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These essays examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans. From 19th-century emigrants to contemporary artists, this study explores the conflicted visions of a people striving to come to terms with what it means to be Irish.
These essays examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans. From 19th-century emigrants to contemporary artists, this study explores the conflicted visions of a people striving to come to terms with what it means to be Irish.
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Art and money are both given symbolic value, turning a simple object into a commodity. These essays examine this complex relationship across different cultures and historical periods, from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Pop Art.
Art and money are both given symbolic value, turning a simple object into a commodity. These essays examine this complex relationship across different cultures and historical periods, from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Pop Art.
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Victorian Cultures of Liminality
Borders and Margins
This volume focuses on cross-fertilisation in the arts, liminal spaces, and marginal figures. It contributes to scholarship on Anglo-French exchanges, evoking a sense of temporal shift as nineteenth-century values progress and showing how pictures and texts shape identity.
This volume focuses on cross-fertilisation in the arts, liminal spaces, and marginal figures. It contributes to scholarship on Anglo-French exchanges, evoking a sense of temporal shift as nineteenth-century values progress and showing how pictures and texts shape identity.
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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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The Shattered Mirror
Irish Literature and Film,1990-2005
This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the 'Celtic Tiger' (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.
This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.
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Deriving from the 6th Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, this collection presents material from the fields of philosophy, literature and theatre. It will interest researchers of literature, theatre and the arts from a consciousness studies perspective.
Deriving from the 6th Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, this collection presents material from the fields of philosophy, literature and theatre. It will interest researchers of literature, theatre and the arts from a consciousness studies perspective.
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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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Projecting Words, Writing Images
Intersections of the Textual and the Visual in American Cultural Practices
This compilation of essays explores the energetic field of visual cultural studies. Scholars engage with photography, film, television, and literature, re-theorizing the relationship between word and image and their intersections with race, gender, and public spheres.
This compilation of essays explores the energetic field of visual cultural studies. Scholars engage with photography, film, television, and literature, re-theorizing the relationship between word and image and their intersections with race, gender, and public spheres.
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The Cinematography of Roger Corman
Exploitation Filmmaker or Auteur?
Adopting a methodology based on auteur theory in its structuralist form, Aleksandrowicz investigates the duality of the work of Roger Corman, straddling the line between “the King of the B’s” and an artist whose works are worthy of the highest cinema awards.
Adopting a methodology based on auteur theory in its structuralist form, Aleksandrowicz investigates the duality of the work of Roger Corman, straddling the line between “the King of the B’s” and an artist whose works are worthy of the highest cinema awards.
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This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
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Rejecting Western definitions of epilepsy, many Africans choose traditional healing. This book explores indigenous health practices in Africa, with case studies from Zimbabwe, to reveal attitudes toward medication and propose a new model for management that combines both worlds.
Rejecting Western definitions of epilepsy, many Africans choose traditional healing. This book explores indigenous health practices in Africa, with case studies from Zimbabwe, to reveal attitudes toward medication and propose a new model for management that combines both worlds.
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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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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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Giorgio Vasari
The Quest of a Painter
This book presents Giorgio Vasari as an intellectual and philosopher, exploring how he transformed the artist’s role in 16th-century Italy. Vasari elevated their status from mere artisans to divinely inspired creators whose work conveys profound moral and intellectual messages.
This book presents Giorgio Vasari as an intellectual and philosopher, exploring how he transformed the artist’s role in 16th-century Italy. Vasari elevated their status from mere artisans to divinely inspired creators whose work conveys profound moral and intellectual messages.
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On Ibsen and Strindberg
The Reversed Telescope
This unique study views Ibsen and Strindberg through a reversed telescope. From this distant perspective, their intense rivalry and the legendary actors who first performed their work are revealed in a paradoxical, illuminating new light.
This unique study views Ibsen and Strindberg through a reversed telescope. From this distant perspective, their intense rivalry and the legendary actors who first performed their work are revealed in a paradoxical, illuminating new light.
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Socrates and Dionysus
Philosophy and Art in Dialogue
Nietzsche argued Socratic reason destroyed the tragic art of Dionysus, pitting science against art. But are they enemies? This volume challenges that division, exploring how artists and thinkers bridge the gap between the world of fact and the world of fiction.
Nietzsche argued Socratic reason destroyed the tragic art of Dionysus, pitting science against art. But are they enemies? This volume challenges that division, exploring how artists and thinkers bridge the gap between the world of fact and the world of fiction.
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“The two most powerful films of Shakespeare plays were made not in Great Britain but in the Soviet Union.” This book reveals director Grigori Kozintsev’s vision as he takes a text from stage to film, offering new ways to view Shakespeare and understand the challenging King Lear.
“The two most powerful films of Shakespeare plays were made not in Great Britain but in the Soviet Union.” This book reveals director Grigori Kozintsev’s vision as he takes a text from stage to film, offering new ways to view Shakespeare and understand the challenging King Lear.
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Singapore Radio
Then and Now
Freeman and Ramakrishnan track the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations, detailing economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore along the way.
Freeman and Ramakrishnan track the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations, detailing economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore along the way.
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Polish Theatre after the Fall of Communism
Dionysus since '89
In investigating how Polish theatre has changed since 1989 and the fall of Communism. Śmiechowicz highlights the creativity of Polish contemporary theatre, and details the major points of difference between it and the theatre traditions of many other European countries.
In investigating how Polish theatre has changed since 1989 and the fall of Communism. Śmiechowicz highlights the creativity of Polish contemporary theatre, and details the major points of difference between it and the theatre traditions of many other European countries.
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To Inspire and Instruct
A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
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