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Beijing Film Academy 2022
The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates discussions and research from the previous year as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy. This volume brings together specially selected articles appearing for the first time in English to bridge the gap in cross-cultural research in cinema and media studies.
The book is the latest in the Intellect China Library series to produce work by Chinese scholars that have not previously been available to English language academia. Covering the subjects of film studies visual arts performing arts media and cultural studies the series aims to foster intellectual debate and to promote closer cross-cultural intellectual exchanges by introducing important works of Chinese scholarship to readers.

Narrative Interplay in the Digital Era
Generative AI, Alternate Reality Games, and the Future of Interactive Pedagogy
This anthology explores the current evolution of interactive storytelling across digital as well as physical spaces by examining how games digital narratives and participatory art can reshape creative expression and learning at fundamental levels.
The contributors propose that interactive fiction is best examined by combining social literary and technical analyses together. Used independently each modality provides an insufficient picture of the deeply merged social technical and artistic media environments we currently inhabit. We focus instead on the nature of the social interactions involved when engaging in digital storytelling emphasizing that an interactive narrative is perpetually constructed and reconstructed each time it is experienced.
The collection provides in depth analysis organized into three distinct sections the first two based on the key modalities of alternate realities and digital interactive fiction. The third section then provides an important political critique of gaming ideologies. Contributors with expertise and experience in each section topic provide diverse and timely analyses on how interactive narratives function in educational contexts community engagement and human-machine collaboration. The authors also investigate both theoretical frameworks and practical applications from live-action role-playing to AI-assisted writing while considering the significant social and political implications of gaming culture in general.
The collection's strength remains on its unique bringing together diverse perspectives from game designers educators artists and theorists to examine how new forms of storytelling emerge at the intersection of analog and digital realms with particular attention to the role of play and interactivity in contemporary learning environments.

DJing in New York
Learning Processes of Underground Club DJs
DJing in New York depicts the initial learning processes of a group of underground Electronic Dance Music club DJs in New York and follows them throughout a portion of their career to gain insights as to what and how these popular musicians learn develop careers and thrive.
What unfolds is a story of a social process of musical learning in which DJs develop strong networks of friendship to initially learn their craft and later on to navigate the perils of nightlife and build careers. This type of situated learning is dependent upon friendships and is intrinsically linked to the dynamic context of an underground clubbing scene in New York. Enculturation in this nightlife scene access to professional performers and strong friendships distinguish these musical learners among popular musicians.
Because these features add a new dimension of understanding to the learning practices of popular musicians this book is of primary interest to music educators particularly those interested in popular music education and community music. It is also relevant to individuals interested in popular music studies especially scholars of electronic dance music culture.

Reconstructing the American Dream
Life Inside the Tiny House Nation
Over the past decade Tiny Housing has become something of a viral sensation in the US. From Instagrammable enclaves for young professionals to vast municipality-supported schemes seeking to address homelessness tiny house sites are proliferating across the country.
This book takes a look at life inside the ‘Tiny House Nation’ shining an intimate light on a phenomenon widely celebrated in the mainstream media. The book presents textured narrative accounts from and striking images of Tiny Home residents their homes and communities while analysing the broader socio-economic structures shaping their lives. In so doing it paints a compelling and complex picture of a trend at the crossroads of several key social cultural and economic shifts at a pivotal moment for America’s housing future.
Fundamentally this is a book about paradoxes. The paradox of tiny housing offering freedom from the constraints of capitalism whilst at the same time remaining embedded within capitalist systems. The paradox of those who ‘go tiny’ both choosing an alternative lifestyle and those who are pushed into tiny housing as a consequence of limited choice. The paradox of Austin Texas as both a countercultural enclave and hyper-capitalist tech haven. And the paradox of tiny house ethoses in Austin as both centring community and shared assets and individualist libertarianism. These paradoxes do not necessarily sit in opposition to one another but are all bound up in the complexity of what tiny housing has to offer as an alternative way of living.
Despite its unattainability for all but the most privileged the American Dream - the home-owning society the suburban bliss the white picket fence - remains emblematic of the residential Good Life. But in the decades since the turn of the millennium the dream has been shrunk down expectations of a decent home literally reduced. Whilst for some this has led to forms of freedom and fulfilment it has also contributed to the normalisation of cities so outrageously expensive that all people can afford are miniature homes on the urban periphery. As this book shows both impacts of tiny housing are equally true and one does not cancel out the other. Tiny housing embodies an important societal crossroads. In some respects it offers an alternative to the prevailing housing status quo. In others it demonstrates what options have already been taken away from us.
from the Introduction
‘In the rest of this book we’ll lead you through our exploration of tiny housing in Texas. We’ll start in the next chapter by introducing some of the places and people we encountered on our travels to set the scene. Then the ‘pathways’ chapter examines the various conditions and journeys through which people end up living tiny. As you’ll see our attempt to produce a diagram of pathways to tiny living escalated into the production of a fully blown board game. We describe this diagrammatic board game to show the complex and nuanced personal and structural circumstances that lead people into tiny housing. From there we go into three empirical chapters focusing on economies of tiny living the materiality of tiny housing as domestic spaces and community culture. We then draw the book to a close and speculate about what tiny housing means for the future of domestic life especially in relation to the American Dream.
‘Throughout the book our descriptions are accompanied by photographs taken by Cian Oba-Smith who accompanied us on our first trip to Texas in 2022. The hype around tiny housing is undoubtedly driven in large part by the aesthetic cultures surrounding it. Tiny homes are the picturesque boutique upmarket cousin of mobile homes and trailers. They are distinguished from these other types of small housing as we’ll argue in this book specifically by their aesthetics. Anyone who ventures into the world of tiny housing for more than five minutes will see how thick this aesthetic culture is. From beautifully curated Instagram pages to countless coffee table books to Etsy shops dedicated to crafted tiny house merchandise a key part of living tiny is enjoying and embracing its aesthetics. By working with Cian we were able to focus (literally) on these aesthetic dimensions of tiny housing. However we were also able to capture some of what’s not presented in promotional tiny house materials; the constraints the challenges and the complexities that come along with the joy and the freedom. We’re positioning this book as something of a disrupted coffee table book. On an initial flick through it might not look too different to the photography books that valorise tiny living but you’ll already know if you’ve read this far that our approach is more nuanced. Our attempt has been to expose the ‘real’ Tiny House Nation. Not to attack it not to deny its beneficial impacts for a huge number of people but to inject some nuance into the debate so that we can take forward the positives of tiny living without normalising the negatives.’

