Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
The Roadhouse Comes to Britain
Drinking, Driving and Dancing, 1925-1955
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This is the first book to examine the cultural phenomenon of the roadhouse in mid 20th-century Britain and its impact on British leisure. The term 'roadhouse' was used in varied ways in the 1930s, from small roadside tearooms to enormous establishments on the outskirts of major cities. These roadhouses...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Education in the United Kingdom is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, The Isle of Man, The Channel Islands, Gibraltar, The Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Anguilla and The British Overseas Territories. Although generically similar in education...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. With this updated edition, David Hesmondhalgh joins James Curran and a team of leading international...
Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan
The 'Khartoum Springs' of 1964 and 1985
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
In the wake of the protests that toppled regimes across the Middle East in 2011, Sudanese activists and writers have proudly cited their very own 'Arab Springs' of 1964 and 1985, which overthrew the country's first two military regimes, as evidence of their role as political pioneers in the region....
by Mr. Matthew Newton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The mall near Mat thew Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state's first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled...
by Edda Sant, Lynette Shultz, Dr Ian Davies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Global Citizenship Education explores key ideas and issues within local, national and global dimensions. Including examples and case studies from across the world, the authors draw on ideas, experiences and histories within and beyond 'the West' to contribute to multifaceted perspectives on global...
Global History, Globally
Research and Practice around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global...
Lighting for Cinematography
A Practical Guide to the Art and Craft of Lighting for the Moving Image
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
We can't shoot good pictures without good lighting, no matter how good the newest cameras are. Shooting under available light gives exposure, but lacks depth, contrast, contour, atmosphere and often separation. The story could be the greatest in the world, but if the lighting is poor viewers will...
Indian Fashion
Tradition, Innovation, Style
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Fashion in India is distinctly unique, in its aesthetics, systems, designers and influences. Indian Fashion is the first study of its kind to examine the social, political, global and local elements that give shape to this multifaceted center. Spanning India's long historical contribution to global...
Cool Shades
The History and Meaning of Sunglasses
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today.
Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading...
Fashion and Orientalism
Dress, Textiles and Culture from the 17th to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Orientalism is a central factor within the fashion system, both subtle and overt. In this groundbreaking book, the author shows the extent of the influence that the Orient had, and continues to have, on fashion.
Our concept of Western fashion is unthinkable without it, whether in terms of the...
by Vicki Karaminas, Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Queer Style offers an insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles. From a fashion studies perspective, it examines the function of subcultural dress within queer communities and the mannerisms and messages that are used...
by Adam Geczy, Jacqueline Millner
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia
Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns of fashion. While in the past artistic styles were always inflected...
Belonging across the Bay of Bengal
Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Belonging across the Bay of Bengal discusses themes connecting the regions bordering the Bay of Bengal, mainly covering the period from the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries – a crucial period of transition from colonialism to independence. Focusing on the notion of 'belonging', the chapters...