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This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. Analyzing films from across South Asia, including India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, it highlights regional and cultural differences and commonalities in the representation of the divine.
This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. Analyzing films from across South Asia, including India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, it highlights regional and cultural differences and commonalities in the representation of the divine.
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Photography and Modern Icons
The Visual Planning of Myth
At the turn of the 20th century, six cultural icons used photography to build their media image. Exalting the cult of personality and mass communication, they used the photographic portrait to become celebrities and found fashion styles that are still of reference today.
At the turn of the 20th century, six cultural icons used photography to build their media image. Exalting the cult of personality and mass communication, they used the photographic portrait to become celebrities and found fashion styles that are still of reference today.
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The Cinema of Tunde Kelani
Aesthetics, Theatricalities and Visual Performance
The first definitive publication on Tunde Kelani, one of Africa’s finest filmmakers. This collection of scholarly articles explores his cinematic oeuvre, visual craft, and how his works represent the African worldview, culture, and history.
The first definitive publication on Tunde Kelani, one of Africa’s finest filmmakers. This collection of scholarly articles explores his cinematic oeuvre, visual craft, and how his works represent the African worldview, culture, and history.
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This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.
This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.
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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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The Painting of Stephen Cook
Enhanced Naturalism in a Post-War British Figurative Tradition
The first critical study of artist Stephen Cook, this monograph situates his work within post-war British figurative art. Featuring over 50 colour plates, most previously unpublished, it reveals an art of rigorous observation that uncovers a reality beyond the everyday.
The first critical study of artist Stephen Cook, this monograph situates his work within post-war British figurative art. Featuring over 50 colour plates, most previously unpublished, it reveals an art of rigorous observation that uncovers a reality beyond the everyday.
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This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
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Leading scholars explore the understudied history of collecting in the American South. This volume examines the rich Renaissance and Baroque art in Southern public and private collections, revealing how these works were acquired, curated, displayed, and preserved.
Leading scholars explore the understudied history of collecting in the American South. This volume examines the rich Renaissance and Baroque art in Southern public and private collections, revealing how these works were acquired, curated, displayed, and preserved.
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Global History, Visual Culture and Itinerancies
Changes and Continuities
This chronologically ambitious book investigates globalization from Roman times to the present. It argues that itinerant agents carry cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to create interconnections and produce active changes in global history.
This chronologically ambitious book investigates globalization from Roman times to the present. It argues that itinerant agents carry cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to create interconnections and produce active changes in global history.
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Essays on Swedish Cultural Life During the Late Eighteenth Century
Dusting Out the Corners
When dusting out corners, we may be surprised by the vitality of things once thought useful. This book looks at old letters, a popular song, a hit comedy, and an overlooked opera, intending to surprise us with their residual vitality and ask why we swept them aside.
When dusting out corners, we may be surprised by the vitality of things once thought useful. This book looks at old letters, a popular song, a hit comedy, and an overlooked opera, intending to surprise us with their residual vitality and ask why we swept them aside.
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This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire and the power of doom. The city is the stage where his protagonists, as desiring machines, try to evade modern closed circles of power, anticipating concepts from Gilles Deleuze.
This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire and the power of doom. The city is the stage where his protagonists, as desiring machines, try to evade modern closed circles of power, anticipating concepts from Gilles Deleuze.
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Contemporary Dance in South Africa
The Toyi-Toying Body
How does the body in South African contemporary dance protest oppressive power? This book examines key post-apartheid works to reveal their social and political meanings, capturing a unique moment in the nation's history and telling the story of its past, present, and future.
How does the body in South African contemporary dance protest oppressive power? This book examines key post-apartheid works to reveal their social and political meanings, capturing a unique moment in the nation’s history and telling the story of its past, present, and future.
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This volume of essays dissects critical issues in postcolonial African theatre. It moves beyond conventional theory to focus on the concrete realities practitioners face, exploring diverse topics from censorship and cultural policy to text, performance, and production.
This volume of essays dissects critical issues in postcolonial African theatre. It moves beyond conventional theory to focus on the concrete realities practitioners face, exploring diverse topics from censorship and cultural policy to text, performance, and production.
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This book studies how myths construct community identity, focusing on the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh. A comparative postcolonial analysis, it delves into how these major authors from Nigeria and India use myth to represent the cultural mores of their societies.
This book studies how myths construct community identity, focusing on the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh. A comparative postcolonial analysis, it delves into how these major authors from Nigeria and India use myth to represent the cultural mores of their societies.
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This book brings together essays by researchers, artists, and curators exploring themes such as identity, memory, and technology. It features a paper by a V&A curator on photographer Maurice Broomfield and includes color portfolios by Broomfield and Craig Easton.
This book brings together essays by researchers, artists, and curators exploring themes such as identity, memory, and technology. It features a paper by a V&A curator on photographer Maurice Broomfield and includes color portfolios by Broomfield and Craig Easton.
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Bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons are a new political front for justice. Uniting decolonial theory and trans* studies, this book asks what kind of politics can truly attack the hyper-flexible controls of the neoliberal current.
Bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons are a new political front for justice. Uniting decolonial theory and trans* studies, this book asks what kind of politics can truly attack the hyper-flexible controls of the neoliberal current.
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Lee Miller’s Surrealist Eye
New Insights
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
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Thinking Touch in Partnering and Contact Improvisation
Philosophy, Pedagogy, Practice
What happens when artists take touch as a starting point? This collection of essays offers unique insights into contact in dance, with practitioner and scholarly perspectives on the importance of touch in choreography, philosophy, education, and 21st century performance.
What happens when artists take touch as a starting point? This collection of essays offers unique insights into contact in dance, with practitioner and scholarly perspectives on the importance of touch in choreography, philosophy, education, and 21st century performance.
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How can film instructors help students become better writers? This book answers by uncovering the disciplinary expectations for student writing and offering clear, actionable strategies to teach those expectations, helping instructors foster better writing in their students.
How can film instructors help students become better writers? This book answers by uncovering the disciplinary expectations for student writing and offering clear, actionable strategies to teach those expectations, helping instructors foster better writing in their students.
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The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art
Arnhem Land Bark Painting, 1970-1990
This book reveals how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical to Indigenous contemporary art and self-determination. It charts the art’s trajectory from being understood as an ethnographic form to its appreciation as conceptual art with cultural agency and contemporaneity.
This book reveals how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical to Indigenous contemporary art and self-determination. It charts the art’s trajectory from being understood as an ethnographic form to its appreciation as conceptual art with cultural agency and contemporaneity.
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