Popular culture Books
University Press of Mississippi The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production.Through in-depth analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, this book charts the cause-and-effect of this influential trend. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The industry managed to meet these challenges by exploiting comics and their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off-guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never before.The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the once-dismissed medium of comics.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Three Years in Wonderland: The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park
Book SynopsisWhile the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park - fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told, full story of ""the happiest place on earth."" Using information from over one hundred unpublished interviews, Todd James Pierce lays down the arc of Disneyland's development from an idea to a paragon of entertainment.In the early 1950s, the Disney brothers hired Wood and his team to develop a feasibility study for an amusement park Walt wanted to build in southern California. ""Woody"" quickly became a central figure. In 1954, Roy Disney hired him as Disneyland's first official employee, its first general manager, and appointed him vice president of Disneyland, Inc., where his authority was exceeded only by Walt. A brilliant project manager, Wood was also a con man of sorts. Previously, he had forged his university diploma. A smooth-talker drawn to Hollywood, the first general manager of Disneyland valued money over art. As relations soured between Wood and the Disney brothers, Wood found creative ways to increase his income, leveraging his position for personal fame. Eventually, tensions at the Disney park reached a boiling point, with Walt demanding he be fired.In compelling detail, Three Years in Wonderland lays out the struggles and rewards of building the world's first cinematic theme park and convincing the American public that a $17 million amusement park was the ideal place for a family vacation. The early experience of Walt Disney, Roy Disney, and C. V. Wood is one of the most captivating untold stories in the history of Hollywood. Pierce interviewed dozens of individuals who enjoyed long careers at the Walt Disney Company as well as dozens of individuals who - like C. V. Wood - helped develop the park but then left the company for good once the park was finished. Through much research and many interviews, Three Years in Wonderland offers readers a rare opportunity to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the men and women who built the best-known theme park in the world.
£26.96
University of South Carolina Press Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in
Book SynopsisCitizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and the first great American opera, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Each of these works sought to make a statement about American identity in the form of a narrative, and each included in that narrative a prominent role for Black people.Each work included jarring or discordant elements that pointed to a deeper tension between the kind of stories Americans wish to tell about themselves and the historical and social reality of race. Although all three have been widely criticized, their efforts to connect the concepts of nation and race are not only instructive about the history of the American imagination but also provide unexpected resources for contemporary reflection.
£73.15
University of South Carolina Press Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in
Book SynopsisCitizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and the first great American opera, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Each of these works sought to make a statement about American identity in the form of a narrative, and each included in that narrative a prominent role for Black people.Each work included jarring or discordant elements that pointed to a deeper tension between the kind of stories Americans wish to tell about themselves and the historical and social reality of race. Although all three have been widely criticized, their efforts to connect the concepts of nation and race are not only instructive about the history of the American imagination but also provide unexpected resources for contemporary reflection.
£23.36
University of Nevada Press Mapping The Empty: Eight Artists And Nevada
Book SynopsisForeword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses. In Mapping the Empty Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded to the harsh, enigmatic landscapes of the Great Basin and how, through their work, they have expressed and helped to define our attitudes toward the space we call the West. The artists are Jim McCormick, Rita Deanin Abbey, Dennis Parks, Walter McNamara, Robert Beckmann, Michael Heizer, Bill Barker, and Mary Ann Bonjorni.Trade Review"Just imagine if any of the unreadable high-theory academics from your college art history classes had been storytellers, and you have, say, Mapping the Empty."—Jenny Price Bomb Magazine"Mapping the Empty is as perceptive in its analysis of each distinguished artist as it is in painting the big picture for us: that there's more to understand and appreciate in this mostly empty space than first meets the eye."—Phil Hagen, Las Vegas Life"An eye-opening introduction to just how much important art is being made in Nevada."—Geoff Schumacher, Las Vegas CityLifeTable of Contents Contents List of Illustrations List of Color Plates Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping the Empty Jim Mccormick The Topographical Mind RITA DEANIN ABBEY Art in the Place of Abstraction DENNIS PARKS An Art of Modest Means WALTER MCNAMARA Reassembling Reality ROBERT BECKMANN Practicing Apocalypse MICHAEL HEIZER The Perforated Object BILL BARKER Marketing the Alien(s) MARY ANN BONJORNI Reconfiguring the West Sources
£24.71
Academica Press Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took
Book SynopsisThe story goes that under the influence of blues and rock and roll, Britain suddenly started making spectacularly great music in the 1960s like some clever, quick learning cultural satellite of America. But Britain's mid twentieth-century pop music explosion didn't happen from a standing start. The reasons something so dazzling and multifaceted lie deeper than those legendary deliveries of blues records to Liverpool's port and the legacy of music halls. Featuring new discoveries and original insights, Why Britain Rocked: How Rock became Roll and Took over the World argues the Beatles' arrival, which stunned the world, really shouldn't have been surprising at all. From the Celts, Henry VIII, and the Quakers to Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson, Why Britain Rocked uncovers the unique events and unexpected influences that encouraged British pop to be glorious, crazy, luminous, joyous, profound, melancholic, ferocious, anarchic, witty, smart and wonderful in all its ways.
£18.66
University Press of Florida Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture
Book SynopsisIn the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration of Escobar's impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how his legacy inspired the development of narcoculture—television, music, literature, and fashion representing the drug-trafficking lifestyle—in Colombia and around the world.Pobutsky looks at the ways the "Escobar brand" surfaces in bars, restaurants, and clothing lines; in Colombia's tourist industry; and in telenovelas, documentaries, and narco memoirs about his life, which in turn have generated popular interest in other drug traffickers such as Griselda Blanco and Miami's "cocaine cowboys." Pobutsky illustrates how the Colombian state strives to erase his memory while Escobar's notoriety only continues to increase in popular culture through the transnational media. She argues that the image of Escobar is inextricably linked to Colombia's internal tensions in the areas of cocaine politics, gender relations, class divisions, and political corruption and that his "brand" perpetuates the country's reputation as a center of organized crime, to the dismay of the Colombian people. This book is a fascinating study of how the world perceives Colombia and how Colombia's citizens understand their nation's past and present.A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
£63.75
University Press of Florida Cosmonaut: A Cultural History
Book SynopsisHow the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut was designed and reimagined over timeIn this book, Cathleen Lewis discusses how the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut developed beginning in the 1950s and the ways this icon has been reinterpreted throughout the years and in contemporary Russia. Compiling material and cultural representations of the cosmonaut program, Lewis provides a new perspective on the story of Soviet spaceflight, highlighting how the government has celebrated figures such as Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova through newspapers, radio, parades, monuments, museums, films, and even postage stamps and lapel pins.Lewis’s analysis shows that during the Space Race, Nikita Khrushchev mobilized cosmonaut stories and images to symbolize the forward-looking Soviet state and distract from the costs of the Cold War. Public perceptions shifted after the first Soviet spaceflight fatality and failure to reach the Moon, yet cosmonaut imagery was still effective propaganda, evolving through the USSR’s collapse in 1991 and seen today in Vladimir Putin’s government cooperation for a film on the 1985 rescue of the Salyut 7 space station. Looking closely at the process through which Russians continue to reexamine their past, Lewis argues that the cultural memory of spaceflight remains especially potent among other collective Soviet memories.Trade Review“An innovative study of pop culture, memorabilia, propaganda, and hero worship, Cosmonaut brings the Soviet space program to life from inside Soviet society.”—Foreword Reviews
£34.16
University Press of Florida Digital Humanities in Latin America
Book SynopsisA hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking AmericasAs digital media and technologies transform the study of the humanities around the world, this volume provides the first hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas. These essays examine how participation and research in new media have helped configure identities and collectivities in the region.Featuring case studies from throughout Latin America, including the United States Latinx community, contributors analyze documentary films, television series, and social media to show how digital technologies create hybrid virtual spaces and facilitate connections across borders. They investigate how Latinx bloggers and online activists navigate governmental restrictions in order to connect with the global online community.These essays also incorporate perspectives of race, gender, and class that challenge the assumption that technology is a democratizing force. Digital Humanities in Latin America illuminates the cultural, political, and social implications of the ways Latinx communities engage with new technologies. In doing so, it connects digital humanities research taking place in Latin America with that of the Anglophone world.Contributors: Paul Alonso Morgan Ames Eduard Arriaga Anita Say Chan Ricardo Dominguez Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste Jennifer M. Lozano Ana Lígia Silva Medeiros Gimena del Río Riande Juan Carlos Rodríguez Isabel Galina Russell Angharad Valdivia Anastasia Valecce Cristina VenegasA volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos RodríguezTrade ReviewA series of dynamic essays that investigate and problematise the impact of technology and digital culture on Latinx America. . . . While ambitious in scope, the volume offers a diversity of perspectives and case studies that highlight the unique affordances and consequences of the digital divide throughout parts of the United States and Latin America." —Bulletin of Latin American Research "A collection of excellent articles dealing with the impact of digital technologies and media in Latin American culture." —Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez 1. Tech Disruption as Knowledge Production: Cuba and the Digital Humanities Cristina Venegas 2. The Media Machine: One Laptop per Child in Paraguay Morgan Ames 3. Nation Branding: Neo Liberalism, Identity, and Social Media Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste 4. (In) Visible Cuba(s): Digital Conflict, Virtual Diasporas, and Cyber Mambises Anastasia Valecce 5. Digital Utopias, Latina/o Mediated Realities Angharad N. Valdivia 6. The Politics of Participation: La Bloga, Latino/a Cultural Politics, and the Limits of Digital Participatory Culture Jennifer Lozano 7. Afrolatin@ Digital Humanites or Rethinking Inclusion in the Digital Humanities Eduard Arriaga 8. Modularity, Mimesis and the Informatic Ideal: On Intersectional Struggles for Digital Human(itie)s in Latin America Anita Say Chan 9. Cuban Digital Pedagogies and the Question of the Interface in Yaima Pardo's Offline Juan Carlos Rodríguez 10. Carnival, Hybridity, and Latin American Digital Humor: The Ecuadorian Case of Enchufe.tv Paul Alonso 11. No Blogger, No Cry Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo 12. Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD): Before 9/11 and After 9/11 Ricardo Domínguez 13. On DH in Argentina, an Interview with Gimena del Rio Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez 14. On DH in Brazil, an Interview with Ana Lígia Medeiros Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez 15. On DH in Mexico, an Interview with Isabel Galina Russell Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Coda Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Notes Works Cited Contributors Index
£22.36
Red Lightning Books Pilgrims of Woodstock: Never-Before-Seen Photos
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1969, 400,000 people from across the country came together and redefined the music scene forever. Though the legacy and lore of Woodstock lives on in the memory of its attendees, a new generation can experience the real and unedited festival through Richard Bellak's never-before-seen photographs and John Kane's incredible new interviews.Pilgrims of Woodstock offers a vivid and intimate portrait of the overlooked stars of the festival: the everyday people who made Woodstock unforgettable. The photographs and interviews capture attendees' profound personal moments across hundreds of acres of farmland, as they meditated, played music, cooked food at night, and congregated around campfires. For three days, they helped and relied on each other in peace and harmony. For most, it was a life-changing event. Now, as the 50th anniversary of the famed festival approaches, relive their experiences firsthand in Pilgrims of Woodstock.Table of ContentsForeword by Tom LawIntroduction1. Early Arrival 2. Wednesday3. Thursday4. Friday5. Saturday6. Sunday
£32.40
Red Lightning Books The Legends of the Pyramids: Myths and
Book SynopsisCould the Great Pyramid of Giza be a repository of ancient magical knowledge? Or perhaps evidence of a vanished pre–Ice Age civilization? Misinformation and myths have attached themselves to the Egyptian pyramids since ancient Greece and Rome. While many Americans believe that the pyramids were built by aliens, archaeologists understand that the Giza pyramids were built by the pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty around 2450 BCE. So why is there such a disconnect between scholarly opinion and the popular view of Egypt? In The Legends of the Pyramids, Jason Colavito takes us back to Late Antique Egypt, where the replacement of polytheism with Christianity gave rise to local efforts to rewrite the stories of Egyptian history in the image of the Bible. When the Arab conquest absorbed Egypt into the Islamic community, these stories then passed into Islamic historiography and reentered the West. Colavito's The Legends of the Pyramids lays open pop culture's view of Egypt in movies, TV shows, popular books, and New Age beliefs, detailing how the hidden history of Egypt has grown alongside the official history of archaeology and Egyptology.Trade ReviewThis highly recommended book is well researched, entertaining and original. Five stars. * Fortean Times *Table of ContentsNote on the TextIntroduction1. Ancient Testimonia2. Why Are the Pyramids Not in the Bible?3. Late Antiquity4. The Early Middle Ages5. Pyramid Legends in Medieval Islam6. The Meaning Behind the Myth7. The Translation of Pyramid Legends8. The Romance of the Pyramids9. The Great Mistake10. The Curse of King Tut11. Mummies in Outer Space12. Race and ReligionConclusionIndex
£16.14
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the
Book SynopsisWhen blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms. Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of the velocipede fad and the popular culture it inspired. It explores how the device was hailed as a symbol of France’s cutting-edge technological advancements, yet also marketed as an invention with a noble pedigree, born from the nation’s cultural and literary heritage. Giving readers a window into the material culture and enthusiasms of Second Empire France, it provides the first English translations of 1869’s Manual of the Velocipede, 1868’s Note on Monsieur Michaux’s Velocipede, and the 1869 operetta Dagobert and his Velocipede. It also reprints scores of rare images from newspapers and advertisements, analyzing how these magnificent machines captured the era’s visual imagination. By looking at how it influenced French attitudes towards politics, national identity, technology, fashion, fitness, and gender roles, this book shows how the short-lived craze of velocipedomania had a big impact. Trade Review“Engaging, well-researched, and expertly translated, Velocipedomania gives insight into the craze this two-wheeled machine inspired in the late 1860s and, more generally, into the rich popular culture of the period.”— Anne O’Neil-Henry, author of Mastering the Marketplace: Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France “In this engaging and informative book, Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden explore how, in late 1860s France, the forerunner of the bicycle came to be seen as a marker of modernity, freedom and even of national identity . . . A large number of contemporary cartoons and illustrations add to the rich source material—and to the reader’s enjoyment.”— French History “Careening across the stage, lifted into song, championed in story—velocipedes take France by storm in 1869-70. The machine of speed touches on gender, politics, class, and more. Never has cultural history been more informative or more fun than in the rollicking translations and commentary of Velocipedomania.”— Scott Carpenter, author of Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France “In Velocipedomania, Cropper and Whidden bring to light an unexamined page of French cultural history—France’s obsession and cultural identification with the bicycle that began in the 1860s and that persists to this day. This lively compilation of texts about the velocipede, the iconic two-wheel wood and iron vehicle, will delight readers.”— Masha Belenky, author of Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris “This book is a fabulous exploration of the social and cultural importance of the velocipede—a short-lived but consequential predecessor to the modern bicycle—in France during the late 1860s.”— Robert Lewis, author of The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship and Mass Society in Modern FranceTable of ContentsIntroduction Velocipedomania CHAPTER ONE The Utilitarian Velocipede Note on Monsieur Michaux’s Velocipede CHAPTER TWO The Velocipede on Stage Dagobert and His Velocipede CHAPTER THREE Narrating Velocipedomania Manual of the Velocipede CHAPTER FOUR Velocipedomania in Verse CONCLUSION “We Thought the Velocipede Was Dead” Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
£23.39
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the
Book SynopsisWhen blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms. Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of the velocipede fad and the popular culture it inspired. It explores how the device was hailed as a symbol of France’s cutting-edge technological advancements, yet also marketed as an invention with a noble pedigree, born from the nation’s cultural and literary heritage. Giving readers a window into the material culture and enthusiasms of Second Empire France, it provides the first English translations of 1869’s Manual of the Velocipede, 1868’s Note on Monsieur Michaux’s Velocipede, and the 1869 operetta Dagobert and his Velocipede. It also reprints scores of rare images from newspapers and advertisements, analyzing how these magnificent machines captured the era’s visual imagination. By looking at how it influenced French attitudes towards politics, national identity, technology, fashion, fitness, and gender roles, this book shows how the short-lived craze of velocipedomania had a big impact. Trade Review“Careening across the stage, lifted into song, championed in story—velocipedes take France by storm in 1869-70. The machine of speed touches on gender, politics, class, and more. Never has cultural history been more informative or more fun than in the rollicking translations and commentary of Velocipedomania.”— Scott Carpenter, author of Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France “In Velocipedomania, Cropper and Whidden bring to light an unexamined page of French cultural history—France’s obsession and cultural identification with the bicycle that began in the 1860s and that persists to this day. This lively compilation of texts about the velocipede, the iconic two-wheel wood and iron vehicle, will delight readers.”— Masha Belenky, author of Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris “Engaging, well-researched, and expertly translated, Velocipedomania gives insight into the craze this two-wheeled machine inspired in the late 1860s and, more generally, into the rich popular culture of the period.”— Anne O’Neil-Henry, author of Mastering the Marketplace: Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France “This book is a fabulous exploration of the social and cultural importance of the velocipede—a short-lived but consequential predecessor to the modern bicycle—in France during the late 1860s.”— Robert Lewis, author of The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship and Mass Society in Modern FranceTable of ContentsIntroduction Velocipedomania CHAPTER ONE The Utilitarian Velocipede Note on Monsieur Michaux’s Velocipede CHAPTER TWO The Velocipede on Stage Dagobert and His Velocipede CHAPTER THREE Narrating Velocipedomania Manual of the Velocipede CHAPTER FOUR Velocipedomania in Verse CONCLUSION “We Thought the Velocipede Was Dead” Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
£53.55
Canadian Scholars Creative Industries in Canada
Book SynopsisCreative Industries in Canada is a foundational text that encourages students to think critically about creative industries within a Canadian context and interrogate the current state and future possibilities of the industry. While much of current creative industries literature concerns the United Kingdom, the United States, and Asia, this text captures the breadth of how Canadian industries are organized and experienced, and how they operate.This ambitious collection aims to guide students through the current landscape of Canadian creative industries through three thematic sections. "Production" collects chapters focused on how national discourses and identities are produced through creative industries and the tensions that exist between policy and media. "Participation" explores how we engage with these industries in different roles: as consumer, creator, policy-maker, and more. "Pedagogies" explores how education impacts inclusion and visibility in creative industries.Truly intersectional, Creative Industries in Canada provides students with practical industry knowledge and frameworks to explore the current state of the field and its future. With a broad application to many undergraduate programs, this text is a must-read resource for those pursuing media studies, arts management, creative and cultural industries studies, communications, and arts and humanities.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction - Cheryl Thompson and Miranda Campbell Part I: Production: Meaning Making in the Creative IndustriesChapter 1: Creativity Policies and Districts: The Ambiguous Meaning of Creativity as a Source of Local Tensions in Montréal - Anouk Bélanger & Joëlle GélinasChapter 2: Race and Representation in Canadian Public Podcasting: A CBC Study - Jeff DonisonChapter 3: Institutional Production of Heritage within the Culture Sector in Canada - Susan Ashley Part II: Participation: Working and Community Building in the Creative IndustriesChapter 4: Laughter from the Sidelines: Precarious Work in the Canadian Comedy Industry - Madison TrusolinoChapter 5: Film in Canada's Creative Industries: Old Barriers and New Opportunities - George TurnbullChapter 6: Inclusion, Access, and Equity: Diversity Initiatives in Canada's Game Industry - Matthew Perks & Jennifer Whitson Chapter 7: Creative Hubs: Sites of Community and Creative Work - Mary Elizabeth Luka Part III: Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning through the Creative IndustriesChapter 8: Don Cherry's "You People" Rant: A Critical Race Approach to Understanding Corporate Nationalism, Audience Commodification, and Cultural Citizenship - Ryan J. PhillipsChapter 9: When Black History Month Media Posts Double as Pedagogical Tools: Appraising Existing BHM Coverage and Proposing Future Directions - Selina L. MudavanhuChapter 10: Applying Critical Creativity: Navigating Tensions Between Art & Business in the Creative City - Brandon McFarlaneChapter 11: Transforming Industry Standards: Tensions between Social Change and Media Production Education - Ki Wight GlossaryContributor Biographies
£43.16
Collective Ink Rowdy Entrepreneurs and Insecure Dinosaurs –
Book SynopsisRowdy Entrepreneurs and Insecure Dinosaurs is about invention and innovation in the context of postmodern society and information economy. It applies "popular culture" theory to such companies as Virgin, Microsoft, and Apple, to analyse their innovation strategies. This is the first book of its kind that mingles popular culture theory with innovation theory and entrepreneurship. It is written, true to the spirit of popular culture, in a lively style with abundant popular cultural references, and textual and visual puns.
£11.77
Collective Ink Clampdown – Pop–cultural wars on class and gender
Book SynopsisWhy have both pop and politics in Britain become the preserve of an unrepresentative elite? From chav-pop pantomimes to retro-chauvinist 'landfill indie', the bland, homogenous and compromised nature of the current 'alternative' sector reflects the interests of a similarly complacent and privileged political establishment. In particular, political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding 'chavs', has been accompanied by a similar restriction and regulation of the expression of working-class femininity in music. This book traces the progress of this cultural clampdown over the past twenty years.Trade Review"Traces the links between politics and pop music in order to interpret why we are where we are, in terms of class, gender and representation and the wider grim political situation we find ourselves in. The book made me angry and a bit nostalgic, but probably nostalgic for something that was never fully realised." --Emmy-Kate Montrose, formerly of Kenickie
£11.77
Collective Ink Twerking to Turking – Everyday Analysis – Volume
Book SynopsisIn this follow-up to the first volume of Everyday Analysis articles, Why are Animals Funny?, the EDA Collective tracks through an ABC of modern phenomena ordered by analytic theme, widely ranging from Advertising to Language, Sport to Education, Film and TV to Work and Play, and Politics to Comic Universes. Punctuating these phenomenal pieces are illustrations from a range of artists and cartoonists, including Martin Rowson of the London Guardian.
£14.99
Collective Ink In Confidence: Talking Frankly about Fame
Book SynopsisA study of celebrity based on the seventy odd interviews featured in the Sky Arts television series, In Confidence. Informants include David Schwimmer, Stephen Fry, Harry Belafonte, Alan Ayckbourn, Kathie Burke, Michael Frayn, Christopher Hitchens, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sheila Hancock, Richard Dawkins, Miriam Margolys, Tracey Emin, and Nigel Kennedy. Here you will find everyone from politicians to artists, film-makers to novelists, talking frankly about fame and reputation.
£11.77
Collective Ink Creepiness
Book SynopsisA specter is haunting contemporary television-the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps. And yet when we sit down to watch TV, we are increasingly entranced by creepy characters. In this follow-up to Awkwardness and Why We Love Sociopaths, Adam Kotsko tries to account for the strange fascination of creepiness. In addition to surveying a wide range of contemporary examples-from Peep Show to Girls, from Orange is the New Black to Breaking Bad-Kotsko mines the television of his 90s childhood, marveling at the creepiness that seemed to be hiding in plain sight in shows like Full House and Family Matters. Using Freud as his guide through the treacherous territory of creepiness, Kotsko argues that we are fascinated by the creepy because in our own ways, we are all creeps.
£11.77
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban
Book SynopsisAn intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixedcultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads,several series of "penny dreadful" stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack is impressively researched social history and provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.Trade ReviewA good example of the ways in which cultural history still has the potential to unlock meaning when applied to a particular sort of problem. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Embraces the sheer messiness and multivocal nature of popular culture and thus radically advances our understanding of the Victorians and their world. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *A careful and thoughtful look at a moral panic become myth that well deserved its 2013 Katherine Brigg's award. ... All future writing will owe a debt to this book. ... In bottling this whirlwind of differing sources of a protean devil, Karl Bell has succeeded, through the narrative, of apprehending the fractions of Spring-heeled Jack. * GRAMARYE *A significant attempt to tackle an important aspect of Victorian popular culture. * HISTORY TODAY *A model of the way in which accounts of such phenomena should be studied. [...] A brilliant account of a fascinating subject. * MAGONIA *
£23.74
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: The
Book SynopsisThis study of the monument of Godfrey of Bouillon offers new insights to the political uses of public monuments devoted to figures from the past, modern uses and appropriations of the Middle Ages, and the role of historical culture in the creation of national identity. On 15 August 1848, a bronze equestrian statue of the crusading hero Godfrey of Bouillon (d.1100) was unveiled in the Place Royale in Brussels, Belgium's capital. Conceived and largely funded by the national government, its creation was a major element in a programme of political and cultural consolidation put into place after the Belgian Revolution (1830-1831) and the consequent establishment of the nation's independence. From the outset, the monument was designed to transmit ideas about history and nationhood, and functioned as a focal point in discussions of politics, language, religion and identity. This book sheds new light on a range of dynamics in nineteenth-century Belgium, using the statue as a prism; it investigates responses to it both home and abroad, and traces broader national interest in the commemoration of Godfrey, adopted as a national hero despite being born almost 800 years before the emergence of the state. Above all, it reveals that Belgian politics and culture in this period were profoundly shaped by a sustained interest in the Middle Ages, and by efforts to shape a historical narrative that traced Belgian nationhood back to that era, and beyond.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgments A note on language and names List of abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. State-building, historical culture and public monuments in nineteenth-century Belgium 2. The physical setting of the monument: Brussels' Place Royale 3. The creation of the monument 4. The changing meanings of the monument 5. The monument as a lieu de mémoire I: culture and politics 6. The monument as a lieu de mémoire II: history and national identity Conclusion Bibliography Index
£76.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth:
Book Synopsis'The authors set out to develop a framework that explains if and how co-creation can be used as ''strategy-as-practice.'' In doing so, they have produced a wonderful case study on co-creating a city's living and public space, the next movement and cultural turn following the ''creative class'' studies in urban design. There are innovative uses of narrative analysis to provide multiple perspectives of the co-creative process. It contains valuable insights for anyone interested in urban design.'- Hans Hansen, Texas Tech University'The book makes a very important contribution to the strategy-as-practice field as it proposes a thorough ethnography about how governments, academia, business, non-profits and citizens engage themselves in the strategic and collaborative process of planning. Drawing on a comprehensive and compelling notion of ''action nets'', the book provides a fascinating interpretive explanation that will be inspiring as well as for academics and practitioners. This timely volume raises a host of fascinating issues related to organizing and strategizing as ''co-creative practices'' and will be an invaluable resource across multiple domains and organizational research areas. Moreover, the book will convince you that ''small is beautiful''!'- Linda Rouleau, HEC Montreal, CanadaOver the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue among citizens, thereby increasing their sense of belonging to a community. This insightful book outlines potential avenues through which culture and creativity can raise the imaginative capability of citizens and harness opportunities tied to what the book calls 'culture-driven growth'.Building on three years of observations, interviews and research the authors argue that a 'strategy-as-practice' perspective can reveal how strategy making is enabled or constrained by organizational and social practices. The authors reveal how the 'sweet-spot' of city regeneration occurs where urban and cultural planning are aligned. They then evaluate the practice of 'co-creation' within organizing bodies and investigate the extent to which its success depends on a fusion of top-down rules and bottom-up action. Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth will appeal to international scholars and students in organization studies, geography, city governance and planning, urban design, and urban and regional development. Policymakers and planners will also find it to be a valuable resource.Trade Review'This book provides an important contribution on the links between urban planning and other types of organizing work performed in the name of the 'creative city'. Further, it also highlights the daunting challenges associated with attempting to realize highly ambitious ideals of decentralized co-creation, empowering a plethora of heterogeneous actors, in a manner that does not sell short democratic transparency and accountability.' --Jonathan Metzger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden'A detailed, processual and ethnographic study of European Cities of Culture is overdue. This book fills an important gap in both scholarship and civic management. For any city authorities planning to bid for and stage future City of Culture programs it is an essential practical guide; for any researchers interested in the management of cities, those elusive, flexible objects of analysis, it will be an important contribution to their analytical toolbox. Lively and well researched, it is a must-read.' --Stewart Clegg, University of Technology Sydney, Australia'Organizing Cultural Capital events has become the contemporary equivalent of Tennesse Valley Authority: every city wants to do it, and prescriptions how to do it proliferate. This book is unique in that it presents many different stories and points of view, providing a detailed description of everyday organizing, but also original theoretical insights together with useful practical recommendations.' --Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1. Co-creation and the city PART I: THE PLANNERS’ VIEW 2. The planning process 3. The ‘cultural turn’ in urban design PART II: THE VIEW FROM THE ACTION NETS 4. The organizer’s view: exploring emergent project action nets 5. The insider-participant view: common dualities on urban design and program organization 6. The public view: analysis of the narratives in the local press 7. Building a milieu for city marketing and branding The vignette collection PART III: THE ACHIEVEMENT 8. Comparisons with other European Capitals of Culture 9. Co-creating cities: future challenges Index
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Collective Ink Pac-Man Principle, The: A User's Guide to
Book SynopsisIn spite of being well into middle-age, Pac-Man's popularity shows no sign of decline and the character has appeared in over sixty games on virtually every games platform ever released. According to the David Brown celebrity index, in 2008, nearly three decades after initial release, 94% of Americans were able to recognise Pac-Man, which gave the character greater brand awareness than Super Mario. Pac-Man, with its avowed commitment to non-violence was a videogame of many firsts, including being designed to appeal to children and females and providing the first narrative interlude in a videogame. Although iconic, Pac-Man has not been subject to sustained critical analysis. This book helps to fill that gap, providing an extensive, sophisticated, but accessible analysis of the influence of Pac-Man on the way that we live in contemporary western societies.
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Collective Ink Made in Brooklyn: Artists, Hipsters, Makers,
Book SynopsisMade in Brooklyn is a belated critique of the Maker Movement: from its origins in the nineteenth century to its impact on labor and its entanglement in the neoliberal economic model of the tech industry. Part history, part ethnography, Made in Brooklyn provides a unified analysis of how the tech industry has infiltrated artistic practice and urban space.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Leadership, Popular Culture and Social Change
Book SynopsisThe newest generation of leaders was raised on a steady diet of popular culture artifacts mediated through technology, such as film, television and online gaming. As technology expands access to cultural production, popular culture continues to play an important role as an egalitarian vehicle for promoting ideological dissent and social change. The chapters in this book examine works and creators of popular culture ? from literature to film and music to digital culture ? in order to address the ways in which popular culture shapes and is shaped by leaders around the globe as they strive to change their social systems for the better.Now is an exceptional time to explore the synergy between leadership, popular culture and social change. With analyses that span time, genre and space, the book?s contributors investigate works of popular culture as objects of leadership that help us to both reinforce and question our understandings of who we are and how we want to reshape the world around us.This dynamic examination of leadership presents a useful model of analysis not only for scholars of leadership and popular culture but also for cultural historians and educators across the humanities.Contributors include: K.M.S. Bezio, V.K. Bratton, P.D. Catoira, H. Connell Schaaf, L. DelPrato, S.J. Erenrich, K. Ganesan, S. Guenther, E.M. Holowka, K. Klimek, M.A. Menaldo, N.O. Warner, K. YostTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Leadership, Popular Culture and Social Change Kristin M.S. Bezio PART I WRITTEN LEADERSHIP 1. Marlowe’s violent reformation: religion, government and rebellion on the Elizabethan Stage Kristin M.S. Bezio 2. Abdullah Munsyi’s nineteenth-century travelogue and its continued influence on Malaysian Literature in English Kavitha Ganesan 3. Totalizing tyranny: Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat Mark A. Menaldo 4. Harry Potter and the leadership of resistance Kimberly Yost PART II AURAL LEADERSHIP 5. Women troubadours, horizontal leadership and the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964: a missing chapter in Civil Rights movement history Susan J. Erenrich 6. El Chapo for Presidente: an examination of leadership through Mexico’s Narcoculture Patricia D. Catoira and Virginia K. Bratton 7. An idol leader: David Bowie, self-representation, otherness and sexual identity Shawna Guenther PART III VISUAL LEADERSHIP 8. A two-way street: the leader-follower dynamic in Glory and Twelve O’Clock High Nicholas O. Warner 9. Becoming other: self-transformation and social change in Neill Blomkamp films Kimberly Yost 10. Ready, aim, feel: empathy, identification and leadership in video games Kristin M.S. Bezio 11. “War. War never changes”: using popular culture to teach traumatic events Kimberly Klimek PART IV DIGITAL LEADERSHIP 12. Between artifice and emotion: the “sad girls” of Instagram Eileen Mary Holowka 13. How light painters lead change through popular culture Laura DelPrato 14. Beyond bans and beyond the classroom: Wikipedia, leadership and social change in higher education Holly Connell Schaaf Epilogue Kimberly Yost Index
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc The Digital Era 2: Political Economy Revisited
Book SynopsisOver 200 years, industry has mastered iron, fire, power and energy. Today, electronics shape our everyday objects with the widespread integration of chips; from computers and telephones to keys, games and white goods. Data, software and computation structure our behavior and the organization of our lives. Everything is translated into data: the digit is king. Consisting of three volumes, The Digital Era explores technical, economic and social phenomena that result from the generalization of the Internet. This second volume discusses the impact of digital technology on the evolution of market relations and the media and examines the reasons why such changes put political economy to the test. Table of ContentsNote to Reader ix Preface xi Introduction xxvii Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX Part 1. A Disruptive Economy 1 Introduction to Part 1 3 Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX Chapter 1. Companies: the Great Transformation 7 Godefroy DANG N’GUYEN Information: the raw material of digital technology 10 The causes of disruption and their limits 14 The business philosophy of digital technology 15 Moving upmarket and buybacks 16 Concluding reflections 19 Bibliography 21 Chapter 2. Media: Innovation, Self-production, Creativity 23 Jean-Paul SIMON User-generated content: scaling up 26 Books, authors and communities 30 Cinema and video: creation, streaming and parodies 35 Do it yourself with music: new creativity? 39 Press and information: dialogue with readers or free work? 40 Video games: co-innovators? 43 Conclusion: creativity, but a limited model 45 Bibliography 47 Chapter 3. New Intermediaries: Extra-territorial Platforms 55 Stéphane GRUMBACH What has changed? 57 Intermediation 58 Platform economics 60 Laws of the digital economy 63 Going towards a new management of resources 69 Building political legitimacy 71 Conclusion 74 Bibliography 75 Part 2. New Perspectives 77 Introduction to Part 2 79 Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX Chapter 4. The Collaborative Economy: What Are We Talking About? 81 Godefroy DANG N’GUYEN Numerous examples 83 Commercial versus collaborative peer-to-peer 85 Peer-to-peer trading, the intermediation’s triumph 87 How is collaborative peer-to-peer actually organized? 91 Are commons manageable? 93 Looking at the future of collaborative peer-to-peer 96 Conclusion 97 Bibliography 99 Chapter 5. Towards a Post-industrial iconomy 101 Michel VOLLE Summary of previous times 103 Real and imagined digital influence 104 Can an intelligence be artificial? 109 Distinguishing power from intelligence 113 In summary: towards the iconomy? 115 Conclusion and recommendations 121 Bibliography 123 Chapter 6. The Chips Industry: Moore and Rock’s Laws 125 Gérard DRÉAN Some words about technique: where do we stand today? 127 High-tech production 128 An original economy 129 Rock’s law leads to concentration 130 De-integration, specialization and reconfiguration 132 How to stay in the lead pack? 133 Bibliography 135 Chapter 7. Measuring and Compiling Wealth 137 Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX National accounting and gross revenue 140 Consequences of post-industrial society 145 How can the digital economy be better described? 150 Elements for a summary 154 Bibliography 157 Appendix A. Microelectronics: a typically multinational sector 158 Appendix B. Trade, currencies and digital disruption 161 Conclusion 165 Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX Appendices 187 Appendix 1 189 Appendix 2 191 List of Authors 193 Index of Names and Brands 195 Index of Notions 199
£125.06
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc The Digital Era 3: Customs and Practices
Book SynopsisFor 200 years, industry mastered iron, fire, strength and energy. Today, electronics shape our everyday objects, integrating chips everywhere: computers, phones, keys, games, household appliances, etc. Data, software and calculation frame the conduct of men and the administration of things. Everything is translated into data: the figure is king. This third and last volume of the series examines the creative destruction induced by digital, modifying manners and customs, law, society and politics.Table of ContentsI / Questions of society: discretion, transparency and liberties. 1 Return of the Leviathan? 2 On the use of social networks and e-mail 3 myths & utopias: towards a "new society"? II / Questions of interest: evolution or rupture? 4 Economy: moving into the post-industrial economy 5 A new creative destruction? 6 Digital Innovation & Trusted Society III / Political questions: does digital have a master? 7 Challenge for public action: to undergo, guide or coerce? 8 A case study: regulating algorithms 9 Digital and reason of State: an impossible equilibrium? IV / Prospects: a new avatar of technical progress? Magic of progress or end of history? Discrete data, perception and representation of reality; Schizoidism of digital change.
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Informational Tracking
Book Synopsis“What is colour?”, “What is the precise meaning of the statement ‘the stock exchange closes at a 5% drop this evening’?”, “How are TV viewers defined?”, or “How can images produce meaning?” Such everyday questions are examined in this book. To make our analysis intuitive and understandable, numerous concrete examples illustrate our theoretical framework and concepts. The examples include gaming, fictional skits in leisure entertainment, and enigmas. The golden thread running through the text revisits the informational process and places the datum as its pivot. The epistemological perspective of our novel approach is that of “radical relativity”. This is based on the precept that a perceptual trace carries with it the spectrum of the process that has engendered it. Given this, the informational tracking endeavour tracks the meaning-making process, notably through interpretive scaffoldings that leads to plausible realities.Table of ContentsIntroduction xiii Chapter 1. The First Information Theories 1 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. The mathematical theory of information by Shannon 3 1.2.1. Beginnings of this theory 3 1.2.2. Shannon’s generalization 5 1.2.3. Information and entropy 6 1.3. Kolmogorov’s algorithmic theory of information 7 1.3.1. Succinct presentation 7 1.3.2. First algorithmic information theory 8 1.3.3. Second algorithmic information theory 9 1.4. Delahaye’s further developments 10 1.4.1. Gaps 10 1.4.2. Information value 10 1.4.3. Raw information content 11 1.4.4. Pragmatic aspects related to information value 12 1.5. Final remarks 13 Chapter 2. Understanding Shannon through Play 15 2.1. Introduction 15 2.2. The game of tele-balls 16 2.2.1. Layout and rules of the game 16 2.2.2. Producing the source event 17 2.2.3. Channel and transmission 17 2.2.4. Transmission 18 2.2.5. End of the process 19 2.3. The teachings of the tele-ball game 19 2.3.1. The concept of “tele” 20 2.3.2. The technical grounding 20 2.3.3. The system’s language 21 2.3.4. Synchronization and the clock 21 2.3.5. Introduction to noise 22 2.4. The general diagram of communication/transmission 22 2.4.1. Schematic diagram of a general communication system according to Shannon 23 2.4.2. Extension to information beyond the game of tele-balls 24 2.4.3. Sense and nonsense 25 2.4.4. Electronic media designers at work 27 2.5. Conceptual confusion in the so-called information theories 29 2.5.1. Terminological shift 29 2.5.2. Weaver’s levels of information 29 2.5.3. Measuring information: the CONTAINER 30 2.5.4. Inaccuracies and easy approximations between content and container 31 2.5.5. Opening to other perspectives 31 2.6. Conclusion 32 Chapter 3. “Tele” before Shannon 35 3.1. Introduction 35 3.2. The speaking African drums 35 3.2.1. The speaking drums 36 3.2.2. The tone as bit 36 3.2.3. Redundancy 37 3.3. The problems of long-distance communication 38 3.3.1. The ancient solutions 38 3.3.2. The telegraph 39 3.3.3. The Morse system 42 3.3.4. Alpha bravo code 44 3.4. Conclusion 45 Chapter 4. Some Revisions of the Concept of Information 47 4.1. Introduction 47 4.2. A double-faced concept: Capurro and Hjørland 48 4.2.1. Towards an operational concept 49 4.2.2. An etymological exploration 49 4.2.3. Oppositions and relations, taxonomy and complexity 51 4.2.4. Going on… between measurable signal and signifying emergence 52 4.3. The Mathematical Theory of Information (MTI) as a starting point: Segal 52 4.3.1. Mathematics rejoining the Human Sciences? 53 4.3.2. A measure for meaningless information 53 4.3.3. A unifying project that bumped into semantics 55 4.3.4. The incursion of information in the Human Sciences 56 4.3.5. Beyond the MTI 58 4.4. The Diaphoric Definition of Data (DDD): Floridi 59 4.4.1. Information, data, meaning 59 4.4.2. A definition of information based on data 61 4.4.3. Diaphoric Definition of Data in three levels 62 4.4.4. Diaphorae and saliencies 63 4.4.5. Data as a relational entity 64 4.4.6. Beyond the DDD 67 4.5. A pattern-oriented approach (POA): Bates 68 4.5.1. A definition of information based on patterns 69 4.5.2. Discussion 70 4.5.3. Final considerations, with the aim of approaching diverse viewpoints 73 4.6. Founding statements for a theory of information 75 4.6.1. Information and meaning 75 4.6.2. Notion of data 76 4.6.3. Notion of signal 76 4.6.4. Notion of information 77 4.6.5. Notion of sense 78 4.6.6. Notion of message 79 4.6.7. Before concluding 80 4.7. Conclusion 81 Chapter 5. Conceptualization and Representations 83 5.1. Introduction 83 5.2. Natural and artifactual devices for producing representations 84 5.2.1. Meaning? Data processing, representation and information! 84 5.2.2. Hierarchization of representational capabilities 86 5.2.3. Computerized artifacts modeling natural devices 91 5.3. Human conceptualization 94 5.3.1. The relativity of the object 94 5.3.2. The relativity of appearance qualifiers 95 5.3.3. A rigorous formalization of human conceptualization 100 5.4. About what “exists” in common thought, in natural language and in formal language 101 5.4.1. Concepts: the chair, the table and the beginning 101 5.4.2. Conceptual trompe-l’oeil 102 5.4.3. Sensory perception and object genesis 104 5.4.4. Kantian philosophy, the “real” and “knowledge” 108 5.5. The resulting epistemological revolutions 110 5.5.1. Not data, but constructions about the world 111 5.5.2. A relevance horizon-oriented framework 111 5.5.3. The end of truth and objectivity 112 5.6. Conclusion 113 Chapter 6. From Captures to Data 115 6.1. Introduction 115 6.2. An illustrative sketch: a view of the human body 116 6.2.1. The “human specimen” horizon of relevance, defined by its visible forms 116 6.2.2. The “patient” horizon of relevance, defined by its symptoms 117 6.2.3. The “pathology” horizon of relevance, defined by a specialized examination 117 6.2.4. The “clinical case” horizon of relevance, defined by a debate about the case 118 6.2.5. The horizon of Information and Communication Sciences 119 6.2.6. The radical relativity of the “viewpoint” 119 6.3. From the interactional bath to distinction 120 6.3.1. Postulates 120 6.3.2. The supremacy of subjectivity 121 6.3.3. First phase: cut-out in the tissue of indistinct interactions 122 6.3.4. Second phase: generation of an object-entity 123 6.4. Diaphoric data and qualification? 124 6.4.1. Description at the heart of the problem 124 6.4.2. A reminder of the diaphoric approach 126 6.4.3. Zero degree: a-conceptual captures 127 6.4.4. From a-conceptual captures to the factory of views 128 6.4.5. Back to the qualifying phase of the object-entity 129 6.5. Conclusion 131 Chapter 7. From Data to Aggregates 133 7.1. Introduction 133 7.2. Data: raw material of the semantic chain 134 7.2.1. Batesonian perspective 134 7.2.2. Informational raw material 135 7.2.3. Third phase: qualification of the object-entity 135 7.2.4. Rigorous formalization of the qualification of an object-entity 137 7.2.5. From capta to data 138 7.2.6. An example: the map and the territory 139 7.3. Aggregates: meaningful superstructures 140 7.3.1. Back to patterns: essential data or mental constructions? 141 7.3.2. Back to Gestalt theory 142 7.3.3. Aggregates for scaffolding a point of view 143 7.3.4. Aggregate operations: a basic example 144 7.3.5. Coalescence as the foundation for interpretive scaffolding 147 7.3.6. Conceptual integration 149 7.3.7. Pareidolia for illustrating interpretive scaffolding by coalescence 152 7.3.8. In the end 155 7.4. Meaning: individual production or social construct? 158 7.4.1. A subjective, situational and pragmatic conception 158 7.4.2. A laying-out of incommunicable individual experience 159 7.4.3. Negotiated and shareable meaning 160 7.4.4. Public procedures for legalizing knowledge 161 7.4.5. The horizon of relevance underlying conceptualization 162 7.5. Conclusion 163 Chapter 8. Trace Deployment from Indexical Retention to Writing 165 8.1. Introduction 165 8.2. The trace as registered indexical retention 168 8.2.1. Spectrum: the trace as past retention 168 8.2.2. The Res: inscription in a physical mode of existence 171 8.2.3. Wrapping up 175 8.3. The search of the trace as evidence or proof 175 8.3.1. The Studium: the search for meaning in context 176 8.3.2. The Documentum: instruction of the “trace process” 180 8.3.3. Summarizing 185 8.4. The trace as writing 186 8.4.1. The Punctum: writing beyond evidence 186 8.4.2. Some complementary comments before concluding 189 8.5. Conclusion 191 Chapter 9. Interpretive Scaffoldings in Context 195 9.1. Introduction 195 9.2. Information and trace 195 9.2.1. Specter of a real process that took place 195 9.2.2. Retention registered on a medium 197 9.2.3. Qualified by a coherent and credible aggregate 197 9.2.4. Authentified by tracking 198 9.2.5. Traces without information, information without traces? 201 9.3. The horizon of expectation, by Hans Robert Jauss 202 9.3.1. For a reception-centered approach 202 9.3.2 Introduction to the notion of horizon of expectation 203 9.3.3 A generalized cognitive translation of the horizon of expectation 203 9.4. Relevance, according to Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson 204 9.4.1. Communication and information according to Sperber and Wilson 205 9.4.2. Taking the context into account 206 9.4.3. The principle of relevance 208 9.5. Weaving the horizon of expectation and the theory of relevance 209 9.5.1. Extractions and generalizations 209 9.5.2. Being bound to a horizon of relevance 210 9.6. Coalescence considered under the light of a horizon of relevance 211 9.6.1. An ordinary example from everyday life 212 9.7. Interpretive aggregate by means of example: visual sense-making 214 9.7.1. Visual captures 215 9.7.2. Aggregate emergence 216 9.7.3. The horizon of relevance, a framework for interpretation 217 9.7.4. Conclusion 223 Chapter 10. Realities under the Watch of Horizons of Relevance 225 10.1. Introduction 225 10.2. Back to the relation to the Real 226 10.2.1. Truth is a fiction 226 10.2.2. Substituting reality for truth 227 10.2.3. Circumscribing the real versus qualifying the real 227 10.2.4. Interpretive scaffoldings 228 10.3. Some examples 230 10.3.1. A sculpture by Camille Claudel 230 10.3.2. A vegetable 231 10.3.3. Cultural modulations of meaning 232 10.3.4. The seeds of discord 233 10.3.5. The windows and their points of view 233 10.3.6. Final considerations 235 10.4. Conclusion: legalization of meaning in the age of Digital Humanities 235 Conclusion 237 Bibliography 241 Index 253
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cultural Icons and Cultural Leadership
Book SynopsisAuthors in this illuminating book probe the social and spiritual contexts from which select iconic figures emerge as innovators and cultural leaders and draw material into forms that subsequent generations consider pioneering and emblematic. The book identifies creators such as novelists, poets, performers and dramatists who are leaders in their respective genres, and in culture and society at large, and examines the influence exerted on and by their works. Critics and admirers understand the cultural leaders discussed in this book as significant figures affecting social and political change. The chapters cover a range of genres, time periods and individuals, mixing literary and historical analysis with concerns relevant to leadership studies. The book includes a cross-disciplinary analysis focusing on its subjects' roles as leaders within and beyond their fields. Scholars and students of religion, history and popular culture with wide-ranging interests in the humanities will find this book a unique and fascinating look at cultural leadership.Contributors include: J.L. Airey, Y. Ariel, K.M.S. Bezio, W. Clark Gilpin, T. Fessenden, K. Lofton, E. Marienberg, C. McCracken-Flesher, S. Paulsell, C.N. Pondrom, J. WiesenfarthTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction. Cultural icons and cultural leadership Peter Iver Kaufman PART I. ORIGINS OF CULTURAL INFLUENCE 1. Marlowe’s violent reformation: religion, government and rebellion on the Elizabethan stage Kristin M.S. Bezio 2. Jane Austen bowls a googly: the juvenilia Joseph Wiesenfarth 3. Walter Scott: an unexpected icon Caroline McCracken-Flesher 4. Mary Shelley’s Mathilda: gender and the limits of authorial leadership Jennifer L. Airey 5. Emily Dickinson’s civil war: the poet as an agent of cultural change W. Clark Gilpin PART II. CULTURAL LEADERSHIP IN THE MODERN AGE 6. Family resemblances: religion around Virginia Woolf Stephanie Paulsell 7. Cultural leadership and T.S. Eliot: from cultural icon to cultural leader—or not? Cyrena N. Pondrom 8. Billie Holiday and the discipline of progress Tracy Fessenden 9. A different kind of cultural icon: Allen Ginsberg as a counterleader Yaakov Ariel 10. I don’t want to fake you out: Bob Dylan and the search for belief in history Kathryn Lofton 11. Death, resurrection, sacraments and myths: religion around Sting Evyatar Marienberg Index
£90.00
Emerald Publishing Limited Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces: Essays on
Book SynopsisAlternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, club-cultures, objects and practices in modern society that are considered to be actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular culture. The idea of the alternative in popular culture became mainstream with the rise of the counter culture in 1960s America (though there were earlier forms of alternative cultures in America and other Western countries). Alternativity is associated with marginalization, both actively pursued by individuals, and imposed on individuals and sub-cultures, and was originally represented and constructed through acts of transgression, and through shared sub-cultural capital. This edited collection maps the landscape of alternativity and marginalization, providing new theory and methods in a currently under-theorized area, setting out the issues, questions, concerns and directions of this area of study. It demonstrates the theoretical richness and empirical diversity of the interdisciplinary field it encompasses, and is deliberately feminist in its approach and its composition, with a majority of the contributors being women. Divided into three sub-sections, focused on sub-cultures, bodies and spaces, contributors explore this exciting new terrain, both through critiques of theory and new theoretical developments, and case studies of alternativity and marginalization in practice and in performance, expanding our understanding of the alternative, the liminal and the transgressive.Trade ReviewIn this collection of essays, contributors in cultural studies, feminist theory, psychology, philosophy, music, cultural sociology, and American studies analyze issues and directions in studying alternative cultures. Most contributors are women, and most promote the advantages of using feminist approaches to study subcultures, scenes, and other manifestations of alternative popular cultures in America and other countries. Some subjects addressed include fashion subcultures, madness and disability, aging alternative women, regulation of tattooed female bodies, and women’s bodies in heavy metal. B&w photos are included. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Samantha Holland and Karl Spracklen Section I: Subcultures 1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Dressed in Street Fashions?: Investigating Virtually Constructed Fashion Subcultures; Theresa M. Winge 2. Cursed is the Fruit of Thy Womb: Inversion/Subversion and the Inscribing of Morality on Women's Bodies in Heavy Metal; Amanda DiGioia and Dr. Charlotte Naylor Davis 3. Japanophilia in Kuwait: How Far Does International Culture Penetrate?; Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 4. Misogyny as an Artistic Tool in the Construction of '80s Glam Metal's Aesthetics: An Alternative Perspective; Gareth Heritage 5. Reight Mardy Tykes: Gothic/Doom Metal as an Act of English Northernness; M. Selim Yavuz Section II: Bodies 6. Unwritten Rules and Societal Norms of Tattooed Female Bodies; Charlotte Dann 7. 'Tattooed and Beautiful?': Tattoo Collecting and Embodied Gender Deviance; Beverly Yuen Thompson 8. Russian Feminisms, Queer Activism and the Western Gaze: Female Bodies Between Spectacles and Celebration, Victimizations and (Self-)Marginalization; M. Katharina Wiedlack 9. Out of Time: Anohni and Transgendered/Transage Transgression; Abigail Gardner 10. Irrational Perspectives and Untenable Positions: Sociology, 'Mental Illness' and 'Dis'ability; Kay Inckle Section III: Spaces 11. Ageing Alternative Women: Discourses of Authenticity, Resistance and 'Coolness'; Samantha Holland 12. Girls to the Front? Gender and Alternative Spaces; Laura Way 13. "In the Land of Grey and Pink": Popular Music Alternativity in the Lived and Imagined City of Canterbury 2017; Asya Draganova and Shane Blackman Conclusion: Making Sense of Alternativity in Leisure and Culture: Back to Sub-Culture?; Karl Spracklen
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Collective Ink Albion's Secret History: Snapshots of England’s
Book SynopsisAlbion's Secret History compiles snapshots of English pop culture’s rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who served to define England, Guy Mankowski looks at those who have really shaped Albion’s secret history, not just its oft-quoted official cultural history. He departs from the narrative that dutifully follows the Beatles, The Sex Pistols and Oasis, and, by instead penetrating the surface of England’s pop history (including the venues it was shaped in), throws new light on ideas of Englishness. As well as music, Mankowski draws from art, film, architecture and politics, showing the moments at which artists like Tricky and Goldfrapp altered our sense of a sometimes green but sometimes unpleasant land. 'The most illuminating odyssey through lost, hidden or forgotten English pop culture since Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine.' Rhian E. Jones, author of Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender
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Collective Ink London Dream, The: Migration and the Mythology of
Book SynopsisThe London Dream tells the story of a city that promises opportunity, excitement and the possibility of prosperity. It is a mythology has launched millions of migrant journeys. No one benefits more from the flow of willed and willing workers than London’s employers. And still, they come. They come to a city propelled by a newly cool capitalism and hungry for workers to serve it. From actors to cleaners, academics to café workers, The London Dream explores the stories of Londoners chasing the dreams offered by the city and the economy within which their precarious hopes become profits.
£18.99
Collective Ink On a Common Culture: The Idea of a Shared
Book SynopsisIn the United Kingdom, the notion of a common culture has always been suggestive of a national culture which is accessible to all and provides various kinds of benefits to all, including participation in national cultural life. Brian Russell Graham's exploration of the theme aims to clarify how we might define common culture in the twenty-first century, and offers a perspective on specific benefits of such a shared culture. Common culture can generate a sense of inclusive national identity, he argues. Additionally, it can even out differences in our so-called ‘cultural capital’ – it can make people more equal in terms of their cultural lives.
£11.99
Collective Ink Almighty Machine, The: How Digitalization Is
Book SynopsisThe hymn of Digitalization is nothing new: We must encourage the creation of new apps. We must develop AI in order to prevail among international competition. Technology's advance will halt climate change and let robots do the dumb stuff for us. Our faith in technology is powerful because it has saved us in the past. The Almighty Machine shows us technology’s flip side. The things that once powered us toward a brighter tomorrow are already undermining our quality of life. The data stream has shattered our concentration, human relationships have been reduced to a menu of emojis, constant surveillance has nullified much of our privacy, and the development of AI could be the beginning of the end for us. We are becoming the casualties of our own success. Pekka Vahvanen's bristling and timely critique, deftly translated by Mark Jones, throws doubt on the necessity of technological development in a world saturated in tech. The Almighty Machine presents an important question: Does progress no longer make us happier?
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Collective Ink Fall of the West, The: The Story behind Covid,
Book SynopsisIn The Syndicate (2004) Nicholas Hagger described how in the 20th century a Syndicate of élitist mega-rich families levelled down the leading Western countries by promoting revolutions, wars and independence movements against their empires, and planned a New World Order and world government that would control the earth’s resources for their own benefit. In The Secret History of the West (2005) he traced the Syndicate’s roots back to secret Freemasonic organisations and revolutions that undermined the West from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. In The Fall of the West (2022), the third book in his trilogy on the West, Hagger updates the story to include the pandemic and describes how Syndicate-driven 21st-century events from the War on Terror to Covid have brought the Western financial system to the brink of collapse and shifted power from the West to the East, and China. In this first impartial attempt to assemble all the evidence to date for the origin of Covid (like fitting together available pieces of a jigsaw to reveal the main picture) Hagger, the first to discover the Cultural Revolution in China in March 1966, finds that the three main features of Covid-19 were man-made by American NIAID-funded medics in 2002 and patented 73 times since 2008, and seem to have been surreptitiously used as a bio-weapon in a Syndicate plan to limit the rise of China and its expanding trade. A dangerous new Biological Age has been born, and the West faces being levelled down and a sudden fall. Hagger sees the post-Covid West’s dream of creating a good New World Order - a vaccine-protected democratic, presidential, part-federal world government and World State with sufficient authority to abolish war and solve the world’s post-Covid problems - as being challenged by the self-interested Syndicate’s levelling-down; and to survive, it first has to go along with the Syndicate’s plan for West and East to draw together into an authoritarian world government involving China, and democratise later. This is a thought-provoking work with a prophetic vision of the future.
£17.09
Liverpool University Press The Hangover after the Handover: Places, Things
Book SynopsisAs a former British colony (1842–1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed over the course of history, from ‘Barren Rock’, ‘Fragrant Harbour’, ‘Port of Incense’, ‘Pearl of the Orient’, ‘Asia’s World City’, ‘Vertical City’, ‘Floating City’ to ‘City at the End of Time’ among others. In the post-handover, post-hangover years, the circulation, reverberation and reception of cultural symbols, old and new, such as the King of Kowloon, Song Emperor’s Terrace, and Lion Rock have revealed the multifaceted appearances and connotations of Hong Kong’s ‘local’. At the intersections between real-life events, cultural production and consumption and multiple voices, the book extracts and examines the local relations between the inhabitants of the territory and the human and nonhuman agencies that stand or that have once stood for Hong Kong across time and through space. Via the lens of places, things and cultural icons, the book offers lessons to learn from Hong Kong by opening up manifold postcolonial, translocal and planetary perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia—unprecedented since the Cold War period of the twentieth century—shared by Hong Kong and other regions. After all, what does it mean, or take, to live in the contemporary world when the local, global and national are constantly given new meanings?Trade Review“This is a highly original and timely study in a field that is still developing, having been neglected in terms of its global cultural significance until very recently. Now Dr Wu’s book couldn’t be more topical.”Professor Michael Ingham, Lingnan University, Hong KongTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: THE HANGOVER AFTER THE HANDOVERCHAPTER 1LOCAL RELATIONS AND THEIR POSTCOLONIAL OUTLOOKSCHAPTER 2HONG KONG’S LOCAL: (DE-)GENERATING LOCAL RELATIONSCHAPTER 3ALL HAIL THE KING OF KOWLOON! MEDIATING MALLEABLE MATERIALITYCHAPTER 4CONNECTING WITH THE LOCAL, OR NOT: THE SONG EMPEROR’S TERRACECHAPTER 5ANOTHER ROCK, ANOTHER HONG KONG STORY: LION ROCK FROM BELOW AND ABOVECONCLUSION: LOCAL AND TRANSLOCAL: LESSONS FROM HONG KONGBIBLIOGRAPHY
£109.50
Emerald Publishing Limited AI and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisAI and Popular Culture explores the development and social significance of artificial intelligence by looking at representations in fiction, film and television, as well as examining the effect of AI technologies on the way we consume culture. Lee Barron traces the evolution of AI – from the Turing Machine to deep learning, to interrogate the key issues and debates. He uses examples of AI from pop culture to help us understand how the technology is changing aspects of society from surveillance and work to human relationships with technology. AI and Popular Culture sheds light on how artificial intelligence has changed our world and helps you to understand where it might take us next. It also makes significant contributions to Media and Cultural Studies, Humanities, and Social Sciences, as well as to subjects such as AI Ethics and Society and Computing.Table of ContentsIntroduction- The Age of AI Technics Chapter 1. The Development of Artificial Intelligence and AI Debates Chapter 2. AI and Literature Chapter 3. AI and Film Chapter 4. AI and Television Chapter 5. AI Culture: Living with Artificial Intelligence Conclusion- AI Futures: The Terminator, Kurzweil or Machine Learning Scenario?
£17.09
Liverpool University Press The Hangover after the Handover: Places, Things
Book SynopsisAs a former British colony (1842–1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed over the course of history, from ‘Barren Rock’, ‘Fragrant Harbour’, ‘Port of Incense’, ‘Pearl of the Orient’, ‘Asia’s World City’, ‘Vertical City’, ‘Floating City’ to ‘City at the End of Time’ among others. In the post-handover, post-hangover years, the circulation, reverberation and reception of cultural symbols, old and new, such as the King of Kowloon, Song Emperor’s Terrace, and Lion Rock have revealed the multifaceted appearances and connotations of Hong Kong’s ‘local’. At the intersections between real-life events, cultural production and consumption and multiple voices, the book extracts and examines the local relations between the inhabitants of the territory and the human and nonhuman agencies that stand or that have once stood for Hong Kong across time and through space. Via the lens of places, things and cultural icons, the book offers lessons to learn from Hong Kong by opening up manifold postcolonial, translocal and planetary perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia—unprecedented since the Cold War period of the twentieth century—shared by Hong Kong and other regions. After all, what does it mean, or take, to live in the contemporary world when the local, global and national are constantly given new meanings?Trade Review“This is a highly original and timely study in a field that is still developing, having been neglected in terms of its global cultural significance until very recently. Now Dr Wu’s book couldn’t be more topical.”Professor Michael Ingham, Lingnan University, Hong KongTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: THE HANGOVER AFTER THE HANDOVERCHAPTER 1LOCAL RELATIONS AND THEIR POSTCOLONIAL OUTLOOKSCHAPTER 2HONG KONG’S LOCAL: (DE-)GENERATING LOCAL RELATIONSCHAPTER 3ALL HAIL THE KING OF KOWLOON! MEDIATING MALLEABLE MATERIALITYCHAPTER 4CONNECTING WITH THE LOCAL, OR NOT: THE SONG EMPEROR’S TERRACECHAPTER 5ANOTHER ROCK, ANOTHER HONG KONG STORY: LION ROCK FROM BELOW AND ABOVECONCLUSION: LOCAL AND TRANSLOCAL: LESSONS FROM HONG KONGBIBLIOGRAPHY
£29.99
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban
Book SynopsisAn intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads, several series of "penny dreadful" stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack is impressively researched social history and provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.Trade ReviewA good example of the ways in which cultural history still has the potential to unlock meaning when applied to a particular sort of problem. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Embraces the sheer messiness and multivocal nature of popular culture and thus radically advances our understanding of the Victorians and their world. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *A careful and thoughtful look at a moral panic become myth that well deserved its 2013 Katherine Brigg's award. ... All future writing will owe a debt to this book. ... In bottling this whirlwind of differing sources of a protean devil, Karl Bell has succeeded, through the narrative, of apprehending the fractions of Spring-heeled Jack. * GRAMARYE *A significant attempt to tackle an important aspect of Victorian popular culture. * HISTORY TODAY *A model of the way in which accounts of such phenomena should be studied. [...] A brilliant account of a fascinating subject. * MAGONIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack The Cultural Anatomy of a Legend Spring-heeled Jack, Crime and the Reform of Customary Culture Spring-heeled Jack and Victorian Society Spring-heeled Jack and London Cultural Nodes: Localities Cultural Modes: Oral, Literary and Visual The Decline and Demise of Spring-heeled Jack Conclusion: Spring-heeled Jack and Victorian Popular Cultures Bibliography
£45.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Memory and Myths of the Norman Conquest
Book SynopsisIn an innovative approach drawn from Memory Studies, this book seeks to uncover how the Norman Conquest is popularly "remembered". The Norman Conquest is one of the most significant events in British history - but how is it actually remembered and perceived today? This book offers a study of contemporary British memory of the Norman Conquest, focussing on shared knowledge, attitudes and beliefs. A major source of evidence for its findings are references to the Norman Conquest in contemporary British newspaper articles: 807 articles containing references to the Conquest were collectedfrom ten British newspapers, covering a recent three year period. A second important source of information is a quantitative survey for which a representative sample of 2000 UK residents was questioned. These sources are supplemented by the study of contemporary books and film material, as well as medieval chronicles for comparative purposes, and the author also draws on cultural theory to highlight the characteristics and functions of distant memory and myth. The investigation culminates in considering the potential impact of memory of the Norman Conquest in Britain today. Siobhan Brownlie is a Lecturer in the School of Arts, Languages & Cultures at the University of Manchester.Trade ReviewThis fascinating book [is] part of a new and very welcome move towards rigorous quantitative study in the field of the public understanding of the past....Brownlie['s] analysis of the myth of the 'Norman Yoke' and its rich radical history is particularly illuminating. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *Brownlie's very valuable, stimulating and thought-provoking contribution should encourage other scholars to follow her into this field. * FOLKLORE *An excellent analysis of how myth and memory interrelate. * JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH *Table of ContentsMemory and Method Knowledge, Symbolization and Tradition Multiple Remediation Presentism and Multidirectionality Affective Mobility Mythologization: A Founding Myth A Time-honoured Myth Contradictory Myths Memorial and Mythic Functions Significance of Distant Memory Afterword Appendices Bibliography
£71.25
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Chivalry and the Medieval Past
Book SynopsisAn examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define, chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenomenon, constantly adapted in the hands of medieval knights, Renaissance princes, early modern antiquarians, Enlightenment scholars, modern civic authorities, authors, historians and re-enactors. This book explores the rich variations in how the Middle Ages were conceptualised and historicised to illuminate the plurality of uses of the past. Using chivalry as a lens through which to examine concepts and uses of the medieval, it provides a critical assessment of the ways in which medieval chivalry became a shorthand to express contemporary ideals, powerfully demonstrating the ways in which history could be appropriated. The chapters combine attention to documentary evidence with what material culture can tell us, in particular using the built environment and the landscape as sources to understand how the medieval past was renegotiated. With contributions spanning diverse geographic regions and periods, it redraws current chronological boundaries by considering medievalism from the late Middle Ages to the present. Katie Stevenson is Senior Lecturer in Late Mediaeval History and Director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the University of St Andrews; Barbara Gribling is a Junior Research Fellow in the Department of History at Durham University. Contributors: David W. Allan, Stefan Goebel, Barbara Gribling, Steven C. Hughes, Peter N. Lindfield, Antti Matikkala, Rosemary Mitchell, Paul Pickering, Katie StevensonTrade ReviewFull of fascinating discussion regarding the long-term cultural impacts of chivalry. * FOLKLORE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Chivalry and the Medieval Past - Katie Stevenson and 'An Institution Quite Misunderstood': Chivalry and Sentimentalism in the Late Scottish Enlightenment - David W. Allan Creating a 'Medieval Past' for the Swedish Orders of Knighthood - Antti Matikkala 'Hung Round with the Helmets, Breast-Plates, and Swords of our Ancestors': Allusions to Chivalry in Eighteenth-Century Gothicism - Peter N. Lindfield Knights on the Town? Commercial and Civic Chivalry in Victorian Manchester - Rosemary A. Mitchell 'The Dark Side of Chivalry': Victory, Violence and the Victorians - Barbara Gribling Daze and Knights: Anachronism, Duelling and the Chivalric Ethic in Nineteenth-Century Italy - Steven C. Hughes The German Crusade: The Battles of Tannenberg, 1410 and 1914 - Stefan Goebel 'Hark ye back to the age of valour': Re-enacting Chivalry from the Eglinton Tournament to Kill Streak - Paul Pickering
£76.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Studies in Medievalism XXI: Corporate Medievalism
Book SynopsisEssays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance. Academia has never been immune to corporate culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore precisely how financial institutions have promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the middle ages. In the second part of the book, contributors explore medievalism in a variety of areas, juxtaposing specific case studies with broader investigations of the discipline's motives and methods; they include Charles Kingsley's racial Anglo-Saxonism, Jessie L. Weston's Sir Gawain and the treatment of womenin medievalist film. The book also includes a spirited response to previous Studies in Medievalism volumes on the topic neomedievalism. Contributors: Harry Brown, Henrik Aubert, Helen Brookman, Pamela Clements, KellyAnnFitzpatrick, Jil Hanifan, Michael R. Kightley, Felice Lifshitz, Lauren S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, M. J. Toswell, J. Rubén Valdés MiyaresTrade ReviewPresents an exciting and thoughtful selection of essays. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsEditorial Note - Lives of Total Dedication? Medieval and Modern Corporate Identity - M J Toswell Reincorporating the Medieval: Morality, Chivalry, and Honor in Post-Financial-Meltdown Corporate Revisionism - Brent Moberly Reincorporating the Medieval: Morality, Chivalry, and Honor in Post-Financial-Meltdown Corporate Revisionism - Kevin Moberly Medievalism and Representations of Corporate Identity - Jil Hanifan and KellyAnn Fitzpatrick Knights of the Ownership Society: Economic Inequality and Medievalist Film - Harry Brown A Corporate neo-Beowulf: Ready or Not, Here We Come - E L Risden Unsettled Accounts: Corporate Culture and George R. R. Martin's Fetish Medievalism - Lauryn S. Mayer Historicizing Neumatic Notation: Medieval Neumes as Cultural Artifacts of Early Modern Times - Eduardo Henrik Aubert Hereward the Dane and the English, but Not the Saxon: Kingsley's Racial Anglo-Saxonism - Michael R. Kightley From Romance to Ritual: Jessie L. Weston's Gawain - Helen Brookman The Cinematic Sign of the Grail - J R Valdes Miyares Destructive Dominae: Women and Vengeance in Medievalist Films - Felice Lifshitz Neomedievalism Unplugged - Pamela Clements and Carol Robinson Notes on Contributors
£66.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Medievalism: Key Critical Terms
Book SynopsisDefinitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism. The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume aims to provide such a framework, by calling into question the problematic yet commonly accepted vocabulary used in Medievalism Studies. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field, define and exemplify in a lively and accessible style the essential terms used when speaking of the later reception of medieval culture. The terms: Archive, Authenticity, Authority, Christianity, Co-disciplinarity, Continuity, Feast, Genealogy, Gesture, Gothic, Heresy, Humor, Lingua, Love, Memory, Middle, Modernity, Monument, Myth, Play, Presentism, Primitive, Purity, Reenactment, Resonance, Simulacrum, Spectacle, Transfer, Trauma, Troubadour Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French and Graduate Coordinator at Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ, USA); Richard Utz is Chair and Professor of Medievalism Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA, USA). Contributors: Nadia Altschul, Martin Arnold, Kathleen Biddick, William C. Calin, Martha Carlin, Pam Clements, Michael Cramer, Louise D'Arcens, Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Vincent Ferré, Matthew Fisher, Karl Fugelso, Jonathan Hsy, Amy S. Kaufman, Nadia Margolis, David Matthews,Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberly, Kevin Moberly, Gwendolyn Morgan, Laura Morowitz, Kevin D. Murphy, Nils Holger Petersen, Lisa Reilly, Edward Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Juanita Feros Ruys, Tom Shippey, Clare A. Simmons, Zrinka Stahuljak, M. Jane Toswell, Richard Utz, Angela Jane Weisl.Trade ReviewI firmly believe this book will prove quite useful to students, professors, and the general reader. The variety of ideas, approaches, and subjects touched upon is stunning and will reward careful reading. * MEDIEVALLY SPEAKING *[I]nvites the readers to confront themselves with an 'open structure' that is not only the mark of a heuristic approach but also a real epistemological method. . . . In the years to come, this list of key terms will certainly lay the foundations for the renewal of medievalist disciplines, by broadening their outlook and improving their hermeneutical tools. * COMITATUS *Emery and Utz provide an encyclopedia of essential vocabulary (e.g., authenticity, gothic, primitive) written by leading scholars, often accompanied by brief but engaging case studies. . . . . The reader is left with a firm grounding in the depth and scope of the scholarly field and various recreational pursuits of both amateurs and specialists. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsMaking Medievalism: A Critical Overview - Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz Archive - Matthew Fisher Authenticity - Pamela Clements Authority - Gwendolyn Morgan Christianity - William Calin Co-Disciplinarity - Jonathan Hsy Continuity - Feast - Martha Carlin Genealogy - Zrinka Stahuljak Gesture - Carol L. Robinson Gothic - Kevin Murphy and Lisa Reilly Heresy - Nadia Margolis Humor - Clare A Simmons Lingua - M J Toswell Love - Juanita Feros Ruys Memory - Vincent Ferre Middle - David Matthews Modernity - Tom Shippey Monument - E L Risden Myth - Martin Arnold Play - Brent Moberly and Kevin Moberly Presentism - Louise D'Arcens M80534 - Laura Morowitz Purity - Amy S. Kaufman Reenactment - Michael A Cramer Resonance - Nils Holger Petersen Simulacrum - Lauryn S. Mayer Spectacle - Angela Jane Weisl Transfer - Nadia Altschul Trauma - Kathleen Biddick Troubadour - Elizabeth Fay
£23.74
Liverpool University Press California Journal
Book SynopsisIn 1969, California is not just the new Eldorado: it is the crucible where civilisation is accelerating, self-destructs, and is reborn. It's the probe of Spaceship Earth. The hippy phenomenon, communes, the ecological movement, great collective ceremonies like park-ins and rock concerts, the flourishing of sects ranging from mystics to Marxists, the experience of 'weed' and 'acid', are temporary images and elements of a search for a new truth, a new religion, a new society. Long before it became fashionable for European intellectuals to write about their voyages to the United States, Edgar Morin, one of France's leading intellectual figures and at that time known as a path-breaking and innovative sociologist and researcher of popular culture, recounts the story of his experiences in the cauldron of change that was California, including his encounters with some of the leading minds of that time. The book combines Morin's accounts of his experiences with his own search for answers to fundamental questions about the human condition. For a few months, the author had a profound feeling of being drawn into the heart of the 'great questions', played out personally and societally. The result is an engaging and prophetic work that has as much if not more to offer today than it did when it was first published in French.