Reconstructing the American Dream
Life Inside the Tiny House Nation
Over the past decade Tiny Housing has become something of a viral sensation in the US. From Instagrammable enclaves for young professionals to vast municipality-supported schemes seeking to address homelessness tiny house sites are proliferating across the country.
This book takes a look at life inside the ‘Tiny House Nation’ shining an intimate light on a phenomenon widely celebrated in the mainstream media. The book presents textured narrative accounts from and striking images of Tiny Home residents their homes and communities while analysing the broader socio-economic structures shaping their lives. In so doing it paints a compelling and complex picture of a trend at the crossroads of several key social cultural and economic shifts at a pivotal moment for America’s housing future.
Fundamentally this is a book about paradoxes. The paradox of tiny housing offering freedom from the constraints of capitalism whilst at the same time remaining embedded within capitalist systems. The paradox of those who ‘go tiny’ both choosing an alternative lifestyle and those who are pushed into tiny housing as a consequence of limited choice. The paradox of Austin Texas as both a countercultural enclave and hyper-capitalist tech haven. And the paradox of tiny house ethoses in Austin as both centring community and shared assets and individualist libertarianism. These paradoxes do not necessarily sit in opposition to one another but are all bound up in the complexity of what tiny housing has to offer as an alternative way of living.
Despite its unattainability for all but the most privileged the American Dream - the home-owning society the suburban bliss the white picket fence - remains emblematic of the residential Good Life. But in the decades since the turn of the millennium the dream has been shrunk down expectations of a decent home literally reduced. Whilst for some this has led to forms of freedom and fulfilment it has also contributed to the normalisation of cities so outrageously expensive that all people can afford are miniature homes on the urban periphery. As this book shows both impacts of tiny housing are equally true and one does not cancel out the other. Tiny housing embodies an important societal crossroads. In some respects it offers an alternative to the prevailing housing status quo. In others it demonstrates what options have already been taken away from us.
from the Introduction
‘In the rest of this book we’ll lead you through our exploration of tiny housing in Texas. We’ll start in the next chapter by introducing some of the places and people we encountered on our travels to set the scene. Then the ‘pathways’ chapter examines the various conditions and journeys through which people end up living tiny. As you’ll see our attempt to produce a diagram of pathways to tiny living escalated into the production of a fully blown board game. We describe this diagrammatic board game to show the complex and nuanced personal and structural circumstances that lead people into tiny housing. From there we go into three empirical chapters focusing on economies of tiny living the materiality of tiny housing as domestic spaces and community culture. We then draw the book to a close and speculate about what tiny housing means for the future of domestic life especially in relation to the American Dream.
‘Throughout the book our descriptions are accompanied by photographs taken by Cian Oba-Smith who accompanied us on our first trip to Texas in 2022. The hype around tiny housing is undoubtedly driven in large part by the aesthetic cultures surrounding it. Tiny homes are the picturesque boutique upmarket cousin of mobile homes and trailers. They are distinguished from these other types of small housing as we’ll argue in this book specifically by their aesthetics. Anyone who ventures into the world of tiny housing for more than five minutes will see how thick this aesthetic culture is. From beautifully curated Instagram pages to countless coffee table books to Etsy shops dedicated to crafted tiny house merchandise a key part of living tiny is enjoying and embracing its aesthetics. By working with Cian we were able to focus (literally) on these aesthetic dimensions of tiny housing. However we were also able to capture some of what’s not presented in promotional tiny house materials; the constraints the challenges and the complexities that come along with the joy and the freedom. We’re positioning this book as something of a disrupted coffee table book. On an initial flick through it might not look too different to the photography books that valorise tiny living but you’ll already know if you’ve read this far that our approach is more nuanced. Our attempt has been to expose the ‘real’ Tiny House Nation. Not to attack it not to deny its beneficial impacts for a huge number of people but to inject some nuance into the debate so that we can take forward the positives of tiny living without normalising the negatives.’

Vernacular Theatre
Making Theatre with Community
Between 1989 and 2020 Jonathan Petherbridge worked as the Artistic Director of a community-based theatre company - London Bubble. This longer than average tenure allowed him time to forge a close working relationship with the community and develop new ways to involve people of all ages in theatre-making.
Out of a slew of projects emerged a particular methodology to make work that was researched curated and performed by citizens between the ages of 8 and 80. The process that emerged was called Foraging – a methodology carefully divided into five phases which attempts to bring the best out of both voluntary and specialist artists – making time and space for them to create theatre that has a striking beauty and an ingrained aesthetic of care. Vernacular Theatre describes the result – the aesthetic.
The case studies - based on work with citizens of London and Hiroshima - examine how this theatre has valued key moments of communal history contemporary issues and everyday institutions. The book suggests reasons and techniques for others to make similar work. Concluding with a reflection on the pre-classical Chorus of Greek Theatre where original work was produced to celebrate events with and for the community this book proposes a new genre – a social and intergenerational art form that invites people to gather and share their life experience concerns and creativity.

Still Moving
Conversations with Senior Professional Dancers Still Performing
The concept of this book is ‘dance and ageing’ and is driven by the possibility that everybody in the Western dance community in particular young dance students but also readers beyond the parameters of dance will profit if the voices of senior professional practitioners are heard.
It features dancers from USA Canada UK Europe and Australia all interviewees are practitioners of stature and prominence who continue to contribute despite ageism to the dance industry. They are inspiring role models for younger dancers but also for an ageing demographic in society; it is a celebration of the body and the indomitable urge to create and express.
Conversations with twenty senior professional dancers explore how they sustain performing despite the inground ageism that exists through society and is mirrored within the dance world. This cohort of older dancers aged between 41 and 107 illuminate inspiring life stories that convey their passion to continue performing while overcoming the prejudices in an artform that champions youth.
Dance practitioners remaining active and relevant throughout the life stages is an area of growing interest particularly in community dance health and wellbeing. This would inspire all dancers to follow in their footsteps to believe that diversity and inclusion would widen the boundaries within Western dance culture and eradicate bias. Further interest from an older demographic who enjoy watching dance or dance themselves who would appreciate their representation in a book that reveals the positive attributes ageing can bring. It also has the potential to reach an anti-ageing reader as well as a dance reader. The book has a broad appeal not just within Western dance culture but also where ageing/ageism is a prominent concern within Western society.

Media Materialities
Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning
Provides new perspectives on the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats materiality and meaning. Drawing on a range of qualitative methodologies our consideration of the materiality of media is structured around three overarching concepts: form – the physical qualities of objects and the meanings which extend from them; format – objects considered in relation to the protocols which govern their use and the meanings and practices which stem from them; and ephemeral meaning – the ways in which media artefacts are captured transformed and redefined through changing social cultural and technological values.
Each section includes empirical chapters which provide expansive discussions of perspectives on media and materiality. It considers a range of media artefacts such as 8mm film board games maps videogames cassette tapes transistor radios and Twitter amongst others. These are punctuated with a number of short takes – less formal often personal takes exploring the meanings of media in context.
We seek to consider the materialities which emerge across the broad and variegated range of the term’s use and to create spaces for conversation and debate about the implications that this plurality of material meanings might have for the study of study of media culture and society.

