Socializing the Human-Computer Environment

This book calls attention to the social consequences of human-computer interaction and begins developing a theoretical framework that recognizes the interdisciplinary nature of the interactions that occur. This volume is a blend of theory, research and application. It offers alternative perspecti...

New Zealand Cinema

New Zealand has produced one of the world’s most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country’s evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features like The Te Kooti Trail to recent films such as River Queen, this book examines the role of the cinem...

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...

Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood

Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood lays out the cinematic history of Tinseltown highlighting important thematic and cultural elements throughout. Profiles and analyses of many of the industry’s most talented and prolific directors give insights into their impact on Hollywood and beyond...

The Artist on the Artist

Touring the Screen

Following the success of prominent feature films shot on location, including Tolkien's wildly popular The Lord of the Rings, New Zealand boasts an impressive film tourism industry. This book examines the relationship between New Zealand's cinematic representation – as both a vast expanse of natur...

World Film Locations: Florence

World Film Locations: Florence explores Florence as it is manifested in the minds of filmmakers and filmgoers. Contributors consider a wide range of topics and provide scene reviews of films to delve deeper into the makeup of the city, looking at both familiar and unfamiliar locations through the...

Empirical Studies of Programmers

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...

Plays in Time

Karen Malpede's four plays are set during influential events from the late twentieth century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture programme; and the heroism of climate scientists facin...

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...

Diasporas of Australian Cinema

This volume is the first to focus exclusively on diasporic filmmaking and the rich cultural diversity within Australian cinema, and it contains previously unpublished articles by some of the foremost experts on Australian cinema in the world. Contributors to Diasporas of Australian Cinema discuss...

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.

Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe

Technological change in broadcasting has enabled us to open up media markets, making media and society more internationally-oriented. Chapters focus on technological change and its impact on cultural and political identities, the role of the cultural industries in the ‘New Economy’ and the impact...

(Re)Positioning Site Dance

Site-based dance performance and sited movement explorations implicate dance makers, performers and audience members in a number of dialogical processes between body, site and environment. This book aims to articulate international approaches to the making, performing and theorising of site-based...

Performing Process

The chapters in this collection examine the methods, politics and philosophy of sharing choreographic process, aiming to uncover theoretical repercussions of and the implications for forms of knowledge, the appreciation of dance, education and artistic practices.

The Divine Springtime

For those moments of tension, when nerves are jangled and feelings stretched. This book uses short quotes from many spiritual and poetic sources to restore, revise and reassure. Among these quotes there may be one which offers companionship throughout the day.

Learning for Innovation in the Global Knowledge Economy

This book is a major step forward in understanding the learning behaviour of clustered technology-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative research methods and sampling techniques, it identifies how learning for innovation is stimulated or inh...

Logical Derivation of Computer Programs

This book presents a method that constitutes a powerful new tool for creating error-free programs and showing students a rigorous mathematical approach to programming.  As a textbook for a one-semester course on program derivation, the text develops a fresh new language-based logic for procedure...

David Cronenberg

For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. ...

Immigration Cinema in the New Europe

This book examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first-generation immigrants and children of the diaspora in Europe. It also theorizes immigration cinema in relation to notions such as gender, hybridity, transculturation, border c...

A Reflective Practitioner's Guide to (Mis)Adventures in Drama Education - or - What Was I Thinking?

This collection of essays from many of the world’s preeminent drama education practitioners captures the challenges and struggles of teaching with honesty, humour, openness and integrity. Collectively the authors possess some two hundred years of shared experience in the field, and each essay inv...

Advertising as Culture

Penned by contributors from a range of disciplines, including art history, sociology and media and cultural studies, the essays that constitute Advertising as Culture offer an informed and critical overview of approaches to the study of advertising. These in-depth contributions explore such topic...

Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2

Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first instalment of Directory of World Cinema: Japan, this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favourites and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with new contributions from leading critics and ...

TV Format Mogul

Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for markets around the world, the global television industry has been struggling to come to grips with the prevalence of program franchising across internationa...

Food Democracy

Food Democracy brings together contributions from leading international scholars and activists, critical case studies of emancipatory food practices and reflections on possible models for responsive communication, design and art. The book includes recipes and essays that ask how to counter the ro...

People's Pornography

Since its establishment in 1949, the People's Republic of China has upheld a nationwide ban on pornography, imposing harsh punishments on those caught purchasing, producing, or distributing materials deemed a violation of public morality. A provocative contribution to Chinese media studies by a w...

