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Phaidon Press Ltd Now is Better
Book SynopsisAs seen in Design Matters with Debbie Millman, PRINT Magazine, The Slowdown, and Design Boom Stefan Sagmeister’s newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in the world are improving Initially conceived in 2020 as the world entered pandemic lockdown, Stefan Sagmeister has created a book that looks at the state of the world today, illuminating, through collected data, how far we’ve come, and encouraging us to think about where we can go from here. Statistics are vividly brought to life, as numbers are transformed into graphs, inlaid into nineteenth-century paintings, embroidered canvases, lenticular prints, and hand-painted water glasses. The book includes a foreword from psychologist and leading authority on language and the mind, Steven Pinker; a featured essay by graphic designer and historian Steven Heller; and a conversation between Sagmeister and Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and artistic director of Serpentine Galleries in London and will appeal to all visually minded readers, providing a positive reaction to the tumultuous news cycle of recent years. Published in softcover with flaps Now is Better is contained within a die-cut slipcase and accompanied by a lenticular print designed by Sagmeister. Now is Better is an intriguing and thoughtful visual meditation on our daily lives.Trade Review‘You couldn't wish for a finer companion with which to start the transition into 2024.’ – Elle Decoration‘An optimistic take on human progress.’ – Creative Review ‘Now is Better is an intriguing and thoughtful visual meditation on our daily lives.’ – PRINT Magazine'We have nothing but praise for Stefan Sagmeister.' – Creative Boom'A thought-provoking blend of old and new.' – Design Boom‘Unquestionably beautiful.’ – SixtySix‘Through exquisite graphic arrangements and sharp data sets, he shows that our circumstances are still improving. Now is indeed better.’ – The Slowdown‘This is a book that will touch people’s hearts and improve their minds.’ – Travel by ENTREE‘[A] gorgeous page turner.’ – Gray Magazine
£25.46
Profile Books Ltd All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2022 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK 'Magnificently marvellous' Junot Diaz 'An account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology out of the dodgiest of commercial occasions ... a revelation' Jonathan Lethem Every schoolchild recognises their protagonists: the Avengers, the X-Men, your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. The superhero comics that Marvel has published since 1961 make up the biggest self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages and counting. Eighteen of the 100 highest-grossing movies of all time are based on it. And not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing. But Douglas Wolk did. In All Of The Marvels, a critic and superfan takes on the epic to end all epics. What he finds is a magic mirror of the past 60 years, from the atomic terrors of the Cold War to the political divides of our present. The result is an irresistible travel guide to the magic mountain at the heart of popular culture.Trade ReviewBrilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful ... All of the Marvels is magnificently marvelous. Wolk's work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all -- Junot Díaz * New York Times Book Review *For anyone willing to take [a] step into the inconceivably vast and wonderful world that generations of creators have brought to us, issue by issue, month by month, year by year, All of the Marvels is an indispensable handbook. And for anyone seeking an explanation for the enduring popularity of our modern superhero mythology, Wolk has provided as well-informed and well-argued a thesis as you're likely to find * Forbes *A fascinating pop culture journey ... Wolk is a knowledgeable, generous guide, lighting the potentially more confusing corners of the Marvel Universe with enthusiasm, humour and humility -- Martin Gray * Scotsman *The way Wolk makes sense of, finds beauty in, and connects all the different stories and details is masterful ... A must-read for all Marvel fans, from devotees to newbies, All of the Marvels is a colorful and heartfelt journey through the Marvel Universe, and highlights just what makes this epic feat of storytelling so special * Hypable *[a] love letter to Marvel comics ... Wolk is having fun and it communicates -- Teddy Jamieson * Herald Scotland *Douglas Wolk's naked dive into the Marvel source code is a revelation, a tour both electrifying in its weird charisma, and replenishing in its loving specificity. As an account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology out of the dodgiest of commercial occasions, it's also a testament, and a tribute -- Jonathan LethemWhat sounds like a madman's quest turns out to be a deeply emotional hero's journey. The best work yet from the best writer about the medium of comics -- Brian K. Vaughan, author * Saga *A generous, freewheeling book ... Wolk is a capable guide, wry, friendly and astute [who] can elucidate not just the chemistry between writers and artists but also the underrated role of colourers and letterers -- Dorian Lynskey * Spectator *Some of us are haunted by the memory of a childhood glimpse of some vast evocative dream; others exasperated by the slick iconography that has taken over our screens, wallets, and eyeballs. If you're like me, it's both. For all of us, Douglas Wolk's naked dive into the Marvel source code is a revelation, a tour both electrifying in its weird charisma, and replenishing in its loving specificity. As an account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology out of the dodgiest of commercial occasions, it's also a testament, and a tribute. Like Greil Marcus in Mystery Train or Manny Farber in Negative Space, Wolk pushes aside paraphrase to free up an encounter with what's been there all along, homegrown art -- Jonathan Lethem
£9.49
Aakar Books Postmodern Media Culture
Book SynopsisThe book deals with film, television, information technology, consumer products and popular literature, and assesses challenges to conceptions of the postmodern based on gender, race and religion.
£4.85
Zone Books The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of
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Zone Books Screening Fears – On Protective Media
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£21.25
Bristol University Press The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist
Book SynopsisThe Disney Princesses are a billion-dollar industry, known and loved by children across the globe. Robyn Muir provides an exploratory and holistic examination of this worldwide commercial and cultural phenomenon in its key representations: films, merchandising and marketing, and park experiences. Muir highlights the messages and images of femininity found within the Disney Princess canon and provides a rigorous and innovative methodology for analysing gender in media. Including an in-depth examination of each princess film from the last 83 years, the book provides a lens through which to view and understand how Disney Princesses have contributed to the depiction of femininity within popular culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Once Upon a Time Part 1: The Films Introducing the Film Analysis Framework 1. ‘Passive Dreamers’: The Beginning of the Disney Princess Phenomenon 2. ‘Lost Dreamers’: A Narrative Shift in the Princess Phenomenon 3. ‘Active Leaders’: Transgressive Princesses 4. ‘Sacrificing Dreamers’: A Regression in the Disney Princess Phenomenon 5. ‘Innovative Leaders’: A Progressive Era of Princesses Part 2: The Consumer Experiences 6. Playing Dress Up: Disney Princess Merchandising and Marketing 7. Playing in the Parks: Meeting ‘Real Life’ Princesses Conclusion: Happily Ever After?
£73.09
Atlantic Books Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth
Book Synopsis'Fascinating.... Wonderfully exhilarating.' Mail on SundayFinalist for The Tolkien Society Best Book AwardAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that has captured the imagination of millions of people around the world? And why does Tolkien's visionary creation continue to fascinate and inspire us eighty-five years on from its first appearance?Beginning with Tolkien's earliest influences and drawing on key moments from his life, Twenty-First-Century Tolkien is an engaging and radical reinterpretation of the beloved author's work. Not only does it trace the genesis of the original books, it also explores the later adaptations and reworkings that cemented his reputation as a cultural phenomenon, including Peter Jackson's blockbuster films of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and the highly anticipated TV series The Rings of Power.Delving deep into topics such as friendship, failure, the environment, diversity, and Tolkien's place in a post-Covid age, Nick Groom takes us on an unexpected journey through Tolkien's world, revealing how it is more relevant now than ever before.Trade ReviewFascinating... Wonderfully exhilarating... In a rousing finale, Groom suggests that Tolkien is exactly the writer we need at this particularly perilous moment, as we emerge, Hobbit-like, from our holes and try to imagine a new kind of life in this post-pandemic age. * Mail on Sunday *Each chapter displays a mastery of both the works in question - whether books or adaptations - and of the vast corpus of Tolkien scholarship. Narratives of literary production or of Hollywood bureaucratic processes rarely come as absorbing as Groom's... Illuminating... Groom's explorations of Tolkien's sources... are always provocative and often ingenious. * Literary Review *This fascinating book explores The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings from their genesis through all the different major adaptations of the Tolkien 'legendarium.' It starts off neatly summarizing Tolkien's life and influences - such as his friendship with W.H. Auden and C.S. Lewis. * Wall Street Journal *Provides a fresh study of the impact Tolkien has on contemporary readers' and viewers' understanding of good, evil, war, and conflict. * Library Journal *A loving ode to J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. An adventure worth taking. * Publishers Weekly *A modern journey through Tolkien's work, which has engendered a rich field of cultural activity. A thought-provoking examination. With the authority of extensive research, Groom unpacks the reasons for the appeal of Tolkien to a new generation. * Kirkus Reviews *An excellent, perceptive and superbly crafted analysis of the way our ever-changing world has responded to Tolkien. A stunning achievement. -- Brian Sibley, award-winning author of The Fall of NúmenorTable of Contents1: Myriad Middle-Earths 2: Uncertainty 3: The Ambiguity of Evil 4: The Hesitancy of Good 5: Lucid Moments 6: Just War 7: Conclusion: Weird Things
£11.69
Indiana University Press Consent Culture and Teen Films
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meek's study is revelatory in its understanding of contemporary concerns about sexual consent, ranging from adults' efforts to regulate children's sexual knowledge to teenagers' interests in exploring their sexual identities. The extensive analysis of recent films provides numerous opportunities for reconsidering how the concept of consent is evolving for youth, who are in real life revising fundamental notions of gender, power, and expression. This book may at least provoke more educators and parents to respect how the movies adolescents are watching are often confronting current conditions of youth sexuality in ways that many adult authorities are not."—Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex"This thoughtful and timely volume demonstrates that teen films have become a key site for negotiating the emergent discourse of consent and adolescent sexual agency. Through astute analyses of recent American films, Meek teases out the complexities and contradictions inherent in the ideal of affirmative consent. Consent Culture and Teen Films is an essential addition to the literature on teen films and on Hollywood's representation of adolescent sexuality."—Kristen Hatch, author of Shirley Temple and the Performance of GirlhoodTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Regulating Adolescent Sexuality in U.S. Cinema: From Censorship to Child Pornography Laws2. Flipping the Heterosexual Script and Race-Based Sexual Stereotypes in Teen Comedies of the 2010s and 2020s3. Queering Consent: Navigating Performative and Subjective Consent in Queer Teen Films4. "I Was Not Lolita": Child Sexual Abuse and Children's Agency in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Tale5. The (In)Visibility of Trans Teens: 3 Generations, Adam, and Boy Meets GirlConclusion: Adolescent Sexuality and the Adult ImaginationFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£55.80
Indiana University Press Consent Culture and Teen Films
