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The Fluid Frame in Cinema
Collected Essays
A passionate rendezvous with cinema. These essays offer a close reading of film that looks beyond the frame to its cultural and historical roots, reappraising Indian cinema, classic adaptations, and directors like Hitchcock and Kubrick through a contemporary critical gaze.
A passionate rendezvous with cinema. These essays offer a close reading of film that looks beyond the frame to its cultural and historical roots, reappraising Indian cinema, classic adaptations, and directors like Hitchcock and Kubrick through a contemporary critical gaze.
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J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Spirit Forms of Africa
Making the Connections
This book connects a Georgia sharecropper to a healer in Senegal, changing how we appreciate American folk arts. It traces both art and Islam through the African Diaspora, revealing why folk artists are vital carriers of knowledge and offering an insightful look at folk culture.
This book connects a Georgia sharecropper to a healer in Senegal, changing how we appreciate American folk arts. It traces both art and Islam through the African Diaspora, revealing why folk artists are vital carriers of knowledge and offering an insightful look at folk culture.
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Spiritual and Corporeal Selves in India
Approaches in a Global World
This volume explores the union of the corporeal and the spiritual in contemporary India. It offers clues to the East-West encounter and tackles the dualism of mind and body, suggesting a rupture of binary thinking, unlike in Western theory.
This volume explores the union of the corporeal and the spiritual in contemporary India. It offers clues to the East-West encounter and tackles the dualism of mind and body, suggesting a rupture of binary thinking, unlike in Western theory.
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African cinema offers a unique opposition to the injustices of neoliberalism. It deftly analyzes the thread running through globalization and corporate greed that naturalizes a global caste system and generates a culture of permanent anxiety and precarity.
African cinema offers a unique opposition to the injustices of neoliberalism. It deftly analyzes the thread running through globalization and corporate greed that naturalizes a global caste system and generates a culture of permanent anxiety and precarity.
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Written by a materials engineer for the sculptor, this is a guide to modern materials like steel, plastics, and composites. It covers their strengths, limitations, shaping methods, tools, and safety, using case studies to illustrate processes and costs.
Written by a materials engineer for the sculptor, this is a guide to modern materials like steel, plastics, and composites. It covers their strengths, limitations, shaping methods, tools, and safety, using case studies to illustrate processes and costs.
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The Odyssey of Communism
Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture
This interdisciplinary volume explores how film has shaped culture and memory. From the Berlin Wall to China, it journeys from the terror of communist prisons to the rosy image of propaganda, arguing that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation.
This interdisciplinary volume explores how film has shaped culture and memory. From the Berlin Wall to China, it journeys from the terror of communist prisons to the rosy image of propaganda, arguing that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation.
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Sound Art and Music
Philosophy, Composition, Performance
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
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Body, Space, and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing
Drawing Conversations II
This volume explores collective drawing through the crucial themes of body, space, and place. International artists, designers, and thinkers uncover exciting new contexts, relationships, and materials, redefining collaborative artistic practice.
This volume explores collective drawing through the crucial themes of body, space, and place. International artists, designers, and thinkers uncover exciting new contexts, relationships, and materials, redefining collaborative artistic practice.
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The Confucian Revival in Taiwan
Xu Fuguan and His Theory of Chinese Aesthetics
Xu Fuguan is a central representative of Modern Confucianism. This book focuses on his fundamental contributions to philosophy, particularly his reinterpretations of Confucian and Daoist aesthetics. It highlights the link between ethics and aesthetics in his innovative theories.
Xu Fuguan is a central representative of Modern Confucianism. This book focuses on his fundamental contributions to philosophy, particularly his reinterpretations of Confucian and Daoist aesthetics. It highlights the link between ethics and aesthetics in his innovative theories.
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This book collects Daniel Asia's writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.
This book collects Daniel Asia’s writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.
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PhotographyDigitalPainting
Expanding Medium Interconnectivity in Contemporary Visual Art Practices
This anthology explores the connections between photography, the digital, and painting in contemporary art. Renowned artists, academics, and theorists investigate medium-fluidity through essays on AI generation, hyperreal photography, and art that synthesises the three mediums.
