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The last twenty years have witnessed an important movement in the
aspirations of public policy beyond meeting merely material goals
towards a range of outcomes captured through the use of the term
'wellbeing'. Nonetheless, the concept of wellbeing is itself
ill-defined, a term used in multiple different contexts with
different meanings and policy implications. Bringing together a
range of perspectives, this volume examines the intersections of
wellbeing and place, including immediate applied policy concerns as
well as more critical academic engagements. . Conceptualisations of
place, context and settings have come under critical examination,
and more nuanced and varied understandings are drawn out from both
academic and policy-related research. Whilst quantitative and some
policy approaches treat place as a static backdrop or context,
others explore the interrelationships of emotional, social,
cultural and experiential meanings that are both shape place and
are shaped in place. Similarly, wellbeing may be understood as a
relatively stable and measurable entity or as a more
situation-dependent and relational effect. The book is structured
into two sections: essays that explore the dynamics that determine
wellbeing in relation to place and essays that explore contested
understandings of wellbeing both empirically and theoretically.
The last twenty years have witnessed an important movement in the
aspirations of public policy beyond meeting merely material goals
towards a range of outcomes captured through the use of the term
'wellbeing'. Nonetheless, the concept of wellbeing is itself
ill-defined, a term used in multiple different contexts with
different meanings and policy implications. Bringing together a
range of perspectives, this volume examines the intersections of
wellbeing and place, including immediate applied policy concerns as
well as more critical academic engagements. . Conceptualisations of
place, context and settings have come under critical examination,
and more nuanced and varied understandings are drawn out from both
academic and policy-related research. Whilst quantitative and some
policy approaches treat place as a static backdrop or context,
others explore the interrelationships of emotional, social,
cultural and experiential meanings that are both shape place and
are shaped in place. Similarly, wellbeing may be understood as a
relatively stable and measurable entity or as a more
situation-dependent and relational effect. The book is structured
into two sections: essays that explore the dynamics that determine
wellbeing in relation to place and essays that explore contested
understandings of wellbeing both empirically and theoretically.
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the
world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is
the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which
interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social
sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical
understanding of the human individually and collectively. The
thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and
across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections
between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each
chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues
raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a
leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge
work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the
affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early
modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness,
narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial,
public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the
chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive
intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might
address questions of individual, subjective and embodied
experience.
This is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in
which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social
sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical
understanding of the human individually and collectively.
This book presents a comprehensive history and analysis of Secret
Cinema - the leading producer of large-scale immersive experiences
in the UK. It examines how the company has evolved over twelve
years from an experimental and artisanal organisation to a global
leader in the field. The book focuses on the UK in late-2019, a
point at which the immersive sector had grown significantly through
its increasing contribution to GDP and its widespread recognition
as a legitimate cultural offering. It captures an organisation and
a sector transitioning from marginal and subcultural roots to a
commodifiable and commercial form, now with recognisable
professional roles and practices, which has contributed to the
establishment of an immersive experience industry of national
importance and global reach. -- .
Examines the practices of independent digital feature-filmmaking in
contemporary BritainTo what extent have digital innovations
transformed the UK film industry? What new practices and processes
are emerging within the contemporary UK filmmaking landscape? What
impact is this having upon filmmaking professionals?The business of
conventional feature filmmaking is like no other, in that it
assembles a huge company of people from a range of disciplines on a
temporary basis, all to engage in the collaborative endeavour of
producing a unique, one-off piece of work. By focusing on the
pivotal year of 2012, and by considering the input of every single
contributor to the process, this book illuminates how this period
of analogue to digital transition is impacting upon working
practices, cultures, opportunities and structures in the industry,
and examines the various causative forces behind their adoptions
and resistances. With an in-depth case study of Sally Potter's 2012
film 'Ginger & Rosa', and drawing upon interviews with
international film industry practitioners, 'From Film Practice to
Data Process' is a groundbreaking examination of film production in
its totality, in a moment of profound change.
To what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK film
industry? What new practices and processes are emerging within the
contemporary UK filmmaking landscape? What impact is this having
upon filmmaking professionals? The business of conventional feature
filmmaking is like no other, in that it assembles a huge company of
people from a range of disciplines on a temporary basis, all to
engage in the collaborative endeavour of producing a unique,
one-off piece of work. By focusing on the pivotal year of 2012, and
by considering the input of every single contributor to the
process, this book illuminates how this period of analogue to
digital transition is impacting upon working practices, cultures,
opportunities and structures in the industry, and examines the
various causative forces behind their adoptions and resistances.
With an in-depth case study of Sally Potter's 2012 film Ginger
& Rosa, and drawing upon interviews with international film
industry practitioners, From Film Practice to Data Process is a
groundbreaking examination of film production in its totality, in a
moment of profound change.
Live Cinema is a term used to capture a diverse range of
experiences that incorporate a 'live' element in relation to a
film's exhibition. The live augmentation of cinema screenings is
not a new phenomenon, indeed this tendency is present throughout
the entire history of cinema in the form of live musical
accompaniments to silent screenings, showmanship practices, and
cult film audience behaviours. The contemporary revival of
experiential cinema captured within this volume presents instances
where the live transcends the mediated and escapes beyond the
boundaries of the auditorium. Our contributors investigate film
exhibition practices that include synchronous live performance,
site specific screenings, technological intervention, social media
engagement, and all manner of simultaneous interactive moments
including singing, dancing, eating and drinking. These
investigations reveal new cultures of reception and practice, new
experiential aesthetics and emergent economies of engagement. This
collection brings together fifteen contributions that together
trace the emergence of a vivid new area of study. Drawing on rich,
diverse and interdisciplinary fields of enquiry, this volume
encapsulates a broad range of innovative methodological approaches,
offers new conceptual frameworks and new critical vocabularies
through which to describe and analyse the emergent phenomena of
Live Cinema.
Live Cinema is a term used to capture a diverse range of
experiences that incorporate a 'live' element in relation to a
film's exhibition. The live augmentation of cinema screenings is
not a new phenomenon, indeed this tendency is present throughout
the entire history of cinema in the form of live musical
accompaniments to silent screenings, showmanship practices, and
cult film audience behaviours. The contemporary revival of
experiential cinema captured within this volume presents instances
where the live transcends the mediated and escapes beyond the
boundaries of the auditorium. Our contributors investigate film
exhibition practices that include synchronous live performance,
site specific screenings, technological intervention, social media
engagement, and all manner of simultaneous interactive moments
including singing, dancing, eating and drinking. These
investigations reveal new cultures of reception and practice, new
experiential aesthetics and emergent economies of engagement. This
collection brings together fifteen contributions that together
trace the emergence of a vivid new area of study. Drawing on rich,
diverse and interdisciplinary fields of enquiry, this volume
encapsulates a broad range of innovative methodological approaches,
offers new conceptual frameworks and new critical vocabularies
through which to describe and analyse the emergent phenomena of
Live Cinema.
Runner-up for the British Association of Film, Television and
Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2015 Beyond the Screen presents an
expanded conceptualization of cinema which encompasses the myriad
ways film can be experienced in a digitally networked society where
the auditorium is now just one location amongst many in which
audiences can encounter and engage with films. The book includes
considerations of mobile, web, social media and live cinema through
numerous examples and case studies of recent and near-future
developments. Through analyses of narrative, text, process,
apparatus and audience this book traces the metamorphosis of an
emerging cinema and maps the new spaces of spectatorship which are
currently challenging what it means to be cinematic in a digitally
networked era.
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