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Grace under Pressure
Grey's Anatomy Uncovered
This collection of essays offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Authors examine topics including the show's creation and marketing, the role of music, and its exploration of gender, family, and morality.
This collection of essays offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Authors examine topics including the show’s creation and marketing, the role of music, and its exploration of gender, family, and morality.
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The Legacy of Antiquity
New Perspectives in the Reception of the Classical World
This collection of essays explores the uses of the past from a wide range of perspectives. Drawn from medieval to modern times, it presents new perspectives on the constant fascination with the antique, opening the way for future research.
This collection of essays explores the uses of the past from a wide range of perspectives. Drawn from medieval to modern times, it presents new perspectives on the constant fascination with the antique, opening the way for future research.
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More Than Mere Playthings
The Minor Arts of Italy
Spanning ancient Etruria to 20th-century Italy, this book explores the minor arts—from cameos to reliquaries. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, it reveals the unique importance of these objects, showing that the division between major and minor arts is no longer valid.
Spanning ancient Etruria to 20th-century Italy, this book explores the minor arts—from cameos to reliquaries. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, it reveals the unique importance of these objects, showing that the division between major and minor arts is no longer valid.
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Westerns
Paperback Novels and Movies from Hollywood
Popular Westerns powerfully impacted U.S. and European culture. Collected here are new studies of classic films by John Ford and Clint Eastwood, as well as new studies of seldom-studied writers such as Charles Portis and Oakley Hall.
Popular Westerns powerfully impacted U.S. and European culture. Collected here are new studies of classic films by John Ford and Clint Eastwood, as well as new studies of seldom-studied writers such as Charles Portis and Oakley Hall.
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The “I” and the “Eye”
The Verbal and the Visual in Post-Renaissance Western Aesthetics
Tracing the opposition between verbal and visual arts from Lessing to Greenberg, the author delineates it as a history of diffusions, displacements and idealist reparations of class division.
Tracing the opposition between verbal and visual arts from Lessing to Greenberg, the author delineates it as a history of diffusions, displacements and idealist reparations of class division.
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Hidden Legacies of Baroque Thought in Contemporary Literature
The Realms of Eternal Present
This monograph presents, from the point of view of the early modern historian, the legacy of Baroque thought in modern and contemporary literature. It highlights the patterns of thought that our time owes to the age of Baroque, namely both temporal and spatial plurality.
This monograph presents, from the point of view of the early modern historian, the legacy of Baroque thought in modern and contemporary literature. It highlights the patterns of thought that our time owes to the age of Baroque, namely both temporal and spatial plurality.
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Deconstructing Reaganism
An Analysis of American Fantasy Films
This book explores Reagan’s political legacy in American films. While many films from 1980-2000 seem to celebrate family stability and social order, they create an unsettling mythology that reveals the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of Reaganism.
This book explores Reagan’s political legacy in American films. While many films from 1980-2000 seem to celebrate family stability and social order, they create an unsettling mythology that reveals the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of Reaganism.
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This book explores the shifting portrayal of World War II in Hollywood films. Adopting a comparative study, it discusses WWII films made during the Bush administration after 9/11 and those produced during the presidential campaign of Obama.
This book explores the shifting portrayal of World War II in Hollywood films. Adopting a comparative study, it discusses WWII films made during the Bush administration after 9/11 and those produced during the presidential campaign of Obama.
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Showing the World to the World
Political Fictions in French Cinema of the 1990s and early 2000s
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these "political fictions" contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these “political fictions” contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
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John Guare’s Theatre
The Art of Connecting
John Guare’s aesthetic principle: a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. This study explores his dramas, which soar by interrupting action, mixing genres, and taking hairpin turns to explore the American heritage and Dream.
John Guare’s aesthetic principle: a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. This study explores his dramas, which soar by interrupting action, mixing genres, and taking hairpin turns to explore the American heritage and Dream.
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Making Peace In and With the World
The Gülen Movement and Eco-Justice
This study of the Gülen movement explores contemporary Islamic thought on eco-justice. It argues that true peace requires two dimensions: peace between differing human communities and peace between humanity and nature, challenging exclusivist views.
This study of the Gülen movement explores contemporary Islamic thought on eco-justice. It argues that true peace requires two dimensions: peace between differing human communities and peace between humanity and nature, challenging exclusivist views.
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Metanarrative Functions of Film Genre in Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare Films
Strange Bedfellows
Maerz demonstrates Kenneth Branagh’s appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original. She examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes.
Maerz demonstrates Kenneth Branagh’s appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original. She examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes.
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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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The essays in this volume explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literature, film, and music. This collection reflects a wide range of international disciplines and highlights the growing interest in consciousness studies.
The essays in this volume explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literature, film, and music. This collection reflects a wide range of international disciplines and highlights the growing interest in consciousness studies.
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Documents on the Balkans – History, Memory, Identity
Representations of Historical Discourses in the Balkan Documentary Film
This book explores how Balkan films produce identities based on memory, often in response to the 1990s conflicts. Case studies connect the 'private space' of everyday lives to macro-debates, making this a powerful contribution to cultural and visual history.
This book explores how Balkan films produce identities based on memory, often in response to the 1990s conflicts. Case studies connect the ‘private space’ of everyday lives to macro-debates, making this a powerful contribution to cultural and visual history.
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These essays from international experts highlight the growing interdisciplinary interest in the relationship between human consciousness and the arts. The collection reflects a wide range of approaches to theatre, literature, film, fine arts, and music.
These essays from international experts highlight the growing interdisciplinary interest in the relationship between human consciousness and the arts. The collection reflects a wide range of approaches to theatre, literature, film, fine arts, and music.
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The Art of the Caveman
The Poetry of Paul Durcan
The first monograph dedicated to the poetry of Paul Durcan, this book deals thematically with the dominant concerns evident throughout his work, arguing that the poet has captured the complexities inherent in Ireland’s emergence from the early, difficult decades of independence.
The first monograph dedicated to the poetry of Paul Durcan, this book deals thematically with the dominant concerns evident throughout his work, arguing that the poet has captured the complexities inherent in Ireland’s emergence from the early, difficult decades of independence.
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Myths are the blueprint for creativity. This volume presents an innovative theory of the creative process, explaining how authentic art transcends time to communicate with us today. It also explores the fascinating link between madness and creativity.
Myths are the blueprint for creativity. This volume presents an innovative theory of the creative process, explaining how authentic art transcends time to communicate with us today. It also explores the fascinating link between madness and creativity.
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Forgotten British Film
Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema
Gillett exhumes some of the films released in Britain over the last 70 years, including Daybreak (1948), and he probes the reasons for their neglect. He considers the contributions of those involved in the films and examines such issues as the response of critics and audiences.
Gillett exhumes some of the films released in Britain over the last 70 years, including Daybreak (1948), and he probes the reasons for their neglect. He considers the contributions of those involved in the films and examines such issues as the response of critics and audiences.
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This collection of scholarly articles explores Strindberg on international stages and in translation. Essays analyze performances, translation problems, and postdramatic theatre, posing key questions for modern Strindberg scholars, directors, and enthusiasts.
This collection of scholarly articles explores Strindberg on international stages and in translation. Essays analyze performances, translation problems, and postdramatic theatre, posing key questions for modern Strindberg scholars, directors, and enthusiasts.
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