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In the mid-50s, Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs that resulted in The Americans, which represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. Jonathan Day revisits this work and contributes a thoughtful critical commentary.

This book combines written and audiovisual texts to describe and analyse the use of documentary filmmaking in recording experiences of political conflict. McLaughlin draws on the diverse fields of film and cultural studies in this informed, instructive contribution to documentary filmmaking and post-conflict studies.

This book of essays examines the conditions of cultural production in the first decade of the twenty-first century. With an emphasis on how current neoliberal policies have affected institutions of cultural production and dissemination, it highlights ensuing changes to critical theory and poses questions about cultural democracy and social change.

From the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner to the James Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works - including The Matrix, RoboCop, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -are discussed with reference to their relationship to tech-noir and one another. Featuring an extensive, clearly indexed filmography, Tech-Noir Film will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more about the development of this new and highly innovative genre.

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style and is now a fashion showplace. Berliner Chic charts the stories of entrepreneurially-savvy manufacturers and cultural workers striving to establish their city as a fashion capital, and being interrupted by politics, ideology and war.

This book presents a robust history of the artist-teacher from the classical era to the twenty-first century. Particular pedagogical portraits illustrate the artist-teacher in various contexts. This book focuses on the complex thinking processes artists utilize when teaching and offers a reconciliation of the artistic and educational enterprises.

Provides a theoretical and contextual analysis which highlights the major themes and issues affecting European media. This book maps the scope of contemporary media policy and industry activities, assessing the impact of various technologies and radical changes in distribution and consumption on media practices, organisations and strategies.

From Sergei Eisenstein's anti-tsarist drama, "The Battleship Potemkin", to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic explosion, this title explores the socio-political impact of the cinema of Russia and the former Soviet Union.

From Terror on the Underground to Thames Tales to Richard Curtis's affectionate portrayal of the city in Love Actually, this user-friendly guide explores the diversity and distinctiveness of films shot in location in London.

Presenting a varied and thought-provoking collage of the city onscreen - from the silent era to the present - World Film Locations: New York provides a fascinating and historic look back at the rich diversity of locations that have provided the backdrop for some of the most memorable films.

With wide appeal to actors, directors, acting students, acting teachers, and trainers, the author draws from twenty-five years of experience as an acting teacher and director to introduce innovative ways of thinking about acting.

In an era which has seen many forms of artistic creation becoming digitized, the practice of drawing, in the traditional sense, has remained constant. This book redefines drawing more holistically as an enactive phenomenon, and makes connections between a variety of disciplines in order to find out how drawing helps us understand the world.

Looks at the development of French screen studies in the United Kingdom over the years and the ways in which innovative scholarship in the UK has helped shape the field in English and French speaking universities. This text is also a tribute to six key figures within the field who have been leaders in research and teaching of French cinema.

While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. This volume offers insight into the careers of important filmmakers and focuses on the genres of experimental film, horror, and rock and punk films.

Once regarded as a system in decline, public service broadcasters have acquired renewed legitimacy in the digital environment. Exploring this remarkable transformation, this work explores the constraints and possibilities of the public service system and its prospects for continued survival in the age of on-demand media.

Constantly shifting focus between gravity and irony, playfulness and responsibility, absurdity and seriousness, Christoph Schlingensief's work foregrounds the relationship between art and politics in everyday life. This book offers a comprehensive study of the intriguing body of work that Schlingensief has developed.

Explores a diverse range of films including Guitry's "Napoleon" (1955), Vernay's "Le Comte de Monte Cristo" (1953), and Le Chanois' "Les Miserables" (1958) to expose the political cultural paradox between nostalgia for a lost past and the drive for modernization.

Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as visibly pretentious and abstract, this book examines its principal concepts from the perspective of academic psychology and shows that although many of these analyses sound like revolutionary psychological theory, few, if any, have empirical implications that students can evaluate.

Features photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in fourteen different cities around the world. This volume significantly challenges and expands the critical discourse on photography and text may be of interest to artists, curators, photographers, architects, and critical theorists.

A thorough overview of a thriving sector of cultural production, the Directory of World Cinema: American Independent chronicles the rise of the independent sector as an outlet for directors who challenge the status quo, yet still produce accessible feature films that find wide audiences and enjoy considerable box office appeal.

Although Barker is not a 'household name' in the UK, he is revered, as both a theatre theorist and a dramatist, by a great many actors, directors, university teachers and students of acting and theatre. This book collects together a series of interviews conducted with the dramatist and poet Howard Barker throughout the course of his career.

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts includes a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and human suffering (Carthage/Cartagena) and an intimately operatic reflection on Penelope and Odysseus (The Orphan Sea). Accompanied by scholarly essays placing the plays in context, this book showcases the beautiful strangeness and profound resistance in Svich's work.'Svich is one of the finest poet/playwrights of this generation. . . . She is a playwright whose plays perform like dramatic poems that are wondrous to the ear and moving to the heart.' - Seth Gordon, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

Montreal Chic is the first book to document Montreal's fashion scene and its connection to the city's design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Daniele Belanger-Michaud use their firsthand knowledge of the city's fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, uncovering many untold stories.

Modern technology has enabled anyone with a digital camera or cell phone to capture images of newsworthy events, and news organizations around the world depend on these images for their coverage of unfolding events. This book considers the ethical and professional issues that arise with the use of amateur images in the mainstream news media.

With more and more filmmakers taking advantage of its rich and varied settings, New Orleans has earned star-studded status as the 'Hollywood of the South'. This title features essays that reflect on the city's long-standing relationship with the film industry. It offers fans a guided tour of the many films that made the city their home.

World Film Locations: Las Vegas goes beyond the cliches of Sin City to examine what Hal Rothman and Mike Davis called 'the grit beneath the glitter', thus providing an opportunity to find out more about the unique position Vegas occupies in the popular imagination.

Offers an examination of various aspects of media governance, including media ownership structures, government policies, citizen's organisations and union's accountability systems, for 32 European countries. This book includes research into technological developments and provides sources for more information in each country.