This anthology explores the connections between photography, the digital, and painting in contemporary art. Renowned artists, academics, and theorists investigate medium-fluidity through essays on AI generation, hyperreal photography, and art that synthesises the three mediums.
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This book uses scientific advances to understand the degradation and characterisation of historical materials. It highlights multidisciplinary procedures for analyzing precious, small samples, and is of interest to the public, scientists, and the conservation community.
This book uses scientific advances to understand the degradation and characterisation of historical materials. It highlights multidisciplinary procedures for analyzing precious, small samples, and is of interest to the public, scientists, and the conservation community.
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Mexican Mural Art
Critical Essays on a Belligerent Aesthetic
Prominent critics offer new 21st-century interpretations of the art, lives, and times of Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. These essays respond to a surging interest in Mexican mural art for a wide readership.
Prominent critics offer new 21st-century interpretations of the art, lives, and times of Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. These essays respond to a surging interest in Mexican mural art for a wide readership.
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The Life and Work of Rudolf Bruči
The Composer in the Rift between Aesthetics and Ideologies
This first collection of essays in English on composer Rudolf Bruči explores his multivalent work from many angles. It emphasizes his relevance in Balkan musicology, his considerable international reputation, and his role as a cultural worker in post-war socialist Yugoslavia.
This first collection of essays in English on composer Rudolf Bruči explores his multivalent work from many angles. It emphasizes his relevance in Balkan musicology, his considerable international reputation, and his role as a cultural worker in post-war socialist Yugoslavia.
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Art and Anatomy in Nineteenth Century Britain
Three Studies
In early 19th-century Britain, art and science collided. Artists studied dissection to capture life, while anatomists learned to draw for accuracy. This book uncovers their mutual dependence and how anatomical truth became a measure of beauty, through three pioneering figures.
In early 19th-century Britain, art and science collided. Artists studied dissection to capture life, while anatomists learned to draw for accuracy. This book uncovers their mutual dependence and how anatomical truth became a measure of beauty, through three pioneering figures.
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An Exploration of Prehistoric Ontologies in the Bering Strait Region
Boundaries and Structures
This book introduces the belief and symbolism in prehistoric Bering Strait art. It challenges traditional archaeology by reconsidering the relationship between materiality and spirituality, analyzing therianthropic motifs on ancient Inuit ivories to explore potential shamanism.
This book introduces the belief and symbolism in prehistoric Bering Strait art. It challenges traditional archaeology by reconsidering the relationship between materiality and spirituality, analyzing therianthropic motifs on ancient Inuit ivories to explore potential shamanism.
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Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.
Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.
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Cinema and Its Representations
Poetics and Politics
This book provides a rich, multifaceted approach to cinema. It presents a lucid account of twentieth century film criticism, contemporary sociocultural theories, and literary adaptation, essential for students of media and cultural studies.
This book provides a rich, multifaceted approach to cinema. It presents a lucid account of twentieth century film criticism, contemporary sociocultural theories, and literary adaptation, essential for students of media and cultural studies.
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Beyond the Studio
A Conversation about Acting
Join noted actor Cynthia Henderson on a journey to the heart of acting. Sharing techniques developed over a lifetime, this profound guide is for beginners and seasoned professionals alike, offering insights into compelling character development and the human condition.
Join noted actor Cynthia Henderson on a journey to the heart of acting. Sharing techniques developed over a lifetime, this profound guide is for beginners and seasoned professionals alike, offering insights into compelling character development and the human condition.
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Voices from the Algerian Theatre
Dialect Translation for an English Stage
This book translates two 20th-century Algerian Arabic plays into English. Bridging vast cultural and linguistic divides, these translations capture the essence of Algerian theatre by focusing on shared human experiences, offering insights into the concept of the Other.
This book translates two 20th-century Algerian Arabic plays into English. Bridging vast cultural and linguistic divides, these translations capture the essence of Algerian theatre by focusing on shared human experiences, offering insights into the concept of the Other.
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