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meek's study is revelatory in its understanding of contemporary concerns about sexual consent, ranging from adults' efforts to regulate children's sexual knowledge to teenagers' interests in exploring their sexual identities. The extensive analysis of recent films provides numerous opportunities for reconsidering how the concept of consent is evolving for youth, who are in real life revising fundamental notions of gender, power, and expression. This book may at least provoke more educators and parents to respect how the movies adolescents are watching are often confronting current conditions of youth sexuality in ways that many adult authorities are not."—Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex"This thoughtful and timely volume demonstrates that teen films have become a key site for negotiating the emergent discourse of consent and adolescent sexual agency. Through astute analyses of recent American films, Meek teases out the complexities and contradictions inherent in the ideal of affirmative consent. Consent Culture and Teen Films is an essential addition to the literature on teen films and on Hollywood's representation of adolescent sexuality."—Kristen Hatch, author of Shirley Temple and the Performance of GirlhoodTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Regulating Adolescent Sexuality in U.S. Cinema: From Censorship to Child Pornography Laws2. Flipping the Heterosexual Script and Race-Based Sexual Stereotypes in Teen Comedies of the 2010s and 2020s3. Queering Consent: Navigating Performative and Subjective Consent in Queer Teen Films4. "I Was Not Lolita": Child Sexual Abuse and Children's Agency in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Tale5. The (In)Visibility of Trans Teens: 3 Generations, Adam, and Boy Meets GirlConclusion: Adolescent Sexuality and the Adult ImaginationFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Princeton University Press Magazines and the Making of America
Book SynopsisFrom the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age. How did a magazine industry emerge in the United States, where there were once only amateur authors, clumsy technologies for productTrade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2016 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association "[Magazines and the Making of America] is a work of sociology and as such it contributes to the growing literature on print culture by considering how the demography, geography, and economics of print fueled (and were fueled by) capitalism."--Choice "Magazines and the Making of America is a treasure trove for students of social movements and political history, for it chronicles the scores of movements, from anti-dueling to Indian rights to free love, that swept the nation... A bright star to guide others applying the new methods of social science to historical topics. Haveman has a penchant for coding and counting everything in sight. She tracks each broadside and circular from before the dawn of the nation, and thus we get much more than an impressionistic romp through the history of the genre. The book is chock full of figures and analyses that substantiate the argument, and the narrative is followed by well over a hundred pages of appendices and bibliography."--Frank Dobbin. Administrative Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Why Focus on Magazines? 4 Magazines, Modernization, and Community in America 5 The Modernization of America 9 Modernization and Community in America 12 The Path Forward: The Outline of This Book 15 Conclusion 22 Chapter 2 The History of American Magazines, 1741-1860 23 Magazine Origins 23 Magazine Evolution 26 Variety within and among Magazines 41 Conclusion 52 Chapter 3 The Material and Cultural Foundations of American Magazines 55 Publishing Technologies 57 Distribution Infrastructure: The Post Office 61 The Reading Public 74 Professional Authors and Copyright Law 86 Conclusion 103 Chapter 4 Launching Magazines 106 Who Founded American Magazines? 106 Why Were Magazines Founded? 127 How Did Magazines Gain Public Support? 136 Conclusion 142 Chapter 5 Religion 143 The Changing Face of American Religion 143 The Interplay between Religion and Magazines 160 Conclusion 184 Chapter 6 Social Reform 187 The Evolution of Social Reform Movements 187 Religion and Reform: The Moral Impulse 197 Magazines and Reform 201 The Press, the Pulpit, and the Antislavery Movement 212 Conclusion 221 Chapter 7 The Economy 224 Economic Development 224 Commerce and Magazines 238 Rationality and "Science" in America 245 A New American Revolution: Agriculture Becomes "Scientific" 250 Conclusion 267 Chapter 8 Conclusion 269 Appendix 1: Data and Data Sources 279 Core Data on Magazines: Sources 279 Refining the Sample: Distinguishing Magazines from Other Types of Publications 281 Measuring Magazine Attributes 284 Background Data on Magazine Founders 291 Data on Religion 294 Data on Antislavery Associations 301 Data on Social Reform Associations 303 Other Contextual Data 303 Appendix 2: Methods for Quantitative Data Analysis 307 Units of Analysis 307 Chapter 2: The History of American Magazines, 1741-1860 309 Chapter 3: The Material and Cultural Foundations of American Magazines 310 Chapter 4: Launching Magazines 319 Chapter 5: Religion 327 Chapter 6: Social Reform 335 References 343 Index 395
£36.00
Princeton University Press A City Is Not a Computer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shannon Mattern’s new book A City Is Not a Computer holds an important caveat: A city isn’t just a computer. While artists and urbanists have sought to describe it in its messy totality, an oversimplified logic that has reduced urban reality to singular narratives. . .blinds us to its ‘prismatic complexity’. . . . A City Is Not a Computer is, most fundamentally, a push to “inject history and happenstance” into our appreciation of urban life, and a reminder to respect the impossibility of summarizing our messy cities with neat, tidy narratives."---Annie Howard, Metropolis"A City is Not a Computer digs into the data, dashboards, and language that keep people from building better, safer communities. . . . The book reflects the ways a bunch of academic disciplines refract the idea of urbanism, of how to make a city that supports everyone who lives there. . . . Mattern’s deft dissection of metaphors for cities shows that when they’re misguided, they point to a failure not only of imagination but of a city’s ability to carry out its chief function—as a bulwark against disaster."---Adam Rogers, Wired"A powerful perspective on types of intelligence that technocratic visions of smart cities unduly diminish."---Evan Selinger, Los Angeles Review of Books"A City Is Not A Computer puts forth a much needed, audacious argument about the limitations of data-driven, computational thinking currently supported by countless municipalities and ‘smart city’ advocates. Accessible and provocative, Mattern is at her best, succinctly weaving constructively critical insights with wide ranging examples towards an urbanism of wisdom that tempers its focus on efficiencies with environmental justice, social sensitivity, and indigenous knowledge. Truer words have not been spoken when she describes such a city being ‘smarter than any supercomputer.’"---Erick Villagomez, Spacing Canada"A City is Not a Computer by Shannon Mattern is a compact little book that packs a punch when you open its pages. From its eye-catching design to how easy it is to cart around with you, this book is a subtle winner to add to your collection and your scope of knowledge. . . . Overall, this book is an incredible analysis of cities and the lives that influence them, and what should be done when designing and building a city. . . .I highly recommend you pick this book up, whether you wish to further your anthropological knowledge of cities and the lives of urban people in the West or whether you simply wish to think a little bit about how cities and lives interact."---Jenna Collingnon, Western Exteriors"Hard to put down."---John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture Books"A forceful, frequently pointed, and intellectually dense critique of the smart city “orthodoxy” and the ways in which overreliance on technology and computational models “shape, and in many cases profoundly limit, our understanding of and engagement with our cities."---Ray Bert, Civil Engineering Magazine"A bold and inspiring thinker, Mattern is hardly reserved about being done with the orthodox concept of smartness in cities (digital technologies and resulting data) as she shifts her focus to other kinds of urban intelligence. . . . A City is Not a Computer is dense with insight on healing fractures of urban violence with plural knowledge, but Mattern’s ability with words makes for an effortless read. . . . The book leaves the reader pondering: how do we live justly, oppose colonial and capitalist tendencies, and awaken others to plural knowledge that empowers thinking with marginalised human and nonhuman communities in more attuned and less calculated ways than what smart cities allow us?"---Hira Skeikh, AI & Society"This book is important for urban designers and city managers. . . . [A] readable, compact volume." * Choice *
£15.29
Pluto Press ART IN THE AGE OF MASS MEDIA Third Edition
Book SynopsisThe myriad interactions between high and low culture in a postmodern, culturally pluralistic worldTrade Review'Lucid, well documented and argumentative.' Times Literary Supplement 'A vastly entertaining read...undoubtedly one of the best entrees to this area.' The Modern ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Core Terms/Concepts 2. Art Uses Mass Culture 3. The Mass Media Use Art 4. Mechanical Reproduction and the Fine Arts 5. High Culture: Affirmative or Negative? 6. Cultural Pluralism and Post-Modernism 7. Alternatives 8. Art and Mass Media in the 1980s 9. Artists and New Media Technologies 10. War, The Media and Art in the 1990s 11. Conclusion Notes and References Bibliography Index
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queer Print in Europe
Book SynopsisGlyn Davis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven books, including The Richard Dyer Reader (BFI/Bloomsbury, co-edited with Jaap Kooijman, forthcoming 2022), The Living End: A Queer Film Classic (forthcoming, 2022), and Pop Cinema (co-edited with Tom Day, forthcoming 2022). From 2016 to 2019, Glyn was the Project Leader of Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures', a pan-European queer history project funded by HERA and the European Commission (www.crusev.ed.ac.uk).Laura Guy is Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at The Glasgow School of Art, UK. Her research focuses on post-1960s photographic, documentary and print cultures and has recently been published in Third Text, Women: A Cultural Review, Aperture and Frieze. She is editor of Phyllis Christopher, Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-20Trade ReviewQueer Print in Europe presents a timely and necessary analysis of queer printmaking, zines and print culture. It is unique in its use of interviews, its wide-ranging historical and political analysis and its challenge to a rights-based historical teleology common in North American analyses of LGBTQ+ cultural phenomenon. -- Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins, Texas State University, USAThis book represents a vital contribution to the fields of queer history and queer print cultures. It starts from the insistence that queer community relies on the networked circulation of objects, information and ideas. From there, the various chapters explore a range of publications, each exploring how the circulation of printed material since the 1970s has shaped European LGBTQ activism. The collection offers a rich history of European queer print cultures and provides methodologies for future research in the field. -- Sam McBean, Queen Mary University of London, UKDavis and Guy provide a well-organized and thoughtfully selected collection of essays that represent an exciting broadening of the field of queer print culture from its often US-centered perspective. Exploring themes of inclusion/exclusion, connection/debate, past/present, this book offers both scholars and those interested in queer culture an enticing entry into queer worldmaking. In bringing different voices together and exploring a variety of publications, Queer Print in Europe does exactly what these circulated objects did—foster connection and invite further collaboration. -- Alexis Bard Johnson, Curator at ONE Archives, University of Southern California, USATable of ContentsIntroduction, Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews, UK) and Laura Guy (Glasgow School of Art, UK) Part One: Politics of Community Building 1. Silent Voices: The ‘Arabs’ and Gay Liberation in France, Antoine Idier (ESAM, France) 2. ‘Happiness was in the Pages of this Monthly’: The Birth of the Lesbian Press in France and the Fabric of a Space of One’s Own (1976-1990), Ilana Eloit (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 3. Seeking Acceptance or Revolution? An Overview of the First Italian LGBTQ Magazines, 1971-1979, Dario Pasquini (Independent Researcher, Italy) 4. Change Always has to Build: In Conversation with Gail Lewis, Taylor Le Melle (Independent Researcher, the Netherlands) Part Two: Materials and Making 5. The Sexual Revolt in Spain in the 1970s through its Publications: Ideas, Fears and Aesthetics, Alberto Berzosa (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain) and Gracia Trujillo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) 6. Sexual Difference and Queer Subjectivity in Slovak LGBTQ Print Periodicals, Viera Lorencova (Fitchburg State University, USA) 7. Revolt Press, Internationalization and the Development of Gay Markets in Sweden before HIV/AIDS, Thomas Cubbin (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 8. Mietje: In Conversation with Gert Hekma and Mattias Duyves, Benny Nemer (Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Belgium) Part Three: Generational Interactions 9. This Too is Polish Culture: In Conversation with Karol Radziszewski, Aleksandra Gajowy (Independent Researcher, UK) 10. Queer Memory in (re)Constituting and Forgetting the Trans ‘70s in the UK, Nat Raha (University of St Andrews, UK) 11. Encapsulated Time: Generational and Cultural Discrepancies in West German Lesbian Magazines of the 1970s, Janin Afken (Humboldt University, Germany) 12. Lavender Menace Revisited: In Conversation with Sigrid Nielsen, Bob Orr and James Ley, Fiona Anderson (Newcastle University, UK)
