Theatres of Rebellion in Nicaragua
To understand Nicaragua today, we must look at its theatrical performances of power and resistance. This book examines the nation’s history, from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution, to reveal the critical connection between revolt and cultural performance.
Interpreting the Synthesizer
This volume examines the synthesizer’s significance for music and culture. Contributors explore how the synth evolved to signify futurism for new wave acts, mind expansion for psychedelic bands, and escapism for techno, leading to its ubiquity in modern pop.
Digital communication transformed branding. Now, artificial intelligence offers new ways to handle big data and customize messages for mass audiences. This book shows how the intersection of these forces points to a new reality in brand communication, design, and management.
For 30,000 years, humans have created visual expressions of their sacred beings. This book investigates these interpretations of deities throughout history, exploring the psychological necessity for us to create gods and goddesses in a human-like form.
Awakening through Literature and Film
This book, using Zen Buddhism and postmodern ethics, guides you beyond the conventional thematic approach. Learn to catch nondual, spiritual feelings while appreciating a given work, ultimately turning the act of reading or watching into a quest for spiritual enlightenment.
Understanding Bollywood
Explore how Bollywood films reveal the cultural politics of India. This book analyses the on-screen evolution of Indian women, charting their journey from subjugation to empowerment and the fight for human rights.
Half a century after his death, is E. M. Forster still relevant? Some find his novels old-fashioned; others, inspiring. This book explores Forster’s legacy, offering new interpretations of his work and his place within British and world culture.
A growing gap separates professional film critics from younger movie-goers. A new breed of critic is needed for this new generation of fans. This book examines five categories of film reviewers to help aspiring critics decide what type of critic they want to be.
This volume explores dance’s role in modern Greek society, from ballet to contemporary genres. It uncovers factors affecting its development over the last century and asks why dance has yet to be established as an academic discipline, inspiring future artists to advocate for it.
Moving Pictures
This book argues that the most illuminating perspective for studying movies is ‘play’. Moving pictures were a major ludenic innovation, becoming a source of human knowledge and an important medium of not only popular entertainment, but also popular enlightenment.
Being and Film
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.
Bio-Art and the Environment
In a science-driven society, this book ignites a debate at the intersection of art, biology, and ethics. Can artists create living chimeras? Do we have the right to use them? And should we fund or prohibit the research that makes them possible?
This book shows how Concretism and Neoconcretism adapted international constructivism to Brazil. It explores the debates between the avant-gardes of São Paulo and Rio that created early versions of participatory, performance, and installation art.
The numerous digressions in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia should not be regarded as mistakes. This book’s hypothesis is that these anecdotes are intentional. By analyzing them as exempla, their narrative role becomes clear, revealing Pliny’s contested skill as a writer.
This anthology is an intellectual smorgasbord of medieval and renaissance thought. Designed not solely for scholars but also for generalists, these essays explore philosophy, poetry, drama, popular culture, linguistics, art, religion, and history.
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.
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.
Jordan’s Proverbs as a Window into Arab Popular Culture
Discover Arab popular culture through 400 annotated Jordanian proverbs. Covering daily life and universal morals, this book provides a deeper understanding of Jordanian/Arab mentality, encouraging intercultural communication and helping remove socially-biased stereotypes.
This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
The Spaces That Never Were in Early Modern Art
This book explores liminal spaces: worlds on the blurred boundary between reality and imagination. Not found on maps, they are confined in gardens and collections, transforming a mere image into a political manifesto or a dream of absolute power.