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This title explores the various ways in which artists, patrons, and art historians throughout history have broken bad by defying authority, challenging convention, or rejecting the norm. The articles here span from the art of ancient Etruria to the twentieth century.
This title explores the various ways in which artists, patrons, and art historians throughout history have broken bad by defying authority, challenging convention, or rejecting the norm. The articles here span from the art of ancient Etruria to the twentieth century.
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This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht's encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.
This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht’s encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.
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Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions
Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship
An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
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Bringing Literature and Linguistics into EFL Classrooms
Insights from Research and Classroom Practice
This book bridges the gap between linguistics, literature, and English language teaching. Drawing on educators’ experiences from around the world, it balances research with practical applications on how to use literary texts and linguistic theories in the classroom.
This book bridges the gap between linguistics, literature, and English language teaching. Drawing on educators’ experiences from around the world, it balances research with practical applications on how to use literary texts and linguistic theories in the classroom.
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Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century
Literary and Art Theories
These essays explore the literature, aesthetics, music, and art of the long eighteenth century, with a focus on cultural transfers between Britain and Italy. Collectively, they pave the way for new interpretations of the era's cultural history.
These essays explore the literature, aesthetics, music, and art of the long eighteenth century, with a focus on cultural transfers between Britain and Italy. Collectively, they pave the way for new interpretations of the era’s cultural history.
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Britain and the Muslim World
Historical Perspectives
This collection of essays by leading scholars provides a comprehensive synthesis of historical relations between Britain and the Muslim World, from the early-modern period to the present, exploring how these past encounters shape our current situation.
This collection of essays by leading scholars provides a comprehensive synthesis of historical relations between Britain and the Muslim World, from the early-modern period to the present, exploring how these past encounters shape our current situation.
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British Music and the French Revolution investigates the little-studied repertoire of concert and theatrical music created in Britain between 1789–1795. It explores how a spirit of patriotism, political turmoil, and war inspired an outpouring of music.
British Music and the French Revolution investigates the little-studied repertoire of concert and theatrical music created in Britain between 1789–1795. It explores how a spirit of patriotism, political turmoil, and war inspired an outpouring of music.
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British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement's mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.
British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement’s mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.
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Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s
Historical Perspectives
The essays here contribute to research on the medium of television by bringing together work focusing on national developments in both UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be compared.
The essays here contribute to research on the medium of television by bringing together work focusing on national developments in both UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be compared.
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Building Sustainability with the Arts
Proceedings of the 2nd National EcoArts Australis Conference
This timely book examines various roles of the arts in building ecological sustainability. A wide range of practitioners is represented here, including visual and performing artists, scientists, social researchers, environmental educators and research students.
This timely book examines various roles of the arts in building ecological sustainability. A wide range of practitioners is represented here, including visual and performing artists, scientists, social researchers, environmental educators and research students.
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Caribbean Men in the Arts
Demystifying Masculinities with Essays, Interviews, Poetry and Stories
This collection explores the emotional and artistic landscape of Caribbean men who carve out a place for themselves in the visual and performance arts. The pieces demonstrate them forging more varied and wholesome masculinities, thriving in spaces without violence or exclusion.
This collection explores the emotional and artistic landscape of Caribbean men who carve out a place for themselves in the visual and performance arts. The pieces demonstrate them forging more varied and wholesome masculinities, thriving in spaces without violence or exclusion.
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Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots
The Body Questions
This collection of essays poses questions about queerness, race, and the dancing body. The contributions come together across disciplines in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning and the wisdom and knowledge it holds.
This collection of essays poses questions about queerness, race, and the dancing body. The contributions come together across disciplines in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning and the wisdom and knowledge it holds.
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Celluloid Saviours
Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film
In "film blanc," a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It's a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.
In “film blanc,” a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It’s a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.
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Censoring the 1970s
The BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot
This book explores the British Board of Film Censors in the 1970s. Beyond famous cases like A Clockwork Orange, it uses archival files to reveal a complex process of negotiation that saw the BBFC push cultural boundaries while facing accusations of bias.
This book explores the British Board of Film Censors in the 1970s. Beyond famous cases like A Clockwork Orange, it uses archival files to reveal a complex process of negotiation that saw the BBFC push cultural boundaries while facing accusations of bias.
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This book studies how conflicts, changes, and ideologies appear in Hispanic discourse. It analyzes how ideological shifts of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries are reflected in the language, literature, and culture of Spain and Latin America.
This book studies how conflicts, changes, and ideologies appear in Hispanic discourse. It analyzes how ideological shifts of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries are reflected in the language, literature, and culture of Spain and Latin America.
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China in the Frame
Materialising Ideas of China in Italian Museums
This ethnographic study of Chinese art displays in Italy highlights how representing the cultural Other becomes a process of self-expression. It shows how in representing China, Italy is induced to question and represent its own cultural identity.
This ethnographic study of Chinese art displays in Italy highlights how representing the cultural Other becomes a process of self-expression. It shows how in representing China, Italy is induced to question and represent its own cultural identity.
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Chinese Export Paintings
A Marketing Success Story
This book deciphers the formula for market success of Chinese export paintings, a unique and misunderstood East-meets-West art form. Dr Maria Mok reveals the tactical artistic decisions that made these paintings best-sellers for Western customers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
This book deciphers the formula for market success of Chinese export paintings, a unique and misunderstood East-meets-West art form. Dr Maria Mok reveals the tactical artistic decisions that made these paintings best-sellers for Western customers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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This volume of conference proceedings discusses the role played by choir stalls in the conceptualisation of space within cathedrals, and the formal, stylistic and constructive motifs, models and solutions reflected in such architecture.
This volume of conference proceedings discusses the role played by choir stalls in the conceptualisation of space within cathedrals, and the formal, stylistic and constructive motifs, models and solutions reflected in such architecture.
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Christ of the Coal Yards
A Critical Biography of Vincent van Gogh
No one heard the shot. No one ever found the gun. This critical examination of Vincent van Gogh offers insights into his life and art, dispelling the myths that have no foundation and exploring his enigmatic and enticing personality.
No one heard the shot. No one ever found the gun. This critical examination of Vincent van Gogh offers insights into his life and art, dispelling the myths that have no foundation and exploring his enigmatic and enticing personality.
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Cinema and Evil
Moral Complexities and the “Dangerous” Film
This book explores films that address the problem of evil, drawing on thinkers from Manicheanism to Arendt. It considers how filmmakers like Fritz Lang and Michael Haneke use “dangerous” films to task us with considering evil as our own responsibility.
This book explores films that address the problem of evil, drawing on thinkers from Manicheanism to Arendt. It considers how filmmakers like Fritz Lang and Michael Haneke use “dangerous” films to task us with considering evil as our own responsibility.
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