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Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, this title provides an analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. It shows that Cameroon - and Africa - must move beyond their colonial legacies to focus on indigenous productions of meaning informed by ordinary Cameroonian life experience.

Drawing on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators and academics, this book explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences. It bridges the gap between practice and theory, touches on issues of relational aesthetics and offers an illustrated artist-based approach.

Examines storytelling techniques and narrative strategies in contemporary Irish film and illuminates the craft, skill and creative decisions of Irish film-makers since the 1990s. This book also explores how film gave expression to tensions and fissures in the new Ireland. It reveals defining patterns, styles and tendencies within Irish cinema.

This book draws on work in phenomenology, embodiment and cinema and extends the field by examining metaphysical presence in postcolonial cinema. Through a meditation on three experimental videos by Trinidadian filmmaker Robert Yao Ramesar, this book makes the case that video performs an act of phenomenological inquiry.

The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. This book frames up contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an examination and interrogation of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment.

Blurring boundaries between many disciplines, this title supplies a context and a rationale for discussing how technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are disseminated. It is suitable art historians, theorists and curators, as well as art administrators, and grant providers.

This book redresses the balance of reality shows and the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. It explores topics such as reality TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, talent shows, fiction serials, broadcaster management policies, production decision chains and audience participation processes.

This book uses newspapers and TV listings to present an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. It explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society with in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relations between media and changes in media policies.

Offers an insight and sets out a history of what scenography as a practice and study has come to mean while also looking at specific scenographic practitioners, their work and how they have negotiated that practice with directors. This title also offers the reader insights into the working relationships of people in these creative roles.

Grigorii Aleksandrov's musical comedy films, created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s-1940s. This study presents the history of the films, situating them in the Stalin era, and suggesting fresh interpretations of individual films.

Presents a review of digital radio research in Europe. This title provides an introduction for the student, researcher and practitioner to the technologies, policies and strategies for digital radio broadcasting in both a European and global context. It describes radio, the oldest form of electronic broadcasting, as the last medium to go digital.

Addresses the subject of Serbian and Greek music, focusing on music education, music life and creation. This book examines the assimilation and development of western art music in Serbia and Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Developing Dialogues offers a new perspective on Australian community broadcasting and presents evidence of global trends in the media industry. Based on firsthand research of radio and television audiences in Australia, the authors argue that community radio and television worldwide perform an essential service for indigenous and ethnic audiences.

This book takes an innovative approach, arguing for a broadening of Chinese screen cultures to account for new technologies of screening. The contributors explore transnational connections and consider time and technology in both popular blockbusters and independent art films from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese diasporas.

In this book, Birgit Beumers and Mark Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in new dramatic works by young Russian playwrights. As the first English-language study of Russian drama and theatre in the twenty-first century, it seeks a vantage point for the analysis of brutality in post-Soviet culture.

Addressing aesthetic journalism, this title investigates why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries, and reportage. It traces the shift in the production of truth from the domain of the news media to that of art and aestheticism - a change that questions the very foundations of journalism and the nature of art.

TV distribution has undergone a massive increase in volume and value, and yet we know little about what happens in between television programming production and transmission, when this may have crucial economic and cultural resonance. This title fills the gap by investigating the global trade in TV programme formats.

The Posthuman Condition argues that such questions are difficult to tackle given the concepts of human existence that we have inherited from humanism, many of which can no longer be sustained.

The Trustus Plays collects three full-length, award-winning performance texts by American playwright Jon Tuttle. Each play was a winner of the national Trustus Playwrights Festival contest and was then produced by the Trustus Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina. The Hammerstone is a comedy about two professors aging gracelessly, Drift is a dark comedy about marriage and divorce, and Holy Ghost is the story of German POWs held in the camps in the American south. Jon Tuttle provides an introduction to the plays, and Trustus founder and artistic director, Jim Thigpen, offers a preface describing Tuttle's work within the context of the Trustus theatre's dedication to experimental, edgy social drama.

Media in the Enlarged Europe focuses on the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media. This volume presents snapshots of media politics, policies, industries and cultures in the European Union as a whole, incorporating case studies of the history and current state of mass media in specific nations.

In this age of the Internet, interactivity and digital broadcasting, do traditional standards of quality apply or must we identify and implement new criteria? This book argues that developments in digital media are absolutely dependent on an understanding of traditional excellence.

Explores a broad range of topics in art education, highlighting particular problems and strengths in the literature. This volume is suitable for students and teachers alike.

Offers a comparison of the media systems and the democratic performance of the media in post-Communist countries. This book explores issues of commercial media, social exclusion, and consumer capitalism in a comparative East-West perspective.

Surveys fifty years of change in the world of design, evaluating the skills that have been lost, how new techniques affect everyday work, and how training methods prepare students for employment. This volume reveals how design is both an art and a skill - one with a rich past and momentous relevance for the future.

Art and design students face a wide range of writing tasks - from reflective and self-promotional pieces to reviews, essays and dissertations. This book sets out to take writing away from its 'academic-only' label and nurture its creative role in the process of art and design.

From 1976, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. Bringing an analysis of adaptations and literature together, this book examines these films in their own right and suggests why they succeeded in scaring viewers, as well as why they often fail.

This book focuses on the challenges of and approaches to teaching art to primary-school students. It gathers the work of scholars in the field and provides a framework for developing methods of teaching. Capturing the issues and debates that are shaping both curricula and practice, it is a key starting point for anyone involved in art education.

Investigates the nature and function of clown performance in modern society. Through analysis of clowning in a range of settings, this book establishes a theoretical framework for the evaluation of physical comedy. It explores clowning outside of conventional venues, in clown doctor organisations, refugee camps and war zones.