Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (Jones Amelia)(Paperback)

Self/Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (Jones Amelia)(Paperback)

Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book explores how technology has affected artists' abilities and forms to express themselves.From analogue photography to more recent artistic practices

The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and Identity (Wells Liz)(Paperback)

The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and Identity engages with contemporary debates surrounding photographic cultures and practices from a variety of perspectives, providing insight and analysis for students and practitioners. With over 100 images included, the diverse essays

Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art (Jennings Gabrielle)(Paperback)

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer

Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, and Representation (Stanczak Gregory C.)(Paperback)

Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, and Representation translates abstract concepts into visually-compelling elements of everyday life. Differing from photographs as illustration, this edited volume synthesizes images with analytic questions about the world 'out there.' Editor Gregory C

Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures (Bull David R.)(Paperback)

Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures, Second Edition explains the requirements, analysis, design and application of a modern video coding system. It draws on the authors' extensive academic and professional experience in this field to deliver a text that is

Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games (Malkowski Jennifer)(Paperback)

Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers

French Queer Cinema (Rees-Roberts Nick)(Paperback)

French Queer Cinema examines the representation of queer identities and sexualities in contemporary French filmmaking. This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive study of the cultural formation and critical reception of contemporary queer film and video in France. French Queer Cinema

Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry (Borgmann Albert)(Paperback)

Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on a stereo, has global effects: it sharply divides life into labor and leisure, it sustains the

The Nikon Autofocus System: Mastering Focus for Sharp Images Every Time (Hagen Mike)(Paperback)

With today's advanced camera technology, achieving focus on a photographic subject seems like it should be a straightforward task. But many photographers know that it can be deceptively difficult, especially when shooting moving subjects or in challenging situations. Now, there is a complete guide

The Neuroscience of Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion (Stevens Larry Charles)(Paperback)

The Neuroscience of Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion provides contemporary perspectives on the three related domains of empathy, compassion and self-compassion (ECS). It informs current research, stimulates further research endeavors, and encourages continued and creative philosophical and

The Power of Style (Allaire Christian)(Paperback)

Style is not just the clothes on our backs--it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he looked to for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he

The Art of Contemporary China (Jiehong Jiang)(Paperback)

Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to a subject of sustained and growing significance in contemporary culture, this volume in the World of Art series redefines contemporary Chinese art in the last forty years since the end of China's Cultural Revolution, placing it in the

Self-esteem - The Cross And Christian Confidence (McGrath Alister DPhil DD)(Paperback / softback)

Joanna McGrath and Alister McGrath subject self-esteem to a Christian evaluation which introduces the important biblical themes of sin, grace, the cross, wholeness and the Fatherhood of God. This practical and pastoral book is rich with insights from both psychology and

The 'Do-It-Yourself' Artwork: Participation from Fluxus to New Media (Jones Amelia)(Paperback)

Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive websites. Why have artists sought to engage spectators in these new forms of participation? In what ways does

Racial Immanence: Chicanx Bodies Beyond Representation (Lpez Marissa K.)(Paperback)

Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanxculture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, anddigital and experimental installation artRacial Immanenceattempts to unravel a Gordian knot at the center of the study of race anddiscourse: it seeks to loosen the

Knowledge and Arts on the Move: Transformation of the Self-Aware Image Through East-West Encounters (Fongaro Enrico)(Paperback)

Representation of Children in Contemporary African Fiction (Kearney John)(Paperback / softback)

Filled with interesting and original insights, Children in Contemporary African Fiction makes for engrossing reading, both for the general reader and the academic. With a keynote tone at once empathetic and non-sentimental John Kearney explores an impressive number of novels by writers from a

Self-Portraits (Rebel Ernst)(Pevná vazba)

The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection brings together some of the best examples of self-portraiture to explore the genre’s evolution over the centuries as well as the enduring questions of

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Mamdani Mahmood)(Paperback)

In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic

Concepts of the Self (Elliott Anthony)(Paperback)

This new, updated edition provides a lively, lucid and compelling introduction to contemporary controversies over the self and self-identity in the social sciences and humanities. In an accessible and concise format, the book ranges from classical intellectual traditions of symbolic interactionism,

Our World 1 (Pinkley Diane)(Paperback / softback)

Uses National Geographic content, with images and video, to give young learners the essential English language, skills, and knowledge they need to understand their

Text Analysis and Representation (Cushing Ian)(Paperback)

Essential study guides for the future linguist. Text Analysis and Representation is a general introduction to the methods and principles behind English linguistics study, suitable for students at advanced level and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge Corpus, it looks at the way meaning is

Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer's entire philosophy. Volume 2 clarifies his metaphysics of the will and contains important reflections on topics including sex, desire, death, and salvation. This new translation reflects the eloquence and power of Schopenhauer's prose, and

Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self (Cotton Charlotte)(Paperback)

Public, Private, Secret explores the roles that photography and video play in the crafting of identity, and the reconfiguration of social conventions that de ne our public and private selves. Consciously framed by our present era, this collection of essays, interviews, and reflections assesses how