Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films. Employing theoretical concepts drawn from a range of sources, including French post-humanist philosophy and German Idealism, this book undertakes an organology of film guided by the work of Bernard Stiegler whose philosophy of mnemotechnesis provides a framework of analysis. Situating films in the quantum field of spacetime relativity as a field of cosmic views, Film Figures begins with disturbances in the experience of films themselves, posing questions of the relation between the dead past and the living future in film story-telling. By breaking the façade of the continuing present through self-questioning, Mules opens films to their figural dimensions in the counter-movement of drive as negentropic resistance. Following the back-movement of drive switches, our perception to the figural register in which characters become figures probing blindly for what the film will have been in another time – a time yet to be lived. By following the anterior possibilities of this other time, we open films to the archival future in which a new future comes forth. Film Figures provides theoretical and analytical concepts, as well as strategies for taking a step into this future, guided by questions of the right path to take given the relativity of views in which the film can be experienced. Films analysed include Murnau’s The Last Laugh, Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai, Fellini’s Intervista, Antonioni’s L’Eclisse, Bresson’s Une Femme Douce, and Zeller’s The Father.

This second edition of the popular introductory textbook Tools for Cultural Studies, has been thoroughly revised and updated for a new generation of students taking introductory courses in cultural studies and cultural analysis at a tertiary level. It provides a solid grounding in the key terms and theories necessary for the study of popular culture and media texts. Without underestimating the complexity of the social, this text encourages a critical and inventive attitude to cultural theory and, through its practical step-by-step approach, is very confidence-building.

Using the rich and vital Australian Aboriginal understanding of country as a model, "People and Places of Nature and Culture "affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between nature and culture. While current thought includes the mistaken notion--perpetuated by natural history, ecology, and political economy--that humans have a mastery over the Earth, this book demonstrates the problems inherent in this view. In the current age of climate change, this is an important appraisal of the relationship between nature and culture, and a projection of what needs to change if we want to achieve environmental stability.