We are pleased to say that the University of Leicester Bookshop will be taking pre-orders of Museums and the Paradox of Change and will have a small number of copies of Museums in a Troubled World for sale.
Bookings are not being taken for the event, but if you would like to attend please get in touch with the School of Museum Studies on: +44(0)116 252 3963. Please also enquire for times.
"The strength of Venuti's writing comes from his tenacity... Venuti pursues complex and sensitive issues through detailed discussion of examples." - Sherry Simon, Concordia University, Montreal, QB
"His range of reference is impressively wide. He conveys large amounts of detail with a pleasant urgency." - New York Times Book Review
Aside from his teaching and translating work, Professor Venuti is a member of the editorial board of The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication. In 1998, he edited a special issue of The Translator devoted to translation and minority. Click here to listen to an interview with Professor Venuti at the Routledge Translation Studies Portal.
His new book from Routledge, Translation Changes Everything, gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. This latest chapter in his developing work is essential reading for translators and students of translation alike.
For this month only, all of Professor Venuti’s Routledge books are 20% off! Scroll down to browse these must-read titles, then use Discount Code HRK54 at checkout.
]]>Taking place at the University of Freiburg from 7th to 9th February 2013, this year’s Swiss Congress of Historical Science will explore the impact of the local-global dichotomy in history and historical research.
Routledge History authors Francisca de Haan and Karen Offen will take to the stage on Saturday 9th February, bringing their wealth of experience on global feminist movements and women’s activism to a panel on “Balancing Local and Global Concerns in International Women's Organizations”. Join them from 3pm for papers on the Nederlandse Vrouwenbeweging, the Women's International Democratic Federation and the International Council of Women.
You can read more about the conference, and Francisca's and Karen’s papers here.
Francisca is the editor of Women’s Activism (Routledge, 2012),
Karen is the editor of Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945 (Routledge, 2009) and a contributor to Women’s Activism.
Tomorrow marks the 232nd anniversary of the Battle of Cowpens, site of a crucial American victory during the American Revolutionary War.
Cowpens National Battlefield, South Carolina will be hosting an anniversary celebration this coming weekend, 19-20 January 2013. Featuring living history encampments and lantern-lit walks, you can also join Routledge author Melissa A. Walker who will be reading from her newly published book, The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens. Melissa will also be signing copies.
You can read more about the celebrations and Melissa’s reading here.
We are delighted to announce that The Heart of Teaching: Empowering Students in the Performing Arts is now available. The Heart of Teaching is a book about teaching and learning in the performing arts. Its focus is on the inner dynamics of teaching: the processes by which teachers can promote—or undermine—creativity itself. It covers the many issues that teachers, directors and choreographers experience, from the frustrations of dealing with silent students and helping young artists ‘unlearn’ their inhibitions, to problems of resistance, judgment and race in the classroom.
‘Stephen Wangh tackles an important but rarely discussed aspect of performance teaching. He brings a particular set of hard-won insights based on extensive teaching and personal experience, and doesn’t shy away from teasing out the difficult personal lessons drawn from that experience.’
Anthony Jackson, University of Manchester, UK
The Heart of Teaching speaks to experienced teachers and beginning teachers in all disciplines, but is particularly relevant to those in the performing arts, from which most of its examples are drawn. It brings essential insight and honesty to the discussion of how to teach. Find out more.
Author Bios
Dr Hilda Kean is former dean and director of public history at Ruskin college, Oxford where she established the first MA in Public History in Britain. Her books include London stories. Personal Lives, Public Histories and People and Their Pasts - Public History Today with Paul Ashton.
Dr Paul Martin was tutor in public history at Ruskin college, Oxford 1997-2012. He is currently a distance learning tutor with the School of Museum Studies, Leicester University. His books include Popular Collecting and the Everyday Self and The Trade Union Badge.
Praise for The Public History Reader
“Kean and Martin's volume will be invaluable for anyone interested in public history. It is characterised by its generous reach: it includes work and ideas from many countries; it stresses the diverse forms public history takes and the range of communities that actively participate in making it; it shows how it can be innovative and challenge settled assumptions about both the past and its representation. This book will help its readers think in an engaged yet critical manner about the processes and social practices underpinning public history, and its complex, sometimes disturbing resonances in everyday life, for example, when atrocities need to be recognised and understood. Hilda Kean and Paul Martin have provided an extremely useful point of access to one of the most lively and important parts of history today." - Ludmilla Jordanova, King's College London, UK
Further Reading
Visit Kean's website where her blog expands on issues of public history and you can read about Hilda's recent involvement in the campaign against the desrtruction of student files at Ruskin college.
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The book discusses how specialist journalists have contributed to the mainstream news agenda, as well as analysing how different issues have been covered in each specialism, such as the credit crunch, global warming, national crime statistics and the celebrity culture in sport. Areas covered include:
• Sport
• Business
• Politics
• Crime
• Environment
• Fashion
• Food
• Music
• Media
• Science
• Health
• Law
• Travel
• War
• Wine
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Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone interested in film.
