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FILM, MEDIA STUDIES AND MUSIC 46 FILM, MEDIA STUDIES AND MUSIC Transmedia Television New Trends in Network Serial Production M.J. Clarke • Discusses ‘Heroes’, ‘Alias’, ‘Lost’ and ‘24’ • Builds upon well known texts (by Amanda Lotz and Jonathan Gray) in cross-media studies • Contains interviews with the actual transmedia workers on these shows • Examines the production of derived comicbooks, novels, video-games and made-for-cellular-phone entertainment Examines both the texts of and the production behind four television shows that used transmedia as a new business and textual model for network TV. M.J. CLARKE earned his PhD in Film and Television from UCLA in 2010. His work has previously been published in Television and New Media and Communication, Culture & Critique. UK December 2012 US October 2012 224 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches HB 9781441183002 - £55.00 / $100.00 PB 9781441165527 - £17.99 / $29.95 Continuum News Media in the Arab World A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries Edited by Roger Dickinson and Barrie Gunter • Contains original primary research on a number of understudied Arab countries • Contributors are a mix of media professionals and senior academics Examines the way local, national and cross-national Arab audiences engage with different news sources and how the rapidly expanding news markets have changed news consumption. ROGER DICKINSON is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. BARRIE GUNTER is Professor of Mass Communication and Head of the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. UK September 2012 US July 2012 192 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches HB 9781441114075 - £60.00 / $110.00 PB 9781441174666 - £18.99 / $32.95 Continuum Newsworkers A Comparative European Perspective Henrik Ornebring • Covers a broad range of European countries, including Britain, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden • First book to focus on journalism as work rather than journalism as an institution • Comparative material and analysis should ensure a good international market The last decade has seen a transformation of the journalism industry. This book compares a range of European countries, looking at how journalistic work has been affected by the changes to journalism institutions. Drawing on extensive new research, it provides unique insights into current journalistic practice. HENRIK ORNEBRING is currently Senior Research Fellow in the European Studies Centre, St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, UK. UK October 2012 US December 2012 208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781780931838 - £50.00 / $90.00 Comparative Media, Communication and Culture Bloomsbury Academic Drawing Borders The American-Canadian Relationship during the Gilded Age David R. Spencer • First book to examine Canadian/ American relations through political cartoons • The author is a leading scholar in Canadian/ American studies • Includes 141 cartoons from 1849 to the twentieth century A fascinating look at the surprisingly complex relationship between the United States and Canada through the lens of political cartoons. DAVID R. SPENCER is Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. UK January 2013 US November 2012 240 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches HB 9781441199072 - £70.00 / $130.00 Continuum The Past is the Present; It’s the Future Too The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art Christine Ross • Engages an important and widespread trend in contemporary art • Theorizes the development of new technologies and digital cultures • Features over seventy-five key illustrations in full colour Offers a comprehensive understanding of contemporary media arts and articulates a closer link between present, past, and future. CHRISTINE ROSS is Professor and James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Canada. UK August 2012 US June 2012 336 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches HB 9781441116048 - £80.00 / $150.00 Continuum Screen Fictions and Discourses of Disability Dodgy Discourse and the Moral Low Ground Margaret Montgomerie • Using popular screen texts means availability for analysis and inclusion, inside and outside the classroom • First book to focus on representations and discourses of disability in popular film and tv • questions the value of political correctness - disguising, rather than confronting the roots of prejudice Offers a comprehensive understanding of contemporary media arts and articulates a closer link between present, past, and future. MARGARET MONTGOMERIE is Senior Lecturer Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is the founder of the MeCCSA Disabilities Studies Network. UK November 2012 US August 2012 224 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches HB 9781441156709 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum
Cultural Science John Hartley, Jason Potts and John Banks • John Hartley is a leading name in the field • Offers a synthesis of recent conceptual advances across different disciplines • Clearly structured in a way that makes it easy for the reader to approach and understand the subject • Draws on case studies to illustrate points • Should appeal across the humanities and social sciences Cultural Science is a new way of thinking about culture. Engaging with scientific traditions in a way that previous literature has failed to do, it promises to break new ground in social scientific scholarship. JOHN HARTLEy is currently Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellow and Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation at queensland University of Technology (qUT), Australia. JASON POTTS is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of queensland, and Senior Fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at qUT, Australia. JOHN BANKS is a Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at qUT, Australia. UK August 2012 US October 2012 208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781849666022 - £50.00 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic NEW IN PAPERBACK Morrissey The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart Gavin Hopps ‘The best book-length explication of Morrissey’s peculiar genius I’ve come across.’ Simon Reynolds • This is the first book to focus purely on Morrissey’s lyrical output • Publication coincides with twenty-fifth anniversary of the Smiths breaking up • Morrissey himself purchased several copies of this in hardcover Hopps traces the trajectory of Morrissey’s career and outlines the contours and contradictions of the singer’s elusive persona. The book illuminates Morrissey’s coyness, his dramatized melancholy, and his complex attitudes towards loneliness and alienation, as well as his intriguing sense of the religious. GAVIN HOPPS is the Research Council’s UK Academic Fellow in the School of Divinity at St. Mary’s College, the University of St. Andrews, UK. UK May 2012 US March 2012 320 Pages 129 x 198 mm 5 x 7.75 inches PB 9781441124043 - £10.99 / $16.95 Continuum FILM, MEDIA STUDIES AND MUSIC The Sound of Tomorrow How Electronic Music Was Smuggled into the Mainstream Mark Brend • A sweeping history of the pioneers who introduced electronic music to the masses • Includes original interviews with many sound pioneers in film and television • Cast of characters includes McCartney, Brian Jones, Hitchcock, John Cage, and Leon Theremin The Sound of Tomorrow tells the compelling story of the sonic adventurers who first introduced electronic music to the masses. A network of composers, producers, technicians and inventors, they took emerging technology and with it made sound and music that was bracingly new. MARK BREND is an author and musician who lives in London. His books include The Songwriter’s Manual and American Troubadours, and his journalism has appeared in Mojo, Record Collector, Uncut, and many other publications. UK November 2012 US September 2012 256 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.5 x 8.5 inches PB 9780826424525 - £12.99 / $19.95 Continuum Word Events Perspectives on Verbal Notation James Saunders and John Lely • Genuinely unique: an incredibly useful resource, and investigation into the practice of experimental music and sound art • Packed full of examples, case studies, interviews - there is nothing else like this on the market • Will become a bible for everybody who studies, creates, or performs experimental compositions and performances Word Events focuses on an approach to notation that uses the written word, as opposed to symbols, to convey information to whoever chooses to interpret the notation. The aim of this book is to present a broad range of perspectives on how and why scorers use verbal notation. JAMES SAUNDERS is a composer, and is Head of the Centre for Musical Research at Bath Spa University, UK. JOHN LELy is a composer and performer. UK March 2012 US January 2012 384 Pages 178 x 254 mm 7 x 10 inches PB 9781441173102 - £22.99 / $39.95 Continuum FILM, MEDIA STUDIES AND MUSIC 47
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