Publications
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Chapter Introduction
(2019)
The introduction to the edited volume Communication and Discourse Theory aims to reflect on the interaction between discourse theory and the study of media and communication, as well as the Brussels Discourse Theory Group’s ...
Media and Participation: A site of ideological-democratic struggle
(2011)
Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case ...
Equality in the City
(2022)
This collection critiques the rhetoric of ‘smart cities’. It seeks to engender a timely debate about what future cities might look like and what their concerns should be. Using a multi-disciplinary perspective, it features ...
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Performance Generating Systems in Dance
(2022)
Analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. Provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance ...
Chapter 10 Media and Democracy:A Couple Walking Hand in Hand?
(2018)
For functioning well, the media need democracy as much as democracy needs the media. This is the starting point of this analysis of the delicate relation between the news media and democracy which is well defined in ...
Chapter 5 Subsidies: Fuel for the Media
(2018)
Subsidies are controversial media policy tools as editorial independence might be affected by those granting subsidies to newsrooms, and because they do not comply with neo-liberal market rules. This chapter shows that ...
Chapter 3 Artistic Research: Defining the Field
(2017)
The rapid growth of doctoral-level art education challenges traditional ways of thinking about academic knowledge, and yet, as Danny Butt argues in this book, the creative arts may also represent a positive blueprint for ...
Resetting the Stage
(2012-09-01)
Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe and the UK, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption—as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when ...
Music and Levels of Narration in Film
(2013-05-13)
This is the first book-length study of the narratology of film music, and an indispensable resource for anyone researching or studying film music or film narratology. It surveys the so far piecemeal discussion of narratological ...
The Para-Academic Handbook
(2014)
"There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic.
Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the ...
A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks
(2020)
The first comparative historical study of the six Disneyland theme parks around the world in five distinct cultures: the USA, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Situates the parks in their respective historic contexts ...
Lesbians on Television
(2020)
The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. Focusing on the small screens of Europe and North America, ...
The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000
(2017-12-11)
The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films to write a history of twentieth century Hollywood narrative cinema at the intersection of the ...
Propositions for Museum Education
(2024)
Examines the ways international art educators are engaging with 21st century challenges in museum education. Organized into five sections, t
his collection reconceptualizes the role of museums via new technologies, socially ...
Crossing Gender Boundaries
(2020)
This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments – how dress creates, ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
This introduction motivates the objectives of Performance Generating
Systems in Dance and provides wayfinding markers for the inquiries,
insights, and resources of the book. First, the need to understand,
conceptualize, ...
Chapter 1 Luxury and Indigenous Resurgence
(2022)
Luxury and Indigenous Resurgence
Riley Kucheran with Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama
In this discussion, Riley Kucheran, a member of Biigtigong Nishnaabeg (Pic River First Nation), shares his experiences and insights ...
Carnival Texts
(2011-04-01)
Carnival Texts comprises three related dramatic works, all of which have as their point of departure Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of carnival, a literary style designed to subvert dominant assumptions through ...
Chapter Weird Women
(2024)
Weird women, this chapter proposes, are artists who challenge boundaries and are uneasy within neat, already existing categories of art, sex, identity, and desire. Their existence is emphatic; yet the categories we already ...
Digital Embodiment and the Arts
(2024)
A timely examination of the use of emerging technologies in the arts in recent decades, from the first wave of Virtual Reality through to the current use of Mixed, Augmented and Extended Realities. It highlights the necessity ...
Ethno Music Gatherings
(2024)
This book presents key findings from a 4-year project that sought to understand Ethno Gatherings, an organized residential folk, world, and traditional music programme for young people aged 18-30. In response to three lines ...
Chapter 13 Working towards Transdisciplinary Futures: Complexities and Concepts in Education
(2023)
As the concluding chapter of the book, ‘Contemporary Design Education in Australia: Creating Transdisciplinary Futures’, this chapter draws on cases from across the book while seeking to advance conversations on ...
Chapter 2 Developing Twenty-First-Century Design Professionals through Impactful Curricula
(2023)
There has been a systemic shift in contemporary design professions, with the concomitant need for placing the requisite 21st-century skills and capabilities for such professions at the forefront of curriculum design. This ...
Chapter Introduction: Design and the Changing Educational Landscape
(2023)
Transdisciplinarity is a term used to describe a process in which disciplines work together to explore problems subordinating disciplinary processes and methods for the common goal of solving the problem or challenge. Along ...
Freaks of History
(2017-04-11)
Disability studies have long been the domain of medical and pedagogical academics. However, in recent years, the subject has outgrown its clinical origins. In Freaks of History, James MacDonald presents two dramatic ...
Obsessions of a Showwoman
(2024)
cabaret, burlesque, showwoman, performance, theatre, ecofeminism, feminism, menstrual activism, Jewishness, Jewish identity, live art, extremities, radical empathy, visceral aesthetics, feminist allyship, the occult
The Cultural Set-up of Comedy
(2013-12-07)
How do various forms of comedy – including stand up, satire and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality ...
African Luxury
(2020)
Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the ...
Urban Music Governance
(2025)
What happens when precarious urban cultural labourers take data collection, laws and policymaking into their own hands? Buskers have been part of our cities for hundreds of years, but they remain invisible to governments ...
Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe
(2018)
Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Unpacking the Policy Cycle represents the continuation and further development of a long tradition of media policy books, focusing on the development of media ...
Signifying Europe
(2012)
Signifying Europe provides a systematic overview of the wide range of symbols used to represent Europe and Europeanness, both by the political elite and the broader public. Through a critical interpretation of the meanings ...
Contemporary Design Education in Australia
(2023)
This book offers a range of approaches to teaching higher education design students to learn to design collaboratively and creatively, through transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary ...
Artistic Research in the Future Academy
(2017)
The rapid growth of doctoral-level art education challenges traditional ways of thinking about academic knowledge, and yet, as Danny Butt argues in this book, the creative arts may also represent a positive blueprint for ...
Communication and Discourse Theory
(2019)
The introduction to the edited volume Communication and Discourse Theory aims to reflect on the interaction between discourse theory and the study of media and communication, as well as the Brussels Discourse Theory Group’s ...
Europe Faces Europe
(2017)
Europe Faces Europe examines Eastern European perspectives on European identity. The contributors to this volume map narratives of Europe rooted in Eastern Europe, examining their relationship to philosophy, journalism, ...
Unbecoming Cinema
(2017-04-28)
Unbecoming Cinema constitutes a welcome addition to texts that provide a film-philosophical perspective on films that otherwise take on and involve difficult subject matter, including in this case suicide, autistic worldviews, ...
The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking
(2019-04-30)
Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book analyses 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson consider the creativity that ...
The Cinema of Mika Kaurismäki
(2011-04-01)
Mika Kaurismäki’s films challenge many boundaries – national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature and problematic distinctions between different zones of development. ...
Performing Exile
(2017-11-01)
This book brings together essays by an international group of scholars and artists, focusing on live performance inspired by living in exile, or created by exiled artists. Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine ...
Canadian Critical Luxury Studies
(2022)
luxury; Canadian fashion; Montreal;
Indigenous; production; fashion;
history; colonialism; canada; luxury
studies; community; consumption