Emblems and Impact Volume I
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
Emblems and Impact Volume II
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
Emerson Goes to the Movies
This book traces Emersonian individualism in Disney’s post-1989 animated films, proving self-reliance is still alive in popular culture. It explores what influences Disney and how individualism intersects with race, gender, class, and imperialism.
Enacting Nationhood
This collection of essays explores constructions of “We the People” during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It interrogates pro- and anti-enslavement nationalism, partisanship, and armed conflict through dramatic literature and live performance.
English, Colonial, Modern and Maori
How do works enter a public art collection? Who decides what hangs on the walls? This cultural biography of Christchurch’s Robert McDougall Art Gallery explores 70 years of collection, controversy, and the influential personalities who shaped a nation’s art.
Envisaging Death
This book connects Death Studies to visual culture, arguing death is not universal. Who you are and where you live influences how your death is imaged and imagined, exploring how the distance between the living and the dead is both reinforced and disrupted.
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.
Unpacking discourses in African law, media, and art, these authoritative essays reveal how language shapes the continent’s unique cultural values and complex social realities.
Essays on Psychogeography and the City as Performance
Inspired by Psychogeography, this collection of essays by international scholar-artists highlights the performative aspects of cities. It offers a practical guide to experiencing the cityscape as the Artscape, where performance and imagination create immersive public art.
Essays on Swedish Cultural Life During the Late Eighteenth Century
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.
The Indian Knowledge System presents a timeless, holistic perspective on today’s challenges. Essays on philosophy, yoga, and mathematics explore how ancient wisdom can offer sustainable solutions, bridging past and present for a fresh approach to our shared future.
Etching Our Own Image
A celebration of Arab American art and identity. In the wake of 9/11, a movement of artists galvanized to define themselves, rather than be defined by others. By telling their own stories, these voices reclaim their image and tell the world who they are.
Ethical Encounters
These essays on theatre ethics demonstrate how academics and artists have thought about its ethical implications. They debate relevant issues and explore what is possible within theatre, challenging you to form and develop your own opinions and resultant actions.
In a post-truth age, this book provides an ethical critique of contemporary British drama. Focusing on the innovative work of playwrights David Greig, Marina Carr, and Martin Crimp, it offers a vital contribution to theatre studies and Ethical Criticism.
European Film Co-Productions
This volume analyzes the growing phenomenon of film-induced tourism. It examines the positive and negative impacts of film production in regions of environmental and cultural importance, and presents a quantitative evaluation of the economic benefits.
European Theories in Former Yugoslavia
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.
This book explores exhibition engineering design through illustrated case studies. Analyzing representative booths, it covers every aspect from shape and materials to lighting, installation, and AV. An essential reference or textbook for exhibition companies and students.
New technologies have transformed audiovisual storytelling, turning viewers into creators and participants. Featuring texts by leading media scholars, this book offers analyses of these expanding practices, from mobile media and gaming to interactive documentaries.
Experiments in Freedom
Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.
Ebewo’s text represents a compendium of discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered include ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, and the funeral rites of Nelson Mandela.