The artist as culture producer

The Artist as Culture Producer illustrates how today's contemporary artists add to creative economies through out-of-the-box thinking while also generously contributing to the well-being of others. By turns humorous, heartbreaking and instructive, the testimonies of these forty diverse working ar...

The psychology of menu selection

Crash cultures

Since Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and scientific history of our responses to the car crash, as well as showing the personal impact of the crash on...

Media, markets and public spheres

This book uses newspapers and TV listings to present an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. It explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society with in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relatio...

Cinema and landscape

The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary ...

The postdigital membrane

The Postdigital Membrane explores the triad of imagination, technology and desire as they play upon each other. It offers fresh insights into the deeper problems of intelligence, reality and being human in order to map the emerging consciousness of the postdigital age.

European heritage planning and management

Fashion & war in popular culture

Aside from the occasional nod to epaulettes or use of camouflage, war and fashion seem to be strange partners. Not so, argue the contributors to this book, who connect military industrial practices as well as military dress to textile and clothing in new ways. For instance, the book includes a se...

Issues in curating contemporary art and performance

To stay relevant, art curators must keep up with the rapid pace of technological innovation as well as the aesthetic tastes of fickle critics and an ever-expanding circle of cultural arbiters. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance argues that, despite these daily pressures, good cur...

Street scenes

Since 1989, Berlin has continued to be a city in transition. Bertolt Brecht's "Street Scene" model relies precisely on establishing a connection between art's functioning and everyday life. This book interrogates what kind of "life" is permitted to "flow" in the "new Berlin." It strives to establ...

Advances in human-computer interaction volume 2

Mediation and protest movements

Covering online and offline contexts, as well as mainstream and alternative media,  Mediation and Protest Movements bridges the gap between social-movement theory and media and communication studies, making this an important text for students and scholars of the media and social change.

Handwriting of the twentieth century

As letter-writing has fallen by the wayside, the art of lavish yet legible handwriting is no longer being taught to schoolchildren or employed in daily life—much to the dismay of those who receive hastily scrawled love notes or try to decipher a doctor’s prescription. In an age when script manual...

Drawing

To clear their minds and organize their ideas, artists will often start projects by drawing sketches. Drawing asks why artists and designers use drawing in that way to kick-start their creative thinking, considering the application of drawing and its various uses across disciplines. From the inte...

Design and the creation of social value

This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...

Exposing vulnerability

This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women. 

Futures of chinese cinema

This book takes an innovative approach, arguing for a broadening of Chinese screen cultures to account for new technologies of screening. The contributors explore transnational connections and consider time and technology in both popular blockbusters and independent art films from mainland China,...

Pride and panic

Pride and Panic probes cinematic representations of the Russian national consciousness, a complex cocktail of fear, anger and anxious uncertainty. Hashamova examines the works of both established and lesser-known Russian directors, drawing parallels between evolving social attitudes in Russia and...

Crossing gender boundaries

This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments – how dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender – the chapters investigate gender issues t...

Downtown film and tv culture 1975-2001

Downtown Film and TV Culture, 1975–2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and filmmakers and explore the impact of the historic downtown scene on contemporary cult...

Connecting metal to culture

Though it's given little attention – and even less serious attention – by the mainstream press, metal music has for decades been a major creative and cultural force around the world. This book brings together a group of contributors from Europe, North America and the Caribbean to make a case for ...

Languages of theatre shaped by women

The authors explore a range of different approaches to the languages of theatre, including translation and interpretation of the art form, along with languages, performance work, body language and gesture. Considered alongside the related social issues of race, class and dialect, the following qu...

Marion richardson

In Marion Richardson: Her Life and Contribution to Handwriting, Rosemary Sassoon looks at Richardson's life and work through the artist and educator's own writings as well as letters and personal recollections from those who knew and worked with her. The driving force behind a momentous shift in ...

Television courtroom broadcasting

Are witnesses, jurors or others in courtrooms distracted by in-court television cameras and their operators? Citing a lack of evidence one way or the other, the US Supreme Court has recommended additional research on the matter. Answering the court’s recommendation, this proof-of-concept study de...

