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A century later, the Marx Brothers are cultural icons who have permeated our culture. Most scholarly work on them is biographical; this collection of eleven essays suggests other approaches, examining their work from a number of critical perspectives.
A century later, the Marx Brothers are cultural icons who have permeated our culture. Most scholarly work on them is biographical; this collection of eleven essays suggests other approaches, examining their work from a number of critical perspectives.
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Communicating Visually
The Graphic Design of the Brand
This publication focuses on the various vectors of visual communication, particularly contemporary brands as social phenomena, culture and the way people communicate and create meanings, from a designer’s perspective.
This publication focuses on the various vectors of visual communication, particularly contemporary brands as social phenomena, culture and the way people communicate and create meanings, from a designer’s perspective.
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Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age II
The Territories of the Contemporary
This volume addresses questions that are crucial to approaching art, visuality, and cultural policies from the perspective of global transformations and the rise of new social, political and cultural paradigms.
This volume addresses questions that are crucial to approaching art, visuality, and cultural policies from the perspective of global transformations and the rise of new social, political and cultural paradigms.
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Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities
An Interdisciplinary Study
This interdisciplinary study investigates collecting from the sixteenth century to today. Using the cabinet of curiosity as a model, scholars expand our understanding of display, from art and film to everyday objects, showing its urgent relevance in our consumer age.
This interdisciplinary study investigates collecting from the sixteenth century to today. Using the cabinet of curiosity as a model, scholars expand our understanding of display, from art and film to everyday objects, showing its urgent relevance in our consumer age.
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To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.
To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.
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Eloquent Design
Essays on the Rhetorics of Vision
From cave to computer, Eloquent Design explores ancient image-making as a basis for understanding the modern uses of image-texts in New Media. It proposes a generative method called “Rhetorical Vision” for creating innovative image-texts.
From cave to computer, Eloquent Design explores ancient image-making as a basis for understanding the modern uses of image-texts in New Media. It proposes a generative method called “Rhetorical Vision” for creating innovative image-texts.
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European Theories in Former Yugoslavia
Trans-theory Relations between Global and Local Discourses
Theories are not directly transferred from the centre to the margins, but are borrowed, translated, and reinterpreted. Posed from the perspective of former Yugoslavia, this book explores the tense relationship between original theories and their transformed perspectives.
Theories are not directly transferred from the centre to the margins, but are borrowed, translated, and reinterpreted. Posed from the perspective of former Yugoslavia, this book explores the tense relationship between original theories and their transformed perspectives.
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This book shares innovative methods for applied drama and theatre in African contexts, based on the work of Drama for Life. It is an invaluable volume for practitioners, artists, teachers, and researchers in Africa and globally.
This book shares innovative methods for applied drama and theatre in African contexts, based on the work of Drama for Life. It is an invaluable volume for practitioners, artists, teachers, and researchers in Africa and globally.
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Performing Adaptations
Essays and Conversations on the Theory and Practice of Adaptation
This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.
This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.
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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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Semiotics and Visual Communication II
Culture of Seduction
This book explores the Culture of Seduction, defining it not as sexual enticement, but as a mechanism of attraction and appeal. In an increasingly hyper-real world, this force has powerful agency in communication, advertising, fashion, and packaging design.
This book explores the Culture of Seduction, defining it not as sexual enticement, but as a mechanism of attraction and appeal. In an increasingly hyper-real world, this force has powerful agency in communication, advertising, fashion, and packaging design.
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The Conformists
Creativity and Decadence in the Bulgarian Cinema 1945-89
Explore the paradoxes of Bulgarian cinema under Communist rule. This work reveals why intellectuals chose loyalty to the state-controlled film industry over rebellion, challenging the view of Eastern Bloc art as propaganda by showing its parallels with the West.
Explore the paradoxes of Bulgarian cinema under Communist rule. This work reveals why intellectuals chose loyalty to the state-controlled film industry over rebellion, challenging the view of Eastern Bloc art as propaganda by showing its parallels with the West.
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The Eye and the Beholder
The Depiction of the Eye in Western Sculpture with Special Reference to the Period 1350–1700 and to Colour in Sculpture
Hannelore Hägele examines the colouring of the eye in late medieval and early modern sculpture. She asks how optics, science, and theology determined how eyes were perceived and represented, arguing it is the beholder who judges the worth of any creative effort.
Hannelore Hägele examines the colouring of the eye in late medieval and early modern sculpture. She asks how optics, science, and theology determined how eyes were perceived and represented, arguing it is the beholder who judges the worth of any creative effort.
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The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries
Images of Intergeneration Relationships
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
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Go beyond the canvas of NZ’s premier artist, Colin McCahon. This book decodes his esoteric religious symbols, reveals why his spiritual message was missed, and charts his work’s profound journey from optimism to despair.
Go beyond the canvas of NZ’s premier artist, Colin McCahon. This book decodes his esoteric religious symbols, reveals why his spiritual message was missed, and charts his work’s profound journey from optimism to despair.
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Theatre Noise
The Sound of Performance
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
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This book shows how theatre and media can negotiate the contradictions threatening Nigeria’s unity. It provides statesmen and policy makers with alternative methods for nation-building, offering models from the global South applicable to similar global settings.
This book shows how theatre and media can negotiate the contradictions threatening Nigeria’s unity. It provides statesmen and policy makers with alternative methods for nation-building, offering models from the global South applicable to similar global settings.
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Words and Images on the Screen
Language, Literature and Moving Pictures
Word has been a primordial companion to cinema from its beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in moving pictures, covering their interconnectedness through in-depth case studies and general surveys.
Word has been a primordial companion to cinema from its beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in moving pictures, covering their interconnectedness through in-depth case studies and general surveys.
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