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On Nostalgia
From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially modern condition. Drawing on everything from the modern science of memory to the romantic ideals of advertising, and traversing cultural movements from futurism to fascism to Facebook, cultural critic David Berry examines how the relentless search for self and overwhelming presence of ma...
A People's History of Tennis
Tennis is much more than Wimbledon! This story reveals the hidden history of the sport.
Journalism, Ethics and Society
Journalism, Ethics and Society provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of debates within media ethics in relation to the purpose of news and journalism for society. It assesses how the meaning of news and journalism is central to a discourse in ethics and further evaluates the continuing role of liberalism in helping to define both theory and practice. Its timely and topical analysis focuses on two of the most central concepts within media ethics and journalistic practice: the US based Public Journalism 'movement' and European Union media policies. It provides new ways of thinking about media ethics and will be of interest to students and researchers working within the field of media, cultural studies and journalism, as well as scholars of philosophy.
David Lloyd George
This is the incredible story of a silent film, made in 1918, but not screened in public until 1996. The first section of the book focuses on the reasons behind the film's suppression, while the second section concentrates on the painstaking and fascinating process of restoration. The concluding section discusses the feature as a film per se and assesses its contribution to the history of British cinema.
Postdigital Aesthetics
Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world.
Critical Theory and the Digital
This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume re-examines critical theory in light of the challenges raised by today's digital revolution.
Berry Phases in Electronic Structure Theory
An introduction to the role of Berry phases in our modern understanding of the physics of electrons in solids.
Understanding Digital Humanities
Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities. Uniting differing perspectives, leading and emerging scholars discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines.
On Nostalgia
From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it.
Copy, Rip, Burn
Explores the politics of open source software, and how it is forcing us to re-think the idea of intellectual property.
