Stephen Barber: 28 books
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Three ferocious teenaged gangs are fighting for control over the ruins of Tokyo, decimated one year earlier by a tsunami. The forces driving the lawless megalopolis are now those of carnage, sex and destruction. The gangs confront one another in a series of murderous encounters, until the nature of power...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities – Berlin.
Taking as its subject the "intricately assembled, relentlessly disassembling metropolitan screen", it charts the virulent...
The Art Of Destruction
The Films Of The Vienna Aktion Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The Vienna Aktion Group formed the most provocative, insurgent and challenging of all the worldwide art movements of the 1960s. Their sexually-charged and anti-social actions exacted a profound and irreparable upheaval in the way in which art was conceived. Using their own bodies as raw material,...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) invented the revolutionary performance art ‘Ankoku Butoh' - now celebrated worldwide as one of the most innovative and haunting contemporary art forms. Hijikata is the supreme figure in the last half-century of Japan's experimental culture, and remains a seminal and inspirational...
Sadists Of The Rising Sun: Japanese War Atrocities in China And South-East Asia
Japanese War Atrocities in China And South-East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
SADISTS?OF?THE?RISING?SUN focuses on the unique cruelty and capacity for slaughter displayed by Japan, from the beginning of the 1930s, with the origins of its atrocity-focused incursions into East Asia, until the devastation of its cities and incineration of its population by firestorms in 1945....
Exterminators Of The Year Zero: Khmer Rouge Atrocities In Cambodia
Khmer Rouge Atrocities In Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
EXTERMINATORS?OF?THE?YEAR?ZERO focuses on the dictator Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge regime of revolutionary human erasure in Cambodia †an implosive, volatile genocide exacted within Pol Pot's own country, and pursued with relentless, obsessional determination. At the end of his four years of dictatorial...
Art, Riot, Terror
The 60s Tokyo Avant-Garde: Mishima, Hijikata, Oshima
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This book explores the unique and volatile art scene of 1960s Tokyo, and its connections to the culture of violent rioting and street-protest which developed across that decade, in intimate contact with avant-garde art, photography, performance and film. Through studies of seminal figures of that culture...
The Magadan Massacres
Stalin's Death-Camp Atrocities
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
From 1931 to 1953 Josef Stalin, the Soviet dictator, instigated a complex of sub-zero death camps at Magadan on the isolated Far Eastern Pacific coast, where thirty million Soviet citizens were gratuitously and systematically massacred on his perverse whim, leaving mountains of human ashes in one of...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book shows how political inaction has shaped the politics, economy and society we recognize today, despite the fact that policymakers are incentivised to act and to be seen to act decisively. Politicians make decisions which affect our lives every day but in our combative Westminster system,...
The Massacre Game
Pasolini: Terminal Film, Text, Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Pier Paolo Pasolini's final year of life before his brutal murder is an extreme, intensive and accumulating period. While propelling himself into a position of polemical violence and political danger with his Pirate's Writings for prominent newspapers, he also gave numerous interviews that prefigured...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Shortly before the destruction of Tokyo by a devastating tsunami, the gorgeous media-manipulator Angeliko Slavsko flies into the city to perpetrate an outrageous series of sexual acts and provocations, the evidence of which is to be projected from every giant image-screen on Tokyo's illuminated avenues....
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In the immediate future, an all-engulfing digital crash has impacted on the global megalopolises and their populations, transforming the nature of memory itself. Violence and hallucination, ocular and sexual mutation, and the aberrant power of the film image, now form the raw sensory materials by which...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Following England's future corporate and digital disintegration, and the fall of its cities, a hallucinatory conflict – inspired and propelled by the history and traces of 1970s punk rock and the spectres of Jimmy Savile and Peter Sutcliffe, the “Kings of Leeds†– erupts between...
Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders
An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship. For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, relationships with patients and colleagues can be particularly emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This...
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