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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Designwise

DesignWISE introduces a 360-degree, regenerative approach to design development. Bringing together designers, thinkers and changemakers, combining design thinking, systemic leadership, and earth-based wisdom traditions to foster reflection, intentional action and a deeper, more sustainable way of...

Chimera

Analyzes, through the lens of posthuman philosophy, the practices of artists and designers who explore the potentialities of bio-mechanical, sensory, and cognitive techno-scientific extensions of our bodies, to define the 'Expanded Body' and its new ethic and entangled relationship with the human...

Lines of inquiry

Multi-disciplinary edited collection on drawing research and methods. The international group of contributors provides suggestions for developing new ways of knowing, for developing empathy toward things that may lie outside our own experiences, and for seeing alternative perspectives through dra...

Superheroes and contemporary cultures

The interdisciplinary collection links in-depth close readings of central texts of the superhero discourse from a variety of media with larger societal and cultural discourses such as cross-medial, meta-textual and more general intersections and negotiations between the figure of the superhero an...

Digital exhaustion

Daily life in digital culture is exhausting. This timely and urgent edited collection takes the theme of ‘digital exhaustion’ as a starting point for critical inquiry into the ever-expanding presence of digital technologies in our personal and professional lives. 37 b&w illus.

In search of tito’s punks

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

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...

Fan phenomena: the twilight saga

From the moment Stephenie Meyer published Twilight in 2005, the series has captivated readers. Through three subsequent novels and the blockbuster movie series, the Twilight Saga quickly became more than just a hit series – it's now a cultural touchstone. This new entry in the Fan Phenomena seri...

Fan phenomena: mermaids

Fan Phenomena: Mermaids explores the centuries-old interest in mermaids. Mermaids, and merfolk more generally, are everywhere you look: parades, virtual reality, fiction, art, trends and swimming with a mermaid tail. Transgenerational merfolk fan communities stretch around the world - from sea to...

András visky’s barrack dramaturgy: memories of the body

This volume is a collection of plays created by András Visky, one of the most innovative voices in Hungarian theatre. Translated for English-language audiences, the book provides critical analyses, scripts, director's notes and interviews with creative teams behind the productions to reveal a hol...

The morality of mrs. dulska

Gabriela Zapolska was an actor, journalist and playwright. Her best-known play, The Morality of Mrs. Dulska, is an uncompromising look at gender, class and relationships in fin-de-siècle Poland. The play is now available for the first time in an English-language edition that firmly situates the p...

Tormented minds

This anthology contains three plays (Ceremonial Kisses, Shading the Crime, and The Maternal Cloister), analyses of their processes and themes, and photographs of the performances. The plays are different in style and include the use of physical theatre, naturalistic explorations of human rights a...

The intellect handbook of nordic cinema

The Intellect Handbook of Nordic Cinema is a comprehensive reference work providing an overview of cinema in the Nordic countries - Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. By comparing the cinematic cultures of the five Nordic nations as well as Sápmi, the book gives the readers a more comp...

Brecht in l.a.

Bertolt Brecht, perhaps the most important dramatist/director/theorist of the twentieth century, is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university theatre departments, literature departments, and theatre-artist training programs throughout the world....

Salted earth

The author makes a series of journeys, carrying out artistic practices uncovering histories, geographies, and biographies of salt and the places it has passed through. These practices explore both personal family history and the global entanglements of trade, labour, colonialism and migration nar...

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 ...

Ivar kreuger and jeanne de la motte

The 1930s were a period of triumph and turmoil in Poland, yet the decade saw the production of a number of exceptional dramatic works. Some dramatists of the period, among them Jerzy W. Tepa, are not well-known today because many of their plays were lost – or presumed to be lost – during the war ...

Lovefuries

David Ian Rabey is one of the most explosive, pioneering, and erotic playwrights ever to emerge from Wales. Lovefuries features three of his performance texts that flaut national and personal pressure to keep silent, committing instead to explore the shocking resurgences of life that break throug...

