Spanish cinema of the new millennium

Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium provides a new approach to the study of contemporary Spanish cinema between 2000 and 2015, by analysing films that represent both ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture side by side.

Women and the media in capitalism and socialism

Edited collection examining the position of women in context of the political economy of the media. Discusses historically rooted masculinity, sexism, violence, inequality, underrepresentation, dual expectations, and lack of recognition faced by women in the media, looking particularly at gendere...

Theatre for lifelong learning

Theatre for Lifelong Learning: A Handbook for Instructors is a step-by-step guide for anyone interested in teaching theatre courses for older adults. It provides syllabi, discussion questions, resource lists, classroom management strategies, and activities. 7 b&w illus.

Studio seeing

A compelling case for vision-based pedagogy. It provides a wealth of insights, guidance, and exercises grounded in Gestalt perceptual theory and neurological research. The premise is that a student of drawing or painting must develop skills to see and create, using ground-directed looking rather ...

T-squared

Original collection explores the relationship between research that shapes art, architecture and design practices, and assignments that are developed by faculty for students. Demonstrates how pedagogical inquiry can become an evolutionary agent and makes innovative ideas/exercises available for t...

Visual futures

This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary examination of how we visualize and use visuals to make meaning within our environment. A diverse range of international contributions and perspectives from biology, film, virtual reality, urban graffiti, architecture, critical pedagogy and edu...

Shiny things

Discusses meanings of shininess in art and in culture generally. Shininess is physically and metaphorically present in the construction of concepts such as utopia, the sublime, and camp; and the way its affects, rooted in excess produce irony, anxiety, pleasure and kitsch. A compelling subject th...

Punk! las américas edition

A critical refashioning of punk to suggest it emerges from within the long-term historical experience of las Américas in all their plurality. A collage-like juxtaposition of punk perspectives from across the entire hemisphere and via divergent contributions. 71 b/w illus.   PUNK! Las Américas E...

Storying the self

Autoethnographic and autobiographical explorations of social identities and relationships, (un)belonging, and how practitioners and academics do their work. They show the ongoing need to rethink and re-examine how to do critical and engaging scholarly work. Life stories are necessarily, messy, co...

The return of twin peaks

Franck Boulègue's latest book about David Lynch and Mark Frost's famous television series focuses on the eighteen new episodes directed by Lynch for season 3, screened in 2017. Analyses the season with special importance given to readings from an intertextual, ontological and spiritual perspectiv...

Punk art history

The punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s is examined as an art movement through archive research, interviews, and art historical analysis. It is about pop, pain, poetry, presence, and about a ‘no future’ generation refusing to be the next artworld avant-garde, instead choosing to be the ‘rea...

Radical intimacies

The concept of radical intimacies is about a closeness to the world created through our relations, towards decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The political dimension involves qualities that enable alternatives to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism. Engages design wit...

Visual research methods in architecture

This book uses visual research methods to investigate architecture, landscape design and interior architecture. It presents a diverse selection of interdisciplinary approaches for the architect or architectural researcher to use their gaze as part of their research practice for the purpose of vis...

Women's work in post-war italy

This book investigates women's work in Italy between 1945 and 1965 using films, original oral history interviews, and archival sources. It focuses on three sectors: agriculture (rice weeders), fashion (seamstresses), and religious work (nuns) and compares women’s own words with their representati...

The traumatic screen

The Traumatic Screen is a psychoanalytic study that considers the function and presentation of trauma in Christopher Nolan’s films. Using a methodological framework with references to Freud and Lacan, the author argues that Nolan’s films highlight the ways in which the cinema can provide specific...

Somatics in dance, ecology, and ethics

Highly original essays by award-winning Sondra Fraleigh address the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology. Three new essays, new introductory material and postscript are included alongside essays previously published as journal articles brought together f...

Radioactive documentary

Presents analysis of ten documentary films about nuclear issues made since the end of the Cold War. Argues that public fascination with radioactive spaces has been used reflexively to present contemporary difficult themes such as Chernobyl, Fukushima, closure of nuclear power stations and the sit...

Sine ni lav diaz

The first book-length study of the Filipino auteur Lav Diaz, this edited volume offers a nuanced overview of the filmmaker, his corpus, career and traditions from various perspectives for film enthusiasts, researchers and general readers alike. 17 b/w illus.

