Reframing consciousness

Sacred theatre

World film locations: berlin

One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exuberance, devastation, division and reconstruction. World Fil...

Computers and typography 2

Epidemic urbanism

The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of societies. Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe explore what insights from the outbreak, experience and response to previous epidemics might inform our unde...

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...

World film locations: mumbai

Mumbai is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, with wealthy areas located just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums. The home of Bollywood, Mumbai is also the epicentre of India’s film industry and its foremost film location. Through the lens of Mumbai’...

Kinesthetic empathy in creative and cultural practices

Kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to experience empathy by observing another human being's movements. Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices offers innovative and critical perspectives on a variety of topics, encouraging readers to sidestep the methodological and disciplin...

Myths

Myths is a visual and written exploration on the subject of myths. It contains contributions from writers, illustrators, designers, photographers and artists from around the world who have each responded to the theme in their own unique way. 

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 ...

World film locations: dublin

World Film Locations: Dublin offers an engaging look at the many incarnations of the city onscreen through 50 synopses of the key scenes – either shot or set in Dublin – accompanied by a generous selection of full-colour film stills. Sophisticated yet accessible, this volume will undoubtedly take...

Television and criticism

Stephen king on the small screen

This book is the first written by a film specialist to consider Stephen King’s television work in its own right, and rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fit rigid thematic categories. Browning examines what makes a written or visual text successful at evoking fear on a case-by-c...

The place of artists' cinema

Pattern and chaos in art, science and everyday life

This richly illustrated volume explores critical and visual practices through the lens of intersections between pattern and chaos. It challenges disciplinary boundaries, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through experimentation and visual ...

Trans(per)forming nina arsenault

Transgendered playwright, performer, columnist and sex worker Nina Arsenault has had sixty plastic surgeries in pursuit of a feminine beauty ideal. In this book, a diverse group of contributors (including Arsenault) offers an exploration of beauty, image and the notion of queerness through the le...

Media between culture and commerce

Development through technology transfer

Technology transfer is shown to be more complicated than a handover of new hardware to developing countries. This book covers the practical issues of the transfer, including product, process, cost reduction and more, and also integrates an analysis of theories of innovation to identify key stages...

The search for mind

Italian women's theatre, 1930-1960

World film locations: new york

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

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...

From nwico to wsis: 30 years of communication geopolitics

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an...

Media and identity in contemporary europe

Technological change in broadcasting has enabled us to open up media markets, making media and society more internationally-oriented. Chapters focus on technological change and its impact on cultural and political identities, the role of the cultural industries in the ‘New Economy’ and the impact...

Trends in functional programming volume 6

Touring the screen

Media in europe today

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...

Modern melbourne

An analysis of the city of Melbourne using a wide range of historical, literary and artistic sources, including writers on modernity and the modern city. This environmental humanities and eco-cultural study of the history and culture of Melbourne and its site places it within the international co...

Women in iberian filmic culture

Focusing on cinema in Portugal and Spain, this collection brings together research about women and their status in relation to Iberian filmic culture. Through a revision of feminist theory and new accounts of film history it contributes to expanding debate and encourages comparison between Iberia...

The future of art in a digital age

Theatre and performance in small nations

Theatre and Performance in Small Nations features an array of case studies that examine the relationships between theatre, performance, identity and the nation.

Cultures and settlements. advances in art and urban futures, volume 3

Choreographies

Choreographer Jacky Lansley has been practicing and performing for more than four decades. In Choreographies, she offers unique insight into the processes behind independent choreography and paints a vivid portrait of a rigorous practice that combines dance, performance art, visuals and a close a...

World film locations: istanbul

From Head-On to Murder on the Orient Express, World Film Locations: Istanbul offers a compelling look at the many films shot on location in this multicultural metropolis on the Black Sea. Illustrated throughout with film stills as well as photographs of featured locations as they appear today, Wo...

Declarations of independence

American independent cinema has been an important creative and cultural media entity for the past fifteen years. The approach of this sector is one of cultural construction that simultaneously provides a socio-political reference through which critics and audience can attach certain films to popu...

The problem of assessment in art and design

With its inevitable dependency on the essential, and often contested, nature of art, the subject of assessment or evaluation in art and design education remains a matter of continuing controversy. This collection of essays examines the principal issues as they relate to the main phases of formal ...

Digital visual culture

Digital creativity is boundless. Art practitioners and scholars continue to explore what technology has to offer and practice-based research is redefining their disciplines. What happens when an artist experiments with bio-scientific data and discovers something the scientists failed to notice? H...

