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Once Upon a Time in the Contemporary World
Modern Vision of Old Stories
The contributors to this collection highlight the current process of transforming well-known fairy-tale plots, considering recent media productions as modern fairy-tales, and showing these new versions to reflect the psychological demands of contemporary cultural environment.
The contributors to this collection highlight the current process of transforming well-known fairy-tale plots, considering recent media productions as modern fairy-tales, and showing these new versions to reflect the psychological demands of contemporary cultural environment.
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Recent decades in Spain and Latin America have seen transnational voices, typically stereotyped or alienated in the West, gain increasing presence in cultural texts. These essays explore new ways of seeing and interpreting the Middle East and the East in contemporary films.
Recent decades in Spain and Latin America have seen transnational voices, typically stereotyped or alienated in the West, gain increasing presence in cultural texts. These essays explore new ways of seeing and interpreting the Middle East and the East in contemporary films.
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“Hours like bright sweets in a jar”
Time and Temporality in Literature and Culture
Investigating time from interdisciplinary perspectives, these essays explore resistance against the hegemony of linear time. Literary, cinematographic, and cultural practices enact exploding temporalities to reflect the multifaceted human experience of time.
Investigating time from interdisciplinary perspectives, these essays explore resistance against the hegemony of linear time. Literary, cinematographic, and cultural practices enact exploding temporalities to reflect the multifaceted human experience of time.
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Incarnations of Material Textuality
From Modernism to Liberature
Liberature refers to works that integrate text and the material book into an organic whole. This volume collects essays exploring this concept as a literary genre, completed with the seminal writings of its founder, Zenon Fajfer.
Liberature refers to works that integrate text and the material book into an organic whole. This volume collects essays exploring this concept as a literary genre, completed with the seminal writings of its founder, Zenon Fajfer.
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Women in the Arts
Eccentric Essays II
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women's accomplishments to enrich our culture.
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women’s accomplishments to enrich our culture.
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This book explores fragments of tragedy in postmodern film. While postmodernism broke the continuous chain of tragedy from Ancient Greece, its aspects persist in films with themes of chaos, violence, paranoia, and alienation.
This book explores fragments of tragedy in postmodern film. While postmodernism broke the continuous chain of tragedy from Ancient Greece, its aspects persist in films with themes of chaos, violence, paranoia, and alienation.
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A Different Kind of Black and White
Visual Thinking as Epistemic Development in Professional Education
Why should we continue to draw by hand when computers and photography can do it for us? This path-breaking study explores drawing as a way to foster epistemic development and wise thinking skills, dissolving boundaries through the development of visual intelligence.
Why should we continue to draw by hand when computers and photography can do it for us? This path-breaking study explores drawing as a way to foster epistemic development and wise thinking skills, dissolving boundaries through the development of visual intelligence.
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Emerson Goes to the Movies
Individualism in Walt Disney Company's Post-1989 Animated Films
This book traces Emersonian individualism in Disney's post-1989 animated films, proving self-reliance is still alive in popular culture. It explores what influences Disney and how individualism intersects with race, gender, class, and imperialism.
This book traces Emersonian individualism in Disney’s post-1989 animated films, proving self-reliance is still alive in popular culture. It explores what influences Disney and how individualism intersects with race, gender, class, and imperialism.
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Britishness is a challenging term to define. This volume enhances our understanding of modern national identity by exploring historical ideas of Britishness through essays on literature, philosophy, music, art, and design, revealing its rich forging.
Britishness is a challenging term to define. This volume enhances our understanding of modern national identity by exploring historical ideas of Britishness through essays on literature, philosophy, music, art, and design, revealing its rich forging.
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The Word made Visible in the Painted Image
Perspective, Proportion, Witness and Threshold in Italian Renaissance Painting
This monograph explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ.
This monograph explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ.
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Art and Social Justice
The Media Connection
This book explores the connections between art, social justice, and media. With chapters referencing situations in Brazil, Cyprus, Greece and South Africa, it concentrates on how art campaigns for change and mobilizes youth in a world mediated by the Internet.
This book explores the connections between art, social justice, and media. With chapters referencing situations in Brazil, Cyprus, Greece and South Africa, it concentrates on how art campaigns for change and mobilizes youth in a world mediated by the Internet.
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The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television
A Case Study on Valley of the Wolves
This book explores nationalism and masculinity in Turkey through the popular television serial, Valley of the Wolves. Drawing on in-depth viewer interviews, it examines the central paramilitary hero and how audiences construct meaning and pleasure from the text.
This book explores nationalism and masculinity in Turkey through the popular television serial, Valley of the Wolves. Drawing on in-depth viewer interviews, it examines the central paramilitary hero and how audiences construct meaning and pleasure from the text.
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This volume provides accessible articles on masters of world cinema whose works explore human spirituality and religious faith. It examines canonical directors like De Sica and Hitchcock alongside contemporary auteurs like Asghar Farhadi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
This volume provides accessible articles on masters of world cinema whose works explore human spirituality and religious faith. It examines canonical directors like De Sica and Hitchcock alongside contemporary auteurs like Asghar Farhadi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
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Representing the proceedings of the inaugural conference of the University of Arizona Center for American Culture and Ideas, these contributions explore the relationship between the high arts and culture in America, considering a range of subjects from dance to philosophy.
Representing the proceedings of the inaugural conference of the University of Arizona Center for American Culture and Ideas, these contributions explore the relationship between the high arts and culture in America, considering a range of subjects from dance to philosophy.
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Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
A Contrastive Analysis of Compliments and Insults from English into Italian
This analysis of the film *Bamboozled* compares the original screenplay with the Italian dub. Focusing on compliments and insults, it reveals how cultural references and the linguistic traits of African American English are weakened or omitted in translation.
This analysis of the film *Bamboozled* compares the original screenplay with the Italian dub. Focusing on compliments and insults, it reveals how cultural references and the linguistic traits of African American English are weakened or omitted in translation.
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Thinking Space, Advancing Art
Cassirer and Crowther
This book highlights the problems of art theory’s current obsession with theories of spectatorship, and argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one’s experience of space, using the ideas of Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther as support.
This book highlights the problems of art theory’s current obsession with theories of spectatorship, and argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one’s experience of space, using the ideas of Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther as support.
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Staging Ben
A Collection of Essays on the Theatricality of Jonson's Plays
This edited volume offers a rebuttal of the mischaracterization of Ben Jonson’s plays as anti-theatrical. Featuring contributions from both Renaissance literature scholars and theatre practitioners, it demonstrates the playwright’s prodigious theatrical imagination.
This edited volume offers a rebuttal of the mischaracterization of Ben Jonson’s plays as anti-theatrical. Featuring contributions from both Renaissance literature scholars and theatre practitioners, it demonstrates the playwright’s prodigious theatrical imagination.
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Adaptations
Some Journeys from Words to Visuals
This book explores the journey of written text to the screen, focusing on cinematic adaptations of Indian and international literary works. It engages with issues like ‘fidelity’ and ‘intertextuality’ in the works of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and others.
This book explores the journey of written text to the screen, focusing on cinematic adaptations of Indian and international literary works. It engages with issues like ‘fidelity’ and ‘intertextuality’ in the works of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and others.
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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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Connecting art, nature, and science, these essays trace the collection and display of objects from early wunderkammern to the 18th century. They reveal a world where art and nature were intrinsically linked, charting the path to their modern divisions.
Connecting art, nature, and science, these essays trace the collection and display of objects from early wunderkammern to the 18th century. They reveal a world where art and nature were intrinsically linked, charting the path to their modern divisions.
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