Mega-events and social change

Mega-events and social changeContemporary mega events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.

An exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks - the recklessly brave

Neither a top down history

from horror movies like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining to science fiction and social realist films like The Grapes of Wrath

the play tells the story of friar Albert and his seduction of a Venetian merchant’s wife by posing as the God Cupid

sociological and cultural implications

Technology and Desire examines the performative ontologies of moving images across the genealogies of media and their aesthetic agency in contemporary media and video art

Since its establishment in 1949

sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina

With so many great figures shaping its history

The Revolution of 1900 is a classic of British literature reimagined for modern readers

It includes chapters on the creative documentary

we revisit iconic tourist sites from the Eiffel Tower – whose stairs and crossbars inspired more than one famous chase scene – to the Moulin Rouge overlooking the famously seedy Place Pigalle