The swedish porn scene

This book looks closely at Swedish pornography in the 1970s. Mariah Larsson combines contemporary case studies with comprehensive analyses of advertisements, critical responses and censorship records to ask how the small city of Malmö's embrace of the era's sexual liberation was both representati...

Acting and its refusal in theatre and film

Acting has traditionally been considered a form of pretending or falsehood, compared with the so-called reality or truth of everyday life. Yet in the postmodern era, a reversal has occurred – real life is revealed as something acted and acting is where people have begun to search for truth. In Ac...

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Sacred theatre

The notion of the sacred has long informed the work of British dramatists like Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Ralph Yarrow’s Sacred Theatre is the first book to examine the role of the sacred in the practice, process, and performance of drama. While leaving enough room for the personal and exper...

Image understanding

World film locations: buenos aires

World Film Locations: Buenos Aires explores this picturesque and passionate city (the second-largest in South America) as a stage for sociopolitical transformations, and a key location in the international imagination as a site of cultural export. The book uncovers the many reasons why Buenos Air...

Women in iberian filmic culture

Focusing on cinema in Portugal and Spain, this collection brings together research about women and their status in relation to Iberian filmic culture. Through a revision of feminist theory and new accounts of film history it contributes to expanding debate and encourages comparison between Iberia...

Directory of world cinema: south korea

Concurrent with the growing body of scholarship on South Korean cinema, Directory of World Cinema: South Korea offers an accessible overview of South Korea's film industry. In addition to the action and horror films usually considered in studies of South Korean cinema, this volume also examines g...

Trends in functional programming volume 6

This book presents latest research developments in the area of functional programming. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of topics from theory, formal aspects of functional programming, transformational and generic programming to type checking and designing new classes of data t...

A new guide to artificial intelligence

Empirical studies of programmers

Feminist ethics in film

This book explores a varied group of cinematic narratives from the perspective of care-based ethics. The interpersonal relationships portrayed disclose important dimensions of care that have been overlooked in less contextualized discussions. The book examines the relationships between care and c...

Drawing as a way of knowing in art and science

Gemma Anderson’s Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science introduces tested ways in which drawing as a research practice can enhance morphological insight, specifically within the natural sciences, mathematics and art.

Iranian cinema and globalization

Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences, Iranian cinema has been the subject of lamentably few academic studies – and those have by and large been limited to the films and filmmakers most visible on the international film circuit. Iranian Cinema and Global...

The art of nick cave

Illuminating the remarkable scope of Nick Cave's achievements, this collection of essays explores his career as a composer of film scores, scriptwriter, and performer, his work in theatre and his literary output. Together, the resulting volume provides a lucid overview of Nick Cave's work that wi...

Flesh into light

Over her more than four-decade career, New York-based filmmaker, performer and writer Amy Greenfield has achieved widespread critical acclaim for her genre-bending films which cross the boundaries of experimental film, video art and multimedia performance – from her feature film, Antigone/Rites O...

Girls! girls! girls! in contemporary art

Girls! Girls! Girls! presents essays from established and up-and-coming scholars who address a variety of themes, including narcissism, nostalgia, postfeminism and fantasy with the goal of approaching the overarching question of why female artists are turning in such numbers to the subject of gir...

Fan phenomena: audrey hepburn

Audrey Hepburn remains one of the world’s most beloved women, ranked as the third greatest screen star of all time by the American Film Institute. This book focuses on the transformative nature of Hepburn's star persona, exploring her journey from ingénue to UNICEF ambassador. It also looks at he...

Film, drama and the break up of britain

When the sun set on the British Empire, the resultant fragmentation of British identity emerged most tellingly in artistic works: cinematic works such as Howards End depicted a richly historical land steeped in tradition and tragedy, while the more modern Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels revea...

The professionalisation of political communication

Long before a politician opens his mouth to speak in public, his words have been filtered through a team of public relations experts, communications consultants, and campaign assistants. When did politicians’ speeches stop being their own? And who are these professional communicators who fine-tun...

New flows in global tv

New Flows in Global TV provides a pioneering investigation into television distribution worldwide and the global trade in television program formats. Topics include explorations of how shows like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Big Brother are reformatted for audiences in diverse markets such ...

Playing for time theatre company

Based on more than a decade of practice, Playing for Time Theatre Company presents the reader with a rich and invaluable resource for using theatre in criminal justice contexts, exploring ideas of identity, community, social justice and the power of the arts. The book analyses and reflects upon t...

