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• Introduction : cybernetic thinking and modernist literature
• Feedback loops and learning from the past : Erza Pound's poetics of transmission
• The cybernetic information dialectic : patterns, randomness and newsreel in John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
• Black box subjectivity : associative language, affect, and radio blindness in Virginia Woolf's The waves
• Cultural composition, insistent spirals, and definition by contrast : Gertrude Stein as second-order cybernetic anthropologist
• Coda : retrospective and prospective readings of cybernetic aesthetics.

"In Cybernetic Aesthetics, Heather A. Love makes a new contribution to ongoing debates about modern communication networks and information culture. This book draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret experimental modernist texts, illustrating how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

• Motivations : why make a documentary?
• A big umbrella : the expansive universe of documentary filmmaking
• The mutable nature of truth : a documentary paradox
• The burden of originality : avoiding anxiety in the pursuit of uniqueness
• Facing stigma and double standards : the social status of the documentarian
• A matter of conscience : taking responsibility for project choices
• The delicate art of fundraising
• Relational filmmaking : fostering trust and collaboration with participants
• Big stories in small packages : deciding what to include and how it will fit
• Mission control : the necessity of flexibility
• Handheld cinematography : the human camera
• A blessing and a curse : the film festival game
• An anatomy of the documentary interview
• Wrapping up.

"This book is a collection of personal essays that address critical elements involved in the production of nonfiction films. Written by an experienced documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, the book draws upon practical wisdom to explore the nuances and challenges faced by filmmakers and viewers alike. Included in the text are rarely discussed ethical issues, best practices in the field, filmmaker etiquette, and a detailed analysis of interview techniques. The book also provides a candid view of how decisions are made in production that are consequential to a finished film's meaning and fidelity. Drawing on a wide range of subject matter, it will enhance the reader's understanding of the tremendous power and potential of the documentary medium. The book offers an invaluable insight into documentary filmmaking for professionals who work in the medium and students who are learning the trade and honing their skills"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foolish objects: between public and private selves
• To the point of clowning: going astray with Theodor Adorno
• Touching the impossible: a conversation with Slava Polunin
• Becoming clown: a conversation with Mike Funt and David Bridel
• Notes from the theatre: fragments and criticism
• Trompe-l' oile: a brief history
• Thinking: with David Bridel (October 2021-June 2022)

"Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point toward new possibilities in creative and critical thought. Drawing on Johanna Skibsrud's experience in clown classes in France and the US, Fool challenges and extends the correlation Theodor Adorno suggests between thinking and clowning. It considers a diverse range of literary and theoretical sources from Richard Wagner's Parsifal to Karen Barad's Meeting the Universe Halfway. The book also refers to a varied cast of literary and historical clowns and fools, including the early Shakespearean actor Richard Tarlton, Alban Berg's Wozzeck, and Cirque du Soleil's Shannan Calcutt. Skibsrud elaborates the role of the 'fool' and 'foolishness' in literature not as an element of a particular work's content, plot, or style, but instead as a creative mode of thought activated through the reading and writing of literary texts. This innovative book charts new ground in literature, philosophy, and performance studies, and is an invaluable resource for specialists in all three fields"-- Provided by publisher.

"The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction explores the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection of speculative fictions: non-mimetic works that start from the implied question 'what if?' Spanning slightly more than two centuries of speculative fiction, from the starting point in Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein to contemporary works that engage with the vast ramifications of anthropogenic climate change, analyses demonstrate how Arctic discourses are supported or subverted and how new 'Arctics' are added to the textual tradition. To illuminate wider lines of inquiry informing the way the world is envisioned, humanity's place and function in it, and more-than-human entanglements, analyses focus on the function of the actual Arctic and how this function impacts and is impacted by speculative elements. With effects of climate change training the global eye on the Arctic, and as debates around future northern cultural, economic and environmental sustainability intensify, there is a need for a deepened understanding of the discourses that have constructed and are constructing the Arctic. A careful mapping and serious consideration of both past and contemporary speculative visions thus illuminate the role the Arctic has played and may come to play in a diverse set of practices and fields"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1. Situating the Digital in Latin American Technopoetics
• Chapter 2. Critical Snapshots
• Chapter 3. Poetry and Artificial Intelligence
• Chapter 4. A Bibliographic Sampling of Latin American Digital Poetry (so far).

