Books in the The Key Concepts series

Explores the power of scientific ideas, their impact on how we understand the natural world and how successive technological developments have influenced our attitudes to work, art, space, language and the human body.

Our changing understanding of the body challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. This title highlights and analyses the debates which make the body central to sociological, psychological, cultural and feminist thinking.

Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography, this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography.

Presents an overview of evolution of film theory. This book takes you through the often conflicting analysis which make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples from mainstream and independent films. It guides you through realism, formalism, structuralism, semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, cognitivism, and post-colonialism.

Fashion is everywhere. It is one of the main ways in which we present ourselves to others, signaling what we want to communicate about our sexuality, wealth, professionalism, subcultural and political allegiances, social status, even our mood. This title presents an introduction to the complex world of fashion.

Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. This book addresses six key concepts that are pivotal for understanding the impact of new media on contemporary society and culture: information, network, interface, interactivity, archive and simulation. Each concept is considered through a range of examples.