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Grace Crowley was a leading innovator of geometric abstraction in Australia. After studying in Paris, she returned to become a crucial influence on Australian abstraction. Though undervalued in her time, she is now one of the most important women artists of her generation.
Grace Crowley was a leading innovator of geometric abstraction in Australia. After studying in Paris, she returned to become a crucial influence on Australian abstraction. Though undervalued in her time, she is now one of the most important women artists of her generation.
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Telling Stories
Countering Narrative in Art, Theory and Film
Trespassing disciplines to bind practice and theory, this collection addresses the contemporary preoccupation with narrative. It considers how visual and performative encounters in photography, film, and objects can contribute to thinking and ask: how might they tell theories?
Trespassing disciplines to bind practice and theory, this collection addresses the contemporary preoccupation with narrative. It considers how visual and performative encounters in photography, film, and objects can contribute to thinking and ask: how might they tell theories?
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Post-Apartheid Dance
Many Bodies Many Voices Many Stories
This ground-breaking work presents perspectives on post-apartheid dance in South Africa. Reflecting a multiplicity of voices, it juxtaposes contentious issues to draw attention to the complexity of dancing on the ashes of apartheid.
This ground-breaking work presents perspectives on post-apartheid dance in South Africa. Reflecting a multiplicity of voices, it juxtaposes contentious issues to draw attention to the complexity of dancing on the ashes of apartheid.
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Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines how film represents and constructs identities, transcending national and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays challenges ideological paradigms and contributes to contemporary debates in film studies.
Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines how film represents and constructs identities, transcending national and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays challenges ideological paradigms and contributes to contemporary debates in film studies.
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Feminisms is Still Our Name
Seven Essays on Historiography and Curatorial Practices
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
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Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
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War, Human Dignity and Nation Building
Theological Perspectives on Canada’s Role in Afghanistan
Canada’s longest conflict, the Afghan Mission, is a watershed moment with immense costs, yet it remains little scrutinized by faith communities. This volume is the first to bring together theologians, politicians, and academics to dialogue on its impact.
Canada’s longest conflict, the Afghan Mission, is a watershed moment with immense costs, yet it remains little scrutinized by faith communities. This volume is the first to bring together theologians, politicians, and academics to dialogue on its impact.
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“And that’s true too”
New Essays on King Lear
Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare's elusive and powerful tragedy.
Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare’s elusive and powerful tragedy.
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Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents
Money in Modern American Drama
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
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Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.
Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.
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Justinus Kerner's Travel Shadows (1811) is no ordinary travelogue. It is a highly imaginative, surreal concoction of grotesque, satirical, and folkloric elements, presenting a journey as a grandiose shadow show. Now available in its first English translation.
Justinus Kerner’s Travel Shadows (1811) is no ordinary travelogue. It is a highly imaginative, surreal concoction of grotesque, satirical, and folkloric elements, presenting a journey as a grandiose shadow show. Now available in its first English translation.
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A World of Popular Entertainments
An Edited Volume of Critical Essays
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
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Doubling the Duality
A Theoretical and Practical Investigation into Materiality and Embodiment of Meaning in the Integration of Live Action and Animation
This book explores the aesthetic and cultural integration of live action and animation. It argues that even in an era of seamless digital effects, their differences and dialogues remain a significant source for the evolution of cinematic language.
This book explores the aesthetic and cultural integration of live action and animation. It argues that even in an era of seamless digital effects, their differences and dialogues remain a significant source for the evolution of cinematic language.
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The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
New Approaches
This book moves beyond the Seven Wonders framework to explore the unsurpassed reputation and unique importance of the Statue of Zeus. Using interdisciplinary perspectives, it traces the statue's influence from antiquity through to recent centuries.
This book moves beyond the Seven Wonders framework to explore the unsurpassed reputation and unique importance of the Statue of Zeus. Using interdisciplinary perspectives, it traces the statue’s influence from antiquity through to recent centuries.
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Darkening Scandinavia
Four Postmodern Pagan Essays
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
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The Future is Now
A New Look at African Diaspora Studies
This collection of essays from new voices in African Diaspora Studies explores art, literature, film, and music across the Americas and Europe. Scholars interrogate themes of memory, power, and identity to uncover forgotten episodes of history.
This collection of essays from new voices in African Diaspora Studies explores art, literature, film, and music across the Americas and Europe. Scholars interrogate themes of memory, power, and identity to uncover forgotten episodes of history.
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Alternatives within the Mainstream II
Queer Theatres in post-war Britain
This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.
This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.
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To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.
To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.
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Theatre Noise
The Sound of Performance
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
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The People’s Pictures
National Lottery Funding and British Cinema
When the UK’s National Lottery began funding “the people’s pictures,” a debate was sparked. Should public money support popular hits the public wants to see, or experimental cinema that requires state support? This book explores the controversies.
When the UK’s National Lottery began funding “the people’s pictures,” a debate was sparked. Should public money support popular hits the public wants to see, or experimental cinema that requires state support? This book explores the controversies.
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