• The BFI : London's gateway to cinema and media studies for all' : interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes, and Emma Smart / Elizabeth Evans
• Millennium Mills : London's last post-industrial ruin and its media history and industry / Anna Viola Sborgi
• Sherlock Holmes, Archive London : phantasms of authenticity at the Festival of Britain, 1951 / Constance Balides
• Watching the detectives : Poe, Luther, and the surveilled city / Brendan Kredell
• Adaptations and intertexts : how Disney imagines London in 'Mary Poppins' and Saving Mr. Banks / Susan Ohmer
• The rough and the smooth : touching and the tactile in British London films of the 1920s / Joel Casey
• London film-location walking tours : labouring at the intersection of text, location and place / Sarah Atkinson
• 'Rivers can be very sinister places' : Alfred Hitchcock takes a satirical, sinister London crime cruise in Frenzy / K Brenna Wardell
• Is London Real? The Actual/Virtual/Fantastic City from Blow-Up to Bandersnatch / Rebecca Fine Romanow
• London and the carnivalesque in Catastrophe (Channel 4, 2015-2019), and Fleabag (BBC, 2016
• 2019) / Frances Smith
• Leaving London : the BBC, Channel 4 and the symbolic diversity of Location / Elizabeth Evans
• Invisible London : unveiling the immigrant landscape in The Receptionist / Tzu-Chin Insky Chen
• Piccadilly lights as pandemic portal? The case of Circa Art's public projection series / Malini Guha
• Afterword : peak London : the spectacular and the banal in the ABC decade / Charlotte Brunsdon.

"London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the diversity of roles the city plays both on screen and within the screen industries, the volume explores the intersection between London as a material place and its position within a cultural imaginary. Conceptualising London as an archival city, as a collection of specific places and spaces, and as a part of national and international cultural and economic flows, contributors from film studies, television studies and media studies approach London through the lenses of textual analysis, historical work, industry studies and user experience. Chapters explore how London has appeared on screen across film and television, how screen content frames notions of place and belonging within the diasporic communities across the city, how the city has become a hub for the UK and global screen industries and how it intersects with national and local media policy. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies, television studies, media industry studies, games studies, cultural and media studies"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature. From its origins, in the vernacular cultures of the 12th and 13th centuries, the novel text seems to be characterised by certain stylistic procedures adopted to represent a new narrative structure, which has no direct terms of comparison in the previous literary tradition. Indeed, the novel, as a 'textual machine', often produces a 'narrative manipulation of time and duration', to the point of establishing, within its textual form, a very close link between History, individual memory and a prospective narrative future. This book explores some structural and formal paths of the 'novelistic machine', through three exemplary cases: 1 the 'name of the novel' at the origins of the literary genre, with the invention of a new 'novelistic technique' (i.e. the conjointure) by Chrétien de Troyes (12th century); 2 the book-form, namely 'the book of novels' as a concrete and material object that transmits the narrative text and involves it within the fictional universe; 3 the literary topos of the 'dreaming incipit' and its long history from the Roman de la rose to Proust. This book will be of significant interest to students and scholars of medieval literature, the history of the novel and philology"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Myth and environmentalism: entanglements, synergies, openings / Esther Sánchez-Pardo
• Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the exclusion zone / Haley Laurila
• Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene / Hope Jennings and Christine Junker
• Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge. Boundless water, boundless ice-arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons / Sonja Ross
• Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry's Waking ground / Leonor María Martínez Serrano
• Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics / Paul Humphrey
• Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience. "Giant by thine own nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras's mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze / Esther Lezra and Esther Sánchez-Pardo
• New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali / María Porras Sánchez and Lhoussain Simour
• Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima / Keijiro Suga
• Coda: A radical evocation of seed / Jeanette Hart-Mann.

