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Transacting as art, design and architecture
A combination of practical and theoretical writing, this book chronicles the realization of #TransActing: A Market of Values, an international non-commercial popup market held at Chelsea College of Arts, coordinated by Critical Practice Research Cluster, a London-based network of artists, designe...
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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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Leaping into dance literacy through the language of dance®
Dance-based dance literacy using a constructivist approach supports creativity and learning. Examples of applications of dance notation with dancers of all ages and the associated benefits are demonstrated using model activities supported by research outcomes, lesson plans, choreographic explorat...
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Equality in the city
Interdisciplinary collection exploring cities and urban spaces in the context of technological and digital innovation. An approachable discussion of the issues surrounding smart digital futures and the disruptive potential of smart technologies in our cities; issues of change, design, austerity, ...
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Entangled histories of art and migration
Dedicated to the stories of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and exiles, this collection explores the entanglements of art and aesthetic practices with migration, flight, enforced dislocation and border/border crossings in global contexts – a significant phenomenon of social transformation in ...
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Music, research, and activism
This new collection suggests that we are experiencing an activist turn in music research. The idea is explored in a series of position papers and contemplative texts, where music researchers, music educators and artistic researchers reflect how their work and the position they occupy as professio...
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Entanglements of two: a series of duets
Edited collection presenting an investigation of the entanglement of form and practice seen through the lens of the smallest multiple unit of collaboration: the pair. It focuses on a ten-year period in the work of Karen Christopher, alongside wider reflections on the duet as a concept in artistic...
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Spectacle, entertainment, and recreation in late ottoman and early turkish republican cities
An analysis of entertainment, spectacle and recreation activities and spaces of late Ottoman and early Turkish cities, discussing their evolution, and significance for the urban life as well as their interaction with society’s modernization processes, through contributions of numerous authors por...
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Ken gonzales-day
Accompanying an exhibition by the same name, this book addresses the life work of Ken Gonzales-Day, a Los Angeles based artist, scholar, teacher, and curator who explores race and place in his photographic and filmic works, drawings, and paintings as well as through his research and puts the arti...
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A/r/tography
Working around the pervasive themes of relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials, the volume simultaneously offers a site for the review of key historical works and at the same time, new scholarship that enters into conceptual c...
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Gender, sex, and sexuality in musical theatre
This new collection brings together the romance, love, and lust encompassing the musical genre. Established and emergent scholars wrestle with gender, sex, and sexuality across methodologies, periods, identities, and nations as they dig into a cultural site many have framed as one of the most cul...
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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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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...
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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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Paolo sorrentino’s cinema and television
New edited collection with a transnational perspective on Paolo Sorrentino, the award-winning Italian director and screenwriter. International contributors take diverse approaches to examine the dominant themes in his work – melancholy, nostalgia and the relationship with solitude - and present o...
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The cinematic sublime
An academic reader bridging the disciplines of aesthetics and film studies by focusing on cinematic sublimity. Original essays by contemporary film scholars and philosophers with topics and case studies ranging from early cinema and classical Hollywood to avant-garde film and contemporary digital...
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On the communicative turn in philosophy
The book aims to give prominence to the way the concept of communication has been deployed within philosophical debates. It shows how philosophers have adopted this concept in their discussions on the issues of intersubjectivity, community and the ethics of dialogue. A PDF version of this book i...
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Entrepreneurial arts and cultural leadership
Offers emerging and established arts and nonprofit leaders a deep understanding of establishing an entrepreneurial mindset, enabling them to adapt quickly to opportunities while meeting the demands of managing the complex operations of an arts and cultural enterprise. Both a classroom text and ca...
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An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art
An introduction to the study and application of performance art through phenomenology for radical artists, educators and practitioner-researchers. Features exercises to activate your practice, clear introductory definitions to key phenomenological terms, and a multimodal design that lets the read...
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Art education in canadian museums
Surveys how art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, responding to modern challenges in ways that are uniquely Canadian. Organized into three sections, this collection reconceptualizes museums to consider accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and h...
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Digital embodiment and the arts
A timely examination of the use of emerging technologies in the arts in recent decades, from the first wave of Virtual Reality through to the current use of Mixed, Augmented and Extended Realities. It highlights the necessity of understanding technological experiences through the assumption that ...
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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...
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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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The architect's dream
The Architect's Dream draws on a broad range of subject areas, from philosophy to film to mathematics and economics, to show that the path to meaningful architecture practice is always based in a deep commitment to the idea that architecture is first and foremost an expression of the creative min...
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Fashion, women and power
As never before, women are rightfully in positions of political power, and into the maelstrom of mass media challenges to their fashions and their right to govern. An examination of the fraught narratives surrounding the clothing of women in leadership in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdo...
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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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Performance art in practice
The book approaches performance art from a pedagogical aspect. With concrete descriptions of workshops and classroom rehearsals it opens up the practices of several experienced art university teachers and their philosophies as artists and educators. 30 b&w illus. The Prewords chapter is avai...
