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This book collects Daniel Asia's writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.
This book collects Daniel Asia’s writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.
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The Confucian Revival in Taiwan
Xu Fuguan and His Theory of Chinese Aesthetics
Xu Fuguan is a central representative of Modern Confucianism. This book focuses on his fundamental contributions to philosophy, particularly his reinterpretations of Confucian and Daoist aesthetics. It highlights the link between ethics and aesthetics in his innovative theories.
Xu Fuguan is a central representative of Modern Confucianism. This book focuses on his fundamental contributions to philosophy, particularly his reinterpretations of Confucian and Daoist aesthetics. It highlights the link between ethics and aesthetics in his innovative theories.
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Body, Space, and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing
Drawing Conversations II
This volume explores collective drawing through the crucial themes of body, space, and place. International artists, designers, and thinkers uncover exciting new contexts, relationships, and materials, redefining collaborative artistic practice.
This volume explores collective drawing through the crucial themes of body, space, and place. International artists, designers, and thinkers uncover exciting new contexts, relationships, and materials, redefining collaborative artistic practice.
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Sound Art and Music
Philosophy, Composition, Performance
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
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The Odyssey of Communism
Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture
This interdisciplinary volume explores how film has shaped culture and memory. From the Berlin Wall to China, it journeys from the terror of communist prisons to the rosy image of propaganda, arguing that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation.
This interdisciplinary volume explores how film has shaped culture and memory. From the Berlin Wall to China, it journeys from the terror of communist prisons to the rosy image of propaganda, arguing that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation.
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This collection of film profiles explores the relevance of twentieth-century films to literature and culture. The films are viewed as moves in mind, trading the look of things brought to presence by the shocking directness of eyesight.
This collection of film profiles explores the relevance of twentieth-century films to literature and culture. The films are viewed as moves in mind, trading the look of things brought to presence by the shocking directness of eyesight.
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Written by a materials engineer for the sculptor, this is a guide to modern materials like steel, plastics, and composites. It covers their strengths, limitations, shaping methods, tools, and safety, using case studies to illustrate processes and costs.
Written by a materials engineer for the sculptor, this is a guide to modern materials like steel, plastics, and composites. It covers their strengths, limitations, shaping methods, tools, and safety, using case studies to illustrate processes and costs.
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African cinema offers a unique opposition to the injustices of neoliberalism. It deftly analyzes the thread running through globalization and corporate greed that naturalizes a global caste system and generates a culture of permanent anxiety and precarity.
African cinema offers a unique opposition to the injustices of neoliberalism. It deftly analyzes the thread running through globalization and corporate greed that naturalizes a global caste system and generates a culture of permanent anxiety and precarity.
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Spiritual and Corporeal Selves in India
Approaches in a Global World
This volume explores the union of the corporeal and the spiritual in contemporary India. It offers clues to the East-West encounter and tackles the dualism of mind and body, suggesting a rupture of binary thinking, unlike in Western theory.
This volume explores the union of the corporeal and the spiritual in contemporary India. It offers clues to the East-West encounter and tackles the dualism of mind and body, suggesting a rupture of binary thinking, unlike in Western theory.
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J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Spirit Forms of Africa
Making the Connections
This book connects a Georgia sharecropper to a healer in Senegal, changing how we appreciate American folk arts. It traces both art and Islam through the African Diaspora, revealing why folk artists are vital carriers of knowledge and offering an insightful look at folk culture.
This book connects a Georgia sharecropper to a healer in Senegal, changing how we appreciate American folk arts. It traces both art and Islam through the African Diaspora, revealing why folk artists are vital carriers of knowledge and offering an insightful look at folk culture.
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The Fluid Frame in Cinema
Collected Essays
A passionate rendezvous with cinema. These essays offer a close reading of film that looks beyond the frame to its cultural and historical roots, reappraising Indian cinema, classic adaptations, and directors like Hitchcock and Kubrick through a contemporary critical gaze.
A passionate rendezvous with cinema. These essays offer a close reading of film that looks beyond the frame to its cultural and historical roots, reappraising Indian cinema, classic adaptations, and directors like Hitchcock and Kubrick through a contemporary critical gaze.
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Re-imagining African Identity in the Twenty-First Century
The Force of Intermediality
This book deconstructs the idea that African identity is based exclusively on ‘Blackness’. It argues for intermediality, a new way of thinking that embraces difference to envision a vibrant, cosmopolitan Africa open to people of all races and identities.
This book deconstructs the idea that African identity is based exclusively on ‘Blackness’. It argues for intermediality, a new way of thinking that embraces difference to envision a vibrant, cosmopolitan Africa open to people of all races and identities.
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Postsocialist Mobilities
Studies in Eastern European Cinema
Native scholars examine mobility in the cinema of the Visegrad countries and Romania, exploring political transition, social change, and transforming gender roles. These in-depth analyses are uniquely informed by the authors’ own “close-up” personal experiences of the phenomena.
Native scholars examine mobility in the cinema of the Visegrad countries and Romania, exploring political transition, social change, and transforming gender roles. These in-depth analyses are uniquely informed by the authors’ own “close-up” personal experiences of the phenomena.
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The Language of Art and Cultural Heritage
A Plurilingual and Digital Perspective
This book provides an up-to-date overview of digital linguistic resources and research methods to design effective communication strategies for art and cultural heritage. It offers innovative tools for curators, translators, researchers, and heritage management professionals.
This book provides an up-to-date overview of digital linguistic resources and research methods to design effective communication strategies for art and cultural heritage. It offers innovative tools for curators, translators, researchers, and heritage management professionals.
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Requests in Film Dialogue and Dubbing Translation
A Comparative Study of English and Italian
This is the first account of speech act pragmatics and (im)politeness in film conversation and dubbing, focusing on requests. It compares the features of requests in English and Italian film dialogue and reveals how their pragmatics travel across languages in translation.
This is the first account of speech act pragmatics and (im)politeness in film conversation and dubbing, focusing on requests. It compares the features of requests in English and Italian film dialogue and reveals how their pragmatics travel across languages in translation.
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Forms of Experienced Environments
Questioning Relations between Humans, Aesthetics, and Sciences
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
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Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare
The Thirasheela versus the Curtain
For lovers of the performing arts, especially Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala. This book uniquely compares Shakespearean plays and characters to the stories and characters in Kathakali, offering a completely new perspective.
For lovers of the performing arts, especially Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala. This book uniquely compares Shakespearean plays and characters to the stories and characters in Kathakali, offering a completely new perspective.
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This collection of essays explores the intersection of art and violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It will appeal to students, scholars, and readers with an interest in medieval and early modern art history.
This collection of essays explores the intersection of art and violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It will appeal to students, scholars, and readers with an interest in medieval and early modern art history.
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This edited volume analyses shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain.
This edited volume analyses shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain.
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Polish Theatre after the Fall of Communism
Dionysus since '89
In investigating how Polish theatre has changed since 1989 and the fall of Communism. Śmiechowicz highlights the creativity of Polish contemporary theatre, and details the major points of difference between it and the theatre traditions of many other European countries.
In investigating how Polish theatre has changed since 1989 and the fall of Communism. Śmiechowicz highlights the creativity of Polish contemporary theatre, and details the major points of difference between it and the theatre traditions of many other European countries.
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