Shanghai Street Style

The most creative attire is often found not on the catwalks or inside the auditoriums but on the streets. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai. Shanghai Street Style gets at the roots of Shanghai trendsetters' distinct personal styles, identifying the ideas and i...

Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films

Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. The book frames the tradition of living dead films, discusses the cinematic processes of addressing the viewers, and analys...

Art inSight

A first encounter with art is like meeting a stranger: it opens you to new ideas, people, places and parts of yourself. In Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters, Fanchon Silberstein delves into the first known art and explores what it can reveal about how its makers saw the world and ...

The Grey Zone of Health and Illness

In this book, Alan Blum outlines a nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care. Drawing on a range of thinkers, Blum explains how our current understanding of health care posits it as a sort of state of permanent emergency. To move beyond that will require a complete rethinking of heal...

Into the Story 2

Following the first collection of story drama structures, Into the Story 2: More Stories! More Drama! presents a well-argued approach to the value of children’s picture books as a way to look at contemporary issues of social justice while building connections that promote a literacy that is multi...

Progress in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Volume One

Theater of War

For five years, Meredith Davenport has photographed and interviewed men who play live-action games based on contemporary conflicts, such as a recreation of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden that took place thousands of miles from the conflict zone on a campground in Northern Virginia. Her images speak...

Aesthetic Journalism

Addressing a growing area of focus in contemporary art, Aesthetic Journalism investigates why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries, and reportage. Art theorist and critic Alfredo Cramerotti traces the shift in the production of truth from the domain of the news ...

Teaching Knowledge and Intelligent Tutoring

Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978–2000)

Hong Kong New Wave Cinema analyzes specific films from Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s and the historical and social conditions that allowed them to flourish. Pak Tong Cheuk also draws on the auteur and genre theories, examines the directors’ cinematic style and aesthetics, traces the developmen...

The British Media and Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday was one of the most controversial events in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict and also one of the most mediated. This book identifies two countervailing impulses in media coverage of Bloody Sunday and its legacy, suggesting a more complex set of representations than a str...

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...

Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists

An educational method used to improve performance, the Alexander Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental effort with consciously coordinated responses, maximizing effectiveness while also relieving, if necessary, any chronic stiffness or stress. Integrative Alexander T...

World Film Locations: Moscow

There are very few preserved filmic depictions of Moscow from pre-Revolutionary years. World Film Locations: Moscow compares and contrasts images from the past and present, giving the forty-six carefully selected scene reviews and seven spotlight essays a historical focus. It also provides an ins...

Watching Films

Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception provides new and compelling insights into the social, cultural and economic factors that influence the circulation, presentations and consumption of film. This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the rapidly cha...

Computers and Creativity

This book is a study of human creative behaviour from a computational modelling perspective. The authors examine theories and models of the creative process in humans, both input creativity - the scientific, analytic side of devising interpretations of input information - and output creativity - ...

New Algorithms for Variable Time Delay and Nonuniform Image Motion Estimation

Canadian Wetlands

In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett critiques the Canadian canon's popular representation of wetlands and proposes alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers.

Advances in Distributed and Parallel Processing, Volume One

The explosive progress in distributed and parallel computing gives rise to the seemingly concurrent arrival of new hardware architectures, software, and algorithms. This provides an impetus to review a particular area based on funda-mental issues and the state of the art. This series, Advances in...

Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia

This book offers rare insight into the world of celebrity and media in China and beyond, looking closely at the dynamics of stardom and celebrity endorsement and examining its marketing and media impact. Through interviews with celebrities and entertainment industry practitioners, the authors dis...

Confronting Theory

Confronting Theory presents a critique of what has come to be known as theory in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than dismissing theory writing as pretentious and abstract, Confronting Theory examines its principal concepts from the perspective of academic psychology and shows tha...

Knowledge Acquisition from Databases

Signs, Symbols and Icons

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-...