Multisensor integration and fusion for intelligent machines and systems

The new russia

Artificial intelligence: applications for business

Fan phenomena: james bond

Fan Phenomena: James Bond explores the devoted fanbase that has helped make Bond what he is, offering a serious but wholly accessible take on the many different ways that fans have approached, appreciated, and appropriated Bond over the sixty years of his existence from the pages of Ian Fleming's...

A trail of fire for political cinema

Marking the 50th anniversary of the premiere of La Hora de Los Hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (Getino and Solanas, 1968), A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema is an edited collection that closely analyses the film, looking to the context and the socio-political landscape of 1960s Argentina, as...

The coach and the triumph of the lamb

These two important contrasting poems, one secular, the other religious, give some idea of the creative powers of one of the most outstanding women of the Renaissance in Europe. As sister of Francis I and later Queen of Navarre, she played an important role in politics and, through her patronage ...

Resetting the stage

Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption. Resetting the Stage argues that public theatre is best served not by imitating its much larger commercial counterpart, but by asserting its artistic distinctiveness and...

Human factors in computer systems

Don't look now

While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don’t Look Now uncovers forgotten but richly rewarding films, including Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now and the films of Lindsay Anders...

Public spheres after socialism

Public Spheres After Socialism challenges the idea of public spaces being associated with urban environments in light of the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This book examines monuments, reconstruction, film and new media to ask whether public spaces are viable in ...

World film locations: sydney

The capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia, Sydney has been represented onscreen since the earliest days of cinema. An eclectic combination of tough inner-city suburbs, beachside communities and green outlying exurbs, Sydney offers many intriguing possibilities to film...

Development through technology transfer

Technology transfer is shown to be more complicated than a handover of new hardware to developing countries. This book covers the practical issues of the transfer, including product, process, cost reduction and more, and also integrates an analysis of theories of innovation to identify key stages...

West country history

Thomas Hardy was born there, Sir Walter Raleigh chose to live there and Lawrence of Arabia is buried there. With so many great figures shaping its history, it is unsurprising that Dorset should provide such fascinating stories from eminent leaders like Alfred the Great and Charles II to notable ...

Narrating the catastrophe

This book guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where 'being' is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa creates an alternative perspective from whic...

Fan phenomena: mermaids

Fan Phenomena: Mermaids explores the centuries-old interest in mermaids. Mermaids, and merfolk more generally, are everywhere you look: parades, virtual reality, fiction, art, trends and swimming with a mermaid tail. Transgenerational merfolk fan communities stretch around the world - from sea to...

World film locations: london

From Terror on the Underground to Thames Tales to Richard Curtis's affectionate portrayal of the city in Love Actually, this user-friendly guide explores the diversity and distinctiveness of films shot in location in London.

Montréal chic

Montréal Chic is the first book to document Montréal's fashion scene and its connection to the city's design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud use their firsthand knowledge of the city's fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes ...

The baroque technotext

An analysis of the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics in technotexts, reframing critical debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age of print. Works by Jonathan Safran Foer, Chris Ware and David Clark are investigated alongside other authors and media such as d...

World film locations: barcelona

Barcelona is one of the world’s most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaudí, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all over the world – among them Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar and Michelangelo Antonioni – have set their ...

From nwico to wsis: 30 years of communication geopolitics

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an...

Advances in logic programming and automated reasoning

This is the first volume of a series concerned with new research contributions of the methods of logic in computer science. Contributions from leading researchers and practitioners are included in this volume. This series is designed to stimulate and sustain new, productive lines of investigation...

Digital radio in europe

Radio, the oldest form of electronic broadcasting, has thus far lagged behind TV in the push to go digital, but efforts have been underway for over twenty years in Europe to create digital platforms for radio. Drawing on extensive cross-national research, this volume offers the first comprehensiv...

Searching for art's new publics

Drawing on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators and academics, this book explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences. It bridges the gap between practice and theory, touches on issues of relational aesthetics and offers ...

Aestheticizing public space

A photo-collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through their graffiti, street art, and other visual forms in public space. 

Tech-noir film

From the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner to the James Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and lit...

The english language in europe

Broadcasters and citizens in europe

European media is experiencing a paradoxical form of growth: as media outlets surge and new technologies develop, major broadcasting companies are consolidating like never before. In Broadcasters and Citizens in Europe, an esteemed group of contributors look at what this paradox might mean for th...

World film locations: dublin

World Film Locations: Dublin offers an engaging look at the many incarnations of the city onscreen through 50 synopses of the key scenes – either shot or set in Dublin – accompanied by a generous selection of full-colour film stills. Sophisticated yet accessible, this volume will undoubtedly take...

