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Beyond observation: A history of authorship in ethnographic film
This book is the first extensive historical account and analysis of ethnographic film from the birth of cinema in 1895 until 2015.
Exposed: Living with scandal, rumour, and gossip
How does the experience of being the protagonist in a media scandal affect a person’s everyday life?
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal
Progress and pathology
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century.
With case studies from Britain, America , France , Germany, Finland, Bengal , China and the South Pacific, it demonstrates how popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were reframed by the social, cultural and political structures of ‘modern life ’.