In the mid nineteenth century, as Japan rapidly modernized, garden building declined in popularity.... Læs mere
This book explores the new European cinema of precarity, with a particular focus on Western European films, by revisiting some of its most important precursors, including 1930s Popular Front films and 1990s French New Realism, Italian neorealism, and the British New Wave.
A Companion to Qualitative Analysis introduces the concept of Thick analysis, a triangulation strategy that enables you to... Læs mere
This book is the perfect introduction to the opportunities and threats of quantum technologies. It equips you with the necessary knowledge to join cutting-edge discussions and make strategic decisions.
This book explores the emerging regenerative movement in education that challenges dominant worldviews built on competition, economic growth, and extractivism.
After the Netherlands' liberation from Nazi occupation in 1945, liberation songs became powerful expressions of newfound freedom. This book explores this musical phenomenon through Frank Mehring's work with international collaborators.
This book examines how the perceived edibility of animals evolved during the colonization of the Americas. Early European colonizers ate a variety of animals in the Americas, motivated by factors like curiosity, starvation, and diplomacy.
The Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay showcases the rich variety of games in Japan, placing them in the context of industry, development processes, and a broader media ecology. It offers the reader an exciting glimpse into Japanese games from a wide variety of perspectives.
The Handbook of Feminisms in Japan seeks to give a broad and, even without prior knowledge of Japan, easily accessible introduction to a range of feminisms in this... Læs mere
This volume addresses the historical neglect of women’s contributions to language... Læs mere
Through an evocative blend of theoretical rigor and literary sensibility, Tingting Hui spotlights the “melodrama” of accented speech—a performance that exposes the bodily nature of language, bridging the erotic and the vulnerable, the audible and the visual.
Proceeding from a renewed dialogue between international film scholars, collectors, filmmakers, curators, and archivists, this book aims to reveal the extent to which collectors and collections have contributed to both the history and the epistemology of moving images.