£76.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queer Print in Europe
Book SynopsisHow have radical print cultures fostered and preserved queer lived experience from the 1960s to the present? What alternative stories about queer life across Europe can visual material reveal? Queer Print in Europe is the first book devoted to the exploration of queer print cultures in Europe, following the birth of an international gay rights movement in the late 1960s. By unearthing these ephemeral paper documents from archives and personal collections, including materials that have been out of circulation since they were first distributed, this book examines how the production and dissemination of queer print intersected with the emergence of LGBTQ+ activism within specific national contexts. This vital contribution to queer history explores borders and political movements, and the ways in which these materials contributed, through their international circulation, to the creation of a post-national' queer community.Illustrated throughout with examples of manifestos, flyers, pTrade ReviewQueer Print in Europe presents a timely and necessary analysis of queer printmaking, zines and print culture. It is unique in its use of interviews, its wide-ranging historical and political analysis and its challenge to a rights-based historical teleology common in North American analyses of LGBTQ+ cultural phenomenon. -- Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins, Texas State University, USAThis book represents a vital contribution to the fields of queer history and queer print cultures. It starts from the insistence that queer community relies on the networked circulation of objects, information and ideas. From there, the various chapters explore a range of publications, each exploring how the circulation of printed material since the 1970s has shaped European LGBTQ activism. The collection offers a rich history of European queer print cultures and provides methodologies for future research in the field. -- Sam McBean, Queen Mary University of London, UKDavis and Guy provide a well-organized and thoughtfully selected collection of essays that represent an exciting broadening of the field of queer print culture from its often US-centered perspective. Exploring themes of inclusion/exclusion, connection/debate, past/present, this book offers both scholars and those interested in queer culture an enticing entry into queer worldmaking. In bringing different voices together and exploring a variety of publications, Queer Print in Europe does exactly what these circulated objects did—foster connection and invite further collaboration. -- Alexis Bard Johnson, Curator at ONE Archives, University of Southern California, USATable of ContentsIntroduction, Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews, UK) and Laura Guy (Glasgow School of Art, UK) Part One: Politics of Community Building 1. Silent Voices: The ‘Arabs’ and Gay Liberation in France, Antoine Idier (ESAM, France) 2. ‘Happiness was in the Pages of this Monthly’: The Birth of the Lesbian Press in France and the Fabric of a Space of One’s Own (1976-1990), Ilana Eloit (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 3. Seeking Acceptance or Revolution? An Overview of the First Italian LGBTQ Magazines, 1971-1979, Dario Pasquini (Independent Researcher, Italy) 4. Change Always has to Build: In Conversation with Gail Lewis, Taylor Le Melle (Independent Researcher, the Netherlands) Part Two: Materials and Making 5. The Sexual Revolt in Spain in the 1970s through its Publications: Ideas, Fears and Aesthetics, Alberto Berzosa (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain) and Gracia Trujillo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) 6. Sexual Difference and Queer Subjectivity in Slovak LGBTQ Print Periodicals, Viera Lorencova (Fitchburg State University, USA) 7. Revolt Press, Internationalization and the Development of Gay Markets in Sweden before HIV/AIDS, Thomas Cubbin (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 8. Mietje: In Conversation with Gert Hekma and Mattias Duyves, Benny Nemer (Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Belgium) Part Three: Generational Interactions 9. This Too is Polish Culture: In Conversation with Karol Radziszewski, Aleksandra Gajowy (Independent Researcher, UK) 10. Queer Memory in (re)Constituting and Forgetting the Trans ‘70s in the UK, Nat Raha (University of St Andrews, UK) 11. Encapsulated Time: Generational and Cultural Discrepancies in West German Lesbian Magazines of the 1970s, Janin Afken (Humboldt University, Germany) 12. Lavender Menace Revisited: In Conversation with Sigrid Nielsen, Bob Orr and James Ley, Fiona Anderson (Newcastle University, UK)
£24.69
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Crossmappings
Book SynopsisElisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English & American Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and, since 2007, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, USA. She is a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century literature and her books on psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory and visual culture include Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic; The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and its Discontents; Night Passages: Philosophy, Literature and Film; Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema; and Mad Men, Death and the American Dream.Trade ReviewBrilliant essays on the female nude, on images not just of chess games but of chess queens in recent film and television ... full of marvelous and disturbing ideas ... Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Travelling Image Formulas Chapter 1. Facing Defacement. Degas' Portraits of Women Chapter 2. Naked Touch. Disfiguration, Recognition and the Female Nude Chapter 3. Leaving an Imprint. Francesca Woodman's Photographic tableaux vivants Chapter 4. Pop Cinema. Hollywood's Critical Engagement with America's Culture of Consumption Chapter 5. Hitler Goes Pop. Totalitarianism, Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Hollywood Entertainment Chapter 6. Simulations of the Real. Paul McCarthy's Performance Disasters Chapter 7. Wagner's Isolde in Hollywood Chapter 8. Shakespeare's Wire Chapter 9. Queen of Chess. On Serial Reading Part II: Gendering the Uncanny, Imaging Death Chapter 10. The Horror of the Familiar. Freud's Thoughts on Femininity and the Uncanny Chapter 11. Gendering Curiosity. The Double Games of Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and Sophie Calle Chapter 12. The Other Self of the Imagination: Cindy Sherman's Hysterical Performance Chapter 13. Eva Hesse's Spectral Bride and her Uncanny Double Chapter 14. Wounds of Wonder. Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Nabuyoshi Araki Chapter 15. The Fragility of the Quotidien. Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Work with Death Chapter 16. Picasso's War Women Chapter 17. Contending with the Father. Louise Bourgeois and her Aesthetics of Reparation Notes Index
£23.39
University of Toronto Press American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle
Book SynopsisIn American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form the little magazine and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century.Trade Review"[American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle] is a very comprehensive effort, and has something for everyone, from text and interpretation to research tools." -- David M. Sokol * The Journal of American Culture 41.4. *"This is an absorbing account of an overlooked moment in the history of modern periodicals and one that many working in the field will appreciate. It is also a beautifully produced book, with a number of colour plates illustrating some of the curious 'freak periodicals' that helped shape the format and nature of the 'little magazine' for the twentieth century." -- Andrew Thacker * Literature and History *"MacLeod’s book provides a valuable introduction that includes both an overview of this era and a firm justification for its inclusion within the province of scholarly research." -- Elizabeth Meyers Hendrickson, Ohio University * Journal of Magazine Media *"American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siècle is an important historical and cultural study, enriching our understanding of this neglected moment in media and publishing history and opens new avenues for research and inquiry." -- Karen Leick, University of Illinois at Chicago * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"MacLeod’s book is […] a work of profound generosity that has opened up the world of fin de siècle publishing in manifold ways. I, for one, am eternally grateful for her efforts and will be returning to this book again and again over the years as an invaluable research companion. And as an aesthete I will pore over the beautiful reproductions of the pages of these magazines, delighted to own what is one of the most stylish and attractive academic books I have come across." -- Alex Murray, Queen's University Belfast * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION -- Reviving the American Little Magazines of the 1890s PART 1: SOCIAL, MEDIA, AND LITTLE MAGAZINE CONTEXTS CHAPTER 1 -- The Social and Cultural Formation of the Little Magazinist CHAPTER 2 -- Print Revolutions and the Making of the Little Magazine CHAPTER 3 -- The Big Little Magazines and the Evolution of the Genre PART 2: INSIDE THE MAGAZINES CHAPTER 4 -- Fiction: "Literature Staggering Blindfold" CHAPTER 5 -- Poetry: "Literature on "a Drunken Spree" CHAPTER 6 -- Visual Art: "Art Running Amuck through Posterdom" CHAPTER 7 -- Literary Criticism and Editorials: "Every Dog Having His Day in Journalism" CHAPTER 8 -- Social and Political Commentary: "Finding Fault with Things as They Are" CHAPTER 9: Sayings: The Short and Shorter of It AFTERWORD: Little Magazines, Not So Little After All? APPENDIX A: UPDATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITTLE MAGAZINES OF THE 1890S NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY
£59.50
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Édith Piafs Récital 1961
Book SynopsisDavid Looseley is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary French Culture at the University of Leeds, UK. He writes on the popular music, culture and cultural policy of France, including Édith Piaf: A Cultural History (2015), joint winner of the Franco-British Society Literary Prize, and Popular Music in Contemporary France: Authenticity, Politics, Debate (2003). He was contributing editor (with Diana Holmes) of Imagining the Popular in Contemporary French Culture (2013). He is Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 .Imagining Piaf 2. The Recital 3. The Record (1) 4. The Record (2) 5. Authenticity, Art, Memory, Stardom Conclusions: Piaf Today References Notes Index
£16.14
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture
Book SynopsisLatin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. It charts how the term Latinize was introduced to connect Franceâs early 19th-century endeavors to create Latin Americaâan expansion of the French empire into the Latin-language speaking Spanish and Portuguese Americasâto its perception of the people who lived there. Elites who traveled to Paris from their newly independent nations in the 1840s were denigrated in visual media, rather than depicted as equals in a developing global economy. Darkened skin, brushed onto images of Latin Americans of European descent, mitigated their ability to claim the privileges of their ancestral heritage; whitened skin, among other codes, imposed on depictions of Black Latin Americans denied their Blackness and rendered them relatively assimilatable compared to colonial Africans, Black people from the Caribbean, Trade ReviewLyneise E. Williams makes an insightful contribution to the limited art historical scholarship on the representation of Black Latin Americans in Parisian visual media. * Early Popular Visual Culture *Lyneise E. Williams uses the city of Paris to analyze the evolution of the Western representation of Afro-Latinos, who became more and more present in the French landscape at the end of the 19th century because of the colonies in African and the Caribbean, among others. The author analyzes how this presence was received and studies the influence of the latter on the vision that Westerners had of foreigners, returning to the figures of Alfonso Teofilo Brown, Pedro Figari and Rafael Padilla. The complex subjects of race and representation are addressed here by the through an approach that is both historical and contemporary, making it possible to understand the discrimination observed in Parisian visual culture, in art, but also in the business world, with communication tools loaded with socially accepted racism. * Critique d’art *Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 is intellectually ambitious, providing a clear, readable, and well-researched view of a subject almost completely missing from the art historical literature on Parisian modernism: the representation of Black Latin Americans. This book thus crucially adds to a vital literature within modernism studies that considers the relationship of French culture—roughly the center of the art world in the modernist period—to colonized Africa and the African Diaspora. Williams takes up complex subjects of race and racial categories with elegance and clarity, and her acute discussions of particular works anchor these more general