 Thomas Austin (Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies)
Watching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences
Manchester University Press, £50 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780719076893 The publisher says: “Anglophone screen documentary has experienced a marked rise in visibility and popularity in recent years. This book is both a response to these developments and a contribution to them, insofar as it attempts to extend the reach of documentary studies. It does so by pursuing a critical inquiry into some recent instances of screen documentary, and the uses and possibilities that they offer audiences. What can such an analysis discover about how viewers engage with documentary?”
 Maurice Howard (Professor of History of Art)
The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Yale University Press, £45 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780300135435 The publisher says: “In this beautiful and elegantly argued book, Maurice Howard reveals that changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of construction and the self-image of major patrons in the revolutionary century between Reformation and Civil War, and he shows how the transformation of the country's stock of buildings was accompanied by a new language both of word and of vision, as building accounts, government regulation and theoretical writing on the one hand, and pictorial representation on the other, directed new ways of documenting the changed appearance of the buildings in which people lived, worshipped and worked.” |
|  Sally R. Munt (Professor of Media Studies)
Queer Attachments. The cultural politics of shame
Ashgate, £55 (hardback), £18.99 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780754649236/9780754649212 The publisher says: “Sally R. Munt explores the vicissitudes of shame across a range of texts, cultural milieux, historical locations and geographical spaces, from 18th century Irish politics to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, from contemporary US academia to the aesthetics of Tracey Emin.”
Sybil Oldfield (Research Reader) (ed.)
Kindertransport, Before and After: Elegy and celebration
Centre for German-Jewish Studies, £10 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780955411427 60 poems by Lotte Kramer, to mark the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the first Kindertransport trains from Germany to Britain. The 84-year-old poet, Lotte Kramer, was a child refugee from Mainz in 1939. |
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