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Bringing together a group of international scholars, ‘Grease Is the Word’ offers fresh insight into the impact and legacy of the cultural phenomenon that is Grease.

Frankenstein in Turkey: Transnational Adaptations, Vernacular Gothic, and Visual Culture analyzes Turkish transnational adaptations of Shelley’s Frankenstein by including the “Other” side in the Western oriented scholarship of the afterlife of the story to show how the Western canon is recontextualized and Turkified to interrogate the social, cultural, and political anxieties of the nation.

Tragic love story or the downfall of a drunken fool and a ruthless schemer? How did Jacobeans see this play? This guide recovers the various contexts that situate ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of tragedy that inform its background.

How might Shakespeare’s audiences have responded to this enduringly popular comedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this mad play.

This book analyzes the mythical aura of Spanish low-budget films of the late 1970s and 1980s, and how marginalization was exploited and romanticized.

An examination of racial attitudes in popular British culture, 1890–1940.