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This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice and participation in a cultural, political and technological sense. It also incorporates current audience and reception studies.

A guide to academics in subject areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies. It includes references to the researchers' principal articles in "Intellect" journals.

This volume of Who's Who in Research series offer a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect's subject area of Film Studies. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and research interests of hundreds of leading international academics as well as references to the researchers' principal articles in Intellect journals.

Acts as a guide to academics in subject areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies. In this series, each volume focuses on a particular subject area and gives details of researchers' principal and bibliographic information as well as a list of articles published in Intellect journals.

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. "e;Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after,"e; noted the online magazine Inside Higher Ed in a recent article about research in the social sciences and humanities. Even for those scholars who don't work directly with international colleagues, staying up-to-date and relevant requires keeping up with international currents of thought in one's field. But when one's colleagues span the globe, it's not always easy to keep track of who's who-or what kind of research they're conducting. That's where Intellect's new series comes in. A set of worldwide guides to leading academics-and their work-across the arts and humanities, Who's Who in Research features comprehensive profiles of scholars in the areas of cultural studies, film studies, media studies, performing arts, and visual arts.Who's Who in Research: Performing Arts includes concise yet detailed listings include each academic's name, institution, biography, and current research interests, as well as bibliographic information and a list of articles published in Intellect journals. The volumes in the Who's Who in Research series will be updated each year, providing the most current information on the foremost thinkers in academia and making them an invaluable resource for scholars, hiring committees, academic libraries, and would-be collaborators across the arts and humanities.

This book discusses spaces of performance from formal opera houses to parks and graffiti around the world and is a companion to Theatre in Passing: A Moscow Photo-Diary. Drawing on Michel de Certeau's notion of a 'second poetic geography', this new volume examines theatrical destinations in New York, London and Paris, Canada, Mexico and Turkey.

Highlighting the ways that digital media can be used in interdisciplinary curriculum, Images and Identity brings together ideas from art and citizenship teachers in the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Portugal and the United Kingdom on producing online curriculum materials. It will be of great interest to students and teachers of art and citizenship education.

When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude. Many new media artworks employ various strategies of dysfunctionality in order to explore issues of power within societies and culture.

Crossing the Street in Hanoi is a study of media and cultural artifacts that constitute the remembrance of a tragic war as reflected in the stories of eight people who lived it. Using memoir, history and criticism, this book is based on scholarly research, teaching and writing, as well as personal journals, interviews and primary source material.

Investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twenty-first century, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regards to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary culture?

Media independence is vital for democracies, and so is the independence of the regulatory bodies governing it. This book explores the complex relationship between media governance and independence of media regulatory authorities within Europe, which form part of the wider framework in which media's independence may flourish or fade.

Brings together contributions from editors at premiere news outlets like Reuters and the BBC to discuss how to assess, measure, and apply impartiality in news and current affairs in a world where the impact of digital technologies is constantly changing how news is covered, presented, and received.

Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema. This book open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures.

The surrealist object is an everyday item that takes on multiple associations by provoking the viewer's imagination. It poses a specific challenge for filmmakers who seek to apply surrealist ideas and approaches when making feature-length narrative films. This book looks at French and Czech films in order to offer a new take on surrealist film.

The Architecture of the Screen examines the relationship between the visual language of film and the onscreen perception of space and architectural design, revealing how film's visual vocabulary influenced architecture in the twentieth century and continues to influence it today.

Explores modes of migrant representation and participation in Irish radio, focusing on the national public broadcaster Raidio Telefis Eireann (RTE) and Dublin community stations and examining the opportunities provided for voicing migrant experience in transcultural program production.

This book acknowledges the increasing cultural impact of the videogame industry. Topics include machinima, game console artwork, politically oriented videogame art and production of digital art. It contains an extended introduction from the editors, updated interviews with artists in the field and a critique of the commercial videogame industry.

Elvis Presley. Marilyn Monroe. LeBron James. Like many cultural figures who hail from the United States, they are known all over the world. ConFiguring America provides a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody America's tendency to produce celebrities and iconic personalities with global reach.

Proposing a new way of understanding the relationship between the city and personal identity, this book argues that there is no longer a distance between the two. It explores the technology, research findings, and new ideas that have made it impossible to sustain conceptions of the city that are based on the criterion of a boundary.

A collection that provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old. In a series of studies, it features contributors who reconsider evaluation practices used in art education and examine various ideas about children's development of visual skills and abilities.

Brings together international scholarship to explore the changing relationships between war, media, and the public from multidisciplinary perspectives and over an extended historical period, spanning from World War I through the so-called 'War on Terror'.

Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema - or the interplay of the still and moving image, this title features photographs and critical essays that explore the ways in which the two media converge and diverge, expanding the boundaries of each in interesting and unexpected ways.

Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception provides new and compelling insights into the social, cultural and economic factors that influence the circulation, presentations and consumption of film. This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the rapidly changing nature of modern cinema.

Explores the impact that factors such as digital design, digital fabrication and prototyping have had on built environments. This book addresses the convergence of several significant and fundamental advancements in the ways that materials and environments are designed, evaluated, and experiences within architecture and related disciplines.

Explores the public constructions of gay, lesbian, and queer identities, as well as ways of thinking about sexuality and gender, in post-socialist cultures across the European region formerly known as the Eastern bloc.

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

Why do we buy? How do our acts of - and ideas about - consumption impact our selves, our institutions and our societies? Why I Buy explains how consumption came to give meaning and value to social and personal life. Gabriel offers an analysis of the psychological roots of the American consumer society and points towards a more sustainable future.

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

A book-length study of the narratology of film music. It brings together work on film music theory and analysis and the literature of narratology and film narratology. It proposes a narratological toolkit for the description and analysis of music in film. It is suitable for those researching or studying film music or film narratology.