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Advances in Metal Music and Culture
ISSN: 2752-4426
E-ISSN: 2752-4434
Book Series
Series Editors: Keith Kahn-Harris and Rosemary Lucy Hill
Metal music studies is a fast-expanding interdisciplinary field that spans across subject area fields in the social sciences performing arts and humanities. Intellect's Advances in Metal Music and Culture publishes monographs edited collections and short books on metal and its associated sub-genres. The series builds on and continues the work of Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture with the same series editors. It continues to provide a home for the growing number of scholars – from a wide variety of backgrounds – who wish to critically reflect on metal music around the world as a cultural product.
The series editors are keen to receive proposals or ideas for proposals from scholars working on any aspect of metal music and culture. They are interested to receive proposals from scholars at any stage of their career including recent Ph.D.s. Proposals that deal with metal outside of Europe and North America are particularly welcome but the editors are happy to discuss any ideas that fit within the broad scope of the series aims.
The series is peer-reviewed and draws on the expertise of an International Advisory Board.
To submit a proposal to the series or for more information please contact the series editors:
Keith Kahn-Harris ([email protected]); Rosemary Lucy Hill ([email protected]).
Metal music studies is a fast-expanding interdisciplinary field that spans across subject area fields in the social sciences performing arts and humanities. Intellect's Advances in Metal Music and Culture publishes monographs edited collections and short books on metal and its associated sub-genres. The series builds on and continues the work of Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture with the same series editors. It continues to provide a home for the growing number of scholars – from a wide variety of backgrounds – who wish to critically reflect on metal music around the world as a cultural product.
The series editors are keen to receive proposals or ideas for proposals from scholars working on any aspect of metal music and culture. They are interested to receive proposals from scholars at any stage of their career including recent Ph.D.s. Proposals that deal with metal outside of Europe and North America are particularly welcome but the editors are happy to discuss any ideas that fit within the broad scope of the series aims.
The series is peer-reviewed and draws on the expertise of an International Advisory Board.
To submit a proposal to the series or for more information please contact the series editors:
Keith Kahn-Harris ([email protected]); Rosemary Lucy Hill ([email protected]).
Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education
ISSN: 2632-7872
E-ISSN: 2632-9182
Book Series
Series Editors: Anita Sinner and Rita Irwin
The aim of Artwork Scholarship is to invite debate on and provide an essential resource for transnational scholars engaged in creative research involving visual literary and performative arts. Approaches may include arts-based practice-based a/r/tography artistic research creation and more and explore pedagogical and experimental perspectives reflective and evaluative assessments methodological deliberations and ethical issues and concerns in relation to a host of topic areas in education.
Manuscripts address questions such as: What is artwork scholarship? How does arts education compare internationally? What educational approaches and modes are widening debates concerning the arts? How might best practices be adapted transnationally? Does arts research contribute to sustainability of the arts at a time of globalization of education?
We invite manuscripts that align with the following streams of inquiry:
International Perspectives: Themed collections that investigate art as research inclusive of diverse global viewpoints (80000 – 120000 words).
Communities of Practice: Regional perspectives and/or specific topics and issues relating to art as research (50000 – 80000 words).
Artful Expressions: Exposés such as graphic novels visual essays and short format essays that are simultaneously concise and artful and demonstrate innovative and enduring issues questions events and encounters (20000 – 50000 words e-books print-on-demand).
Proposals should identify the stream of inquiry and demonstrate how the proposed topic(s) expand artwork scholarship with explicit engagement of textual-artistic relationships. Each stream offers unique opportunities for depth and/or breadth of investigation and artistic engagement.
Please note: Open Access publications are strongly encouraged.
For any enquiries contact [email protected] and [email protected].
To propose a manuscript please send a completed Author/Editor Questionnaire. The form can be downloaded from Publish with Us page.
