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The Book of Angels
Seen and Unseen
Explore our deep fascination with angels. This illustrated book examines their depiction in art, scripture, and mystical writings across world religions. Discover the visual clues, artistic conventions, and celestial hierarchies that define these vibrant and energised beings.
Explore our deep fascination with angels. This illustrated book examines their depiction in art, scripture, and mystical writings across world religions. Discover the visual clues, artistic conventions, and celestial hierarchies that define these vibrant and energised beings.
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Memory, Place and Autobiography
Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking
In autobiographical film, the filmmaker—as maker and subject—acts as a cultural guide. This book explores how memory is evoked through hybrid strategies like fictional enactment, and charts the history of British independent filmmaking from the 1970s to the age of new media.
In autobiographical film, the filmmaker—as maker and subject—acts as a cultural guide. This book explores how memory is evoked through hybrid strategies like fictional enactment, and charts the history of British independent filmmaking from the 1970s to the age of new media.
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Vision of Change in African Drama
Fémi Òsófisan’s Dialectical Reading of History and Politics
This book focuses on Fémi Òsófisan, a major Nigerian dramatist and postcolonial writer. It explores how he questions colonial and postcolonial identity by exploiting his Yorùbá heritage, re-writing mythology and history to comment on contemporary social and political issues.
This book focuses on Fémi Òsófisan, a major Nigerian dramatist and postcolonial writer. It explores how he questions colonial and postcolonial identity by exploiting his Yorùbá heritage, re-writing mythology and history to comment on contemporary social and political issues.
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Art in Rome
From Antiquity to the Present
This volume covers Rome's major artistic and architectural masterpieces from antiquity to the present. Organized topographically by area and chronologically by period, it is an engaging and informative guide for students, scholars, and erudite travelers.
This volume covers Rome’s major artistic and architectural masterpieces from antiquity to the present. Organized topographically by area and chronologically by period, it is an engaging and informative guide for students, scholars, and erudite travelers.
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This book is the first complete research on opera theatres across the Middle East and North Africa. Examining many previously undocumented institutions, this work provides scholars and practitioners with the first reference on their evolutionary process.
This book is the first complete research on opera theatres across the Middle East and North Africa. Examining many previously undocumented institutions, this work provides scholars and practitioners with the first reference on their evolutionary process.
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Photography as Power
Dominance and Resistance through the Italian Lens
This book explores the relationship between photography and power in Italian history. It examines how photography has been used as an instrument of dominance—from war propaganda to fascism—and as a critical medium to resist hegemonic discourses and create counter-narratives.
This book explores the relationship between photography and power in Italian history. It examines how photography has been used as an instrument of dominance—from war propaganda to fascism—and as a critical medium to resist hegemonic discourses and create counter-narratives.
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Living as we do in a world marked by an ‘age apartheid’, films remain the most accessible form of information regarding getting older for the general public. Using current gerontological theory, this volume provides insight into the accuracy of cinematic representations of aging.
Living as we do in a world marked by an ‘age apartheid’, films remain the most accessible form of information regarding getting older for the general public. Using current gerontological theory, this volume provides insight into the accuracy of cinematic representations of aging.
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Mnemodrama in Action
An Introduction to the Theatre of Alessandro Fersen
Mnemodrama, or a “drama of memory”, is a technique of actor training borne out of experiments conducted by the Italian theatre maker Alessandro Fersen in his studio laboratory in Rome between 1957 and 1983. This work is an introduction to its theory and practice.
Mnemodrama, or a “drama of memory”, is a technique of actor training borne out of experiments conducted by the Italian theatre maker Alessandro Fersen in his studio laboratory in Rome between 1957 and 1983. This work is an introduction to its theory and practice.
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Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema
The Allegory of the Motionless Traveler
This book reflects upon the crisis and recovery of utopia, from classic Greece to the neoliberal era in Latin America. Using decolonialist theory, it contributes a new model of analysis for Latin American cinema: “the allegory of the motionless traveler.”
This book reflects upon the crisis and recovery of utopia, from classic Greece to the neoliberal era in Latin America. Using decolonialist theory, it contributes a new model of analysis for Latin American cinema: “the allegory of the motionless traveler.”
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Conversations with Indian Cartoonists
Politickle Lines
Picking up the pen is like playing with fire in political cartooning. Cartoonists draw the line to shake us out of apathy. In the tradition of Shankar and R. K. Laxman, this volume presents conversations with India’s leading cartoonists, taking us into their recondite art.
