"Black Narcissus" is a landmark film in the canon of Powell and Pressburger. This book draws on archival documents, original set drawings and stills to explore its enduring images of both place and gender. It also demonstrate the film's achievements, both as a production and as a vehicle for ideas exploring issues of technique, style and others.

A selection of essays on the arts in Britain, written by John Tusa, a notable controversialist, who spoke for the need for the arts. In these essays, he tells the true story of arts philanthropy and seeks out the ways in which the arts can be made to blossom in a cultural and political climate.

The only biography of Thorez available in English.

In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important of geopolitical issues. This book talks about the phenomenon of political Islam, determined by macro and micro-level changes in the Muslim world, and the socio-economic and political settings.

Derek Jarman has been called the 'godfather' of the early 1990s cinematic movement now known as 'Queer Cinema'. This book views Jarman's uniquely personal - and pleasurable - cinema through the analytical prism of 'queer'.