Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
The Late Films of Claude Chabrol
Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
A member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s, Claude Chabrol has received the least amount of critical and scholarly attention, although he was the more prolific and commercially successful of them all. Jacob Leigh fills this lacuna by focusing...
Fashioning Models
Image, Text and Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture?
This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic...
Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community
Narratives of Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly attention. Aiming to fill this conspicuous gap, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community analyzes each of Franzen's five novels in chronological order to reveal an interior logic...
A History of Light
The Idea of Photography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
When was photography invented, in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photographic or "the...
by Carol J. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal...
Beauty and the End of Art
Wittgenstein, Plurality and Perception
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Beauty and the End of Art shows how a resurgence of interest in beauty and a sense of ending in Western art are challenging us to rethink art, beauty and their relationship. By arguing that Wittgenstein's later work and contemporary theory of perception offer just what we need for a unified approach...
Making Homes
Ethnography and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original approaches...
Every Game is an Island
Endings and Extremities in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Despite the pervasive rhetorics of immersion and embodiment found in industrial and social discourses, playing a video game is an exercise in non-linearity. The pervasiveness of trial and error mechanics, unforgiving game over screens, loading times, minute tweakings of options and settings, should...
The Interface Envelope
Gaming, Technology, Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In The Interface Envelope, James Ash develops a series of concepts to understand how digital interfaces work to shape the spatial and temporal perception of players. Drawing upon examples from videogame design and work from post-phenomenology, speculative realism, new materialism and media theory,...
The Semiotics of Emoji
The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017
Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet...
Sonic Technologies
Popular Music, Digital Culture and the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the ARSC Awards for Excellence 2018
In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think about, make and use popular music. From the production of multimillion selling pop records to the ubiquitous remix that has become a...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language is integral to the construction of personal, socio-cultural and socio-political identities. Language, Identity and Symbolic Culture closely investigates the relationship between language and identities, offering a comprehensive yet progressive view of how linguistics relates to development...
Language and Identity
Discourse in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them. Starting from that point, Language and Identity examines the interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that they are so closely interwoven, that words themselves are inscribed with ideological meanings.
Words...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Controversies in Digital Ethics explores ethical frameworks within digital culture. Through a combination of theoretical examination and specific case studies, the essays in this volume provide a vigorous examination of ethics in a highly individualistic and mediated world. Focusing on specific controversies-privacy,...