Oancea analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, suggesting that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that fully understanding language requires grasping the nature and function of variation.
Studies by young researchers explore art’s response to social decline, transformation, and rebirth. The book entails diverse perceptions of art and society, from antiquity to modernity, architecture to moving pictures, and the USA to Yugoslavia.
Art and Book
The place of illustration and innovation is explored in this collection, regarding the relation of image to text in books of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Topics range from the work of Marcel Duchamp and Kazimir Malevich to the design of multimodal works and 3D printing.
The Art of the Caveman
The first monograph dedicated to the poetry of Paul Durcan, this book deals thematically with the dominant concerns evident throughout his work, arguing that the poet has captured the complexities inherent in Ireland’s emergence from the early, difficult decades of independence.
Arising from a conference on multimodal communication, this volume deals with the study and documentation of the performing arts. It presents such issues as multimodality in human interaction and performance, as well as embodied cognition and metaphor.
An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. As such, this volume discusses the impact of the conflict on entertainment television, offering comparative aspect by studying programs from both Eastern and Western blocs.
Unpacking discourses in African law, media, and art, these authoritative essays reveal how language shapes the continent’s unique cultural values and complex social realities.
More Than Mere Playthings
Spanning ancient Etruria to 20th-century Italy, this book explores the minor arts—from cameos to reliquaries. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, it reveals the unique importance of these objects, showing that the division between major and minor arts is no longer valid.
Female Silences, Turkey’s Crises
Güçlü focuses on the newly emergent silent female characters in Turkish cinema, and explores the relationship between this ‘new’ representational form, the ‘new’ cinema of Turkey, and the ‘new’ socio-political climate in Turkey after the September 12, 1980 military coup.
Make Me Yours
Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.
Formations of Identity
The contributions here explore the ways in which physical landscape has been appropriated by artists to represent political, social, and national identities in a variety of geographical and historical contexts.
Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s
The essays here contribute to research on the medium of television by bringing together work focusing on national developments in both UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be compared.
Singapore Radio
Freeman and Ramakrishnan track the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations, detailing economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore along the way.
The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
Of Treason, God and Testicles
This monograph analyses in what shape the interplay between widespread political and ideological Cold War convictions and Cold War notions of masculinity found its way onto British and American cinema screens during the early days of the conflict.
For the first time, this book demonstrates the extraordinary contribution of Australian glass artist David Wright. Including the first catalogue raisonné on the artist, it examines the stunning art glass he created for Australia’s sacred and public spaces.
This book explores the dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and over their values and purposes. The contributions here, by theorizing images in their aesthetic, historical, and technological guises, pave the way for the future of visual culture.
Once Upon a Time in the Contemporary World
The contributors to this collection highlight the current process of transforming well-known fairy-tale plots, considering recent media productions as modern fairy-tales, and showing these new versions to reflect the psychological demands of contemporary cultural environment.
A Different Kind of Black and White
Why should we continue to draw by hand when computers and photography can do it for us? This path-breaking study explores drawing as a way to foster epistemic development and wise thinking skills, dissolving boundaries through the development of visual intelligence.
Serge Bokobza focuses on the distinguishing elements of Jewish characterisation in post-Shoah French films. Rejecting the practice of labelling a film “Jewish” due to the ethnicity of a director or writer, he explores the essential question of “Jewish identity” in French cinema.