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European Theories in Former Yugoslavia
Trans-theory Relations between Global and Local Discourses
Theories are not directly transferred from the centre to the margins, but are borrowed, translated, and reinterpreted. Posed from the perspective of former Yugoslavia, this book explores the tense relationship between original theories and their transformed perspectives.
Theories are not directly transferred from the centre to the margins, but are borrowed, translated, and reinterpreted. Posed from the perspective of former Yugoslavia, this book explores the tense relationship between original theories and their transformed perspectives.
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Romantic poet Justinus Kerner’s Sketches from My Boyhood is a vivid, charming, and entertaining narrative of growing up in Württemberg. Set against the ever-present reality of the French Revolution, it is a gem of 19th-century autobiographical writing.
Romantic poet Justinus Kerner’s Sketches from My Boyhood is a vivid, charming, and entertaining narrative of growing up in Württemberg. Set against the ever-present reality of the French Revolution, it is a gem of 19th-century autobiographical writing.
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Magical Suspension
The Movies as a Fun Experience
This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.
This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.
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This volume addresses place, mobility, identity, and community in Transnational and Indigenous Studies. It conceptualizes a comparative paradigm for crossing national boundaries to imagine a shared world of poetics and aesthetics.
This volume addresses place, mobility, identity, and community in Transnational and Indigenous Studies. It conceptualizes a comparative paradigm for crossing national boundaries to imagine a shared world of poetics and aesthetics.
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The Sides of the North
An Anthology in Honor of Professor Yona Pinson
In tribute to Yona Pinson’s extensive work on Northern Renaissance art, this volume offers new insights from leading scholars. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, genres, and media, from Bosch to gender, and an overview of contemporary art scholarship.
In tribute to Yona Pinson’s extensive work on Northern Renaissance art, this volume offers new insights from leading scholars. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, genres, and media, from Bosch to gender, and an overview of contemporary art scholarship.
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The Art of Survival
Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis
Offering an examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, this title offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies.
Offering an examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, this title offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies.
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A Colourful Presence
The Evolution of Women's Representation in Iranian Cinema
This study discusses the representation of women in Iranian cinema since the 1960s, exploring various representative female-centric films, with a focus on their cultural, social and cinematic contexts.
This study discusses the representation of women in Iranian cinema since the 1960s, exploring various representative female-centric films, with a focus on their cultural, social and cinematic contexts.
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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 book explores the dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and over their values and purposes. The contributions here, by theorizing images in their aesthetic, historical, and technological guises, pave the way for the future of visual culture.
This book explores the dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and over their values and purposes. The contributions here, by theorizing images in their aesthetic, historical, and technological guises, pave the way for the future of visual culture.
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Flowers and Towers
Politics of Identity in the Art of the American "New Woman"
This title explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day, discussing the changes, and the meaning thereof, in its representation during this period.
This title explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day, discussing the changes, and the meaning thereof, in its representation during this period.
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The Event, the Subject, and the Artwork
Into the Twenty-First Century
This collection explores art's power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.
This collection explores art’s power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.
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Serge Bokobza focuses on the distinguishing elements of Jewish characterisation in post-Shoah French films. Rejecting the practice of labelling a film “Jewish” due to the ethnicity of a director or writer, he explores the essential question of “Jewish identity” in French cinema.
Serge Bokobza focuses on the distinguishing elements of Jewish characterisation in post-Shoah French films. Rejecting the practice of labelling a film “Jewish” due to the ethnicity of a director or writer, he explores the essential question of “Jewish identity” in French cinema.
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This cross-disciplinary collection explores how identities – individual, communal, and national – are constructed, maintained and contested. These essays emphasize the invariable ambiguity and instability of identity, offering new perspectives on a concept in ceaseless change.
This cross-disciplinary collection explores how identities – individual, communal, and national – are constructed, maintained and contested. These essays emphasize the invariable ambiguity and instability of identity, offering new perspectives on a concept in ceaseless change.
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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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Voicing the Text
American Drama and the Production of Voice
By using both drama and film, and by exploring the translation between the two, this study shows that voice can be placed in a grid where the subject, body, language and power interconnect in ways that question established ideas concerning voice – what it is and what it can do.
By using both drama and film, and by exploring the translation between the two, this study shows that voice can be placed in a grid where the subject, body, language and power interconnect in ways that question established ideas concerning voice – what it is and what it can do.
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Make Me Yours
How Art Seduces
Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.
Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.
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The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries
Images of Intergeneration Relationships
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
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Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s
Historical Perspectives
The essays here contribute to research on the medium of television by bringing together work focusing on national developments in both UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be compared.
The essays here contribute to research on the medium of television by bringing together work focusing on national developments in both UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be compared.
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This monograph shows how Neapolitan theatre managed to not only survive, but thrive in an era that saw the disappearance of a number of regional theatre traditions in Italy, with Neapolitan playwrights forcefully proclaiming their roots as a primary source for their work.
This monograph shows how Neapolitan theatre managed to not only survive, but thrive in an era that saw the disappearance of a number of regional theatre traditions in Italy, with Neapolitan playwrights forcefully proclaiming their roots as a primary source for their work.
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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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