Dancing Place
Scoring the City, Scoring the Shore
The book explore how dance practices can be embodied through relationships with the environment. The book begins with discussing somatic experiences of being in Place; including discussing a sense of belonging to the environment through responsive movement. The second part offers infrastructures (scores) for generative movement drawn from transdisciplinary workshops. The book presents text poetic prose and image.
Dancing Place: Scores of the City Scores of the Shore reveals the collaborative choreographic making process as a way of being in the world. In the book the authors story their experiences of working with scores as ways of noticing sensing and bringing focus to moments within the assemblage of environments of which we are a part.

If Colors Could be Heard
Narratives About Racial Identity in Music Education
If Colors Could Be Heard: Narratives About Racial Identity in Music Education is a platform of by and for People of Color who are music educators artists activists and students. For this book we asked authors to consider their race and ethnicity as an intimate and essential part of their music learning making and teaching.
The narratives in this collection include tales of being a music student stories of growing up and finding one’s place in musical worlds and accounts of teaching students about race ethnicity culture and identity. The chapters in this book are not research studies unless explicitly stated by the author.
Instead the chapters in tandem represent a stunning mosaic with shades of melanated skin that will serve as a scholarly picture that represents a portion of music education in the United States. Here you will find self-told stories by people from the Global Majority—a term used to describe Black African Asian Brown Latin Dual-heritage and Indigenous people.

Theatricality Beyond Disciplines
This book expands on theories of "theatricality" in French and critical studies adopting a transdisciplinary approach that reaches beyond performance studies into poetry media technology translation and psychoanalytic theory.
Building on Artaud’s concept of theater as a "plague"—an unpredictable cataclysmic and contagious force that disrupts power structures and knowledge—the book challenges Aristotelian norms of theater as a medium of "healing" and "teaching." Instead theatricality emerges as a force of radical disruption what Artaud called "the return of the repressed" demanding openness to otherness.
The chapters present theatricality as primarily aural rather than visual inciting "paranoiac listening" invoking unretrievable "primal scenes" and allowing unconscious "psychic" contamination. "Theatricality" is explored through works by Artaud Genet Novarina and Koltès but also Freud Barthes Kristeva Girard and Derrida. Each writer challenges the premises of their own artistic genres and fields of study questioning binary systems like artistic production versus theoretical articulation the technological versus the natural and art versus life.
As shown these binaries underpin mechanisms of repression sacrificial violence and the exclusion of the voiceless other. The book assigns a generative function to traditionally maligned notions like unintelligibility madness marginality contagion and criminality.

On the Communicative Turn in Philosophy
Exploring Intersubjectivity, Community and the Ethics of Dialogue
The book aims to give prominence to the way the concept of communication has been deployed within philosophical debates. It shows how philosophers have adopted this concept in their discussions on the issues of intersubjectivity community and the ethics of dialogue.
Although mainstream philosophers do not as yet consider the philosophy of communication as a branch in its own right instead subsuming it within the philosophy of language as pragmatics the concept of communication is broader than that of language. This book aims to develop the relationship between communication and philosophy further.
Mangion hopes to encourage others to conduct further research by aligning communication with questions that are of a philosophical nature.

The Neoliberal Self in Bollywood
Cinema, Popular Culture, and Identity
This book explores the consequences of unbridled expansion of neoliberal values within India through the lens of popular film and culture. The focus of the book is the neoliberal self which far from being a stable marker of urban liberal millennial Indian identity has a schizophrenic quality one that is replete with contradictions and oppositions unable to sustain the weight of its own need for self-promotion optimism and belief in a narrative of progress and prosperity that has marked mainstream cultural discourse in India. The unstable and schizophrenic neoliberal identity that is the concern of this book however belies this narrative and lays bare the sense of precarity and inherent inequality that neoliberal regimes confer upon their subjects.
The analysis is explicitly political and draws upon theories of feminist media studies popular culture analyses and film studies to critique mainstream Hindi cinema texts produced in the last two decades. Rele Sathe also examine a variety of other peripheral ‘texts’ in her analysis such as the film star the urban space web series YouTube videos and social media content.

Shaping Global Culture through Screen Writing
Women Who Write Our Worlds
This book tells inspirational stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring stories to life through screenwriting. As such the book evidences that women’s work is important; that ‘films can change lives’. The collection divides the chapters according to worlds in recognition of the fact that though we live on one planet the conditions of existence are vastly different between first and third worlds; between the wealthiest and the poorest.
Each chapter shows how attitudes have shifted policies have been rewritten and life experiences and horizons have been altered for specific communities through these instances of screenwriting. The themes touched upon include gender race disability culture war colonization labour relations political ideologies to name a few. The parallels found amongst these themes across national religious and cultural divides are also telling. The book is wide in its scope considering screenwriting a skill which can apply to games social media music videos virtual reality … in fact any of the burgeoning formats alive on our devices and through constantly evolving platforms. All are considered screenwriting.
The book is a celebration of the female writers who have told screen stories that educate and heal.
The book suits readers across disciplines including screenwriting filmmaking women’s studies history sociology and many other areas.

Drama for Schools and Beyond
Transformative Learning Through the Arts
Transformative Professional Learning in Arts Integration invites educators and artists to name and center dilemma discovery and learning at the core of their collaborative efforts to improve the learning culture of classrooms through the arts. A dilemma comes in many forms.
Personal and programmatic dilemmas are often the result of a rupture between personal belief and the requirements of a system. The rupture - or dilemma - seeds a desire for something new something better. However as Queensland Aboriginal activists remind us we must address our own bias and power in relationship to those we presume to support: "If you have come to help me you are wasting your time; but if you are here because your liberation is bound up with mine then let us work together.” This text therefore shares the stories of individuals working towards collective educational improvement and change.
It is a story of failure and possibility about individuals “bound up with” with each other harnessing the power of the arts in the common effort to make education more just and equitable for all.
Drama for Schools and Beyond: Transformative Learning Through the Arts tells the story of twenty years of research and practice grounded in the Drama for Schools (DFS) professional development learning model based at The University of Texas at Austin USA.
This book offers a critical look at the evolution of Drama for Schools through the learnings of its leaders and participants. It also gathers stories from partners across the globe who have adapted and built upon this model at their own sites. It is a primer for how to centre teacher and student inquiry and learning at the core of educational improvement. It is an invitation for teachers administrators and researchers to address their own bias and power in relation to those they aim to support.
Throughout the authors show that by integrating the arts across education new networks of possibility can be grown to create a more just and equitable education for all.

