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Artful methods for systemic change
Embraces “exquisite curation,” drawing on Surrealist strategies of chance and juxtaposition to generate creative encounters and collaborative forms of inquiry. Through dialogic engagement, contributors learn with one another across shifting educational landscapes, demonstrating how artful methods...
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Off earth atlas
A guidebook to the extraterrestrial. A compendium of short pieces from critical scholars in the social sciences, arts and humanities who provide a guide to the social worlds of outer space. The book bridges the critical social sciences, a wider public and space industry to think about outer space...
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Bad religion
An interdisciplinary study of Bad Religion’s impact on punk and broader culture across a forty-five-year career, exploring punk as political critique, philosophy, pedagogy and cultural resistance through music, lyrics, activism and global cultural influence.
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Digital island
A critical account of how Ireland became a key infrastructural hub for platform capitalism, examining how digital platforms reshape states, media systems, governance, labour, and lived experience under ecosystem-scale digital capitalism.
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Secretary to the people
Chronicling the evolution of Sheryl Oring’s ongoing project I Wish to Say. Since 2004, Oring has set up a public office to type dictated messages to the US president. Recording how analog communication fosters civic engagement in a digital age. Highlighting intersection of art, democracy and acti...
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Media imaginaries
This collection of new work by international scholars on media imaginaries explores the concept as a tool for reflection. Authors empirically and conceptually examine media imaginaries as multiform, providing space for dialogue on themes of political-social imaginaries, cultural-technological ima...
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Red metal
First major English-language history of heavy metal scene in the German Democratic Repulic (GDR), examines bands, fan cultures and the responses of society, state media and security authorities. Shows how an ostensibly apolitical subculture challenged ideological expectations, revealing cultural ...
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Tagging the world
Mobile and social media enable many new travel practices, but their scale and impact create challenges. Using wide-ranging case studies from the mediated world of travel, this book explores how locations are mined, tagged, and distributed via platforms demanding constant content, arguing that mor...
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I'm me
I’m Me explores how learning disabled and autistic artists create and communicate identity through theatre, dance, visual art, and creative practice. Based on an inclusive research project involving more than 100 artists across the UK, the book foregrounds disability-inclusive ways of knowing, ma...
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Performing maternities
By giving voice to these women and men, this book honours the diversity of maternities, and validates new academic and creative methods in figuring herstory as a patchwork intersection of voices across and through time – simultaneously acknowledging difference and diversity as well as commonality...
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Reading landscape
Reading Landscape explores how artists, architects, and designers interpret and reimagine landscape through creative practice. Bringing together essays, visual projects, and field actions, the book links art, architecture, design, and ecology to reveal landscape as a site of memory, environmental...
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Broadway and west end casting
When theatre audiences see Black actors or women portraying characters typically imagined or written as white or men should they ignore it or celebrate these nods to diversity? Should this casting be construed as a political statement or changing the plays’ meaning? A broad, informal overview of ...
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The diva mother
Explores how motherhood shapes female stardom in Italian cinema and media. Through films, archives, and publicity, it traces shifting maternal star images—from Magnani to Loren, Cardinale, Sandrelli, and Bergman—where national identity, glamour, respectability, desire, and legitimacy collide.
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Critical filmmaking
An interdisciplinary exploration of critical filmmaking as creative practice research from current and former editors of audio visual journals, examining the journals, platforms, peer review systems, and institutional frameworks that have enabled moving-image work to emerge as a recognised mode o...
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Reorienting performance
Part artist’s book, exhibition catalog, documentation, scholarly inquiry, and mid-career retrospective, Reorienting Performance reframes how South Asian performance practices can be situated on Western concert stages, interrogating the ongoing Orientalization often imposed on artists living withi...
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Contemporary tibetan art
A major study of contemporary Tibetan diasporic art exploring artworks by artists who have self-identified with the Tibetan diasporic community and have produced artwork showcasing Tibetan connections and disruptions through iconographic choices, artistic practices, and the use of various materia...
