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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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Radio and Society
New Thinking for an Old Medium
Radio remains a key medium, developing despite and because of the digital age. This collection of contemporary research explores its history, cultural force, and internet developments, providing new insights into the media and ultimately, ourselves.
Radio remains a key medium, developing despite and because of the digital age. This collection of contemporary research explores its history, cultural force, and internet developments, providing new insights into the media and ultimately, ourselves.
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Re-imagining African Identity in the Twenty-First Century
The Force of Intermediality
This book deconstructs the idea that African identity is based exclusively on ‘Blackness’. It argues for intermediality, a new way of thinking that embraces difference to envision a vibrant, cosmopolitan Africa open to people of all races and identities.
This book deconstructs the idea that African identity is based exclusively on ‘Blackness’. It argues for intermediality, a new way of thinking that embraces difference to envision a vibrant, cosmopolitan Africa open to people of all races and identities.
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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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This book examines four innovative women playwrights of 21st-century Spain. By foregrounding female protagonists, their plays explore female autonomy and the search for selfhood against gendered oppression, showcasing important innovations in contemporary stagecraft.
This book examines four innovative women playwrights of 21st-century Spain. By foregrounding female protagonists, their plays explore female autonomy and the search for selfhood against gendered oppression, showcasing important innovations in contemporary stagecraft.
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Recent Studies on the Image of Edessa
Iconography, History and Theology
This volume presents the latest historical and theological developments in the study of the Image of Edessa. International experts bring their findings together to shed new light on the icon and reach a deeper understanding of this fascinating object.
This volume presents the latest historical and theological developments in the study of the Image of Edessa. International experts bring their findings together to shed new light on the icon and reach a deeper understanding of this fascinating object.
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Recollecting History beyond Borders
Captives, Acrobats, Dancers and the Moroccan-American Narrative of Encounters
This book unearths the forgotten histories of Moroccan captives, acrobats, and dancers in America. Drawing on neglected archives, it explores their transatlantic journeys and cultural encounters, adding a new dimension to Moroccan-American history.
This book unearths the forgotten histories of Moroccan captives, acrobats, and dancers in America. Drawing on neglected archives, it explores their transatlantic journeys and cultural encounters, adding a new dimension to Moroccan-American history.
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This collection of essays traces the evolution of kitsch and camp aesthetics in popular culture and the avant-garde. From diverse theoretical perspectives, it provides a much-needed commentary on the function of these aesthetics today.
This collection of essays traces the evolution of kitsch and camp aesthetics in popular culture and the avant-garde. From diverse theoretical perspectives, it provides a much-needed commentary on the function of these aesthetics today.
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This anthology is an intellectual smorgasbord of medieval and renaissance thought. Designed not solely for scholars but also for generalists, these essays explore philosophy, poetry, drama, popular culture, linguistics, art, religion, and history.
This anthology is an intellectual smorgasbord of medieval and renaissance thought. Designed not solely for scholars but also for generalists, these essays explore philosophy, poetry, drama, popular culture, linguistics, art, religion, and history.
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This is the first monograph on Rembrandt's Passion Series, the most prestigious commission of his early career. It traces the history of these overlooked paintings, highlights the self-images within them, and proves why they are finally a true “series”.
This is the first monograph on Rembrandt’s Passion Series, the most prestigious commission of his early career. It traces the history of these overlooked paintings, highlights the self-images within them, and proves why they are finally a true “series”.
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An exploration of the art, architecture, and literary culture of the 16th-17th century Eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The central discussion focuses on national identity and the tension between the region's Byzantine inheritance and Catholic influences.
An exploration of the art, architecture, and literary culture of the 16th-17th century Eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The central discussion focuses on national identity and the tension between the region’s Byzantine inheritance and Catholic influences.
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Rendezvous with the Sensuous
Readings on Aesthetics
In Rendezvous with the Sensuous, explore the aesthetic experience where human sensuousness combines with that of nature. Where artistic expression coalesces with the natural world, you are invited on a synesthetic journey to appreciate the role of aesthetics.
In Rendezvous with the Sensuous, explore the aesthetic experience where human sensuousness combines with that of nature. Where artistic expression coalesces with the natural world, you are invited on a synesthetic journey to appreciate the role of aesthetics.
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From Shakespeare to Star Wars, how are men represented on the page and screen? These essays argue that men must become aware of these representations to alter toxic patriarchal models, distinguish masculinity from patriarchy, and achieve liberation from its crippling constraints.
From Shakespeare to Star Wars, how are men represented on the page and screen? These essays argue that men must become aware of these representations to alter toxic patriarchal models, distinguish masculinity from patriarchy, and achieve liberation from its crippling constraints.
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Representing Africa in the Motherland and the Diaspora
Essays on Theatre, Dance, Music and Cinema
This publication gathers scholars from Africa, Europe and the USA to explore the representation of Africa in the performing arts and cinema. It represents an extended dialogue between African scholars and artists about the challenges of representing themselves and their societies
This publication gathers scholars from Africa, Europe and the USA to explore the representation of Africa in the performing arts and cinema. It represents an extended dialogue between African scholars and artists about the challenges of representing themselves and their societies
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Representing Royalty
British Monarchs in Contemporary Cinema, 1994-2010
Since the early days of cinema, filmmakers have been intrigued by the lives and loves of British monarchs. Kinzler examines strategies of representing power and the staging of myths of power in seven popular films about this subject that were made after the mid-1990s.
Since the early days of cinema, filmmakers have been intrigued by the lives and loves of British monarchs. Kinzler examines strategies of representing power and the staging of myths of power in seven popular films about this subject that were made after the mid-1990s.
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Requests in Film Dialogue and Dubbing Translation
A Comparative Study of English and Italian
This is the first account of speech act pragmatics and (im)politeness in film conversation and dubbing, focusing on requests. It compares the features of requests in English and Italian film dialogue and reveals how their pragmatics travel across languages in translation.
This is the first account of speech act pragmatics and (im)politeness in film conversation and dubbing, focusing on requests. It compares the features of requests in English and Italian film dialogue and reveals how their pragmatics travel across languages in translation.
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Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century
Marlboro Men and California Gurls
This publication details popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century media. It investigates the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in an original and rigorous way.
This publication details popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century media. It investigates the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in an original and rigorous way.
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Why are contemporary playwrights obsessed with rewriting Shakespeare? Across the world, new writers have questioned the political and cultural stakes of repeating his classics. This collection asks: do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare, or does his survival depend on them?
Why are contemporary playwrights obsessed with rewriting Shakespeare? Across the world, new writers have questioned the political and cultural stakes of repeating his classics. This collection asks: do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare, or does his survival depend on them?
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While ancient objects from Northern Europe are usually seen as historical documents, many should be regarded as works of fine art. This book encourages readers to appreciate Bronze Age and early Medieval artefacts as they do works by well-known contemporary artists.
While ancient objects from Northern Europe are usually seen as historical documents, many should be regarded as works of fine art. This book encourages readers to appreciate Bronze Age and early Medieval artefacts as they do works by well-known contemporary artists.
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Rituals of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Nigeria
Narratives and Performances of Archetypes
This book reveals the hidden beauties of six prominent ritual festivals in Ile-Ifẹ̀, the spiritual capital of the Yoruba people. It provides rare information and profound analysis, an important record of enduring cultural legacies for Yoruba cultural studies.
This book reveals the hidden beauties of six prominent ritual festivals in Ile-Ifẹ̀, the spiritual capital of the Yoruba people. It provides rare information and profound analysis, an important record of enduring cultural legacies for Yoruba cultural studies.
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