Nuclear Gaia
Media Archives of Planetary Harm
Describes the transformations we have witnessed due to the development of nuclear science and technology accelerating policies interdependent on energy and military procedures that have led us to make a provocative claim that in many respects planet Earth is getting closer to the embodiment of the project we call Nuclear Gaia.
The book examines media archives and online platforms that recover data and memory and shape community knowledge of nuclear events from the distant and nearer past. These are the pieces of evidence that we are on the eve of creating new forms of social justice carried out by open-source investigations (OSINT) groups independent researchers artists media makers activists local communities and civic groups.
Thus analysing nuclear processes and their social and environmental consequences is no longer the exclusive domain of experts scientists politicians and the military. The authors hope that such communities’ practices and decolonial discourses combined with the critiques within our methodology as postnuclear media studies can also change the fate of nuclear industry victims by creating media space to discuss and regain justice as socially sanctioned and shared rules for understanding and using nuclear energy both in past and the future.

Essay Film and Narrative Techniques
Screen-writing Non-fiction
The collection explores various methods of screen-writing for essay film through a diverse set of reflections and analyses of canonical and unconventional approaches of essay filmmaking. It includes contributions from filmmakers and practice-led researchers who reflect on their production process in the form of production diaries or self-critique and analyses from scholars who investigate the production contexts of essay film as well as interviews with filmmakers on how their practices are conceptualised and contextualised. Overall it takes essay film as an expression of personal camera collaborative/collective work and experimental work where the boundaries between different art forms blurs and merges.

The Being of Relation
How does whiteness sediment worlds? How does it format individuality in the name of a neurotypicality that polices how one bodies and how one comes to know? And how does a poetics of relation shift the very logic of this sedimentation?
Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation are bold in their call to “consent not to be a single being.” This transindividual consent born in the process of worlds crafting themselves in what he would call an “aesthetics of the earth” are felt in Fernand Deligny’s errant lines. These errant lines traced to move with the complex gestures of autistics over a period of several years in Monoblet France (1965-1970) offer an alternative to pathology and individual psychological assessment.
The Being of Relation brings these two projects into encounter exploring what else blackness can be at this non-pathological juncture where what is foregrounded is the very being of relation. On the way trails of whiteness are excavated and interrogated. The aim: to move toward parapedagogies of resistance in a logic of a poetics of relation a logic of neurodiversity minor sociality and the kind of difference without separability that refuses the binary that holds neurotypicality – as whiteness – in place.

Beijing Film Academy 2021
The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates discussions and research from the previous year as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy. This volume brings together specially selected articles appearing for the first time in English to bridge the gap in cross-cultural research in cinema and media studies.
The book is the latest in the Intellect China Library series to produce work by Chinese scholars that have not previously been available to English language academia. Covering the subjects of film studies visual arts performing arts media and cultural studies the series aims to foster intellectual debate and to promote closer cross-cultural intellectual exchanges by introducing important works of Chinese scholarship to readers.

Without Empathy
Irony and the Satirical Impulse in Eight Major Filmmakers
Irony and the satirical impulse in cinema have gradually lost favor mockery increasingly more selective in its choice of targets. As Linda Hutcheon notes irony is becoming a problematic mode of expression in the 21st century.
The book examines selectively the work of eight film auteurs: Luis Bunuel RW Fassbinder Stanley Kubrick Robert Altman Paul Verhoeven Aki Kaurismaki Aleksei Balabanov and David Lynch much of whose work is not always regarded thus and the films examined are often more ironic than satirical.
The introduction examines the various categories of satire and the chapters then study the filmmakers individually through selected works offering interpretations of films and identifying a consistent approach. Since the work is often ambiguous the book speculates on each film’s purport engaging in textual interpretation of individual works to understand concerns underneath the most obvious. The Afterword tries to find common targets and strategies on the filmmakers’ part.

The Intellect Handbook of Dance Education Research
A review of dance education research methodologies with examples and exemplars from the field and an important resource for dance students professionals and advocates.
The editors recognized the need for a book of this type – one that would not only provide examples of a variety of dance education research projects but also present a broad look at methodologies. In addition the book would not only focus on Dance Education research in the U.S but more broadly with examples of dance research from several different countries. The curated book includes the voices of both seasoned professionals and newer scholars in the field with examples of dance research from a number of different countries. The contributions represent several countries including Korea South Africa United States of America Jamaica India United Kingdom Brazil and Slovenia underscore the global relevance and significance of research in dance education.
This book is divided into 5 parts. The first part focuses on dance education research and methodologies and is divided into three sections. With an introduction by Jill Green the chapters that follow provide an overview of research types including the more traditional qualitative quantitative and mixed and other methods such as portraiture and a/r/tography.
Part II introduced by Lynnette Young Overby includes examples of dance education research that incorporate qualitative quantitative and/or mixed methods. Three sections covering dance education research applications in the areas of history and culture dance teaching and choreography and community based research follow.
Part III of the Handbook of Dance Education Research provides insight into dance education that takes place in several countries. This part is introduced by Peter Cook Associate Deputy Chancellor Southern Cross University Australia. The collection of chapters within this part of the Handbook of Dance Education Research provides snapshots of research practices from contrasting international areas and with a variety of approaches and paradigms.
The final Part IV includes chapters focused on Social Justice dance education practice and research. This part is introduced by Alfdaniel Mivule Basibye Mabingo Makerere University Uganda. These chapters push the boundaries of dance education research to promote meaning and social change. They provide substantive examples of the impact dance education research can have in response to social and cultural issues.
This book will be a key resource for university students professors practitioners and policy makers in organizations and in school systems. It will inspire future dance education researchers to conduct research that is collaborative impactful inclusive and diverse– research that will solidify the place of dance as an integral part of each person’s education.

Well-Being and Creative Careers
What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick
There is a well-documented mental health crisis among media professionals around the world - in journalism advertising/marketing/PR film and television digital games music (recording and performance) and online content creation.
This book documents what is particular about well-being in creative careers in the media offers an analysis of systemic issues throughout the media industries that explain why so many practitioners get sick on the job and shows what can be done. The health crisis in the media industry consists of mental issues – with extraordinary high instances of anxiety trauma burnout and depression; physical ailments - prevalent substance abuse unhealthy living sleep problems and exhaustion; and spiritual problems – including people experiencing moral injury at work and suffering from a loss of morale.
At the same time most media professionals claim to be happy doing what they do suggesting that what makes people happy can also make them sick. What ends up causing work-related stress disorders is a combination of a lack of reciprocity between what people bring to the job and what the industry offers in return organizational injustice as people perceive policies and decisions at work to be discriminatory and unfair and persistent high workloads.

