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Clampdown
Why have both pop and politics in Britain become the preserve of an unrepresentative elite? From chav-pop pantomimes to retro-chauvinist ‘landfill indie’, the bland, homogenous and compromised nature of the current 'alternative' sector reflects the interests of a similarly complacent and privileged political establishment. In particular, political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding ‘chavs’, has been accompanied by a similar restriction and regulation of the expression of working-class femininity in music. This book traces the progress of this cultural clampdown over the past twenty years. ,
The End of Roman Britain
Jones offers a lucid and thorough analysis of the economic, social, military, and environmental problems that contributed to the failure of the Romans, drawing on literary sources and on recent archaeological evidence.
Screen Deep
Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone watches TV and movies. Everyone has an interest in building a more just and equitable world. Screen Deep goes beyond the many film books and anti-racist manuals by demonstrating the connection between these two aspects of modern life. In Screen Deep Ellen E. Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years standing, to ask - and answer - several questions: Is there such a thing as an Indigenous western? Is race comedy 'cancelled'? Where are all the films for white people? And most importantly: Can you still fight the good fight with a mouthful of popcorn?
I Should Have Known Better
I Should Have Known Better is a sequel to the sleeper hit I'm Open to Anything (2019), expanding the original's scope and ambition. The new book has been produced entirely with the support of a crowdfunding campaign that reached five figures and 150% funding, an unprecedented accomplishment for a literary novel. I Should Have Known Better's first person narrator, while working at a dead-end job in Los Angeles during the mid-1990s, reconnects with his best friend Moira, recently returned from Central America, and makes a new friend, Bernie, who teaches the history of photography. The two of them convince him to pursue a master's degree as a way of escaping the unrewarding life of a video stor...
An Extraordinary Life
Josephine Jones, born in 1920, the daughter of a South Carolina sharecropper, became, in the sixties a Harlem activists as well as the first black woman in management at a Fortune 500 company.As a single parent, she worked on three jobs to send her daughter to private schools.The importance of education runs through Josephine's life like a golden thread. Josephine's life was directly affected by the Great Migration, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the gentrification of Harlem, and the AIDS epidemic.An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones is an American story, a Great Migration story, a New York story, a black family's story, a mother-daughter story, and the story of a woman's fight for creativity in the workplace.
Petticoat Heroes
The first book on Rebecca Riots since 1989 The book looks at the Rebecca riots protest movement in Victorian Wales, in a context informed by not only British and European historiography but also other disciplines including literature and anthropology. The book is informed by recent work in cultural and gender history, which it applies for the first time to the symbolic and ritual content of the protests. The book’s epilogue discusses historical protest in the context of the contemporary resurgence of leaderless extra-parliamentary protest around the world including Occupy, Anonymous, and anti-austerity movements.
William E. Jones
For this exhibition, Jones has been a scripophilist, appropriating nineteenth and twentieth century stock certificates that traditionally symbolise monetary value through the pictorialisation of idealised manhood and physical strength. Inspired by the recent crash of the Euro and the US recession, Jones examined numerous company share certificates that had illustrated headers, such as those of the Harlem and New York Railroad or the Inland Steel Company, Pittsburgh. These certificates depict allegorical figures such as an Adonis-like man wearing a crown of leaves or a heroic manual labourer wielding an axe or sledgehammer, which
An Instinct for Dragons
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
I'm Open to Anything
"A perverse and explicit new take on the coming of age novel, [this] explores bohemian Southern California of the late 1980s and early 90s, before gentrification ruined everything. The book's narrator flees a crumbling industrial wasteland in the Midwest and finds himself in sunny Los Angeles without a car, working in a neighborhood video store and spending many hours watching films. He explores his adopted city and befriends a number of men, most of them immigrants, who teach him the finer points of sex ... Alternating between explicit scences of kinky sex and intimate conversations about matters of life and death, [this] is a porno novel of rare ambition and humor."--Back cover
