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How Pictures Tell Stories
Essays on Pictorial Narrativity
Storytelling is often associated with words, but pictures tell stories too. This book bridges the gap between language-oriented narratology and art history, examining the narrative aspects of pictures from a cognitive and semiotic point of view.
Storytelling is often associated with words, but pictures tell stories too. This book bridges the gap between language-oriented narratology and art history, examining the narrative aspects of pictures from a cognitive and semiotic point of view.
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The Future of the Creative Industries
A Global Perspective
The creative industries are crucial to the future of culture and national wealth. This collection of papers from researchers and industrialists explores the role of design, covering applied art, fashion and textiles, the built environment, and spatial design.
The creative industries are crucial to the future of culture and national wealth. This collection of papers from researchers and industrialists explores the role of design, covering applied art, fashion and textiles, the built environment, and spatial design.
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Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory
The Spectrum of Absence
This book reflects on Argentinean cinema's role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.
This book reflects on Argentinean cinema’s role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.
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Recent Studies on the Image of Edessa
Iconography, History and Theology
This volume presents the latest historical and theological developments in the study of the Image of Edessa. International experts bring their findings together to shed new light on the icon and reach a deeper understanding of this fascinating object.
This volume presents the latest historical and theological developments in the study of the Image of Edessa. International experts bring their findings together to shed new light on the icon and reach a deeper understanding of this fascinating object.
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An inner journey on the path of Japanese calligraphy, this book uniquely combines theory with practice. It rediscovers the creative synergy of handwriting in the digital age, revealing a contemplative act of writing by painting and painting by writing.
An inner journey on the path of Japanese calligraphy, this book uniquely combines theory with practice. It rediscovers the creative synergy of handwriting in the digital age, revealing a contemplative act of writing by painting and painting by writing.
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This book presents writings on Heinz-Uwe Haus's productions of Brecht and ancient Greek drama in Cyprus and Greece, beginning with his 1975 launch of the Cyprus National Theatre. It includes reviews, academic articles, and reflections by Haus, cast members, and designers.
This book presents writings on Heinz-Uwe Haus’s productions of Brecht and ancient Greek drama in Cyprus and Greece, beginning with his 1975 launch of the Cyprus National Theatre. It includes reviews, academic articles, and reflections by Haus, cast members, and designers.
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This book shows how theatre and media can negotiate the contradictions threatening Nigeria’s unity. It provides statesmen and policy makers with alternative methods for nation-building, offering models from the global South applicable to similar global settings.
This book shows how theatre and media can negotiate the contradictions threatening Nigeria’s unity. It provides statesmen and policy makers with alternative methods for nation-building, offering models from the global South applicable to similar global settings.
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Narrative Rewritings and Artistic Praxis in Derek Walcott’s Works
Caribbean Decolonisations
This book moves beyond Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning poetry to reveal his fundamental contribution to Caribbean theatre and art. Examining key works as postcolonial re-writings of European stories, it uncovers the strategies Walcott used to respond to colonial power.
This book moves beyond Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning poetry to reveal his fundamental contribution to Caribbean theatre and art. Examining key works as postcolonial re-writings of European stories, it uncovers the strategies Walcott used to respond to colonial power.
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A Holistic Approach to Ceramic Sculpture
Its History, Theory, and Materiality
This book offers a holistic view of ceramic art—its history, theory, and materiality. Focusing on the structures behind forms and colors, it is an essential resource where students and artists can find inspiration, complete with images and descriptions of distinguished works.
This book offers a holistic view of ceramic art—its history, theory, and materiality. Focusing on the structures behind forms and colors, it is an essential resource where students and artists can find inspiration, complete with images and descriptions of distinguished works.
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Caribbean Men in the Arts
Demystifying Masculinities with Essays, Interviews, Poetry and Stories
This collection explores the emotional and artistic landscape of Caribbean men who carve out a place for themselves in the visual and performance arts. The pieces demonstrate them forging more varied and wholesome masculinities, thriving in spaces without violence or exclusion.