Photo Obscura
The Photographic in Post-Photography
Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography discusses the profound transformation of post-photography. It argues post-photography is not merely a trend but a significant movement that redefines photography by integrating it with emerging technologies and creative practices resulting in works that may not even resemble photographs but still retain a photographic influence.
It is is structured around various themes including AI-generated images the intersection of digital and physical art forms and the changing relationship between visual representation and perception. Drawing on photo history media studies visual studies art history and the digital humanities and through discussions of specific artworks and artists it provides insights into how post-photography continues to evolve offering new ways to understand define and engage with the photographic image in the digital age. It highlights the influence of digital culture where the abundance of images and information has led to novel approaches in art that question the very nature of photography truth and reality. Still it maintains that despite this radical shift photography's influence remains central even when hidden or abstracted in the final work.

Removing the Educational Silos
Models of Interdisciplinary and Multi-disciplinary Education
This collection was written by educators who are engaging in multi- and interdisciplinary education and are led by curiosities encompassing the collaborative nature of cognitive and kinesthetic engagement and awareness.
The chapters are designed as sources for inspiration replication and adaptation. They are a place to start or continue. Each chapter in varying modalities addresses interdisciplinary course development and implementation in institutions of higher education. The common themes that emerge in the collection include navigating administrative systems and solving the challenges encountered when crossing departments or colleges whether it be regarding listing of courses or the intricacies of course load on each professor.
Many chapters also provide detailed information on the nuts and bolts of the specific course or courses taught including syllabi lesson examples and both formal and informal assessments implemented. Multiple case studies are included in this collection with many chapters providing specific examples of students’ work.
Contributors candidly offer discussions of failures and successes of their interdisciplinary collaborations be it in course design lesson planning or complications brought in by unforeseen pandemics. Most chapters end with a section entitled ‘Lessons learned’ where experiences from the field provide opportunities for growth and continued exploration.
Readers can follow the book from cover to cover or dip in finding the chapters that serve a particular project or teaching endeavour. The varying writing styles and topics are in direct relationship with the exact nature of the inspiration for this text. The over-arching themes of collaboration (diverse backgrounds ideas and skill sets multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity) are the consistent touchstones that create a thematic self-guided journey of exploration through the book.
The chapters offer readers guidance and encouragement to implement some of the approaches described and inspiration to forge their own paths in the world of multi- and interdisciplinary teaching and research. The depth and breadth of collaborative possibilities are exciting and the editors’ goal is to spark further experimentation.
An excellent and practical resource for any educator hoping to teach his or her subject matter through an interdisciplinary approach and for all courses revolving around topics of pedagogy. The key audience will be graduate students and teachers in all stages of education from primary to higher education.

Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making
The World We Want
Contemporary art has a complex relationship to crisis. On the one hand art can draw us toward apocalypse: it charts unfolding chaos reflects and amplifies the effects of crisis shows us the dystopian in both our daily life and in our imagined futures. On the other hand art’s complexity helps fathom the uncertainty of the world question and challenge the order of things and allows us to imagine new ways of living and being – to make new worlds.
This collection of written and visual essays includes artistic responses to various crises – including the climate emergency global and local inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic – and suggests new forms of collectivity and collaboration within artistic practice. It surveys a wide variety of practices oriented from the perspective of Australia New Zealand and Asia. Art making has always responded to the world; the essays in this collection explore how artists are adapting to a world in crisis.
The contributions to this book are arranged in four sections: artistic responses; critical reflections new curatorial approaches and the art school reimagined. Alongside the written chapters three photographic essays provide specific examples of new visual forms in artistic practice under crisis conditions.
The primary market for the book will be scholars and upper-level students of art and curating at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Specifically the book will appeal to the burgeoning field of study around socially engaged art.
Beyond the academic and student market it will appeal to practicing artists and curators especially those engaged in social practice and community-based art.

Ken Gonzales-Day
History’s “Nevermade”
This book which accompanies an exhibition by the same name addresses the life work of Ken Gonzales-Day a Los Angeles based artist scholar teacher and curator who explores race and place in his photographic and filmic works drawings and paintings as well as through his research. He achieves this through a fundamental focus on the body—as intersectionally identified place-making empowered or occluded—which he centralizes while (in some cases) literally erasing it. When we engage with his work we engage his body with our bodies; we experience or own situatedness our intersectionality as we position ourselves and are positioned in social space always in relations of power.
Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade” puts the artist’s major series of art works in context showing the deep political aesthetic and theoretical concerns through which he animates his practice and pointing to larger political issues in relation to which each series can be understood. The book is organized in a roughly chronological and thematic structure according to the major series of his work all of which overlap and interrelate. The sections are: Finding a Path (Early Work) Rethinking History (Family) Rethinking History (Archives) Collecting Race (Museums) Forging Community (Publics) Imaging Bodies (Portraits) Redrawing Boundaries (Land).

Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas
Transregional Dialogues and Manifestations
Architectural expressions resonant with Islamic traditions appear in diverse modes across the Americas from Andalusian-inspired colonial patios in Peru to the modern and contemporary patronage of immigrant communities in the United States and Canada. This volume examines the multiple manifestations of Islamic architecture that permeate the region’s built environment to invite an expanded framing of this architectural legacy via a hemispheric consideration of aesthetics narrative and patronage.
Chapters consider a broad range of topics from the migration of aesthetic traditions and construction techniques tied to the architectural forms of the Islamic world in the colonial “New World” to the direct contributions of modern and contemporary migrants in shaping a collective identity and the built environment.
By placing in productive dialogue sites that represent Islamic and Islamicate architecture across North and South America – two areas outside of the traditional conceptions of the Islamic world– this volume bridges transregional and transcultural gaps in the current literature.

Arts Education in Ireland
From Pedagogy to Practice
This book examines the distinctive nature of Arts Based Learning in Education (ABLE) in the context of a changing curriculum in Ireland. It draws on recent research on the state of the arts in Irish schools from early years primary schools post primary to higher education institutions.
The wide range of perspectives from pedagogy to practice draws on research in the visual arts literature and the arts within teacher education. Teacher identity formation and students’ perceptions of learning within the writers in school’s scheme are some of the themes within the book. It also includes examples of collaborative interdisciplinary practice between educational and cultural institutions. The book is situated within a rapidly changing curriculum policy framework and examines the relevance of arts-based learning against the backdrop of the drive for 21st century skills.

Fashion Projects
15 Years of Fashion in Dialogue
Fashion Projects: 15 Years of Fashion in Dialogue anthologizes the New York–based journal Fashion Projects. The book is an index of a particular time within the fashion studies landscape and the attendant fields of fashion writing fashion curation and critical fashion practice during which the field witnessed a meteoric rise.
The long-running non-profit journal Fashion Projects was described by The Paris Review as “a journal devoted to critical discourse in fashion” Fashion Projects was founded in New York in 2005 as a zine. It gradually morphed into a larger journal straddling the academic and general interest worlds with international distribution and an ardent readership. It served as a platform to highlight the importance of fashion within current critical discourses through longform interviews with a range of curators critics artists and designers. This book collects together the best articles from the journal most issues of which are now unavailable.
From exploring the rise of digital fashion media with Penny Martin (the founding editor-in-chief of SHOWstudio) to the continued importance of connoisseurship with Harold Koda (former Curator in Chief of the Met’s Costume Institute) the anthology records the increasing centrality of fashion to contemporary critical discourse.

