This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, popular music, the platform economy, and film.
Making Muslimness explores how British Muslims navigate the United Kingdom's sociopolitical and religious tensions through performance in everyday life.
Making Muslimness explores how British Muslims navigate the United Kingdom's sociopolitical and religious tensions through performance in everyday life.
The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics uniquely combines academic film analysis, biographical detail, and personal interviews with the filmmaker, conducted over the course of a year, to trace the development of Agnieszka Holland's female characters and how they have been reshaped across half a century.
A stunning exploration of the characters, clans, technology and new and exciting locations from the latest movie in the blockbuster Avatar franchise: Avatar: Fire and Ash.
A timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid decline in Hollywood workWhen Hollywood writers and actors went on strike in 2023, they drew attention to the rapidly changing nature of film and television production.
Performing Waste offers groundbreaking insights into the vibrant interdisciplinary field of waste studies through the lens of performance and artistic practice.
This book aims to show how a specific form of documentary research, founded in a theatre-making method labelled 'real fiction,' can be utilised in drama education contexts, such as classrooms and performance spaces.
Performing Waste offers groundbreaking insights into the vibrant interdisciplinary field of waste studies through the lens of performance and artistic practice.
This book pioneers a systematic inquiry into the link between theatrical performances and histories of Philippine labor migration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
This book pioneers a systematic inquiry into the link between theatrical performances and histories of Philippine labor migration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
At the intersection of performance studies and food studies, this pioneering collection explores food as more than just a subject of study-it's a medium of artistic expression, communication, and embodied knowledge.
At the intersection of performance studies and food studies, this pioneering collection explores food as more than just a subject of study-it's a medium of artistic expression, communication, and embodied knowledge.
This book argues that contemporary digital blockbusters function as laboratories for posthuman cognition that transform spectatorship into a cyborg mode in which perception, memory, and agency are distributed across the cinematic canvas, the diegetic bodies of characters, the formal operations of film style, and the embodied cognition of the spectator.
This book argues that contemporary digital blockbusters function as laboratories for posthuman cognition that transform spectatorship into a cyborg mode in which perception, memory, and agency are distributed across the cinematic canvas, the diegetic bodies of characters, the formal operations of film style, and the embodied cognition of the spectator.
A timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid decline in Hollywood workWhen Hollywood writers and actors went on strike in 2023, they drew attention to the rapidly changing nature of film and television production.
This book provides a scholarly inquiry into Indian oral narratives, cultural practices, and traditional performances, offering essential insights on the intersection of rituals, storytelling, and performance art.
This book provides a scholarly inquiry into Indian oral narratives, cultural practices, and traditional performances, offering essential insights on the intersection of rituals, storytelling, and performance art.
In 1985, Marty, Doc, and the citizens of Hill Valley first burst onto the big screen in an epic time-traveling adventure that has entertained audiences for more than a generation.
Since the early days of film noir, hundreds of television programs--including pilots, series and anthology episodes--have adopted its distinctive style, themes and subjects.
The Scottish novelist Alistair MacLean didn't speak English until he was six, but he went on to become one of the world's best-selling authors (over 150 million copies sold) and Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter.
Using the contents of BBC Scotland’s television archive pertaining to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, this book argues that television archive material is a powerful memory tool which shapes how we connect with the past.
Using the contents of BBC Scotland’s television archive pertaining to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, this book argues that television archive material is a powerful memory tool which shapes how we connect with the past.
Situated at the interstices of music and theatre studies, Theatrimusicality: Spectauralising Performance reframes the dynamic interplay of theatricality and musicality and theorises theatrimusicality as a conceptual consequent of analysing contemporary performance practices that lie in the intersection between theatre and music.
Situated at the interstices of music and theatre studies, Theatrimusicality: Spectauralising Performance reframes the dynamic interplay of theatricality and musicality and theorises theatrimusicality as a conceptual consequent of analysing contemporary performance practices that lie in the intersection between theatre and music.
This edited collection is compiled from the first MENACA (Middle East, North African, and Central Asian) Dance and Music Symposium (Pomona College, March 13-16, 2023), and includes a wide variety of readings on Middle Eastern Dance and Music.
This edited collection is compiled from the first MENACA (Middle East, North African, and Central Asian) Dance and Music Symposium (Pomona College, March 13-16, 2023), and includes a wide variety of readings on Middle Eastern Dance and Music.
