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Adapting Gaskell
Screen and Stage Versions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction
This collection charts the adaptation of Gaskell’s fiction, placing her alongside authors like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. It will surely prompt more investigations into the adaptability of her work. – Deborah Cartmell
This collection charts the adaptation of Gaskell’s fiction, placing her alongside authors like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. It will surely prompt more investigations into the adaptability of her work.
– Deborah Cartmell
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The lingua franca for cultural self-understanding in the early-modern period was ineluctably religious. Without religion we cannot comprehend its myriad facets, from markets and art to the very terminology of unbelief. This collection of essays explores these themes.
The lingua franca for cultural self-understanding in the early-modern period was ineluctably religious. Without religion we cannot comprehend its myriad facets, from markets and art to the very terminology of unbelief. This collection of essays explores these themes.
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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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Darkening Scandinavia
Four Postmodern Pagan Essays
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
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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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The Silk Road of Adaptation
Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures
Using the Silk Road as a metaphor for transcultural exchange, this anthology presents adaptation as a continuous process. Essays from diverse disciplines show how adaptation is a transmedial and transnational act with psychological as well as political significance.
Using the Silk Road as a metaphor for transcultural exchange, this anthology presents adaptation as a continuous process. Essays from diverse disciplines show how adaptation is a transmedial and transnational act with psychological as well as political significance.
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Colour in Sculpture
A Survey from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present
This book introduces sculpture across five millennia, exploring the intentional relationship between colour and form. It suggests that whether used for cultural custom or to enhance expression, polychromy adds another dimension of encoded meaning.
This book introduces sculpture across five millennia, exploring the intentional relationship between colour and form. It suggests that whether used for cultural custom or to enhance expression, polychromy adds another dimension of encoded meaning.
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Mutual (In)Comprehensions
France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
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Envisaging Death
Visual Culture and Dying
This book connects Death Studies to visual culture, arguing death is not universal. Who you are and where you live influences how your death is imaged and imagined, exploring how the distance between the living and the dead is both reinforced and disrupted.
This book connects Death Studies to visual culture, arguing death is not universal. Who you are and where you live influences how your death is imaged and imagined, exploring how the distance between the living and the dead is both reinforced and disrupted.
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Testimony, Witness, Authority
The Politics and Poetics of Experience
This international, interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how testimony, witness, and authority shape human experience. Scholars and artists explore how stories bear witness to experience through a web of verbal and near-verbal media.
This international, interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how testimony, witness, and authority shape human experience. Scholars and artists explore how stories bear witness to experience through a web of verbal and near-verbal media.
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Social Realism
Art, Nationhood and Politics
This book presents a radical reappraisal of British social realism, arguing it is a distinctive art cinema. Through analysis of key figures from Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to Andrea Arnold, it reassesses this most British of cinematic traditions.
This book presents a radical reappraisal of British social realism, arguing it is a distinctive art cinema. Through analysis of key figures from Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to Andrea Arnold, it reassesses this most British of cinematic traditions.
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This collection of essays explores the role of images and objects in the ritual practices of late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The volume focuses on symbolic communication in Northern and Central Europe, including overlooked regions like Scandinavia and Poland.
This collection of essays explores the role of images and objects in the ritual practices of late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The volume focuses on symbolic communication in Northern and Central Europe, including overlooked regions like Scandinavia and Poland.
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Truth, Dare or Promise
Art and Documentary Revisited
This book explores the innovations and limitations of art and documentary. International practitioners and theorists address themes of personal experience and representations of the past, examining the overlaps between gallery installation and cinematic screening.
This book explores the innovations and limitations of art and documentary. International practitioners and theorists address themes of personal experience and representations of the past, examining the overlaps between gallery installation and cinematic screening.
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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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This book offers a unique collection of papers on inter-translatability, art, and ethics—subjects crucial for intercultural conversations today. It explores dialogue between East and West, asserting that any such conversation has to start with translation.
This book offers a unique collection of papers on inter-translatability, art, and ethics—subjects crucial for intercultural conversations today. It explores dialogue between East and West, asserting that any such conversation has to start with translation.
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The dance floor is the stage of life. This book explores how dance reflects the maps of meaning that structure our lives, from religious to artistic forms, examining performers from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson and choreographers like Balanchine and Fosse.
The dance floor is the stage of life. This book explores how dance reflects the maps of meaning that structure our lives, from religious to artistic forms, examining performers from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson and choreographers like Balanchine and Fosse.
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Collecting exotic objects has long united humanity. The essays in this volume connect these collections with their forms of display—from Chinese cabinets built in the West to Western-style palaces in China—charting encounters between cultures across millennia.
Collecting exotic objects has long united humanity. The essays in this volume connect these collections with their forms of display—from Chinese cabinets built in the West to Western-style palaces in China—charting encounters between cultures across millennia.
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In a phantasmagoric trial, Alfred Dreyfus was called a “zinc puppet.” This book reveals the man behind the enigma: his concealed Jewish identity, the love it inspired, and the Court Martial as a fin de siècle horror fantasy.
In a phantasmagoric trial, Alfred Dreyfus was called a “zinc puppet.” This book reveals the man behind the enigma: his concealed Jewish identity, the love it inspired, and the Court Martial as a fin de siècle horror fantasy.
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Comic Grace
We Mortal Fools in Movie Comedy
This book asks not only why some movie comedies are great, but what is unique and enduring in the legacy of comedy on film. It entertains the proposition that comedy may be motion picture’s greatest achievement, inquiring into what audiences cherish.
This book asks not only why some movie comedies are great, but what is unique and enduring in the legacy of comedy on film. It entertains the proposition that comedy may be motion picture’s greatest achievement, inquiring into what audiences cherish.
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As cultural boundaries blur, ideas of space and location—physical or metaphysical, real or imaginary—are evolving. This volume of interdisciplinary essays explores topics like globalization, diaspora, and the body across visual art, literature, and cinema.
As cultural boundaries blur, ideas of space and location—physical or metaphysical, real or imaginary—are evolving. This volume of interdisciplinary essays explores topics like globalization, diaspora, and the body across visual art, literature, and cinema.
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