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This is a study of the 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter. An unexampled act of violence by women against women. The book discusses the idea that the obsessive recurrence of the case makes it a prism through which to examine multiple aspects of French culture.

This study of May 1968 in fiction and in film looks at the ways the events themselves were represented in narrative, evaluates the impact these crucial times had on French cultural and intellectual history, and offers readings of texts which were shaped by it.

This title examines some of the most popular and some of the most challenging of texts which emerged during Francois Mitterrand's presidency of France and relate them to the dominant literary and cultural trends of the period.

German identity has been a controversial theme throughout the modern age, especially in the wake of unification. This study explores the theme of identity between locality and nation in literature and film from the late nineteenth-century through to the present, locating key novels and films in a wider cultural context of great significance for an understanding of German history.

Populist and widely disseminated, the French roman noir has a reputation as a minor genre with its roots in American popular culture. This study challenges such preconceptions and examines the genre as a critical response to concerns and debates in post-war French society.

This book traces the history of the romance through the turbulent history of twentieth-century women in France. It offers a compelling analysis not only of the mass-market or popular romance, but also of the bestselling 'middlebrow' novel, and of 'literary' romances by authors including Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and their contemporary successors.

This book examines the ways in which the Third Reich is represented in recent German and Austrian novels and films. It also examines other aspects of the commemoration of the Third Reich. It covers a wide range of genres, media, and issues, including documentary, gender, the linguistic politics of cinema, photography, memorials, and museums.

Stars and Masculinities in Spanish Cinema focuses on the careers of ten contemporary Spanish film stars, including Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, and Eduardo Noriega. Set in the double context of new approaches to Star Studies and current debates around masculinity, this is a key contribution to the growing fields of Spanish Cultural and Film Studies.

Brigid Haines and Margaret Littler draw on the latest developments in feminist theory to explore contemporary German women writers' representations of female subjectivity. Bridging the gap between critical theory and women's writing in German, this book provides in-depth, fully contextualized readings of six key texts.