As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orch

This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohem

This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women’s magazines of the interwar period.

Explores the problem of anthropomorphism: a major bone of contention in 8th to 14th-century Islamic theology

The purpose of this edited volume is to explore the contributions of women to European, Mexican, American and Indian film industries during the years 1900 to 19