Transcultural Screenwriting
This text offers an innovative approach to the study of screenwriting as a creative process by integrating the fields of film and TV production studies, screenwriting studies, narrative studies, rhetorics, transnational cinema studies, and intercultural communication studies.
Beyond the Skin
“We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies.” In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.
This monograph is a study of the literature, paintings, icons and other aspects related to the Image of Edessa, an image of Christ, which, according to tradition, was of miraculous origin, examining how it was used as a tool to express Christ’s humanity.
China in the Frame
This ethnographic study of Chinese art displays in Italy highlights how representing the cultural Other becomes a process of self-expression. It shows how in representing China, Italy is induced to question and represent its own cultural identity.
CoMa 2013
This book offers a wide variety of subjects on preserving image collections. It covers theoretical questions of value, collection management, scientific research, and digitization, providing a base for anyone dealing with photographs to ensure their long-term preservation.
The PCI Artists
This book examines the Italian Communist Party’s artistic policies (1944–1951), providing a framework for wider reflections on art and politics. At a time when the world was divided, Italian artists became protagonists of a project to synthesize antagonistic cultural blocs.
For the first time, this book demonstrates the extraordinary contribution of Australian glass artist David Wright. Including the first catalogue raisonné on the artist, it examines the stunning art glass he created for Australia’s sacred and public spaces.
An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. As such, this volume discusses the impact of the conflict on entertainment television, offering comparative aspect by studying programs from both Eastern and Western blocs.
New technologies have transformed audiovisual storytelling, turning viewers into creators and participants. Featuring texts by leading media scholars, this book offers analyses of these expanding practices, from mobile media and gaming to interactive documentaries.
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.
Female Silences, Turkey’s Crises
Güçlü focuses on the newly emergent silent female characters in Turkish cinema, and explores the relationship between this ‘new’ representational form, the ‘new’ cinema of Turkey, and the ‘new’ socio-political climate in Turkey after the September 12, 1980 military coup.
We Speak a Different Tongue
This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era’s tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.
Arising from a conference on multimodal communication, this volume deals with the study and documentation of the performing arts. It presents such issues as multimodality in human interaction and performance, as well as embodied cognition and metaphor.
Women Framing Hair
This book explores the complex motif of hair in the work of five contemporary women artists. It investigates why hair is such a resonant site of meaning, exploring its history as a marker of identity, beauty, and power, and its darker side representing trauma.
Formations of Identity
The contributions here explore the ways in which physical landscape has been appropriated by artists to represent political, social, and national identities in a variety of geographical and historical contexts.
This compilation of essays examines the nexus between artists, their art, and society. Through a diverse group of artists, it explores important issues like the representation of the Other and the construction of the self, offering fascinating insights.
This collection of papers deals with cultural changes that occurred in the context of Roman imperial politics. The papers focus on societies on the fringes, both social and geographical, and their response to Roman Imperialism in local contexts.
The Flâneur Abroad
This volume offers new perspectives on the flâneur, mapping the figure’s travels beyond Paris. It explores the flâneur in international cities and across visual media, revising stereotypes and reconsidering the nature of this cultural icon.
A collection of essays by scholars and artists exploring theatre’s role in political awareness through the voice of the marginalized. It shows how the theatre of differences denounces prejudice and regains its role as the brain and lungs of the community.
Across seven centuries, trace the global journey of Chinese art. These essays reveal how collectors and museums in Japan, Europe, and America have shaped its circulation, taste, and cultural meaning across cultures.