The danish directors 2

The Danish Directors 2 provides a practitioner’s perspective on the social, cultural and economic milieus in which Danish filmmakers have been able to develop their practice and to thrive. It includes insider information about the making, marketing and distribution of award-winning films, and int...

Three myths of internet governance

The Internet is a global medium that defies and sometimes even replaces established media, yet our understanding and ideas surrounding it are largely derived from Internet usage in the USA. This book draws on European and African examples to challenge three established myths about the Internet: t...

British tv and film culture in the 1950s

This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s. Drawing upon archival research, it does this by exploring the development of the early cinema programme on television - principally Current Release (BBC, 1952-3), Picture Parade (BBC, ...

Directory of world cinema: american independent

Directory of World Cinema: American Independent chronicles the rise of the independent sector as an outlet for directors who challenge the status quo, yet enjoy box office appeal. Key directors are interviewed, and a sizeable selection of films are referenced and reviewed. Copious illustrations a...

Directory of world cinema: american hollywood 2

Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood 2 builds on its predecessor by exploring how the industry has evolved and expanded throughout its history. Touches on classic films such as North by Northwest and Dirty Harry, comedies such as When Harry Met Sally and Jerry Maguire and CGI blockbuster...

The virtual classroom

Peter weir

Peter Weir's three-decade creative journey from Australia to Hollywood is considered in light of the recent theories on transnational cinema and through an examination of four key films. The films' analyses integrate interviews with Weir and his closest collaborators. The book concludes that Weir...

Reframing reality

The surrealist object is an everyday item that takes on multiple associations by provoking the viewer’s imagination. It also poses a specific challenge for some filmmakers who seek to apply surrealist ideas and approaches when making feature-length narrative films. In Reframing Reality, Alison Fr...

Dance, somatics and spiritualities

Presenting a rich mosaic of embodied contemporary narratives in spirituality and movement studies, this book explicitly studies the relationship between spirituality and the field of Somatic Movement Dance Education. It is the first scholarly text to focus on contemporary spirituality within the ...

Brit wits

Through a compilation of essays and profiles, Brit Wits shows how and why humour has been such a powerful catalyst and expressive force in rockers' work. Ellis trains his attention on those whose music and persona exude defiance to investigate the nature of rock humour and how these groups have u...

Directory of world cinema: china 2

A survey of a vibrant – and expanding – industry, Directory of World Cinema: China 2 examines, among other themes, China’s desire for success and fulfilment in the United States, as well as the extensive history of representing China – and the Chinese in America – on US movie screens. With contri...

Perspectives on the computer revolution

Revolution in the echo chamber

Revolution in the Echo Chamber is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. Building on historical analysis, this book provides contemporary perspective, drawing on trends from the current audio drama environment to analyse how people listen ...

The art and science of documentation management

As information becomes increasingly accessible through newly-introduced technologies, the human mind seeks a more comprehensive interpretation of the world in which we live. In order to manage this information overload, we must carefully reconsider our attitude towards documentation. While acknow...

Performative materials in architecture and design

This volume illuminates both the interaction of these technologies and the role of materiality in research, design and practice, and provides an overview of representative design projects and relevant theories.

The search for mind

The degree to which Cognitive Science can aspire to be the Science of the Mind is an ongoing debate. This highly influential book, published as a Second Edition, proposes a new approach to issues of the mind and of consciousness, drawing together themes from Philosophy right through to Artificial...

World film locations: madrid

World Film Locations: Madrid is a trip through the urban space conceived as film location. The premise is that these locations must have been protagonist of films shot in Madrid since the silent era to the present. Madrid is the film capital of the Hispanic World from the standpoint of production...

Design integrations

Design Integrations calls for an innovative rethinking of design education, one that recognizes the changing modes of design and the shifting forms of user experience. The contributors urge new methods of approach that focus on interdisciplinary collaboration between the academic and business wo...

Ict for curriculum enhancement

Digital visual culture

Digital Visual Culture presents the latest research into the relationship between theory and practice across digital media and technology in the visual arts and investigates the challenges of contemporary research and art curation, particularly in regard to new media artworks. The contributors to...

