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  • The Silvering Screen

    Old Age and Disability in Cinema

    by Sally Chivers ...
    Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmidt, where aging is a central theme.The first-ever sustained discussion of old age in cinema, The ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Ageing in Everyday Life

    Materialities and Embodiments

    by Laura Hurd Clarke, Mineko Wada, Kim Sawchuk, Barbara Marshall, Julia M Twigg, Alisa Grigorovich, Pia Kontos, Brenda Vrkljan, Amanda Grenier, Jessica Gish, Linn J Sandberg, Julia Rozanova, Sally Chivers, Gavin Andrews, Susan Braedley, David J Ekerdt ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society.Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the two parts address the materialities and the embodiments of everyday life respectively. Topics covered include household possessions, ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Problem Body

    Projecting Disability on Film

    Edited by SALLY CHIVERS, Nicole Markotic ...
    In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new approach to the study of film by concentrating on cinematic representations of what they term “the problem body.” The book is a much-needed exploration of the projection of disability on film combined with ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Understanding Childhood

    A Cross Disciplinary Approach

    Edited by Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series Book 1 - Open University Childhood
    Childhood has become central to socio-political debates and policy initiatives both nationally and globally. Despite the privileges afforded to children in the West, Western childhoods are no longer seen as the 'ideal' to which all should aspire. Recent reports and policy concerns suggest that growing up in the West may be marked by the commercialisation of childhood, leading to unhappiness, poor ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Criminology Goes to the Movies

    Crime Theory and Popular Culture

    by Nicole Rafter, Michelle Brown ...
    A "deftly written and absorbing" look at how films reflect concepts in criminology and affect our perceptions of criminal behavior (Richard Rosenfeld, coauthor of Crime and the American Dream).From Psycho to Double Indemnity to Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy through scholarly research, but also in popular ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Action Research

    Principles and practice

    by Jean McNiff ...
    Since its first publication, Action Research: Principles and Practice has become a key text in its field. This new updated edition clearly describes and explains the practices of action research and its underlying values, and introduces important new ideas, including:all professionals should be reflective practitionersthey should produce their personal theories of practice to show how they are ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Poetics of Cinema

    by David Bordwell ...
    Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Research in Art and Design Education

    Issues and Exemplars

    Edited by Richard Hickman ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. Research in Art & Design Education answers this call, summarizing important issues in the field such as non-text based approaches and interdisciplinary work. Contributions from internationally renowned researchers explore a broad range of topics in art education, highlighting ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Values And Vision In Primary Education

    by Kathleen Taylor, Tim Wooldridge, Simon Pratt-Adams ...
    This book provides teachers with scaffolding to develop reflective practice, moving towards an evolving philosophy of education. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Intellectual Roots of Grounded Theory

    by Jane Gilgun ...
    Grounded theory is an open-ended approach to research that can be adapted to many uses. This article shows how adaptable grounded theory is and was meant to be. Originating in the Chicago school of Sociology about 100 years ago, GT does not have to be about technicalities, but researchers can use it as an adaptable and open-ended approach to developing understandings of human situations.When ... Read more

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  • Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education

    Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum

    by Susan Orr, Alison Shreeve ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a contemporary volume that offers a scholarly perspective on tertiary level art and design education. Providing a theoretical lens to examine studio education, the authors suggest a student-centred model of curriculum that supports the development of creativity.The text offers readers analytical frameworks with which to challenge assumptions ... Read more

    $63.99 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