April 5, 2022
Karen Louise Jolly’s new edited volume, with Britton Elliott Brooks, interrogates materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural… READ MORE
April 4, 2022
We are delighted that Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance, featuring selected proceedings of the Romance in Medieval Britain conference held at Cardiff University in 2018, has been published in time… READ MORE
April 2, 2022
The White Ribbon utilizes many authenticating effects to establish the truthfulness of its reconstruction, the veracity of its depiction of the past. The careful mise-en-scène, with its period costumes, detailed… READ MORE
April 2, 2022
I enjoyed writing about Phoenix for Camden House’s German Film Classics series as much as I have ever enjoyed a writing project. The film’s director, Christian Petzold, who is a… READ MORE
April 1, 2022
Growing up in Jerusalem, Israel, and attending the secular school system, I never heard about the clay golem and its narrative of Jewish mystical creation. I was an avid reader… READ MORE
April 1, 2022
At the outset of The Patriot, the eighth installment in Camden House’s German Film Classics series, I ask the question: Why is Alexander Kluge’s The Patriot (1979) a film for… READ MORE
April 1, 2022
An innovative study of the role of sports in modernity in Africa. A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre. A… READ MORE
March 31, 2022
Whenever I mentioned to people that I am working on a monograph on Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire, I would either hear, “Oh, that’s (one of) my favorite film/s!” or… READ MORE
March 31, 2022
John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3) is a fine example of an early modern self-made man. This study of his life and work illustrates well that fundamental tenet of the… READ MORE
March 30, 2022
Few films in German film history have generated more buzz and speculation long before their actual release than Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, only a handful have left as many legends about… READ MORE
Constructing History across the Norman Conquest