Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Hayao Miyazaki
Exploring the Early Work of Japan's Greatest Animator
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Hayao Miyazaki's career in animation has made him famous as not only the greatest director of animated features in Japan, the man behind classics as My Neighbour Totoro (1988) and Spirited Away (2001), but also as one of the most influential animators in the world, providing inspiration for animators...
The Grass Roots of English History
Local Societies in England before the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In medieval and early modern Britain, people would refer to their local district as their 'country', a term now largely forgotten but still used up until the First World War. Core groups of families that remained rooted in these 'countries', often bearing distinctive surnames still in use today, shaped...
Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan
The Performing Body During and After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original and secondary materials...
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War
A Transnational History
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context...
Post-Fascist Japan
Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They rapidly transformed their political culture-policies, institutions, and public opinion-to create a more...
by Dr. Kate Taylor-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
For many East Asian nations, cinema and Japanese Imperialism arrived within a few years of each other. Exploring topics such as landscape, gender, modernity and military recruitment, this study details how the respective national cinemas of Japan's territories struggled under, but also engaged with,...
by Dr. Alexandra Berlina
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Winner of the Anna Balakian Prize 2016
Is poetry lost in translation, or is it perhaps the other way around? Is it found? Gained? Won? What happens when a poet decides to give his favorite Russian poems a new life in English? Are the new texts shadows, twins or doppelgangers of their originals-or...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Nietzsche challenges the tenets of received political wisdom in a number of ways and his thinking contains resources for revitalising political thinking. Nietzsche and Political Thought offers fresh insights into Nietzsche's relevance for contemporary political thought in light of recent advances...
Luxury Indian Fashion
A Social Critique
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian...
The Aesthetics of Care
On the Literary Treatment of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature.
The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics...
The African Photographic Archive
Research and Curatorial Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating...
by Mr. Michael Blair, Mr. Joe Bucciero
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock 'n' roll history-relegated...
by Robert Snape
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen...
by Dr Mike Huggins
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, has thus far lacked...