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Design for Visual Communication
Challenges and Priorities
Based on ideas discussed within the framework of the 2016 International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC), this anthology investigates both current and future challenges and priorities in the field of design for visual communication.
Based on ideas discussed within the framework of the 2016 International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC), this anthology investigates both current and future challenges and priorities in the field of design for visual communication.
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Mnemodrama in Action
An Introduction to the Theatre of Alessandro Fersen
Mnemodrama, or a “drama of memory”, is a technique of actor training borne out of experiments conducted by the Italian theatre maker Alessandro Fersen in his studio laboratory in Rome between 1957 and 1983. This work is an introduction to its theory and practice.
Mnemodrama, or a “drama of memory”, is a technique of actor training borne out of experiments conducted by the Italian theatre maker Alessandro Fersen in his studio laboratory in Rome between 1957 and 1983. This work is an introduction to its theory and practice.
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Living as we do in a world marked by an ‘age apartheid’, films remain the most accessible form of information regarding getting older for the general public. Using current gerontological theory, this volume provides insight into the accuracy of cinematic representations of aging.
Living as we do in a world marked by an ‘age apartheid’, films remain the most accessible form of information regarding getting older for the general public. Using current gerontological theory, this volume provides insight into the accuracy of cinematic representations of aging.
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An insightful exploration of sensation and synaesthesia in film and new media. These essays examine how cinematic experiences create immersive environments that stimulate our senses and mind, from perception and movement to olfaction, abstract cinema, and interactive art.
An insightful exploration of sensation and synaesthesia in film and new media. These essays examine how cinematic experiences create immersive environments that stimulate our senses and mind, from perception and movement to olfaction, abstract cinema, and interactive art.
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While ancient objects from Northern Europe are usually seen as historical documents, many should be regarded as works of fine art. This book encourages readers to appreciate Bronze Age and early Medieval artefacts as they do works by well-known contemporary artists.
While ancient objects from Northern Europe are usually seen as historical documents, many should be regarded as works of fine art. This book encourages readers to appreciate Bronze Age and early Medieval artefacts as they do works by well-known contemporary artists.
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Memory, Place and Autobiography
Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking
In autobiographical film, the filmmaker—as maker and subject—acts as a cultural guide. This book explores how memory is evoked through hybrid strategies like fictional enactment, and charts the history of British independent filmmaking from the 1970s to the age of new media.
In autobiographical film, the filmmaker—as maker and subject—acts as a cultural guide. This book explores how memory is evoked through hybrid strategies like fictional enactment, and charts the history of British independent filmmaking from the 1970s to the age of new media.
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Photography as Power
Dominance and Resistance through the Italian Lens
This book explores the relationship between photography and power in Italian history. It examines how photography has been used as an instrument of dominance—from war propaganda to fascism—and as a critical medium to resist hegemonic discourses and create counter-narratives.
This book explores the relationship between photography and power in Italian history. It examines how photography has been used as an instrument of dominance—from war propaganda to fascism—and as a critical medium to resist hegemonic discourses and create counter-narratives.
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This book explores Wilde’s ideas on the relation of Art to Life, examining The Importance of Being Earnest to discover whether its elegant artificiality aligns with his theories on beauty. It also considers the consequence of his assault on Victorian values.
This book explores Wilde’s ideas on the relation of Art to Life, examining The Importance of Being Earnest to discover whether its elegant artificiality aligns with his theories on beauty. It also considers the consequence of his assault on Victorian values.
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This book provides an overview of the politics of urbanism for Syrian immigrants in Turkey. Based on a field survey, it analyses the cultural meaning of individual life, belonging, and nostalgic identity, providing a sociological and ontological reading of the image.
This book provides an overview of the politics of urbanism for Syrian immigrants in Turkey. Based on a field survey, it analyses the cultural meaning of individual life, belonging, and nostalgic identity, providing a sociological and ontological reading of the image.
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On Ibsen and Strindberg
The Reversed Telescope
This unique study views Ibsen and Strindberg through a reversed telescope. From this distant perspective, their intense rivalry and the legendary actors who first performed their work are revealed in a paradoxical, illuminating new light.
This unique study views Ibsen and Strindberg through a reversed telescope. From this distant perspective, their intense rivalry and the legendary actors who first performed their work are revealed in a paradoxical, illuminating new light.
