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Photographing Papua
Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public Domain
This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.
This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.
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Au Naturel
(Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism
The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.
The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.
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Quantum Theatre
Science and Contemporary Performance
Quantum Theatre uses quantum mechanics to construct a framework for examining performance. This pioneering analysis reveals hidden aspects of the theatrical event, providing a coherent alternative to postmodernism as a theoretical framework for performance.
Quantum Theatre uses quantum mechanics to construct a framework for examining performance. This pioneering analysis reveals hidden aspects of the theatrical event, providing a coherent alternative to postmodernism as a theoretical framework for performance.
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Kitsch
History, Theory, Practice
Often dismissed as facile or lowbrow, kitsch is surprisingly complex. The contributors to this collection address how and what kitsch might signify, moving well beyond the simple binaries of good/bad, high/low, or art/kitsch into far more rewarding territory.
Often dismissed as facile or lowbrow, kitsch is surprisingly complex. The contributors to this collection address how and what kitsch might signify, moving well beyond the simple binaries of good/bad, high/low, or art/kitsch into far more rewarding territory.
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The Avant-Garde and the Margin
New Territories of Modernism
This collection refigures the modernist avant-garde by exploring relations between its “centers” and the cultural “periphery.” The essays offer new methodological approaches that avoid Eurocentric models in favor of a “hermeneutics of encounter.”
This collection refigures the modernist avant-garde by exploring relations between its “centers” and the cultural “periphery.” The essays offer new methodological approaches that avoid Eurocentric models in favor of a “hermeneutics of encounter.”
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Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
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How can aesthetic enquiry contribute to the study of visual culture? The essays in this volume show a variety of points of intersection between aesthetics and visual studies, considering the future of art, aesthetic experience, and representation versus reality.
How can aesthetic enquiry contribute to the study of visual culture? The essays in this volume show a variety of points of intersection between aesthetics and visual studies, considering the future of art, aesthetic experience, and representation versus reality.
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Art and Design
History, Theory, Practice
This book is a selection of essays on art and design. A hierarchy often places “art” apart from “design.” But isn’t some art designed? These essays investigate this dichotomy from both sides of the supposed divide to discuss the ground between.
This book is a selection of essays on art and design. A hierarchy often places “art” apart from “design.” But isn’t some art designed? These essays investigate this dichotomy from both sides of the supposed divide to discuss the ground between.
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Women Willing to Fight
The Fighting Woman in Film
This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.
This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.
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This is the first monograph on Rembrandt's Passion Series, the most prestigious commission of his early career. It traces the history of these overlooked paintings, highlights the self-images within them, and proves why they are finally a true “series”.
This is the first monograph on Rembrandt’s Passion Series, the most prestigious commission of his early career. It traces the history of these overlooked paintings, highlights the self-images within them, and proves why they are finally a true “series”.
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Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century
Marlboro Men and California Gurls
This publication details popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century media. It investigates the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in an original and rigorous way.
This publication details popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century media. It investigates the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in an original and rigorous way.
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Digital processes affect the perception of time, space, and identity. This book invites a shift of perception, proposing the “Point of Being” as an alternative to the “Point of View” to situate the self in our physical and digital world.
Digital processes affect the perception of time, space, and identity. This book invites a shift of perception, proposing the “Point of Being” as an alternative to the “Point of View” to situate the self in our physical and digital world.
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This book gives insight into critical issues and emerging perspectives in broadcasting. It offers in-depth analyses and solutions for broadcasting in Nigeria, especially in this era of digital dominance.
This book gives insight into critical issues and emerging perspectives in broadcasting. It offers in-depth analyses and solutions for broadcasting in Nigeria, especially in this era of digital dominance.
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Frederick Kiesler
Lost in History; Art of This Century and The Modern Art Gallery
This book uncovers the fascinating story of Frederick Kiesler’s ground-breaking Art of This Century gallery, designed for Peggy Guggenheim. It analyzes their fraught collaboration and restores Kiesler to his place in art and architecture history.
This book uncovers the fascinating story of Frederick Kiesler’s ground-breaking Art of This Century gallery, designed for Peggy Guggenheim. It analyzes their fraught collaboration and restores Kiesler to his place in art and architecture history.
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Dance in Ireland
Steps, Stages and Stories
Dance in Ireland provides an in-depth view of dance during the colonial and post-colonial eras. It presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and a signifier of cultural change. An indispensable resource for academics and artists alike.
Dance in Ireland provides an in-depth view of dance during the colonial and post-colonial eras. It presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and a signifier of cultural change. An indispensable resource for academics and artists alike.
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Audience Reception of Benin Cinema in Nigeria
Empirical Findings and Implications for Nollywood
This pioneering study explores Benin (Edo) cinema, a vibrant and largely unexplored frontier in Nigerian performing arts. It covers the history, filmography, and audience reception of these films, revealing a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture within Nollywood.
This pioneering study explores Benin (Edo) cinema, a vibrant and largely unexplored frontier in Nigerian performing arts. It covers the history, filmography, and audience reception of these films, revealing a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture within Nollywood.
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Minority Theatre on the Global Stage
Challenging Paradigms from the Margins
This volume explores contemporary theatre's affinity with the margins. Essays examine how minority theatre challenges cultural consensus and gives universal resonance to conflicted identities, re-examining the status of theatre itself in a globalized world.
This volume explores contemporary theatre’s affinity with the margins. Essays examine how minority theatre challenges cultural consensus and gives universal resonance to conflicted identities, re-examining the status of theatre itself in a globalized world.
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“And that’s true too”
New Essays on King Lear
Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare's elusive and powerful tragedy.
Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare’s elusive and powerful tragedy.
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Art and Food is a collection of essays exploring a range of research topics relating to the representation of food in art and art in food, from iconography and allegory, through class and commensality, to kitchen architecture and haute cuisine.
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Sensorium
Aesthetics, Art, Life
This book reconfigures art and philosophy by returning to an older meaning of aesthetics: our capacity to receive sensations. Following Deleuze and Lyotard, it frames artists as experimenters with the sensible who extend our perceptual interface with the world.
This book reconfigures art and philosophy by returning to an older meaning of aesthetics: our capacity to receive sensations. Following Deleuze and Lyotard, it frames artists as experimenters with the sensible who extend our perceptual interface with the world.
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