Choreographies

Choreographer Jacky Lansley has been practicing and performing for more than four decades. In Choreographies, she offers unique insight into the processes behind independent choreography and paints a vivid portrait of a rigorous practice that combines dance, performance art, visuals and a close a...

Literacy and the politics of writing

With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all proper forms of writing must necessarily progress. This book shows that the pri...

Spectacular death

A collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life – with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social pr...

Performing palimpsest bodies

Hellier-Tinoco proposes the concept of palimpsest bodies to interpret provocative theatre and performance experiments that explore issues of cultural memory, bodies of history, archives, repertoires and performing remains. This book offers an in-depth analysis of four postdramatic and transdiscip...

World film locations: athens

A filmic guidebook of the Greek capital, World Film Locations: Athens takes readers to film locations in the central historical district, with excursions to the periphery of Athens – popular neighbourhoods, poor suburbs and slums often represented in postwar neorealist films – and then on to gard...

Computers and art

Computers and Art provides insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use of computer technology in art practice. The contributors include an art critic, an educator, a pr...

Dysfunction and decentralization in new media art and education

When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude. Many new media artworks employ various strategies of dysfunctionality in order to explore issues of power within societies and culture. 

Media, democracy and european culture

This book presents up-to-date and cutting-edge research on the political and cultural dimension of democracy in Europe and its representation in the media. This volume brings together prominent European scholars to explore issues of globalization, the role of the media and communication policy to...

Trends in functional programming volume 4

This book collects the latest research developments in the use of functional programming languages. The contents highlight major research goals and engineering concerns in the subject including: real-time and research-bounded functional programming connections between static analysis methods an...

Englishness, pop and post-war britain

English pop music served a key role in defining, constructing and challenging various ideas about Englishness after World War II. Kallioniemi covers a range of styles of pop as he explores the question of how various artists, genres and pieces of music contributed to the developing understanding ...

Radical initiatives in interventionist & community drama

This new series of cutting edge critical essays and articles in issues concerning Drama and Performance opens with Volume I, which will focus on issues of Interventionist Drama and related examples of Drama as Community. The list of contributors is impressive and quite consciously eclectic, rang...

Wuthering heights on film and television

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights has been adapted countless times for film and television over the decades. Valérie V.Hazette offers a historical and transnational study of adaptations, presenting the afterlife of the book as a series of cultural journeys that focuses as much on the readers, film...

Prison cultures

Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of 'bad girls' and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt hegemonic ...

Empirical studies of programmers

Tormented minds

This anthology contains three plays (Ceremonial Kisses, Shading the Crime, and The Maternal Cloister), analyses of their processes and themes, and photographs of the performances. The plays are different in style and include the use of physical theatre, naturalistic explorations of human rights a...

Agency

Winner of the 2021 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize Including almost 50 contributing artists and scholars, this collection of essays, conversations, provocations and archival images takes the twentieth anniversary of the founding of one of the sector's most committed champions, the Live Art Develop...

Global fashion brands

Fashion branding is a process that needs to be analysed from a style, luxury and historical pop cultural view using critical, ethnographic, individualistic or interpretive methods. Contributors examine the meaning behind branding in the context of contested power relations underpinning the produc...

Locality, regeneration and divers(c)ities

This series addresses Art in the urban environment. As cities gradually lose the cultural connections with their industrial past, many seek to build new, post-industrial futures through urban regeneration. Art projects frequently play a key role in cultural policies that aim to re-establish use o...

Body and mind in motion

Drawing from the burgeoning field of 'embodiment' – itself an idea at the intersection of the sciences, humanities, arts and technologies – Body and Mind in Motion highlights the relevance of somatic education within dance education, dance science and body-mind studies.

Ivar kreuger and jeanne de la motte

The 1930s were a period of triumph and turmoil in Poland, yet the decade saw the production of a number of exceptional dramatic works. Some dramatists of the period, among them Jerzy W. Tepa, are not well-known today because many of their plays were lost – or presumed to be lost – during the war ...

Theatre, time and temporality

Theatre, Time and Temporality is the first book-length exploration of the subject of temporality within theatre and performance. David Ian Rabey brings in sources ranging from medieval and Renaissance theatre to contemporary performances to analyse ways that time can be presented, communicated an...

Connectionist models and their implications

Machinations

Frames of mind

The eminent psychologist Carl Jung is best known for such indelible contributions to modern thought as the concept of the collective unconscious, but his wide-spread work can also be fruitfully employed to analyze popular culture. Frames of Mind offers an introduction to the world of Post-Jungian...

