Drawing on contributions from arts therapies, education, history, organizational studies, and philosophy, this book contains essays that critically examine challenges that include the personal nature of artistic inquiry and the complexities of the partnership with social science that has dominated applied arts research.

Featuring exclusive interviews with key players such as Simon Pegg, Irvine Welsh, Michael Winterbottom and Edgar Wright, Britpop Cinema combines eyewitness accounts, close analysis and social history to celebrate a golden age for UK film.

With a focus on the most successful, cerebral and critically important films to have come out of Britain, this title explores the diversity of and genres found throughout British film, highlighting important regional variations that reflect the distinctive cultures of the countries involved.

Includes forty essays that are written in the artists' own voices and take the form of narratives, statements, and interviews.

Contemporary art practice has been marked by a renewed emphasis on both the moving image and the politics of place. This book identifies a recurrent concern with site and space in artists' film and video, extending from the avant-garde revivals of the 1960s. It provides an analysis of changing exhibition structures and readings of many works.

Addresses actor trainers' understanding of teaching within their practice by drawing upon history, literature, and in particular a study of leading drama schools in Australia and England. This title is suitable for acting teachers in drama schools, lecturers in universities and further education colleges.

Theatre and Performance in Small Nations features an array of case studies that examine the relationships between theatre, performance, identity and the nation.