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The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture (2021)
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Stiegler, C. (2021). The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)

The 360° Gaze is the first comprehensive study that traces immersive experiences across a wide range of media and cultural practices in postmodern culture. With its interdisciplinary methodology, this book reveals the intersections between immersive... Read More about The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture.

Seeing It On Television (2021)
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Lees, D., & Sexton, M. (2021). Seeing It On Television. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing

Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US ‘High-end’ Series is co-authored by Dominic Lees and Max Sexton. The book is a detailed study of aesthetics in contemporary US television drama. It examines a range of cultural, technolog... Read More about Seeing It On Television.

Zanjir (2019)
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Mahmoodian, A. (2019). Zanjir. (1). Denmark: RRB Photobooks / IC Visual Lab

Zanjir is a conversation imagined between the artist Amak Mahmoodian (1980-present) and the Persian princess and memoirist Taj Saltaneh (1883 - 1936). In Zanjir, Amak Mahmoodian draws on imagery from King name's collection from the 19th Century held... Read More about Zanjir.

The Emperor and the Pianiola: A children's book for adults (2019)
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Sobers, S. (in press). The Emperor and the Pianiola: A children's book for adults. Bath: Imperial Voice

This illustrated photo-book explores the story of Emperor Haile Selassie and the Ethiopian royal family coming to live in the city of Bath following Mussolini's invasion, and how they used pianola music to create a sense of sanctity for the family at... Read More about The Emperor and the Pianiola: A children's book for adults.

Slant (2019)
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Schuman, A. (2019). Slant. (1). London: Mack

If you opened the local newspaper in the small New England town of Amherst, Massachusetts, as Aaron Schuman did one day, you might find a section entitled ‘Police Reports’ – succinct and extraordinarily anticlimactic accounts of crimes, suspicious ac... Read More about Slant.

A Fluid Landscape (2018)
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Harman, A. (2018). A Fluid Landscape. (200). UK: Another Place Press

In 'A Fluid Landscape' Amanda Harman explores the shifting landscape of the Somerset levels, an area which, once sea, has gradually become land through a succession of salt marsh, freshwater wetland and rich summer pasture. Human intervention has s... Read More about A Fluid Landscape.

i-docs - the evolving practices of interactive documentary (2017)
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Rose, M., Gaudenzi, S., & Aston, J. (Eds.). (2017). i-docs - the evolving practices of interactive documentary. New York, Chichester, West Sussex: Wallflower Press

The history of documentary has been one of adaptation and change, as docu-mentarists have harnessed the affordances of emerging technology. In the last decade interactive documentaries (i-docs) have become established as a new field of practice withi... Read More about i-docs - the evolving practices of interactive documentary.

Photographic Dialogues: Moving Stills (2017)
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Sobers, S. (2017). S. Sobers, & K. Hursthouse (Eds.), Photographic Dialogues: Moving Stills. Bristol: Community Media South West

Special issue looking at photographers who shoot moving image, and the relationship between the creative approaches. We ran the Moving Stills symposium in April 2016, which explored the practices of photographers who also produce moving image work... Read More about Photographic Dialogues: Moving Stills.

Folk (2016)
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Schuman, A. (2016). Folk. London: NB

In FOLK, Aaron Schuman explores the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow — its collections and exhibits, as well as its own distinct customs and culture — via his own personal history. In one sense, the book focuses specifically on the regional and cultural... Read More about Folk.

Shenasnemeh (2016)
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Mahmoodian, A. (2016). Shenasnemeh. ICVL Studio / RRB Publishing

Six years ago, I was waiting in a reception room, holding the birth certificates of my mother and me. We looked similar in our ID photographs. That same day my fingerprint was fixed next to my image, and my mother’s fingerprint next to her image. Des... Read More about Shenasnemeh.

Garden Stories (2016)
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Harman, A. (2016). Garden Stories. USA: Blue Sky Books / Chris Raushenberg

Published by Blue Sky Gallery to coincide with a Solo Exhibition at the gallery in 2016, this series of unintended or ‘accidental’ still lives, made around the gardens and outbuildings of an English country house, seeks to make visible the unseen and... Read More about Garden Stories.

Gathered Leaves (2015)
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Schuman, A. (2015). Gathered Leaves. London: Mack

This book brings together texts by Aaron Schuman – spread across 28 large-format photographic prints – an essay by Kate Bush (Curator of Photography, TATE Modern), and facsimile versions of photographer Alec Soth’s four most celebrated American-based... Read More about Gathered Leaves.

Museum Media (2015)
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Henning, M. (2015). S. Macdonald, & H. R. Leahy (Eds.), Museum Media. Oxford, UK: Blackwells

Vol. 3 of the International Handbook of Museum Studies. This 300,000 word volume contains writings by museum professionals, architects and designers, as well as academics. The series eds. are Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy, both at Manchester... Read More about Museum Media.

New Media Culture (2015)
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Stiegler, C., Breitenbach, P., & Zorbach, T. (2015). New Media Culture. Bielefeld: Transcript

New Media Culture addresses the wide-ranging impact of several digital phenomena such as avatars, memes, selfies, transmedia storytelling, online firestorms, and big data. Authors include Henry Jenkins, Ramón Reichert, Judith Ackermann, Jan-Hinrik Sc... Read More about New Media Culture.