Being Human

Being HumanThis feels like a time of environmental and moral crisis without parallel. Not only do human beings seem not to believe in anything but, despite exponential advances in information production, we do not appear to know much either. This book is a guide for everyone who feels understandably perplexed.

The framework is a visual language based on a highly articulated Theory of Text Comprehension and a related Theory of Text Compression

Antônio Carlos Jobim has been called the greatest of all contemporary Brazilian songwriters

The contributors trace Toronto’s emergence as an international city and demonstrate the narrative interests that it has continued to inspire among filmmakers

our institutions and our societies

style and genre as set against South Africa's complex and often turbulent social and political landscape

Examining the impact of various art movements on notions of performance

Drawing on work from media scholars and practitioners

Danish film is not widely written about

Pak Tong Cheuk also draws on the auteur and genre theories

This volume brings together prominent European scholars to explore issues of globalization

they also present methods for foregrounding the role of communication in scientific and environmental governance

Crossing the Street in Hanoi is a study of media and cultural artifacts that constitute the remembrance of a tragic war as reflected in the stories of eight people who lived it