The Unseen City is an anthropological examination of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. Goddard presents an authoritative work, notable for its professional engagement with the subject: the hidden urban environment of a city unseen not only by the casual visitor but also by those residents affluent enough to dwell behind high walls topped with razor wire.

Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form provides a new and comprehensive account of the writing and thought of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. While Gombrowicz is probably the key Polish modernist writer, with a stature in his native Poland equivalent to that of Joyce or Beckett in the English language, he remains little known in English. As well as providing a commentary on his novels, plays, and short stories, this book sets Gombrowicz's writing in the context of contemporary cultural theory. The author performs a detailed examination of Gombrowicz's major literary and...

Since Papua, New Guinea's, independence in the 1970s, Port Moresby has been transformed from a colonial administrative center to a distinctively Melanesian city. Experts from the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and human ecology seek to represent Mosbi as Papua New Guineans experience it.

The opening up of Poland economically and politically to global influences after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, coupled with the rise of transnational approaches to the study of film, present ideal conditions for an examination of Polish cinema from a transnational vantage point. Yet not only have studies of Polish cinema remained largely within a national framework but Polish, and many other Eastern European cinemas, have also been virtually excluded from accounts of transnational cinema.
"Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context" addresses this lacuna in film studies by examining...