The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran

This volume explores the lives of women in Iran through the social, political and aesthetic contexts of veiling, unveiling and re-veiling. Through poetic writings and photographs, Azadeh Fatehrad responds to the legacy of the Iranian Revolution via the representation of women in photography, lite...

Jonquils

When a number of language experts were each invited to choose and translate a piece of writing on the subject - simply - of 'flower', Jonquils was the result.

Urban Cinematics

How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces, and how do urban spaces make use of cinema? Merging the disciplines of architecture, landscape design and urban planning with film studies, this book explores the potential of cinema as a tool to investigate the communal narratives of cities. Includes a...

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.

Multimedia CALL

This collection of essays presents a timely contribution to current research on the use and development of Multimedia in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. The papers, which we were given in Exeter at the seventh biennial international CALL Conference, are essential reading for all those who wi...

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...

Culture War

The culture wars - intertwining art, culture and politics - have sparked political debates worldwide for many years, but particularly in Europe and America since 2001. Culture War focuses on Denmark's experience during this period, aiming to understand the dynamics of contemporary affective cultu...

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 ...

Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the current European media in a period of disruptive transformation. It maps the full scope of contemporary media policy and industry activities while also assessing the impact of new technologies and radical changes in distribution and consumption on ...

Beyond the Dance Floor

Beyond the Dance Floor is a study about the women who DJ electronic dance music. It focuses on the relationship between women and the conceptions of gender and technology. The author explores issues such as the politics of identity and representation, women-centred DJ communities and the role fem...

Dancing Across the Page

An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing Across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and lived experience. Through accounts of contempo...

Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence

One for the Girls!

We usually think of women as the victims of pornography rather than its consumers. Whether appearing in films, peering provocatively from the pages of magazines, or posing on explicit Web-sites, women are considered the dehumanized objects of unseen lascivious male viewers. But in her controversi...

Directory of World Cinema: Spain

Focusing on the vast corpus of films that have left their marks on generations of spectators, Directory of World Cinema: Spain returns the national cinema of Spain rightfully to the forefront with numerous full-colour stills and essays establishing the key players and genres in their sociopolitic...

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...

Human Factors in Information Systems

Australian TV News

Australian TV News explores the role of entertainment in Australian television news over the past decade. Using textual analysis, industry interviews and audience research, it examines changing relationships and argues that ‘infotainment’ and satire are increasingly becoming significant methods o...

Film on the Faultline

Film on the Faultline explores the fractious relationship between cinema and seismic experience and addresses the important role that cinema can play in the wake of such events.

World Film Locations: New York

Presenting a varied and thought-provoking collage of the city onscreen – from the silent era to the present – World Film Locations: New York provides a fascinating and historic look back at the rich diversity of locations that have provided the backdrop for some of the most memorable films.

The Composition of Herman Melville

How do writers compose, and how are they in turn composed? This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place. The play admits the truth of Walter Benjamin's view of history as, "ti...

Managing Computer Impact

Versions of Hollywood Crime Cinema

Versions of Hollywood Crime Cinema offers a series of critical readings spanning several genres. From among the mob movies, Carl Freedman focuses on Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy – arguably the foremost work of crime cinema –crafting a convincing argument that the plot’s action is prin...

Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan

Conflict photographer and critical theorist Rita Leistner applies Marshall McLuhan's semiotic theories of language, media and technology to iPhone photographs taken during a military embed in Afghanistan. In a series of iProbes - a portmanteau of iPhone and probe - Leistner reveals the face of wa...

Across the Art/Life Divide

Martin Patrick explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres. Examining the impact of various art movements on notions of performance, authorship, and identity, Across the Art/Life Divide argues that the most d...

Octave Mirbeau: Two Plays

Octave Mirbeau was one of the most prolific literary figures of France's storied Belle Époque. This volume contains his two most celebrated plays for the first time in English-language translation: Business is Business and Charity. The book also includes an introduction contextualizing the works ...

European Culture and the Media

European Culture and the Media presents new research and thinking on cultural globalisation, with special focus on and in-depth analysis of European media culture. Written by some of the most prominent European media researchers, it introduces new theories, empirical data and analysis of media co...

