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From cinema's earliest days, walking and filmmaking have been intrinsically linked. Technologically, culturally and aesthetically, the pioneers of cinema were not only interested in using the camera to scientifically study ambulatory motion, but were also keen to capture the speed and mobile culture of late 19th-century urban life. Photographers such as Felix Nadar took their cameras into the Parisian streets and boulevards as mechanised flâneurs, ushering us into the age of the 'mobilised virtual gaze'. But if photography could only embalm modernity in an instant of time, the cinema brought these instants to life again. From Muybridge and Marey's photographic studies of motion to Charlie Chaplin's character 'The Tramp', and from the Steadicam to the police procedural, Thomas Deane Tucker explores the intertwined relationship between cinema and walking from its very first steps - breaking new ground in motion studies and providing a bold new perspective on film history.Thomas Deane Tucker is Professor of Humanities at Chadron State College.

This anthology brings together the key statements from the main debates in feminist film theory in Britain and the United States since 1970. The book maps the impact of major theoretical developments on this growing field, in terms of both theoretical shifts and changes in methodologies.

Millions around the world die from preventable diseases. Millions more suffer from poor health as a result of extreme poverty. Who bears responsibility for health inequalities? Who should take responsibility for ameliorating them? This book explores the moral dilemmas posed by disparities in health across nations.

This book is about cultural fantasies of fetishism, the different forms they take and the various ways in which the transformative processes they depict can reaffirm accepted definitions of identity or reconfigure them in an entirely new fashion.

In this volume, 26 newly commissioned essays provide distinct, original and sometimes playful or unusual definitions of theoretical keywords - both unexpected terms as well as words well established in the critical canon.

An up-to-the minute foundational guide that introduces the full range of literary forms, styles, theories and critical strategies which new students need to cover. It introduces a wide range of literary forms, styles and critical strategies, essential knowledge for the beginning student of literature.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, over 25 million Russian speakers ended up living outside their homeland. Some remained in the non-Russian former Soviet republics which became independent states, whilst others migrated. This book discusses language and identity of the Russian speakers outside Russia from a sociolinguistic perspective.

This volume investigates an unexpectedly rich vein of literary gothic motifs and tropes found within Mansfield's modernist, experimental prose.

This volume emphasises the centrality of Katherine Mansfield to the cultural life of her time, illuminating how her love of painting and of music inspired her art.

Introduces, debates and extends the arguments surrounding the critical relevance of the terms 'late modernism' and 'postmodernism' for describing cultural products and intellectual contexts from the 1930s to the present.

This book explores key areas of modern society in which language is used to form power and social relations. These are presented in five sections: Language and the Media; Language and Organisations; Language and Gender; Language and Youth; and Multilingualism, Identity and Ethnicity.

How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies? Bringing together cutting-edge authors from academia, legal practice and the technology industry, Future Law explores and leverages the power of human imagination in understanding, critiquing and improving the legal responses to technological change.

How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies?'From current controversies over Internet content, privacy and radicalisation, to science fiction and "Black Mirror" visions of the future, pervasive fears exist that technology inevitably outpaces law and social control' - 'Future Law' responds to these fears by exploring how law and ethics can foresee and control new technologies that challenge our societal norms and expectations.Bringing together cutting-edge authors from academia, legal practice and the technology industry, this book explores and leverages the power of human imagination in understanding, critiquing and improving the legal responses to technological change.Key Features¿ Focuses on the practical difficulties of applying law, policy and ethical structures to emergent technologies both now and in the future¿ Covers crucial current issues such as big data ethics, ubiquitous surveillance and the Internet of Things, and disruptive technologies such as autonomous vehicles, DIY genetics and robot agents¿ Asks where law might go next and how to regulate new-phase technology such as artificial intelligence, 'smart homes' and automated emotion recognition¿ Uses examples from popular culture such as books, films, TV and Instagram - including 'Black Mirror', 'Disney Princesses', 'Star Wars', 'Doctor Who' and 'Rick and Morty' - to bring hypothetical examples to lifeLilian Edwards is Chair of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle UniversityBurkhard Schafer is Professor of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh, and co-founder and co-director of the Joseph Bell Centre for Legal Reasoning and Forensic StatisticsEdina Harbinja is Senior Lecturer in Media/Privacy Law at Aston University Edina Harbinja

Illustrates and addresses the breadth of Deleuze's post Kantian influences and engagements. This volume explores under developed encounters in Deleuzian thought and advances novel readings of established problematics. It focuses on philosophical encounters in Deleuze's texts.

Post-Kantian philosophy was distinguished by the wide range of its interests, probing epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and aesthetics with equal depth and intensity. This collection sheds light on Deleuze's philosophy, while also reminding us of the multiple and far-reaching aspirations of post-Kantian thought. Dr Christian Kerslake Author approved Develops the multiple relations between Deleuze and post-Kantian thought Through a series of studies by leading scholars in the field, At the Edges of Thought sheds new light on key philosophical encounters in Deleuze's texts. The shape of Deleuzian philosophy is explored through the influence of thinkers such as Maimon, Kleist, Hölderlin, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Feuerbach. This collection situates Deleuze's work and several of his most important concepts with respect to his post-Kantian predecessors, further illuminating both the breadth of his philosophical heritage and the manner in which he moves beyond it. Readers are invited to join with Deleuze as he traverses and transforms post-Kantian philosophy, taking it towards the very edges of thought. Craig Lundy is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Social Transformation Research at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of History and Becoming: Deleuze's Philosophy of Creativity (2012) and various papers on the philosophy of history, socio-political philosophy and European philosophy. Daniela Voss lectures in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and is an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University, Melbourne. She is the author of Conditions of Thought: Deleuze and Transcendental Ideas (2013).

Our understanding of the purposes of assessment and the nature of assessment practices in higher education has changed markedly over the past 40 years. This book collects new perspectives on assessment and feedback provided by world renowned researchers on issues that are of interest to both academic managers and teaching staff.

The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. This illustrated pean to his rich heritage explores both the detail of battles and the cultural history of war, devoting eight separate chapters to 'The Cultural and Physical Dimensions' of Scottish military involvement.

How are University instructors to contribute to a growing field when most PhDs continue to be conferred in British or American literature? To provide a foundational resource for teaching Anglo American transatlanticism in the long 19th century, this volume outlines conceptual approaches to transatlanticism and offers practical resources.

How are University instructors to contribute to a growing field when most PhDs continue to be conferred in British or American literature? To provide a foundational resource for teaching Anglo American transatlanticism in the long 19th century, this volume outlines conceptual approaches to transatlanticism and offers practical resources.

Suitable for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture and critical theory, this title offers insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the 19th century. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert in their field on a specific topic within the Victorian writing, including science, and gender.

These 200 abstracts, in English, Arabic and Turkish, showcase scholarship that examines cities as built (architecture and urban infrastructure) and lived (urban social life and culture) environments.

One of the often stated aims of the war was to 're create' Iraq as a democratic, peaceful and prosperous Western ally that would serve as a beacon of progress in the region. This book intends to dissect the diverse consequences of the Iraq war and provide new insights into the reasons why the country has descended into its current chaos.

Focused on a body of films bound together through a cinematic aesthetic of slowness, this book is a pioneering effort to situate, theorise and map out slow cinema within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history.