This collection explores the emotional and artistic landscape of Caribbean men who carve out a place for themselves in the visual and performance arts. The pieces demonstrate them forging more varied and wholesome masculinities, thriving in spaces without violence or exclusion.
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This is the first book to contextualize the collaborations between museums and public art through a range of essays marked by their coherence of topical focus, written by leading and emerging scholars and artists, and represents a major contribution to the field of art history.
This is the first book to contextualize the collaborations between museums and public art through a range of essays marked by their coherence of topical focus, written by leading and emerging scholars and artists, and represents a major contribution to the field of art history.
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Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable
The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman
Monsters have always represented what we fear in the Other. But today, they reveal what we fear in ourselves—what we're capable of. These essays explore the monstrous in film, literature, and myth to understand not just who we are, but who we might become.
Monsters have always represented what we fear in the Other. But today, they reveal what we fear in ourselves—what we’re capable of. These essays explore the monstrous in film, literature, and myth to understand not just who we are, but who we might become.
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This book uses a database of over 1,800 vessels to identify patterns in Paestan red-figure pottery. By analysing vessel shapes, popular scenes, and consumer preferences, it provides new insights into how ancient populations of South-West Italy commemorated the dead.
This book uses a database of over 1,800 vessels to identify patterns in Paestan red-figure pottery. By analysing vessel shapes, popular scenes, and consumer preferences, it provides new insights into how ancient populations of South-West Italy commemorated the dead.
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The Cinematographic Activities of Charles Rider Noble and John Mackenzie in the Balkans (Volume One)
In the early 20th century, two Britons filmed the first “living pictures” in the Balkans. This book delves into this under-researched period, examining over 1,200 sources to reveal the secrets its early history still holds for lovers of the ‘Seventh Art’.
In the early 20th century, two Britons filmed the first “living pictures” in the Balkans. This book delves into this under-researched period, examining over 1,200 sources to reveal the secrets its early history still holds for lovers of the ‘Seventh Art’.
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Women and Martyrdom in Stalinist War Cinema
Russia's Eternal Quest for Messianism
This book challenges the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. It reveals how Stalinist war cinema drew on Russian religious tradition to create cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII, serving collective identity-construction policies.
This book challenges the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. It reveals how Stalinist war cinema drew on Russian religious tradition to create cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII, serving collective identity-construction policies.
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The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volume 1
Dueling Productions in Blacklist Hollywood
Using unpublished sources, this book documents the intense rivalry between movie productions of The Gladiators and Spartacus. This little-known chapter of Hollywood's blacklist history was key to Dalton Trumbo's successful effort to win screen credit.
Using unpublished sources, this book documents the intense rivalry between movie productions of The Gladiators and Spartacus. This little-known chapter of Hollywood’s blacklist history was key to Dalton Trumbo’s successful effort to win screen credit.
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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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An Existentialist Theory of the Human Spirit (Volume 1)
To Love and Create... or Not
Uncover the links between existentialist thought, sexuality, religion, and art. From Freud and Jung to the tragic genius of van Gogh, this study confronts absurdity and existence, offering a bold new theory of personality.
Uncover the links between existentialist thought, sexuality, religion, and art. From Freud and Jung to the tragic genius of van Gogh, this study confronts absurdity and existence, offering a bold new theory of personality.
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Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)
Activism and Innovation
This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.
This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.
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This book crosses world cultures to highlight women as creators and as subjects. From the politics of Aztec women’s bodies to female artists in the Global South, chapters offer historical, artistic, and literary perspectives on women in art, literature, and film across the globe.
This book crosses world cultures to highlight women as creators and as subjects. From the politics of Aztec women’s bodies to female artists in the Global South, chapters offer historical, artistic, and literary perspectives on women in art, literature, and film across the globe.
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