Television and criticism

Marion richardson

In Marion Richardson: Her Life and Her Contribution to Handwriting, Rosemary Sassoon’s recognizes Richardson’s groundbreaking contribution to the freeing of the teaching of child art and her two handwriting schemes – the main one based on her observations of children’s pattern paintings and the n...

Fashion in popular culture

Superman: the movie

From the film’s record-breaking budgets to the enmity between director and producers, the story behind the making of Superman is inherently dramatic. Marking 40 years since the film’s commercial release, the book presents original interview transcripts with the cast and crew that, when read toget...

The musical comedy films of grigorii aleksandrov

Danish directors

This collection profiles canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, featuring interviews with Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and more. It poses questions that engage with issues within film studies to stimulate debate. Each interview is preceded by the director’s photograph, ...

Trans(per)forming nina arsenault

Transgendered playwright, performer, columnist and sex worker Nina Arsenault has had sixty plastic surgeries in pursuit of a feminine beauty ideal. In this book, a diverse group of contributors (including Arsenault) offers an exploration of beauty, image and the notion of queerness through the le...

In smithereens

Centres on an artistic material encounter with costumes from the archive of iconic British choreographer Lea Anderson. Offers new strategies to understand performances through their material remnants, suggesting alternative ways in which the arguably haunted costumes can live on as ghosts inside ...

Traumatic encounters in italian film

This book addresses the question of the relationship between psychoanalysis and film, bringing together Lacanian theory and Italian cinema. The author explores the relationship between the Real, the under-represented Lacanian category, and some of the most widely celebrated and lesser-known Itali...

Media between culture and commerce

Research in art and design education

Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. Research in Art & Design Education answers this call, summarizing important issues in the field such as non-text based approaches and interdisciplinary work. Contributions...

Digital design using quarkxpress 4

The social use of media

This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice and participation in a cultural, political and technological sense. It also incorporates current au...

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...

Queer cinema in europe

This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of key films and filmmakers, the contributors to this volume resituate discussions of queer representat...

Modern melbourne

An analysis of the city of Melbourne using a wide range of historical, literary and artistic sources, including writers on modernity and the modern city. This environmental humanities and eco-cultural study of the history and culture of Melbourne and its site places it within the international co...

Reaching audiences

From Hollywood blockbusters to artists’ film and video, distributors play a vitally important role in getting films in front of audiences. As the link between production and exhibition, their acquisition policies, promotional practices and level of resources determine what is available, and so he...

The lived experience of improvisation

Improvisation is crucial to a wide range of artistic activities – most prominently, perhaps, in music, but extending to other fields of experience such as literature and pedagogy. Yet it gets short shrift in both appreciation and analysis of art within education. This is in no small part due to o...

Pattern and chaos in art, science and everyday life

This richly illustrated volume explores critical and visual practices through the lens of intersections between pattern and chaos. It challenges disciplinary boundaries, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through experimentation and visual ...

Queer mythologies

Digital magazine design

Kinesthetic empathy in creative and cultural practices

Kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to experience empathy by observing another human being's movements. Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices offers innovative and critical perspectives on a variety of topics, encouraging readers to sidestep the methodological and disciplin...

Learning for innovation in the global knowledge economy

Alisa, alice

Alisa, Alice' is a humanely cruel and deeply moving drama, full of passion and desire. The clash of two cultures – two worlds – is described with psychological accuracy and depth. Alisa, a young Muslim refugee scarred by the Balkan war finds shelter with Magda, a representative of the common so-c...

Revolution in the echo chamber

Revolution in the Echo Chamber is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. Building on historical analysis, this book provides contemporary perspective, drawing on trends from the current audio drama environment to analyse how people listen ...

Design and the creation of social value

This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...

Singing for our lives

Exploring the role of street choirs in political culture, and based on oral histories from more than 40 members of UK street choirs, this book introduces this neglected world to a wider public, including activists and academics. The title is taken from a song by musician and activist Holly Near, ...

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. 

Women in contemporary culture

This is the only comparative study of its kind, investigating how women construct their roles within the public sphere and highlighting the ways in which traditional versus modern values impact on female identity in France and Spain. Which female figures are proposed for our admiration? Who propo...

New zealand cinema

Media, monarchy and power

Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity? Media, Monarchy ...

Literacy and the politics of writing

Design discourse on business and industry

This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...

Transnational celebrity activism in global politics

Celebrity activism is an ever-growing, internationally visible phenomenon – yet the impact on public awareness, government support and resource mobilization remains under-researched. Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics brings together contributors to create a new framework for the...

Design and digital interaction

This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...

Epidemic urbanism

The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of societies. Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe explore what insights from the outbreak, experience and response to previous epidemics might inform our unde...

Red creative

Explores China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative hub of Shanghai. Takes a long-term historical perspective and raises questions about the nature of contemporary creative capitalism and the universal claims of Western modernity, offering n...