discussions in visual immediacy. Starting with a highly engaging consideration of representations of Latinized Blackness, she establishes a clear baseline of assumptions about this hybrid group—and Latin Americans in general—in French popular culture and modernist art. -- Patricia Leighten, Professor Emerita, Duke University, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Term “Latin American” Why Paris? Much More Than Primitivism Reduced to Latin Americans Parisian Figurations of Blackness from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century Overview of the Study Chapter 1: Playing Up Blackness and Indianness; Downplaying Europeanness Editing Francisco Laso: Racializing Spanish and Portuguese Americans Performing Rastaquerismo Justified by Anthropology: Quatrefages, Hamy, and the Casta Paintings Latin American Self-Representation The Shifting Rastaquouère Maintaining Anthropological Interpretations in the Early Twentieth Century Conclusion Chapter 2: Chocolat the Clown: Not Just Black Chocolat and Footit: Partners in Contrast The Auguste Chocolat The Give and Take of Chocolat and Footit Chocolat and Footit at the Nouveau Cirque Chocolat as Brand Image Beneath the Surface Chocolat as Mixed Animal Chocolat the Contaminant Impure Chocolat(e) Chocolat, That Special Ingredient: The Racially Mixed Object of Desire Complicating Notions of Minstrelsy Lip Interventions Representations Through Clothing Sexualizing Black Dandies Assimilating the Latin Beyond the Circus Chocolat, Object of Gay Desire Chocolat and the Elite and the Virile Conclusion Chapter 3: Alfonso Teofilo Brown: Agency and Impositions of Blackness and Europeanness Sport and the Imagined Ideal Male Body Black Boxers in Turn-of-the-Century France Gangly Brown The Purity and Hybridity of Gangly Brown Brown the Gentleman Images of Black Difference Brown the Philanthropist Conclusion Chapter 4: Figari’s Blacks: Negotiating French and Southern Cone Blackness Figari and Paris Contested Whiteness and the Black Body Conceptualizing Regional Identity Through the Anthropological Gaze Candombe as Framing Device Gender and Race in Candombe Objects as Markers Figari as “Naïf” Painter Increasing Latin American Presence in Paris Perceptions of Black Uruguayans Figari’s Evolution in Paris Contradictions and Contrasts between Figari’s Paintings and Written Work Conclusion Coda Select Bibliography
£24.69
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Gutenberg Parenthesis
Book SynopsisPROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present and draws out lessons for the age to come.The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority of the printed word. As a technology, print at its birth was as disruptive as the digital migration of today. Now, as the internet ushers us past print culture, journalist Jeff Jarvis offers important lessons from the era we leave behind.To understand our transition out of the Gutenberg Age, Jarvis first examines the transition into it. Tracking Western industrialized print to its origins, he explores its invention, spread, and evolution, as well as the bureaucracy and censorship that followed. He also reveals how print gave rise to the idea of the mass mass media, mass markeTrade ReviewAn accomplished and detailed survey of life between the brackets. * Wall Street Journal *A refreshingly sanguine take. -- Houman Barekat * The Guardian *Provocative and fizzing with ideas. -- Alan Rusbridger * Prospect *The Gutenberg Parenthesis follows the development of printing and its impact on society right up to the present day … Jarvis’s tempo is … fast and compelling, sweeping the reader along from Gutenberg to the present digital predicament facing society. -- Richard Ovenden * Financial Times *Jeff Jarvis is the ideal guide for this fast-paced history of communication. Shrewd, witty and always generous to his fellow authors, this book is crammed with pointed observation and profound reflection on the present and future of information culture. As print transitions to the digital age, Jarvis explores the potentialities and dangers of unbridled access to information as a realist who sees a path to sanity as our media turbulence finds a new normal. * Andrew Pettegree, Wardlaw Professor of History, University of St. Andrews, UK *Puts a sharp focus on how journalism will evolve in the digital age. * It's All Journalism *Jeff Jarvis magisterially charts how the invention of printing shifted power from individuals and communities to experts and the undifferentiated 'masses,' and then brilliantly shows how the internet is reversing this half-millenium shift. Information in print became a controlled commodity with enforced scarcity that reinforced language and institutional borders and power. Initially extending the reach of thought, printing shaped that thought; the medium became the message, on steroids. Digital now makes possible and even insists upon richer, less controlled exchange of ideas, including fakes. What we need, Jarvis makes clear, is not censorship of our chaotic global conversation but clear goals, guardrails, and institutions to ensure inclusion, accuracy, and privacy. We are all facing this together, and are now all on notice to take up Jarvis' challenge. * Anthony Marx, President and CEO, New York Public Library *Jeff Jarvis’ The Gutenberg Parenthesis invites disenchanted media users to scour the history of print for lessons that may help us build a better future for media. No one has thought as nimbly as Jarvis about how communications shape societies, and his polemic gives hope for these disenchanted times. * Leah Price, Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of English, Rutgers University, USA *Table of ContentsPart I. THE GUTENBERG PARENTHESIS 1. The Parenthesis 2. Print’s Presumptions 3. Trepidation Part II. INSIDE THE PARENTHESIS 4. What Came Before 5. How to Print 6. Gutenberg 7. After the Bible 8. Print Spreads 9. The Troubles 10. Creation with Print 11. The Birth of the Newspaper 12. Print Evolves: Until 1800 13. Aesthetics of Print 14. Steam and the Mechanization of Print 15. Electricity and the Industrialization of Media 16. The Meaning of It All Part III. LEAVING THE PARENTHESIS 17. Conversation vs. Content 18. Death to the Mass 19. Creativity and Control 20. Institutional Revolutions Afterword: And What of the Book? Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index Colophon
£19.00
University of Minnesota Press The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of
Book SynopsisThe history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used.Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information.Robertson’s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an “automatic memory” machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women’s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world.Trade Review"How we store information reflects the aspirations we have about what to remember. Taking this idea to heart, Craig Robertson's essential history of the filing cabinet is the definitive account of verticality and efficiency as guiding principles for corporate capitalism."—Melissa Gregg, senior principal engineer, Client Computing Group, Intel"Craig Robertson’s book offers a fascinating account of how the humble file cabinet and the associated practice of filing shaped the emergence of modern conceptions of information. These influences continue to reverberate—from the organization of our computer desktops to our assumptions about ‘information’ as a discrete entity that can be stored, manipulated, and retrieved. A significant contribution to media studies and information studies."—Jennifer S. Light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*"In this fascinating history, Craig Robertson shows how a seemingly mundane thing was central to the rise of modern bureaucracies, information society, and the gendered relations of office labor. Wonderfully researched and full of surprises, The Filing Cabinet explores an object and a system that orchestrated new ways of knowing, remembering, and experiencing the world."—Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University "[The filing cabinet] worked to blur the past into the present with active storage; and the future into the present by encouraging forethought. The Filing Cabinet would be particularly helpful for researchers who want to write about media materialism without getting lost in the minutiae of model numbers."—LSE Review of Books "[Robertson’s] prowess for raiding an archive is formidable, and he has a talent for cherry-picking unusual details."—Washington Examiner "Captivating . . . the filing cabinet, despite its deep roots in our contemporary information architecture, is just one step in our epistemological journey, not its end."—The Atlantic "Timely, incisive, and impressively imaginative."—The New Rambler "If you’re a reader who relishes the unconventional, if you’ve pondered arcane subjects at odd times, or if you want a conversation-breaker at the water cooler, find The Filing Cabinet. Yep, this is the book you need now."—Idaho Press "Robertson persuasively sets out the ways in which domestic furniture and organising practices were reshaped to mirror those found in offices."—Literary Review "A useful and thought-provoking text for those of us dependent on the filing cabinet and the subsequent technologies they inspire, this book deserves a wider readership in both the art historical and cultural studies fields."—College & Research Libraries "Robertson eloquently describes the historical account of the filing cabinet."—International Journal of Communication "Robertson deconstructs and situates the filing cabinet in its historical contexts of use, with the support of a rich apparatus of beautiful images."—H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsContentsPreface: Discovering the Power of the Filing CabinetIntroduction: Making Paper Work EfficientlyPart 1. The Cabinet1. Verticality: A Skyscraper for the Office2. Integrity: A Steel Container for Paper3. Cabinet Logic: A Structure for Efficiency and Information Part II. Filing4. Granular Certainty: Bringing System to the Office5. Automatic Filing: Delegating Memory to a Machine6. The Ideal File Clerk: Controlling Work in the Office7. Planned Storage: Domesticating Cabinet LogicAfterword: File Cabinets, Out of Time and Out of PlaceAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£80.00
University of Minnesota Press The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of
Book SynopsisThe history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used.Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information.Robertson’s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an “automatic memory” machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women’s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world.Trade Review"How we store information reflects the aspirations we have about what to remember. Taking this idea to heart, Craig Robertson's essential history of the filing cabinet is the definitive account of verticality and efficiency as guiding principles for corporate capitalism."—Melissa Gregg, senior principal engineer, Client Computing Group, Intel"Craig Robertson’s book offers a fascinating account of how the humble file cabinet and the associated practice of filing shaped the emergence of modern conceptions of information. These influences continue to reverberate—from the organization of our computer desktops to our assumptions about ‘information’ as a discrete entity that can be stored, manipulated, and retrieved. A significant contribution to media studies and information studies."—Jennifer S. Light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*"In this fascinating history, Craig Robertson shows how a seemingly mundane thing was central to the rise of modern bureaucracies, information society, and the gendered relations of office labor. Wonderfully researched and full of surprises, The Filing Cabinet explores an object and a system that orchestrated new ways of knowing, remembering, and experiencing the world."—Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University "[The filing cabinet] worked to blur the past into the present with active storage; and the future into the present by encouraging forethought. The Filing Cabinet would be particularly helpful for researchers who want to write about media materialism without getting lost in the minutiae of model numbers."—LSE Review of Books "[Robertson’s] prowess for raiding an archive is formidable, and he has a talent for cherry-picking unusual details."—Washington Examiner "Captivating . . . the filing cabinet, despite its deep roots in our contemporary information architecture, is just one step in our epistemological journey, not its end."—The Atlantic "Timely, incisive, and impressively imaginative."—The New Rambler "If you’re a reader who relishes the unconventional, if you’ve pondered arcane subjects at odd times, or if you want a conversation-breaker at the water cooler, find The Filing Cabinet. Yep, this is the book you need now."—Idaho Press "Robertson persuasively sets out the ways in which domestic furniture and organising practices were reshaped to mirror those found in offices."—Literary Review "A useful and thought-provoking text for those of us dependent on the filing cabinet and the subsequent technologies they inspire, this book deserves a wider readership in both the art historical and cultural studies fields."—College & Research Libraries "Robertson eloquently describes the historical account of the filing cabinet."—International Journal of Communication "Robertson deconstructs and situates the filing cabinet in its historical contexts of use, with the support of a rich apparatus of beautiful images."—H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsContentsPreface: Discovering the Power of the Filing CabinetIntroduction: Making Paper Work EfficientlyPart 1. The Cabinet1. Verticality: A Skyscraper for the Office2. Integrity: A Steel Container for Paper3. Cabinet Logic: A Structure for Efficiency and Information Part II. Filing4. Granular Certainty: Bringing System to the Office5. Automatic Filing: Delegating Memory to a Machine6. The Ideal File Clerk: Controlling Work in the Office7. Planned Storage: Domesticating Cabinet LogicAfterword: File Cabinets, Out of Time and Out of PlaceAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£21.59