Advisory Review Board
David Andrew University of the Witwatersrand
Fernando Hernandez Hernandez University of Barcelona
Kim Snepvangers University of New South Wales
Kazuyo Nakamura Hiroshima University
Li-Yan Wang National Changhua University of Education (Taiwan)
Donal O’Donoghue University of British Columbia
Belidson Dias Universidade de Brasilia
Nicholas Houghton University for the Creative Arts
Helene Illeris University of Agder
Victoria Pavlou Frederick University Cyprus
Raphael Vella University of Malta
Readers of Artwork Scholarship books may also be interested in a related publication Visually Provoking: Dissertations in Art Education (2018) originally published by Lapland University Press available Open Access.
The aim of Artwork Scholarship is to invite debate on and provide an essential resource for transnational scholars engaged in creative research involving visual literary and performative arts. Approaches may include arts-based practice-based a/r/tography artistic research creation and more and explore pedagogical and experimental perspectives reflective and evaluative assessments methodological deliberations and ethical issues and concerns in relation to a host of topic areas in education.
Manuscripts address questions such as: What is artwork scholarship? How does arts education compare internationally? What educational approaches and modes are widening debates concerning the arts? How might best practices be adapted transnationally? Does arts research contribute to sustainability of the arts at a time of globalization of education?
We invite manuscripts that align with the following streams of inquiry:
International Perspectives: Themed collections that investigate art as research inclusive of diverse global viewpoints (80000 – 120000 words).
Communities of Practice: Regional perspectives and/or specific topics and issues relating to art as research (50000 – 80000 words).
Artful Expressions: Exposés such as graphic novels visual essays and short format essays that are simultaneously concise and artful and demonstrate innovative and enduring issues questions events and encounters (20000 – 50000 words e-books print-on-demand).
Proposals should identify the stream of inquiry and demonstrate how the proposed topic(s) expand artwork scholarship with explicit engagement of textual-artistic relationships. Each stream offers unique opportunities for depth and/or breadth of investigation and artistic engagement.
Please note: Open Access publications are strongly encouraged.
For any enquiries contact [email protected] and [email protected].
To propose a manuscript please send a completed Author/Editor Questionnaire. The form can be downloaded from Publish with Us page.
Advisory Review Board
David Andrew University of the Witwatersrand
Fernando Hernandez Hernandez University of Barcelona
Kim Snepvangers University of New South Wales
Kazuyo Nakamura Hiroshima University
Li-Yan Wang National Changhua University of Education (Taiwan)
Donal O’Donoghue University of British Columbia
Belidson Dias Universidade de Brasilia
Nicholas Houghton University for the Creative Arts
Helene Illeris University of Agder
Victoria Pavlou Frederick University Cyprus
Raphael Vella University of Malta
Readers of Artwork Scholarship books may also be interested in a related publication Visually Provoking: Dissertations in Art Education (2018) originally published by Lapland University Press available Open Access.
BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research
ISSN: 2752-4515
E-ISSN: 2752-4523
Book Series
Series Editors: Oliver Carter Kirsten Forkert Nicholas Gebhardt and Dima Saber.
The Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research’s ‘New Directions’ book series aims to advance research and teaching in the broad range of media and cultural studies and to serve as the focal point for a community of scholars who are committed to critical inquiry and collaborative practice. Books in the series engage with developments in the field showing how new theoretical approaches have impacted on research within both media and cultural studies and other related disciplines. Each volume will focus on a specific theme or issue as well as exploring broader processes of social and cultural transformation. The series is committed to producing distinctive titles that challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries and question existing paradigms including innovative scholarship in areas such as the creative industries; media history heritage and archives; games studies; gender and sexuality; screen cultures; jazz and popular music studies; media and conflict; songwriting studies; and critical theory. The editors are also keen to encourage authors to experiment with non-standard approaches to academic writing.
For more information about the series or to submit a proposal please contact the series editor:
Nicholas Gebhardt: [email protected]
To propose a manuscript please send a completed Author/Editor Questionnaire. The form can be downloaded from Publish with Us page.