The performances of sacred places

Looks at the value, function and role that performance plays in the constitution and activation of special, sacred places. Brings together artistic, theatrical, religious and activist practices with the objective of studying the role that they have in transforming, maintaining, contesting and act...

Popular music in leeds

The first academic collection dedicated to the histories, heritage, people and places of popular music in Leeds. It presents critical social and historical case studies exploring Leeds’ music and musical spaces, central players - musicians and music industry figures, and key moments in diverse mu...

Producing children’s television in the on demand age

Children’s television is undergoing rapid change. New streaming services like Netflix and YouTube compete with established players like the BBC and Disney. Using interviews with leading screen industry figures, the book examines how practices, funding and production in children’s television are a...

Performing #metoo

Voices from diverse cultural and environmental contexts writing on forms of engagement with the topic of performing #MeToo – testimony, witnessing, interpretation and field reports. Includes people who speak from personal experience, as well as allies, activists and scholars. Examines contemporar...

Performing arts in prisons

Across the world, performing arts programs are increasing in number, scope and professionalism. They attract increasing academic and media attention. Theoretical and applied research, organisational evaluation reports, documentary films and journalism are detailing prison arts and create recognit...

The politics of migration and mobility in the art world

Explores the nature of artistic practices for highly mobile artists from the Baltic States, moving regularly across multiple borders across Europe in order to maintain their position on the global art world. Artists with trans-local homes that combine and connect homeland, host country and a uniq...

Preston sturges

Few directors of the 1930s and 40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. This book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges’ whole oeuvre, incorporating a detailed study of the last ten years of his life from new ...

Photography as critical practice

A collection that combines visual works with critical essays around the theme of everyday life to explore the concept of otherness and highlight photography as a form of critical practice. Put together in this way, the book images and text work in dialogue with one another to construct a new pers...

Performing arts in prisons

Performing Arts in Prisons explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices. 

Performance generating systems in dance

Analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. Provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, ...

Photography from the turin shroud to the turing machine

This book compares two conceptual models for theorizing about photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. It explores new propositions about the theory of photography; the concept of quasi-photography; a unique model for photography as algorithmic art; and an interface between...

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...

Post-specimen encounters between art, science and curating

Examines how scientific objects in museums and other collections act as inspiration to contemporary art practice, its histories, curating and aesthetics. Cross-disciplinary essays from leading arts professionals explore how scientific encounters in museums provoke new modes of creative thinking a...

Prototyping across the disciplines

Looks at the use of prototyping in design research across a range of disciplines. Uses case studies to demonstrate theoretical and methodological transferability among disciplines not typically thought to be related to one another. This is an important contribution to the emerging field of integr...

Phenomenology for actors

This book explores how phenomenology – the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience – can provide new insights into acting and theatre-making. It explores Being-in-the-world in everyday life with practical exercises for rehearsal and performance. 7 b/w illus.

Performing temporality in contemporary european dance

Develops a new framework to understand how temporality is performed in contemporary dance. It combines an in-depth analysis of the choreographic practices of Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Ivana Müller, Mette Edvardsen and Mårten Spångberg with a close study of the philosophical work of B...

Performing collaboration in solo performance

Includes the full-length performance score of A Duet Without You, an original piece of collaboratively devised theatre by performance artist and scholar Chloé Déchery and her collaborators Karen Christopher, Pedro Inês, Simone Kenyon, Martin Langthorne, Tom Parkinson, Michael Pinchbeck and Debora...

Lessons from a multispecies studio

New critical discourse and applied methods based on the author’s original research and interspecies art practice, Animal Lover. Each chapter narrates the creative processes of one project, including the worlds of canines, salmon, birds and forest communities, and how these encounters transformed ...

Narrating the city

Considers how film and related visual media offer insights into the city, looking at the built environment as well as a lived social experience. It brings together an international group of filmmakers, architects, digital artists, designers and media journalists who critically read, reinterpret a...

Journalism, society and politics in the digital media era

This volume of research papers provides a scientific and critical assessment of the impact of the modern digital media era on our societies, communities and practices in diverse sociopolitical landscapes. It presents evidence, theories, practices and arguments that can lead to a literate and bett...

Living histories

This new edited collection explores histories of art education in international contexts. Offers a series of thoughtful and invigorating conversations with international scholars who evoke our conceptualizations of the histories of art education in pursuit of more equitable, diverse and inclusive...

