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Organisational Expertise in Hollywood: How the Government, Social Movements, and Think Tanks Consult TV and Film Makers
Existing studies show that when Hollywood professionals develop and produce films and television series, they consult experts in social and political...
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Refuge: Social Science Insights into the Practice of Refugee Integration: Introduction
The welcome culture of 2015 in Germany has, not least due to the (re)definition of safe countries of origin, turned into a deportation policy. How...
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Sociological Film: A Medium to Promote Sociological Imagination
This paper examines the idea of sociological film that encourages sociological imagination, which refers to the capability to recognize the...
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Chihera in Film: The Subversion of Patriarchal and Customary Laws of Inheritance as Depicted in the Zimbabwean Feature Film Neria (1991)
In Zimbabwe, the notion of “Chihera” conjures up an image of a “super” woman who is “fearless,” “stubborn and arrogant,” “self-assertive,”...
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Doing film geography
Film geography as a subdiscipline of cultural and media geography is a long-established field of research that since its emergence more than twenty...
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Film Making as a Creative Ecosystem: The Case of Soho in London
The aim of this chapter is to explore the location and processes of film making as interrelated issues and specifically to characterise this as an...
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Social Media as Tool and Hindrance
This chapter looks more closely at the area of social media, considering how it has been both a tool and a hindrance to the body size activism...
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Film as a pedagogical tool for geography during the pandemic induced virtual classes
Film has always been an important medium to disseminate social issues through imageries and imaginaries. The present paper examines the importance of...
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Conspiracy Narratives as a Type of Social Myth
It has long been recognized that conspiracy narratives may be seen as a special kind of myth. In most cases, however, this is taken as a sign of...
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Axionormativity as a Practice
In the previous chapter, we presented the main assumptions of our research, recalled Florian Znaniecki’s concept of axionormativity, and described...
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Applying the Urban Scene as Community Practice Approach in the Field
The chapter is based on extensive fieldwork carried out in three Polish cities and serves as an exemplification of the application of the approach...
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Towards a Practice-orientated Digital Sociology
Examining how digital maps feature in people’s everyday lives and its relation to wider set of social consequences requires an appropriate framework....
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Bristol’s Film and Television Industries: An Incremental Ecosystem
This chapter explores the growth and characteristics of Bristol’s screen industries, which consist principally of television production companies and...
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Social Bond and Social Self
Modern Clinical Social Research bridges the gap between the psychological and macro-medium sociological and economic approaches to contemporary...
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Urban Scenes as Community Practices
In this chapter, a new praxeological, relational and cultural approach to the analysis of communal phenomena in contemporary cities is developed and...
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The Importance of Embodied (Panic) Listening in Film as an Audiovisual Composition
This chapter focusses on the importance of embodied listening in film as an audiovisual composition. In two case studies (Gerry by Gus Van Sant and...
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The Media and Social Problems
Social problems are constituted as global in scope with the help of the media. In recent years, crises such as those of refugees from war and...
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Looking at China from Abroad: intermediality as a tool for documentary
In 2020, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, travel to China and around the world was mostly suspended. In the face of such restrictions, the ‘Looking...
