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The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensively upon little-known archival materials, including set drawings and drafts of the screenplay, and a close examination of the film in which Neil Badmington analyzes each of Rope's eleven shots. Writing in an accessible and engaging style, Badmington explores the film's treatment of space, sound, editi...

The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensively upon little-known archival materials, including set drawings and drafts of the screenplay, and a close examination of the film in which Neil Badmington analyzes each of Rope's eleven shots. Writing in an accessible and engaging style, Badmington explores the film's treatment of space, sound, editi...

Critical and cultural theory invites a rethinking of some of our most basic assumptions about who we are, how we behave, and how we interpret the world around us. This book contains topics including subjectivity, language, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, the body, the human, class, culture, everyday life, literature, psychoanalysis, and technology.

What is posthumanism and why does it matter? This reader offers an introduction to the ways in which humanism's belief in the natural supremacy of the Family of Man has been called into question at different moments and from different theoretical positions. What is the relationship between posthumanism and technology? Can posthumanism have a politics - post-colonial or feminist? Are postmodernism and poststructuralism posthumanist? What happen...

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Will there ever be an end to the supply of books about Alfred Hitchcock?', pleaded the Times Literary Supplement in 2008. It is a fair question for, as Michael Walker pointed out in Hitchcock's Motifs, more has been written about Hitchcock (1899-1980) than any other film director. Indeed, Jane E. Sloan's 1993 Hitchcock bibliography revealed that well over seventy-five scholarly books and nearly 1, 000 articles had been published by 1990, and t...

Decades after Alfred Hitchcock's death, his work continues to draw passionate responses and critical acclaim. With "Hitchcock's Magic, " Neil Badmington takes a new look at Hitchcock's body of work to try to figure out just what it is that makes them so lasting--and why their influence has been so pervasive. Featuring detailed analyses of a number of Hitchcock's most successful films, including "Psycho, " " Rear Window, " and "The Birds, " and...

From The War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks!, Mission to Mars and Independence Day, Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens and how thinkers such as Descartes, Barthes, Freud, Lyotard and Derrida have conceptualised what it means to be human (and post-human).

Alien Chic" sets out to provide a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking why our attitudes to aliens have changed from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others. The author begins by exploring our relationship with the concept of aliens, primarily through films, including "Invaders from Mars, " "Mars Attacks" and "Mission to Mars." He then progresses to ideas of humanism and what make...

A new generation is turning to theory to think through some of the most crucial issues in contemporary culture. "New Cultural Studies" provides for the first time an authoritative and accessible guide to the ideas of this generation, explaining just why theory continues to be central to the past, present, and future of cultural studies. It follows prominent thinkers and theorists, such as Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida, Kittler, Laclau, Lev...

What is posthumanism and why does it matter? This reader offers an introduction to the ways in which humanism's belief in the natural supremacy of the Family of Man has been called into question at different moments and from different theoretical positions. What is the relationship between posthumanism and technology? Can posthumanism have a politics - post-colonial or feminist? Are postmodernism and poststructuralism posthumanist? What happen...

Everything is open to question. Nothing is sacred. Critical and cultural theory invites a rethinking of some of our most basic assumptions about who we are, how we behave, and how we interpret the world around us. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader brings together 29 key pieces from the last century and a half that have shaped the field. Topics include: subjectivity, language, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, the body, the human, c...