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  • What Readers Do

    Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age

    by Dr Beth Driscoll ...
    Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other.We live in an era when book clubs, bibliomemoirs, Bookstagram and BookTok are as valuable to some readers as solitary reading moments. The product of nearly two decades of qualitative research into ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business

    by Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this Element, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017–2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition

    Edited by Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires ...
    When violence breaks out at the stands of far-right publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beatrice Deft is provoked into action. An alienated Australian high school teacher who finds herself at the centre of the global book industry, Beatrice encounters a cast of characters including the very hot Caspian Schorle (German police officer), Kurt Weidenfeld (left-wing German publisher), and White ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Qualified Self

    Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life

    by Lee Humphreys ...
    How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self, Lee Humphreys offers a different view. She shows that sharing the mundane ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Walking Inside Out

    Contemporary British Psychogeography

    Edited by Tina Richardson ...
    Series series Place, Memory, Affect
    Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows how a critical form of walking can highlight easily overlooked urban phenomenon, and examines the impact that everyday life in the city has on the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • TV Museum

    Contemporary Art and the Age of Television

    by Maeve Connolly ...
    TV Museum takes as its subject the complex and shifting relationship between television and contemporary art. Informed by theories and histories of art and media since the 1950s, this book charts the changing status of television as cultural form, object of critique and site of artistic invention. Through close readings of artworks, exhibitions and institutional practices in diverse cultural and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Consuming History

    Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture

    by Jerome de Groot ...
    Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation.In this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • 50 Feminist Art Manifestos

    Edited by Katy Deepwell ...
    This anthology contains the original manifestos of 50 women artists/feminist groups/feminist protests. Introductory essay by Katy Deepwell, with notes on each manifesto. A print version of this book is available from KT press.What is a manifesto? A political programme, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief. Neither institutional mission statement, nor religious dogma; neither a poem, nor ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Poor, but Sexy

    Reflections on Berlin Scenes

    Edited by Geoff Stahl ...
    Poor, But Sexy: Reflections on Berlin Scenes offers readers a varied cross-section of the city’s scenes, providing a prismatic view of one of Europe’s mythical cultural capitals. The authors gathered here address a range of topics, including Turkish gay clubs, queer filmmaking, record labels, the legendary Russendisko, electronic music festivals, the city’s famous techno scene, the clandestine ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Radiophilia

    by Dr. Carolyn Birdsall ...
    Series series The Study of Sound
    A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmission and reception. The thrilling experience of tuning in to the live sounds of this new medium prompted strong affective responses in its listeners.This book introduces a new concept of radiophilia, defined as the attachment to, or even a love of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Representation

    by Jenny Kidd ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies
    Written especially for undergraduate students, Representation synthesises and updates our understandings of representation - and the tools for its analysis - for use in the new mediascape.Jenny Kidd uses an engaging range of current examples and a lively style to explore a number of key questions reflecting existing and contemporary debates about representation.These key questions include: Who ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Fashioning Memory

    Vintage Style and Youth Culture

    by Heike Jenss ...
    Series series Dress and Fashion Research
    The valuing of old clothes as “vintage” and the recollection of the sartorial past, whether through second-hand consumption or the wearing of new old-fashioned clothes, has become a widespread phenomenon. This book illuminates sartorial and bodily engagements with memory and time through the temporal and nostalgic potency of fashion, and what this means for contemporary wearers.Based on in-depth ... Read more

    $29.99 USD