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Carlos Fuentes once observed that to be a Spanish American intellectual was to fulfill the roles, by default, of “a tribune, a member of parliament...

Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America’s popular c...

Pedro Almodovar … winner of a BAFTA for Best Director, 2000All About My Mother … Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, 2000The huge international suc...

Warriors and Scribes opens and closes using the prism of biography to question the framing of Latin American political life from both a northern, C...

Maria Luisa Bemberg, who died in 1995, was one of Latin America’s best known and most popular film-makers. The only woman director in the region to...

Over the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. Vision Machines explores ...

Terry Eagleton is one of the most important—and most radical—theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and soc...

At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result wa...

Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre...

Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps t...

Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps t...

Régis Debray’s major new work is an exploration of the foundations and limits of political discourse and action. Focusing, with his familiar verve ...

Galvano Della Volpe was the dominant philosopher of Italian Marxism for twenty years after the Liberation. His most important book was a work of ae...

How do mass protests become an organized activist collective? Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets ...

A groundbreaking history of oil and it's importance to US politics, finance, militarism and consumerism from an award-winning author and scholarThi...

While the rest of the media lounge in the warm glow of New Labour’s rosy dawn, one journalist in Britain has been a consistently sharp and witty sc...

In this moving and personal account of the forty-three-year-old divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States, Román de la Camp...

Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and gall...

From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robi...

A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century.Raymond Williams is a towering presence i...

Brand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond WilliamsRaymond Williams was a pioneering schola...

Over the last half of the twentieth century, culture moved to the foreground of political and intellectual life. Suddenly everyone discovered that ...

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political stormIn an age of protest, cultural institutions have come...

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political stormIn an age of protest, cultural institutions have come...