Music, Research, and Activism
Prospects and Projects in Northern Europe
This book introduces the concept of activist music research emphasising action and social responsibility and suggests that music research can be used to promote social and ecological justice. This is discussed in a series of position papers by music researchers who engage in public debate in their various roles - educator critic journalist DJ producer promoter - and work with other actors in civil society and culture.
The book suggests that we are experiencing an activist turn in music research evidenced by the growing number of projects and publications discussing inequalities in musical practices and the impact music research can have on these inequalities. This idea is explored in a series of position papers and contemplative texts where music researchers music educators and artistic researchers reflect on how their work and the position they occupy as professionals in society serves eco-social justice and equity. What is the point of studying and teaching music in an age of ecocide neo(liberal)-colonialism rampant racial inequities persistent gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination? What does social and ecological responsibility and sustainability mean in music research?
The idea for the book was conceived within the context of Suoni a non-profit independent research association in Finland founded as a self-organizing and independent network for scholars interested in exploring methods pedagogics practices and action for eco-social equity in relation to music and music research.

Entrepreneurial Arts and Cultural Leadership
Traits of Success in Nonprofit Theatre
Traits is timely and needed. It provides a pathway to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset in nonprofit arts management students and in those in the nonprofit field. Traits is not another academic hypothetical imagining text. Rather Traits is a tactical centred on entrepreneurial leadership offering a concrete case example Imagination Stage.
2020 brought significant changes to the world’s business and social fabric. The nonprofit arts has been greatly impacted with the highest unemployment rate during the peak of the pandemic response to the slow and inconsistent return of patrons. Internally organizations had to address often long-over-due adaptations to the inclusive and accessible practices demanded by their communities including equitable pay scales diversity inclusion and access on stage staffs and boards.
Consequently many nonprofit arts organizations are now less viable; many have gone out of business; and most are struggling to adopt new post-pandemic practices that promote a new culture in their organization. The authors contend that those organizations that have survived are led by social entrepreneurs who were always ahead of the curve and able to adapt.
The authors’ underlying assumption is that while entrepreneurship may be innate in some in most it is not - even in those who lead organizations. But it can also be taught – just like any form of leadership. And this is what Traits does.

At the Movies, Film Reviewing, and Screenwriting
Selective Affinities and Cultural Mediation
This book examines film reviewing and screenwriting as key sites of cultural mediation providing new insights on the relationship between criticism and reviewing as well as the way reviewers handle concepts of story dialogue and narrative.
Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu on the cultural field and his theory of taste the book provides an assessment of the place of film reviewing in contemporary screen culture. The book analyses a case study comprised of ten years of television scripts of the Australian film reviewing programme At the Movies (2004–2014). Hosted by two of Australia’s most eminent film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton for over two decades this study of At the Movies provides a unique window into film reviewing movie consumption and wider cultural attitudes in this period of Australian cultural history. It examines the programme’s cultural significance and the contribution of Margaret and David to screen culture.
This book makes a significant contribution to an under-studied area of media studies (the review) screenwriting research through the analysis of broadcast scripts and cultural studies through the study of an important television programme.

Men, War and Film
The Calling Blighty Films of World War II
The Calling Blighty series of films produced by the Combined Kinematograph Service produced towards the end of the Second World War were one-reel films in which soldiers gave short spoken messages to the camera as a means of connecting the front line and the home front. These are the first ever films where men speak openly in their regional accents and they have profound meaning for remembrance documentary representation and the ecology of film in wartime.
Of the 400 films (or ‘issues’) made 64 survive. Each of those contained around 25 individual messages. Men – and a very few women - from a particular city town or region were grouped together for the films to make regional screenings back in UK cinemas and town halls possible. Personnel from all three services are featured but the men are predominantly from the army units. Screenings took place at a cinema in the subjects’ local area and were usually organised by the regional Army Welfare Committee. The names and addresses of those to be invited to the screenings were sent to the UK along with the films.
Until now these films have barely been researched and yet are a valuable source of social history as well as representing a different mode from the mainstream of British wartime documentary. This book expands the history of Calling Blighty and places it in a broader context both past and present. New research reveals the origins of the film series and draws comparisons with written and oral contemporary sources.
Steve Hawley is an artist/filmmaker whose work has been screened worldwide and has collaborated closely with the North West Film Archive UK. He is emeritus professor at the Manchester Metropolitan University UK.
Using memoirs and diaries Steve Hawley has researched the roles in the Burma campaign of participants in the surviving films and traced over 160 of the families of the men – and two men still alive – and recreated these wartime screenings.
Hawley’s book is part description of the films part reclamation of a largely unknown genre of wartime filmmaking partly an account of the Burma campaign and partly a discussion of war and memory. Engagingly and warmly written.
It will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the areas of war studies especially those specializing in the social rather than military history of warfare and historians of British wartime cinema and documentary. Also useful for an undergraduate audience in history media/film studies.
Potential for readers with an interest in the Second World War particularly the war in Burma and those with an interest in family history of the period.

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies
The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies attempts a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. Alongside contributions from key thinkers already established in popular music studies the strength of the collection lies in its inclusion of many new and emerging writers in the field. Therefore the collection incorporates a wide range of practitioners pedagogues and academics from an extensive range of disciplines and thus drawing from a diversity of methodological approaches. These include those that are perhaps more established such as semiotics ethnography and psychology alongside exciting new approaches within popular music including eco-musicology religion intersectionality and archeology. Although previous books have provided an overall of concepts studied within popular music studies this will be the first comprehensive Handbook of popular music methodologies.

Hip-Hop Archives
The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production
This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects including methods of accumulation curation preservation and digitization and critically analyzes institutional power community engagement urban economics public access and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture’s enduring tensions with dominant social values.
The collection of essays are divided into four sections; Doing the Knowledge Challenging Archival Forms Beyond the Nation and Institutional Alignments: Interviews and Reflections. The book covers a range of official unofficial DIY and community archives and collections and features chapters by scholar practitioners educators and curators.
A wide swath of hip-hop culture is featured in the book including a focus on dance graffiti clothing and battle rap. The range of authors and their topics span countries in Asia Europe the Caribbean and North America.

