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Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy's stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.
Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy’s stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.
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South American Cinematic Culture
Policy, Production, Distribution and Exhibition
This study of South American cinema offers a new approach, revealing the interconnectivity between state, altruistic, and commercial film organizations. It produces a rich overview of a key non-Western filmmaking site, tracing how films circulate nationally and globally.
This study of South American cinema offers a new approach, revealing the interconnectivity between state, altruistic, and commercial film organizations. It produces a rich overview of a key non-Western filmmaking site, tracing how films circulate nationally and globally.
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Coming Out to the Mainstream
New Queer Cinema in the 21st Century
Has New Queer Cinema gone mainstream? This collection of essays examines how its themes have entered popular culture, challenging a queer-phobic climate and informing debates on queerness in film, television, and beyond.
Has New Queer Cinema gone mainstream? This collection of essays examines how its themes have entered popular culture, challenging a queer-phobic climate and informing debates on queerness in film, television, and beyond.
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Contextualizing the Archivolted Portals of Northern Spain and Western France within the Theology and Politics of Entry
This book explores the archivolted portals of 12th-c. Spain and France, arguing they were tools for monastic meditation. Shaped by rhetoric and interaction with Islamic courts, their design made theology accessible to all in an age of pilgrimage and crusade.
This book explores the archivolted portals of 12th-c. Spain and France, arguing they were tools for monastic meditation. Shaped by rhetoric and interaction with Islamic courts, their design made theology accessible to all in an age of pilgrimage and crusade.
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Global and Local Art Histories analyzes art outside of hegemonic Euro-American themes. Essays from a broad range of cultural perspectives contest concepts of history and culture, exploring global and local identities and questioning "the work of art.”
Global and Local Art Histories analyzes art outside of hegemonic Euro-American themes. Essays from a broad range of cultural perspectives contest concepts of history and culture, exploring global and local identities and questioning “the work of art.”
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Ethical Encounters
Boundaries of Theatre, Performance and Philosophy
These essays on theatre ethics demonstrate how academics and artists have thought about its ethical implications. They debate relevant issues and explore what is possible within theatre, challenging you to form and develop your own opinions and resultant actions.
These essays on theatre ethics demonstrate how academics and artists have thought about its ethical implications. They debate relevant issues and explore what is possible within theatre, challenging you to form and develop your own opinions and resultant actions.
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Merry Murderers
The Farcical (Re)Figuration of the Femme Fatale in Maurine Dallas Watkins’ Chicago (1927) and its Various Adaptations
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
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This volume challenges established knowledge in Dance Studies, exploring how dance can affect change and politics. It ‘undisciplines’ academic thinking, creating alternative modes for perceiving and making through choreographic practices, somatics, and critical dance pedagogies.
This volume challenges established knowledge in Dance Studies, exploring how dance can affect change and politics. It ‘undisciplines’ academic thinking, creating alternative modes for perceiving and making through choreographic practices, somatics, and critical dance pedagogies.
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“What is to be Done?”
Cultural Leadership and Public Engagement in Art and Design Education
This book introduces the meanings and motivations behind public engagement in art and design education. It explores the challenges of measuring and articulating cultural impact for postgraduate students and professionals in Higher Education and the cultural industries.
This book introduces the meanings and motivations behind public engagement in art and design education. It explores the challenges of measuring and articulating cultural impact for postgraduate students and professionals in Higher Education and the cultural industries.
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The People’s Pictures
National Lottery Funding and British Cinema
When the UK’s National Lottery began funding “the people’s pictures,” a debate was sparked. Should public money support popular hits the public wants to see, or experimental cinema that requires state support? This book explores the controversies.
When the UK’s National Lottery began funding “the people’s pictures,” a debate was sparked. Should public money support popular hits the public wants to see, or experimental cinema that requires state support? This book explores the controversies.
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Theatre Noise
The Sound of Performance
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
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To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.
To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.
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Alternatives within the Mainstream II
Queer Theatres in post-war Britain
This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.
This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.
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Darkening Scandinavia
Four Postmodern Pagan Essays
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
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The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
New Approaches
This book moves beyond the Seven Wonders framework to explore the unsurpassed reputation and unique importance of the Statue of Zeus. Using interdisciplinary perspectives, it traces the statue's influence from antiquity through to recent centuries.
This book moves beyond the Seven Wonders framework to explore the unsurpassed reputation and unique importance of the Statue of Zeus. Using interdisciplinary perspectives, it traces the statue’s influence from antiquity through to recent centuries.
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Doubling the Duality
A Theoretical and Practical Investigation into Materiality and Embodiment of Meaning in the Integration of Live Action and Animation
This book explores the aesthetic and cultural integration of live action and animation. It argues that even in an era of seamless digital effects, their differences and dialogues remain a significant source for the evolution of cinematic language.
This book explores the aesthetic and cultural integration of live action and animation. It argues that even in an era of seamless digital effects, their differences and dialogues remain a significant source for the evolution of cinematic language.
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A World of Popular Entertainments
An Edited Volume of Critical Essays
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
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Justinus Kerner's Travel Shadows (1811) is no ordinary travelogue. It is a highly imaginative, surreal concoction of grotesque, satirical, and folkloric elements, presenting a journey as a grandiose shadow show. Now available in its first English translation.
Justinus Kerner’s Travel Shadows (1811) is no ordinary travelogue. It is a highly imaginative, surreal concoction of grotesque, satirical, and folkloric elements, presenting a journey as a grandiose shadow show. Now available in its first English translation.
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Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.
Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.
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Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents
Money in Modern American Drama
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
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