Michael B Goddard

The opening up of Poland economically and politically to global influences after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, coupled with the rise of transnational approaches to the study of film, presents ideal conditions for examining Polish cinema from a transnational vantage point. Yet not only have st...

This is the poem and story of a white goose that wonders into a wildlife santuary on the grounds of a private school and how a retired man comes to adore this creature. He not only marvels at the beauty in this serene santuary but also at how the wild gray geese accept the white goose without hestit...

This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics. Mark E. Smith remains one of the most divisive and idiosyncratic figures in popular music after a recording career with his band - The Fall - that spans t...

What is a baby wren to do when everyone else's life in his yard seems more exciting than his own? Listening to Momma and Papa lecturing about what he needs to learn as he grows is not nearly as much fun as watching all the world around him going about their daily routines. What mischief does he get ...

Since Papua New Guinea's Independence in the 1970s, Port Moresby has been transformed from a colonial administrative centre to a distinctively Melanesian city. However visitors often shun the capital, their perceptions coloured by unsympathetic media accounts of violent crime and unchecked corruptio...

Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This...

The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behavior, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognize the same physical and...

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution.This wide-ranging book examines the concept and practices...