World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice (Hollweg Brenda)(Paperback)

World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice (Hollweg Brenda)(Paperback)

World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world. The book identifies the essay film as a political and ethical tool to reflect upon and potentially resist the

Paolo Sorrentino's Cinema and Television (Mariani Annachiara)(Paperback)

New edited collection with a transnational perspective on Paolo Sorrentino, the award-winning Italian director and screenwriter. International contributors take diverse approaches to examine the dominant themes in his work - melancholy, nostalgia and the relationship with solitude - and present

Community Practice Skills Workbook: Local to Global Perspectives (Weil Marie)(Paperback)

Designed to accompany the comprehensive and exceptional Community Practice Skills: Local to Global Perspectives, this workbook enhances the discussion of skills and competencies for community practice. Featuring direct exercises, project ideas, and role plays, this workbook contains a range of

Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (McMichael Philip)(Paperback)

Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective explains how development thinking and practice have shaped our world. It introduces students to four interconnected projects, and how their dynamics, contradictions and controversies have influenced development trajectories: colonialism, the

Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame (O'Healy Aine)(Paperback)

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants

Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (White Patricia)(Paperback)

In Women's Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia

Comparative Health Systems: A Global Perspective (Johnson James a.)(Paperback)

Global health policy, administration, and practice continue to evolve while countries throughout the world seek to balance their economic and health goals through health system reform, improvement, and modification. The Second Edition of Comparative Health Systems: A Global Perspective addresses

The Global 1980s: People, Power and Profit (Davis Jonathan)(Paperback)

The Global 1980s takes an international perspective on the upheaval across the world during the long 1980s (1979-1991) with the end of the Cold War, a move towards a free-market economic system, and the increasing connectedness of the world.The 1980s was a decade of unimaginable change. At its

Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology (MacKenzie Scott)(Paperback)

The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (Rascaroli Laura)(Paperback)

The Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but more and more compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film, together with its cognate forms--the diary, the travelogue, the notebook and the self-portrait--is cinema in the first person. It is a cinema of thought, of investigation and

Crime Prevention: Principles, Perspectives and Practices (Sutton Adam)(Paperback)

Crime Prevention: Principles, Perspectives and Practices introduces readers to the theory and practice of crime prevention. Now in its third edition, this book argues for a combination of social and situational/environmental crime prevention strategies as more effective alternatives to policing,

Gods in the Global Village: The World′s Religions in Sociological Perspective (Kurtz)(Paperback)

In a world plagued by religious conflict, how can the various religious and secular traditions coexist peacefully on the planet? And, what role does sociology play in helping us understand the state of religious life in a globalizing world? In the Fourth Edition ofGods in the Global Village, author

From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Mahler Anne Garland)(Paperback)

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental--an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence

Governance of Higher Education: Global Perspectives, Theories, and Practices (Austin Ian)(Paperback)

Governance of Higher Education explores the work of traditional and contemporary higher education scholarship worldwide, providing readers with an understanding of the assumptions, historical traditions, and paradigms that have shaped the scholarship on governance. Bringing together the vast and

Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera: Perspectives in a Global World (Iskin Ruth E.)(Paperback)

Why did collectors seek out posters and collect ephemera during the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries? How have such materials been integrated into institutional collections today? What inspired collectors to build significant holdings of works from cultures other than their own? And what

Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Global Perspectives Coursebook (Laycock Keely)(Paperback)

Skills-focused resources to support the study of Cambridge IGCSE(R) and O Level Global Perspectives, for first examination in 2018. Feel confident exploring key global issues from multiple perspectives with Cambridge IGCSE(R) and O Level Global Perspectives, a brand new coursebook from Cambridge

Film Editing - History, Theory and Practice: Looking at the Invisible (Fairservice Don)(Paperback)

The first-ever comprehensive examination of the film editor's craft from the beginning of cinema to the present day. Of all the film-making crafts, editing is the least understood. Using examples drawn from classic film texts, this book clarifies the editor's role and explains how the editing

The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon: Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference (Tawadros Gilane)(Paperback)

Anchored in artistic practice, this vibrant collection of essays and writings spans a period from 1992-2017 and the work of leading artists such as Adel Abdessemed, Richard Avedon, Sonia Boyce, Frank Bowling, Omer Fast, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Alfredo Jaar, Glenn Ligon and Shen Yuan. A key

Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: International Perspectives on Theory, Research, and Practice (Payne Helen)(Paperback)

Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy contributes to the global interest in embodiment approaches to psychotherapy and to the field of dance movement psychotherapy specifically. It includes recent research, innovative theories and case studies of practice providing an inclusive overview of

Contemporary Political Cinema (Holtmeier Matthew)(Paperback)

The political films that have emerged on the global film festival circuit since the 1990s mark a shift in cinematic strategies for critically addressing dominant, militant, or otherwise repressive ideologies. From a focus on the representation of oppression in films like The Battle of Algiers,

Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan (Hu Brian)(Paperback)

How does cinema imagine our place in the world? Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan looks at the studios, films and policies that charted the transnational vision of Hong Kong and Taiwan, two places with an uneasy relationship to the idea of nationhood. Examining the

The Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World: Transnational Baltic Artistic Practices Across Europe (Duester Emma)(Pevná vazba)

Explores the nature of artistic practices for highly mobile artists from the Baltic States, moving regularly across multiple borders across Europe in order to maintain their position on the global art world. Artists with trans-local homes that combine and connect homeland, host country and a unique

The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context (Kester Grant H.)(Paperback)

Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art

The Practice of Altruism: Caring and Religion in Global Perspective (Habito Ruben Lf)(Pevná vazba)

The study of altruism and altruistic behavior has caught the attention of social scientists especially in recent years. What motivates individuals to cultivate attitudes and actions that promote the wellbeing of others at the expense of, or at the risk of negative consequences for their own? In our