World film locations: mumbai

Mumbai is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, with wealthy areas located just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums. The home of Bollywood, Mumbai is also the epicentre of India’s film industry and its foremost film location. Through the lens of Mumbai’...

Contingency in madagascar

World film locations: istanbul

From Head-On to Murder on the Orient Express, World Film Locations: Istanbul offers a compelling look at the many films shot on location in this multicultural metropolis on the Black Sea. Illustrated throughout with film stills as well as photographs of featured locations as they appear today, Wo...

Citizen voices

Citizen Voices explores the ways in which citizen voices on science and environmental issues are articulated, heard, marginalized and silenced in mass media, policymaking, and other public venues. In a range of case studies from countries across Europe and North America, contributors offer empiri...

Theatre in passing

Franklin furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization that preserves, documents and presents works of avant-garde art by emerging artists. This book shows its comprehensive history from conception to the present. It intersperses first-person narratives with readings by artists and schol...

European journalism education

This book is the first comprehensive directory of the journalism education and training offered in thirty-three European countries. The volume, organized by country, discusses the history of journalism education and includes an analysis of all the current university programs and training provided...

New irish storytellers

 New Irish Storytellers examines storytelling techniques and narrative strategies in contemporary Irish film. Revealing defining patterns within recent Irish cinema, this book explores connections between Irish cinematic storytellers and their British and American colleagues. 

Streets of crocodiles

These photographs of Poland from the late 1980s to the present depicts its hybridized landscape. A visual record of the country’s transition from socialism to capitalism, it focuses on the industrial blue-collar city of Lodz. Kamil Turowski's photographs and Katarzyna Marciniak's text capture the...

The problem of assessment in art and design

With its inevitable dependency on the essential, and often contested, nature of art, the subject of assessment or evaluation in art and design education remains a matter of continuing controversy. This collection of essays examines the principal issues as they relate to the main phases of formal ...

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 ...

Press freedom and pluralism in europe

How free are the media in Europe? Freedom of the press and an independent media system are often taken for granted and all of the EU-member states today have implemented guarantees of press freedom in their constitutions and judicial systems. In Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe, researchers ...

The potentials of spaces

This book interrogates the relationship between scenography and performance in contemporary dramatic activities. The author combines theoretical research with details of dramatic methods and performances, thus providing valuable insight into working practices. The book aims to challenge tradition...

Declarations of independence

American independent cinema has been an important creative and cultural media entity for the past fifteen years. The approach of this sector is one of cultural construction that simultaneously provides a socio-political reference through which critics and audience can attach certain films to popu...

Towards a sustainable information society

The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy too...

Russia, freaks and foreigners

Russia, Freaks and Foreigners is a collection of three thematically linked plays set against the backdrop of a fractured, post-Soviet Russian society. Written by acclaimed playwright James MacDonald, who is cerebral palsied, these performance texts critique accepted notions of normality within au...

The trustus plays

Pride and panic

Pride and Panic probes cinematic representations of the Russian national consciousness, a complex cocktail of fear, anger and anxious uncertainty. Hashamova examines the works of both established and lesser-known Russian directors, drawing parallels between evolving social attitudes in Russia and...

Visualizing anthropology

Sacred theatre

Disability arts and culture

What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture: Methods and Approaches seeks the answer to this question and more in an exploration of disability studies within the arts and beyond.

Radical initiatives in interventionist & community drama

Computers and typography 2

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...

Philosophical frameworks and design processes

This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...

Signs of change

There is no one-size-fits-all way to keep pace with the changes affecting high school students and those who educate them. That’s why Joan Lazarus has gathered here the insights of hundreds of secondary school theatre teachers and teaching artists on how they have responded to the shifting demand...

Fan phenomena: batman

From his debut in a six-page comic in 1939 to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world’s most popular superhero. The continued relevance of the caped crusader could be attributed to his complex character, his dual identity o...

Cultures and settlements. advances in art and urban futures, volume 3

Recoveries and reclamations

The future of art in a digital age

Beijing film academy 2022

The Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research, as published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy in 2021. This volume brings together specially selected articles, appearing in English for the first time, to bridge the gap in ...

Advanced introduction to antitheodicy

This book introduces the concept of antitheodicy and an approach that the author proposes to call antitheodicism as central elements of a critical ethical response to the problem of evil and suffering.

The mind economy

The Mind Economy explores the human psyche as an economic system, positioning memory as its central currency. Combining psychological insight, cognitive science, and philosophical depth, it introduces economic cognitive therapy and practical methods for harnessing memory as a resource for self-aw...

Indigenous knowledge systems, entrepreneurship and sustainable development in africa

The book engages the need to embrace Indigenous knowledge-based entrepreneurship as a path towards achieving sustainable development in Africa. It advances a decolonization of knowledge systems that have undergirded entrepreneurship in Africa to pave ways for Indigenous knowledge systems.