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Volume 5

Directory of World Cinema: Scotland

Directory of World Cinema: Scotland provides an introduction to many of Scottish cinema’s most important and influential themes and issues, films and filmmakers, adding to the ongoing discussion concerning how to make sense of Scotland’s cinematic traditions and contributions. Chapters discuss fi...

The Student Actor Prepares

The Student Actor Prepares is a practical, interactive approach to a student actor’s journey. Each chapter includes acting principles, their importance to the process, and workbook entries for emotional work, script analysis and applications to the study of theatre. Topics cover a brief history o...

Progress in Simulation, Volume One

Honolulu Street Style

Hawai’i is one of the most ethnically and racially diverse places in the world due to its central location in the Pacific. Situated at the crossroads of different cultures, Honolulu has a style all of its own. Honolulu Street Style captures this unique approach as it demonstrates how global trend...

Multilingual Multimedia

In post-1992 Europe the knowledge of at least one other language is becoming a necessity. This book provides a fascinating look at some of the more innovative and promising systems now being developed for language learning and instruction. The systems described are mostly graphic-based, iconic, i...

Going Modern and Being British

Memory, Space and Sound

Memory, Space and Sound presents a collection of essays from scholars in a range of disciplines that together explore the social, spatial and temporal contexts that shape different forms of music and sonic practice. The contributors deploy different theoretical perspectives and methodological app...

Radical Mainstream

Radical Mainstream examines independent film and video cultures in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s in the context of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, colonialism and homophobia. It explores how radical discourse can impact on dominant cultural forms such as television, using public sphere theories ...

Progress in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Volume Two

Crime Uncovered: Detective

This book is an examination and celebration of iconic police detectives in the long and bloody history of crime fiction, film and television, identifying the individual characteristics that define these much-loved figures and discussing how they relate to their surroundings, country and class and...

Cartomancy and Tarot in Film

In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy – the practice of fortune telling via playing cards – and dives deep into its invention and promulgation in film. After providing an introduction to divination and cartomancy, Auger offers...

Television in Europe

Filming the City

Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city. The book presents commentaries on particular films and their social and urba...

World Film Locations: Reykjavík

In thematic spotlight articles, contributors in World Film Locations: Reykjavík explore such topics as the relationship between Iceland and its capital city; youth culture and night life; the relationship between film and the local music community; cinematic representations of Scandinavian crime;...

Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe

We assume that freedom of the press is guaranteed in a democratic society. But, in Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe, researchers from twelve countries reveal that it is all too frequently a freedom that is taken for granted. In turn, they examine media systems throughout Europe and report on...

Computers for Educational Administrators

Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads

Dorothy’s ruby slippers. Michael Myers’s mask. Marilyn Monroe’s billowy white dress. Indiana Jones’s trusty hat. These objects are icons of popular culture synonymous with the films they appear in, and, at long last, a book has come along that sorts and chronicles fifty of them. Rosebud Sleds an...

Switching to Digital Television

Sometime in the next four years, in a move that is bound to anger consumers and endanger the careers of politicians, the United Kingdom plans to turn off its analog, terrestrial television and switch fully to digital TV. Switching to Digital Television argues that, in order for the initiative to ...

The Art and Science of Screenwriting

In an age where many see screenwriters as the storytellers of the new century, this book provides the framework for you to write a great screenplay. It goes beyond the concerns of act structure and the merits of story-driven – as opposed to character-driven – screenplays to tackle the real comple...

Deleuze and Film Music

The analysis of film music is emerging as one of the fastest-growing areas of interest in film studies, but the lack of common language and methodology affects it. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Gregg Redner analyses the problem and offers a solution – a methodological bridge – that...

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...

Trends in Functional Programming Volume 10

Volume 10 in the Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) series presents some of the latest research results in the implementation of functional programming languages and the practice of functional programming. It contains a peer-reviewed selection of the best articles presented at the 2009 Tenth ...

