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Movies on Home Ground
Explorations in Amateur Cinema
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
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Moving Forward
Tradition and Transformation
This collection explores ‘tradition and transformation’. Early-career researchers from the arts and social sciences boldly explore the tension between past and future, respecting history while effecting change. Accessible to a non-specialist audience.
This collection explores ‘tradition and transformation’. Early-career researchers from the arts and social sciences boldly explore the tension between past and future, respecting history while effecting change. Accessible to a non-specialist audience.
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Moving Images, Mobile Bodies
The Poetics and Practice of Corporeality in Visual and Performing Arts
This collection addresses the issue of corporeality as a discursive field (which asks for a “poetics”), and the possible ways in which technology affects, and is affected by, the body in the context of recent artistic and theoretical developments.
This collection addresses the issue of corporeality as a discursive field (which asks for a “poetics”), and the possible ways in which technology affects, and is affected by, the body in the context of recent artistic and theoretical developments.
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Moving Pictures
An Inquiry into the Cinematic Experience
This book argues that the most illuminating perspective for studying movies is ‘play’. Moving pictures were a major ludenic innovation, becoming a source of human knowledge and an important medium of not only popular entertainment, but also popular enlightenment.
This book argues that the most illuminating perspective for studying movies is ‘play’. Moving pictures were a major ludenic innovation, becoming a source of human knowledge and an important medium of not only popular entertainment, but also popular enlightenment.
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Arising from a conference on multimodal communication, this volume deals with the study and documentation of the performing arts. It presents such issues as multimodality in human interaction and performance, as well as embodied cognition and metaphor.
Arising from a conference on multimodal communication, this volume deals with the study and documentation of the performing arts. It presents such issues as multimodality in human interaction and performance, as well as embodied cognition and metaphor.
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This is the first book to contextualize the collaborations between museums and public art through a range of essays marked by their coherence of topical focus, written by leading and emerging scholars and artists, and represents a major contribution to the field of art history.
This is the first book to contextualize the collaborations between museums and public art through a range of essays marked by their coherence of topical focus, written by leading and emerging scholars and artists, and represents a major contribution to the field of art history.
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This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
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This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
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Mutual (In)Comprehensions
France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
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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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Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
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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 celebrates the unsung heroes of Indian cinema and their unacknowledged contribution to nation building. This collection of essays examines the role played by cinema in narrating, inspiring, and challenging our comprehension of India as a nation.
This book celebrates the unsung heroes of Indian cinema and their unacknowledged contribution to nation building. This collection of essays examines the role played by cinema in narrating, inspiring, and challenging our comprehension of India as a nation.
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This volume explores the relation between contemporary Turkish film, television, and religion. It concentrates on how religion shapes the politics of new cinema, from the representation of Muslim women to subsequent changes in narratives and characters.
This volume explores the relation between contemporary Turkish film, television, and religion. It concentrates on how religion shapes the politics of new cinema, from the representation of Muslim women to subsequent changes in narratives and characters.
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Neo-Romantic Landscapes
An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger
This reappraisal of Powell and Pressburger's films challenges their status as 'un-British' outsiders. Focusing on the use of landscape, it connects their wartime cinema to Neo-Romantic painting, resituating them firmly in British visual art traditions.
This reappraisal of Powell and Pressburger’s films challenges their status as ‘un-British’ outsiders. Focusing on the use of landscape, it connects their wartime cinema to Neo-Romantic painting, resituating them firmly in British visual art traditions.
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New Approaches to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Proceedings of the First Olympia-Seminar 8th-10th May 2014
This volume explores the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the largest in mainland Greece. International experts from many fields offer new perspectives on its architecture, sculptural decoration, and the cult of Zeus, bridging classical studies with new digital technologies.
This volume explores the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the largest in mainland Greece. International experts from many fields offer new perspectives on its architecture, sculptural decoration, and the cult of Zeus, bridging classical studies with new digital technologies.
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New Cinema in Turkey
Filmmakers and Identities between Urban and Rural Space
Ottone focuses on Turkish cinema that has seen the emergence and consolidation of a strong internationally-recognised authorship. He assesses the last twenty years of the “New Turkish Auteur Cinema” by comparing the so-called “3rd generation” to a 4th generation of directors.
Ottone focuses on Turkish cinema that has seen the emergence and consolidation of a strong internationally-recognised authorship. He assesses the last twenty years of the “New Turkish Auteur Cinema” by comparing the so-called “3rd generation” to a 4th generation of directors.
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New Cinema, New Media
Reinventing Turkish Cinema
This volume covers the relationship between innovation and politics in new Turkish cinema. It analyzes recurring themes of memory, trauma, and identity, with in-depth studies of renowned filmmakers like Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Fatih Akın, and Semih Kaplanoğlu.
This volume covers the relationship between innovation and politics in new Turkish cinema. It analyzes recurring themes of memory, trauma, and identity, with in-depth studies of renowned filmmakers like Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Fatih Akın, and Semih Kaplanoğlu.
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This book shows how Concretism and Neoconcretism adapted international constructivism to Brazil. It explores the debates between the avant-gardes of São Paulo and Rio that created early versions of participatory, performance, and installation art.
This book shows how Concretism and Neoconcretism adapted international constructivism to Brazil. It explores the debates between the avant-gardes of São Paulo and Rio that created early versions of participatory, performance, and installation art.
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