Picking up the pen is like playing with fire in political cartooning. Cartoonists draw the line to shake us out of apathy. In the tradition of Shankar and R. K. Laxman, this volume presents conversations with India’s leading cartoonists, taking us into their recondite art.
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Film and the Historian
The British Experience
Films are not just for audiences. A film exposes the attitudes people took for granted. This volume surveys British cinema from the Second World War to the early 1970s, exploring societal change through films from the well-known Odd Man Out to the forgotten It’s Hard to be Good.
Films are not just for audiences. A film exposes the attitudes people took for granted. This volume surveys British cinema from the Second World War to the early 1970s, exploring societal change through films from the well-known Odd Man Out to the forgotten It’s Hard to be Good.
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An insightful exploration of sensation and synaesthesia in film and new media. These essays examine how cinematic experiences create immersive environments that stimulate our senses and mind, from perception and movement to olfaction, abstract cinema, and interactive art.
An insightful exploration of sensation and synaesthesia in film and new media. These essays examine how cinematic experiences create immersive environments that stimulate our senses and mind, from perception and movement to olfaction, abstract cinema, and interactive art.
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While ancient objects from Northern Europe are usually seen as historical documents, many should be regarded as works of fine art. This book encourages readers to appreciate Bronze Age and early Medieval artefacts as they do works by well-known contemporary artists.
While ancient objects from Northern Europe are usually seen as historical documents, many should be regarded as works of fine art. This book encourages readers to appreciate Bronze Age and early Medieval artefacts as they do works by well-known contemporary artists.
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This collection of essays explores the intersection of art and violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It will appeal to students, scholars, and readers with an interest in medieval and early modern art history.
This collection of essays explores the intersection of art and violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It will appeal to students, scholars, and readers with an interest in medieval and early modern art history.
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Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare
The Thirasheela versus the Curtain
For lovers of the performing arts, especially Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala. This book uniquely compares Shakespearean plays and characters to the stories and characters in Kathakali, offering a completely new perspective.
For lovers of the performing arts, especially Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala. This book uniquely compares Shakespearean plays and characters to the stories and characters in Kathakali, offering a completely new perspective.
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Forms of Experienced Environments
Questioning Relations between Humans, Aesthetics, and Sciences
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
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Requests in Film Dialogue and Dubbing Translation
A Comparative Study of English and Italian
This is the first account of speech act pragmatics and (im)politeness in film conversation and dubbing, focusing on requests. It compares the features of requests in English and Italian film dialogue and reveals how their pragmatics travel across languages in translation.
This is the first account of speech act pragmatics and (im)politeness in film conversation and dubbing, focusing on requests. It compares the features of requests in English and Italian film dialogue and reveals how their pragmatics travel across languages in translation.
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The Language of Art and Cultural Heritage
A Plurilingual and Digital Perspective
This book provides an up-to-date overview of digital linguistic resources and research methods to design effective communication strategies for art and cultural heritage. It offers innovative tools for curators, translators, researchers, and heritage management professionals.
This book provides an up-to-date overview of digital linguistic resources and research methods to design effective communication strategies for art and cultural heritage. It offers innovative tools for curators, translators, researchers, and heritage management professionals.
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Postsocialist Mobilities
Studies in Eastern European Cinema
Native scholars examine mobility in the cinema of the Visegrad countries and Romania, exploring political transition, social change, and transforming gender roles. These in-depth analyses are uniquely informed by the authors’ own “close-up” personal experiences of the phenomena.
Native scholars examine mobility in the cinema of the Visegrad countries and Romania, exploring political transition, social change, and transforming gender roles. These in-depth analyses are uniquely informed by the authors’ own “close-up” personal experiences of the phenomena.
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Re-imagining African Identity in the Twenty-First Century
The Force of Intermediality
This book deconstructs the idea that African identity is based exclusively on ‘Blackness’. It argues for intermediality, a new way of thinking that embraces difference to envision a vibrant, cosmopolitan Africa open to people of all races and identities.
This book deconstructs the idea that African identity is based exclusively on ‘Blackness’. It argues for intermediality, a new way of thinking that embraces difference to envision a vibrant, cosmopolitan Africa open to people of all races and identities.
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