Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Mixed Race Cinemas
Multiracial Dynamics in America and France
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Using critical race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Zélie Asava traces the history of mixed-race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day. Mixed Race Cinemas covers over a hundred years...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Taking its cue from Deleuze's definition of minor cinema as one which engages in a creative act of becoming, this collection explores the multifarious ways that music has been used in the cinemas of various countries in Australasia, Africa, Latin America and even in Europe that have hitherto received...
Eco-Aesthetics
Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and explores what aesthetics might mean in the 21st century. It is one in a series of new, radical aesthetics...
The New Nature Writing
Rethinking the Literature of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as 'The New Nature Writing'. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment-focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology...
Sex and Suits
The Evolution of Modern Dress
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Since the dawn of western fashion in the Middle Ages, women's dress has never stopped evolving, yet menswear has seen far fewer style revolutions. At the centre of the male wardrobe is the suit: relatively unchanged since the 17th century, its cut and cloth suggest athleticism, seriousness, sexuality...
Made in Italy
Rethinking a Century of Italian Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Goods made or designed in Italy enjoy a profile which far outstrips the country's modest manufacturing output. Italy's glorious design heritage and reputation for style and innovation has 'added value' to products made in Italy. Since 1945, Italian design has commanded an increasing amount of attention...
by John Biguenet
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant of power, as a lie, as a punishment, as the voice of God, as a terrorist's...
by Dr Robert Harland
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Graphic Design in Urban Environmentsintroduces the idea of a category of designed graphic objects that significantly contribute to the functioning of urban systems. These elements, smaller than buildings, are generally understood by urban designers to comprise such phenomena as sculpture, clock towers,...
by Miss Fiona Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The story of tweed is tied to a series of social, economic and cultural shifts that have molded its development. This book considers the historical factors that helped to shape the design characteristics and social meanings of the group of fabrics that we call tweed, from their emergence in the 1820s...
British Design
Tradition and Modernity after 1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards...
Design by IKEA
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Sara Kristoffersson's compelling study provides the first sustained critical history of IKEA. Kristoffersson argues that the company's commercial success has been founded on a neat alignment of the brand with a particular image of Swedish national identity – one that is bound up with ideas of social...
Post-Materialist Religion
Pagan Identities and Value Change in Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Post Materialist Religion discusses the transformations ofthe individual's worldview, and the role religion and nature can play incontemporary European societies. In doing so, Mika Lassander brings intoconversation sociological theories of secularisation and social-psychologicaltheories of interpersonal...
Religion in Museums
Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums address religion and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore...
Danish Modern
Between Art and Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Danish Modern explores the development of mid-century modernist design in Denmark from historical, analytical and theoretical perspectives. Mark Mussari explores the relationship between Danish design aesthetics and the theoretical and cultural impact of Modernism, particularly between 1930 and 1960....