The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation by Gregory Frame has been shortlisted for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Award. The award ceremony will take place at the association's annual conference, which will be held 14-16 April 2016 at the University of Reading. Congratulations to… Continue reading Gregory Frame’s ‘The American President in Film and Television’ shortlisted for BAFTSS Best Book Award
Month: February 2016
Anna Haag and her Secret Diary of the Second World War published
How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888β1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like Victor Klemperer, she deconstructed German political propaganda day by day,… Continue reading Anna Haag and her Secret Diary of the Second World War published
Book launch: Transnational Revolutionaries: The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866
On Tuesday 2 February, the launch of Dr David Doolinβs new book Transnational Revolutionaries: The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866, Volume 71 in the Reimagining Ireland series, took place at the Mansion House on Dawson Street in Dublin. The book is published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the event, in which several thousand… Continue reading Book launch: Transnational Revolutionaries: The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866