The legend of zelda: ocarina of time

Discusses the use of music in a well-loved and culturally significant game – Ocarina of Time. Examining music in different contexts, it identifies music’s role and function within the game and in gameplay overall, and uses this to investigate wider issues in music and media studies and fan cultur...

Mediatization(s)

Introduces the main theories and authors on mediatization from Europe and Latin America in the last two decades. It frames these theories within the context of communication and media theories, and maps the current field of mediatization focusing on the most recent and cutting-edge theoretical, m...

Leigh bowery

A deep dive into the practice of performance artist Leigh Bowery that reveals the fullness of his extravagant range. Explores how his performative costuming and live art have influenced visual culture and the expanded field of performance studies as well as fashion. With a Foreword from Boy Georg...

The lure of the social

An intimate and personal exploration of the author’s journey following the development of the field of social practices in contemporary art: arguably the most significant shift in art world practices in the last two decades.  A beautifully written exploration of key individuals, institutions and ...

Keepin' it real

Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America is a vibrant and eclectic collection of essays written during the most racially turbulent period of the modern era – the end of the Obama Administration and the start of the Trump Administration – that examine emerging racial tensions, curre...

Landscape and the moving image

New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. An informed, personal view from a high profile author considering if appreciation of nature’s aestheti...

Let's talk about critique

Explores the tradition of critique in art and design education. It contextualizes current practices and suggests ways to have more open, inclusive and dynamic classroom conversations about art and design. The centerpiece is a collection of alternative critique approaches developed by experienced ...

The new politics of visibility

This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an array of topical areas in the newly emerging modes of governance, ranging from urban public space to the media and the new media in contemporary society....

Make the dream real

El Vez performances present a powerful message of social justice and inclusion in changing US and social contextsMake the Dream Real interrogates how artist Robert Lopez playful engagements as El Vez hold the United States to its egalitarian promises, voicing and enacting a just, richly inclusive...

Painting, history and meaning

Original and timely new study of contemporary painting’s relationship with history and historical material. Uses examples of traditional and conceptual painting and practice to draw together historical and contemporary practice. 20 col. illus.

Painting in the 1980s

Highly readable new book explores the re-emergence of the medium of painting with unprecedented force during the 1980s, despite suggestions that it was either dead or no longer relevant. Presents a wide variety of well known painters, discussing thematic similarities as well as unique and individ...

The many meanings of mina

Mina is one of Italy’s best-loved pop stars. This book explores the significance of her star status in post-war Italy, and traces how the many meanings of Mina evolve as a result of different media forms she was involved in, which intersect and interact to produce new significances of the star th...

The media-democracy paradox in ghana

Ghana is widely acknowledged by the international community as a model of democracy: the first black African sub-Saharan country to gain political independence from Britain. Focusing on the matrix offered by the media-democracy paradox in Ghana, Africa and the Global South, it will generate debat...

Mathias spahlinger

A critical introduction to the music and thought of the German composer Mathias Spahlinger. Explored from his own perspective and discussed critically in relation to the work of French philosopher Jacques Ranciére and the continuing discourses of modernism. The first study on Spahlinger to be pub...

Making sense of medicine

Leading historians, anthropologists, educators and designers explore the role of materiality in medical education. With a broad focus, international scope and experimental format, this is the first book to seriously reflect on the material relationship between the medical school and reproduction ...

Media pluralism and online news

Media Pluralism and Online News reassesses policy ideas of media pluralism in a platformised world. The book analyses how automated curation now shapes visibility of news content with consequences for how citizens become informed. 15 b/w illus.

Patchwork

Essays about and interviews with contemporary caribbean writers, scholars and curators. Includes work by trained visual artists and vernacular artists with emphasis on the works of vernacular decorative and ornamental needle workers. Speaks to both indigenous traditions of the region and more glo...

The music diva spectacle

This book looks at contemporary popular music divas, their live and recorded performances, and the perceived relationship these artists have with queer audiences. By looking into the theatrics of the diva tour show, it examines and theorizes the production and reception of camp as a queer praxis ...

Pasta, pizza and propaganda

A lively and rigorous historical account of Italian food television narrated from a political point of view. In referring to the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, the book links food, television and politics and shows how the three give way to the political construction of various versions of Italy, ...