• A puppet being and a puppet doing
• The dramaturgy is in the object
• The image aspect of the puppet
• Humans and objects
• Notes on sounds and words
• Choices we make
• A selective, selectively annotated, puppetry biography.

"Drawing on the author's two decades of watching, writing, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this is a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry. Reading the Puppet Stage uses examples from a broad range of puppetry genres, from Broadway shows and the Muppets, to the rich field of contemporary performing object experimentation internationally, to the wealth of Asian puppet traditions, as well as the author's own experienced perspectives on the ways performing objects can create and structure meaning. These examples are married with an understanding of the dramaturgical interplay between puppets, performers, and language. An introductory approach for students, critics, and artists, this book underlines where significant artistic concerns lie in puppetry and outlines the supportive networks and resources that shape the community of those who make, watch, and love this ever-developing art"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / James Shea
• Haiku in transit. Beyond the haiku moment: Bashō, Buson and modern haiku myths / Haruo Shirane
• Hearn, Bickerton, Hubbell: translation and definition / Hiroaki Sato
• Reading an evening breeze: Buson's Hokku in translation / James Shea
• Haiku and social consciousness. The secondary art of modern haiku / Takeo Kuwabara (translated by Mark Jewel)
• From the 2.26 Incident to the atomic bombs: haiku during the Asia-Pacific War / Hiroaki Sato
• New rising haiku: the evolution of modern Japanese haiku and the haiku persecution incident / Yūki Itō
• Translations and migrations of the poetic diary: Roy Kiyooka's Wheels / Judith Halebsky
• Haiku and experimentation. Ezra Pound, Yone Noguchi, and imagism / Yoshinobu Hakutani
• Haiku as a western genre: fellow traveler of modernism / Jan Hokenson
• Marking Time in native America: haiku, elegy, survival / Karen Jackson Ford
• The disjunctive dragonfly: a study of disjunctive method and definitions in contemporary English-language haiku / Richard Gilbert
• The future of global haiku. Non-Japanese haiku today / Grant Caldwell
• One hundred bridges, one hundred traditions in haiku / Charles Trumbull
• In the shade of the cherry blossoms: the reception of haiku in post-Soviet Russia / Cécile Rousselet
• From haiku to the short poem: bridging the divide / Philip Rowland
• Future of world haiku / Ban'ya Natsuishi
• Afterword / Anita Patterson.

• Introduction : Spanish horror in the 21st century
• Early 2000s : industrial dynamics, production trends & transnationalization
• [Rec]: an international franchise
• Horror & genre hybridization
• Horror & gender
• Horror & the past
• Horror & streaming.

"It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema. While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates the national cinematic output within the international arena, understanding film production and reception as continuously changing processes in which a variety of economic, social and cultural factors intervene. The book first analyzes the main horror trends emerging in the early 2000s, then approaches genre hybridization and the rise of new filmmakers since the 2010s with a special focus on gender issues and the reconfiguration of the past, before addressing the impact of streaming services within the Spanish film panorama, from a production and distribution standpoint. This book will be of keen interest to scholars and students in the areas of film studies, media studies, TV studies, horror, Spanish cultural studies, and production studies"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western Europe and North America mainly by women and still operative today. The six case studies examined (Drac Magic, Women Make Movies, Groupe Intervention Video, Leeds Animation Workshop, bildwechsel, Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir) have maintained a discrete yet continuing presence within an audiovisual industry and a cultural system dominated by institutionalized, state-funded, and corporate forms of audiovisual production and distribution. Their longevity- quite a rarity in the independent circuit- makes a strong case for the sustainability of feminist and LGBTQ media activism in the public sphere, in spite of its lowkey profile. This volume will be of interest to academicians of history and communication studies, feminist and LGBTQ topics and gender related cinematic culture"-- Provided by publisher.