Utopia

In a room in the middle of nowhere, a man and a woman dream up spectacular worlds: a decaying city, a lush and crumbling garden, a train journey across a drowned landscape. Darkly humorous, absurd and surreal, these are plays for a theatre in which time and space, character and setting are as unc...

Red sun and merlin unchained

Red Sun and Merlin Unchained are the most recent original stage works by one of the most acknowledged yet neglected dramatists of our time. Red Sun is a two-hander, tightly tethered within the classical unities of theme and space and the span of a single day. Merlin Unchained is an explosive, mul...

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.

Decolonizing islamic art in africa

Addresses the dynamic place of Islamic art, architecture, and creative expression in decolonizing processes across the African continent. Brings together new work by leading scholars of African, Islamic, and modernist visual cultures to challenge the disciplinary boundaries that have curtailed th...

Artmaking as embodied enquiry

Designed as a generative platform for sourcing creativity, this book is about folding as a vibrant stimulus for inter/trans/postdisciplinary artistic research, transforming playful exploration into deeper intimacy within art making with mixed media artist Susan Sentler and somatic educator Glenna...

From broadway to the bronx

A fascinating and vibrant depiction of New York City in song across a variety of different genres, focusing on Broadway, musical theatre, hip hop, punk, folk, and jazz genres, as well as the work of New York born artists and those who are intimately connected with the city.  Read the introductio...

Repair across africa

Examines repair as a dynamic social, material, cultural, and economic practice. Spanning diverse African contexts, it explores how mending connects labour, urban lives, and historical memories, revealing the artisanal skills and relational dynamics that underpin everyday acts of material care and...

British television intellectuals

The first exploration of the rise of one of Britain's least-recognised but most significant television genres. Working within the frame of public intellectual theory, it tells the story and analyses the means by which 'unusual kinds of star' became Britain's TV intellectuals and have developed as...

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...

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...

Post-catastrophe film

What can post-catastrophe films tell us about our current real-world circumstances? This book proposes that a new sub-genre of film called ‘post-catastrophe’ is emerging that displays narratives directly analogous to our current predicament of runaway climate disruption. Post-catastrophe film si...

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...

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...

Outback

Outback is essentially a study of how the Western genre has evolved in Australian cinema history over more than a century. The book reflects on what constitutes the nature of the genre, on its prolificacy in Australia, and on some of the recurring thematic and cultural concerns that have been mat...

The intellect handbook of adult film and media

A survey of the state of the discipline in the form of themed chapters, each presenting an overview of the primary literature, important histories, and essential arguments. A reference work and resource for emerging scholars, as well as educators teaching undergraduate courses on film, media, gen...

Performing punctuation

A transdisciplinary collection raising awareness of the limiting effects of the dominance of English language and vociferous use of punctuation. How can English language punctuation discard its domineering and strident overcoat to enable a greater diversity of readers, listeners, performers, writ...

Migration in the digital age

Considers how the smartphone has transformed the migration experience by examining the various interconnections between mobile media and human mobilities. Reveals how media technologies and human mobility shape one another and exposes the interplay between the social and technological affordances...

Theatre, globalization and the heteroglobal method

This volume explores the notion of a heteroglobal approach to understand global circulation of performance. This approach starts with the local theoretical and philosophical frameworks from five imagined centres and then considers the knowledges about art and globalisation that emerge from a comb...

Dark film, blood money

A thought-provoking interpretation of neo-noir filmmaking, from the 1970s to the 2020s, through the lens of the economic, encompassing issues of trust, professionalism, race, artistic influence, and the relation between business and family. 14 b&w illus.

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...

Forget-me-not, iran

Facing hardship, enduring pain, losing all – such things are a bitter pill to swallow for anyone. For those devoted to the life of the spirit, cruel misfortune – even violent opposition – are familiar stages of the journey of life. Walking a spiritual path in a material world is rarely an easy ex...

Contemporary irish drama and cultural identity

Negotiating spain and catalonia

The two case studies included in this book (dealing with the Football World Cups of 1994 and 2002, and the general elections of 1996 and 2000) examine competing discourses of Spain, Catalonia and their national identities, as constructed in the Spanish press. The conservative discourse offers tra...

