... of colonial settlement continue to inform late-twentieth-century Western culture. 1. Lefebvre, The Production of Space, p. 109. 2. Quoted in Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light, p. 120. 3. Elizabeth DeLoughrey, ‘Radiation Ecologies and the Wars of Light...

... of this dichotomy, as this chapter shows, are quite different and distinct from one another. Indeed, they represent seemingly contradictory worlds. For the Jews, Athens represented Western culture as a whole. It was ‘modern’ and ‘secular’. A cultural value or trait was identified as ‘Greek’ in order to approve...

... of Film Classification (BBFC) who insisted on minor cuts to two scenes of fighting. The chapter then considers the cultural contexts of Fight Club. In 1999, the fear of the ‘Millennium Bug’ was indicative of a general anxiety over many aspects of Western culture. These were focused...

.... It also explores the idea of the Jew as a 'link' between East and West, which provided a way for Jews to express their difference while simultaneously reinforcing the idea that they formed a vital and necessary element in Western culture. The chapter mentions Zionist advocates in France who remained...