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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Medievalism, Popular Culture and Politics in Metal Music
This book explores how metal's medievalizing epicism connects with pop culture and politics. Focusing on medieval Hispanic epic themes, it examines whether and how bands address the sexist, racist, nationalist, and exclusionary undertones tied to medievalizing epicism, and what this means for the...
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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...
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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...
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Bangladesh’s Changing Mediascape
With contributions from a diverse group of media and communications scholars from around the globe, Bangladesh’s Changing Mediascape presents a pioneering study of the trends, patterns and prospects shaping the contemporary Bangladeshi media. Among the many topics discussed here are the differenc...
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Tribal and the Cultural Legacy of Streetwear
Tribal Streetwear is a lifestyle streetwear brand that is inspired by a variety of southern California sub-cultures that includes graffiti, street art, skateboarding, surfing, tattoos, hip hop, breakdancing, punk, low-riders, and custom culture. This edited volume uses Tribal as a lens for examin...
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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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Living Histories
This new edited collection explores histories of art education in international contexts. Offers a series of thoughtful and invigorating conversations with international scholars who evoke our conceptualizations of the histories of art education in pursuit of more equitable, diverse and inclusive...
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Analyzing NES Music
Explores a core challenge of early video game composition: how to disguise repetition in music that repeats extensively. It develops a theory of harmony and form for Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) music and uses this theory to analyze five landmark scores: Super Mario Bros., Dragon Warrior, ...
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Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America
Nelson Varas-Díaz engages in ethnographic work throughout Latin America to explore how heavy metal music is used to challenge the region’s colonial past and present. Through extensive research in nine countries, his work documents how this musical genre allows listeners and musicians to engage in...
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The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies
The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies provides a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. The volume includes a wide range of methodologies, including semiotics, ethnography, psychology, intersectionality, archeology, livestrea...
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Schechner Plays
A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most recent to earliest Schechner's work as a 'writer' and a 'wrighter – the author of plays and the conceptualizer and leader of teams of artists. 20 b&w illus. Read the introduction -...
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Theatre for Children in Hospital
Recent decades have seen a new appreciation develop for applied theatre and the role of arts-based activities in health care. This book looks specifically at the place of theatre for children who are hospitalized, showing how powerfully it can enhance their social and mental well-being. Child-led...
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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...
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Punk Pedagogies in Practice
This edited collection develops existing work on punk pedagogy by connecting theory and practices whilst simultaneously disrupting current accepted approaches to pedagogy in post-16 education. This globally focused text takes an interdisciplinary approach that can be applied to a wide range of co...
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Trans-Global Punk Scenes
Critical engagement with local, national and trans-global contemporary punk scenes across countries and regions including New Zealand, Indonesia, South Africa, Siberia and the Philippines. Includes thematic discussions on the evolution and adaptation of subcultural styles, punk demographics and t...
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Socially Engaged Creative Practice
This collection is the second in the Performance and Communities series. Contributions from academics and artists engage with both these notions of performance – that of identities in and through time and space – and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances (textual/ embodie...
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Under the Counter
Tells the undocumented story of Britain’s trade in 8mm hardcore pornography, exploring how entrepreneurs circumvented obscenity laws to produce and distribute hardcore films. Draws on extensive archival research, including the use of legal records, police files, media reportage, and interviews wi...
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Raymond Williams
This book focuses in particular on the formation and application of Raymond Williams's cultural-materialist methodology to society and politics. Addressing aspects of Williams's work that have startlingly direct relevance to the prospects for socialism and progressive change in the twenty-first c...
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Slow TV
Slow TV, developed by Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK, is broadcasting in which the event on television lasts as long as in real time, and has been adopted by others including BBC Four and Netflix. This unique study discusses concepts of slowness, innovation, genre, media event, receptio...
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Taste and the TV Chef
This book examines the evolution of food-centric TV; how it changed Britain’s relationship with food and created a global appetite for culinary content. Includes rare interviews with editors/producers who created some of the most influential stories television ever told. Discusses influence of Ja...