Marion richardson

In Marion Richardson: Her Life and Her Contribution to Handwriting, Rosemary Sassoon’s recognizes Richardson’s groundbreaking contribution to the freeing of the teaching of child art and her two handwriting schemes – the main one based on her observations of children’s pattern paintings and the n...

New zealand cinema

Design and digital interaction

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...

Danish directors

This collection profiles canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, featuring interviews with Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and more. It poses questions that engage with issues within film studies to stimulate debate. Each interview is preceded by the director’s photograph, ...

In smithereens

Centres on an artistic material encounter with costumes from the archive of iconic British choreographer Lea Anderson. Offers new strategies to understand performances through their material remnants, suggesting alternative ways in which the arguably haunted costumes can live on as ghosts inside ...

Media, monarchy and power

Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity? Media, Monarchy ...

Superman: the movie

From the film’s record-breaking budgets to the enmity between director and producers, the story behind the making of Superman is inherently dramatic. Marking 40 years since the film’s commercial release, the book presents original interview transcripts with the cast and crew that, when read toget...

Queer cinema in europe

This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of key films and filmmakers, the contributors to this volume resituate discussions of queer representat...

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...

Creativity in the classroom

This volume contests the current higher educational paradigm of using objectives and outcomes as ways to measure learning. Instead, the contributors propose approaches to learning that draw upon the creative arts and humanities, including cinema, literature, dance, drama and visual art.  

Robert frank's 'the americans'

In the mid-50s, Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs that resulted in The Americans, which represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. Jonathan Day revisits this wo...

Teachers and teaching on stage and on screen

Portrayals of teachers in stage plays and films abound. This edited anthology brings together scholars in education to seriously reflect upon portrayals of teachers and teaching in theatre and film.

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 ...

World film locations: helsinki

World Film Locations: Helsinki explores the relationship between the city, cinema, and Finnish cultural history. Cinematic representations of Helsinki range from depictions of a northern periphery to a space of cosmopolitanism, from a touristic destination to a substitute for Moscow and St. Peter...

Spring and no flowers

Albertine Gaur shares with the reader her childhood memories of the period just before, and during, the Second World War in Austria, her homeland.

Christoph schlingensief

Understanding virtual universities

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

Historical comedy on screen

From child art to visual language of youth

This collective provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old. In a series of studies, contributors reconsider evaluation practices used in art education and examine current ideas about children’s development of visual skill...

Sophia loren

European stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars. This unique book sets out to highlight the career of Sophia Loren as a prime example of a highly original rise to fame in a European context. Pauline S...

Serious play

Clowns’ slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and Europe over the last 50 years, investigates the nature and function of clown performance in modern...

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 ...

Politics of contemporary european cinema

Deleuze and film music

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

Arts education in ireland

Arts in Education in Ireland: from Pedagogy to Practice examines the distinctive nature of arts-based learning in education in Ireland. It draws on recent research from pedagogy to practice in Irish schools. It examines the relevance of arts-based learning against the backdrop of the drive for 21...

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...

Obsessions of a showwoman

The book foregrounds the important lineage of incredible women working across performance, live art and cabaret and asks how the term 'Showwoman' can transgress the figure of the showman as a provider of the spectacular. It encourages the showgirl to finally graduate into adulthood. 60 illus.

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...

Dance, disability and law

This edited collection is the first book to that focus on the intersection between dance, disability and law. Bringing together a range of writers from different disciplines, this volume considers the question of how we value, validate and speak about diversity in performance practice with a spec...

Playwriting in schools

John Newman invites teachers to take their students on a playwriting voyage in Playwriting in Schools. The book examines how students who learn to write plays and work with a professional playwright in residence empower themselves and gives instructors tools for teaching the process of playwritin...

Orphan black

This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of the hit television series Orphan Black and the questions it raises for performance and technology, gender and reproduction and biopolitics and community. Contributors come from a range of backgrounds and explore the digital innovations and techni...

Time, duration and change in contemporary art

Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art presents a major study of time as a key aesthetic dimension of recent art practices. This book explores different aspects of time across a broad range of artistic media and draws on recent movements in philosophy, science and technology to show how ar...

Fashion knowledge

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

Gender, race and religion in video game music

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

The 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...

World-wide-walks

This book presents Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and changes in climate.

House of cards

Exploration of the idea that House of Cards sets an alternate political world, where the leader is a ferocious animal, a political field overtaken by monsters who remain true to their fundamental nature or try to master their bloodthirsty instincts. But can we really think that the elected men an...