Editorial Board
Joanna Garde-Hansen University of Warwick
Paul Long Monash University
John Mercer Birmingham City University
Karen Patel Birmingham City University
Annette Naudin Birmingham City University
Sean Sobers University of the West of England
Eduardo Vincente University of Sao Paolo
Tony Whyton Birmingham City University
The Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research’s ‘New Directions’ book series aims to advance research and teaching in the broad range of media and cultural studies and to serve as the focal point for a community of scholars who are committed to critical inquiry and collaborative practice. Books in the series engage with developments in the field showing how new theoretical approaches have impacted on research within both media and cultural studies and other related disciplines. Each volume will focus on a specific theme or issue as well as exploring broader processes of social and cultural transformation. The series is committed to producing distinctive titles that challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries and question existing paradigms including innovative scholarship in areas such as the creative industries; media history heritage and archives; games studies; gender and sexuality; screen cultures; jazz and popular music studies; media and conflict; songwriting studies; and critical theory. The editors are also keen to encourage authors to experiment with non-standard approaches to academic writing.
For more information about the series or to submit a proposal please contact the series editor:
Nicholas Gebhardt: [email protected]
To propose a manuscript please send a completed Author/Editor Questionnaire. The form can be downloaded from Publish with Us page.
Editorial Board
Joanna Garde-Hansen University of Warwick
Paul Long Monash University
John Mercer Birmingham City University
Karen Patel Birmingham City University
Annette Naudin Birmingham City University
Sean Sobers University of the West of England
Eduardo Vincente University of Sao Paolo
Tony Whyton Birmingham City University
Changing Media, Changing Europe
ISSN: 1742-9439
E-ISSN: 2043-7803
Book Series
Series Editors: Peter Golding and Ib Bondebjerg
Changing Media Changing Europe is a book series of new essays bringing together original analyses of the changing landscape of the media in Europe. The books arise from a unique five year European Science Foundation programme ‘Changing Media Changing Europe’ – in which leading scholars from across the continent met to work together to produce innovative discussion and analysis of the interaction of rapid changes in the culture and politics of the mass media with complex shifts in social and economic dynamics within and across cultures. Drawing on insights and research in a range of disciplines some of Europe’s leading scholars contribute new articles arising from their involvement in the ESF Programme.
Changing Media Changing Europe is a book series of new essays bringing together original analyses of the changing landscape of the media in Europe. The books arise from a unique five year European Science Foundation programme ‘Changing Media Changing Europe’ – in which leading scholars from across the continent met to work together to produce innovative discussion and analysis of the interaction of rapid changes in the culture and politics of the mass media with complex shifts in social and economic dynamics within and across cultures. Drawing on insights and research in a range of disciplines some of Europe’s leading scholars contribute new articles arising from their involvement in the ESF Programme.
Contemporary Music Making and Learning
ISSN: 2752-9797
E-ISSN: 2752-9800
Book Series
Series editors: Gareth Dylan Smith and Bryan Powell
Contemporary Music Making and Learning focuses on current approaches to music making and learning with particular emphasis on the perspectives practices purposes and places of the people involved. This book series aims to shed light on established and emerging contemporary practices in music creation and music education and we anticipate that books in the series will come from a wide range of authors and editors representing and discussing a breadth and depth of traditions converging in and around contemporary music education praxis.
The series editors are Gareth Dylan Smith and Bryan Powell who edit Intellect’s Journal of Popular Music Education. For this series they invite proposals for monographs and edited collections – of a variety of lengths – that emphasize or combine practical theoretical philosophical empirical and interdisciplinary approaches to music making and learning. The book series aims to draw authors editors and audiences from among the music education profession throughout the anglophone world as well as from related fields including popular music studies ethnomusicology sociology of music community music musical theatre and music therapy. While this a scholarly book series submissions are especially encouraged from authorial and editorial teams that include musicians teachers and music leaders with real-world experience and understanding who may not ordinarily write for an academic audience.