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Nuclear gaia
The book analyses new media archives on nuclear violence toward humans and the environment in the context of the ongoing project to transform Earth into Nuclear Gaia as a consequence of a confluence of political, military, economic and scientific decisions made back in the 1940s, related to the d...
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Directory of world cinema: africa
Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at African film as representing Africa for its o...
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Roof watching
The aim of the Watching series is to draw attention to some of the very interesting items around us, things that perhaps we don't notice as much as we might. The first was Bridge Watching, and when this was put "on the Net" it produced, to the surprise of the author, such a pleasant flood of e-ma...
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Directory of world cinema: american hollywood 2
Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood 2 builds on its predecessor by exploring how the industry has evolved and expanded throughout its history. Touches on classic films such as North by Northwest and Dirty Harry, comedies such as When Harry Met Sally and Jerry Maguire and CGI blockbuster...
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We europeans?
We Europeans? explores the relationship between media and identity along the fault lines and fissures of the shifting ethnicities, religions, tastes, generations and languages that make up contemporary Europe. Addressing topics such as film, television, public monuments and the press, contributor...
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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...
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Screen education
Film and media studies now attract large numbers of students in schools, colleges and universities. However the setting up of these courses came after many decades of pioneering work at the educational margins in the post-war period. Bolas’ account focuses particularly on the voluntary efforts of...
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Post-catastrophe film
A new sub-genre of film called ‘post-catastrophe’ is emerging and sits in the space between blockbuster disaster movies that use scenes of destruction to blow the world up and disrupt the flow of humanity and post-apocalyptic films where a version of society has formed in the ashes of the disaste...
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Trends in functional programming volume 7
This is Volume 7 of Trends in Functional Programming (TFP). It contains a refereed selection of the papers that were presented at TFP 2006: the Seventh Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming. which took place in Nottingham, 19-21 April, 2006. TFP is an international forum for researchers f...
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Handwriting of the twentieth century
The history of formal calligraphy has been thoroughly documented, and the demise of what people see as beautiful handwriting is frequently deplored, but the details of the teaching of this skill during this century have gone almost unrecorded. Everyday handwriting is ephemeral and school books so...
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Alternative worlds in hollywood cinema
The use of alternate realities in cinema has been brought to new heights by such recent films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Donnie Darko. Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema is the first book to analyze these imaginary realms, tracing their construction and development across pe...
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Allegorical images
This book provides a long-overdue introduction to Werner Schroeter’s visually lavish, idiosyncratic and conceptually rich cinema, situating it within the context of the West German television and film subsidy system during the 1970s, and engaging with some of the most pertinent and important argu...
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Composed theatre
A unique contribution to an emerging field, this book explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. It includes insightful essays by a group of international contributors and interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on histor...
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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...
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Human theatre and energetic alchemy
A poetic and practical guide to embodied performance, Human Theatre and Energetic Alchemy explores energy, presence, and transformation through breath, movement, and vulnerability. Ideal for performers, educators, and researchers seeking deeper connection on stage and beyond. 150 b&w illus.
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Writing belonging at the millennium
Writing Belonging at the Millennium brings together two pressing and interrelated matters: the global environmental impacts of post-industrial economies and the politics of place in settler-colonial societies.
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Studying unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television
A compendium to the study of unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television, with case studies, definitions, indications for further reading, and details of methodological and theoretical approaches. A foundational text it also contains new discoveries and perspectives and is a key reference ...
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Fan phenomena: star trek
In this anthology, a panel of rising and established popular culture scholars examines the phenomenon of Star Trek fan culture and its most compelling dimensions. The resulting collection is both critical and respectful, capturing the practices and attitudes of a fan culture that is arguably the ...
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British and french television drama
A comparative study of the politics and production processes of television drama in France and in Britain during a formative historical moment for communication systems. The juxtaposition reveals surprising similarities in the intentions and achievements of practitioners in this expanding field i...
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Propositions for studio inquiry
Examining art studios as a way of thinking through a cross-Canada journey into over 100 painters’ studios. Drawn from ways artists described their process, the studio is presented as an active ecosystem wherein artmaking is emergent, performative, generative, material, speculative, messy and in d...
