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Film and Television Stardom examines stars as a social phenomenon from the silent era to today's reality TV. It provides new insights on the star system, media spectatorship, and analyzes individual stars from James Stewart to Jessica Simpson.
Film and Television Stardom examines stars as a social phenomenon from the silent era to today’s reality TV. It provides new insights on the star system, media spectatorship, and analyzes individual stars from James Stewart to Jessica Simpson.
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This volume investigates how Western art has visualized happiness from the Middle Ages to the present. Essays explore the concept within gender, religion, and politics, offering new interpretations of happiness—or its explicit absence.
This volume investigates how Western art has visualized happiness from the Middle Ages to the present. Essays explore the concept within gender, religion, and politics, offering new interpretations of happiness—or its explicit absence.
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The Conformists
Creativity and Decadence in the Bulgarian Cinema 1945-89
Explore the paradoxes of Bulgarian cinema under Communist rule. This work reveals why intellectuals chose loyalty to the state-controlled film industry over rebellion, challenging the view of Eastern Bloc art as propaganda by showing its parallels with the West.
Explore the paradoxes of Bulgarian cinema under Communist rule. This work reveals why intellectuals chose loyalty to the state-controlled film industry over rebellion, challenging the view of Eastern Bloc art as propaganda by showing its parallels with the West.
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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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Celluloid Saviours
Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film
In "film blanc," a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It's a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.
In “film blanc,” a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It’s a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.
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Enacting Nationhood
Identity, Ideology and the Theatre, 1855-99
This collection of essays explores constructions of “We the People” during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It interrogates pro- and anti-enslavement nationalism, partisanship, and armed conflict through dramatic literature and live performance.
This collection of essays explores constructions of “We the People” during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It interrogates pro- and anti-enslavement nationalism, partisanship, and armed conflict through dramatic literature and live performance.
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This collection of essays examines new millennium Italian cinema, from established masters like Nanni Moretti to new directors like Paolo Sorrentino. Their films reveal an Italy of converging social and political forces where individuals struggle for self-realization.
This collection of essays examines new millennium Italian cinema, from established masters like Nanni Moretti to new directors like Paolo Sorrentino. Their films reveal an Italy of converging social and political forces where individuals struggle for self-realization.
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Agnolo Bronzino
Medici Court Artist in Context
An international assembly of scholars advances modern perceptions of Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino. This volume applies fresh research not only to his well-known portraits, but also to frescoes and tapestries, addressing nudity, sexuality, and satire.
An international assembly of scholars advances modern perceptions of Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino. This volume applies fresh research not only to his well-known portraits, but also to frescoes and tapestries, addressing nudity, sexuality, and satire.
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From classical tragedy to post-9/11, these essays explore terror as a perennial theme in the arts—a thread woven into the fabric of artistic expression and life itself.
From classical tragedy to post-9/11, these essays explore terror as a perennial theme in the arts—a thread woven into the fabric of artistic expression and life itself.
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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3
Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa
This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.
This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.
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Performing Adaptations
Essays and Conversations on the Theory and Practice of Adaptation
This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.
This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.
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Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century
Literary and Art Theories
These essays explore the literature, aesthetics, music, and art of the long eighteenth century, with a focus on cultural transfers between Britain and Italy. Collectively, they pave the way for new interpretations of the era's cultural history.
These essays explore the literature, aesthetics, music, and art of the long eighteenth century, with a focus on cultural transfers between Britain and Italy. Collectively, they pave the way for new interpretations of the era’s cultural history.
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The Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction. Paul Harrison’s arresting photos show a “hidden Ireland” relegated to the societal margins. They haunt the viewer and interrogate what it means to be human.
The Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction. Paul Harrison’s arresting photos show a “hidden Ireland” relegated to the societal margins. They haunt the viewer and interrogate what it means to be human.
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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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Experiments in Freedom
Explorations of Identity in New South African Drama
Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.
Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.
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Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions
Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship
An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
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“The Wandering Life I Led”
Essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and Early Modern Women’s Border Crossings
International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.
International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.
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Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-garde
Defining Modern and Traditional in France, 1900-1960
This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.
This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.
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"What is knowledge?" is as much a philosophic question as "What is an image?" Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.
“What is knowledge?” is as much a philosophic question as “What is an image?” Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.
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Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress
The Golden Age of Italian Cult Cinema 1970-1985
Explore the golden age of 1970s Italian cult cinema. This book considers the social and political factors that spawned a decade of stylish films dominated by extreme sexuality and violence, profiling icons like Dario Argento and genres from giallo to sex comedy.
Explore the golden age of 1970s Italian cult cinema. This book considers the social and political factors that spawned a decade of stylish films dominated by extreme sexuality and violence, profiling icons like Dario Argento and genres from giallo to sex comedy.
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