Make the Dream Real
World-Building Performance by El Vez, The Mexican Elvis
El Vez performances present a powerful message of social justice and inclusion in changing US and social contexts. Make the Dream Real interrogates how this message is activated through world-building: the use of a variety of theoretical theatrical and musical tactics that bring into being a progressive social space that refutes the current economic political social and cultural configurations of the United States.
World-building in an El Vez show “makes the dream real” by imagining a society in which equal rights are guaranteed inclusivity is fostered difference is valued and the violence of economic inequality is mitigated. But world-building through performance is not content to reside exclusively in the individual imagination or the social imaginary; it temporarily creates this new social space in actual time and space for the audience to experience. Using a dramaturgical methodology which marries theoretical inquiry to theatrical practice based on dramaturgical thinking critical proximity and intellectual flexibility the book delves into the theoretical foundations that inform artist Robert Lopez’s work and each chapter analyzes a different performative component he uses.
Make the Dream Real interrogates how El Vez’s playful engagements hold the United States to its egalitarian promises voicing and enacting - however fleetingly - a just and richly inclusive social space through performance.

Analyzing NES Music
Harmony, Form, and the Art of Technological Constraint
Faced with severe technological constraints on system memory composers of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sought ways to disguise repetition in music that repeats extensively. Their efforts gave rise to a set of compositional techniques for creating the illusion of variety.
This book distills these techniques into a theory of harmony and form for the analysis of NES music. It then uses this theory to analyze five landmark scores of the NES era: Super Mario Bros. Dragon Warrior Metroid Mega Man 2 and Silver Surfer. Both theory and analysis are scaffolded by a detailed description of the NES hardware and its attendant constraints highlighting the ever-evolving dialogue between technology commercial demand and artistic sensibility that characterizes video game music of the 1980s and 1990s.

Leigh Bowery
Performative Costuming and Live Art
An exploration of the life artistic practice social-historical context and cultural impact of Leigh Bowery. Vranou particularly considers Bowery's performative costuming and Live Art in relation to the ways they have influenced the broader spectrum of visual culture and the expanded field of performance studies.
Bowery’s cult status as an outrageously self-styled nightclub personality has obscured his significant contribution to performance studies and visual culture in favour of a justifiable discursive emphasis on his importance to fashion. The diversity of Bowery’s work and his marginality as an artist who emerged from a subcultural milieu complicated and thwarted his cultural value hindering as a consequence his incorporation into art institutions and performance narratives.
Through close analysis of Bowery’s key looks and non-theatrical performances the book examines the implications of his work in dominant histories of performance art and urgent discourses surrounding normativity representations of illness and body politics. It focuses on the performative dimension of Bowery’s costuming as an effective strategy for blurring the boundaries between art and life reflecting his aesthetics of freakishness and narcissistic desire his engagement in BDSM practices and the performance of extremity and the posttranssexual ethos behind his hybrid embodiments and trans-queer visual language.

Understanding Video Activism on Social Media
What political power do videos on social media have? In what ways do they exert influence shape publics and change political life? And how can committed civil society actors in this field assert themselves against hegemonic discourses commercial interests anti-democratic agitation and authoritarian propaganda? These questions are being debated intensely as social media increasingly dominate global information flows and videos increasingly dominate social media.
Understanding video activism seems particularly relevant at a time when the internet is undergoing fundamental disruptions. The forms practices and opportunities of activism depend on its media environment which now is changing rapidly and profoundly in terms of its technological basis ownership legal regulations and governmental control.

Urban Music Governance
What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities
What happens when precarious urban cultural labourers take data collection laws and policymaking into their own hands? Buskers have been part of our cities for hundreds of years but they remain invisible to governments and in datasets. From nuisance to public art this cultural practice can help us understand the politics of data collection archives regulatory frameworks and urban planning. Busking also responds to underlying questions on the boundaries of the right to the city – and who has a voice in shaping how our cities are planned and governed.
A transnational exploration of street performance Urban Music Governance examines the intricate limits of legality data visibility and resistance from the perspective of those working at the social and regulatory margins of society. Based on a decade of fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal this book puts forward a lively account on why such an often-overlooked practice mattes today.
By investigating the role of busking in contemporary society Urban Music Governance presents an original interdisciplinary study that exposes how power dynamics in policymaking decide issues of access – and exclusion – around us above and below ground.

Urban Music Governance
What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities
What happens when precarious urban cultural labourers take data collection laws and policymaking into their own hands? Buskers have been part of our cities for hundreds of years but they remain invisible to governments and in datasets. From nuisance to public art this cultural practice can help us understand the politics of data collection archives regulatory frameworks and urban planning. Busking also responds to underlying questions on the boundaries of the right to the city – and who has a voice in shaping how our cities are planned and governed.
A transnational exploration of street performance Urban Music Governance examines the intricate limits of legality data visibility and resistance from the perspective of those working at the social and regulatory margins of society. Based on a decade of fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal this book puts forward a lively account on why such an often-overlooked practice mattes today.
By investigating the role of busking in contemporary society Urban Music Governance presents an original interdisciplinary study that exposes how power dynamics in policymaking decide issues of access – and exclusion – around us above and below ground.

The Intellect Handbook of Documentary
The Handbook of Documentary is an important go-to resource for practitioners scholars and students in this burgeoning field. It tackles key topics and debates – from the role of documentary in post-truth culture to the rise of streaming giants (and the implications for national documentary cultures) and the shifting (increasingly hybrid) practices of documentary activism and the professionalization of impact. Featuring work by key figures in international documentary scholarship and talented emerging scholars the Handbook is a landmark publication for documentary studies in the twenty-first century.
The Handbook is broad in its scope incorporating historical theoretical empirical and practical scholarship. It is organized around ten key themes/debates: What and where is documentary (studies)?; Documentary in an Age of epistemic uncertainty; Documentary histories; Documentary and the Archive; Audio/Visualities; Documentary Relationalities; Beyond the Anthropocene?; Digital/documentary practices; Documentary and (new) politics?; A golden age? Documentary distribution and funding. Importantly the Handbook challenges the dominance of Western voices in documentary scholarship incorporating the voices and practices of practitioners from the Global South.

Flesh and Text
Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight
BODIES IN FLIGHT make performance where flesh utters and words move challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and performers and audiences and place.
Emerging from rigorous interdisciplinary and collaborative methods often with new technologies in cutting-edge venues we insist on the buzz of ideas on philosophy and poetry using words and images movement and stillness voices and bodies through which they aim to move audiences emotionally and spiritually. Organized in a highly visual design this volume is both a history and a workbook with selections of scripts and archival material from 30 years of making devised theatre and performance in the UK and internationally plus texts by collaborators arts professionals and scholars exploring the company’s collaborative working method contextualizing it in the wider performance ecology and culture.
Intended as an inspiration to emerging artists the volume covers key questions for any maker of contemporary performance: the relationship of choreography and spoken word the use of new technologies and multi-media the role of original music and soundscapes the differences between work presented in a theatre or gallery or sited in non-theatrical places the persistence of theatre as an art-form in an increasingly digital culture.

