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Precariousness has become a defining experience in contemporary
society, as an inescapable condition and state of being. Living
with Precariousness presents a spectrum of timely case studies that
explore precarious existences – at individual, collective and
structural levels, and as manifested through space and the body.
These range from the plight of asylum seekers, to the tiny house
movement as a response to affordable housing crises; from the
global impacts of climate change, to the daily challenges of living
with a chronic illness. This multidisciplinary book illustrates the
pervasiveness of precarity, but furthermore shows how those
entanglements with other agents, human or otherwise, that put us at
risk are also the connections that make living with (and through)
precariousness endurable.
This book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix,
transform, and transport us imaginatively, physically, and
virtually to the places they depict or film. Topics include fantasy
quests in computer games, celebrity walking tours, dark tourism
sites, Hobbiton as theme park, surf movies, and social gangs of
Disneyland. How physical, virtual, and imagined locations create a
sense of place through their immediate experience or visitation is
undergoing a revolution in technology, travel modes, and tourism
behaviour. This edited collection explores the rapidly evolving
field of screen tourism and the affective impact of landscape, with
provocative questions and investigations of social groups, fan
culture, new technology, and the wider changing trends in screen
tourism. We provide critical examples of affective landscapes
across a wide range of mediums (from the big screen to the small
screen) and locations. This book will appeal to students and
scholars in film and tourism, as well as geography, design, media
and communication studies, game studies, and digital humanities.
Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in
Contemporary Cinema examines popular representations of Generation
X in American and British film. In arguing that the various
constructions of youth are marked by major cultural shifts and
societal inequalities, it analyzes the iconic 'Gen X' figures
ranging from the slacker, the teenage time traveller, and third
wave feminists, to the oeuvre of Molly Ringwald and Richard
Linklater. This book explores the important cultural work performed
by films that mediate the experiences of Generation X and critiques
the ongoing marginalization of the youth who struggle to find their
identity and a voice in increasingly unstable times. Specific
analyses of such films as Pump Up the Volume, The Breakfast Club,
Heathers, Donnie Darko and Waking Life are used to illustrate the
research.
This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of
haunting. It considers how the 'appearance' of absence, emptiness
and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of
something that once was, and still is, (t)here. At its core, the
book asks: how and why do certain places haunt us? Drawing from a
diversity of mediums, forms and disciplinary approaches, the
contributors to Spectral Spaces and Hauntings illustrate the
complicated ways absent presences can manifest and be registered.
The case studies range from the memory sites of a terrorist attack,
the lost home, a vanished mining town and abandoned airports, to
the post-apocalyptic wastelands in literary fiction, the
photographic and filmic surfaces where spectres materialise, and
the body as a site for re-corporealising the disappeared and dead.
In ruminating on the afteraffects of spectral spaces on human
experience, the anthology importantly foregrounds the ethical and
political imperative of engaging with ghosts and following their
traces.
This book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix,
transform, and transport us imaginatively, physically, and
virtually to the places they depict or film. Topics include fantasy
quests in computer games, celebrity walking tours, dark tourism
sites, Hobbiton as theme park, surf movies, and social gangs of
Disneyland. How physical, virtual, and imagined locations create a
sense of place through their immediate experience or visitation is
undergoing a revolution in technology, travel modes, and tourism
behaviour. This edited collection explores the rapidly evolving
field of screen tourism and the affective impact of landscape, with
provocative questions and investigations of social groups, fan
culture, new technology, and the wider changing trends in screen
tourism. We provide critical examples of affective landscapes
across a wide range of mediums (from the big screen to the small
screen) and locations. This book will appeal to students and
scholars in film and tourism, as well as geography, design, media
and communication studies, game studies, and digital humanities.
This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of
haunting. It considers how the 'appearance' of absence, emptiness
and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of
something that once was, and still is, (t)here. At its core, the
book asks: how and why do certain places haunt us? Drawing from a
diversity of mediums, forms and disciplinary approaches, the
contributors to Spectral Spaces and Hauntings illustrate the
complicated ways absent presences can manifest and be registered.
The case studies range from the memory sites of a terrorist attack,
the lost home, a vanished mining town and abandoned airports, to
the post-apocalyptic wastelands in literary fiction, the
photographic and filmic surfaces where spectres materialise, and
the body as a site for re-corporealising the disappeared and dead.
In ruminating on the afteraffects of spectral spaces on human
experience, the anthology importantly foregrounds the ethical and
political imperative of engaging with ghosts and following their
traces.
Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in
Contemporary Cinema examines popular representations of Generation
X in American and British film. In arguing that the various
constructions of youth are marked by major cultural shifts and
societal inequalities, it analyzes the iconic 'Gen X' figures
ranging from the slacker, the teenage time traveller, and third
wave feminists, to the oeuvre of Molly Ringwald and Richard
Linklater. This book explores the important cultural work performed
by films that mediate the experiences of Generation X and critiques
the ongoing marginalization of the youth who struggle to find their
identity and a voice in increasingly unstable times. Specific
analyses of such films as Pump Up the Volume, The Breakfast Club,
Heathers, Donnie Darko and Waking Life are used to illustrate the
research.
An examination of the frequently elaborate rituals of food and
feasting in Anglo-Saxon funeral rites. Anglo-Saxons were frequently
buried with material artefacts, ranging from pots to clothing to
jewellery, and also with items of food, while the funeral ritual
itself was frequently marked by feasting, sometimes at the
graveside. The book examines the place of food and feasting in
funerary rituals from the earliest period to the eleventh century,
considering the changes and transformations that occurred during
this time, drawing on a wide range of sources,from archaeological
evidence to the existing texts. It looks in particular at
representations of funerary feasting, how it functions as a tool
for memory, and sheds light on the relationship between the living
and the dead. CHRISTINA LEE is a lecturer in the School of English
Studies at the University of Nottingham.
In this provocative book, Christina Lee takes a consciously
critical approach to the apparently unchallenged principle that
conscious thought is the cause of all human behavior. Without
becoming polemical or destructive, she reconsiders a wide range of
issues in mainstream American and European social psychology.
Suitable for an international audience, the book deals with issues
in mainstream American and European social psychology. It assumes
some familiarity with contemporary social and applied psychology,
and would be appropriate as a text or supplementary reading for
senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social psychology
and psychological theory, although it is also written with an
academic research audience in mind. While it is written largely for
psychologists, it would also be of interest to academics from other
social-science disciplines with a general interest in explanations
of individual social behavior.
Essays centred round the representation of weaving, both real and
imagined, in the early middle ages. The triple themes of textile,
text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects within
both Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, run
through the essays collected here. Chapters evoke the semantic
complexities of textile references and images drawn from the Bayeux
Tapestry, examine parallels in word-woven poetics, riddling texts,
and interwoven homiletic and historical prose, and identify
iconographical textures in medieval art. The volume thus considers
the images and creative strategies of textiles, texts, and
intertexts, generating a complex and fascinating view of the
material culture and metaphorical landscape of the Anglo-Saxon
peoples. It is therefore a particularly fitting tribute to
Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker, whose career and lengthy list of
scholarly works have centred on her interests in the meaning and
cultural importance of textiles, manuscripts and text, and
intertextual relationships between text and textile. MAREN CLEGG
HYER is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the
Department of English at Valdosta State University; JILL FREDERICK
is Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Contributors: Marilina Cesario, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Martin Foys,
Jill Frederick, Joyce Hill, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov,
Christina Lee, Michael Lewis, Robin Netherton, Carol Neuman de
Vegvar, Donald Scragg, Louise Sylvester, Paul Szarmach, Elaine
Treharne.
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