Music by numbers

This edited collection examines statistics within the music industry. Its aim is to expose the historical and contemporary use and abuse of these numbers, both nationally and internationally. It addresses their impact on consumers’ choices, upon the careers of musicians and upon the policies that...

Media

The first book in the Media-Life-Universe trilogy of transdisciplinary explorations from internationally known scholars and practitioners, this collection addresses the emerging roles of media and is an indispensable text for classroom use by scholars and students exploring contemporary media, co...

Iconoclastic controversies

This book combines photography and written text to analyse the role of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case study, it shows how these memorials often support, but sometimes also undermine, the discursive-mater...

Instafame

Instafame charts the impact of Instagram – one of the world's most popular social media platforms – on visual culture in the decade following its launch. It traces the connections between graffiti, street art and Instagram, arguing that social media's battle for a viewer's attention is closely al...

Fighting for the soul of general practice

A view of contemporary general practice from two practising GPs. Themes include industrialisation versus craftsmanship; the effect of protocol; and the breakdown of relational care. The theoretical perspectives introduced are illustrated through a series of anonymised anecdotes. 15 b/w illus. Fr...

Fan phenomena: disney

The first book to comprehensively engage with Disney fans and the company's relationship with them, spanning theme parks, film, television, stage productions and novels, as well as a variety of fannish interventions. It addresses timely issues such as race and queerness, the Covid- 19 pandemic an...

Interpreting and experiencing disney

The name 'Disney' is synonymous with its expansive franchises, from princesses to theme parks. The power of the Disney brand is its role as a cultural influencer across multiple generations across the globe. This collection of essays takes a look at Disney beyond its behemoth corporate presence a...

Inclusive dance

This book is about dance and movement involving visually impaired and sighted participants, about social and cultural exclusion facilitated by touch based methods. Case studies and vignettes provide thick descriptions of the practice Contact Improvisation and reveal how lives change, how sociocul...

The igor moiseyev dance company

In this book Anthony Shay examines the life and works of renowned choreographer Igor Moiseyev and his dance company. 

The impact of touch in dance movement psychotherapy

A reflexive study of a client case in which touch-based practices were undertaken. Considering the philosophical landscape of both touch and non-touch, it explores and reflects upon the use of touch, and considers the wider context and socially imposed perceptions that would prevent touch from ta...

A holocaust cabaret

Presents two scripts reconstructed in 2017 – one Australian, one South African – based on a satirical musical written in 1943 in the Terezin Ghetto. Accompanying essays explore how each creative team engaged with the  original script to link their reconstructions with immediate political and soci...

From méliès to new media

From Méliès to New Media is an exploration of the presence and importance of film history in digital culture. The author demonstrates that new media forms are not only indebted to, but firmly embedded within the traditions and conventions of early film culture. 

In search of tito’s punks

An unvarnished but also affectionate portrait of Yugoslavia in the years before its demise through to the present, seen through the unlikely lens of punk. Part travelogue, part history the book is both, and neither, of those things. A mural and soundtrack of a journey through a time and place whi...

Fashion projects

This book collects together the best articles from the long-running journal Fashion Projects, most issues of which are now unavailable. Through detailed interviews with designers, critics and curators, the book chronicles the ascent of fashion as a critical force across media, the museum and the ...

Heavy metal music in argentina

This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of heavy metal culture in Argentina between 1983 and 2002. Contributors address the music’s rituals, circulations, cultural products, lyrics and intertexts, allowing readers to rethink the place of national heavy metal within Argentinean politi...

Invisible presence

The most complete study of women in French-language comics to date - and the first published in English. Taking a two-pronged approach of historical and case-study analysis, and with a chronological span of over a century, it is the fullest examination thus far of female depiction in Francophone ...

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...

Fedor bondarchuk: 'stalingrad'

Fedor Bondarchuk’s 2013 blockbuster film Stalingrad shattered box-office records and dazzled viewers with its use of special effects, enhanced by its 3D IMAX format, and transported audiences back to 1942. Examines the production, context and reception of the film, whilst offering a detailed read...

Fat activism (second edition)

In this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West, Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. It is part of a new wave of accessible, accountable and rigorous work emerging through Research Justice...

Drawing, well-being and the exploration of everyday place

Over 200 observational drawings created every day from the same window during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, revealing life in an ordinary English street in extraordinary times. A visual record and a unique meditation on place, nature, community, well-being, and the value of mindfully appreciatin...

