New Books April, May, June, 2013 (US) - Routledge

The Archive Effect
Jaimie baron, University of Alberta, Canada
This book examines the many ways in which contemporary filmmakers have
appropriated and mobilized archival documents in the service of representing the
historical past and reformulates “the archival” as an experience that the author
calls the “archive effect”. Drawing on a wide range of examples from lesser known
experimental films to mainstream narratives like Forrest Gump, JFK, and The Blair
Witch Project to documentaries like Capturing the Friedmans, Standard Operating
Procedure, and Grizzly Man to videogames like Call of Duty: World at War, this will
be essential reading for researchers and students of film and media studies.
Routledge
Market: Film Studies
July 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-66072-3: $130.00/V
Pb: 978-0-415-66073-0: $36.95/V
eBook: 978-0-203-06693-5: $130.00/V
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Collected Wisdom of Game Ai professionals
Edited by steven rabin
This book presents cutting-edge game AI techniques
primarily from game developers of shipped commercial
games as well as some from academia. Topics covered
include AI architectures, steering and path finding, tactics/
strategy, genre specific techniques, gesture recognition,
and learning techniques. About 60 articles are presented
in a style that is technical yet accessible to beginners, but
ultimately aimed at the intermediate to expert professional
game developer. The book supplies readers with a toolbox
of techniques that are applicable to a wide range of situations.
A K Peters/CRC Press
May 2013: 7-1/2x9-1/4: 650pp: 100 illus
Hb: 978-1-4665-6596-8: $79.95/W
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The Emergence of the Digital humanities
steven E. Jones, Loyola University Chicago, USA
In this exciting new book, Steven E. Jones examines the impact of the shift in
our relationship to digital technology in humanities scholarship. Based on the
premise that the network is now everywhere rather than merely “out there,”
Jones links together seemingly disparate cultural events —from the rise of
motion-control gaming consoles and mobile platforms, to essential features of
popular social media, to the controversy over the “gamification” of everyday
life (advertising, travel, education, and work), to, most critically, the emergence
of the digital humanities.
Routledge
Market: New Media/Digital Humanities
August 2013: 6x9: 208pp
Hb: 978-0-415-63551-6: $125.00/V
Pb: 978-0-415-63552-3: $39.95/V
eBook: 978-0-203-09308-5: $125.00/V
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The Film handbook
Mark de Valk, Southampton Solent University, UK
and sarah Arnold, University College Falmouth, UK
Series: Media Practice
The Film Handbook examines the current status of
filmmaking, how film is produced and distributed and its
relation with today’s digital and web-based climate. It reflects
on how critical analysis of film underpins practice and story,
and how developing an autonomous ‘vision’ will best aid the
undergraduate student’s creativity. It offers practical guidance
on a range of traditional and independent ‘guerrilla’ film
production methods, from developing script ideas, logistics of
planning the shoot, cinematography, then to digital systems of post-production. Film
professionals and graduate students share advice of their experiences shooting both on
digital and film forms.
Routledge
Market: Film and TV
June 2013: 6-3/4x9-3/4: 288pp: 60 halftones, 3 line drawings
Hb: 978-0-415-55760-3: $115.00/V
Pb: 978-0-415-55761-0: $44.95/s
eBook: 978-0-203-14644-6: $115.00/s
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health and Medical public relations
Myc riggulsford
Health and Medical PR is about how and why information
about health and medical science is communicated to
target audiences through a range of PR techniques. It
brings together information on the wide range of
health-related public relations activities and combines a
critical, analytical and cultural view of these activities with
guidance on best practice. Health and Medical PR is aimed
at those learning to specialise in health public relations at
undergraduate or postgraduate level.
Routledge
Market: Public Relations/Media Studies
July 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 208pp
Hb: 978-0-415-61330-9: $125.00/V
Pb: 978-0-415-61331-6: $39.95/s
eBook: 978-0-203-14369-8: $125.00/s
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infoglut
How Too Much Information Is Changing
the Way We Think and Know
Mark Andrejevic, University of Queensland, Australia
In this cutting-edge book, cultural theorist Mark Andrejevic approaches the
question of how the era of ‘big data’—characterized by information overload and
data glut—influences the way we think about and use information. In particular,
Andrejevic traces connections between the different strategies various groups are
using to navigate a mediated information landscape that has transformed quite
rapidly from one characterized by perceived scarcity (and barriers to access) to one
of data glut. Andrejevic argues that strategies like neuromarketing, data mining,
and sentiment analysis converge on an understanding of the social, political, and
economic roles of information which challenges the empowering promise of the
digital information revolution.
Routledge
Market: Media/Cultural Studies
May 2013: 6x9: 240pp
Hb: 978-0-415-65907-9: $125.00/V
Pb: 978-0-415-65908-6: $37.95/V
eBook: 978-0-203-07531-9: $125.00/V
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