Sage Publications Ltd The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy
Book SynopsisDebates about the digital media economy are at the heart of media and communication studies. An increasingly digitalised and datafied media environment has implications for every aspect of the field, from ownership and production, to distribution and consumption. The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy offers students, researchers and policy-makers a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary scholarship relating to the intersection of the digital economy and the media, cultural, and creative industries. It provides an overview of the major areas of debate, and conceptual and methodological frameworks, through chapters written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspective. PART 1: Key Concepts PART 2: Methodological Approaches PART 3: Media Industries of the Digital Economy PART 4: Geographies of the Digital Economy PART 5: Law, Governance and PolicyTable of ContentsEditors’ Introduction: Positioning the Digital Media Economy - Terry Flew, Jennifer Holt, Julian Thomas PART I: Key Concepts Chapter 1: Global Internet Governance in a Post-Global Age - Terry Flew Chapter 2: Platforms and Platformization - David Niebor, Thomas Poell & Jose van Dijck Chapter 3: Meta: A Short Meditation on "Media Economics" - Sandra Braman Chapter 4: Audiences/Users/Publics - Philip Napoli Chapter 5: The Automated Media Economy - Julian Thomas & Samuel Kininmonth PART II: Methodological Approaches Chapter 6: Labour and Work in the Digital Media Economy: Emerging Debates and Future Directions - Leung Wing-Fai Chapter 7: “What Is Your Business Model?”: A Critical Genealogy of the Business Model as Concept and Methodology - Greg Steirer Chapter 8: Infrastructuring in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives on Tourism, Media and Development - Jolynna Sinanan, Heather A. Horst & Romitesh Kant Chapter 9: Digital Media Economy Through a Disability Lens - Bill Kirkpatrick PART III: Media Industries of the Digital Economy Chapter 10: Streaming Platforms and the Frontiers of Digital Distribution: ‘Unique Content Regions’ on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ - Oliver Eklund Chapter 11: Stranger Things Have Happened: Netflix Pivots to Embedded Commodification - Denis Mann Chapter 12: Steam Clouds and Game Streams: Unboxing the “Future” of Gaming - Alenda Chang & Jeff Watson Chapter 13: Live at the App: The Economics, Platforms, and Technologies of Livestreamed Music - Jeremy Morris Chapter 14: Economic and Existential Challenges Facing Journalism - Caroline Fisher & Sora Park Chapter 15: Understanding the Digital Publishing Economy: From eBook Disruption to Platform Ecosystem - Xiang Ren PART IV: Geographies of the Digital Economy Chapter 16: Going Beyond the Digital Divide Debate: Critical Reflections on the African Digital Media-Economy Matrix - Bruce Mutsvairo & Last Moyo Chapter 17: Chinese Platform Economy Sans Frontières: Case Studies from Australia - Haiqing Yu Chapter 18: Expanding Horizons of Media Bazaars: Topography of the DME in India - Vibodh Parthasarathi & Preeti Raghunath Chapter 19: Public Service Media in the Digital Economy: A View from the EU - Hilde Van den Bulck Chapter 20: Beyond Revolutions, Digital Media Economy in the Middle East: Continuing Legacies and Emerging Disjunctures - Joe F. Khalil Chapter 21: Solidaristic Formations among Cloud Workers in the Platform Economy: Entrepreneurial Logics with Resistant Identities - Cheryll Ruth Soriano & Jason Vincent Cabanes PART V: Law, Governance and Policy Chapter 22: Competition, Monopoly, and Antitrust Issues - Robert Picard Chapter 23: Regulation for a More Democratic Internet: Lessons from 19th & 20th Centuries Antitrust and Communications Regulation - Dwayne Winseck & Keldon Bester Chapter 24: Global Playgrounds: Young People, Digital Citizenship and Loot Boxes - Angela Daly, Darshana Jayemanne & David McMenemy Chapter 25: From Protocols to Platforms: The Changing Face of Online Piracy - James Meese Chapter 26: Policy Futures for Digital Platforms - Terry Flew Chapter 27: Global Internet Governance and the Digital Media Economy - Seamus Simpson
£114.00
Bristol University Press Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect
Book SynopsisThis book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. Drawing on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum-seeking from the Global North, the book sheds light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of positive collective change. In the face of increasing precariousness and the wake of intersecting global crises, Khorana calls for uncovering the potential of these affects in order to build new forms of care and solidarities across differences.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Feelings and Migrants Come and Go, and Some Stay/Stick Part 1: Empathy 1. Witnessing as an Expression of Critical Empathy: An Examination of Audience Responses to a Refugee-Themed Documentary 2. Jacinda Ardern and the Politics of Leadership Empathy: Towards Emotional Communities of Transformation Part 2: Aspiration 3. Asian Americans and Asian Australians on Screen: Aspiring to Centre the Community through Comedy 4. Aspiration for Collective Progress: Diversity and Digital Intimacy as Practised by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (US), Sadiq Khan (UK), and Jagmeet Singh (Canada) Part 3: Belonging 5. Refugee Storytellers Claim Belonging: Agency, Community and Change Through the Arts 6. Belonging as Affect: Towards Paradigms for Reciprocal Care in Community-Based Research Conclusion: Care and Resilience in The Face of Increasing Precarity: COVID-19 and Beyond
£72.00
Bristol University Press Reflections on Post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe's
Book SynopsisThe world has changed dramatically since the emergence of post-Marxism, and a reassessment is needed to determine its significance in the modern world. First published as a special issue of Global Discourse, this book explores the theoretical position of post-Marxism and investigates its significance in recent global political developments such as Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right. With valuable insights from international contributors across a range of disciplines, the book puts forward a strong case for the continuing relevance of post-Marxism and, particularly, for Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s theory of radical democracy.Table of Contents1. New Introduction – Stuart Sim 2. Democracy beyond hegemony – Mark Purcell 3. Reply: Democracy without hegemony: a reply to Mark Purcell – Ronaldo Munck 4. The post-Marxist Gramsci – James Martin 5. Reply: The post-Marxist Gramsci: a reply to James Martin – Georges Van Den Abbeele 6. The limits of post-Marxism: the (dis)function of political theory in film and cultural studies – Paul Bowman 7. Reply: The limits of post-Marxism: the (dis)function of political theory in film and cultural studies: a reply to Paul Bowman – Andrew Rowcroft 8. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe: the evolution of post-Marxism – Philip Goldstein 9. Reply: Laclau and Mouffe’s blind spots: a reply to Goldstein – Philippe Fournier 10. Enriching discourse theory: the discursive-material knot as a non-hierarchical ontology – Nico Carpentier 11. Reply: Enriching discourse theory: the discursive-material knot as a non- hierarchical ontology: a reply to Nico Carpentier – Mads Ejsing & Lars Tønder 12. From domination to emancipation and freedom: reading Ernesto Laclau’s post- Marxism in conjunction with Philip Pettit’s neo-republicanism – Gulshan Khan 13. Reply: From domination to emancipation and freedom: reading Ernesto Laclau’s post-Marxism in conjunction with Philip Pettit’s neo-republicanism: a reply to Gulshan Khan – Andreas Ottemo 14. Spectres of post-Marxism? Reassessing key post-Marxist texts – Stuart Sim 15. Reply: Spectres of post-Marxism? Reassessing key post-Marxist texts: a reply to Stuart Sim – Richard Howson 16. Forget populism! – Frank A. Stengel
£72.25
Wits University Press Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994: Writing an
Book SynopsisThe Cuban people hold a special place in the hearts of the people of Africa. The Cuban internationalists have made a contribution to African independence, freedom, and justice, unparalleled for its principled and selfless character.As Nelson Mandela states, Cuba was a key participant in the struggle for the independence of African countries during the Cold War and the definitive ousting of colonialism from the continent. Beyond the military interventions that played a decisive role in shaping African political history, there were many-sided engagements between the island and the continent. Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994 is the story of tens of thousands of individuals who crossed the Atlantic as doctors, scientists, soldiers, students and artists. Each chapter presents a case study - from Algeria to Angola, from Equatorial Guinea to South Africa - and shows how much of the encounter between Cuba and Africa took place in non-militaristic fields: humanitarian and medical, scientific and educational, cultural and artistic.The historical experience and the legacies documented in this book speak to the major ideologies that shaped the colonial and postcolonial world, including internationalism, developmentalism and South-South cooperation.Approaching African-Cuban relations from a multiplicity of angles, this collection will appeal to an equally wide range of readers, from scholars in black Atlantic studies to cultural theorists and general readers with an interest in contemporary African history.Table of Contents Figures and Table Foreword Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Timeline of Historical Events Map of Africa, 1994 Introduction: Reconfiguring the Cuba-Africa Encounter PART I: Politics and Solidarity Chapter 1 Cubans in Algiers. The Political Uses of Memory Chapter 2 Cuban policy and African Politics. Congo-Brazzaville and Angola, 1963-1977 Chapter 3 Motivations and Legacies of the Cuban Presence in Equatorial Guinea from 1969 to the Present Chapter 4 Cuban internationalism in Africa. Civil Cooperation with Angola and its Aftermath PART II: Trajectories Chapter 5 The Experience of a Multidisciplinary Research into Angola’s National Question: Anthropology in a War Context Chapter 6 Cuban-Congolese Families: From the Fizi-Baraka underground to Havana PART III: Voices Chapter 7 Atlantic Voices: Imagination and Sound Dialogue between Congolese and Cuban singers in the 1950s Chapter 8 Cultural Diplomacy in the Cold War: Musical Dialogues between Cuba and West Africa, 1960-1970 PART IV: Reconstructing History, Reconnecting Roots Chapter 9 The Construction of a Spiritual Filiation from Havana to Ilé-Ifé Chapter 10 The Island, the Peninsula, and the Continent: Cuban American Engagements with Africa li> Contributors Index
£27.00
Wits University Press Public Intellectuals in South Africa: Critical
Book SynopsisEdward Said described a public intellectual as someone who uses accessible language to address a designated public on matters of social and political significance. The essays in Public Intellectuals in South Africa apply this interpretive prism and activist principle to a South African context and tell the stories of well-known figures as well as some that have been mostly forgotten. They include Magema Fuze, John Dube, Aggrey Klaaste, Mewa Ramgobin and Koos Roets, alongside marginalised figures such as Elijah Makiwane, Mandisi Sindo, William Pretorius and Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees. The essays capture the thoughts and opinions of these historical figures, who the contributors argue are public intellectuals who spoke out against the corruption of power, promoted a progressive politics that challenged the colonial project and its legacies, and encouraged a sustained dissent of the political status quo. Offering fascinating accounts of the life and work of these writers, critics and activists across a range of historical contexts and disciplines, from journalism and arts criticism to history and politics, it enriches the historical record of South African public intellectual life. This volume makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates about the value of research in the arts and humanities, and what constitutes public intellectualism in South Africa.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Prismatic Nature of Public Intellectualism — Chris Broodryk Chapter 1 Recalibrating the Deep History of Intellectual Thought in the KwaZulu-Natal Region — Carolyn Hamilton Chapter 2 Elijah Makiwane and Early Black South African Public Intellectualism — Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo Chapter 3 Black Art Criticism in The Bantu World during the 1930s — Pfunzo Sidogi Chapter 4 In Conversation with the Nation: Sowetan’s Maverick Editor Aggrey Klaaste — Lesley Cowling Chapter 5 William Pretorius and the Public Intellectualism of the Film Critic — Chris Broodryk Chapter 6 Cultural Policy and the Arts: Mewa Ramgobin and Public Dialogue — Keyan G. Tomaselli Chapter 7 ‘Kaalgat Critique’: The Public Intellectualism of Koos Roets as Afrikaans Satirist — Anna-Marié Jansen van Vuuren Chapter 8 The Public Intellectualism of Artivist Mandisi Sindo — Katlego Chale Chapter 9 The Janus-Faced Public Intellectual: Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees at the Institute for Imbecile Children, 1895–1907 — Rory du Plessis Contributors Index
