Fabulous fifties

In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was the centre of the world trade in exotic drugs and spices. They were sought after both as medicines, and as luxury objects for the bourge...

For more than 70 years, Al Capone has been equated with wealth, violence, and corruption. As America's most infamous criminal, he has intrigued, attracted, and repulsed the general...

This chapter locates Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures in the context of other New Zealand coming-of-age films by showing how it identifies the repressive effects of New Zealand p...