Un-American Psycho

In Un-American Psycho, Chris Dumas places director Brian De Palma’s body of work in dialogue with the works of other provocative filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock and Francis Ford Coppola, with the aims of providing a broader understanding of the narrative, stylistic and political gestures t...

Applied Theatre Second Edition

Six years after its initial publication, Applied Theatre returns with a second edition. As the first book to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for implementing their own theatrical projects, it served as a vital addition to this area of growing interest, winning the...

Theatre for Youth Third Space

Theatre for Youth Third Space is a practical yet philosophically grounded handbook for people working in theatre and performance with children and youth in community or educational settings. Presenting asset development approaches, deliberative dialogue techniques and frames for building strong c...

Human Factors in Management Information Systems

Matthew Arnold's The Church of Brou

All My Moonshine

A Tragic Farce

Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering

Taking Up McLuhan's Cause

This book brings together a number of prominent scholars to explore a relatively under-studied area of Marshall McLuhan’s thought: his idea of formal cause and the role that formal cause plays in the emergence of new technologies and in structuring societal relations. 

Anthem Quality

Anthem Quality is a book about the lyrics of national anthems. In this theoretical survey, Christopher Kelen deals with the general meaning of an inter-national social phenomenon – the words we sing together with our compatriots when we assert ourselves to be national subjects.

Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2

Created at the intersection of religion and ever-shifting political, economic and social environments, Iranian cinema produces some of the most critically lauded films in the world today. The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Iran turned the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of I...

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. 

Writing on Drawing

This book presents essays that reveal a provocative agenda for drawing research, analysing the latest work on creativity, education and thinking from a variety of perspectives. Bringing together contributions by leading artists and researchers, this volume offers consolidation, discussion and gui...

The Method of Metaphor

Both sides in controversies tend to argue they have logic on their side. This book proposes that the interminable nature of these controversies suggests there is a problem with the main tool of logic, the syllogism. An alternative mode of judgment is needed. Drawing on contemporary and classic so...

Theatrical Reality

Theatrical Reality examines how the liminal spaces of performance foster specific ways of conceptualising time, place and reality. Campbell Edinborough draws on sociological theory, cognitive psychology and embodiment studies to analyse our understanding of theatrical reality and the relationship...

Piercing Time

Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary ‘rephotographs’ taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles Marville, who worked under Georges Haussmann, and corresponding photographs by Eugène Atget taken in ...

Software Specification

The Eternal Soul

Fan Phenomena: Supernatural

Fan Phenomena: Supernatural explores the ongoing fascination and passion for a show that developed a relationship with fans through eight seasons and continues to have an impact on fan culture to the present day. Essays here explore the rich dynamic that has developed between fans and producers, ...

Cultural Industries in Shanghai

This volume gathers articles by Chinese scholars dealing with developments in Shanghai’s cultural industries over the past thirty years. Like many cities in China and elsewhere, Shanghai has explicitly stated that fostering the creative economy is its top economic and political priority over the ...

The Reflexive Teaching Artist

Writing from the dual perspectives of artist and educator, Kathryn Dawson and Daniel A. Kelin II raise fundamental questions about the complex functions of the teaching artist in school, community and professional theatre settings. Contributions to the text explore a series of foundational concep...

Principles of Modelling and Rendering with 3D Studio

The use of three-dimensional modelling is developing rapidly in a number of important areas - product design, visualization and architecture for example. Designed to complement the existing reference books on Autodesk 3D Studio, this book primes the reader with an understanding of the fundamental...

Green Documentary

This is the first book-length study of environmental documentary filmmaking, offering an analysis of controversial and high-profile documentary films. With analyses that include the wider context of this filmmaking about local rural communities in Britain and Europe, this book also contributes to...

Connecting People, Place and Design

Connecting People, Place and Design examines the human relationship with place, how its significance has evolved over time and how contemporary systems for participation shape the places around us. This volume examines people, place and design across architecture, design, cultural studies, sociol...