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Ein Kabinettstück der Schauspielkunst / A Showpiece of the Art of Acting
Ursula Dinkgräfes Bühnenlaufbahn / Ursula Dinkgräfe’s stage career
Dieses Buch zeichnet die Theaterlaufbahn der Schauspielerin Ursula Dinkgräfe (1947-1987) nach. Sie war in der Theaterszene hoch geschätzt, aber ohne Filmruhm. Ein unberücksichtigtes Kapitel deutscher Theatergeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Dieses Buch zeichnet die Theaterlaufbahn der Schauspielerin Ursula Dinkgräfe (1947-1987) nach. Sie war in der Theaterszene hoch geschätzt, aber ohne Filmruhm. Ein unberücksichtigtes Kapitel deutscher Theatergeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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Ruskin’s Struggle for Coherence
Self-Representation through Art, Place and Society
The ten essays collected here address the coherence in Ruskin’s multi-disciplinary works. Using interdisciplinary approaches, they explore the “polygon” of his thought and what he called “The Mystery of Life and Its Arts.”
The ten essays collected here address the coherence in Ruskin’s multi-disciplinary works. Using interdisciplinary approaches, they explore the “polygon” of his thought and what he called “The Mystery of Life and Its Arts.”
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Myths are the blueprint for creativity. This volume presents an innovative theory of the creative process, explaining how authentic art transcends time to communicate with us today. It also explores the fascinating link between madness and creativity.
Myths are the blueprint for creativity. This volume presents an innovative theory of the creative process, explaining how authentic art transcends time to communicate with us today. It also explores the fascinating link between madness and creativity.
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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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Etching Our Own Image
Voices from Within the Arab American Art Movement
A celebration of Arab American art and identity. In the wake of 9/11, a movement of artists galvanized to define themselves, rather than be defined by others. By telling their own stories, these voices reclaim their image and tell the world who they are.
A celebration of Arab American art and identity. In the wake of 9/11, a movement of artists galvanized to define themselves, rather than be defined by others. By telling their own stories, these voices reclaim their image and tell the world who they are.
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Holocaust Film
The Political Aesthetics of Ideology
Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.
Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.
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Realities and Remediations
The Limits of Representation in Film
This volume of new essays examines how representations are put into place through mise-en-scene, editing and technology. In a hyper-visual era, these essays challenge commonplaces, problematising our relationship to a perceived reality.
This volume of new essays examines how representations are put into place through mise-en-scene, editing and technology. In a hyper-visual era, these essays challenge commonplaces, problematising our relationship to a perceived reality.
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Zoom In, Zoom Out
Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema
European films are a vital space where borders and identity are renegotiated. This collection explores how filmmakers question the continent by crossing geographic, cultural, and aesthetic boundaries, framing European cinema as a work-in-progress.
European films are a vital space where borders and identity are renegotiated. This collection explores how filmmakers question the continent by crossing geographic, cultural, and aesthetic boundaries, framing European cinema as a work-in-progress.
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While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now "lift the veil" on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.
While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now “lift the veil” on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.
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Searching for America
Essays on Art and Architecture
These essays explore American paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture from diverse, multidisciplinary points of view. From traditional analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, these critical works represent the multicultural identities of America.
These essays explore American paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture from diverse, multidisciplinary points of view. From traditional analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, these critical works represent the multicultural identities of America.
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Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
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As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
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Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
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Out of the Stream
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Mural Painting
This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe's periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.
This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe’s periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.
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A century later, the Marx Brothers are cultural icons who have permeated our culture. Most scholarly work on them is biographical; this collection of eleven essays suggests other approaches, examining their work from a number of critical perspectives.
A century later, the Marx Brothers are cultural icons who have permeated our culture. Most scholarly work on them is biographical; this collection of eleven essays suggests other approaches, examining their work from a number of critical perspectives.
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Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
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Views, Positions, Legacies
Interviews with German and British Theatre Artists, 1985-2007
This book collects 24 interviews with German and British theatre artists over 20 years. Actors, directors, and dramatists discuss boulevard comedy, Brecht’s legacy, and seminal productions like Sir Richard Eyre’s account of his Hamlet at the Royal Court.
This book collects 24 interviews with German and British theatre artists over 20 years. Actors, directors, and dramatists discuss boulevard comedy, Brecht’s legacy, and seminal productions like Sir Richard Eyre’s account of his Hamlet at the Royal Court.
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Hunting the Collectors
Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives
This volume investigates Pacific collections in Australian museums and the diverse 19th- and 20th-century collectors responsible. Essays reveal the motivations that led to the preservation of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island art, objects, and documents.
This volume investigates Pacific collections in Australian museums and the diverse 19th- and 20th-century collectors responsible. Essays reveal the motivations that led to the preservation of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island art, objects, and documents.
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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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Theatres of Thought
Theatre, Performance and Philosophy
Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.
Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.
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