£23.13
Oneworld Publications Democracy and Its Crisis
Book SynopsisThe EU referendum in the UK and Trump’s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters. First he considers those moments in history when the challenges we face today were first encountered and what solutions were found. Then he lays bare the specific threats facing democracy today. The paperback edition includes new material on the reforms that are needed to make our system truly democratic.Trade Review‘Grayling incisively surveys attempts by Western thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle to Madison and Tocqueville, to resolve what he calls the “dilemma of democracy”: the tension between the belief that power belongs ultimately to the people, and the desire for stable and humane government.’ * Wall Street Journal *‘We are mystified, alarmed, even frightened by the cascade of events that beset our world. A. C. Grayling not only clarifies the way in which these events are challenging the workings of democracy – amid the rise in populism in response – but comes up with solutions.’ -- Jon Snow, journalist and broadcaster‘A. C. Grayling applies his great intellectual prowess to the most pressing issue of our times – the subversion of modern democracies by dark money, corporate power, Big Data, social media and fractured political party systems. Utterly brilliant. Urgently needed. A book for NOW.’ * Helena Kennedy, QC *‘A compelling and deeply unsettling dissection of the way in which democratic principles have been subverted by vested interests in the UK and the USA. This book shows that democracy can only be defended if we first understand how it is being attacked.’ -- Nick Clegg, former Deputy Prime Minister‘A compelling book worthy of being shelved alongside the Federalist Papers and Two Treatises of Government.’ * Kirkus *‘A concise, clear and challenging survey of the history of democracy, its recent failures and how we might repair it.’ * Shelf Awareness *
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Liverpool University Press Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the
Book SynopsisIntimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon analyzes the ways in which the Amazon has been represented in twentieth century cultural production. With contributions by scholars working in Latin America, the US and Europe, Intimate Frontiers reads against the grain commonly held notions about the region -its gigantism, its richness, its exceptionality, among other- choosing to approach these rather from quotidian, everyday experiences of a more intimate nature. The multinational, pluriethnic corpus of texts critically examined here, explores a wide range of cultural artifacts including travelogues, diaries, and novels about the rubber boom genocide, as well as indigenous oral histories, documentary films, and photography about the region. The different voices gathered in this book show that the richness of the Amazon lays not in its natural resources or opportunities for economic exploit, but in the richness of its histories/stories in the form of songs, oral histories, images, material culture, and texts.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Intimate Frontiers Javier Uriarte and Felipe Martinez-Pinzon 2. The Jungle Like a Sunday at Home': Rafael Uribe Uribe, Miguel Triana and the Nationalization of the Amazon Felipe Martinez-Pinzon 3. Hildebrando Fuentes's Peruvian Amazon: National Integration and Capital in the Jungle Cristobal Cardemil-Krauze 4. Contested Frontiers: On Cartographical Knowledge and Power in Euclides da Cunha's Amazonian Texts Cinthya Torres 5. Splendid testemunhos': Bodily Pain and Pleasure in Roger Casement's Black Diaries Javier Uriarte 6. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The cauchero of the Amazonian Rubber Groves Leopoldo M. Bernucci 7. Endless Stories: Perspectivism and Narrative Form in Native Amazonian Literature Lucia Sa 8. `Malarial Philosophy': the Modernist Amazonia of Mario de Andrade Andre Botelho and Nisia Trindade Lima 9. The Politics of Vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas's Mal de gente Lesley Wylie 10. Filming Modernity in the Tropics: the Amazon, Walt Disney, and the Antecedents of Modernization Theory Barbara Weinstein 10. The `Western Baptism' of Yurupary: Reception and Rewriting of an Amazonian Foundational Myth Rike Bolte 11. "Photography, Inoperative Ethnography, Naturalism: On Sharon Lockhart's Amazon Project" Alejandro Quin 12. Nostalgia and Mourning in Milton Hatoum's Orfaos do Eldorado Charlotte Rogers
£82.12
UCL Press On Boredom: Essays in Art and Writing
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UCL Press Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life
Book SynopsisAgeing with Smartphones in Ireland explores the use of smartphones by the middle-aged to ageing population in Ireland and argues how the phone has become a way for people to feel younger.
£42.75
UCL Press Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and
Book SynopsisAgeing with Smartphones in Urban Italy explores ageing and technology amidst a backdrop of rapid global technological innovation, including mHealth (mobile health) and smart cities.
£23.75
UCL Press Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and
Book SynopsisAgeing with Smartphones in Urban Italy explores ageing and technology amidst a backdrop of rapid global technological innovation, including mHealth (mobile health) and smart cities.
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UCL Press Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil: A Work
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Emerald Publishing Limited Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online
Book SynopsisThe face of internet celebrity is rapidly diversifying and evolving. Online and mainstream celebrity culture are now weaving together, such that breakout stars from one-hit viral videos are able to turn their transient fame into a full-time career. This book presents a framework for thinking about the different forms of internet celebrity that have emerged over the last decade, taking examples from the Global North and South, to consolidate key ideas about cultures of online fame. It discusses the overall landscape, developments and trends in the internet celebrity economy, and cross-cultural lessons.Trade ReviewThis book examines contemporary internet celebrity and fame, with examples from China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, England, Sweden, and the US and platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, and YouTube. It explains what internet celebrity is, including its history; the qualities of internet celebrity, focusing on exclusivity, exoticism, exceptionalism, and everydayness; the relationship between internet celebrity and traditional media, with discussion of common types of internet celebrity (viral stars, meme personalities, spotted and groomed investments, crowd-puller cameos, and weaponized microcelebrity); and influencers and the influencer industry. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsChapter 1. What is an Internet Celebrity any way? Chapter 2. Qualities of Internet Celebrity Chapter 3. Internet Celebrity and Traditional Media Chapter 4. From Internet Celebrities to Influencers
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Emerald Publishing Limited The Quirks of Digital Culture
Book SynopsisThe culture we consume is increasingly delivered to us via various digital on-demand platforms. The last decade has seen platforms like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Google and the like become massive players in shaping cultural consumption. But how can we understand culture once it moves on to big tech platforms? How can we make sense of the changes this brings to our lives? These platforms have the power to shape our cultural landscape and to use data, algorithms and other technological means to shape our experiences, from what we remember through to what we know and even the speed and accessibility of culture. This book asks how can we understand the chaos and messiness of on-demand culture? Beer suggests that we focus on the quirks and use these as openings to see inside patterns and dynamics of these new cultural formations. By exploring the strange quirks that typify our new on-demand culture, this book seeks to answer these questions. The Quirks of Digital Culture is a guide to understanding the complex and unsettling cultural present, whilst also casting an eye on how our consumption and cultural experiences may unfold in what seems like an unpredictable future.Trade Review'One of Britain's sharpest observers of the internet' -- Peter Pomerantsev, Senior Fellow, LSE and the Author of 'Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Adventures in Modern Russia'As digital culture has been lifted on to media platforms, everyday experiences are full of quirks, says Beer, and often unnoticed, these quirks accumulate and occupy daily experiences. He suggests that it is possible that they can be the means by which people come, in aggregate, to know the world and to have sense of their place in it. He deals with just a few of those quirks, only scratching the surface, he says, only touching upon the underpinning patterns and dynamics. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *"By revealing the intricacies and complexities of contemporary culture, this book opens up new ways to understand and interpret everyday experiences and does so in a way that is accessible even in today’s attention-poor environment. In a nutshell, this is a highly recommended book." -- LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsChapter 1. On-demand Culture and its Quirks Chapter 2. The Order of Things Chapter 3. Total Recall: The Past, Present and Future Chapter 4. The Comforts and Discomforts of Connection Chapter 5. The Demands of On-demand Culture
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Bonnier Books Ltd Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and
Book Synopsis'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented. She had her first blog at twelve, a successful music website at fifteen, a Wikipedia page at seventeen and now, at thirty, over 80,000 followers on Twitter. From MSN, Tumblr and MySpace, to chat rooms, forums and blogs; Marie is part of the millennial generation that grew up while the internet was growing up with them.Where did it go all wrong? How did the internet go from a place where you went to escape real life to where real life is shaped? A place where you could be yourself and find like-minded people to a world of filters and ads? A place we are all now desperately trying to escape from?Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the platforms, the people and the online places. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, how the internet has changed us - and a celebration of the tools it gives us to feel less alone. The online generation have forever altered the world we live in, but is the internet still a place for the people that shaped it?Trade Review'Marie Le Conte is one of the most compelling thinkers we have on the internet age and what it's doing to us. She's truly lived it, and her scars are memorably and fascinatingly described in Escape.' -- WILL STORR'A great dissection of how the internet fundamentally messed up the generations.' -- MOLLIE GOODFELLOW'A sharply intelligent, funny and necessary look at how the internet is affecting us all. Whether you're extremely online or hate Twitter (or both), this is a fascinating read.' -- STEVIE MARTIN'Marie Le Conte is the voice of the generation. Escape is exposing, enthralling and deeply personal reading for all of us who grew up online. Capturing the joy and pain of teenage angst against the freedom and horror of the World Wide Web, this book is urgent reading for anyone trying to understand their own past, and the internet's future.' -- FERN RIDDELL'An enjoyable book that hits on an interesting question.' * Financial Times *'A thoughtful book' * New Scientist *'[Escape] reads like a long and clever email from a friend' * The Canberra Times *'Escape is a smart and funny analysis of a very modern phenomenon.' * New Humanist *
£14.44
Bonnier Books Ltd Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and
Book SynopsisJournalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was made publicly available. She had her first blog at 12, a successful music website at 16 and, at 31, has just under 100,000 followers on Twitter. She spent her formative years on MSN, MySpace, Tumblr and forums; like many people her age, she grew up online as the internet itself was growing up. It was a joy until it wasn't - where did it all go wrong?How did the internet go from a haven you hid in to escape real life to a place where real life is shaped? A space where you could be yourself and find like-minded people to a world sullied by bad algorithms, annoying brands and endless trolling? When did it become the place we're all trying to run away from?Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the people and platforms that came and went before everything started collapsing. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, and a celebration of the tools it gave us to feel less alone.
