Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of visual and cultural studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to further the critical tradition in art history, respond to the woek of contemporary artists, and bring the concerns of cultural and critical theory, particularly feminist and post-colonial theory, to the study of art and design history. This volume brings together writings by leading cultural theorists and artists which were first published in the journal, to provide a resource for the teaching and study of art and design history, and theory and...

Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where the evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. These mysterious spaces foment the terror at the heart of horror movies, empowering the ghastly creatures that emerge to kill and torment. With Dark Places, Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted spaces to explore them and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there.
In this wide-ranging and compelling study, Curtis demonstrates how the claustrophobic interiors of haunted spaces in films connect to the dark places of the human psyche. He...

There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these?
Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual inquiry and cultural practice.