Editorial

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are delighted to share our new Spring 2022 Rights Catalogue with you.

This season’s selections include some of our best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Highlighted areas of focus are fake news, human rights, deviant media, women’s writing, documentary film and social justice, to name a few.

In Preventing Mass Human-Rights Violations and Atrocity Crimes, University of Warsaw professor Angieszka Bieńczyk-Missala studies cases of Chechnya, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire and Libya. The research provides an interdisciplinary approach into the prevention of mass human-rights violations and atrocity crimes.

Anton Walbrook: A Life of Masks and Mirrors provides the first full-length biography highlighting the private life of the world-renowned Viennese actor. Dr James Downs from University of Exeter’s Special Collections Department, has written extensively and presented papers about Walbrook during his career.

2021 Broadcast Education Association Award Winner, Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia is a collection of essays from the premiere US scholars in media research. The contributors define and provide causes of stereotypes while identifying a variety of forms including race, class, gender religion, youth and mental illness.

We invite you to visit us at www.peterlang.com to discover our full list of publications. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to receive further information or reading copies - we will be happy to help. We would be delighted to discuss our latest publications at the London Book Fair (IPG stand/7E50) with you in person. Please get in touch to arrange a meeting. We hope you will enjoy browsing through our catalogue and look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Patricia Mulrane Clayton Global Sales & Marketing Director

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