Allan Cameron

Mediation and Matter in Horror Cinema

Visceral Screens

'The Berlusconi Bonus satirises' almost every aspect of our modern political world, from Blair's 'New Labour' Thatcherism and Berlusconi's strong-arming of his country's constitution to Francis Fukuyama's assertion that perfection has been achieved and history is at an end.

The Berlusconi Bonus

Salvatore Settis

Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in which we have related to our 'classical' past, starting with post-modern American skyscrapers and working his way back through our cultural history to the attitudes of the Greeks and Romans themselves. Settis argues that this obsession with cultural decay, ruins and a 'classical' past is specifically European and the product of a collective cultural trauma following the collapse of the Roman Empire. This situation differed from that of the Aztec and Inca empires whose collapse was more sudden and more complete, and from the Chinese Empire which always enjoyed a high degree of continuity. He demonstrates how the idea of the 'classical' has changed over the centuries through an unrelenting decay of 'classicism' and its equally unrelenting rebirth in an altered form. In the Modern Era this emulation of the 'ancients' by the 'moderns' was accompanied by new trends: the increasing belief that the former had now been surpassed by the latter, and an increasing preference for the Greek over the Roman. These conflicting interpretations were as much about the future as they were about the past. No civilization can invent itself if it does not have other societies in other times and other places to act as benchmarks. Settis argues that we will be better equipped to mould new generations for the future once we understand that the 'classical' is not a dead culture we inherited and for which we can take no credit, but something startling that has to be re-created every day and is a powerful spur to understanding the 'other'.

The Future of the Classical

Francesca Logi

Debora Mazza

Donatella Boi

Jane Goldie

Carla Zipoli

Michela Masci

Compact, comprehensive, and easy to use, The Oxford Italian Desk Dictionary is ideal for travelers, professionals, business people, and students of either language.

Italian-English, English-Italian

The Oxford Italian Desk Dictionary

Norman Catherine

Memo is the last living elephant, or so he believes. The world and the giant walled city of Mutantis in which he lives are ruled by the evil supercreature Gorgon. In his struggle to discover his true origins, Memo experiences an extraordinary vision of a peaceful green world, and he sets out on a quest to become a true Hierophant. But Gorgon's forces are pitted against him and his friends.

The Legend of Memo, the Hierophant

Allan Cameron

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