House of Psychotic Women - An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films Expanded Edition by Kier-La Janisse
$110.00 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse's HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films that examines hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens. I ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
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Category: Theory & Essays
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
How We Love: Notes on a life by Clementine Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mothe ...Show more
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright
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Category: Theory & Essays
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values--equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity--can provide both the basis for a critique ...Show more
How to Read and Why by Bloom
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$29.99 (74% off)
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong rea ...Show more
How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco
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Category: Theory & Essays
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco's iconic essay 'Ur-Fascism', which lists the four ...Show more
How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays by Mohamed Hassan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the C21st. This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more
Intimacy in Postmodern Times - A Friendship with Zygmunt Bauman by Peter Beilharz
$49.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern and much else, up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics. In this book, Australian sociologist Peter Beilharz, Bauman's collaborator for thirty years, rec ...Show more
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory by Michele Wallace
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Radical Thinkers
First published in 1990, Michele Wallace's Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace's considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in p ...Show more