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New Trends in Italian Cinema
"New" Neorealism
Far from being exhausted, the spirit of Italian Neorealism continues to sustain contemporary artists. The essays in this collection highlight how filmmakers recapture the ethical and moral urgency of the masterpieces of Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti.
Far from being exhausted, the spirit of Italian Neorealism continues to sustain contemporary artists. The essays in this collection highlight how filmmakers recapture the ethical and moral urgency of the masterpieces of Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti.
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New Wests and Post-Wests
Literature and Film of the American West
This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple "New Wests" in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.
This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple “New Wests” in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.
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Nietzsche and Van Gogh
Imaginations of 1888
In 1888, the lives of Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh converged. Driven by creative ambition but haunted by madness, their creative frenzies were synchronized, culminating in psychotic breaks just days apart. This book delves into the uncanny parallels between them.
In 1888, the lives of Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh converged. Driven by creative ambition but haunted by madness, their creative frenzies were synchronized, culminating in psychotic breaks just days apart. This book delves into the uncanny parallels between them.
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Why are Nigerian theatre students taught directing using theories from long-dead Westerners, while their own living masters are ignored? This book fills that gap, with essays and interviews from 30 Nigerian directors, allowing a new generation to stand on the shoulders of giants.
Why are Nigerian theatre students taught directing using theories from long-dead Westerners, while their own living masters are ignored? This book fills that gap, with essays and interviews from 30 Nigerian directors, allowing a new generation to stand on the shoulders of giants.
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Objects, Audiences, and Literatures
Alternative Narratives in the History of Design
Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.
Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.
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This book collects Daniel Asia's writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.
This book collects Daniel Asia’s writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.
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Of Treason, God and Testicles
Political Masculinities in British and American Films of the Early Cold War
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.
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.
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Old Stories, New Readings
The Transforming Power of American Drama
This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright's telling. Focusing on "small stories" that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.
This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright’s telling. Focusing on “small stories” that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.
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On Ibsen and Strindberg
The Reversed Telescope
This unique study views Ibsen and Strindberg through a reversed telescope. From this distant perspective, their intense rivalry and the legendary actors who first performed their work are revealed in a paradoxical, illuminating new light.
This unique study views Ibsen and Strindberg through a reversed telescope. From this distant perspective, their intense rivalry and the legendary actors who first performed their work are revealed in a paradoxical, illuminating new light.
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On the Edge of the Panel
Essays on Comics Criticism
This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium's cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.
This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium’s cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.
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On the Translation of Swearing into Spanish
Quentin Tarantino from Reservoir Dogs to Inglourious Basterds
This book analyzes how insults in Quentin Tarantino's films are dubbed from English into Spanish. His films offer an interesting opportunity because of the exceptional number of insults they contain—1526 have been recorded, classified and analysed.
This book analyzes how insults in Quentin Tarantino’s films are dubbed from English into Spanish. His films offer an interesting opportunity because of the exceptional number of insults they contain—1526 have been recorded, classified and analysed.
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On the Verge of Tears
Why the Movies, Television, Music, Art, Popular Culture, Literature, and the Real World Make Us Cry
Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.
Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.
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Once Upon a Time in the Contemporary World
Modern Vision of Old Stories
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.
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.
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Contextualizing the Archivolted Portals of Northern Spain and Western France within the Theology and Politics of Entry
This book explores the archivolted portals of 12th-c. Spain and France, arguing they were tools for monastic meditation. Shaped by rhetoric and interaction with Islamic courts, their design made theology accessible to all in an age of pilgrimage and crusade.
This book explores the archivolted portals of 12th-c. Spain and France, arguing they were tools for monastic meditation. Shaped by rhetoric and interaction with Islamic courts, their design made theology accessible to all in an age of pilgrimage and crusade.
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Ophelia Through Time
Reimaginings in Art and Film
Once a marginal character, Shakespeare's tragic Ophelia has become a cultural icon. This captivating book offers a cross-media analysis of her rebirth in art, film, and television, tracing her evolving representation and her enduring impact on visual storytelling.
Once a marginal character, Shakespeare’s tragic Ophelia has become a cultural icon. This captivating book offers a cross-media analysis of her rebirth in art, film, and television, tracing her evolving representation and her enduring impact on visual storytelling.
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This book explores Wilde’s ideas on the relation of Art to Life, examining The Importance of Being Earnest to discover whether its elegant artificiality aligns with his theories on beauty. It also considers the consequence of his assault on Victorian values.
This book explores Wilde’s ideas on the relation of Art to Life, examining The Importance of Being Earnest to discover whether its elegant artificiality aligns with his theories on beauty. It also considers the consequence of his assault on Victorian values.
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This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
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This book addresses ideological changes of the 19th-21st centuries and their impact on Spanish language and culture. It focuses on ‘otherness’ in its various dimensions, arguing that the vision of the other is ultimately a reflection of the self.
This book addresses ideological changes of the 19th-21st centuries and their impact on Spanish language and culture. It focuses on ‘otherness’ in its various dimensions, arguing that the vision of the other is ultimately a reflection of the self.
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Out of the Ordinary
Popular Art, Architecture and Design
An imaginarium and cultural history, this book finds significance in the minutiae of everyday life. Derham Groves teaches the reader to find stories in overlooked objects, art, and architecture, revealing how unfettered creativity can emerge.
An imaginarium and cultural history, this book finds significance in the minutiae of everyday life. Derham Groves teaches the reader to find stories in overlooked objects, art, and architecture, revealing how unfettered creativity can emerge.
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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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