Directory of World Cinema: Britain 2

The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Britain provided an overview of British cinema from its earliest days to the present. In this, the second volume, the contributors focus on specific periods and trace the evolutions of individual genres and directors.

Directory of World Cinema: Turkey

Taking themes of gender, genre, cultural memory and (trans)national identity as its starting point, this book – the first English-language directory of Turkish films – provides an extensive historical overview the country’s cinema since the early 1920s. The resulting volume, which includes a comp...

Sensing the City through Television

This is an investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama, assessing their political, sociological and cultural implications. It draws on five key case studies, analyzing the structure, content, characterisation and narrative, and ...

Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries

This book spans fifty years of Faith Wilding's feminist artistic production, feminist art pedagogy and participation in, and organising of, feminist art collectives, such as the Feminist Art Program, Womanhouse, Womanspace Gallery and the Woman’s Building. Featuring contributions from scholars an...

Design for Business

Centred around the research findings of marketing and design consultants whose clients include Coca-Cola, P&G, General Motors, Deloitte and Vodafone, among many others, Design for Business takes a practical approach to the role of design as a strategic resource to business. Including the stud...

Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks

Written by fans for fans, Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks is an intelligent yet accessible guide to the various aspects of the show and its subsequent film. With commentary from both first-generation and more recent followers, essays capture the fascinating universe of Twin Peaks, from Audrey Horne's s...

Inside the TV Newsroom

In an era where the way people get news is ever-changing, how do broadcast journalists work? How do changes to the field affect journalists at traditional public broadcasters? And what similarities are there between license-funded news programmes – like those on the BBC – and commercial news? Thi...

Visual Language for the World Wide Web

Linking the hieroglyphs of ancient Mayan and Sumerian culture with icons on the modern computer interface, this book shows that human visual communication has come full circle from the earliest representations. Honeywill's analysis shows how ancient visual languages now serve as a source for rene...

Holistic Shakespeare

Shakespeare's plays are staples of the classroom. Yet too often they are taught as antiquated works of literature with little reference to their theatrical life and enduring human themes. Applying the methodologies of the holistic education model to the study of four Shakespearean plays – Othello...

Sex on Stage

Sex on Stage examines how British playwrights, actors and directors brought women’s sexuality and gay and lesbian issues to the cutting edge of drama after World War II through a close reading of playwrights such as John Osborne, Harold Pinter, and Terence Rattigan.

One Hundred Years of Futurism

More than one hundred years after Futurism exploded onto the European stage with its unique brand of art and literature, there is a need to reassess the movement, from its Italian roots to its international ramifications. The contributors to this collection examine both the original context and t...

RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television

For about 40 years, RTE's radio and television channels have played an enormous role in shaping Irish social and cultural life. RTE's work is frequently shrouded in secrecy and mystique, which means that conspiracy theories abound about how it is governed and how it relates to various power cente...

The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company

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

Professions in Contemporary Drama

Numerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has ignored them to a large extent. Based on a conference organised in conjunction with the University of London, Professions in Contemporary British Drama presents nine papers discussing the educational professions, the medical ...

Australian Film Theory and Criticism

The first part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy.

World Film Locations: Las Vegas

World Film Locations: Las Vegas goes beyond the clichés of Sin City to examine what Hal Rothman and Mike Davis called 'the grit beneath the glitter', thus providing an opportunity to find out more about the unique position Vegas occupies in the popular imagination.

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...

Inheritance Theory

Fan Phenomena: Jane Austen

Austen’s novels are inextricable from the culture, media and fans they have created. Essential reading for Austen’s legions of admirers, Fan Phenomena: Jane Austen collects essays from writers and critics that consider the culture surrounding Austen’s novels.

The Philadelphia Connection

Philadelphia is one of America's most interesting and innovative cities for theatre, rich in new theatres, new plays, and rising playwrights. This book paints a picture of the city's burgeoning scene through interviews with some of Philadelphia's most influential and successful playwrights, inclu...

Planet Cosplay

Planet Cosplay is authored by widely published scholars in this field, examining the central aspects of cosplay ranging from sources and sites to performance and play, from sex and gender to production and consumption. 

Minds, Brains and Computers

Directory of World Cinema: Latin America

Bringing together contributions by leading experts and emerging young scholars, the Directory of World Cinema: Latin America offers a comprehensive overview of the region's diverse films. It features reviews of important recent films, a filmography, and recommendations from an array of genres. Wi...