£8.99
Berghahn Books On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History
Book Synopsis “A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures…”—L’Arche In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of Liepaja, Nazi death squads (the Einsatzgruppen) and local collaborators murdered in three days more than 2,700 Jews. The majority were women and children, most men having already been shot during the summer. The perpetrators took pictures of the December killings. These pictures are among the rare photographs from the first period of the extermination, during which over 800 000 Jews from the Baltic to the Black Sea were shot to death. By showing the importance of photography in understanding persecution, Nadine Fresco offers a powerful meditation on these images while confronting the essential questions of testimony and guilt. From the forward by Dorota Glowackay: Straddling the boundary between historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many well-known images: synagogues and Torah scrolls burning on the night of Kristallnacht; deportations to the ghettos and the camps; and, finally, mass executions in the killing fi elds of Eastern Europe. The unique set of photographs included in On the Death of Jews shows groups of women and children from Liepaja (Liepája), shortly before they were killed in December 1941 in the dunes of Shkede (Škéde) on the Baltic Sea. In the last photograph of the series, we see the victims’ bodies tumbling into the pit.Trade Review Praise for the French and Polish editions: “A great and shattering book.” • Jan T. Gross “Emotion, sensitivity, and suffering are not the enemies of precision or historical rigor and can sometimes make it more substantial, even more accurate. This is what Nadine Fresco manages to do with strength and brilliance, through a steady effort of writing, in this moving book.” • Politis “A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures, in which the progressive revelation of the truth is reminiscent of Daniel Mendelssohn’s The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.” • L’Arche “Around the pain, the anguish, the astonishment, the shame, the refusal to see, Nadine Fresco, with all her resources as a historian, delicately undertakes to build a shelter made of arguments, research on facts, deeds, and words. She envelops the horror while revealing it, and she shelters past sufferings as well as the one she awakens in the reader.” • La Quinzaine littéraire “Fresco skillfully guides us from the flat surface of photography to the depths of the victims’ experience—their humiliation, loneliness, suffering, and death. A fascinating essay about the cognitive, aesthetic, and moral dilemmas of the photographic representation of the Holocaust.” • Jacek LeociakTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Dorota Glowacka List of Abbreviations On the Death of Jews Select Bibliography
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Intellect Books Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentring
Book SynopsisCanadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentering Luxury is a dynamic new contribution to the study of luxury. The essays in this collection challenge Euro- and US-centric perceptions that bind luxury to either a colonial past or a consumerist present. The book announces a new collective of thinkers who focus on Indigenous and Canadian instances of luxurious production, experiences and sites to propose a new definition of luxury that includes a plurality of regional practices highlighting that Canadian luxury centres on community and connection. Each of the interdisciplinary contributions analyse luxury from different vantage points to understand why luxury has succeeded or failed in the Canadian context. From the history of the fur trade to the latest Indigenous fashion movement, from the T. Eaton Co.’s 1920s Made-in-Canada campaign to the on-again-off-again Toronto Fashion Week, from Vancouver public art commissions to Montréal’s future-forward fashiontech sector, the essays in this volume explain what makes and breaks Canadian luxury. These original case studies redefine luxury for Canada – a former colonial possession and contemporary second-tier cultural market – and lay the foundation for the critical study of luxury in other historically secondary geographies that produce, consume and circulate material and symbolic luxuries. The collection ultimately challenges old myths and the mystique surrounding European luxury to give it a new lustre that shines light on those actors who have been historically excluded from its privilege: Indigenous peoples, immigrants, the working classes. It sheds light on the reasons that conventional expressions of luxury may fail in secondary markets and offers guidance for fashiontech innovations that invest in the individual without imposing dehumanizing values of efficiency and rational measurement. Although focused on the Canadian context, the book will appeal to an international audience of scholarly and industry readers. Its interventions about broadening the focus of luxury studies beyond traditional sites in Western Europe make it an important text for global audiences. It offers an alternate reading of conventional luxury histories, sites and practices; in doing so, it models a national approach to luxury that can be applied to alternate national markets. Jessica P. Clark is a historian of Britain and empire, with a focus on gender, consumption and labour, and an associate professor of history at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. Nigel Lezama is an associate professor of French studies at Brock University and works at the intersection of fashion, luxury, literary and cultural studies. Contributions are drawn from a number of fields including, but not limited to, Indigenous studies, museum studies, business management, cultural studies, fashion studies, technology and industry. Contributors include Kathryn Franklin, University of Toronto; Rebecca Halliday, Toronto Metropolitan University; Riley Kucheran, Toronto Metropolitan University; Valérie Lamontagne, Concordia University; Marie O'Mahony, Ontario College of Art and Design; Julia Polyck-O'Neill, York University, Ontario. This is a primarily an academic book. It is of great relevance to scholars within the subfield of critical luxury studies, as well as scholars of consumer and commodity cultures more broadly, and those working or interested in Canadian studies, media studies, critical studies, and historians. Researchers and postgraduate students studying luxury as well as those studying the history of the development of Canada, its colonial past and the marginalization of Indigenous people, and with the development of fashion technologies will also find it useful. Academics and practitioners concerned with the development of city and nation branding will find the book of value. Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction – Nigel Lezama PART 1: RESURGENCE AND REVISION 1. Luxury and Indigenous Resurgence – Riley Kucheran with Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama 2. Putting Canada on the Map: A Brief History of Nation and Luxury – Jessica P. Clark 3. From Unvalued to Surplus Value: ‘Made-in-Canada’ Luxury at Eaton’s in the 1920s – Nigel Lezama PART 2: SPACE AND PLACE 4. Runway off the Mink Mile: Toronto Fashion Week and the Glamour and Luxury of Yorkville – Kathryn Franklin and Rebecca Halliday 5. Vancouver’s Monuments to Capital: Public Art, Spatial Capital and Luxury – Julia Polyck-O’Neill PART 3: FUTURE OF CANADIAN LUXURY 6. Beyond the Catwalk: What Happens When Luxury Meets Digital? – Marie O’Mahony 7. Contemporary Case Studies of Performative Wearables – Valérie Lamontagne Epilogue – Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama References Contributors Index
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Intellect Books Under the Counter: Britain’s Trade in Hardcore
Book SynopsisPrior to 2000, it was a criminal offence to sell hardcore pornography in Britain. Despite this, there was a thriving alternative economy producing and distributing such material “under the counter” of Soho’s bookshops and via mail-order. British entrepreneurs circumvented obscenity laws to satisfy the demand for uncensored adult films and profit from their enterprise, with the corrupt Obscene Publications Squad permitting them to trade. By the late 1960s, Britain had developed an international reputation for producing ‘rollers’, short films distributed on 8mm, which were smuggled out of Britain for sale in Western Europe. Following an exposé by Britain’s tabloid press, a crackdown on police corruption and several high-profile obscenity trials, the trade was all but decimated, with pornography smuggled in from Europe dominating the market. Under the Counter is the first book of its kind to investigate Britain’s trade in illicit pornographic 8mm film. Drawing on extensive archival research, including the use of legal records, police files, media reportage, and interviews with those who were involved in the business, Under the Counter tells the story of Britain’s trade in 8mm hardcore pornographic films and its regulation, incorporating ideas from cultural studies, political economy, history and criminology. Under the Counter is a scholarly monograph that will be of interest to researchers across a wide range of disciplines and will be of use to students at undergraduate, Masters level and PhD. The book will be of particular relevance to students and researchers interested in the study of pornography, sexual cultures, illicit media enterprise and entrepreneurship, but also those with an interest in film production and distribution, particularly within a British context. The theoretical frameworks that underpin the book mean that researchers with an interest in the creative industries will be able to make use of it and the book makes a contribution to media and cultural history. It is suitable for use on university courses relating to these specific areas, specifically media and communication, film studies, creative industries, and potentially on criminology or socio-legal studies, given the books attention to obscenity law and regulation of illicit practices.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements List of Characters Prologue: I Was a Teenage Porn Dealer Introduction: Tonight at 8 1. Carnaby Kinks: Obscenity, Permissiveness and the Dirty Square Mile 2. Fisherman’s Luck: Making the Roller Market (1960–65) 3. Up, Up and Away: Entrepreneurship in Britain’s Expanding Roller Trade (1966–69) 4. House of Mirrors: Regulating the Roller Trade (1970–73) 5. Strip Poker: Distributing Hardcore Films in Britain (1973–83) Conclusion Epilogue: Truth or Dare Appendix 1: Labelography Appendix 2: List of Rollers Seized from John Mason’s Dean Street Office, 1 July 1969 Notes Bibliography Index
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Intellect Books Fan Phenomena: Disney
Book SynopsisFan Phenomena: Disney collects essays on Disney fans, spanning a variety of media (such as film, television, novels, stage productions and theme parks) and different fannish approaches (cosplay, fan art), as well as the company's reactions to them. It is a timely intervention that deals with crucial issues such as race and racism within the Disney fandom and in Disney texts, the role of queerness, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the advent of the streaming service Disney+. The authors come from variety of disciplines, such as cultural and media studies, marketing and communications, cultural history or theatre and performance studies, and include both leading experts in fan and Disney studies, as well as emerging voices in these fields, plus interviews with fan practitioners. It will be popular with scholars of cultural studies, cultural history, media studies, fan studies; Disney fans, and students at any levelTable of ContentsIntroduction – Sabrina Mittermeier Part 1: Diversity and the Disney Princess Frozen Fever: Fan Fashion, Costumes, and Revisions of Elsa and Anna Designs – Nicole Lamerichs ‘Let It Go!’: Child Fans, Song, and the Frozen Franchise – Ryan Bunch “Dream Big, Princess”: Disney’s Princess Fandom as a Trans-generational, Feminist Fan Space – Tracey Mollet That’s (Not) My Princess: Representation, Race, and (Anti-)Fan Activism – Christina Wurst Panel Discussion: The Live Action Mulan (2020) and Disney’s Approach to Racial Diversity – Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Bertha Chin & Jingan Young Interlude: Representation, Censorship and Disney+ “Please don’t censor Hamilton!”: Disney+, Social Media Fandom, and Censorship – Olympia Kiriakou Musings of a Queer Disney Fan – Sabrina Mittermeier Part 2: The Disney Theme Parks and Their Fans Creativity and Connection: How Disney Parks’ Fans Responded During the Coronavirus Closures – Rebecca Williams To Act Like a Kid or Not to Act Like a Kid: Disneybounding in the Parks – Rebecca Rowe Fan Appreciation: Victoria Wade Friends Just Around the Riverbend: Performing Intimacy and Authenticity in Disney Park Character Meets – Victoria Pettersen Lantz Fan Appreciation: Shawn Rosell Haunted Waters: The Elimination of Liveness in Disney’s Rivers of Light – Tom Robson From Mickey Waffles to Vegan Samosas: Evolving Disney Food Fandoms – Jennifer A. Kokai The Traveling Disney Bear ‘Duffy’ and His Surprising Popularity in Japan – Katharina Hülsmann & Timo Thelen Fan Appreciaton: Chris Nilghe Part 3: The Brand and its Fans – How Disney Responds to Fandom and Monetizes Fan Labor Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust: Disney’s Participatory Publics – Amber L. Hutchins Disney's Social Media Moms – Kylie Torres Fitting Inside the Mouse House – Disney’s Experiential Media Aesthetics – Chris Comerford Disney Publishing and the Saturation of the Imaginative Market – Michelle Anya Anjirbag
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Intellect Books Living Metal: Metal Scenes around the World