Distillation of sound

Distillation of Sound traces the beginnings of dub music in Jamaica and how the culture is distilled throughout the world. It focuses on the analysis of some of the most famous full-length albums of dub music and how the engineers, producers, and musicians created a new sound that changed the way...

Becoming designers

Design Research is an area that is both current and growing, but texts on the subjects are in short supply. This book intends to place Design Research in its rightful place at the heart of studio-based education and practice. It offers a valuable context within which to understand the educational...

Andre malraux

Aimed to coincide with the centenary of Malraux’s birth, André Malraux: An Age of Oppression is the first translation/annotated edition of Le Temps de mépris in a comprehensive format

Fashion knowledge

Programmatically outlines a paradigmatic shift towards an expanded fashion discourse at the intersection of doing and thinking. Designers, artists, curators and theorists investigate the multifaceted debates on the rise of practice-based research in fashion and thus make a significant step to adv...

Performing collaboration in solo performance

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

Performing with the dead

A methodology for incorporating concepts drawn from ancestor trance in Afrolatinx ritual for actors trained in Western methods. Working toward an understanding of the performer’s lived experience while performing, drawing on knowledge of trance in Lukumí and Palo Monte and examining how the ontol...

Transition & development in algeria

This book deals with the economic and developmental challenges facing contemporary society. The social structures, the political institutions, the movements and ideologies, as well as cultural dilemmas, are considered in depth to give the fullest picture of the twenty-first century development.

Women in contemporary culture

Dealing with current events in France and Spain, this is the only comparative study of its kind, investigating how women construct their identities within the public sphere and highlighting the ways in which traditional or modern values impact on female identity in these countries. Which female f...

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.

Understanding virtual universities

Anticipating a future in which distance learning and virtual reality tutoring systems play a key role in university teaching, Rada provides guidelines for making the best use of technological opportunities. This book combines managerial, social and technical issues to provide a comprehensive appr...

Design in the age of change

Change is the only constant. In recent times, the world experienced a global pandemic, social inequalities, climate change, racial injustices, riots and unrests and rapid advances of new technologies – all at once. Although many fear change, it is the job of designers to create and thrive in such...

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. 

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 ...

The poetics of poetry film

The first book of its kind, it classifies the different types of poetry film, shedding light on the fast-growing genre and citing works from poetry filmmakers worldwide. A ground-breaking industry bible for anyone interested in poetry, digital media, filmmaking, art and creative writing as well a...

Art, technology, consciousness

Journey

The Gateway Theatre Company between 1953 and 1965 was a major force in developing modern Scottish theatre. This book provides brief histories of the building and the company incorporating much original research, an essay on the links between the theatre and the Church of Scotland and appreciation...

Imagining antiquity in islamic societies

Long before the Taliban, ISIS and other iconoclasts, Muslims imagined localities of antiquity as places imbued with didactic, historical and moral power. In thirteen articles by leading scholars covering the eighth century to the present, this book explores diverse ways Muslims have valued the ma...

The last empire

This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field...

Magnet theatre

For three decades, Cape Town's Magnet Theatre has served as a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, this book analyses Magnet's many productions and pr...

Reframing consciousness

European media governance

A multitude of factors affect how the European media industry is governed, including commercialisation, concentration, convergence and globalisation. George Terzis’ collection, European Media Governance, is the first volume to concentrate on analysing and explaining how European countries are slo...

Being human

This feels like a time of environmental and moral crisis without parallel.... Not only do human beings seem not to believe in anything but, despite exponential advances in information production, we do not appear to know much either. This book is a guide for everyone who feels understandably perp...

Advertising and identity in europe

As European business ties develop, how are they reflected in the way companies promote themselves? As our sense of group identity is broken down by global communications technologies, how do adverts target mass audiences? This volume is the first structured assessment of advertising's impact, in ...

