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Aerial Visibilities: Towards a Visual Sociology of the Sky

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High-rise urban density in Macau
Dennis Zuev
Page: 401
Published online: 25 Jan 2021
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Aerial visibilities: towards a visual sociology of the sky
Gary Bratchford & Dennis Zuev
Pages: 402-416
Published online: 25 Jan 2021
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Thinking with the drone – visual lessons in aerial and volumetric thinking
Ole B. Jensen
Pages: 417-428
Published online: 30 Nov 2020
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Vertical vision and atmocultural navigation. Notes on emerging urban scopic regimes
Andrea Mubi Brighenti & Andrea Pavoni
Pages: 429-441
Published online: 11 Dec 2020
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The citizen drone: protest, sousveillance and droneviewing
Dennis Zuev & Gary Bratchford
Pages: 442-456
Published online: 27 Nov 2020
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Being vertical: staging the vertical subject on the Manchester Salford border
Jane Brake & John van Aitken
Pages: 457-464
Published online: 27 Nov 2020
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Who owns the sky? Aerial resistance and the state/corporate no-fly zone
Hagit Keysar
Pages: 465-477
Published online: 24 Nov 2020
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Of cable-cars and helicopters: mobility regimes and the politics of visibility in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Bianca Freire-Medeiros, LIA de MATTOS ROCHA, Juliana Farias & Leo Name
Pages: 478-488
Published online: 12 Nov 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and archival film practices
by Catherine Russell Durham: Duke University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-8223-7057-4 (paperback) Price: $26.95/ ISBN: 978-0-8223-7045-1 (Cloth) Price: $99.95
Paul Long
Pages: 489-490
Published online: 30 Sep 2019
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What does it mean to be post-Soviet? Decolonial art from the ruins of the Soviet empire
by Madina Tlostanova Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 160 pages ISBN: 9780822371274 (paperback) Price: $23.95
Martha Coe
Pages: 490-492
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Photography in India: from archives to contemporary practice
by Aileen Blaney and Chinar ShahLondon/New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 256 pages ISBN: 9781350027886 (hardback), Price: £85.00
Manila Castoro
Pages: 492-494
Published online: 30 Sep 2019
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Portraiture and early studio photography in China and Japan
edited by Luke Gartlan and Roberta Wue Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2017, 252 pages ISBN: 978-1-4721-8438-3 (hardback) Price £115.00
Caroline Molloy
Pages: 494-495
Published online: 11 Nov 2019
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Graphic assembly: montage, media and experimental architecture in the 1960s
by Craig Buckley Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 390 pages ISBN: 978-1-5179-0161-5 (hardback) Price: $34.95
Carla Molinari
Pages: 495-496
Published online: 30 Sep 2019
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Review of Paik’s virtual archive: time, change, and materiality in media art
by Hanna B. Hölling Oakland, CA: U of California P, 2017, 264 pages ISBN 978-0520-28890-4 (hardcover) Price: $65
Daniel Keyes
Pages: 496-498
Published online: 01 Oct 2019
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The universal machine
by Fred Moten Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, 312 pagesISBN: 978-0-8223-7055-0 (paperback) Price: $27.95
Jorge de La Barre
Pages: 498-499
Published online: 30 Sep 2019
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The end of Japanese cinema: industrial genres, national times, and media ecologies
by Alexander Zahlten Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017, 305 pages ISBN: 978-0-8223-6944-8 (paperback) Price: $27.95
James Rendell
Pages: 499-500
Published online: 30 Sep 2019
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Book Review

Book Review
Hollywood by Hollywood: the backstudio picture and the mystique of making movies
by Steve Cohan New York: OUP, 2019, 270 pages ISBN: 978-0-19-086577-1 (paperback) Price: £22.99
Shannon Wells-Lassagne
Pages: 500-501
Published online: 30 Sep 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Transitional aesthetics: contemporary art at the edge of Europe
by Uroš Čvoro London: Bloomsbury, 2018, 184 pages ISBN: 978-3500-5341-0 (hardback) Price: £85.00
Gianlluca Simi
Pages: 501-503
Published online: 01 Oct 2019
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Mapping modernisms: arts, indigeneity, colonialism
edited by Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. PhillipsDurham and London: Duke University Press, 2018, 432 pages ISBN: 978-0-8223-6871-7 (paperback) Price: $29.95
Natalie Ilsley
Pages: 503-504
Published online: 30 Sep 2019
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August Strindberg and visual culture: the emergence of optical modernity in image, text and theatre
by Jonathan Schroeder, Anna Westerstahl Stenport and Eszter SzalczerNew York: Bloomsbury, 2019, 224 Pages ISBN: 978-1-5013-3800-7 (hardback) Price: £103.68
Tim Butler Garrett
Pages: 504-505
Published online: 15 Oct 2019
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Constructing Imperial Berlin: photography and the metropolis
by Miriam Paeslack Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 191 pages ISBN: 978-1-5179-0295-7 (paperback) Price: $30.00
Fabian Broeker
Pages: 505-506
Published online: 01 Oct 2019
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Coal cultures: picturing mining landscapes and communities
by Derrick Price London: Bloomsbury, 2019, 196 pages ISBN: 978-1-3500-3783-0 (hardback) Price: $91.80
Kate Sherren
Pages: 506-507
Published online: 14 Jan 2020
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What are exhibitions for? An anthropological approach
by Inge Daniels with photography by Susan Andrews London: Bloomsbury, 2019, 231 pages ISBN: 978-1-350-06539-0 (paperback) Price: $35.96
Patricia Prieto-Blanco
Pages: 508-509
Published online: 23 Jan 2020
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