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Heimat Goes Mobile
Hybrid Forms of Home in Literature and Film
The German concept of Heimat—a feeling of home and belonging—is evolving in a globalized world. This collection of essays explores new, hybrid forms of Heimat in film, literature, and culture, showing how the notion now transcends boundaries of nation and race.
The German concept of Heimat—a feeling of home and belonging—is evolving in a globalized world. This collection of essays explores new, hybrid forms of Heimat in film, literature, and culture, showing how the notion now transcends boundaries of nation and race.
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Transmission Image
Visual Translation and Cultural Agency
A challenging survey of the debate about visual culture from a global perspective. This volume proposes a truly global outlook, with scholarly perspectives from around the world, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and their impact.
A challenging survey of the debate about visual culture from a global perspective. This volume proposes a truly global outlook, with scholarly perspectives from around the world, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and their impact.
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Belonging and Exclusion
Case Studies in Recent Australian and German Literature, Film and Theatre
This is the first cross-cultural analysis of how belonging and exclusion are represented in literature, film and theatre in the context of migration in Australia and Germany. The focus on artistic works offers unique snapshots of these processes.
This is the first cross-cultural analysis of how belonging and exclusion are represented in literature, film and theatre in the context of migration in Australia and Germany. The focus on artistic works offers unique snapshots of these processes.
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Cultural Studies Approaches in the Study of Eastern European Cinema
Spaces, Bodies, Memories
The “spatial”, the “bodily” and the “memory turn” define this collection’s structure, made of an overview study and 12 case-studies of post-1989 Eastern European film and cinema. Concepts like space representation and construction are explored through national cinemas and films.
The “spatial”, the “bodily” and the “memory turn” define this collection’s structure, made of an overview study and 12 case-studies of post-1989 Eastern European film and cinema. Concepts like space representation and construction are explored through national cinemas and films.
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Thinking Colours
Perception, Translation and Representation
These essays explore the interaction between sensation, perception, and the cultural representation of colour. This volume shows that the interpretation of colour is emotional and varies by culture, making it a strong semiotic resource for communicating meaning.
These essays explore the interaction between sensation, perception, and the cultural representation of colour. This volume shows that the interpretation of colour is emotional and varies by culture, making it a strong semiotic resource for communicating meaning.
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This anthology discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas on how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts.
This anthology discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas on how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts.
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This collection of essays explores television's state of flux. It examines how news packages the 'real,' how reality styles have influenced dramas like CSI, and how shows like Big Brother have created a culture of performance and surveillance.
This collection of essays explores television’s state of flux. It examines how news packages the ‘real,’ how reality styles have influenced dramas like CSI, and how shows like Big Brother have created a culture of performance and surveillance.
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Performing Arun Sarma
Theatricality, Transgression, Transformation
This collection of essays on the life and works of renowned Assamese litterateur Arun Sarma pushes his legacy beyond linguistic and geographical barriers, generating a vibrant community of literary enthusiasts and a new body of knowledge on the theatre of Assam.
This collection of essays on the life and works of renowned Assamese litterateur Arun Sarma pushes his legacy beyond linguistic and geographical barriers, generating a vibrant community of literary enthusiasts and a new body of knowledge on the theatre of Assam.
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Seeing Whole
Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
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While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.
While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.
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This collection explores the intersection of cultural productions and politics in Latin America and Spain. Scholars explore class, identity, and transgression in literature, photography, and film, challenging hegemonic power from medieval times to the present.
This collection explores the intersection of cultural productions and politics in Latin America and Spain. Scholars explore class, identity, and transgression in literature, photography, and film, challenging hegemonic power from medieval times to the present.
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Han investigates how films have constructed the identity of ethnic Chinese in the United States, through a survey of selected films from the 1990s and 2000s produced in the USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.
Han investigates how films have constructed the identity of ethnic Chinese in the United States, through a survey of selected films from the 1990s and 2000s produced in the USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.
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How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.
How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.
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I Want to Change My Life
Can Reality TV Competition Shows Trigger Lasting Career Success?
Talent shows claim to give ordinary people extraordinary opportunities. But do they deliver? This book shows that few contestants achieve lasting success, revealing that television picks its own stars for a good backstory as much as for their talent.
Talent shows claim to give ordinary people extraordinary opportunities. But do they deliver? This book shows that few contestants achieve lasting success, revealing that television picks its own stars for a good backstory as much as for their talent.
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Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series
An Intercultural Analysis
This book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. It challenges the rhetoric of “normalisation” and represents a major contribution to these fields in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.
This book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. It challenges the rhetoric of “normalisation” and represents a major contribution to these fields in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.
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This monograph brings forth the voice of Bambui, one of the smallest kingdoms in the western Grassfields of Cameroon, through the presentation of its historical arts and culture, and the changes that have taken, and continue to take place, in its society.
This monograph brings forth the voice of Bambui, one of the smallest kingdoms in the western Grassfields of Cameroon, through the presentation of its historical arts and culture, and the changes that have taken, and continue to take place, in its society.
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Hashas introduces White’s geopoetics as a radical, postmodern and intercultural project that reclaims the return to communication with the earth, nature, and the self as part of a cosmic unity approach. He traces geopoetics’ beginnings, key concepts, territories and trajectories.
Hashas introduces White’s geopoetics as a radical, postmodern and intercultural project that reclaims the return to communication with the earth, nature, and the self as part of a cosmic unity approach. He traces geopoetics’ beginnings, key concepts, territories and trajectories.
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Sensi/able Spaces
Space, Art and the Environment Proceedings of the SPARTEN conference, Reykjavík, June 1st and 2nd, 2006
SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of "sensible" spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the "sensable"—what we perceive through our senses.
SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of “sensible” spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the “sensable”—what we perceive through our senses.
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Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch
Thinking about Television's Mad Men (Second Edition)
This collection of essays explores the popular AMC series Mad Men. It analyzes the seductive world of 1960s Madison Avenue advertising, interrogating identity, nostalgia, and the compelling relationships between characters. For fans, students, and educators.
This collection of essays explores the popular AMC series Mad Men. It analyzes the seductive world of 1960s Madison Avenue advertising, interrogating identity, nostalgia, and the compelling relationships between characters. For fans, students, and educators.
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“Survivor” – Representations of the “New Irish”
Dúchas Dóchasach
This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.
This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.
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