Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
by Andrew Schartmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-replacing it with one in which game sounds constituted a legitimate form of artistic expression. Andrew...
Rated M for Mature
Sex and Sexuality in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The word sex has many implications when it is used in connection with video games. As game studies scholars have argued, games are player-driven experiences. Players must participate in processes of play to move the game forward. The addition of content that incorporates sex and/or sexuality adds...
Violent Games
Rules, Realism and Effect
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
It was over a decade ago that experimental psychologists and media-effects researchers declared the debate on the effects of violent video gaming as "essentially over,†? referring to the way violence in videogames increases aggressive thoughts, feelings and behaviors in players. Despite the...
Constructing Dialogue
Screenwriting from Citizen Kane to Midnight in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Unlike most screenwriting guides that generally analyze several aspects of screenwriting, Constructing Dialogue is devoted to a more analytical treatment of certain individual scenes and how those scenes were constructed to be the most highly dramatic vis á vis their dialogue. In the art of screenwriting,...
by Marc Blake, Sara Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Tales of horror have always been with us, from Biblical times to the Gothic novel to successful modern day authors and screenwriters. Though the genre is often maligned, it is huge in popularity and its resilience is undeniable. Marc Blake and Sara Bailey offer a detailed analysis of the horror genre,...
Groove
A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Written by an experienced drummer and philosopher, Groove is a vivid and exciting study of one of music's most central and relatively unexplored aspects. Tiger C. Roholt explains why grooves, which are forged in music's rhythmic nuances, remain hidden to some listeners. He argues that grooves are...
Genre Screenwriting
How to Write Popular Screenplays That Sell
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
It's simple: films need to have commercial value for the studios to produce them, distributors to sell them, and theater chains to screen them. While talent definitely plays a part in the writing process, it can be the well-executed formulaic approaches to the popular genres that will first get you...
Making Taste Public
Ethnographies of Food and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Making Taste Public takes an ethnographic approach to show how social relations shape - and are shaped by - the taste of food. Recognizing that different cultures have different taste preferences and flavour principles embedded in cuisine, editors Carole Counihan and Susanne Højlund ask how these...
by Richard Kohler, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Jean Piaget was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. His influence on developmental psychology, education and epistemology has been enormous. This text undertakes a reconstruction of the contexts and intellectual development of Piaget's numerous texts in the wide-ranging fields of biology,...
German Aesthetics
Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
German Aesthetics provides English-speaking audiences with accessible explanations of fundamental concepts from the German tradition of philosophical aesthetics. Organized with the understanding that aesthetic concepts are often highly contested intellectual territory, and that the usage and meanings...
Reconciling Community and Subjective Life
Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Améry and Imre Kertész
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This is an examination of the difficult interplay between the collective pursuit of justice and reconciliation on one hand and the individual subjective experience of trauma on the other, proposing that it be thought as a potentially productive tension. To do so, Zolkos looks at how texts from Jean...
Political Metaphor Analysis
Discourse and Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book explores the cognitively-oriented approach to
metaphor studies, comparing it critically to other contemporary paradigms of
metaphor in meaning. It incorporates cutting edge empirical data.
In both semantics and cognitive linguistics, metaphor has gained central status
over the past...
Religious Pluralism and the City
Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around this topic – from "holy city"...
Intimacy
A Dialectical Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
An important contribution to the burgeoning field of the ethics of recognition, this book examines the contradictions inherent in the very concept of intimacy. Working with a wide variety of philosophical and literary sources, it warns against measuring our relationships against ideal standards, since...