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Prison cultures
Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of 'bad girls' and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt hegemonic ...
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Removing the educational silos
An edited collection of essays and chapters relating to interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary methods of teaching. It will provide inspiration, a guide for project replication in practice essays, and interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary teaching topics. For teachers in all stages of educat...
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Last artist standing
Last Artist Standing shares the essays of the lives of 31 artists over the age of 50, how they have sustained their creative lives, what paths they have led, and shows who contemporary artists are today. They are mentors to other artists, having learned how to thrive and be creative through decad...
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The intellect handbook of documentary
Featuring work by key figures in international documentary scholarship and talented emerging scholars, the Handbook is a landmark publication for documentary studies in the 21st century. It tackles key topics and debates and the shifting practices of documentary activism and the professionalizati...
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Hip-hop archives
Explores multiple aspects of hip-hop archives in a global context, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization. This collection critically analyzes institutional power, geopolitical influences and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture’s tensi...
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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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Drawing processes of life
The edited collection Drawing Processes of Life is the product of artists, biologists and philosophers working together to formulate new ways of representing a new approach to life. It shows how better to represent biological process through drawing and to demonstrate the scientific value of dra...
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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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Beijing film academy 2020
The Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research, as published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy in 2020. This volume brings together specially selected articles, appearing in English for the first time, to bridge the gap in ...
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Red creative
Explores China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative hub of Shanghai. Takes a long-term historical perspective and raises questions about the nature of contemporary creative capitalism and the universal claims of Western modernity, offering n...
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Sight readings
Discussion of jazz as a visual subject and analysis of how photographers approached their subject. Includes work often overlooked – from African American photojournalists, studio photographers, early twentieth-century émigrés, Jewish exiles of the 1930s and vernacular snapshots. 135 halftones ...
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Queer contemporary art of southwest asia north africa
Presents new perspectives on queer visual culture in the Southwest Asia North Africa region from artists and scholars. The volume focuses on artworks produced in the contemporary era while recognizing historical and contextual connections to regional and Islamic art and culture. 48 b&w illus....
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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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Digital platforms and the press
Digital Platforms and the Press argues that there is a growing risk of a platform-dependent press, which threatens democracies across the world. The book provides the first comprehensive account of how platform dependence manifests across the news media sector. 7 b/w illus. A PDF version of this...
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The social object
A book about the biography of projects and objects. Where projects serve as book ends to a detailed account of objects with the homes of the not so rich. By silencing the designer, the book allows accounts of objects to emerge as periodic irruptions that serve as evidence of a hidden maelstrom of...
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Performing institutions
Rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research. Case studies and critical reflections from Denmark, Ireland, Finland, the UK, Canada, the USA, Chile, Asia and Australasia challenge the concept of the inst...
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Experimental dining
Considers four of the world’s leading creative restaurants as experimental performance practice. Using ideas from performance studies, cultural studies, philosophy and economics, the book argues that technoemotional restaurants can be understood as both a commodified experience and an artistic an...
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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...
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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 cultured, community engagement, social justice and internatio...
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Modelling international collaborations in art education
Explores online and in-person collaboration as a means of international experience for university art students. Based on a decade of experience, pedagogical and methodological topics are illustrated with student projects, inspiring reflection on teaching and artmaking strategies in online spaces,...
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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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Clothing goes to war
Across the globe, raw materials and workers were shifted to war work and manufacturing for civilians almost ended. Governments mandated rationing programmes in many countries to regulate the limited supply. 75 years later the slow fashion movement is motivating new reductions in clothing consumpt...
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Constructions of the real
This book is a collection of writing by diverse global documentary and non-fiction filmmakers who explore theory through filmmaking. Their hybrid filmmaking practices bridge industry and the academy, questions binaries, builds new connections between theory and practice, and suggests a new turn t...
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Adapting performance between stage and screen
An introduction to adaptations between theatre and film, considering these as distinct from literary adaptation. Places emphasis on performance and event, including the recent growth of digital theatre with phenomena such as NT Live. Case studies show how adaptations can't be divorced from the hi...
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The films of aleksandr rou
In a directorial career spanning from 1938 to 1972, Aleksandr Rou transformed the landscape of Soviet fantasy and filmmaking. Featuring detailed analyses of Rou’s films and their social and industrial contexts, this book introduces the exhilarating oeuvre of one of the world’s great masters of fa...
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Design for the new world
Design for the New World: From Human Design to Planet Design offers an innovative combination of design and design thinking, systemic leadership, and indigenous thinking, that can reshape the way we think about and work with sustainable transformation. 81 colour illustrations. A PDF version of t...
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The otherness of the everyday
Based on a series of conversations, convened by Jiang Jiehong, director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University. Individuals from a range of disciplines including anthropology, architecture, art, curating, fashion, film, literature, music and photography reflect on exper...
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Sonic signatures
This edited volume demonstrates and interprets contemporary migrant musics as sonic signatures constitutive of the city at night. The distinct contribution is the articulation of migrancy and emplacement practices to the scholarship on urban musicology and the burgeoning field of night studies. 4...
