Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
The Journalist in British Fiction and Film
Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Why did Edwardian novelists portray journalists as swashbuckling, truth-seeking super-heroes whereas post-WW2 depictions present the journalist as alienated outsider? Why are contemporary fictional journalists often deranged, murderous or intensely vulnerable? As newspaper journalism faces the double...
Manga in America
Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Japanese manga comic books have attracted a devoted global following. In the popular press manga is said to have "invaded†? and "conquered†? the United States, and its success is held up as a quintessential example of the globalization of popular culture challenging American hegemony...
The Making of Visual News
A History of Photography in the Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use ever since.
Drawing...
by Susan Fast
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Dangerous is Michael Jackson's coming of age album. Granted, that's a bold claim to make given that many think his best work lay behind him by the time this record was made. It offers Jackson on a threshold, at long last embracing adulthood-politically questioning, sexually charged-yet unable to convince...
A History of Popular Culture in Japan
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using...
Re-Viewing the Past
The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Re-Viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan analyzes the complicated relationship between history films, audiences, reviewers and censors in Japan for the critically important years from 1925-1945. First contextualizing the history of the popular "Bakumatsu†? period...
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan
Histories and Cultures of the Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary content have treated texts and their authors as cultural resources to be packaged, promoted, and preserved.
As...
Modern Fashion Traditions
Negotiating Tradition and Modernity through Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Modern Fashion Traditions questions the dynamics of fashion systems and spaces of consumption outside the West. Too often, these fashion systems are studied as a mere and recent result of globalization and Western fashion influences, but this book draws on a wide range of non-Western case studies...
Cities and Wetlands
The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories....
Photographs, Museums, Collections
Between Art and Information
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has created tensions about its place in the hierarchy...
Between Film, Video, and the Digital
Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Encompassing experimental film and video, essay film, gallery-based installation art, and digital art, Jihoon Kim establishes the concept of hybrid moving images as an array of impure images shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different media, while also using it to explore various theoretical...
Pixar with Lacan
The Hysteric's Guide to Animation
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc to Toy Story and Wall-E, the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological...
Visualizing Jewish Narrative
Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels – including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters...
by Luis Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop.
In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class...