Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
by Dr. David M. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics,...
by Andy DeRoche
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Kenneth Kaunda, the United States and Southern Africa carefully examines US policy towards the southern African region between 1974, when Portugal granted independence to its colonies of Angola and Mozambique, and 1984, the last full year of the Reagan administration's Constructive Engagement approach....
Screenwriting is Rewriting
The Art and Craft of Professional Revision
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
If there is one skill that separates the professional screenwriter from the amateur, it is the ability to rewrite successfully. From Jack Epps, Jr., the screenwriter of Top Gun, Dick Tracy, and The Secret of My Success, comes a comprehensive guide that explores the many layers of rewriting.
In...
by Dr. Des Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Media power is a crucial, although often taken for granted, concept. We assume, for example, that the media are 'powerful'; if they were not, why would there be so many controversies over the regulation, control and impact of communicative institutions and processes? Further, we assume that this 'power'...
Globalization and Internationalization in Higher Education
Theoretical, Strategic and Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Universities all over the world are increasingly recognising the challenges of globalization and the pressures towards internationalization. This collection draws together a wealth of international experience to explore the emerging patterns of strategy and practice in internationalizing Higher Education.
Questions...
Fashion Journalism
History, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Fashion is all around us, and so too is fashion journalism. Discussions of fashion proliferate in an ever-increasing range of media, from newspapers and magazines to tweets and TV programs. Fashion Journalism: History, Theory and Practice is an accessible, comprehensive guide to writing about fashion...
Fashion and Museums
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice.
Chapters explore the role of fashion...
Wartime Fashion
From Haute Couture to Homemade, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
A comprehensive analysis of Second World War dress practice and appearance, this study places dress at the forefront of a complex series of cultural chain reactions.
As lives were changed by the conditions of war, dress continued to reflect important visual narratives regarding class, gender...
Costume Since 1945
Historical Dress from Couture to Street Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Since the mid-20th century fashion has undergone phenomenal change at a rapid pace in the context of unprecedented social, political and cultural upheaval. This fully updated and expanded second edition of Costume Since 1945 brings this period to life through accessible, lively text and over 100 illustrations.
From...
Acts of Undressing
Politics, Eroticism, and Discarded Clothing
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The act of undressing has a multitude of meanings, which vary dramatically when this commonly private gesture is presented for public consumption. This ground-breaking book explores the significance of undressing in various cultural and social contexts.
As we are increasingly obsessed with...
Fashioning Professionals
Identity and Representation at Work in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and industry. Fashioning Professionals addresses what it means to be a creative professional, historically and...
Porn Chic
Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The mainstreaming of pornographic imagery into fashion and popular culture at the turn of the millennium in Britain and the US signalled a dramatic cultural shift in construction of both femininity and masculinity. For men and women, raunch became the new cool. This engaging book draws from a diverse...
Dress, Fashion and Technology
From Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from prehistory to the present day, this is the first broad study of the complex relationship between dress and technology.
Over the course of...
The Religious Life of Dress
Global Fashion and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey information about beliefs, faith, identity, power, agency, resistance, and fashion. Taking a 'senses' approach, Hume's engaging account takes into consideration...