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Alienation and Resistance
Representation in Text and Image
This collection examines representations of alienation and resistance across diverse media. Essays explore these themes in everything from 16th-century drama to modern comics and film, asking: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of these forces in our culture?
This collection examines representations of alienation and resistance across diverse media. Essays explore these themes in everything from 16th-century drama to modern comics and film, asking: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of these forces in our culture?
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Allusions and Reflections
Greek and Roman Mythology in Renaissance Europe
The contributors to this volume explore the struggles and strategies of recycling and transforming ancient mythology during the Renaissance. They focus on the re-configuration of classical myths in political, erotic and ceremonial contexts.
The contributors to this volume explore the struggles and strategies of recycling and transforming ancient mythology during the Renaissance. They focus on the re-configuration of classical myths in political, erotic and ceremonial contexts.
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Alternatives Within the Mainstream
British Black and Asian Theatres
Alternatives Within the Mainstream is the first comprehensive collection of critical essays on British Black and Asian Theatres. This long overdue book challenges the culture of myth which obscures the relevance of Black and Asian work with serious academic analysis.
Alternatives Within the Mainstream is the first comprehensive collection of critical essays on British Black and Asian Theatres. This long overdue book challenges the culture of myth which obscures the relevance of Black and Asian work with serious academic analysis.
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Alternatives within the Mainstream II
Queer Theatres in post-war Britain
This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.
This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.
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Ambiguous Selves
Contesting Gender Binaries in Literature, Film and the Media
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
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American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse
Architectural Form and Space as Social Influence
More than just collections, museums are powerful engines of persuasion. This book reveals how their contents and displays influence visitors as effectively as any speech or advertisement, uncovering their profound cultural roles and power.
More than just collections, museums are powerful engines of persuasion. This book reveals how their contents and displays influence visitors as effectively as any speech or advertisement, uncovering their profound cultural roles and power.
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An Edgy Realism
Film Theoretical Encounters with Dogma 95, New French Extremity, and the Shaky-Cam Horror Film
Using actor-network theory, Schaefer’s study offers an investigation of the new realism that has characterized cinema since the turn of the millennium due to the proliferation of the digital.
Using actor-network theory, Schaefer’s study offers an investigation of the new realism that has characterized cinema since the turn of the millennium due to the proliferation of the digital.
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An Existentialist Theory of the Human Spirit (Volume 1)
To Love and Create... or Not
Uncover the links between existentialist thought, sexuality, religion, and art. From Freud and Jung to the tragic genius of van Gogh, this study confronts absurdity and existence, offering a bold new theory of personality.
Uncover the links between existentialist thought, sexuality, religion, and art. From Freud and Jung to the tragic genius of van Gogh, this study confronts absurdity and existence, offering a bold new theory of personality.
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An Exploration of Prehistoric Ontologies in the Bering Strait Region
Boundaries and Structures
This book introduces the belief and symbolism in prehistoric Bering Strait art. It challenges traditional archaeology by reconsidering the relationship between materiality and spirituality, analyzing therianthropic motifs on ancient Inuit ivories to explore potential shamanism.
This book introduces the belief and symbolism in prehistoric Bering Strait art. It challenges traditional archaeology by reconsidering the relationship between materiality and spirituality, analyzing therianthropic motifs on ancient Inuit ivories to explore potential shamanism.
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An Introvert in an Extrovert World
Essays on the Quiet Ones
This anthology explores the challenges faced by introverts in an extrovert world. While often labeled “quiet,” their contributions are immense, from Van Gogh’s art to the personal computer. The book contains analyses of culture, film, and poignant personal narratives.
This anthology explores the challenges faced by introverts in an extrovert world. While often labeled “quiet,” their contributions are immense, from Van Gogh’s art to the personal computer. The book contains analyses of culture, film, and poignant personal narratives.
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Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.
Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.
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Ancient Dramatic Chorus through the Eyes of a Modern Choreographer
Zouzou Nikoloudi
Savrami analyses the work of the Greek choreographer Zouzou Nikoloudi, and provides answers to key questions about her work in relation to ancient Greek views of tragedy and the ways those views have been reinterpreted in contemporary dance practice.
Savrami analyses the work of the Greek choreographer Zouzou Nikoloudi, and provides answers to key questions about her work in relation to ancient Greek views of tragedy and the ways those views have been reinterpreted in contemporary dance practice.
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This collection of papers charts European cemeteries as cultural sites and open-air museums. Authors present funerary art, investigate historical approaches, and propose ways to promote cemetery heritage, laying the groundwork for public discussion on our common heritage.
This collection of papers charts European cemeteries as cultural sites and open-air museums. Authors present funerary art, investigate historical approaches, and propose ways to promote cemetery heritage, laying the groundwork for public discussion on our common heritage.
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The study of ancient marriage has traditionally focused on elite texts and laws. This collection reveals a shift in focus, with essays examining demographic and contractual evidence, inscriptions, and visual imagery alongside innovative readings of authors.
The study of ancient marriage has traditionally focused on elite texts and laws. This collection reveals a shift in focus, with essays examining demographic and contractual evidence, inscriptions, and visual imagery alongside innovative readings of authors.
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Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, he succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated, but often misunderstood, masterpieces.
Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, he succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated, but often misunderstood, masterpieces.
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Anti-Tales
The Uses of Disenchantment
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
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This book explores drama as an intervention in conflict. It maps theatre's transformative role in contexts from South Africa to New Zealand, addressing violence in prisons, cities, and families. Includes two new play scripts on xenophobia and family violence.
This book explores drama as an intervention in conflict. It maps theatre’s transformative role in contexts from South Africa to New Zealand, addressing violence in prisons, cities, and families. Includes two new play scripts on xenophobia and family violence.
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Architecture and Royal Presence
Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592-1627)
This book offers an interpretation of Spanish architectural patronage in Naples. Focusing on architects Domenico Fontana and his son Giulio Cesare, it shows how Naples participated in the imperial program and explains the delayed flowering of its Baroque architecture.
This book offers an interpretation of Spanish architectural patronage in Naples. Focusing on architects Domenico Fontana and his son Giulio Cesare, it shows how Naples participated in the imperial program and explains the delayed flowering of its Baroque architecture.
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Shapter traces the rise of photography’s perceived truthfulness in depicting reality. He shows why a combination of pre-knowledge of early developments in imagery and a marketing campaign espousing the accuracy of photographs acted to create a belief in the photograph’s veracity.
Shapter traces the rise of photography’s perceived truthfulness in depicting reality. He shows why a combination of pre-knowledge of early developments in imagery and a marketing campaign espousing the accuracy of photographs acted to create a belief in the photograph’s veracity.
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Art and Anatomy in Nineteenth Century Britain
Three Studies
In early 19th-century Britain, art and science collided. Artists studied dissection to capture life, while anatomists learned to draw for accuracy. This book uncovers their mutual dependence and how anatomical truth became a measure of beauty, through three pioneering figures.
In early 19th-century Britain, art and science collided. Artists studied dissection to capture life, while anatomists learned to draw for accuracy. This book uncovers their mutual dependence and how anatomical truth became a measure of beauty, through three pioneering figures.
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