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Beyond the Dance Floor is a study about the women who DJ electronic dance music. It focuses on the relationship between women and the conceptions of gender and technology. The author explores issues such as the politics of identity and representation, women-centred DJ communities and the role female DJs and producers play in dance music culture.

Peter Weir's three-decade creative journey from Australia to Hollywood is considered in light of the recent theories on transnational cinema and through an examination of four key films. The films' analyses integrate interviews with Weir and his closest collaborators. The book concludes that Weir is both an Australian and a 'Hollywood' filmmaker.

Presents reviews of 46 film scenes in their encounters with Parisian topography as it intersects with characters, plots, and narrative. This volume examines how the "City of Light" is reinvented through each director's lenses: successive representations add magic to the already mythical city.

With a new collaborative venture between Manuel Vason and forty of the most visually arresting artists working with performance in the United Kingdom, this book brings together newly commissioned images and essays to explore new ways of bridging performance and photography.

Spanish Cinema is one of the most diverse and interesting to international level; but lacks communication platforms and detailed analysis. This title focuses on the main corpus of Spanish movies that have left an indelible tread through different generations of spectators and a place where users can read full analysis of the best films.

Provides a fresh account of landscape photography which focuses on the settler societies of the United States and Australia. This title demonstrates the influence of settler societies on landscape photography, in which photographers captured the fascination with and the appeal of the land and its expense.

Presents an undertaking of the trends, patterns and prospects of the Bangladeshi media. This book covers the country's various mass media, new media, public relations and policy issues surrounding it. It brings together communication and media scholars from within and outside of Bangladesh.

A collection of essays that examines Greek cinema from the silent era to the present as an aesthetic, cultural and political phenomenon. It uses a range of methodological tools to investigate its changing forms and meanings, and locates Greek cinema in the context of the emerging study of peripheral European cinemas.

A collection of essays that proposes 'spatialities' as a conceptual environment in which to consider the increasingly evolving concept of the spatial. It includes chapters that address the interstitial, the liminal and the relational and processes of deformation, distribution and stratification.

Digital technologies are playing an instrumental role in transforming the contemporary museum today. This book is designed around contextual studies - of the themes of virtuality and the art of exhibition, and topics relating to digital mediation, spatial practice, the multimedial museum and curatorial design - and exhibitions.

From bleak expressionist works to the edgy political works of the New German Cinema to the feel-good "Heimat" films of the postwar era, "Directory of World Cinema: Germany" aims to offer a wider film and cultural context for the films that have emerged from Germany--including some of the East German films recently made available to Western audiences for the first time. With contributions by leading academics and emerging scholars in the field, this volume explores the key directors, themes, and periods in German film history, and demonstrates how genres have been adapted over time to fit historical circumstances. Rounding out this addition to the Directory of World Cinema series are fifty full-color stills, numerous reviews and recommendations, and a comprehensive filmography.

This book guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where 'being' is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa creates an alternative perspective from which to interpret and engage with the world around us.

Television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society. Informed by the nation's historical and cultural heritage, the narratives offer insight into Italian society and competing versions of Italian identity, highlighting the wide array of television programming available outside of Britain and the US.

This volume addresses the great directors and key artistic movements of France, but also ventures beyond these films and figures by examining many neglected but intriguing French films. Essays explore stylistic elements, cultural contexts and various conceptions of cinema in France. The book also includes film reviews illustrated by screenshots.

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

Includes articles that provide an examination of the significance of Istanbul in the critically acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's cinema, the city's representation in films made in the West and in Turkey in different periods. This title also features articles that focus on key locations, such as the famous train station Haydarpasa and more.

Includes short synopses of 44 scenes from films that illustrate the changing ways in which the city of Madrid has appeared on screen in a variety of genres by an eclectic range of directors. This book also includes a selection of six spotlight essays that look at key directors, themes, and significant periods from Madrid's rich filmic history.

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

Through a compilation of essays and profiles, Brit Wits shows how and why humour has been such a powerful catalyst and expressive force in rockers' work. Ellis trains his attention on those whose music and persona exude defiance to investigate the nature of rock humour and how these groups have used it to attack prevailing social structures.

Focusing on four contemporary visual artists whose work utilizes the conventions of museum display and collecting practices, this title examines how these artists have reconfigured dominant representations of Australian history and identity, including viewpoints often marginalized by gender and race.

An examination of forty years of films and video works by a woman focused on exploring the dynamism of movement as the voice of the human spirit.

Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research is part history, introduction and discussion for artists and designers entering, graduating and employed by the contemporary art academy in the United States. The evolution of art education in the university continues to expand in the twenty-first century as the variables of craft, skill, technique, theory, history and criticism shift and expand as the perspective of arts-based research is introduced into this professionalized environment. Given this context: what can MFA students do to improve their understanding of writing and research without sacrificing their commitment to their studio art process?Through a series of essays, the text argues for better writing at the MFA level with the purpose of becoming better artists. By contextualizing art practice in the university and providing a foundation for future artist scholarship, it serves as an invitation to artist scholars to push their work further and develop the confidence to situate their art in the university context.

Turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand. This title offers a look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century.

This book comprises three related dramatic works, all of which use Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of carnival, a literary style designed to subvert dominant assumptions through chaos and humour. The texts blur the distinction between spectator and performer in an exploration of physical, moral and cultural upheaval in a postmodern age.

Looks at the usually invisible branch of moving image distribution. This book examines the role of distribution, especially with regard to the processes of selection and promotion, in order to explore the ways in which the distribution link plays a major role in determining the nature of our moving image culture.

Focuses on Media Philosophy, Art Theory, Image Theory and Visual Culture. This book helps to gain insights into the field of film and media studies, expounding a philosophy of technology in the arts. It provides analyses and evidences of what has been seen as the 'medial turn' in cultural studies.

By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, this title proposes fresh approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance, this book examine various forms of thinking in contemporary curating.

Based on his many years in both the art world as a gallery owner and educator, The Art Rules is a practical, operational guide for visual artists that demystifies the art world and empowers practitioners to find success on their own terms.

Offers fresh interpretations of feminist film history. This book explores how the liberal experiments of Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal affected the Hollywood film industry and how the reactions of the European directors differed.