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  • The Australian Policy Handbook

    A Practical Guide to the Policymaking Process

    The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public engagement and policy success and failure.The Australian Policy Handbook shows how public policy permeates every aspect of our lives. It is the stuff of ... Read more

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  • Rebel Without a Cause

    by Glyn Davis ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark (James Dean), the new boy in town, who becomes drawn into a maelstrom of shifting social allegiances, emotional turmoil, and violence. Rebel tackled head-on the thorny political issue of juvenile delinquency from the ... Read more

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  • The Richard Dyer Reader

    Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made path breaking contributions to our understanding of stardom and celebrity, gay and queer politics and cultural history, film music, race and whiteness and the pleasures of popular entertainment.The Richard Dyer Reader brings together for the first time key ... Read more

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  • Queer Print in Europe

    Edited by Glyn Davis, Laura Guy ...
    How have radical print cultures fostered and preserved queer lived experience from the 1960s to the present? What alternative stories about queer life across Europe can visual material reveal?Queer Print in Europe is the first book devoted to the exploration of queer print cultures in Europe, following the birth of an international gay rights movement in the late 1960s. By unearthing these ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • On Life's Lottery

    by Glyn Davis ...
    Series series On Series
    Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.We like to think of Australia as the land of the 'fair go', a land of choice and equal opportunity. But behind the facade of meritocracy lies an uncomfortable truth: much of your life is already decided by the lottery of where you are born and who you are born to. Entrenched inter-generational poverty, like the property of the wealthy, ... Read more

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  • The Craft of Governing

    The contribution of Patrick Weller to Australian political science

    Edited by R.A.W. Rhodes, Glyn Davis ...
    'Bargaining and puzzling; power and thought; dealing and agonising; compromise and commitment. These are two sides of political practitioners whether politician, public servant or campaigner. Understand the interplay and we can, just sometimes, make sense of the real world we seek to interpret.'Patrick Weller's observation comes from half a century of contemplating politics in action. The question ... Read more

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  • Far from Heaven

    by Glyn Davis ...
    Series series American Indies

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  • Australian Idea of a University

    by Glyn Davis ...
    Universities, like other industries, are challenged by disruptive market forces. Today there are nearly forty public universities in Australia. Some predict that by 2070 there may be only ten institutions left globally to deliver higher education. Relentless inventiveness and entrepreneurial agendas promise students a world of unbounded study options. In this powerful meditation on the need for ... Read more

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  • Warhol in Ten Takes

    Edited by Dr. Gary Needham, Glyn Davis ...
    Andy Warhol remains one of the world's most influential artists, and his reputation has only grown since his death in 1987. He first picked up a film camera in 1963. Within the space of five years, he made around 650 films. These are now recognised as a hugely significant part of Warhol's oeuvre, vital for understanding his output as a whole.Warhol in Ten Takes provides a comprehensive ... Read more

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  • Queer TV

    Theories, Histories, Politics

    Edited by Glyn Davis, Gary Needham ...
    How can we queerly theorise and understand television? How can the realms of television studies and queer theory be brought together, in a manner beneficial and productive for both?Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics is the first book to explore television in all its scope and complexity – its industry, production, texts, audiences, pleasures and politics – in relation to queerness. With ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Deadline at Dawn

    Film Criticism 1980-1990

    Judith Williamson takes herself to the movies, and this book contains the reviews she wrote as film critic for Time Out, City Limits, the radical alternative London weekly listings paper, and the New Statesman. This book contains her journalism, analysis of those times and her career as a journalist in a turbulent England with fierce labour relations raging, both in the NUJ, and during the Miner's ... Read more

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