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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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Being and Film
A Fictive Ontology of Film in Tarkovsky’s Solaris
This book develops a “solaristic ontology” of film—a philosophical system based on Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi movie Solaris. It explores the nature of film, being, and reality, building on film philosophy and the speculative turn in contemporary philosophy.
This book develops a “solaristic ontology” of film—a philosophical system based on Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi movie Solaris. It explores the nature of film, being, and reality, building on film philosophy and the speculative turn in contemporary philosophy.
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The Future of Text and Image
Collected Essays on Literary and Visual Conjunctures
This volume explores the evolving relationship between text and image in literature. Scholars examine this dynamic across diverse forms—from novels and poetry to collage books and digital poetry—reflecting the significance of the visual in today’s image culture.
This volume explores the evolving relationship between text and image in literature. Scholars examine this dynamic across diverse forms—from novels and poetry to collage books and digital poetry—reflecting the significance of the visual in today’s image culture.
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This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.
This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.
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Photographs of Interpreters
In Search of Lost Lives
This book rescues photographs of interpreters: from diplomats trusted by Nixon to indigenous guides making first contact in the Amazon. Each image is analyzed as a performance, a moment expressing geopolitical power, and an act of salvaging lives lost in the sea of history.
This book rescues photographs of interpreters: from diplomats trusted by Nixon to indigenous guides making first contact in the Amazon. Each image is analyzed as a performance, a moment expressing geopolitical power, and an act of salvaging lives lost in the sea of history.
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Holocaust Film
The Political Aesthetics of Ideology
Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.
Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.
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A philosopher and artist analyzes the clash between government funding and censorship. Combining philosophical analysis with interviews with censored artists, this book reveals why freedom of expression is vital for a society to be both stimulating and safe.
A philosopher and artist analyzes the clash between government funding and censorship. Combining philosophical analysis with interviews with censored artists, this book reveals why freedom of expression is vital for a society to be both stimulating and safe.
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Shakespeare Meets the Indian Epics
Comparative Themes and Interpretations
This book examines the day-to-day themes in the epics The Ramayanam and The Maha Bharatham and in Shakespeare’s plays. It reveals that writers 6,000 miles and centuries apart have much in common, showing how people, whatever their background, tackle life in similar ways.
This book examines the day-to-day themes in the epics The Ramayanam and The Maha Bharatham and in Shakespeare’s plays. It reveals that writers 6,000 miles and centuries apart have much in common, showing how people, whatever their background, tackle life in similar ways.
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Anti-Tales
The Uses of Disenchantment
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
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Affinities—that nagging sense of familiarity in art—offer a key to how artists work. This book shows how affinity can be a hidden influence, a route to creativity, a shared heritage, or the first step in a lawsuit when it is confused with plagiarism.
Affinities—that nagging sense of familiarity in art—offer a key to how artists work. This book shows how affinity can be a hidden influence, a route to creativity, a shared heritage, or the first step in a lawsuit when it is confused with plagiarism.
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Agnolo Bronzino
Medici Court Artist in Context
An international assembly of scholars advances modern perceptions of Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino. This volume applies fresh research not only to his well-known portraits, but also to frescoes and tapestries, addressing nudity, sexuality, and satire.
An international assembly of scholars advances modern perceptions of Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino. This volume applies fresh research not only to his well-known portraits, but also to frescoes and tapestries, addressing nudity, sexuality, and satire.
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John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years
Keeping the Fires of Figurative Art Burning
Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate's first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.
Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate’s first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.
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Social Realism
Art, Nationhood and Politics
This book presents a radical reappraisal of British social realism, arguing it is a distinctive art cinema. Through analysis of key figures from Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to Andrea Arnold, it reassesses this most British of cinematic traditions.
This book presents a radical reappraisal of British social realism, arguing it is a distinctive art cinema. Through analysis of key figures from Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to Andrea Arnold, it reassesses this most British of cinematic traditions.
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Cinema and Evil
Moral Complexities and the “Dangerous” Film
This book explores films that address the problem of evil, drawing on thinkers from Manicheanism to Arendt. It considers how filmmakers like Fritz Lang and Michael Haneke use “dangerous” films to task us with considering evil as our own responsibility.
This book explores films that address the problem of evil, drawing on thinkers from Manicheanism to Arendt. It considers how filmmakers like Fritz Lang and Michael Haneke use “dangerous” films to task us with considering evil as our own responsibility.
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Critical Method and Contemporary Film
Reviewing the Reviewers
This volume investigates what film critics do and what ideologies inform their evaluations. It traces changes in critical methodologies, arguing for the emergence of neofuturism over postmodernism, and asks: Who evaluates film, why, and does the system need to change?
This volume investigates what film critics do and what ideologies inform their evaluations. It traces changes in critical methodologies, arguing for the emergence of neofuturism over postmodernism, and asks: Who evaluates film, why, and does the system need to change?
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New Approaches to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Proceedings of the First Olympia-Seminar 8th-10th May 2014
This volume explores the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the largest in mainland Greece. International experts from many fields offer new perspectives on its architecture, sculptural decoration, and the cult of Zeus, bridging classical studies with new digital technologies.
This volume explores the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the largest in mainland Greece. International experts from many fields offer new perspectives on its architecture, sculptural decoration, and the cult of Zeus, bridging classical studies with new digital technologies.
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This volume explores the gendered subaltern’s struggle against multiple levels of marginalization. Through theatrical interventions, it underscores how the body becomes a site of identity, oppression and resistance, and interrogates notions of family, society and identity.
This volume explores the gendered subaltern’s struggle against multiple levels of marginalization. Through theatrical interventions, it underscores how the body becomes a site of identity, oppression and resistance, and interrogates notions of family, society and identity.
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José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho
A Mexican American Novel and Its Tragic Plot
This blend of biography, history, and literary criticism analyzes José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative, semi-autobiographical novel, *Pocho*. Its hero is Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth of Indigenous and Mexican heritage whose appearance casts him as a social outsider.
This blend of biography, history, and literary criticism analyzes José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative, semi-autobiographical novel, *Pocho*. Its hero is Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth of Indigenous and Mexican heritage whose appearance casts him as a social outsider.
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This book studies how myths construct community identity, focusing on the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh. A comparative postcolonial analysis, it delves into how these major authors from Nigeria and India use myth to represent the cultural mores of their societies.
This book studies how myths construct community identity, focusing on the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh. A comparative postcolonial analysis, it delves into how these major authors from Nigeria and India use myth to represent the cultural mores of their societies.
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This book unmasks the legend of Leonardo da Vinci. Rediscovered documents show the artist was two different men: a Tuscan painter and an Ottoman agent. Crucially, a document proves the painter died in 1499, revealing the true artist of the Mona Lisa: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.
This book unmasks the legend of Leonardo da Vinci. Rediscovered documents show the artist was two different men: a Tuscan painter and an Ottoman agent. Crucially, a document proves the painter died in 1499, revealing the true artist of the Mona Lisa: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.
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