Encounters in the Victorian Periodical Press focuses on the unique characteristic of the Victorian periodical press--its development of encounters between and among readers, editors, and authors. Encounters promoted dialogue among diverse publics, differing by class, gender, professional and political interests, and ethnicity. Through encounters, the press emerged to become a central public space for debates about society, politics, culture, public order, and foreign and imperial affairs. This book captures the richness of these interactions and a variety of voices and opinions.

Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical discussion.

• A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema
• Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study
• Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity
• Uses...

Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical discussion.

• A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema
• Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study
• Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity
• Uses...

This study examines the origins, development and explosion of biographical literature on artists in Britain between 1870 and 1910. It analyzes a variety of narrative modes, including gossip, anecdotes, and serialization, as well as the differences among genres (autobiographies, family biographies, biographical histories and dictionaries.) Julie Codell discerns the multiple, often conflicting identities that were ascribed to artists collectively, and as individuals. Her book serves as a timely sociological and cultural overview of the art world in Britain in the decades before World War I.