Bøker av Ian Hunter

Rethinking the School is one of the first major applications of Foucault's genealogical method to the school system, and will be widely debated by educationalists, policy-makers and those interested in the interaction of government and subjectivity.

Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, British Trash Cinema is the first book to offer a survey of the full range of British exploitation and cult paracinema, looking beyond horror and sexploitation, to 'permissive' social problem films, art house camp, science fiction, Hammer's prehistoric fantasies, and the worst British films.

Since the Romantics culture has been identified with the promise of a complete development of human capacities and, typically, the 'rise of English' has been viewed in terms of the (true or distorted) fulfilment of this promise in the education system. This book presents a sustained and historically informed challenge to that view.