An examination of the role of imagery in modern culture considers how depictions of violence, from wartime photographs to footage of the September 11 attacks, are used and how ...

A discussion of the ways in which illness is regarded pays particular attention to fantasies that pertain to cancer and AIDS.

Ambitious study of the connections between aesthetics and politics from Romanticism to the twentieth century.

Estilos radicales (1969), la segunda colección de ensayos de Susan Sontag, extiende las investigaciones apuntadas en Contra la interpretación a nuevas consideraciones sobre el ...

Collects reviews of noteworthy movies that were abandoned by the studios, ignored by audiences, had poorly-timed release dates, or were simply ahead of their time

Mary McCarthy: Gender, Politics, and the Postwar Intellectual is the first book to fully examine Mary McCarthy as a fiction writer and a cultural critic. With her sharp wit and ...

En ocho historias, esta singular colección de relatos escritos a lo largo de diez años explora el corazón de la vida contemporánea. Con una prosa reflexiva y telegráfica, Susan ...

Después de Contra la interpretación (1968) y Estilos radicales (1969), en Bajo el signo de Saturno (1980) se encuentran reunidos una serie de ensayos magníficos los dedicados a ...