Performing #metoo

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

The music of nobuo uematsu in the final fantasy series

This is the first book-length study of the music of Nobuo Uematsu, and focuses on his Final Fantasy soundtracks, exploring the dynamic relationship between the music and the stories behind the beloved video game series. Contributors are music and game scholars, based in the USA and UK. Foreword b...

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...

Shaping global cultures through screenwriting

A powerful testament to the impact of an international collection of female screenwriters, this is a celebration of the women writers who use their artistic lens to educate and empower others. It brings long-overdue attention to the vital role women take in shaping the global cultural landscape. ...

Gender, race and religion in video game music

Analyses the representation of gender, race and religion in video game music and explores three master categories of identity across 25 case studies, demonstrating the relevance of semiotic interpretation in video games to sociocultural issues and with Japanese history and culture into dialogue w...

The intellect handbook of men’s fashion

Expands the field by centering decolonization, global perspectives, and intersectionality. With 34 chapters from fashion scholars, it examines how masculinity is fashioned, contested, and expressed across cultures and histories. This essential resource challenges conventional narratives and opens...

Vernacular theatre

A practical description of six intergenerational projects developed during a ten-year period. Over the course of the book the author develops his argument for a form of civic drama that is accessible to all but rigorous in process. Based on work made with citizens of London and Hiroshima. 13 col....

Djing in new york

Electronic Dance Music (EDM) has proliferated in popularity, yet little is known about how DJs learn or progress as professionals. DJing in New York details a social process of music learning while following DJs in New York for a portion of their career as they develop musically, grow through net...

Still moving

Adds to growing literature of overcoming ageism in dance. Highlights the achievements of remarkable senior professional dancers and through conversations with them provides an inspiring account of human potential and resilience. Has the potential to reach an anti-ageing reader as well as a dance ...

If colors could be heard

A groundbreaking collection of first-hand accounts by music educators, artists, activists and students from the Global Majority. Deeply personal narratives explore how race and ethnicity shape experiences in music learning, making and teaching and paint a complex and vivid portrait of music educa...

Dancing place

Dancing Place stories the author's experiences of moving together, making, being in the world. From an Africanist & Indigenous relational philosophy the book discusses artistic process of somatic-based movement inquiry through sharing the authors' work with scores over a 6-year research proje...

Reconstructing the american dream

Unpacks the ideologies and economies of the Tiny Home phenomenon in Texas. It presents textured, narrative accounts and striking images of residents and settlements, and analyses the larger socio-economic structures that undergird their personal journeys. A compelling and complex picture at a piv...

Islamic and islamicate architecture in the americas

From colonial courtyards in Peru to the mosques and cultural centres of contemporary communities across North America, depicts how architectural traditions of the Islamic world have taken root. Confronts conventional geographical boundaries, situating the Americas in dialogue with transregional a...

At the movies, film reviewing, and screenwriting

Analyses film reviewing as a form of cultural mediation of taste and narrative expectations, drawing on the work of influential sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. It studies one of Australia’s most famous review programs to analyse the under-explored cultural dynamics and affinities surrounding film re...

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...

Without empathy

Irony and satire in cinema have fallen out of favor. This study looks at the works of eight auteurs – Luis Buñuel, R.W. Fassbinder, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Paul Verhoeven, Aki Kaurismäki, Aleksei Balabanov and David Lynch – whose films, though not always seen as such, are often more ironi...

Drama for schools and beyond

This is the story of the evolution of the Drama for Schools professional learning program. Told through the learning of its leaders and participants and the growth of the art integration program beyond its inception. It is a primer on how to re-centre teachers and students as the driver of the ef...

Photo obscura

This book discusses the transformation of post-photography into a significant movement that redefines photography by integrating it with emerging technologies and creative practices, resulting in works that may not even resemble photographs but still retain a photographic influence. 40 illus.

The intellect handbook of dance education research

A review of dance education research methodologies with examples and exemplars from the field. The research methodologies include qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. Exemplars include investigations from pedagogy, history and culture, community engagement, social justice and internationa...