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Spiritual Herstories
This is a collection of works by internationally recognised women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe. Building on current soulful research scholarship in the discipline, these authors offer extensive and detailed research into spirituality, dance, gender, religi...
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Punk Now!!
Punk Now!! explores contemporary and non-Anglophone punk as well as its most anti-establishment tendencies through a collection of papers from the second Punk Scholars Network International Conference and Postgraduate Symposium. This edited collection informs us about punk today and punk at the m...
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Punk Identities, Punk Utopias
This new volume in the acclaimed Global Punk series extends the critical enquiry to reflect broader social, political and technological concerns impacting punk scenes around the world, with international contributors, ranging through topics from digital technology and new media to gender, ethnici...
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Somatic Movement Dance Therapy
Focussing on Somatic Movement Dance Therapy and the importance of self-regulation and co-regulation, chapters deal with self-regulating different tissues through movement, breath, sound and the imagination. Brings together detailed theoretical and experiential anatomy and its application in SMET ...
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Reimagining the Art Classroom
A graphically compelling, richly illustrated, and theoretically robust text for artists, designers and teachers. The collection presents field notes for meaningful artistic inquiry and exploration that includes divergent practices in art, design, curriculum, and education within contemporary issu...
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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 ...
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Storytellers of Art Histories
A collection of first-person narratives from an international group of art historians, curators, artists and archivists. Fills a significant gap in the literature by demonstrating how these practitioners’ work comes together to teach and write art history, and the relationship between curatorial ...
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Remembering Paris in Text and Film
For Baudelaire, Paris streets conjured visions of the past even as he contemplated the present. This book investigates this and other cases of double vision, tracing back into antiquity and following Baudelaire forwards as his poetry is translated, received and referenced through text and film to...
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Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic Maps
A substantial contribution to current discourses in dance, choreography and performance, especially in the area of Practice-as-Research. Reflects the perspective of the author as scholar, choreographer, performer, and arts practitioner, with an extensive background in both the professional world ...
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Strategic Advertising Mechanisms
Integrates the most important strategic advertising mechanisms developed throughout time: USP, brand image, positioning, Lovemarks. This is the first book to bring together the most consolidated methods by advertisers or advertising agencies (P&G, Bates, Ogilvy or Euro) in the history of mode...
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Worlds Unbound
A comprehensive overview of the vision and achievements of Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab, which illuminates the remarkable scope of teamLab’s groundbreaking art and its fundamental contribution to the pivotal field of new media art. The lavishly illustrated volume features an extensi...
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Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium
Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium provides a new approach to the study of contemporary Spanish cinema between 2000 and 2015, by analysing films that represent both ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture side by side.
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Research-based Theatre
Research-based Theatre aims to construct a theoretical analysis of the field and offer critical reflections on how the methodology can now be applied. The book shares twelve examples of contemporary research-based theatre scripts and commentaries, selected to represent different approaches that c...
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Women and the Media in Capitalism and Socialism
Edited collection examining the position of women in context of the political economy of the media. Discusses historically rooted masculinity, sexism, violence, inequality, underrepresentation, dual expectations, and lack of recognition faced by women in the media, looking particularly at gendere...
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Theatre, Time and Temporality
Theatre, Time and Temporality is the first book-length exploration of the subject of temporality within theatre and performance. David Ian Rabey brings in sources ranging from medieval and Renaissance theatre to contemporary performances to analyse ways that time can be presented, communicated an...
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Theatre for Lifelong Learning
Theatre for Lifelong Learning: A Handbook for Instructors is a step-by-step guide for anyone interested in teaching theatre courses for older adults. It provides syllabi, discussion questions, resource lists, classroom management strategies, and activities. 7 b&w illus.
