Library Blogs

In 2020-21, we purchased the 2021 Manchester Shakespeare collection, expanding our access to 70+ full-text and DRM-free works of interdisciplinary literary studies on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. You can search for titles in iDiscover or on the Manchester Hive platform.

Please see below for a sample of the newest additions:

• Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos
• Thomas Heywood and the classical tradition
• Conversations: Classical and Renaissance intertextuality

The MMLL Library funded the Manchester Film & Media Studies 2021 collection, expanding our access to around 200 titles. Manchester Film & Media Studies (formely Manchester Film Studies) spans film, television and media with works on British, French, Spanish and Latin American filmmakers, television writers and creators, and interviews and debates on current practice in film and screen studies. As above, you can search for titles in iDiscover or on the Manchester Hive platform.

Here are a few recent additions to the collection:

• Surrealism and film after 1945: Absolutely modern mysteries
• Jacques Audiard
• Watching Game of Thrones: How audiences engage with dark television

Finally, we purchased the Bloomsbury Film and Media Studies 2021 Collection, which was paid from the Connell Fund. The collection includes a wide range of research works, as well as practical guides for filmmakers.

Here are a few sample titles for 2021:

• Channel 4: A History: From Big Brother To The Great British Bake Off
• Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation
• Ghost in the Well: The Hidden History of Horror Films in Japan
• India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India
• The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity
• The Matrix

All titles are DRM-free and can be found in iDiscover or by searching on the Bloomsbury Collections platform.

Please see below for a small sample of individual ebook titles purchased for Arts and Humanities research and teaching in 2020-21. All of these titles can be found in iDiscover. Alternatively, follow the title links below the cover images for access.

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

• Animation in China : History, Aesthetics, Media
• Exile and the nation : the Parsi community of India and the making of modern Iran
• Flowering tales : women exorcising history in Heian Japan
• Giving Voice to Stones : Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature
• Lebanon’s Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested
• Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society

Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic

• Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200
• Supernatural Encounters in Old Norse Literature and Tradition
• The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

Architecture

• Accessible housing : quality, disability and design
• Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space
• Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole
• Handmade urbanism : from community initiatives to participatory models : Mumbai, São Paulo, Istanbul, Mexico City, Cape Town
• The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture
• Touring and Publicizing England’s Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century

Classics

• Classical Cats : The rise and fall of the sacred cat
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
• Migration and Colonialism in Late Second Millennium BCE Levant and Its Environs: The Making of a New World
• Theatre Props and Civic Identity in Athens, 458–405 BC
• The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy
• The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry: The Golden Smile through the Ages

Divinity

• Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae
• Preach It!: Understanding African-Caribbean Preaching
• Rage in the belly : hunger in the New Testament
• Reading the Qur’an in the Twenty-First Century : A Contextualist Approach
• Theatre and Religion on Krishna’s Stage: Performing in Vrindavan
• Understanding YHWH: The Name of God in Biblical, Rabbinic, and Medieval Jewish Thought

English

• Breach
• Contemporary European Playwrights
• Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism
• Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
• The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion
• Underland: a deep time journey

Film Studies

• Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century
• Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
• Russia and its Other(s) on Film: Screening Intercultural Dialogue

History of Art

• Gauguin’s Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism
• Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
• Modernism in Scandinavia: art, architecture and design
• Photography’s Materialities: Transatlantic Photographic Practices over the Long Nineteenth Century
• Picturing Heaven in Early China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
• The Situationist International: A Critical Handbook

Medieval and Modern Languages and Linguistics

• The Companion to Hispanic Studies
• The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics)
• The Translation Studies Reader (4th edition)
• Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film (Italian and Italian American Studies)
• Voroshilovgrad
• The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas Book 77)

Music

• A History of the Symphony: The Grand Genre
• Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space
• Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power
• Music and Translation: New Mediations in the Digital Age
• Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore
• The Science and Psychology of Music: From Beethoven at the Office to Beyoncé at the Gym

Philosophy

• Creativity and Philosophy
• Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-Self (Dialogues in South Asian)
• Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures)
• The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding
• The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy’s unsung women
• What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets