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 ...