Contributions to the Contemporary Music Making and Learning book series should be:
Gareth Dylan Smith ([email protected]) and Bryan Powell ([email protected]).
To propose a manuscript please send a completed Author/Editor Questionnaire. The form can be downloaded from Publish with Us page.
Contemporary Music Making and Learning focuses on current approaches to music making and learning with particular emphasis on the perspectives practices purposes and places of the people involved. This book series aims to shed light on established and emerging contemporary practices in music creation and music education and we anticipate that books in the series will come from a wide range of authors and editors representing and discussing a breadth and depth of traditions converging in and around contemporary music education praxis.
The series editors are Gareth Dylan Smith and Bryan Powell who edit Intellect’s Journal of Popular Music Education. For this series they invite proposals for monographs and edited collections – of a variety of lengths – that emphasize or combine practical theoretical philosophical empirical and interdisciplinary approaches to music making and learning. The book series aims to draw authors editors and audiences from among the music education profession throughout the anglophone world as well as from related fields including popular music studies ethnomusicology sociology of music community music musical theatre and music therapy. While this a scholarly book series submissions are especially encouraged from authorial and editorial teams that include musicians teachers and music leaders with real-world experience and understanding who may not ordinarily write for an academic audience.
Contributions to the Contemporary Music Making and Learning book series should be:
- Relevant to others who make teach study or consume music;
- Clearly and deeply situated and contextualized in current scholarly debate in music studies (e.g.. music education ethnomusicology music technology);
- Readable including clarity of organization and prose that is engaging and compelling;
- Clear in terms of an arc and thesis or (in the case of edited books) a coherently organized set of ideas throughout the book;
- Timely: books in this series should engage with pressing contemporary issues and topics;
- Respectfully challenging or provocative to prevailing professional norms.
- Radical cutting edge particularly in terms of scholarly approach or methods;
- Intensely personal;
- Interdisciplinary;
- Cross-cultural;
- Deeply critical.
Gareth Dylan Smith ([email protected]) and Bryan Powell ([email protected]).
To propose a manuscript please send a completed Author/Editor Questionnaire. The form can be downloaded from Publish with Us page.
Crime Uncovered
ISSN: 2056-9629
E-ISSN: 2056-9637
Book Series
Series Editor: Tim Mitchell
Crime fiction in the various forms of literature film television and even video games is one of the most pervasive of all ‘genres’ with an ever-expanding international popularity. Intellect’s latest book series is intended as a means of exploring this genre in an intelligent critical and accessible manner. The series will focus its gaze on the ‘character type’ in crime fiction and across a number of volumes it aims to unveil and illuminate the various manifestations of character from the police detective to the amateur sleuth the charismatic anti-hero to the private eye and beyond. Each title will be devoted to a particular character type such as ‘The Detective’ or ‘The Anti-Hero’ and contain protagonist case studies interviews with crime writers and explicatory chapters on the wider background and perception of these fascinating – and much loved – characters in crime.
Readers will gain a deeper insight into the workings of character and how integral this has been to both the success and longevity of the genre. Individual case studies will demonstrate how aspects of location methodology relationships adaptation social context and morality differentiate each individual protagonist enough to make them interesting whilst other chapters will help us come to an understanding of what it is that makes them part of a recognizable and distinctive ‘type’.
The Crime Uncovered series uses academic method but in an accessible reader-friendly fashion so that the book will appeal to the intelligent reader of crime fiction and student as well as the scholar.