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Studio Seeing
A compelling case for vision-based pedagogy. It provides a wealth of insights, guidance, and exercises grounded in Gestalt perceptual theory and neurological research. The premise is that a student of drawing or painting must develop skills to see and create, using ground-directed looking rather ...
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T-Squared
Original collection explores the relationship between research that shapes art, architecture and design practices, and assignments that are developed by faculty for students. Demonstrates how pedagogical inquiry can become an evolutionary agent and makes innovative ideas/exercises available for t...
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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...
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Visual Futures
This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary examination of how we visualize and use visuals to make meaning within our environment. A diverse range of international contributions and perspectives from biology, film, virtual reality, urban graffiti, architecture, critical pedagogy and edu...
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Shiny Things
Discusses meanings of shininess in art and in culture generally. Shininess is physically and metaphorically present in the construction of concepts such as utopia, the sublime, and camp; and the way its affects, rooted in excess produce irony, anxiety, pleasure and kitsch. A compelling subject th...
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PUNK! Las Américas Edition
A critical refashioning of punk to suggest it emerges from within the long-term historical experience of las Américas in all their plurality. A collage-like juxtaposition of punk perspectives from across the entire hemisphere and via divergent contributions. 71 b/w illus. PUNK! Las Américas E...
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Storying the Self
Autoethnographic and autobiographical explorations of social identities and relationships, (un)belonging, and how practitioners and academics do their work. They show the ongoing need to rethink and re-examine how to do critical and engaging scholarly work. Life stories are necessarily, messy, co...
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Spellbound
Asserting that written language is on the verge of its greatest change since the advent of the printing press, visual artist Craig McDaniel and art historian Jean Robertson bring us Spellbound – a collection of heavily illustrated essays that interrogate assumptions about language and typography....
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Punk Art History
The punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s is examined as an art movement through archive research, interviews, and art historical analysis. It is about pop, pain, poetry, presence, and about a ‘no future’ generation refusing to be the next artworld avant-garde, instead choosing to be the ‘rea...
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The Return of Twin Peaks
Franck Boulègue's latest book about David Lynch and Mark Frost's famous television series focuses on the eighteen new episodes directed by Lynch for season 3, screened in 2017. Analyses the season with special importance given to readings from an intertextual, ontological and spiritual perspectiv...
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Radical Intimacies
The concept of radical intimacies is about a closeness to the world created through our relations, towards decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The political dimension involves qualities that enable alternatives to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism. Engages design wit...
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Women's Work in Post-war Italy
This book investigates women's work in Italy between 1945 and 1965 using films, original oral history interviews, and archival sources. It focuses on three sectors: agriculture (rice weeders), fashion (seamstresses), and religious work (nuns) and compares women’s own words with their representati...
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Visual Research Methods in Architecture
This book uses visual research methods to investigate architecture, landscape design and interior architecture. It presents a diverse selection of interdisciplinary approaches for the architect or architectural researcher to use their gaze as part of their research practice for the purpose of vis...
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Sine ni Lav Diaz
The first book-length study of the Filipino auteur Lav Diaz, this edited volume offers a nuanced overview of the filmmaker, his corpus, career and traditions from various perspectives for film enthusiasts, researchers and general readers alike. 17 b/w illus.
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Radioactive Documentary
Presents analysis of ten documentary films about nuclear issues made since the end of the Cold War. Argues that public fascination with radioactive spaces has been used reflexively to present contemporary difficult themes such as Chernobyl, Fukushima, closure of nuclear power stations and the sit...
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Seamlessness
Taking the concept of 'seamlessness' as her starting point, Yeseung Lee offers an innovative practice-based investigation into the meaning of the handmade in the age of technological revolution and globalized production and consumption. Combining firsthand experience of making seamless garments w...
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Somatics in Dance, Ecology, and Ethics
Highly original essays by award-winning Sondra Fraleigh address the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology. Three new essays, new introductory material and postscript are included alongside essays previously published as journal articles brought together f...
