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Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2015

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

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Deriving from the 6th Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, this collection presents material from the fields of philosophy, literature and theatre. It will interest researchers of literature, theatre and the arts from a consciousness studies perspective.

Film Festivals and Anthropology

Edited By: María-Paz Peirano, Aida Vallejo

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This volume probes the intersections between anthropology and film festival studies. It provides a historical reconstruction of most of the main festivals exhibiting ethnographic film, considering the parallel global evolution of programming and organisational practices.

Thinking Reality and Time through Film

Edited By: José Manuel Martins, Christine Reeh

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Encompassing papers from the 2014 Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film, this compilation discusses new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. It explores film’s nature philosophically and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker.

Views on Eighteenth Century Culture

Design, Books and Ideas

Edited By: Luís Manuel A. V. Bernardo, Leonor Ferrão

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Using the Portuguese architect and city planner Eugénio dos Santos as a reference point, contributions to this text provide insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal and its relationships with other European cultural movements in fields such as philosophy and literature.

Practices of Abstract Art

Between Anarchism and Appropriation

Edited By: Wiebke Gronemeyer, Isabel Wünsche

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Given the renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, this collection of essays investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years, engaging it in its increasingly diverse cultural environment.

The Post-Industrial Landscape as Site for Creative Practice

Material Memory

Edited By: Gwen Heeney

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This book investigates the role of material memory in the post-industrial landscape and the ways landscape can host many forms of creative practice. Material memory’s role in public artworks and political installation art is detailed, within the post-industrial landscape.

Between Concept and Identity

Edited By: Esteban Fernández-Cobián

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What is the identity of a place of worship in the new millennium? Does new religious architecture maintain its sacramental value, or has it become disconnected from tradition? This book explores where contemporary religious architecture is heading.

Allusions and Reflections

Greek and Roman Mythology in Renaissance Europe

Edited By: Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre

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The contributors to this volume explore the struggles and strategies of recycling and transforming ancient mythology during the Renaissance. They focus on the re-configuration of classical myths in political, erotic and ceremonial contexts.

James Bond in World and Popular Culture

The Films are Not Enough, Second Edition

Edited By: Jack Becker, Robert G. Weiner, B. Lynn Whitfield

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The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.

Cosimo I de’ Medici as Collector

Antiquities and Archaeology in Sixteenth-century Florence

By: Andrea M. Gáldy

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Antiquity collections were manifestations of power. This study explores the collection of Cosimo I de’ Medici, using unpublished sources to reconstruct its display and reveal the political aims behind one of the major princely collections of its time.

The Mythology of Dance

By: Harry Eiss

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The dance floor is the stage of life. This book explores how dance reflects the maps of meaning that structure our lives, from religious to artistic forms, examining performers from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson and choreographers like Balanchine and Fosse.

Russian Classical Literature Today

The Challenges/Trials of Messianism and Mass Culture

Edited By: Yordan Ljutskanov, Hristo Manolakev, Radostin Rusev

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This book explores the struggle for Russia's literary canon. It reveals how contemporary culture reworks the classics while resisting political and economic pressures, showing how a new canon is forged.

This book explores the struggle for Russia’s literary canon. It reveals how contemporary culture reworks the classics while resisting political and economic pressures, showing how a new canon is forged.

Rivals and Conspirators

The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre

By: Fae Brauer

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This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.

Zen-Life

Ikkyū and Beyond

By: Evgeny Steiner

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This multidisciplinary study examines Ikkyū Sōjun, the embodiment of Japan's Muromachi era. It reconstructs his creative mentality, exploring his art, interpretation of Zen, and religious principles, showing how his rebellious ways were deeply embedded in tradition.

This multidisciplinary study examines Ikkyū Sōjun, the embodiment of Japan’s Muromachi era. It reconstructs his creative mentality, exploring his art, interpretation of Zen, and religious principles, showing how his rebellious ways were deeply embedded in tradition.

Cinema and Intermediality

The Passion for the In-Between

By: Ágnes Pethő

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This book investigates what the “inter-” of “intermediality” entails in cinema. Essays explore how film positions itself “in-between” media and arts through analyses of directors like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda.

Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles

Edited By: Juliana Dresvina, Nicholas Sparks

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This collection traces themes of authority and gender in chronicles from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With contributions from leading specialists, this study spans medieval Europe, drawing on evidence from language, literature, history, and art.

Africa and Beyond

Arts and Sustainable Development

Edited By: Patrick J. Ebewo, Mzo Sirayi, Ingrid Stevens

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This volume challenges the view that consigns the arts to the periphery of social life. It presents insightful perspectives that ascribe agency to creative products in human development and is highly recommended for specialists and the public at large.

We Are What We Remember

The American Past Through Commemoration

Edited By: Laura Mattoon D’Amore, Jeffrey Meriwether

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Commemoration doesn't just capture history—it creates new narratives that reflect our current values. As our views on race, gender, and class change, so do our commemorations. How do we repair the damage of the past and name forgotten histories?

Commemoration doesn’t just capture history—it creates new narratives that reflect our current values. As our views on race, gender, and class change, so do our commemorations. How do we repair the damage of the past and name forgotten histories?

Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents

By: Costin-Valentin Oancea

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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.

The Social Life of Art

By: Peter Stupples, Jane Venis

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This study examines the social and cultural contexts that frame art's creation and influence its effects. Time is a social river, unpredictable and forever in motion. Art runs in that river, subject to the flow and chance of its inexorable force.

This study examines the social and cultural contexts that frame art’s creation and influence its effects. Time is a social river, unpredictable and forever in motion. Art runs in that river, subject to the flow and chance of its inexorable force.