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  • Sound and Sense in Contemporary Theatre

    Mad Auralities

    by Matthew Tomkinson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is among the first to consider the subject of mad auralities in theatre and performance, asking: what does it mean to hear and listen madly? Drawing widely upon mad studies, critical disability studies, theatre studies, sound studies, queer studies, and critical race theory, it seeks to explore the theatrical relationship between sound and mental health differences by examining a range ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Archaic Torso of Gumby

    by Matthew Tomkinson, Geoffrey Morrison ...
    Archaic Torso of Gumby is a series of interlinked stories and essays by Geoffrey Morrison and Matthew Tomkinson that explore the gooey, prickly, sticky materials of late-capitalist pop culture, from video games to claymation to children’s picture-books commissioned by oil and gas companies. Here lyric essay, personal memoir, fable, pseudohistory, and science fiction all coexist alongside more ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

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  • Practice as Research

    Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

    Edited by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt ...
    Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences

    by Catherine Kohler Riessman ...
    "Cathy Riessman is the leading figure in narrative research and her new book is a delight. Covering basic issues of transcription and research credibility as well as visual data and engagingly written, it is a goldmine for students and researchers alike. If we want to make narrative research serious and revealing, it is to this book that we should turn."—David Silverman, Professor Emeritus, ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research

    by David Silverman ...
    Series series Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
    The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The author uses updated content, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, to demonstrate how getting to grips with qualitative methods means asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture.Conceived by Chris Grey as an ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Creative Explorations

    New Approaches to Identities and Audiences

    by David Gauntlett ...
    How do you picture identity? What happens when you ask individuals to make visual representations of their own identities, influences, and relationships?Drawing upon an array of disciplines from neuroscience to philosophy, and art to social theory, David Gauntlett explores the ways in which researchers can embrace people's everyday creativity in order to understand social experience.Seeking an ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Diminished Faculties

    A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

    by Jonathan Sterne ...
    In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Visual Literacy

    Edited by James Elkins ...
    What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually literate," what does that mean in practical terms? The essays gathered here examine a host of issues surrounding "the visual," exploring national and regional ideas of visuality and charting out new territories of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Disability and Contemporary Performance

    Bodies on the Edge

    by Petra Kuppers ...
    Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Affective Performance and Cognitive Science

    Body, Brain and Being

    by Bruce McConachie, Professor Rhonda Blair, Amy Cook, Anna Furse, Erin Hood, Professor John Lutterbie, Jo Machon, Frank E. Pollick, Melissa Trimingham ...
    This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice.The cognitive revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists are collaborating with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Design/Progettazione in infant-toddler centres and preschools

    Research open to wonder, between the possible, probable, and unpredictable

    by Loris Malaguzzi ...
    Translated by Jane McCall ...
    Series Book 3 - Fragments
    This is the third in Reggio Children's "Fragments" series dedicated to making Loris Malaguzzi's writing, and his talks at conferences and professional learning meetings, available to a wider public. In this volume we can read the transcript of a talk he gave in Reggio Emilia in 1988 as part of a calendar of meetings for educators in municipal infant-toddler centres and preschools, on the theme of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Plotting the Reading Experience

    Theory/Practice/Politics

    Edited by Paulette M. Rothbauer, Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, Knut Oterholm ...
    This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its richness as they explore readers' relationships with diverse textual and digital forms.This edited ... Read more

    $30.99 USD