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This accessible collection offers a fresh approach to photography and literature. Essays by acknowledged experts consider both key literary figures, from Proust to Sebald, and photographic practitioners to give a commanding, ground-breaking overview of the subject.
This accessible collection offers a fresh approach to photography and literature. Essays by acknowledged experts consider both key literary figures, from Proust to Sebald, and photographic practitioners to give a commanding, ground-breaking overview of the subject.
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Salome
The Image of a Woman Who Never Was; Salome
Though her name means “peaceful,” Salome is linked to the beheading of John the Baptist. This history describes how the myth of Salome was created through art, literature, and music, and how her image as evil varied according to prevailing cultural myths surrounding women.
Though her name means “peaceful,” Salome is linked to the beheading of John the Baptist. This history describes how the myth of Salome was created through art, literature, and music, and how her image as evil varied according to prevailing cultural myths surrounding women.
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The Art of Women in Contemporary China
Both Sides Now
This book presents the work of over 75 Chinese female artists in visual art and poetry. Their work explores the experience of being a woman through themes of the body, home, fantasy, and social conscience. This unique volume pairs poetry with art, articulating shared concerns.
This book presents the work of over 75 Chinese female artists in visual art and poetry. Their work explores the experience of being a woman through themes of the body, home, fantasy, and social conscience. This unique volume pairs poetry with art, articulating shared concerns.
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Barbara Longhi of Ravenna
Art, Grace and Piety
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
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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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Mixed Metaphors
The Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This collection of essays reveals the lasting influence of the Danse Macabre, a European motif where Death summons us all—rich or poor. Mixing dance and violence, it inspired artists and dramatists like Shakespeare, and shaped culture from the Middle Ages to today.
This collection of essays reveals the lasting influence of the Danse Macabre, a European motif where Death summons us all—rich or poor. Mixing dance and violence, it inspired artists and dramatists like Shakespeare, and shaped culture from the Middle Ages to today.
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Explore the Symbolist movement's profound, interdisciplinary impact on 20th-century culture. These essays trace its evolution across Europe, highlighting the foundational role of French art and literature.
Explore the Symbolist movement’s profound, interdisciplinary impact on 20th-century culture. These essays trace its evolution across Europe, highlighting the foundational role of French art and literature.
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Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century
Reconfiguring the Visual Periphery of the Text
Book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. This collection is the first step in reconfiguring the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts, offering a multifaceted approach to a society immersed in visual culture and communication.
Book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. This collection is the first step in reconfiguring the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts, offering a multifaceted approach to a society immersed in visual culture and communication.
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Postcolonial Star Wars
Essays on Empire and Rebellion in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
This collection of essays draws upon postcolonial theory to help readers understand the power structures in Star Wars. Considering films, television, comics, and more, the text explores themes of Rebellion, Racism, and Feminism. Compelling reading for fans and students alike.
This collection of essays draws upon postcolonial theory to help readers understand the power structures in Star Wars. Considering films, television, comics, and more, the text explores themes of Rebellion, Racism, and Feminism. Compelling reading for fans and students alike.
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Performing Memories
Media, Creation, Anthropology, and Remembrance
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
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From Shakespeare to Star Wars, how are men represented on the page and screen? These essays argue that men must become aware of these representations to alter toxic patriarchal models, distinguish masculinity from patriarchy, and achieve liberation from its crippling constraints.
From Shakespeare to Star Wars, how are men represented on the page and screen? These essays argue that men must become aware of these representations to alter toxic patriarchal models, distinguish masculinity from patriarchy, and achieve liberation from its crippling constraints.
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Staging and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France
Appearing, Revealing, Disappearing
In nineteenth-century France, staging was more than theatre. It was a process of appearing and disappearing that shaped how individuals were seen in the visual arts and culture. This book explores staging’s mechanisms, repercussions, and what it chose not to show.
In nineteenth-century France, staging was more than theatre. It was a process of appearing and disappearing that shaped how individuals were seen in the visual arts and culture. This book explores staging’s mechanisms, repercussions, and what it chose not to show.
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The Ravenclaw Chronicles
Reflections from Edinboro
What if there is much more to the Harry Potter saga than a simple tale? The Ravenclaw Chronicles collects select articles from academic conferences discussing the story's intellectual and ethical issues from diverse perspectives like philosophy and history.
What if there is much more to the Harry Potter saga than a simple tale? The Ravenclaw Chronicles collects select articles from academic conferences discussing the story’s intellectual and ethical issues from diverse perspectives like philosophy and history.
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Ambiguous Selves
Contesting Gender Binaries in Literature, Film and the Media
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
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Narrative Rewritings and Artistic Praxis in Derek Walcott’s Works
Caribbean Decolonisations
This book moves beyond Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning poetry to reveal his fundamental contribution to Caribbean theatre and art. Examining key works as postcolonial re-writings of European stories, it uncovers the strategies Walcott used to respond to colonial power.
This book moves beyond Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning poetry to reveal his fundamental contribution to Caribbean theatre and art. Examining key works as postcolonial re-writings of European stories, it uncovers the strategies Walcott used to respond to colonial power.
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This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
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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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The Concept of Fluidity in the Baroque Age
Liquid Mirrors
The Baroque world was a flowing one, a realm of presences in constant flux. Everything was in endless motion—space, time, emotions, and the individual itself. This absence of solidity would define the era. This book charts the fluidity of the age, from geographies to souls.
The Baroque world was a flowing one, a realm of presences in constant flux. Everything was in endless motion—space, time, emotions, and the individual itself. This absence of solidity would define the era. This book charts the fluidity of the age, from geographies to souls.
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James Bond in World and Popular Culture
The Films are Not Enough, Second Edition
The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.
The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.
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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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