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of its kind, focusing exclusively on scenes throughout the world; it makes an important contribution to metal studies. Metal Scenes around the World is a collection of thirteen chapters that examine metal scenes from smaller communities like Dayton, Ohio in the USA, to entire countries, such as Estonia. The goal of the book is to expand the research on metal scenes. This is the only book produced on metal scenes to date, and it will lead the way to more research in this new area of metal studies. The strongest element of the book is its international focus, with chapters from such diverse settings as post-apartheid South Africa, Graz, Nantes, Brazil and Turkey. The chapters are detailed, richly embedded in local histories and contexts, and provide important analyses of their respective scenes. Foreword from Henkka Seppälä, former bassist with the Finnish metal band Children Of Bodom. Primary readership will be composed of fans and scholars of metal music, and those in the fields of anthropology, musicology and history. The diversity of the chapters connects metal to other disciplines in the music field and the book is likely to have appeal more widely to anyone who likes music.Trade Review'As heavy metal is diversifying within a music culture in which active fan participation is crucial in cementing its longevity, these books are not just an excellent read for casual metal fans, but important for present and future heavy music scholars. [...] These books demonstrate not just how the music is produced and performed within non-Western countries, but also how the genre and culture serve to strengthen the global heavy music community.' Reviewed alongside Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America. -- Laina Dawes, The Wire'In the introduction Bardine and Stueart suggest eight questions for scholars interested in doing future research in the global metal scene. As the editors suggest, Living Metal offers readers new tools and methods to pursue these questions. – Recommended.' -- CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Foreword Henkka Seppala, M.A. Introduction Dr. Bryan A. Bardine and Dr. Jerome Stueart, Chapter 1: From The Ashes of the Fallen Empire: Heavy Metal and Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa Edward Banchs, MA Chapter 2: Polar Fate: Mapping Metal at the Southern Edge of the World Dr. Catherine Hoad Chapter 3: The Enemy Within: Conceptualizing Turkish Metalheads as the Ideological ‘Other’ Dr. Pierre Hecter and Douglas Mattsson, M.A. Chapter 4: ‘Métal noir épique patriotique’: Analysis of historical, sociological and cultural discourses uniting metal noir québécois and Québec society. Mei-Ra St. Laurent, PhD Chapter 5: Living Sonic Knowledge in South-Eastern Austria: The Sound History of the Metal Scene in Graz and Styria, c. 1980 to the Present Dr. Peter Pichler Chapter 6: Heavy Metal Scene in Osaka: Localness Now and Then Dr. Kei Saito Chapter 7: Heart of Sadness: Fieldwork in the Copenhagen Black Metal Undergrounds Dr. Tore’ Tvarno Lind Chapter 8: "Dit is Berlin":[1] Local metal scene building and transformation in Berlin, Germany Dr. Wolf-Georg Zaddach Chapter 9: Old and New: Cross-Generational Community in the Dayton Metal Scene Dr. Bryan A. Bardine and Jacob Hale, M.A. Chapter 10: La Belle Endormie Awakened by Hellfest Open Air?: A Study of the Nantes Heavy Metal Music Scene Dr. Gerome Guibert and Dr. Sophie Turbe’ Chapter 11: Heavy Metal in Estonia: Cohesions and Divisions, Past and Present Dr. Toni-Matti Karjalainen Chapter 12: From the Sound of the Lathes to the Noise of the Amplifiers: The Heavy Metal And the Music Scene in the ABC Region of Brazil (1980-1990) Rui Luiz Ferreira Granado, M.A. and Dr. Heloisa de Aaujo Duarte Valente Chapter 13 : ‘This Is the City of Hate’: Surveying the Hull Metal/Hardcore Scene Dr. Lewis Kennedy
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Intellect Books Media Materialities: Form, Format, and Ephemeral
Book SynopsisProvides new perspectives on the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning. Drawing on a range of qualitative methodologies, our consideration of the materiality of media is structured around three overarching concepts: form – the physical qualities of objects and the meanings which extend from them; format – objects considered in relation to the protocols which govern their use, and the meanings and practices which stem from them; and ephemeral meaning – the ways in which media artefacts are captured, transformed, and redefined through changing social, cultural, and technological values. Each section includes empirical chapters which provide expansive discussions of perspectives on media and materiality. It considers a range of media artefacts such as 8mm film, board games maps, videogames, cassette tapes, transistor radios and Twitter, amongst others. These are punctuated with a number of short takes – less formal, often personal takes exploring the meanings of media in context. We seek to consider the materialities which emerge across the broad and variegated range of the term’s use, and to create spaces for conversation and debate about the implications that this plurality of material meanings might have for the study of study of media, culture, and society.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Foreword – Nicholas Gebhardt Introduction SECTION 1: FORM Short Take 1: My Notebook – Lee Griffiths 1. Investigating the Illicit: The Material Traces of Britain’s Early Trade in Obscene 8mm Films – Oliver Carter Short Take 2: ‘Press the Start Button’ – Harrison Charles 2. On, Off, and in the Map: Materializing Game Experiences Through Player Cartography – Nick Webber Short Take 3: Making Order Out of Chaos – Hilary Weston Jones 3. The Solid State of Radio – Sam Coley Short Take 4: Materialities of Television History – E. Charlotte Stevens SECTION 2: FORMAT Short Take 5: Only Dancing. Again – Philip Young 4. Between Analogue and Digital: The Cassette Tape as Hybrid Artefact – Iain A. Taylor Short Take 6: Patch Lead Possibilities – Chris Mapp 5. ‘Because It Is Not Digital’: The Cultural Value of the Analogue Book in Digital Age – Christian Moerken Short Take 7: Materialities of Spatial Confinement: Trefeglwys Meets Beirut – Dima Saber 6. Essentially (Not) the Game: Reading the Materiality of Video Game Paratexts – Regina Seiwald Short Take 8: Materialities and Craft Value – Karen Patel SECTION 3: EPHEMERAL MEANING Short Take 9: Still Angry: Still Feeding – Matt Grimes 7. Stamp of Approval: A Prosopography of the English Midlands Videogame Industry – Alex Wade and Adam Whittaker Short Take 10: The Edward Colston Experience – Martin Cox 8. Reframing Materiality in the Caribbean Diaspora Podcast – Rachel-Ann Charles and Tim Wall Short Take 11: We’re all Victorians Now – Kirsten Forkert 9. You Can Look, Share and Comment, But You Can’t Touch: The Relationship Between the Materiality and Physicality of Photographs in an Online Community Archive – Vanessa Jackson Short Take 12: Location, Agency, and Hashtag Activism During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Yemisi Akinbobola 10. Thirty-Seven Retweets – John Hillman Conclusion: Shifting Horizons of Possibility – Susanna Paasonen Notes on Contributors Index
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Liverpool University Press The Reclining Nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine
Book SynopsisThe figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned, fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women filmmakers and photographers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Filmmakers Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat, and American photographer working in Paris, Nan Goldin, return to the paintings of Titian, Velázquez, Goya, Courbet, and others, re-imagining, and re-purposing, their images of female beauty, display, (auto)eroticism, and intimacy. This book, a sensuous evocation of these feminist works, claims a female-identified pleasure in looking. The artists explored align images of repose and sensuality with other images of horizontality and proneness, of strong emotional content, images of erotic involvement, of vulnerability, of bodily contortion, of listlessness, grief, and depression. The reclining nude is for all three artists a starting point for a reflection on the relation of film, projections, and still photography, to painting, and a sustained re-imagining of the meanings conjured through serial returns to a particular pose. This book claims that the image of the reclining nude is compelling, for female-identified artists – and for all allied in feeling and picturing femininity – in the sensitive, ethically adventurous, politically complex feminist issues it engages. The reclining nude is an image of passivity, of submission, of hedonism. It allows thought about passivity as pleasure, about depression and grief figured posturally, about indolence as a form of resistance and anarchy. Through this image, female-identified artists have claimed freedom to offer new focus on these extremes of emotion. They are re-imagining horizontality.Trade ReviewReviews ‘This book is a deep and far-reaching exploration of the sensory impressions, affective impact, and gender-ideological import of films and photographs by three women—Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin. The author wisely focuses on an important but underexamined area of these women’s work: images of the reclining nude.'Douglas Keesey, California Polytechnic State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsIllustrationsshorelineThe Reclining Nudefour reflections on reclining: 1four reflections on reclining: 2four reflections on reclining: 3four reflections on reclining: 4VardaBreillatGoldinIndia SongBibliography and Filmography
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Liverpool University Press Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy,
Book SynopsisThis timely study sheds new light on debates about humour and identity in France, and is the first book about humour and identity in France to be published in either English or French that analyses both debates about Charlie Hebdo and standup comedy. It examines humour, freedom of expression, and social cohesion in France during a crucial time in France’s recent history punctuated by the Charlie Hebdo attacks of January 2015. It evaluates the state of French society and attitudes to humour in France in the aftermath of the events of January 2015. This book argues that debates surrounding Charlie Hebdo, although significant, only provide part of the picture when it comes to understanding humour and multiculturalism in France. This monograph fills significant gaps in French and international media coverage and academic writing, which has generally failed to adequately examine the broader picture that emerges when one examines career trajectories of notable contemporary French comedians. By addressing this failing, this book provides a more complete picture of humour, identity, and Republican values in France. By focusing primarily on contemporary comedians in France, this book explores competing uses of French Republican discourse in debates about humour, offensiveness, and freedom of expression. Ultimately, it argues that studying humour and identity in France often reveals a sense of national unease within the Republic at a time of considerable turmoil.Trade ReviewReviews'This is a well-researched, accessible and timely book. It deals with very important issues in an informed and illuminating way.'John Marks, University of Nottingham‘Ervine’s monograph is one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking monographs I have recently read… making us think and reconsider our own assumptions as humour analysts and problematizing concepts and arguments we take for granted concerning, among many other things, the “innocuous”, “inconsequential”, “playful”, or “subversive” character of humour and its “primarily” entertaining function in the public sphere.’ Villy Tsakona, European Journal of Humour ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Humour: a serious issue in contemporary FranceChapter One: Charlie Hebdo: from controversy to consensus?Chapter Two: Dieudonné: from anti-racist activism to allegations of anti-SemitismChapter Three: Jamel Comedy Club: stand-up comedy à la française?Chapter Four: Islam and humour: more than just a debate about cartoonsConclusionsBibiliographyIndex
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Archaeopress Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands
Book SynopsisFrom IndyRef and Brexit to the Refugee Crisis and Trump’s Wall, the construction and maintenance, subversion and traversing of frontiers and borderlands dominate our current affairs. Yet, while archaeologists have long participated in exploring frontiers and borderlands, their public archaeology has been starkly neglected. Incorporating the select proceedings of the 4th University of Chester Archaeology Student conference hosted by the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, on 20 March 2019, this is the first book to investigate realworld ancient and modern frontier works, the significance of graffiti, material culture, monuments and wall-building, as well as fictional representations of borders and walls in the arts, as public archaeology. Key themes include the heritage interpretation for linear monuments, public archaeology in past and contemporary frontiers and borderlands, and archaeology’s interactions with mural practices in politics, popular culture and the contemporary landscape. Together, the contributors show the necessity of developing critical public archaeologies of frontiers and borderlands.Table of ContentsForeword – Rebecca H. Jones ; Public Archaeologies from the Edge – Pauline Clarke, Kieran Gleave and Howard Williams ; Breaking Down Barriers: The Role of Public Archaeology and Heritage Interpretation in Shaping Perceptions of the Past – Richard Nevell and Michael Nevell ; Roman Walls, Frontiers and Public Archaeology – An Interview with Rob Collins ; Hands across the Border? Prehistory, Cairns and Scotland’s 2014 Independence Referendum – Kenneth Brophy ; Breaking Down the Berlin Wall: Dark Heritage, Pre-Wall Sites and the Public – Kieran Gleave ; The Political Dimensions of Public Archaeology in Borderlands: Exploring the Contemporary US-México Border – Maikin Holst ; Cofiwch Dryweryn: The Frontiers of Contemporary Welsh Nationalism, as seen through the Creation of Contested Heritage Murals – David Howell ; The Discomfort of Frontiers: Public Archaeology and the Politics of Offa’s Dyke – An interview with Keith Ray ; The Biography of Borderlands: Old Oswestry Hillfort and Modern Heritage Debates – Ruby McMillan-Sloan and Howard Williams ; Interpreting Wat’s Dyke in the 21st Century – Howard Williams ; Envisioning Wat’s Dyke – John G. Swogger and Howard Williams ; Watching Walls: Frontier Archaeology and Game of Thrones – Emma Kate Vernon ; Frontiers on Film: Evaluating Mulan (1998) and The Great Wall (2016) – Sophie Billingham
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UCL Press Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative Approaches
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UCL Press Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-Religious
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