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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print
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'The series publishes original, high-quality research in all areas relating to the history of the book, publishing and the book trade, copyright and cultural policy, reading practices, the circulation of print media, and digital and screen media and their wider impact. We have a special interest in studies of modern print cultures, in postcolonial and transnational contexts, and in intersections between book history/print culture studies and cultural/media studies.'  (Publication summary)

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y separately published work icon Reading by Numbers : Recalibrating the Literary Field Katherine Bode , New York (City) : Anthem Press , 2012 Z1874845 2012 single work criticism 'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from 'AustLit' - an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope - this study revises established conceptions of Australian literary history, presenting new ways of writing about literature and publishing and a new direction for digital humanities research. The case studies in this book offer insight into a wide range of features of the literary field, including trends and cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures.'
Source: Publisher's blurb
New York (City) : Anthem Press , 2012
y separately published work icon Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930–1970 : The Getting of Bookselling Wisdom Jason Ensor , London : Anthem Press , 2012 Z1907070 2012 single work criticism 'This book documents a distinctive chapter in the history of Australian book publishing as it addresses how the company dealt with the tension between aspirational literary nationalism and the requirements of turning a profit while attempting to get inside the UK literary market. As well as detailing Angus & Robertson's complete international relations, the book argues that the company's international business was a much larger, more successful and complicated business than has been acknowledged by previous scholars. It questions the ways in which Angus & Robertson replicated, challenged or transformed the often highly criticised commercial practices of British publishers in order to develop an export trade for Australian books in the United Kingdom.'
Source: Publisher's website http://www.anthempress.com/angus-and-robertson-and-the-british-trade-in-australian-books-1930-1970 (Sighted 12/12/2012)
London : Anthem Press , 2012
y separately published work icon Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity : Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments Robert Dixon , New York (City) : Anthem Press , 2013 8798837 2013 single work biography

'Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley became an international celebrity through his reporting of the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, the First and Second World Wars, the England-Australia air race of 1919, and his own expeditions to Papua in the 1920s. This book is an account of his stage and screen practice in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.

'Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity' is not a biography of Frank Hurley the man; it is instead an examination of the social life of the many marvellous and meaningful things he made as a professional photographer and film maker in the early twentieth century: the negatives, photographic prints, lantern slides, stereographs, films, diaries and newspaper articles. His stage and screen practices offer an insight into Australia's engagement with the romance and wonder of international modernity in the early years of the twentieth century. The level of description at which this volume works is not that of personality or the originary events of Hurley's life - the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, and the First and Second World Wars - but the media events he worked so hard and so professionally to create. He called them his 'synchronized lecture entertainments'.

'These media events were at once national and international; they involved Hurley in an entire culture industry comprising many kinds of personnel, practices and texts that were constantly in movement along global lines of travel and communication, and in a variety of institutional locations around the world. This raises complex questions both about the authorship of Hurley's photographic and filmic texts - which were often produced and presented by other people - and about their ontology, since they were in a more or less constant state of re-assemblage in response to changing market opportunities. This unique study re-imagines, from inside the quiet and stillness of the archive, the prior social life of Hurley's creations as they were once accelerated through the complicated topography of the early twentieth century's rapidly internationalizing mass media landscape. As a way to conceive of that space and the social life of the people and things within it, this study uses the concept of 'colonial modernity'.' (Publication summary)

New York (City) : Anthem Press , 2013

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