read More about Global Literature and the Environment.

States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s (2024)
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Hayward, R., Smith, E., & Willis, A. (Eds.). (2024). States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s. Manchester UK: Manchester University Press

States of danger and deceit places key films (Z (1969), The Mattei Affair (1972), State of Siege (1972), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Illustrious Corpses (1976)) and filmmakers (Costa-Gavras, Elio Petri, Francesco Rosi, Volker Schlöndorf... Read More about States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s.

Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image (2024)
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Smith, P. B. (2024). Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association. https://doi.org/10.59860/mi.b69945a

State and corporate violence has always been waged on material space. However, with the escalation of late-capitalist and neocolonial modes of extraction, incarceration, and bordering, these processes of spatial exploitation are accelerating and morp... Read More about Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image.

Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture (2024)
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Wilson, J. (2024). Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009031080

Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only recently that the role of gesture during utterance production and comprehension has bee... Read More about Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture.