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Bringing together diverse perspectives on race and its representation in Doctor Who, this book offers understandings of the cultural significance of race in the program - how the show's representations of racial diversity, colonialism, nationalism, and racism affect our daily lives and change the way we relate to each other.

While films have explored national and political borders, they have also attempted to identify, challenge, and imagine frontiers of another kind: social, ethnic, religious, and gendered. This title provides an insightful exploration into the depiction and imagination of European borders in cinema after World War II.

Examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces. This title maps how cultural productions in art, architecture, and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of place and identity through events, artifacts, and attitudes.

By establishing the category of crime - by drawing a line between the lawful and criminal, however thin, blurry, or even effectively meaningless the line may in practice become - society offers its own perhaps most consequential self-definition. Film, the author argues is an especially fruitful medium for considering questions like these.

Australian TV News explores the role of entertainment in Australian television news over the past decade. Using textual analysis, industry interviews and audience research, it examines changing relationships and argues that 'infotainment' and satire are increasingly becoming significant methods of informing audiences about serious news issues.

Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies, and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural, and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the increasing corporatization of the academy - an environment emphasizing publication, narrow research, and a vulnerable tenure system - is creating a crisis in higher education best understood through the language of zombie culture: the undead, contagion, and plague, among others. Zombies in the Academy presents essays from a variety of scholars and creative writers who present an engaging and entertaining appeal for serious recognition of the conditions of contemporary humanities teaching, culture, and labour practices.

Offers a critical account of four of the most significant avant-garde Chinese art groups and associations of the late 1970s and '80s. This title is made up largely of conversations conducted by the author with members of these organizations that offer an overview of the historical circumstances under which the groups and associations developed.

Examining art that intersects with science and seeks to make visible what cannot ordinarily be seen with the naked eye, this title provides insight into new understandings of materiality and life. It includes an extensive overview of the history of nanoart from the work of Umberto Boccioni onwards.

Outside of London, no other British city has attracted more film-makers than Liverpool. Sometimes standing in for other cities or acting as a version of its own past, Liverpool is an adaptable filmic backdrop. From the earliest makers of moving images - among them the Lumiere brothers - Liverpool has endured as a cinematic destination for years.

Written by fans for fans, Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks is an intelligent yet accessible guide to the various aspects of the show and its subsequent film. With commentary from both first-generation and more recent followers, essays capture the fascinating universe of Twin Peaks, from Audrey Horne's sense of style to Agent Cooper's dream psychology.

In this anthology, a panel of rising and established popular culture scholars examines the phenomenon of Star Trek fan culture and its most compelling dimensions. The resulting collection is both critical and respectful, capturing the practices and attitudes of a fan culture that is arguably the world's best-known and most misunderstood.

The rapid development of Hong Kong has occasioned the demolition of buildings and landscapes of historic significance, but film acts as a repository for memories of these lost places, vanished vistas, and material objects. This book offers a glimpse into the history of film production practices in Hong Kong.

The continued relevance of Star Wars owes much to the passion of its fans. For millions of people around the world, the films are more than diversions - they are a way of life. Addressing the films from a variety of cultural perspectives, this book explores various aspects of Star Wars fandom, from its characters to its philosophy.

Few could have predicted the enduring affection inspired by the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With its origins in a script Joss Whedon wrote for a 1992 feature film of the same name, the series gathered a devoted audience that remains loyal to the show. This book explores how this devotion is internalized, celebrated, and critiqued.

From his debut in a six-page story in 1939 to his portrayal in the Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world's most popular superhero. This book explores the unlikely devotion to the Dark Knight, from his inauspicious beginnings on the comic book page to the cult television series of the 1960s and on to films and video games of today.

Following the two previous volumes in this series of practitioner interviews with Danish directors, this title focuses on Danish documentary cinema. Emphasizing the documentary cinema, it features filmmakers who belong to the generation born in the 1970s.

Tracing key critical positions, people, and institutions in Australian film, this book interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but also its relationships to adjacent disciplines and institutions. It examines the position of film theorists and their relationship to film industry practitioners and policy makers.

Conflict photographer and critical theorist Rita Leistner applies Marshall McLuhan's semiotic theories of language, media and technology to iPhone photographs taken during a military embed in Afghanistan. In a series of iProbes - a portmanteau of iPhone and probe - Leistner reveals the face of war through the extensions of man.

The first comprehensive guide to filmic representations of Sao Paulo, this book serves as an introduction to the city for film enthusiasts, visitors and tourists while simultaneously opening scholarly debates on global concerns such as marginalization, rapid urbanization and child poverty.

An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated, criticized, and studied in many films, San Francisco is both fragile and robust. Gathering more than forty short pieces on specific scenes from San Franciscan films, this book includes essays on topics that dominate the history of filmmaking in the city.

Exploring legendary Prague landmarks as they appear on-screen - including the Charles Bridge, Old Town, Mala Strana, Liechtenstein Palace, Wenceslas Square, and Prague Castle, this book discusses the intersection of the capital city and its cinematic representations; Prague and the Czech New Wave; and the iconic Barrandov Studios.

One of contemporary music's most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's music draws inspiration from painting, literature, philosophy and more. This book balances critical analysis of the music and close scrutiny of its aesthetic and philosophical contexts, also examining the issues fundamental to understanding the composer.

Setting new standards in assessing how masculinity in Argentina has been represented in film, literature, and music, this collection untangles Argentine construction of masculinity, manhood, and gendered difference from the nineteenth century to the present. It offer a fresh multidisciplinary approach to modern Argentine masculinity.

Both sides in controversies tend to claim that they have logic on their side. This book proposes that the interminable nature of these controversies suggests there is a problem with the main tool of logic, the syllogism. It argues that metaphors are not just aesthetic tools; they can also be used to judge phenomena.

Includes forty essays that are written in the artists' own voices and take the form of narratives, statements, and interviews.

Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates theatrical engagement with ageing. It also explores the relationship of the plays, performances and practices to the material, social and ideological conditions that produced them.

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