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Matrescence and performance
Asks what performance can do to expand representations of becoming a mother. Using mimesis, liveness, and digital mediums to render their own matrescent bodies, contemporary mother/artists explore historical pejorative theoretical concepts and aesthetics in new, feminist ways. A valuable and rigo...
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Cotton
This book explores the importance of cotton as a major resource for US fashion businesses. It is rooted in an investigative research project that deployed undergraduate and graduate students and faculty researchers to US fashion businesses that rely on cotton to understand how the resource is sou...
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Rendered in bits and stone
The book provides a cross disciplinary examination of digital reconstruction projects and innovations in the field of immersive exhibitions, looking into the ‘digital politics of conservation’; technologies that augment storytelling’; and digital technologies considered tools for creating ‘virtua...
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Inclusive musical theatre
Inclusive Musical Theatre is a comprehensive guide that presents a research-backed curriculum and strategies for creating an inclusive and accessible musical theatre rehearsal and performance process at the high school level.
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Hyper-imaging
The book addresses the changes in how images behave, how they circulate and affect knowledge, subjectivity, and public exchange. It tackles the urgency that, from social media algorithms to user behaviors, from metadata architectures to interface logics, images today shape, prompt, and govern res...
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Alternative futures
Herzogenrath’s collection confronts us with a fantastic oscillation between utopia and dystopia. It presents us with the essence of what it means to engage in artistic research – in fact, research tout court: the desire to get away from a present perceived as deficient, if not disastrous, and loo...
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The workless
This book contests the hegemonic discourse around 'worklessness' - and dominant definitions of what we recognize as 'work'. It argues the current 'crisis' in economic inactivity is merely the latest in a long line of moral panics that have exaggerated the scale of 'worklessness' while denying the...
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Systems play
Systems Play reveals how contemporary art and design use play to navigate complexity and uncertainty in interconnected systems. Through vivid case studies, it showcases how contemporary artists expand perception and offer blueprints for a more adaptable and humane world. 49 col. illus.
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Embodying the artificial
Embodying the artificial explores dance creation with generative AI and other technologies. Drawing on ethnographic research, it examines the kinesthetic, ontological, and ethical dimensions of human–AI co-creation, offering frameworks for choreographers to engage critically and creatively with i...
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Punk & the animal
This book explores synergies, crossovers, and alignments of punk thinking in terms of the animal. It includes contributions from leaders of the punk movement, chapters by artists, scholars of visual and popular culture, animal studies specialists, and others in artistic and art-affiliated discipl...
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A bakhtinian approach to the visual arts
First book to develop methodology for transposing Bakhtin’s thought to visual art. Achieved via transpositional theories from S Langer, N Bryson, Vygotsky, P Florensky, P Rawson, Baxandall and Deleuze. Bakhtin’s insights applied to Giotto, Riemenschneider Velasquez, Cezanne, Picasso, Rauschenberg...
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Screening the transition
Screening the Transition examines how Spanish cinema produced in the years immediately following Franco’s death articulated—through its narratives and characterizations—the social and cultural challenges encountered during the country’s transition to democracy. These films reflect emergent post-d...
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Designwise
DesignWISE introduces a 360-degree, regenerative approach to design development. Bringing together designers, thinkers and changemakers and moving beyond linear processes, combining design thinking, systemic leadership, and earth-based wisdom traditions to foster reflection, intentional action an...
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Space in the image
Space in the Image is an intercontinental, interdisciplinary book exploring how still and moving images shape our experience of cities. At the intersection of architecture and digital media, it questions how representation and experience evolve in urban life amid rapid urbanization and digital im...
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Helmbrechts walk, 1998–2003
Helmbrechts Walk, 1998-2003 is a memorial testament to the forced march of 580 female Jewish prisoners at the end of the Second World War. This work is a visual representation of the 225 miles that the prisoners were forced to march from the camp in Germany into the occupied portion of Czechoslov...
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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...
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Multimodal comics
Multimodality is of increasing relevance to daily life. Comics are a unique and informative site to study this concept, as they rely on complex interactions between word and image. This collection brings together leading international research, developing comics theory and speaking to additional ...