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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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Consent practices in performing arts education
Explores consent as a principle to guide practices and policies in university level performing arts education. Describes structural power dynamics present in educational spaces and tools for defusing them. Adapts the protocols foundational to intimacy training to apply to classroom and rehearsal ...
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Dance studies in china
A collection of articles selected from the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, translated here for an English-speaking audience. Beijing Dance Academy is a full-time institution of higher learning with commitment to developing excellent professional dancers, choreographers and dance researchers. ...
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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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The being of relation
Brings together Glissant’s poetics of relation and Deligny’s errant lines to study the structures holding whiteness and neurotypicality in place. Moves beyond the confines of pathology and psychological assessment to look into how blackness and neurodiversity emerge at the very site of relation –...
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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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Islamic architecture today and tomorrow
Scholars and practitioners from the realm of 'Islamic architecture’ consider its changing nature and continued significance. Reflective essays address the meaning of ‘Islamic’ in built environments, and the geographical, chronological, disciplinary diversity of a dynamic field of study encompassi...
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Fan phenomena: disney
The first book to comprehensively engage with Disney fans and the company's relationship with them, spanning theme parks, film, television, stage productions and novels, as well as a variety of fannish interventions. It addresses timely issues such as race and queerness, the Covid- 19 pandemic an...
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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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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...
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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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Data dating
Organized around ten chapters and works of new media art, the collection offers an extensive critical analysis of technologized romance – and other emotional relations – as well as provides an insight into the codification, execution, deployment and evolution of the patterns of togetherness in th...
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Dance, disability and law
This collection is the first book to focus on the intersection of dance, disability, and the law. Bringing together a range of writers from different disciplines, it considers the question of how we value, validate, and speak about diversity in performance practice, with a specific focus on the e...
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Dancing to transform
Uses original studies of four dance companies to examine the religious lives of American Christians who are also professional dancers. Explores how practices of dancing and Christianity, and experience and performance contexts influence and shape approaches to creating, transforming and performin...
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The media-democracy paradox in ghana
Ghana is widely acknowledged by the international community as a model of democracy: the first black African sub-Saharan country to gain political independence from Britain. Focusing on the matrix offered by the media-democracy paradox in Ghana, Africa and the Global South, it will generate debat...
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Narrative interplay in the digital era
Explores interactive media through alternate realities, digital fiction, and gaming ideologies. It examines play in learning, community engagement, human-machine collaboration, and social dimensions of gaming, bridging theory and practice from LARP (live action role-play) to AI-assisted writing.
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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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Product design, technology, and social change
Examines the relationship between products, consumption, sustainability, politics and social movements. This 'pocket history' surveys product design from the agricultural revolution and the birth of cities, through industrialisation, and a digital design revolution. 58 b&w illus. Read the F...
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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...
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Anarchitectural experiments
Comprehensive exploration of architectural visualization through speculative design projects. Outlines how cinema and animation augment traditional design drawing practices to expand the possibilities for theoretical architectural projects. It provides a history of speculative designs and elabora...
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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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Call me by your name
Enthusiastically received since its 2017 release, Luca Guadagnino's film Call Me by Your Name tells the love story between seventeen-year-old Elio and graduate student Oliver. This edited collection explores how the film speaks powerfully to questions of contemporary sexual identity and romance. ...
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Curriculum
Explores the intersection of contemporary art and school education in Art School; the independent curatorial framework throughout Ireland focused on establishing new interfaces between art and education, questioning pedagogical shifts through artistic practice, bringing contemporary artists into ...
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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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Beijing film academy 2022
The Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research, as published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy in 2021. This volume brings together specially selected articles, appearing in English for the first time, to bridge the gap in ...
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Art from your core
A holistic guide to finding and cultivating the art that you alone were born to make. Through a series of exercises, artists peel away the cultural and psychological obstacles to building a resonant life, and dig deeply into their own unique identities and experiences to unearth and intensify the...
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Bergson and durational performance
Explores the possibility of an alternative experience of time, one that is closer to the pure duration described by philosopher Henri Bergson. Contributes to contemporary performance analysis, philosophy and Bergson studies and examines aspects of immersive and participatory performance, ritual a...
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Making sense of medicine
Leading historians, anthropologists, educators and designers explore the role of materiality in medical education. With a broad focus, international scope and experimental format, this is the first book to seriously reflect on the material relationship between the medical school and reproduction ...
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The drama therapy decision tree, second edition
Provides a model for therapeutic decision-making, uniting drama therapy interventions with diagnostic information, individual and group processes, psychological distance, the drama therapy pie, and global outcomes in a series of questions for early career drama therapists and other healing profes...
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The urban refugee
This collection focuses on the spatial forms and urban consequences of forced migration. The chapters shed light on the multiple dimensions of the refugees’ urban experiences from the scale of the interiors to inner city neighborhoods and informal settlements, and from personal accounts to the fo...
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