Post-Truth PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism

Post-Truth PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & CriticismPost truth, Oxford Dictionarys 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind post truth is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.

This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives on Bacon’s ‘The New Atlantis'

It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking

and political philosophy

In placing her heroine in these predicaments Norton was able to draw upon her own experiences of the bon ton

This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland with a focus on Edinburgh

age and sexuality

By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siècle spirit

It addresses a range of issues of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities

exploring how digital surveillance and evaluation practices have infiltrated every aspect of our lives

Peacock explores clowning that takes place outside of conventional venues

water is at the heart of this book

online databases and nature documentaries