Temporary stages ii

Theatre teachers are forced to adapt constantly and they struggle to serve both their students and craft. This book uses a theatre arts programme at a Midwestern high school to explore how change, good or ill, directly impacts students and teachers. Gonzalez shows teachers how to sustain confiden...

Francophone voices

Life is war

A collection of oral histories that guides readers through through the decades (1944–92) in which the Communist Party controlled everything in Albania; what work one could do, what food was available, and even who one could marry.  Based on personal interviews with six men and women who survived ...

Seven decisions when teaching students

Green documentary

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

The para-academic handbook

Para-academic is a name for those under- and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today's society. Specialists in all manner of things, from the humanities to the social and biological sciences, the para-academic works alongside the traditional university, sometimes by necess...

Directors

Some of America’s most exciting film directors have emerged from the theater world. Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again features a series of interviews with directors who did just that. Each conversation traces its subject’s personal artistic journey and explores how he or she handled ...

The future of humanity

The Future of Humanity seeks to answer the question: "What kind of global civilization should human beings pursue and what do we have to do collectively?," one a question that has preoccupied scholars, philosophers and politicians for centuries. In doing so, the book tackles concepts as monumenta...

Who's who in research: cultural studies

This volume offers a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect’s subject area of Cultural Studies. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and current research interests of hundreds of leading international academics as well as references to the researchers’ principal art...

Directory of world cinema: russia 2

Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2 is an essential companion to the filmic legacy of one of the world’s most storied countries.

Veganism, sex and politics

Veganism is so much more than what we eat. It’s about striving to live an ethical life in a profoundly unethical world. Is being vegan difficult or is it now easier than ever? What does veganism have to do with wider struggles for social justice – feminism, LGBTQ+ politics, anti-racism and enviro...

World film locations: reykjavík

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

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 ...

Software specification

The method of metaphor

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

Un-american psycho

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

Progress in robotics and intelligent systems, volume two

Taking up mcluhan's cause

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

Matthew arnold's the church of brou

Switching to digital television

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

Across the art/life divide

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

Operations research and artificial intelligence

The student actor prepares

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

The composition of herman melville

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

Human factors in information systems

Philosophical approaches to communication

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

Celebrity culture and the entertainment industry in asia

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

The sensible stage

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

The film paintings of david lynch

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

Trends in functional programming volume 1

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

World film locations: singapore

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

Aesthetic journalism

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

Signs, symbols and icons

On perfection

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

Cotton

This book explores the importance of cotton as a major resource for US fashion businesses. It is rooted in an investigative research project that deployed undergraduate and graduate students and faculty researchers to US fashion businesses that rely on cotton to understand how the resource is sou...

Art insight

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

Urban cinematics

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

Ergonomics

Future of art in a digital age

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

New algorithms for variable time delay and nonuniform image motion estimation

Fan phenomena: jane austen

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

We europeans?

We Europeans? explores the relationship between media and identity along the fault lines and fissures of the shifting ethnicities, religions, tastes, generations and languages that make up contemporary Europe. Addressing topics such as film, television, public monuments and the press, contributor...

Tv format mogul

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

Inside the tv newsroom

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

A reflective practitioner's guide to (mis)adventures in drama education - or - what was i thinking?

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

Reinventing public service television for the digital future

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

Design discourse on business and industry

This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...

Directory of world cinema: latin america

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

The lived experience of improvisation

Improvisation is crucial to a wide range of artistic activities – most prominently, perhaps, in music, but extending to other fields of experience such as literature and pedagogy. Yet it gets short shrift in both appreciation and analysis of art within education. This is in no small part due to o...

Professions in contemporary drama

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

The art and science of handwriting

This book reflects the various facets of the author's lifetime of work in letterforms. The collection of papers and articles, linked by a commentary on a decade in handwriting studies, shows how the educational and medical aspects of her work could not have taken place without a lengthy grounding...

Tunnel watching

The aim of the Watching series is to draw attention to some of the very interesting items around us, things that perhaps we don't notice as much as we might.

Directory of world cinema: turkey

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

Touring the screen

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