This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Multidiscipl

This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.

Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from world cinema

This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have be