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The Traumatic Screen
The Traumatic Screen is a psychoanalytic study that considers the function and presentation of trauma in Christopher Nolan’s films. Using a methodological framework with references to Freud and Lacan, the author argues that Nolan’s films highlight the ways in which the cinema can provide specific...
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The Performances of Sacred Places
Looks at the value, function and role that performance plays in the constitution and activation of special, sacred places. Brings together artistic, theatrical, religious and activist practices with the objective of studying the role that they have in transforming, maintaining, contesting and act...
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Popular Music in Leeds
The first academic collection dedicated to the histories, heritage, people and places of popular music in Leeds. It presents critical social and historical case studies exploring Leeds’ music and musical spaces, central players - musicians and music industry figures, and key moments in diverse mu...
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Producing Children’s Television in the On Demand Age
Children’s television is undergoing rapid change. New streaming services like Netflix and YouTube compete with established players like the BBC and Disney. Using interviews with leading screen industry figures, the book examines how practices, funding and production in children’s television are a...
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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...
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Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field
From an Eastern nation on the global periphery to a European neoliberal democracy enmeshed in transnational networks, Poland has experienced a dramatic transformation in the last century. Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field uses the lens – and mirror – of media art to think through the politics...
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Precarious Spaces
Using an arts-based inquiry, Precarious Spaces addresses current concerns around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precarity of daily life. The book offers a survey of socially and community-engaged art practices in South America, focusing in particular on Brazil's 'info...
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Performing Arts in Prisons
Across the world, performing arts programs are increasing in number, scope and professionalism. They attract increasing academic and media attention. Theoretical and applied research, organisational evaluation reports, documentary films and journalism are detailing prison arts and create recognit...
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The Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World
Explores the nature of artistic practices for highly mobile artists from the Baltic States, moving regularly across multiple borders across Europe in order to maintain their position on the global art world. Artists with trans-local homes that combine and connect homeland, host country and a uniq...
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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 ...
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Performance Generating Systems in Dance
Analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. Provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, ...
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Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine
This book compares two conceptual models for theorizing about photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. It explores new propositions about the theory of photography; the concept of quasi-photography; a unique model for photography as algorithmic art; and an interface between...
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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...
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Performing Arts in Prisons
Performing Arts in Prisons explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices.
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Performing Palimpsest Bodies
Hellier-Tinoco proposes the concept of palimpsest bodies to interpret provocative theatre and performance experiments that explore issues of cultural memory, bodies of history, archives, repertoires and performing remains. This book offers an in-depth analysis of four postdramatic and transdiscip...
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Prototyping across the Disciplines
Looks at the use of prototyping in design research across a range of disciplines. Uses case studies to demonstrate theoretical and methodological transferability among disciplines not typically thought to be related to one another. This is an important contribution to the emerging field of integr...
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Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating
Examines how scientific objects in museums and other collections act as inspiration to contemporary art practice, its histories, curating and aesthetics. Cross-disciplinary essays from leading arts professionals explore how scientific encounters in museums provoke new modes of creative thinking a...
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Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance
Develops a new framework to understand how temporality is performed in contemporary dance. It combines an in-depth analysis of the choreographic practices of Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Ivana Müller, Mette Edvardsen and Mårten Spångberg with a close study of the philosophical work of B...
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Phenomenology for Actors
This book explores how phenomenology – the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience – can provide new insights into acting and theatre-making. It explores Being-in-the-world in everyday life with practical exercises for rehearsal and performance. 7 b/w illus.
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Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain
The 'Silver Age' of Spain ran from 1898 to 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility and a boom in mass culture. This book offers the most detailed scholarly analysis of kiosk literature, one of the mass culture's manifestations, examined through t...
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Lessons from a Multispecies Studio
New critical discourse and applied methods based on the author’s original research and interspecies art practice, Animal Lover. Each chapter narrates the creative processes of one project, including the worlds of canines, salmon, birds and forest communities, and how these encounters transformed ...