African Luxury

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already pres...

European Cultures in Sport

Sport occupies a key position in the cultural profile of a nation. This study forms a comparative guide to sport across Europe, in terms of its relative political and social status, its development, and the ways in which it has contributed to national achievement. Covering sport in ten major Euro...

Computers and Typography

Rosemary Sassoon alerts those involved in computer interface design that the skills of layout, spacing and typeface are equally vital in the construction of onscreen layouts as they are on the printed page.    Computers and Typography 2 reflects the new developments in this rapid-changing field...

Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future

Since the 1980s there has been much speculation about the demise of public service television, initially because of the advent of cable and satellite television and the variety of entertainment channels they offer. While the proliferation of global niche media might seem to accelerate the demise ...

Entering Transmasculinity

Entering Transmasculinity is a holistic study of the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape transgender identities. In the book, matthew heinz offers an examination of mediated and experienced transmasculine subjectivities and aims to capture the apparent contradictions that structure...

Recording Memories from Political Violence

This book combines written and audiovisual texts to describe and analyse the use of documentary filmmaking in recording experiences of political conflict. McLaughlin draws on the diverse fields of film and cultural studies in this informed, instructive contribution to documentary filmmaking and p...

Progress in Neural Networks, Volume Three

Christoph Schlingensief

The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activism, opera and theatre. Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders is the first book to be published in English on Schlingensief’s groundbreaking, pol...

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...

Transglobal Fashion Narratives

Everywhere we look, people are using fashion to communicate self and society – who they are, and where they belong. Transglobal Fashion Narratives presents an international, interdisciplinary analysis of those narratives. Moving from sweatshop to runway, page to screen, camera to blog and artist ...

Drive in Cinema

In this book, Marc James Léger presents Žižek-influenced studies of films made by the most influential filmmakers of our time, including Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, William Klein, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Harmony Korine and more. 

Media and Values

Media and Values investigates the moral performance of the media. Based on an exhaustive number of focus groups, surveys, and interviews with senior media staffers in the United Kingdom and Europe, this book charts the changing status of the media as a moral voice. The authors argue that televisi...

The Visceral Screen

Narrative and spectacle describe two extremes of film content, but the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg resist such categorization. Instead, Robert Furze argues, the defining characteristic of these directors’ respective approaches is that of 'visceral' cinema – a term that illustr...

Philosophical Approaches to Communication

A comprehensive introduction to the forms and various philosophical theories of communication, this volume is composed of three sections focusing on the production of culturally relevant communication, the interpretation of communicative messages and the effects of communication on both speaker a...

Contingency in Madagascar

As they set off for Madagascar in 2003, photographer Max Pam and writer Stephen Muecke adopted as their guiding principle the idea of contingency – central to which is the conscious embrace of risk and chance. In doing so, they established a new aesthetic in which image and text are inextricably ...

Trends in Communication Policy Research

Topical and politically relevant, this authoritative volume will prove an invaluable reference for students and scholars seeking to understand communication policy issues.

L.A. Chic

Los Angeles is undergoing a makeover. Leaving behind its image as all freeways and suburbs, sunshine and noir, it is reinventing itself for the twenty-first century as a walkable, pedestrian friendly, ecologically healthy and global urban hotspot of fashion and style,  while driving initiatives t...

Inclusion in New Danish Cinema

Often recognized as one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark, like its Scandinavian neighbors, is known for its progressive culture, which is also reflected in its national cinema. It is not surprising, then, that Danish film boasts as many successful women film directors as men, uses ...

Ergonomics

Teaching Knowledge and Intelligent Tutoring

It's All Allowed

It's All Allowed, edited by Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson, is the first book devoted to Adrian Howells's remarkable achievements and legacy. Contributors here testify to the methodological, thematic and historiographical challenges posed by Howells' performances. Winner of the TaPRA prize f...

Design and Living Well

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...

World Film Locations: Berlin

One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exuberance, devastation, division and reconstruction. World Fil...

The Film Paintings of David Lynch

This book addresses director David Lynch's films from the perspective of the relationship between commercial film, avant-garde art and cultural theory. It offers a unique perspective on the director, weaving together a range of theoretical approaches to Lynch's films to make new connections among...