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The examined illness
A philosophical memoir of illness, treatment, and recovery full of pain, suffering, humor, and reflections on how to live well during the ordeal of cancer and trials of a stem cell transplant. Being a patient is part of being alive; sooner or later most of us go through it.
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Fat performance
Fat Performance is the first published edited collection dedicated to fat performance. The text connects materials from across scholarship on fat performance and provides the readership with routes into this area of artistic practice and scholarly enquiry.
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The future of humanity (third edition)
Humanity now stands at a crossroads in the history of human civilization, the author, from the perspective of sublating Eastern and Western cultures and civilizations, proposes the concepts of “Global Civilization”and “Great Civilization,” explains their significance and discusses practical appro...
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Cutting up books
Explores writing as experiment and destruction as discovery. Blending theory, art, and practice, it introduces textrapolation: a cut-up method that reimagines creativity, authorship, and knowledge-making in the age of artificial unintelligence. Encourages intellectual play, intuition, and embodie...
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Decolonial media imaginaries
A bold inquiry into media imaginaries and imaginaries-work as tools of decolonial resistance, worldmaking, and collective futurity. DMI pivots away from the digital, technological, and sublime imaginaries created in the service of global capitalism to foreground the potential viability and genera...
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Through the prism of the senses
This book is a vital contribution to discussions surrounding research creation and the body in relation to digital media, highlighting the ways in which new technologies confront the sensate, somatic body.
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Directory of world cinema: france
This volume addresses the great directors and key artistic movements of France, but also ventures beyond these films and figures by examining many neglected but intriguing French films. Essays explore stylistic elements, cultural contexts and various conceptions of cinema in France. The book also...
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A phenomenology of trumpism
This thought-provoking book spans historical periods, cultures, and continents to prompt reflection on rhetoric, politics and the enduring challenges of democracy. Revisiting Classical thought, it offers a lens through which to examine the early ideals of democratic governance, social and cultura...
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Regulating new media in africa
A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the cont...
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The minneapolis sound
The Minneapolis Sound: The City, Music and Identity examines how Minneapolis shaped its own globally recognized sound and how that phenomenon, in turn, shaped the city’s identity, connecting geography, race, memory, and community through the intertwined stories of place, culture, and sound.
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Art is the evidence
The practical research guide explores art as both the process of inquiry and the evidence it generates. Universal access across disciplines is encouraged. Artistic intelligence and its sustained personal contributions to human understanding offers a timely complement to science and the exponentia...
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Directory of world cinema: central asia
The book follows the format of other DIRECTORIES OF WORLD CINEMA in the presentation of film credits, synopsis and a short critique of key films from each of the Central Asian republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
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Amplifying theatrical horizons
Drawing on scholarship in theatre studies, economics, philosophy, and performance practice, the book develops the Wasteful Theatre Equation, distinguishing waste as surplus that amplifies experience rather than squandered loss.
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Youth, power, performance
Draws on over twenty years of scholarship during Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with systemically marginalized youth in high schools, in a youth jail and with street-involved youth. Explores strategies for engaging youth, the potential for youth empowerment and applied...
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Shaping citizenship through talk radio
This is a book about how to have an inclusive, reflective and civil national conversation and whether the mass media can contribute to meaningful public debate. In this year-long study of the BBC’s national phone-in show before the 2024 British general election we see the public expressing its mo...
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Stone
This volume of collected essays, theoretical articles, case-studies, artistic texts and artwork portfolios aims to open a field of thought in which stone is not questioned as a materia prima of artistic work, but rather as a carrier of information.
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Bernhard lang
A critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) - one of Europe’s foremost leading practitioners in contemporary music. It traces the phenomenon of repetition as it works in and through Lang’s oeuvre and investigates his use of textual quotation and musi...
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Call me by your name
Enthusiastically received since its 2017 release, Luca Guadagnino's film Call Me by Your Name tells the love story between seventeen-year-old Elio and graduate student Oliver. This edited collection explores how the film speaks powerfully to questions of contemporary sexual identity and romance. ...
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