Democracy on demand

Democracy on demandDemocracy on demand is a most comprehensive analysis of the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of referendums and the challenges to modern democracy. It shows how democracy is vulnerable, and how it can be saved from demagogues.

encouraging readers to sidestep the methodological and disciplinary boundaries associated with the arts and sciences

and comic art

charts to complete

” is what the gold-lettering on the pawnshop’s placard reads

Auger contextualizes cartomancy – the practice of fortune telling via playing cards – and dives deep into its invention and promulgation in film

Fane was known only as a patron of Robert Herrick

Contributors offer close analyses of the work of both widely acknowledged auteurs and little-known provocateurs who deserve much wider recognition

capturing the practices and attitudes of a fan culture that is arguably the world's best-known and most misunderstood

75 years later the slow fashion movement is motivating new reductions in clothing consumption

The contributors map narratives of Europe rooted in Eastern Europe

Ranging across three hundred years the essays in this volume address key questions in women's theatre history and retrieve a number of hitherto 'hidden' histories of women performers

embodiment and cinema and extends the field by examining metaphysical presence in postcolonial cinema