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Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, theories and production terms, this is a must-have guide to a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.
Now fully revised and updated for its fourth edition, the book includes new topical entries such as:
• CGI
• Convergence
• Cult cinema
• Digital cinema/Post-digital cinema
• Dogme 95
• Movement-image/Time-image
• Quota quickies
• 3-D technology.
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Media Production is an introductory guide to radio, TV and film production techniques. Illuminating the step by step process from conception to delivery, from the initial brainstorms, through planning, research and editing, this book creates a guided structure to help students learn about media production.
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Aimed at those producing radio, film or TV productions for the first time, this book offers relevant advice which takes account of the context in which students work and the type of equipment available to them. Supported by online resources, this textbook provides templates, notes and exercises to help students prepare for their own productions, as well as a video and audio library showcasing techniques, interviews and behind the scenes industry footage.
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Locating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of ‘what is television now?’
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The book addresses this question in two interrelated ways:
• by situating the consumption of television within the full range of structures, patterns and practices of everyday life;
• and by retrieving the importance of location as fundamental to these structures, patterns and practices – and, consequently, to the experience of television.
This approach, involving collaboration between authors from cultural studies and cultural anthropology, offers new ways of studying the consumption of television – in particular, the use of the notion of ‘zones of consumption’ as a new means of locating television within the full range of its spatial, temporal, cultural, political and industrial contexts.
Although the study draws its examples from a wide range of locations (the US, the UK, Australia, Malaysia, Cuba, and the Chinese language markets in Asia - -Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Taiwan), its argument is strongly informed by the evidence and the insights which emerged from ethnographic research in Mexico. This research site serves a strategic purpose: by working on a location with a highly developed and commercially successful transnational television industry, but which is not among the locations usually considered by television studies written in English, the limitations to some of the assumptions underlying the orthodoxies in Anglo-American television studies are highlighted.
Suitable for both upper level students and researchers, this book is a valuable and original contribution to television, media and cultural studies, and anthropology, presenting approaches and evidence that are new to the field.
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In 1939, a young, inexperienced actor wrote to a famous actress of his acquaintance, asking for advice on playing comedy. She responded enthusiastically, and they corresponded variously over the next year. The Craft of Comedy, a record of these exchanges, soon emerged as one of the few classic texts in the field of comedy acting.
This major new edition takes a brilliant book and makes it better. Editor Robert Barton has devised extensive supplementary material, including:
• An introduction to the correspondents, the culture of the time, and the evolution of their book;
• Summaries, definitions, and exercises and practice scenes for readers wishing to explore Athene Seyler’s invaluable advice;
• Photographs, additional essays by Seyler, and a guide to easily accessed video clips of her performing.
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With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan.
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This book charts the elements involved in such claims—print, culture, technology, history—through a method that examines the iconography of materials, marks and processes of print, and in this sense acknowledges McLuhan’s notion of the medium as the bearer of meaning. Even in the digital age, many diverse forms of print continue to circulate and gain meaning from their material expression and their history. However, Frances Robertson argues that print culture can only be understood as a constellation of diverse practices and therefore discusses a range of print cultures from 1800 the present ‘post-print’ culture.
The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students within the areas of cultural history, art and design history, book and print history, media studies, literary studies, and the history of technology.
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Doing Film Studies examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema.
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This book provides an overview of the construction of film studies - including its history and evolution - and examines the application of theories to film texts. Important questions discussed include:
• Why does film studies need a canon?
• What is the relationship between authorship and genre theory?
• What is screen theory?
• How do we read a film text?
• Why is the concept of the spectator important to film?
• How is film involved in national identity?
• What is meant by a ‘film industry’?
Aimed at students in their final year of secondary education or beginning their degrees, Doing Film Studies equips the reader with the tools needed in approaching the study of film.
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Previously published in three volumes, entries have been edited and updated for the new, concise edition and three new entries have been added on: India, China and Africa.
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film:
• Discusses individual films and filmmakers including little-known filmmakers from countries such as India, Bosnia, China and others
• Examines the documentary filmmaking traditions within nations and regions, or within historical periods in places such as Iran, Brazil, Portugal, and Japan
• Explores themes, issues, and representations in documentary film including human rights, modernism, homosexuality, and World War I, as well as types of documentary film such as newsreels and educational films
• Elaborates on production companies, organizations, festivals, and institutions such as the American Film Institute, Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board, Hot Docs (Toronto), and the World Union of Documentary
• Describes styles, techniques, and technical issues such as animation, computer imaging, editing techniques, IMAX, music, and spoken commentary
Bringing together all aspects of documentary film, this accessible concise edition provides an invaluable resource for both scholars and students. With film stills from key films, this resource provides the decisive entry point into the history of an art form.
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