Unbecoming Cinema

Unbecoming Cinema explores the notion of cinema as a living, active agent, capable of unsettling and reconfiguring a person’s thoughts, senses, and ethics. Film, according to David H. Fleming, is a dynamic force, arming audiences with the ability to see and make a difference in the world. Drawing...

Aleksandr Sokurov

Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de Custine as he wandered through the vast Winter Palace in St. Petersburg – and through three hundred ...

Art, Community and Environment

This volume brings together a distinguished group of contributors from the United States, Australia, and Europe to examine topics such as urban art, community participation, local empowerment and the problem of ownership. Featuring rich illustrations and informative case studies from around the w...

Chess and Machine Intuition

With the ability to conceive of and construct ever more complicated machinery, expectations have increased that we may yet comprehend, and perhaps even duplicate, some of our own mental abilities. In examining how we think, act, and enjoy the complexities of problem solving in such activities as ...

World Film Locations: Singapore

Covering the myths that surround Singaporean film and exploring the realities of the movies that come from this exciting city, World Film Locations: Singapore introduces armchair travellers to a rich, but less known, national cinema.

Requirements for a Software Engineering Environment

Future of Art in a Digital Age

This work develops the thesis that the transition from pre-modernism to postmodernism in art of the digital age represents a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. Semiotic and morphological analysis of art and visual culture demonstrate the contemporary c...

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...

Cinemas of the Other

An original collection of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent the trends in the film industries of their respective countries. Preceding the interviews, the author provides an introduction delineating historical information regarding the film industries of the countries includ...

Cognition, Computing, and Cooperation

The Art Rules

Based on his many years in both the art world as a gallery owner and educator, The Art Rules is a practical, operational guide for visual artists that demystifies the art world and empowers practitioners to find success on their own terms. 

On Perfection

Framed from an artist’s perspective and spanning a diverse range of artworks that question how ideas of perfection shape our personal identities and our social and political systems, On Perfection considers the multifaceted nature of lens-based practices.

Mac 3D

The Apple Macintosh computer has been at the forefront of the Deskop Publishing revolution and is breaking similar ground in the ields of desktop animation, multimedia and three-dimensional modelling Mac 3D offers a comprehensive and fundamental introduction to this rapidly developing field whic...

Representations of Working in Arts Education

Arts education provides students with opportunities to build knowledge and skills in self-expression, imagination, creative and collaborative problem-solving. This book provides key insights from stakeholders across the teaching and learning spectrum and offers examples of pedagogical practice to...

Giuseppe Pagano

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the influential architect Giuseppe Pagano and his contribution to the development of modern architecture. With chapters by Tim Benton, Noa Steimatsky, Cesare de Seta, Caterina Franchini and Claudia Cagneschi.

The Sounds of Contemporary French

How do French native speakers articulate the consonant and vowel sounds of their language and what changes do these sounds undergo during the flow of connected speech? How do the sounds of French differ from those of English and other languages and how do they vary according to the speaker's regi...

Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine

Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine features never-before-published photographs from the Look archives and complete scans of Kubrick’s photo essays from hard-to-obtain back issues of the magazine. It will be an indispensable addition to the libraries ...

Trends in Functional Programming Volume 1

This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners in the field of functional programming. The articles cover many aspects of the field, including: language design  proof and transformation semantics and models implementation applications type systems parallelism and distribution p...

Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator

The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade – the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets – to Agatha Christie's Captain Hastings – the genteel companion in greener surrounds – the P. I. has taken on any number of gui...

The Designer

Design is one of the most rapidly changing fields in the art world. Rosemary Sassoon surveys fifty years of change in the world of design, evaluating the skills that have been lost, how new techniques affect everyday work, and how training methods prepare students for employment. 

The Trustus Plays

The Trustus Plays collects three full-length, award-winning performance texts by American playwright Jon Tuttle. Each play was a winner of the national Trustus Playwrights Festival contest and was then produced by the Trustus Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina. The Hammerstone is a comedy about ...

The Sensible Stage

This book examines how elements from theatre and cinema are integrated into art, in order to question the boundaries and mediations between the body and the image. Opening with a discussion between Alain Badiou and Elie During, this new edition offers a mixture of theoretical, creative and discur...

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...

Developing Dialogues

Developing Dialogues offers a new perspective on Australian community broadcasting and presents evidence of global trends in the media industry. Based on firsthand research of radio and television audiences in Australia, the authors argue that community radio and television worldwide perform an e...