Crime fiction in the various forms of literature film television and even video games is one of the most pervasive of all ‘genres’ with an ever-expanding international popularity. Intellect’s latest book series is intended as a means of exploring this genre in an intelligent critical and accessible manner. The series will focus its gaze on the ‘character type’ in crime fiction and across a number of volumes it aims to unveil and illuminate the various manifestations of character from the police detective to the amateur sleuth the charismatic anti-hero to the private eye and beyond. Each title will be devoted to a particular character type such as ‘The Detective’ or ‘The Anti-Hero’ and contain protagonist case studies interviews with crime writers and explicatory chapters on the wider background and perception of these fascinating – and much loved – characters in crime.
Readers will gain a deeper insight into the workings of character and how integral this has been to both the success and longevity of the genre. Individual case studies will demonstrate how aspects of location methodology relationships adaptation social context and morality differentiate each individual protagonist enough to make them interesting whilst other chapters will help us come to an understanding of what it is that makes them part of a recognizable and distinctive ‘type’.
The Crime Uncovered series uses academic method but in an accessible reader-friendly fashion so that the book will appeal to the intelligent reader of crime fiction and student as well as the scholar.
Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers
ISSN: 2043-9288
E-ISSN: 2043-9296
Book Series
Series Editor: Martin Iddon
Intellect’s Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers are accessible but rigorous introductions to key figures in the world of contemporary music. Neither simply biographies nor exclusively analytical discussions the focus is on critical issues highlighted by historical and biographical context and the musical content of the work. Particularly the series seeks to engage with composers whose place within contemporary musical cultures is prominent and secure but who have been overlooked within the Anglo-American sphere. Designed for scholars and students alike this series presents insights into vital figures in contemporary music previously unavailable within English-language musicology.
Intellect’s Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers are accessible but rigorous introductions to key figures in the world of contemporary music. Neither simply biographies nor exclusively analytical discussions the focus is on critical issues highlighted by historical and biographical context and the musical content of the work. Particularly the series seeks to engage with composers whose place within contemporary musical cultures is prominent and secure but who have been overlooked within the Anglo-American sphere. Designed for scholars and students alike this series presents insights into vital figures in contemporary music previously unavailable within English-language musicology.
Critical Photography
ISSN: 2041-8345
E-ISSN: 2042-809X
Book Series
Series Editor: Alfredo Cramerotti
To send a proposal for a volume in the series please contact [email protected].
Since 1986 Intellect has provided a vital space for widening critical debate in new and emerging subjects. As a leading academic publisher in the fields of creative practice and popular culture Intellect has a strong list of visual culture and contemporary art focussed publications. We aim to offer a platform for photographers writers and creative artists to present and critically reflect on their work and to produce original adventurous projects.
Critical Photography seeks to encourage visual and textual reflection on/with contemporary photography; to marry photographic work and critical texts representing a balance between the two forms. The series is at the forefront in expanding the notion of critical debate: each book investigates a theoretical issue via two systems of representation placing them at equal level. Neither text that 'explains' pictures nor photography that 'illustrates' text the series addresses aspects of our being and becoming in a thought-provoking and aesthetically stunning form and content.
To send a proposal for a volume in the series please contact [email protected].
Since 1986 Intellect has provided a vital space for widening critical debate in new and emerging subjects. As a leading academic publisher in the fields of creative practice and popular culture Intellect has a strong list of visual culture and contemporary art focussed publications. We aim to offer a platform for photographers writers and creative artists to present and critically reflect on their work and to produce original adventurous projects.
Critical Photography seeks to encourage visual and textual reflection on/with contemporary photography; to marry photographic work and critical texts representing a balance between the two forms. The series is at the forefront in expanding the notion of critical debate: each book investigates a theoretical issue via two systems of representation placing them at equal level. Neither text that 'explains' pictures nor photography that 'illustrates' text the series addresses aspects of our being and becoming in a thought-provoking and aesthetically stunning form and content.
Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East
ISSN: 2059-3562
E-ISSN: 2059-3570
Book Series
Series Editors: Mohammad Gharipour and Christiane Gruber
Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East is devoted to the most recent scholarship concerning historic and contemporary architecture landscape and urban design of the Middle East and of regions shaped by diasporic communities more globally. We invite interdisciplinary studies from diverse perspectives that address the visual characteristics of the built environment ranging from art and architectural case studies to urban analysis. The series illustrates a range of approaches to the commission design construction use and reception of artistic projects buildings landscapes cities and social environments throughout the Islamic world; concurrently it illuminates the region’s diverse architectural cultures and expressive traditions. The series intends to present the history theory practice and critical analyses of historical and contemporary art architecture landscape and urban design as well as the interpretation and conservation of existing cultural heritage in the Islamic world and beyond. It includes surveys monographs and edited volumes.
Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East is devoted to the most recent scholarship concerning historic and contemporary architecture landscape and urban design of the Middle East and of regions shaped by diasporic communities more globally. We invite interdisciplinary studies from diverse perspectives that address the visual characteristics of the built environment ranging from art and architectural case studies to urban analysis. The series illustrates a range of approaches to the commission design construction use and reception of artistic projects buildings landscapes cities and social environments throughout the Islamic world; concurrently it illuminates the region’s diverse architectural cultures and expressive traditions. The series intends to present the history theory practice and critical analyses of historical and contemporary art architecture landscape and urban design as well as the interpretation and conservation of existing cultural heritage in the Islamic world and beyond. It includes surveys monographs and edited volumes.
Cultural Studies Toward Transformative Curriculum and Pedagogy
ISSN: 2049-4025
Book Series
Series Editor: Bill Reynolds (altenative email: [email protected])
In our fast-changing modern world popular culture plays a central critical role in the education of youth and in the development of youthful identity. The ubiquity of television music films gaming and Internet access have together transformed both the nature and pace of personal growth and maturation.
This series will offer scholars a new context for examining the role of popular culture in education. The series will focus on titles that explore the relationships among cultural studies curriculum studies and critical/transformational pedagogy. Situating issues of identity popular culture and education within a broader social framework will open up new scholarly debates and allow for greater exploration of curriculum understandings and pedagogical practice.
In our fast-changing modern world popular culture plays a central critical role in the education of youth and in the development of youthful identity. The ubiquity of television music films gaming and Internet access have together transformed both the nature and pace of personal growth and maturation.
This series will offer scholars a new context for examining the role of popular culture in education. The series will focus on titles that explore the relationships among cultural studies curriculum studies and critical/transformational pedagogy. Situating issues of identity popular culture and education within a broader social framework will open up new scholarly debates and allow for greater exploration of curriculum understandings and pedagogical practice.
Cultural Studies of Natures, Landscapes and Environments
ISSN: 2043-7757
E-ISSN: 2043-7765
Book Series
Founding Editors: Rod Giblett Deakin University Emily Potter Deakin University Warwick Mules University of Queensland
Developing a better relationship between humans and the earth people and place culture and nature is vital for trying to achieve environmental sustainability in the age of climate change. This new series considers each of these terms and the political economic semiotic philosophical and psychological dimensions of our relationship with the earth. Firmly placed in the tradition of cultural studies of nature and landscape begun by Raymond Williams and continued by Alexander Wilson and others it will publish interdisciplinary work that draws on established approaches within Cultural Studies and develops new ones. It will make a unique and vital contribution not only to academic enquiry but also to new ways of thinking being and living with the earth. The series will be of interest to a wide range of theorists and practitioners who are seeking directions out of and solutions to our environmental and cultural malaise.
Developing a better relationship between humans and the earth people and place culture and nature is vital for trying to achieve environmental sustainability in the age of climate change. This new series considers each of these terms and the political economic semiotic philosophical and psychological dimensions of our relationship with the earth. Firmly placed in the tradition of cultural studies of nature and landscape begun by Raymond Williams and continued by Alexander Wilson and others it will publish interdisciplinary work that draws on established approaches within Cultural Studies and develops new ones. It will make a unique and vital contribution not only to academic enquiry but also to new ways of thinking being and living with the earth. The series will be of interest to a wide range of theorists and practitioners who are seeking directions out of and solutions to our environmental and cultural malaise.