£27.92
Historic England The English Seaside
Book SynopsisThere is a powerful sense of place at the seaside. You know what to expect. Fishing villages usually have a pier, boats, lobster pots, and masses of seagulls while resort towns have esplanades, piers, grand hotels and gardens. Certain seaside towns have just about everything: Weymouth, for example, has a grand parade of hotels, a wide esplanade and a small fishing village. Blackpool has more of everything – three piers, miles of hotels, the Tower, Winter Gardens, trams, illuminations – but no fishing and no castle! There is something about the seaside that brings out the beating heart of John Bull in the English: doggedly erecting our wind-breaks to capture every vestige of a watery sun; wrestling with deckchairs; wrapping up against the determined wind on the verandas of our beach huts; accepting that ‘sand’ in ‘sandwich’ means just that! But we still love it and nowhere else in the world can match its myriad charms and eccentricities. For too long the English seaside has suffered from bad press, accused of being tatty, cold grey and windswept. Peter Williams’ evocative photographs in this fully revised edition of his acclaimed book will make you want to rediscover what a fantastic place the seaside is – full of character, charm and ‘Englishness’. Trade ReviewIt tells the story almost entirely in photographs after a foreword, and captures well the atmosphere of seaside towns, whether sedate or raucous, their views, amenities and curious quirks.Mark Smulian, Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History SocietyTable of Contents Foreword by John K Walton Introduction by Peter Williams The natural coast Fishing Lighthouses Time and tide Weather Lifeboats War and peace Religion Bathing On the beach Punch and Judy Donkeys Piers Beach huts Cliff lifts Hotels Wooden walls Caravans and chalets Seaside architecture of the 1930s Shelters Telephone Kiosks Something to sit on Contemporary seaside sculpture Public conveniences Seaside gardens Model villages Amusements Helter-skelters Carousels Golf Food Famous people Palmists and clairvoyants Joke shops Pirates, smugglers and wreckers Signage Wind farms Art galleries and museums Contemporary buildings A nice cup of tea Staring out to sea Acknowledgements Index of places
£20.90
Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Catalan Culture
Book SynopsisWhy Catalans insist on their identity. The tragic fate of the millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national voice has been submerged and fractured by a centralist state intent on its arbitrary, unitarian vision of a homogenized Spain. Catalan difference has emerged sporadically in the persons of such irrepressible geniuses as Gaudí, Dalí, Miró and Bigas Luna but, in the configuration of modern Europe, the relentlessinevitability of the unified state has imposed and re-imposed its singular cultural voice. The present volume attempts to equip the English-speaking reader with a fuller understanding of the uniqueness and quality of the culture of Catalonia by providing a comprehensive portfolio of the creative contribution of the nation across a broad spectrum of achievement. Though the artistic wealth of the medieval period is acknowledged appropriately, this study, with its focus on the modern age, privileges excellence not only in the more conventional, academic spheres of history, music, language, literature and the arts but also explores the value of more basic, popular experience inareas such as sport, cinema, festivals, cuisine and the city of Barcelona. DOMINIC KEOWN is Reader in Catalan at the University of Cambridge. CONTRIBUTORS: Elisenda Barbé, Robert Davidson, Alexander Ibarz, Louise Johnson, Dominic Keown, Tess Knighton, Jaume Martí-Olivella, Dorothy Noyes, Montserrat Roser i Puig, Antoni Segura, Miquel Strubell.Trade ReviewA lively and informative volume that covers a wide range of aspects of Catalan culture ... Currently the only book on the market that provides this sort of introductory overview of contemporary Catalan culture, it should become a key text for undergraduate courses especially ... a solid and dependable companion. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *A much-needed and timely step in the right direction for Catalan Studies. * HISPANIA *[The editor] has given 'lay' readers of English an accessible introduction to the country's history and culture. Second, he has but provided his colleagues in the field of Catalan Studies with a very solid conceptual base for future growth and innovation. The editor and his collaborators should be warmly saluted for carrying out this very important work. * CATALAN REVIEW *In summary [...] for any student, or academic, studying Hispania.it is a must read. * REFERENCE REVIEWS *[T]his relatively brief volume is succinct and impressively complete. It covers a broad range of topics, each treated with care by its author. [...] The contributors offer masterful syntheses and sharp analyses of complex issues. [...] Informative, insightful, and engaging, this volume will interest readers in search of a general survey. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContemporary Catalan Culture - Dominic Keown Medieval Catalan Culture, 801-1492 - Alexander Ibarz Catalonia: From Industrialisation to the Present Day - Antoni Segura Catalonia: From Industrailisation to the Present Day - Elisenda Barbe Barcelona: The Siege City - Robert Davidson The Catalan Language - Miquel Strubell Sport and Catalonia - Louise Johnson The Music of Catalonia - Tess Knighton Catalan Cinema: An Uncanny Transnational Performance - Jaume Marti-Olivella Festival and the Shaping of Catalan Community - Dorothy Noyes What's Cooking in Catalonia? - Montserrat Roser i Puig
£76.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Brazilian Horror Cinema in the TwentyFirst
Book SynopsisBrazil's pressing socio-political questions as seen through the country's horror-film-influenced audio-visual production between 2008 and 2022.
£85.50
Reaktion Books Retro: The Culture of Revival
Book SynopsisFlares are in. Flares are out. Flares are back again. Fads constantly cycle and recycle through popular culture, each time in a slightly new incarnation. The term retro' has become the buzz word for describing such trends, but what does it mean? Elizabeth Guffey explores here the ambiguous cultural meanings of the term and reveals why some trends just never seem to stay dead. Drawing upon a wealth of original research and entertaining anecdotal material, Guffey unearths the roots of the term retro and chronicles its evolving manifestations in culture and art throughout the last century. Whether in art, design, fashion or music, the idea of retro has often meant a re-emergence of styles and sensibilities that evoke familiar touchstones of memory from the not-so-distant past. Guffey explores how and why the past keeps coming back to haunt us in a variety of forms, from the comeback of Art Nouveau nearly fifty years after its original decline, to the infusion of Art Deco into the kitsch glamour of Pop art, to the recent popularity over 1980s vogue.She also considers how advertisers and media have employed the power of such cultural nostalgia, using recycled television jingles, familiar old slogans and famous art to sell a surprising range of products. An engrossing and wholly unprecedented study, "Retro" reveals how the past is embedded in the future of contemporary art and culture.Trade Reviewan enjoyable exploraton of retro chic ... Guffey offers an intriguing investigation of our seduction by the past The Independent provides an interesting take on the various rapidly recycling revivals of the late 20th century ... a thought-provoking read - it weaves in lots of fresh and stimulating material which adds to our understanding of the complexities of post war cultural life. Building Design This is an informative, interesting and provocative book that adds depth and complexity to many aspects of modern art and design history and to diverse related areas of academic study. Journal of Design History In this informative and lively book, Elizabeth Guffey cuts through the ambiguities of the term retro and examines its roots, evolution and myriad manifestations ... Throughout, the book seeks to understand how and why the recent past has been transformed into a revolving door of pop historicism ... Based on considerable original research and including rich anecdotal material, the book is aimed at all readers interested in retro as well as twentieth century art, design and consumer culture. Concept for Living Magazine Guffey's analysis is an important complement to design-history books that gloss over cultural undercurrents that help shape the way things look. Winterthur Portfolio
£19.95