Championing your school library

This book is a comprehensive guide to practical strategies for advocating, marketing, and promoting your library by targeting diverse and specific stakeholder groups. It is becoming an essential read as libraries increasingly need to demonstrate their value and impact.

Roll for adventure

Become the ultimate Game Master and deliver tabletop role-playing games with confidence!For librarians, teachers, school staff and parents who want to run a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) but don’t know where to begin, this practical guide includes five tabletop role-playing adventures writte...

Planning and implementing electronic records management

Many organizations are moving away from managing records and information in paper form to setting up electronic records management (ERM) systems. Whatever the whyfor in your organization, this book provides straightforward, practical guidance on how to prepare for and enable ERM.

Trusting records in the cloud

This book presents up-to-date research and offers concrete guidelines for records professionals concerned with challenges to records in the online environment including privacy, accessibility, portability, metadata and ownership.

The ai and data revolution

Grounded in theory, this book uses real-life case studies to illustrate how the collection, manipulation and application of data are reshaping businesses. It explains what this means for your organisation and strategies for staying ahead of this data and AI revolution.

Debt trap nation

Across England, one of the wealthiest yet most unequal nations in the world, families are being trapped in debt and homelessness. In this blistering expose, Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki take the reader inside this national scandal. Hundreds of thousands of children are living in "prison-lik...

The new politics of nationalism in contemporary europe

The resurgence of nationalism is one of the most significant developments in European politics over the past 25 years. Few countries have avoided it, with most experiencing a surge in support for parties that espouse anti-immigrant, anti-European Union and anti-globalization views. Led by populis...

Turkey and the liberal international order

This book examines Turkey’s increasingly unstable position in the liberal international order and its complicated relationship with the West. 

Downing street downfalls

Before Johnson’s rollercoaster ride, and the ensuing “blink and you missed it” premiership of Truss, the high wastage-rate among Britain’s prime ministers was becoming a cause for concern. This book examines 30 years of prime ministerial misadventures to answer why 10 Downing Street has become a ...

The hobbled state

Germany’s moral and political dilemma, as a nation unwilling to assume a leadership role in the international community, for fear of becoming dominant, is well rehearsed. Mark Vail traces Germany’s reluctant embrace of power from its state formation in the nineteenth century to its current recons...

The social foundations of global finance

A fresh collection of original contributions from a range of scholars inspired by the work of Tim Sinclair that critically engages and further applies the social foundations approach to global finance.

How medieval thinkers analysed cultural differences

This study investigates how medieval intellectuals compared their own cultures with others. It aims to establish Cultural Comparisons as an area of medieval studies by looking at some of the outstanding texts, mainly from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries.

The anthem companion to raymond aron

Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political rami...

Market your book on twitter, pinterest, and goodreads in a day

This ebook explains how to set yourself up quickly on social bookmarking and social cataloguing sites including Twitter, Pinterest and Goodreads to promote your book.

Our emotions and culture

In this highly readable book, Doyle McCarthy covers some of the main ways that emotions have become important in our global societies. She explains that emotional culture is important for understanding today’s world, its markets, its politics and its mass media. To live today is to be emotionally...

Constraining development

This book explores the ways that trade and investment treaties constrain domestic policy making. It draws a common thread through trade- and investment-related areas to show how the promises of the current international legal regime have not come to fruition and to offer new options for countries...

Mexico-us, serbia-eu border lives and works

Mexico–US, Serbia–EU Border Lives and Works is an interdisciplinary, accessible study of Mexico–US and Serbia-EU border practices and policies. Our interdisciplinary, collaborative team of scholars, artists, and migration practitioners tackle crucial questions about how these borders impact peopl...

The asia-pacific in the age of transnational mobility

Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.

The ahmadis and the politics of religious exclusion in pakistan

This path-breaking work traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan, drawing on revealing new sources and connecting its discussion to larger issues of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states. Winner of the Karachi Literary Festival Peace Prize...

The new power elite

‘Greedy Elites’ explains why today’s revolt against the ‘rich and powerful’ is led by billionaires and political insiders, sidelining elites’ traditional enemies. It links social, economic and political theory and evidence to show how rivalries within an elite always eclipse (and co-opt) popular ...

The anthem companion to niklas luhmann

The Companion contains twelve chapters written by proven experts on Luhmann’s social systems theory. Among the contributions are overviews of the development of Luhmann’s thinking, introductions to key areas of Luhmann’s theory of society and critical assessments of core concepts of his social sy...

Travel writing in the nineteenth century

An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.

Rethinking foreign investment for sustainable development

Consisting of country case studies and comparative analyses from Latin American and US based political economists, this volume addresses the shortcomings of foreign investment for development, and sets out the challenges facing policy makers in this field.

Sarah bowdich lee (1791-1856) and pioneering perspectives on natural history

This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) on natural history in the first half of the nineteenth century pivotally highlights the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of her work. The fact that she undertook it independently...

Science and technology policy for development

An inquiry into how social relations make for successful science and technology policies.