Fellini’s films and commercials

An updated edition of renowned Fellini scholar Frank Burke’s film-by-film analysis of the famed director’s work, with a new preface and a new chapter on Fellini’s commercials. Written from a theoretical perspective, Burke explores Fellini’s movement from relatively classic filmmaking to modernist...

The hollywood war film

Considering selected films representing three periods in history - World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War, and major conflicts in the Middle East, The Hollywood War Film maps cinematic discourses within Hollywood's representations of war and conflict. This results in an understanding of the Hollywo...

Learning with computers

World film locations: paris

World Film Locations: Paris takes readers on an unforgettable tour of the City of Lights past and present through the many films that have been set there. Along the way, we revisit iconic tourist sites from the Eiffel Tower – whose stairs and crossbars inspired more than one famous chase scene – ...

Myths

Myths is a visual and written exploration on the subject of myths. It contains contributions from writers, illustrators, designers, photographers and artists from around the world who have each responded to the theme in their own unique way. 

World film locations: beijing

The title of Li Yu’s film Lost in Beijing evokes the experience of many first-time visitors to China’s bustling capital. The city’s sprawling structure and rapid redevelopment – embodied by the high-rise apartments taking over historic districts – render Beijing’s streets hard to navigate and its...

Harm and offence in media content

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the benefits and dangers posed by both established and emergent technologies. It examines all media, including interactive games, social networking and mobile phones. Many examples focus on the United States, noting how young people use new technolog...

Who's who in research: performing arts

This volume of Who’s Who in Research series offers a guide for current researchers in Intellect’s subject area of Performing Arts. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and current research interests of hundreds of leading international academics as well as references to the re...

Queer mythologies

This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title Queer Mythologies. Pam Gems has written over 25 plays, and has not had adequate detailed analysis of her plays to date. She is a popular playwright produced often at the West End and has a widespread appeal by being on the pul...

Television and criticism

Television and Criticism unites distinguished scholars from the fields of literary criticism, media studies, and film studies to challenge the traditional boundaries between high and low culture. Through a theoretical lens, this volume addresses such topics as the blurring of genres, television ...

The net effect

Phenomenology's material presence

This book draws on work in phenomenology, embodiment and cinema and extends the field by examining metaphysical presence in postcolonial cinema. Through a meditation on three experimental videos by Trinidadian filmmaker Robert Yao Ramesar, this book makes the case that video performs an act of ph...

Black swan lake

Rod Giblett came to live by Forrestdale Lake in southwestern Australia in 1986. Based in part on a nature journal he kept for several years, Black Swan Lake traces the life of the plants and animals of the surrounding area through the seasons. Presenting a wetlands calendar that charts the yearly...

Magnet theatre

For three decades, Cape Town's Magnet Theatre has served as a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, this book analyses Magnet's many productions and pr...

China's environment and china's environment journalists

The first English-language study of this burgeoning field, this book investigates Chinese environmental journalists and concludes that most respond enthusiastically to government promptings to report on the environment and climate change.

Theatre in prison

From role-plays with street gangs in the USA to Beckett in Brixton; from opera productions with sex offenders to psychodrama with psychopaths, the book will discuss, analyse and reflect on theoretical notions and practical applications of theatre for and with the incarcerated. Theatre in Priso...

Fan phenomena: sherlock holmes

Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy fr...

Advances in spatial reasoning, volume one

The rehearsal

Pigeon Theatre – comprised of Anna Fenemore, Gillian Knox and Amanda Griffkin – specializes in experimental works that incorporate non-traditional spaces, unconventional social arrangements and shared intimacies between performer and audience. A trilogy of site-specific performance texts, The Reh...

Image understanding

Digital futures and the city of today

In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now interwoven within an invisible digital matrix. This matrix alters human perceptions of the city, informs our behaviour, and increasingly influences the urban designs we ultimately inhabit. 

Videogames and art

This book acknowledges the increasing cultural impact of the videogame industry. Topics include machinima, game console artwork, politically oriented videogame art and production of digital art. It contains an extended introduction from the editors, updated interviews with artists in the field an...

World film locations: chicago

With World Film Locations: Chicago , critic Scott Jordan Harris takes readers on a cinematic tour of the city, featuring modern blockbusters and beloved classics. Along the way, scenes from almost fifty films made or set in the city are discussed, accompanied by full-colour stills and intersperse...

Spring and no flowers

Albertine Gaur shares with the reader her childhood memories of the period just before, and during, the Second World War in Austria, her homeland.