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Ricardo Darín and the Construction of Latin American Film Stardom
  • Clara Garavelli
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2023
  • This monograph examines the figure of Ricardo Darín, the leading actor that drives Argentine cinema's box office success. It aims to fill a lacuna both in Hispanic and Anglophone academia regarding the study of how Ricardo Darín's rise to stardom took place, and what that stardom means for the Latin American film industry. Accordingly, it examines whether or not Ricardo Darín embodies the epitome of the contemporary Latin American or Hispanic star, and, importantly, whether or not the characteristics of the Hollywood star system are actually applicable in the case of Argentine cinema - where the dividing lines between so-called 'industrial' and 'independent' cinemas are very difficult to discern. Thus, whilst taking the study of this key figure from contemporary Argentine cinema as its focal point, this study will also facilitate an opening up towards broader but equally vital questions that continue to require full examination: How are Argentine, Latin American and Hispanic stars constructed? Does the leading actor of contemporary Argentine cinema embody a wider social group and historical moment in the region? Is his performative approach redefining a particular cinematic style?

The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts
  • Edited by Catherine Gander
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2025
    Print publication:
    01 September 2023
  • The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Don DeLillo's career-long engagements with the visual, literary, digital and televisual, performing, filmic, and spatial arts. Gathering original essays from a diverse range of international contributors, including established voices in DeLillo criticism and emerging experts, the volume forges new paths in the study of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

    Beginning with a section dedicated to experiential and political aesthetics in DeLillo's work, the Companion offers new perspectives on the forms and functions of the arts across DeLillo's entire oeuvre-from his first novel 'Americana', through his plays, essays, short stories, to his latest novel, 'The Silence'. This exciting Companion is a genuine intervention in DeLillo scholarship by offering an interdisciplinary examination of his work across forms, media, method, and theory.

Noise and Noise Law
  • A Practitioner's Guide
  • Francis McManus, Andy Mckenzie
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2023
  • This key reference text covers both the common law and the statutory controls over noise; including a detailed discussion of the role of planning law, with special attention given to the role of environmental assessment. Leading cases are covered in detail, for example, Baxter vs Camden LBC, Coventry vs Lawrence, Hatton vs UK, Webster vs Lord Advocate and Dennis vs MoD.

    Drawing on the authors' combined expertise, the book presents a clear and practical overview for academics, practitioners and agencies working in acoustics, noise law and environmental law. It is also an ideal textbook for students undertaking modules on Environmental Noise and Regulation of Noise as part of the IOA diploma in Acoustics.

Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre
  • Power, Capacity and the Good
  • Edited by Kent Lehnhof, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Carolyn Sale
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2025
    Print publication:
    01 September 2023
  • This collection of essays explores how the Shakespearean drama enacts ancient virtues and conceptualises new ones in complex fictional scenarios that test virtues for their continuing value. Contributors approach the virtues as a source of imaginative, affective and intellectual nourishment and consider how Shakespeare's art increases our capacity for new pursuits of the good. Examining Shakespeare's virtuous theatre in tragic, comic and romance modes and from ethical, theatrical and political perspectives, this volume establishes virtue as a framework for a socially, environmentally and spiritually renewed literary criticism. Contributors balance historical depth and philosophical insight with the art of close reading as they contemplate the dynamic field of virtue - embodied, responsive, energetic and dynamic - as it ebbs and flows across time, among multiple wisdom traditions, and in the entangled lives and troubled circumstances of Shakespeare's characters.

The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture
  • Edited by Maria Flood, Michael C. Frank
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2023
  • The contemporary preoccupation with terrorism is marked by a curious paradox: whereas the topic has been ubiquitous in public discourse since the late twentieth century, the voices of terrorists themselves are usually silenced. Is the terrorist 'the quintessential proscribed or tabooed figure of our times', as cultural anthropologists Joseba Zulaika and William A. Douglass have suggested? The present volume is the first to approach the tabooing of terrorists from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Covering a broad geographical scope, it explores how different media forms (such as novels, fiction and non-fiction films, or comic books) frame and make sense of the figure of the terrorist: do they reinforce the terrorism taboo, or do they find ways of circumventing it? Each contribution asks how factors such as ideological agenda, religious identity, ethnicity, and gender impact the way the perpetrators of political violence are conceived in different historical moments and cultural contexts.

Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa
  • Local Challenges, Global Implications
  • Edited by Sarah Yerkes
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2023
  • North Africa was once on the geopolitical periphery of Middle East dynamics, but it has increasingly come to shape regional trends. In addition to internal political and economic transformations that were accelerated by the protests of 2011 and that have upended or reshaped the lives of millions of the region's inhabitants, the region is also contending with a range of external challenges. These include the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic transformation, changing market dynamics including energy markets, the growing presence of new regional actors like Russia and China, and the changing role of traditional allies such as the European Union, Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and the United States. These dynamics are compounded by other natural and man-made climate changes and demographic changes that worsen them. This volume shows why North Africa, sometimes considered a backwater within a broader Middle East context, actually is the leading edge of change for the region and deserving of far more attention from the international community. North African countries are facing a dizzying array of challenges related to domestic and global trends - political transformation either recent or underway, economic stagnation now worsened by the pandemic, social challenges associated with a frustrated young population - are giving the region more geopolitical relevance with implications for the broader Middle East, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Contemporary Arabic Literature
  • Heritage and Innovation
  • Reuven Snir
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2025
    Print publication:
    08 February 2023
  • This book examines the ways in which contemporary Arab authors communicate with two major sources of inspiration: the first, is the rich Arabic literary heritage whether it has been embodied in texts or concrete experiences, real or imaginary. The second are other cultures and literatures which have become sources for direct or indirect loans for Arabic literature. Both sources are essential for our understanding of the nature of contemporary Arabic literary works. The relationship between modern and medieval Arabic literature is indispensable; moreover, the literariness of any Arabic literary text cannot be isolated from the history of Arabic literature. Also, the role and function of Arabic literature, the nature of its literary criticism and scholarship, the relations between religious, political, and other activities within Arab culture and its literary production-all may be modelled in Arab culture in relation to other culture or cultures.

The Gentle Shepherd

Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World
  • Edited by Yannis Stouraitis
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    25 January 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2022
  • This collection offers new insights into ideology and identity in the Byzantine world. The range of international contributors explore the content and role of various ideological discourses in shaping the relationship between the imperial centre and the provinces. Crucially, they examine various kinds of collective identifications and visions of community in the broader Byzantine world within and beyond the political boundaries of the empire. This interdisciplinary collection includes historical, literary, art-historical and archaeological as well as cross-cultural perspectives along with the exploration of ideas and identifications in cultures on the empire's periphery.

New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse
  • Edited by Angela Condello
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    25 January 2025
    Print publication:
    31 March 2020
  • Are the general and the particular separated in legal rhetorics? What is the function of singular events, facts, names in legal argumentation and what is their relationship to legal normativity? This collection of 11 essays takes a diachronic approach to address these questions from the perspective of contemporary legal discourse.

Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy
  • Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests
  • Lee Ward
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    14 December 2024
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022
  • Lays out an account of the origins and development of liberal political and economic theory.

Generalship in Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium

Main Melody Films
  • Hong Kong Directors in Mainland China
  • Yiu-Wai Chu
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    26 November 2024
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022
  • Provides an in-depth study of Hong Kong directors' participation in Chinese 'main-melody' blockbusters in the 2010s.

Surveying the Anthropocene

Gendering Civil War
  • Francophone Women's Writing in Lebanon
  • Mireille Rebeiz
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    23 November 2024
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022
  • Provides new and original analysis on how Lebanese francophone women authors wrote about the Lebanese civil war.

Intelligence Power in Practice

A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture

Image-Thinking
  • Artmaking as Cultural Analysis
  • Mieke Bal
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    22 November 2024
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022
  • In this rich, highly illustrated book, Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analysis and artistic practice. Bal teaches us how to think with images, but also how to write and think - as artists and writers - about our own creative work.

Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean

R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland
  • Party, Prose, and Political Aesthetic
  • Lachlan Munro
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    22 November 2024
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022
  • Explores the complex life of this controversial and enigmatic Scot, and his contribution to Scottish life and letters.

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