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Abstraction Matters
Contemporary Sculptors in Their Own Words
This collection of essays presents eminent sculptors of the 20th century through their “own words.” Focusing on the rich theoretical discourse of abstraction, contributors analyze the artists through the key-notions of “Sensation,” “Idea,” and “Language.”
This collection of essays presents eminent sculptors of the 20th century through their “own words.” Focusing on the rich theoretical discourse of abstraction, contributors analyze the artists through the key-notions of “Sensation,” “Idea,” and “Language.”
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This anthology offers readers a greater appreciation of the thought-provoking, informative and compelling subject of the human senses and related sensuous trajectories. It will be of particular value to those interested in aesthetics and the arts.
This anthology offers readers a greater appreciation of the thought-provoking, informative and compelling subject of the human senses and related sensuous trajectories. It will be of particular value to those interested in aesthetics and the arts.
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A Study of Authorial Illustration
The Magic Window
This book analyses the practice of authors illustrating their own works. Combining theoretical aspects with commentaries on specific illustrations, it provides academics and students with an enjoyable, scholarly introduction to this thriving field of research.
This book analyses the practice of authors illustrating their own works. Combining theoretical aspects with commentaries on specific illustrations, it provides academics and students with an enjoyable, scholarly introduction to this thriving field of research.
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Botanical Speculations
Plants in Contemporary Art
This conference proceedings brings together researchers, artists, art historians, and activists to collaboratively map the uncharted territories of new forms of botanical knowledge, and to capitalize on contemporary art’s ability to productively unhinge scientific theories.
This conference proceedings brings together researchers, artists, art historians, and activists to collaboratively map the uncharted territories of new forms of botanical knowledge, and to capitalize on contemporary art’s ability to productively unhinge scientific theories.
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This academic study analyzes suspense in Stephen King’s novels The Shining and Carrie and their film adaptations. It compares techniques for achieving suspense in literature versus cinema and provides a model that can be used for analyzing other literary or cinematic works.
This academic study analyzes suspense in Stephen King’s novels The Shining and Carrie and their film adaptations. It compares techniques for achieving suspense in literature versus cinema and provides a model that can be used for analyzing other literary or cinematic works.
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Underwater Worlds
Submerged Visions in Science and Culture
This anthology throws open a new area in the emerging field of “blue” environmental humanities by exploring how subaqueous environments have been imagined and represented across cultures and media.
This anthology throws open a new area in the emerging field of “blue” environmental humanities by exploring how subaqueous environments have been imagined and represented across cultures and media.
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Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema
The Allegory of the Motionless Traveler
This book reflects upon the crisis and recovery of utopia, from classic Greece to the neoliberal era in Latin America. Using decolonialist theory, it contributes a new model of analysis for Latin American cinema: “the allegory of the motionless traveler.”
This book reflects upon the crisis and recovery of utopia, from classic Greece to the neoliberal era in Latin America. Using decolonialist theory, it contributes a new model of analysis for Latin American cinema: “the allegory of the motionless traveler.”
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The Language of the Arts and Literature
An English-Romanian and Romanian-English Dictionary
This dictionary brings into contact two cultures, namely English and Romanian, by facilitating communication in the fields of visual and performing arts and literature. It will help translators, interpreters and students to communicate better in both English and Romanian.
This dictionary brings into contact two cultures, namely English and Romanian, by facilitating communication in the fields of visual and performing arts and literature. It will help translators, interpreters and students to communicate better in both English and Romanian.
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Pavlou offers a significant and original contribution to studies on D. W. Griffith and film, through a systematic analysis of the director’s chase scenes, which create suspense and resolution in his films.
Pavlou offers a significant and original contribution to studies on D. W. Griffith and film, through a systematic analysis of the director’s chase scenes, which create suspense and resolution in his films.
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Combs focuses on “cinematic knowing” as an expression of ludenic experience, and considers how this way of seeing has expanded our visual acuity and experience, including not only hindsight and foresight, but also insight and indeed even “blindsight”.
Combs focuses on “cinematic knowing” as an expression of ludenic experience, and considers how this way of seeing has expanded our visual acuity and experience, including not only hindsight and foresight, but also insight and indeed even “blindsight”.
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