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This text highlights Robert Lepage’s preoccupation with an ongoing dialogue with worldwide audiences, and their involvement in developing an innovative practice of the Western theatre landscape. It examines the notion that intermediality is situated at the core of his approach.
This text highlights Robert Lepage’s preoccupation with an ongoing dialogue with worldwide audiences, and their involvement in developing an innovative practice of the Western theatre landscape. It examines the notion that intermediality is situated at the core of his approach.
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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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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 1879 Theft of Royal Ms 16 E VIII from the British Museum
Wars and Tolkien’s Teacher’s Role
In 1879, a priceless manuscript containing the only copy of the oldest French poem vanished from the British Museum. This study explores the intense academic rivalries after the Franco-Prussian War that fueled the theft and provides a reconstruction of the lost text.
In 1879, a priceless manuscript containing the only copy of the oldest French poem vanished from the British Museum. This study explores the intense academic rivalries after the Franco-Prussian War that fueled the theft and provides a reconstruction of the lost text.
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The Permanence of the Transient
Precariousness in Art
Precariousness in art may be transient, yet it instigates permanent changes. These interdisciplinary essays examine the traces of precariousness in contemporary art, locating it as an undercurrent and connective tissue across diverse areas of knowledge and life.
Precariousness in art may be transient, yet it instigates permanent changes. These interdisciplinary essays examine the traces of precariousness in contemporary art, locating it as an undercurrent and connective tissue across diverse areas of knowledge and life.
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The Cinematographic Activities of Charles Rider Noble and John Mackenzie in the Balkans (Volume Two)
This book details the engrossing story of two camera operators sent to the Balkans in the early 20th century. They filmed the first motion pictures of the region’s landscapes, cultural traditions, and public events, providing an exciting trip ‘through savage Europe’.
This book details the engrossing story of two camera operators sent to the Balkans in the early 20th century. They filmed the first motion pictures of the region’s landscapes, cultural traditions, and public events, providing an exciting trip ‘through savage Europe’.
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This book scrutinises the complexities of adapting plays across cultures. Through modern British theatre, it explores the split between state-imposed and personal identity in an age of globalism, arguing for the need to transcend cultural frontiers.
This book scrutinises the complexities of adapting plays across cultures. Through modern British theatre, it explores the split between state-imposed and personal identity in an age of globalism, arguing for the need to transcend cultural frontiers.
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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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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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On stage, hunger becomes a powerful spectacle. This volume explores the paradox of the thinning body, revealing how staged starvation—material, spiritual, and emotional—has shaped powerfully transgressive dramaturgies throughout history.
On stage, hunger becomes a powerful spectacle. This volume explores the paradox of the thinning body, revealing how staged starvation—material, spiritual, and emotional—has shaped powerfully transgressive dramaturgies throughout history.
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Classical drama on the modern stage is a major cultural and political phenomenon. Intertwined with the politics of locale, language, and culture, its performance is a feature in all types of theatre. These essays provide case studies for everyone in the field.
Classical drama on the modern stage is a major cultural and political phenomenon. Intertwined with the politics of locale, language, and culture, its performance is a feature in all types of theatre. These essays provide case studies for everyone in the field.
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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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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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This study examines the social and cultural contexts that frame art's creation and influence its effects. Time is a social river, unpredictable and forever in motion. Art runs in that river, subject to the flow and chance of its inexorable force.
This study examines the social and cultural contexts that frame art’s creation and influence its effects. Time is a social river, unpredictable and forever in motion. Art runs in that river, subject to the flow and chance of its inexorable force.
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Tracing their Tracks
Identification of Nordic Styles from the Early Middle Ages to the end of the Viking Period
Artefacts from Medieval Scandinavia show principles of visual perception used by artists a thousand years earlier than was recognised. This book considers Old Norse culture to understand the development of visual communication, an aspect lacking in literature—until now!
Artefacts from Medieval Scandinavia show principles of visual perception used by artists a thousand years earlier than was recognised. This book considers Old Norse culture to understand the development of visual communication, an aspect lacking in literature—until now!
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“Clearing the Ground”
The Field Day Theatre Company and the Construction of Irish Identities
Was the Field Day Theatre Company the “cultural wing” of Sinn Fein and the IRA, or a new critical voice challenging traditional representations? This study critiques the successes and failures of a company that discussed identity, memory, and history in new ways.
Was the Field Day Theatre Company the “cultural wing” of Sinn Fein and the IRA, or a new critical voice challenging traditional representations? This study critiques the successes and failures of a company that discussed identity, memory, and history in new ways.
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This collection of essays highlights the growing interest in the relationship between the arts and human consciousness. Reflecting a wide range of disciplines and approaches, the book features contributions from scholars across the world.
This collection of essays highlights the growing interest in the relationship between the arts and human consciousness. Reflecting a wide range of disciplines and approaches, the book features contributions from scholars across the world.
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This anthology explores how theatre functions at the interstices of local and global networks. It offers diverse critical viewpoints to argue that the local and global should not be regarded in opposition but as entangled, a potent force of expression and resistance.
This anthology explores how theatre functions at the interstices of local and global networks. It offers diverse critical viewpoints to argue that the local and global should not be regarded in opposition but as entangled, a potent force of expression and resistance.
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Images of the City takes readers on a journey through urban landscapes across centuries and borders. These essays offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the city, providing essential reading for cityphiles everywhere.
Images of the City takes readers on a journey through urban landscapes across centuries and borders. These essays offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the city, providing essential reading for cityphiles everywhere.
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Bound by Love
Familial Bonding in Film and Television since 1950
The bonds of love can bring bliss or demand sacrifice; they can save us or destroy us. This book explores how familial bonds in film and television reveal a cultural dialogue about the changing nature of love and the American family.
The bonds of love can bring bliss or demand sacrifice; they can save us or destroy us. This book explores how familial bonds in film and television reveal a cultural dialogue about the changing nature of love and the American family.
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