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Locating the Audience
How do audiences experience live performances? What is gained when a national theater is born? These questions and more are the subject of Locating the Audience—the first in-depth study of how people form relationships with a new theater company. Investigating the inaugural season of National The...
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On Repetition
On Repetition aims to unpack the different uses and functions of repetition within contemporary performance, dance practices, craft and writing. The collection, edited by Eirini Kartsaki, explores repetition in relation to intimacy, laughter, technology, familiarity and fear – proposing a new voc...
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Narrating the City
Considers how film and related visual media offer insights into the city, looking at the built environment as well as a lived social experience. It brings together an international group of filmmakers, architects, digital artists, designers and media journalists who critically read, reinterpret a...
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On Stage
In On Stage, Mathilde Roman explores the resonances that fields of theatre – stage, décor, space, gaze and more – have in the practice of video arts. Using these notions as points of reference and as a prism through which video installation can be approached, Roman concentrates on questions ofte...
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Journalism, Society and Politics in the Digital Media Era
This volume of research papers provides a scientific and critical assessment of the impact of the modern digital media era on our societies, communities and practices in diverse sociopolitical landscapes. It presents evidence, theories, practices and arguments that can lead to a literate and bett...
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Journalism Re-examined
The digital era has posed innumerable challenges to the business and practice of journalism. Journalism Re-examined sets out an institutional theoretical framework for exploring the journalistic institution in the digital age and analyses how it has responded to those profound changes in its soci...
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Discusses the use of music in a well-loved and culturally significant game – Ocarina of Time. Examining music in different contexts, it identifies music’s role and function within the game and in gameplay overall, and uses this to investigate wider issues in music and media studies and fan cultur...
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Mediatization(s)
Introduces the main theories and authors on mediatization from Europe and Latin America in the last two decades. It frames these theories within the context of communication and media theories, and maps the current field of mediatization focusing on the most recent and cutting-edge theoretical, m...
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JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and other plays
JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE Award–winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts includes a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and h...
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Leigh Bowery
A deep dive into the practice of performance artist Leigh Bowery that reveals the fullness of his extravagant range. Explores how his performative costuming and live art have influenced visual culture and the expanded field of performance studies as well as fashion. With a foreword from Boy Georg...
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The Lure of the Social
An intimate and personal exploration of the author’s journey following the development of the field of social practices in contemporary art: arguably the most significant shift in art world practices in the last two decades. A beautifully written exploration of key individuals, institutions and ...
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Justitia
This book offers a series of compelling responses to the Jasmin Vardimon Company's production of Justitia, a multilayered, multimedia dance theatre piece. Through an innovative, visually annotated text, which includes the original script by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the book attempts to record the expe...
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Kurt Kren
Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films—often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams—have influenced filmmakers for decades, even as Kren himself remained a nomadic and obscure public figure. Kurt Kre...
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Keepin' It Real
Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America is a vibrant and eclectic collection of essays written during the most racially turbulent period of the modern era – the end of the Obama Administration and the start of the Trump Administration – that examine emerging racial tensions, curre...
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Landscape and the Moving Image
New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. An informed, personal view from a high profile author considering if appreciation of nature’s aestheti...
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Let's Talk about Critique
Explores the tradition of critique in art and design education. It contextualizes current practices and suggests ways to have more open, inclusive and dynamic classroom conversations about art and design. The centerpiece is a collection of alternative critique approaches developed by experienced ...
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New Patterns in Global Television Formats
The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets – with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way. But in a sense, that's not new: TV formats have been being...
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The New Politics of Visibility
This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an array of topical areas in the newly emerging modes of governance, ranging from urban public space to the media and the new media in contemporary society....
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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 contexts. Make the Dream Real interrogates how artist Robert Lopez's playful engagements as El Vez hold the United States to its egalitarian promises, voicing and enacting a just, richly inclu...
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