Shock Factory
The Visual Culture of Industrial Music
Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon it quickly spawned a coherent visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage mail art installation film performance sound video) and initiated a close inspection of the legacy of modernity and the growing pervasive influence of technology.
Originally British the movement soon outgrew Europe extending into the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments conducted by industrial bands – designing synthesizers manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes either recycled or laid down by the artists – were backed up by a rich array of radical visual productions deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. Such saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images manipulated through the détournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art) that investigated polemical themes: mind control criminality occultism pornography psychiatry and totalitarianism among others.
This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of 1970a and 1980s industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement who perceptively anticipated the current discourse concerning the media and their collective coercive power.

Schechner Plays
A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most recent to earliest Schechner's work as a "writer" and a "wrighter" -- the author of plays and the conceptualizer and leader of teams of artists. The book includes several never before published early texts as well as updated versions of well-known productions such as "Dionysus in 69" "YokastaS" "Makbeth" and "Imagining O." The earliest texts are from the 1950s the most recent from 2014.
This book brings together for the first time Richard’s original plays and adaptations: YokastaS Redux Dionysus 69 Commune Oresteia Prometheus Project Makbeth Richard’s Leer Imagining O Faust/gastronome Blessing of the Fleet Briseis and the Sergeant Lot's Daughters and The Last Day of FK. The scripts engage with perennial canonic themes such as Oedipus and Faust and topical issues of our times. They embody Richard’s world-famous performance approach. The introduction sets the scripts in intellectual and production context. The book complements Schechner’s other works Performance Studies (now in its 3rd ed.) Performance Theory The Grotowski Sourcebook The Future of Ritual and his new A New Third World of Performance.

artmaking as embodied enquiry
entering the fold
What can a fold be? Virtually anything and everything.
For centuries folds and folding have captured the world’s imagination. Folds readily appear in revivals of the ancient craft of origami amid the simplest acts of pedestrian life within the philosophical turnings of the mind and in art design architecture performing arts and linguistics around the world. What awaits our understanding is how deeply the fold figures into embodiment into our very impulse to create.
This book is about folding as a vibrant stimulus for inter/trans/postdisciplinary artistic research whether for the performative for product realization or simply to enliven body mind and spirit. Destined for artmaking—for making any art—the f/old practice etches into the very fabric of embodiment. As such the f/old reaches outside the constraints of disciplinary silos into nice areas that embrace the unknown with all its underlying tensions and ambiguities. In conceiving of art made differently two seasoned facilitators Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson share the abundance of their decade-long collaboration in developing their approach to practice research in the fold. In addition to their insights they invite eight of their collaborators to contribute each a veteran artist of a diverse genre.
Featuring a wide variety of practice samples and images this book reflects on a current and unique somatic-oriented arts research practice and pedagogy with an intriguing blend of interdisciplinary concern and practice.

The Films of Aleksandr Rou
Father of Soviet Fairy-Tale Cinema
Fifty years after his death the Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Rou remains a cinematic icon in Russia and many other countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Dubbed ‘King of the Fairy Tales’ and ‘The Main Storyteller of the Country’ he transformed the landscape of Soviet fantasy and fairy-tale cinema during a directorial career that stretched from 1938 to 1972.
From the heights of Stalinist propaganda cinema through Khrushchev’s Thaw and into the Brezhnev Stagnation era Rou’s films celebrated and perpetuated the nation’s folkloric traditions while constantly refreshing them for new generations of young audiences.
In English-speaking countries Rou’s work remains relatively little known having received only limited theatrical distribution in the West. With home entertainment now offering wider opportunities to discover his unique and exhilarating oeuvre this book provides a timely introduction to the work of one of the world’s great masters of fairy-tale cinema.
The book traces the developments of Rou’s work on fairy-tale film providing cultural and technical contexts of production and analysing in a competent manner the features that mark Rou’s personal style whilst highlighting variations on narratives actors and special effects. It is a joyful read and an impeccably organised text which is well structured and brings out much more clearly the various phases in the development of Rou’s films. The chapters provide excellent introductions that serve to contextualise and connect the narrative.

The Social Object
Apprehending Materiality for Industrial Design Practice
The Social Object uses the methods of design history material culture studies and the social construction of technology to analyse the domestic spaces and objects in the homes of the middle class in India. The book describes how people make meaning of the objects they buy own and gift.
This is a book about the biography of projects and objects. The projects in the book serve as book ends to a detailed and affectionate account of the biographies of objects within the homes of the not so rich.
The aim of the author has been to silence the voice of the designer to allow the accounts of objects to emerge as periodic irruptions that reveal a hidden maelstrom of passion ideas and failed projects. The book opens with the biography of a project dealing with waste leading the reader to a very particular kind of object the bads. This object is illicit handled by criminals and in the writing by the author serves to invert the dominant discourse of objects as commodities. This book makes the case that the program of design is better seen as a democratic community where the householders the zietgiest technology and all manner of hidden agents collide to allow unforseen periodic objects to emerge.
Varadarajan argues against a simplistic universal account off the way we think about how objects are designed. As an enterprise the book was a journey to assemble the evidence - of places and objects - and observe the enactment of practices with the objects. It was also a project of speculation upon the possible ways in which objects come to be as local collaborations of action.

Last Artist Standing
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life over 50
Last Artist Standing shares the essays of the lives of 31 artists over the age of 50 how they have sustained their creative lives what paths they have led showing who contemporary artists are today.
They are mentors to other artists having learned how to thrive and be creative through decades of life's travails. Sharon Louden wants to share these stories with the public so that their models can be replicated by all age groups both within and beyond the art world.
This collection addresses the ability of these artists to remain contemporary as they adapt through generational shifts the physical financial and professional challenges they have overcome to remain vibrant and sustaining artists and their role as inspirational models to others who may be turning to art late in their lives.

Artists as Writers
Part of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series Artists as Writers joins the tradition of writing books designed or intended to inspire would-be writers to write but distinguishes itself by offering succinct first-person narratives by writers of varied genres about the day-to-day life of writing for a living.
Artists as Writers offers accounts of the journeys that thirty two writers have taken to becoming a real writer what decisions were made which paths were taken rejected charted and why. It answers the question: What magic keeps a writer writing?
Writers from Ethiopia Guatemala Nigeria Palestine Poland and Sweden as well as several who live throughout the United States: California Colorado Georgia Louisiana Pennsylvania Texas and Washington contribute their stories. They each provide vividly detailed accounts of the circuitous roads that each individual took to earn the title “writer.” These are richly descriptive stories from writers who write consistently relating how they came to the writing life who helped them get there and what sustains them as writers.