Culture, Disease, and Well-Being: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness
ISSN: 2042-177X
E-ISSN: 2042-1788
Book Series
Series Editor: Alan Blum
The series Culture Disease and Well-Being: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness represents the work of a multidisciplinary project in Medical Humanities funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and based in downtown Toronto at the Culture of Cities Centre which is supported by the Faculty of Arts University of Waterloo. The Grey Zone project develops a framework for studying health and illness by isolating a range of case studies in which the tension between medicine's promise and its particular interpretations and incorporations become visible and dramatic under conditions of modern life. The idea of the Grey Zone identifies the ways in which indeterminacy uncertainty and ambiguity inhabit our interpretations and actions even when they are most resolute and appear most unassailable. The Grey Zone does not make reference to conspiracy or domination but to the natural working of language as a living social relationship between words and deeds where we must invariably speak and act under "imperfect" conditions. Though this zone of ambiguity might often appear terrifying in health care because of the import and urgency of problems involved it operates whenever we strive to make sense of our situations. Works in the Grey Zone series use resources from classical theorizing the humanities and social sciences that bear upon the interdisciplinary study of interpretive instabilities their grounds and effects in relation to the negotiation of problems of health illness and disease in everyday life. Forthcoming publications in the series include a monograph by Alan Blum The Grey Zone of Health and Illness and two collections of essays Spectacular Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and (Un)representability edited by Tristanne Connolly and Of Indeterminate Birth: Studies in the Culture of Origins Fertility and Creation edited by Elke Grenzer and Jan Plecash.
The series Culture Disease and Well-Being: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness represents the work of a multidisciplinary project in Medical Humanities funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and based in downtown Toronto at the Culture of Cities Centre which is supported by the Faculty of Arts University of Waterloo. The Grey Zone project develops a framework for studying health and illness by isolating a range of case studies in which the tension between medicine's promise and its particular interpretations and incorporations become visible and dramatic under conditions of modern life. The idea of the Grey Zone identifies the ways in which indeterminacy uncertainty and ambiguity inhabit our interpretations and actions even when they are most resolute and appear most unassailable. The Grey Zone does not make reference to conspiracy or domination but to the natural working of language as a living social relationship between words and deeds where we must invariably speak and act under "imperfect" conditions. Though this zone of ambiguity might often appear terrifying in health care because of the import and urgency of problems involved it operates whenever we strive to make sense of our situations. Works in the Grey Zone series use resources from classical theorizing the humanities and social sciences that bear upon the interdisciplinary study of interpretive instabilities their grounds and effects in relation to the negotiation of problems of health illness and disease in everyday life. Forthcoming publications in the series include a monograph by Alan Blum The Grey Zone of Health and Illness and two collections of essays Spectacular Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and (Un)representability edited by Tristanne Connolly and Of Indeterminate Birth: Studies in the Culture of Origins Fertility and Creation edited by Elke Grenzer and Jan Plecash.
Directory of World Cinema
ISSN: 2040-7971
E-ISSN: 2040-798X
Book Series
The Directory of World Cinema aims to play a part in moving intelligent scholarly criticism beyond the academy by building a forum for the study of film that relies on a disciplined theoretical base. Each volume of the Directory takes the form of a collection of reviews longer essays and research resources accompanied by film stills highlighting significant films and players.
The ethos of Intellect's Directory of World Cinema as a project is probably best communicated by John Berra's editorial taken from the Japanese volume where he comments:
'The overall aim was always to discuss Japanese cultural life and history as expressed through the medium of film.'
For further information go to: www.worldcinemadirectory.org
The ethos of Intellect's Directory of World Cinema as a project is probably best communicated by John Berra's editorial taken from the Japanese volume where he comments:
'The overall aim was always to discuss Japanese cultural life and history as expressed through the medium of film.'
