An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Dissects the ways filmmakers frame ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe as adornments of catastrophe
How Spanish directors have handled religious themes, with their highly-charged political implications, from the historical avant-garde to 2010
A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization
Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era
A first-hand account of the genealogy of the discipline, and of the rise of a new era of social history, by one of the leading historians of a generation
Analyzes the social and cultural aspects of transition
A look at women's changing roles and images in the emerging new Russian society
Russian artists and critics attest to the cultural changes emerging since the fall of the Soviet Union
Explorations of cultural change in the former Soviet bloc