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The Olympic movement and new media (2014)
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This book is devoted to the trends in the development of digital media and their impact on coverage of the Olympic Games and the promotion of Olympic values. The research for the book was carried out through content collection and analysis of social... Read More about The Olympic movement and new media.

Storytelling in the media convergence age : exploring screen narratives (2014)
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(2014). A. Smith, & R. Pearson (Eds.), Storytelling in the media convergence age : exploring screen narratives. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388155

This collection investigates the relationship between contemporary screen narratives and their varied contexts of production, circulation and reception, exploring storytelling practices across a range of different media and national and institutional... Read More about Storytelling in the media convergence age : exploring screen narratives.

East asian film stars (2014)
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East Asian Film Stars brings together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their insights into the work of regional and transnational screen legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas. This collection of original es... Read More about East asian film stars.

Shakin' all over: Popular music and disability (2013)
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Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, it’s surprising that until now there has never been a single monograph study covering the important int... Read More about Shakin' all over: Popular music and disability.

Methodology to monitor the implementation of the ‘European code of good conduct for microcredit provision’ by microcredit providers - evaluator methodology (2013)
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This document is the methodology to monitor the implementation of the ‘European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision’ (henceforth, ‘the Code’) by microcredit
providers (henceforth, ‘the providers’). The methodology is
primarily aimed at t... Read More about Methodology to monitor the implementation of the ‘European code of good conduct for microcredit provision’ by microcredit providers - evaluator methodology.

Methodology to monitor the implementation of the ‘European code of good conduct for microcredit provision' by microcredit providers - microcredit provider guidelines (2013)
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These provider guidelines are intended to support microcredit providers (henceforth, ‘the providers’) wanting to implement the ‘European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision’ (henceforth, ‘the Code’). The guidance is aimed at management and... Read More about Methodology to monitor the implementation of the ‘European code of good conduct for microcredit provision' by microcredit providers - microcredit provider guidelines.

The cinema of Raúl Ruiz : impossible cartographies (2013)
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This book is the first major academic engagement with the idiosyncratic Chilean-born filmmaker Raul Ruiz. It examines his work from the context of Allende's Chile to France and Europe from the 1970s, examining such themes as aesthetics and politics,... Read More about The cinema of Raúl Ruiz : impossible cartographies.

The 21st Century Journalism Handbook (2013)
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Hadwin, S., Holmes, T., & Mottershead, G. (2013). The 21st Century Journalism Handbook. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315834405

Set against the background of the fundamental issues facing the industry today, The 21st Century Journalism Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the core principles and practices essential to the modern journalist.　 Convergence, online, the growth o... Read More about The 21st Century Journalism Handbook.

European civil war films : memory, conflict and nostalgia (2013)
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This monograph examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, Former Yugoslavian, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interd... Read More about European civil war films : memory, conflict and nostalgia.

Veiled dreams (2013)
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Feisty fifteen-year-old Christina’s parents don’t like her biker boyfriend. They think he’s too old and his hair is too long. She doesn’t like her epilepsy but has to deal with it. An accident leaves her in a coma for several weeks. Whilst in the com... Read More about Veiled dreams.

The music documentary : acid rock to electropop (2013)
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The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music document... Read More about The music documentary : acid rock to electropop.

European code of good conduct for microcredit provision (2013)
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The European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision provides a set of standards in terms of management, governance, risk management, reporting, and consumer and investor relations that are common to the microcredit sector in the European Unio... Read More about European code of good conduct for microcredit provision.

Creating romanticism : case studies in the literature, science and medicine of the 1790s (2013)
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This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination an... Read More about Creating romanticism : case studies in the literature, science and medicine of the 1790s.

Fibbin' Archie (2013)
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Archie has quite a reputation as a practised fibber. Normally his lies are harmless but as time goes by they begin to get him into more and more trouble. They lose him his girlfriend, and bizarrely, his hearing as his ears begin to react in a very st... Read More about Fibbin' Archie.

Un nuovo cinema politico italiano? volume 1 (2013)
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Edited volume examining representations of labour relations, immigration, and gender relations in 21st century Italian cinema. The volume contains nineteen essays and an interview with the Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore.

The tower (2013)
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Kaleem has given up the love of his life in order to protect her. He now lives and works on Zandra.
A sudden landquake, not known on the planet for many years, destroys many of the forests his father has planted to bring life back to the planet. Th... Read More about The tower.

Music and technologies (2013)
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Based on the conference held in Kaunas, Lithuania, 2011, Music and Technologies aims to augment discussion within the field of interdisciplinary music research developed currently at such important forums as the CIM and the ISMIR. The book consists o... Read More about Music and technologies.

Resonances : noise and contemporary music (2013)
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Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thr... Read More about Resonances : noise and contemporary music.

Laughing matters : understanding comedy in film, television and radio (2012)
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White, G., & Mundy, J. (2012). Laughing matters : understanding comedy in film, television and radio. Manchester University Press

Although comedy is an important aspect of contemporary culture and a significant presence in film, television and radio, there is a surprising shortage of academic writing about comedy and the media. Laughing Matters: Understanding Comedy in Film, Te... Read More about Laughing matters : understanding comedy in film, television and radio.

A gallery for Nick (Sample chapter) (2012)
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Nick is dying. Barney spends much of his time keeping him company, helping him to lead an almost normal life and sharing his carefully guarded secret. The two boys often go down to the old harbour, to look at the boats and take photographs.
Barney... Read More about A gallery for Nick (Sample chapter).