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...

Off book

Collection of essays exploring ways that theatrical devising supports and defies higher education’s institutional goals. Considering power, timelines, colonial structures, inclusion and exclusion, research, community engagement, and student learning outcomes, the authors examine devising in Canad...

Fan phenomena: game of thrones

Winter is coming. Every Sunday night, millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones. Much is made of who will be gruesomely murdered each week on the hit show, though sometimes the question really is who won't die a fiery death....

Digital dynamics in nordic contemporary art

An embracive, multi-perspective tour through and beyond Nordic artistic experiments, conceptual reconfigurations and new modes of artistic agency. Offering an in-depth exploration of art’s contingent evolution with technology and digital culture, this book goes far beyond familiar depictions of ...

What's next?

By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What’s Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture...

Becoming a visually reflective practitioner

Considers how self-study using arts-based methods can enable purposeful reflection toward understanding and envisioning professional practice. Presents a self-study model highlighting arts-based methods for examining areas of professional practice: professional identities, work cultures, change a...

Architecture, film, and the in-between

Architecture, Film, and the In-Between: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt brings together some of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary architectural discourses with an investigation of the filmic imagination of architectural in-betweenness, as well as the in-between spaces within the architectural ...

Lexicon for an affective archive

To study an archive or archival materials is to encounter an affective and critical practice involved in the construction of memory. Lexicon for an Affective Archive is an international collection of these encounters, offering glimpses into the intimate relations inherent in finding, remembering ...

The physical and the digital city

The Physical and the Digital City is a unique collection of projects where researchers and designers show how the theories of technology underpinning the digital urban environment are applied in practical and spatial terms. 79 b&w illus.

Places and purposes of popular music education

Edited collection including contributions from scholars and popular music educators in response to the question “what are the place and purpose of popular music education?” The book aims to broaden and diversify the conversation and community around popular music education globally. 7 b&w illus.

Fortunes of war

An extended edit of Eric Lesdema’s photographic series of the same name, with 83 colour photographs and essays from leading academics which analyse how his work provides an alternative approach to documentary photography. Twenty-first-century interpretations and applications of photography are qu...

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...

A trail of fire for political cinema

Marking the 50th anniversary of the premiere of La Hora de Los Hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (Getino and Solanas, 1968), A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema is an edited collection that closely analyses the film, looking to the context and the socio-political landscape of 1960s Argentina, as...

The music of antônio carlos jobim

Antônio Carlos Jobim has been called the greatest of all contemporary Brazilian songwriters. He wrote both popular and serious music and was a gifted piano, guitar and flute player. One of the key figures in the creation of the bossa nova style, Jobim's music made a lasting impression worldwide, ...

Dancing bahia

Dancing Bahia is an edited collection that draws together the work of leading scholars, artists and dance activists from Brazil, Canada and the United States to examine the particular ways in which dance has responded to sociopolitical notions of race and community, resisting stereotypes, and red...

Understanding kubrick's 2001: a space odyssey

An exploration of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey that combines ‘new’ empirical approaches with ‘old’ formalist approaches. This provides a broader understanding of how Kubrick’s methods as a director and auteur were developed to produce a unique aesthetic creation that is still years ahe...

Canadian critical luxury studies

The first study of Canada’s historical, economic and cultural relationship to luxury. From the fur trade to Indigenous resurgence, Eaton’s Made-in-Canada campaign to Toronto Fashion Week, Vancouver public artworks to Montréal’s fashiontech sector, this collection explains what makes Canadian luxu...

Crafting luxury

A fresh approach to contemporary views of luxury focusing on extensive academic research and industry insights, pushing the boundaries by using luxury as a catalyst for innovative research in a variety of domains spanning design, art, craftsmanship, technology, retail, architecture and cultural a...

Popular music ethnographies

This interdisciplinary book takes the reader on global journeys from the UK to China, from Ecuador to Jamaica, through a melange of music genres. In doing so, it raises key questions as the contributors reflect upon doing and communicating ethnographic research on popular music. 14 b&w illus.

Comparative media policy, regulation and governance in europe - chapter 1

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...

The capitalist imaginaries of popular music

Traditionally, popular music has long been said to intrinsically contest, resist, and defy the powers that be. This new book challenges this long-standing orthodoxy, arguing that popular music more often participates in the social reproduction of the biggest power there is: neoliberal capitalism....