For further information go to: www.worldcinemadirectory.org
European Communication Research and Education Association
ISSN: 1753-0342
E-ISSN: 2043-7846
Book Series
Series Editors: Nico Carpentier and François Heinderyckx
The ECREA series makes a major contribution to the theory research practice and/or policy literature in the field of Communication and Media Studies. The ECREA series is European in scope and represents a diversity of paradigms perspectives and cultures. Each book is edited by one or more acknowledged authorities in the field and the contributors have been selected to provide a broad overview and breadth of understanding of the concerns in question. Book proposals are refereed. Although the ECREA series is clearly embedded in the ECREA membership a degree of openness towards non-ECREA members is considered to add value to the series.
The ECREA series makes a major contribution to the theory research practice and/or policy literature in the field of Communication and Media Studies. The ECREA series is European in scope and represents a diversity of paradigms perspectives and cultures. Each book is edited by one or more acknowledged authorities in the field and the contributors have been selected to provide a broad overview and breadth of understanding of the concerns in question. Book proposals are refereed. Although the ECREA series is clearly embedded in the ECREA membership a degree of openness towards non-ECREA members is considered to add value to the series.
Fan Phenomena
ISSN: 2051-4468
E-ISSN: 2051-4476
Book Series
Series Editor: Tim Mitchell
This series is prompted by a growing appetite for books that tap into the fascination we have with what constitutes an iconic or cultish phenomenon and how a particular person TV show or film character/film infiltrates their way into the public consciousness. We will look at particular examples of ‘fan culture’ and approach the subject in an accessible manner aimed at both fans and those interested in the cultural and social aspects of these fascinating – and often unusual – ‘universes’.
The concept of the book series is to address cult/fan culture within a specified gaze. Topics will range from mythic actors like Marilyn Monroe and James Dean to the long-lasting television series Buffy The Vampire Slayer to film juggernauts like Harry Potter James Bond and Star Wars.
Each of the subjects we choose have massive visual appeal as they deal with fan fashion memorabilia (fan)homages merchandising and branding that help to create the immersive world that extends beyond the phenomenon itself. The books will aim to exploit this visual aspect to align them with other Intellect book series such as World Film Locations and Directory of World Cinema which make good use of relevant collected imagery.
The series aims to ‘decode’ cult subjects in terms of the appeal and far reaching connections each of them have in becoming part of popular culture. We are fully aware that these are not meant to be comprehensive weighty tomes on the subject – rather a series of ‘handy’ books that each include a fascinating collection of essays which explore a particular area or aspect of the subject’s ‘universe’ in each chapter.
This series is prompted by a growing appetite for books that tap into the fascination we have with what constitutes an iconic or cultish phenomenon and how a particular person TV show or film character/film infiltrates their way into the public consciousness. We will look at particular examples of ‘fan culture’ and approach the subject in an accessible manner aimed at both fans and those interested in the cultural and social aspects of these fascinating – and often unusual – ‘universes’.
The concept of the book series is to address cult/fan culture within a specified gaze. Topics will range from mythic actors like Marilyn Monroe and James Dean to the long-lasting television series Buffy The Vampire Slayer to film juggernauts like Harry Potter James Bond and Star Wars.
Each of the subjects we choose have massive visual appeal as they deal with fan fashion memorabilia (fan)homages merchandising and branding that help to create the immersive world that extends beyond the phenomenon itself. The books will aim to exploit this visual aspect to align them with other Intellect book series such as World Film Locations and Directory of World Cinema which make good use of relevant collected imagery.
The series aims to ‘decode’ cult subjects in terms of the appeal and far reaching connections each of them have in becoming part of popular culture. We are fully aware that these are not meant to be comprehensive weighty tomes on the subject – rather a series of ‘handy’ books that each include a fascinating collection of essays which explore a particular area or aspect of the subject’s ‘universe’ in each chapter.
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