Design and the digital humanities

Designers and digital humanists have successfully worked together for over twenty years, but many people from both fields have yet to enjoy the many opportunities such collaborations represent. This guide prepares readers for working together, outlining disciplinary perspectives, lessons learned ...

Devising theatre and performance

This book makes a major contribution to the fields of theatre and performance studies, devised performance practice and practice-based research. The authors provide a treasure trove of performance exercises that will be invaluable to performance-makers, educators and students as they develop thei...

Exposing vulnerability

This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women. 

Dance and authoritarianism

How dance and mass movement are used as a political tool by political regimes, especially authoritarian governments, as a way of showing symbolic mass support for the regime. Such regimes require spectacle to present them as protectors of the ethnic and national identities of their subjects, repr...

Effective journalism

This book provides journalists and the public with a broad overview of all the ways modern communication technologies and information approaches make it difficult for people to effectively find and interpret information, and what they can do about it.

Dance and ethics

Focuses on ethical issues confronting Western theatrical dance, from treatment of dancers to choreography, dance criticism, presenting and paradigm shifts in the dance field. It aims to equip dance artists with alternative frameworks and ethical decision-making skills for different stages of thei...

Experimental dining

Considers four of the world’s leading creative restaurants as experimental performance practice. Using ideas from performance studies, cultural studies, philosophy and economics, the book argues that technoemotional restaurants can be understood as both a commodified experience and an artistic an...

Comparative media policy, regulation and governance in europe - chapter 12

The cultural impact of rupaul’s drag race

Insightful and provocative, and new in paperback. Examines the social, cultural, political and commercial implications of RuPaul’s Drag Race, from its groundbreaking, subversive entry into the reality television arena, to a now mainstream, increasingly non-LGBTQ+, audience reach and relationship ...

The critical eye

The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts – historical, generic, biographical and aesthetic. Lyle Rexer argues that by concentrating on just a few carefully chosen works ...

Contemporary british and italian sound docudrama

The book focuses on radio and sound docufiction/docudrama through comparative analysis of case studies from BBC Radio and from Radio RAI and Italian independent producers. It explains how radio language in its acoustic dimension allows access to unpredictable layers of truth complementary or alte...

Contemporary design education in australia

This book offers a range of approaches to teaching higher education design students to learn to design collaboratively and creatively, through transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary learning experiences. 49 b/w illus. 11 tables

Contemporary absurdities, existential crises, and visual art

An edited collection consisting of essays and artworks by distinguished and emerging theorists, artists, and scholars. It explains how our contemporary moment is absurd and how absurdity is a useful, potentially radical tool within the contemporary.35 b&w illus.

Constructions of the real

This book is a collection of writing by diverse global documentary and non-fiction filmmakers who explore theory through filmmaking. Their hybrid filmmaking practices bridge industry and the academy, questions binaries, builds new connections between theory and practice, and suggests a new turn t...

Copenhagen chic

The first comprehensive study of the Copenhagen fashion culture in English, aims to inspire future generations of thinkers, creators, and practitioners in fashion and design fields to make the fashion industry more sustainable, ethical, and just. Latest in the Urban Chic series. 100 b/w illus.

Cosmopolitics of the camera

An in-depth intellectual and historical analysis of Les Archives de la Planète, Albert Kahn’s collection of early colour photography and documentary film. The book examines the extraordinary context of Kahn’s work, considers archival theory and visual culture, and investigates the cosmopolitan st...

Curriculum

Explores the intersection of contemporary art and school education in Art School; the independent curatorial framework throughout Ireland focused on establishing new interfaces between art and education, questioning pedagogical shifts through artistic practice, bringing contemporary artists into ...

Cross-cultural design for healthy ageing

Promotes an understanding of 'design for healthy ageing' from a multi-faceted perspective of design and health practitioners. Provides tools and methods for approaching the complex issues associated with ageing through cross-cultural interactions and perspectives.  Incl. case-studies run in Asia-...

Beyond text

Focuses on learning through arts-based research as a practice of social justice through which we can reimagine, interrupt, insist and resist as we engage collectively to better understand and rethink social, organisational and societal issues. The result of a multi-year and international research...

The cinematic sublime

An academic reader bridging the disciplines of aesthetics and film studies by focusing on cinematic sublimity. Original essays by contemporary film scholars and philosophers with topics and case studies ranging from early cinema and classical Hollywood to avant-garde film and contemporary digital...