Traces the giallo mystery/horror genre from its genesis in Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s to its contemporary place in the global cult-film canon.

Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas’s and Adorno’s thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.

Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.

Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.

A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.

Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.

Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative.

Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women’s lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.

Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.