The films of Canadian-Armenian director Atom Egoyan immerse the viewer in a world of lush sensuality, melancholia, and brooding obsession. From his earliest films Next of Kin ...

Can fictions of desire determine real pleasures? Do texts regulate the performance of our sexual identities? In Sexuality and the Reading Encounter Emma Wilson offers a new ...

Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. Wilson contends that the loss of a child is perceived as a limit ...

Development experts agree that ensuring access to sustainable modern energy services is critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This report explores how ...

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

High prices and concerns about energy security in the oil and gas industry are driving expansion into ever more sensitive environments with greater technoological, political ...

A highly inclusive collection, "Sexuality And Masquerade" celebrates the erotics of indecision, of gender performance, of sexual artifice in its full range.

French Cinema Since 1950 brings together modern scholarship of the most widely viewed and studied works of the period.