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Activating Cloth to Enhance the Way We Live
Artists, scholars, and philosophers explore cloth’s value and impact on society, revealing its potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion.
Artists, scholars, and philosophers explore cloth’s value and impact on society, revealing its potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion.
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A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.
A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.
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Pageants and Processions
Images and Idiom as Spectacle
Before beauty contests, pageants were spectacles of social, religious, and political power. This anthology reveals the global history of pageantry across centuries and cultures, exploring its purpose as a powerful civic tool.
Before beauty contests, pageants were spectacles of social, religious, and political power. This anthology reveals the global history of pageantry across centuries and cultures, exploring its purpose as a powerful civic tool.
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Painting, Photography, and the Digital
Crossing the Borders of the Mediums
This anthology investigates the interconnections between painting, photography, and the digital. Featuring acclaimed artists, it offers unique insights into medium cross-over—from painted virtual reality worlds to digital collage—questioning the position of traditional genres.
This anthology investigates the interconnections between painting, photography, and the digital. Featuring acclaimed artists, it offers unique insights into medium cross-over—from painted virtual reality worlds to digital collage—questioning the position of traditional genres.
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PaintingDigitalPhotography
Synthesis and Difference in the Age of Media Equivalence
This publication investigates aspects of interconnectivity between painting, the digital and photography in contemporary art practices. It contributes to discourses around networks of associations by examining where syntheses occur, and differences remain, between these media.
This publication investigates aspects of interconnectivity between painting, the digital and photography in contemporary art practices. It contributes to discourses around networks of associations by examining where syntheses occur, and differences remain, between these media.
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In the first book to offer a comprehensive synthesis of the known Pleistocene palaeoart of six continents, Bednarik contemplates the origins of art in a balanced manner, based on reality rather than fantasies about cultural primacy.
In the first book to offer a comprehensive synthesis of the known Pleistocene palaeoart of six continents, Bednarik contemplates the origins of art in a balanced manner, based on reality rather than fantasies about cultural primacy.
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Papers from the First and Second Postgraduate Forums in Byzantine Studies
Sailing to Byzantium
This provocative, wide-ranging collection of essays sheds new light on controversial facets of Byzantine history, religion, literature, and art. Sailing to Byzantium is a must for students and academics of one of history’s most fascinating civilizations.
This provocative, wide-ranging collection of essays sheds new light on controversial facets of Byzantine history, religion, literature, and art. Sailing to Byzantium is a must for students and academics of one of history’s most fascinating civilizations.
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Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe
Between Utopia and Nihilism
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe's last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe’s last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
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Most of the previous scholarship on Apulian red-figure pottery has focused on the cataloguing of collections and stylistic matters. Herring takes a different approach by identifying patterns in the decoration of Apulian vases that cast light on the choices made by vase-producers.
Most of the previous scholarship on Apulian red-figure pottery has focused on the cataloguing of collections and stylistic matters. Herring takes a different approach by identifying patterns in the decoration of Apulian vases that cast light on the choices made by vase-producers.
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This book uses a database of over 1,800 vessels to identify patterns in Paestan red-figure pottery. By analysing vessel shapes, popular scenes, and consumer preferences, it provides new insights into how ancient populations of South-West Italy commemorated the dead.
This book uses a database of over 1,800 vessels to identify patterns in Paestan red-figure pottery. By analysing vessel shapes, popular scenes, and consumer preferences, it provides new insights into how ancient populations of South-West Italy commemorated the dead.
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Peeping Through the Holes
Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho
These essays on Psycho, the novel and the film, invite you to that peculiar house on the hill. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here… at least not until it overcomes you.
These essays on Psycho, the novel and the film, invite you to that peculiar house on the hill. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here… at least not until it overcomes you.
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Performance and Ethnography
Dance, Drama, Music
This volume explores the intersection of performance and ethnography across dance, drama, and music. It champions an embodied, sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between researchers and participants to understand performance amid migration and commodification.
This volume explores the intersection of performance and ethnography across dance, drama, and music. It champions an embodied, sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between researchers and participants to understand performance amid migration and commodification.
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Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe
Practices, Projections and Trajectories
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
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Exploring the body's role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, 'perform' meaning.
Exploring the body’s role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, ‘perform’ meaning.
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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1
Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures
This book explores how plays of the African diaspora acknowledge home cultures while interacting with host cultures. Contributions attest that the diaspora is not solely outside the continent, but can be found in performances within Africa that engage with the world.
This book explores how plays of the African diaspora acknowledge home cultures while interacting with host cultures. Contributions attest that the diaspora is not solely outside the continent, but can be found in performances within Africa that engage with the world.
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This book set is a comprehensive exploration of African theatre on the continent and in the diaspora. Essays demonstrate how practitioners tackle colonial legacies and globalization, forging a thriving and distinctively African aesthetic.
This book set is a comprehensive exploration of African theatre on the continent and in the diaspora. Essays demonstrate how practitioners tackle colonial legacies and globalization, forging a thriving and distinctively African aesthetic.
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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2
Innovation, Creativity and Social Change
This collection explores how African theatre instigates social change. Contributions demonstrate the ingenuity of practitioners who adapt indigenous forms to engage with contemporary realities, creating an aesthetic that is identifiably African.
This collection explores how African theatre instigates social change. Contributions demonstrate the ingenuity of practitioners who adapt indigenous forms to engage with contemporary realities, creating an aesthetic that is identifiably African.
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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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These essays explore theatre as a spiritual practice rooted in action and breathing. Performance can shift consciousness for both performer and audience, with healing effects that engage deeper levels of imagination where dualities disappear.
These essays explore theatre as a spiritual practice rooted in action and breathing. Performance can shift consciousness for both performer and audience, with healing effects that engage deeper levels of imagination where dualities disappear.
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