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Women and Martyrdom in Stalinist War Cinema
Russia's Eternal Quest for Messianism
This book challenges the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. It reveals how Stalinist war cinema drew on Russian religious tradition to create cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII, serving collective identity-construction policies.
This book challenges the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. It reveals how Stalinist war cinema drew on Russian religious tradition to create cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII, serving collective identity-construction policies.
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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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Audience Reception of Benin Cinema in Nigeria
Empirical Findings and Implications for Nollywood
This pioneering study explores Benin (Edo) cinema, a vibrant and largely unexplored frontier in Nigerian performing arts. It covers the history, filmography, and audience reception of these films, revealing a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture within Nollywood.
This pioneering study explores Benin (Edo) cinema, a vibrant and largely unexplored frontier in Nigerian performing arts. It covers the history, filmography, and audience reception of these films, revealing a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture within Nollywood.
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The Tragic Transformed
Attic Drama on the Contemporary Stage
This book provides a novel way of looking at Attic tragedies via three directors bearing the aesthetic imprint of Samuel Beckett: Theodoros Terzopoulos, Şahika Tekand and Tadashi Suzuki. Translation becomes a mode of physical action, using mimesis to reawaken tragic pathos.
This book provides a novel way of looking at Attic tragedies via three directors bearing the aesthetic imprint of Samuel Beckett: Theodoros Terzopoulos, Şahika Tekand and Tadashi Suzuki. Translation becomes a mode of physical action, using mimesis to reawaken tragic pathos.
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This book crosses world cultures to highlight women as creators and as subjects. From the politics of Aztec women’s bodies to female artists in the Global South, chapters offer historical, artistic, and literary perspectives on women in art, literature, and film across the globe.
This book crosses world cultures to highlight women as creators and as subjects. From the politics of Aztec women’s bodies to female artists in the Global South, chapters offer historical, artistic, and literary perspectives on women in art, literature, and film across the globe.
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Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.
Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.
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Essays on Psychogeography and the City as Performance
Drifting Through Wonderlands
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.
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.
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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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Chinese characters reflect how ancient people understood the universe. This book explores their evolution, revealing the Chinese wisdom of harmony and resiliency from which to draw strength. It uniquely features calligraphy, combining philosophy with traditional art.
Chinese characters reflect how ancient people understood the universe. This book explores their evolution, revealing the Chinese wisdom of harmony and resiliency from which to draw strength. It uniquely features calligraphy, combining philosophy with traditional art.
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The integrated musical emerged not in the 20th century, but in the 18th with Charles Dibdin. He wrote, composed, and performed in innovative musicals, blending Italian opera and English ballads to create an organic musical theatre that paved the way for the art form today.
The integrated musical emerged not in the 20th century, but in the 18th with Charles Dibdin. He wrote, composed, and performed in innovative musicals, blending Italian opera and English ballads to create an organic musical theatre that paved the way for the art form today.
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Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)
Activism and Innovation
This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.
This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.
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This is the first collection of research in English on interpretations of Shakespeare in the Baltic countries. Written by leading researchers, it analyzes Shakespeare’s importance in developing Baltic national culture and introduces the unique experience of Baltic theatre.
This is the first collection of research in English on interpretations of Shakespeare in the Baltic countries. Written by leading researchers, it analyzes Shakespeare’s importance in developing Baltic national culture and introduces the unique experience of Baltic theatre.
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Film as an Expression of Spirituality
The Arts and Faith Top 100 Films
What makes a film ‘spiritually significant’? These essays explore the Arts & Faith Top 100 list, with close readings of films by Dreyer, Kubrick, Scorsese, and others—a foundational introduction for those seeking to understand film as an expression of human spirituality.
What makes a film ‘spiritually significant’? These essays explore the Arts & Faith Top 100 list, with close readings of films by Dreyer, Kubrick, Scorsese, and others—a foundational introduction for those seeking to understand film as an expression of human spirituality.
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The Empathic Movement
Empathy, Essence and Experience
This book explores the Empathic Movement, which created a new cultural pole in southern Italy. It rejects individualism to give voice to the silent masses, sharing genuine emotion and seeking to reunite the arts, once torn apart by the mythic killing of the Total Artist.
This book explores the Empathic Movement, which created a new cultural pole in southern Italy. It rejects individualism to give voice to the silent masses, sharing genuine emotion and seeking to reunite the arts, once torn apart by the mythic killing of the Total Artist.
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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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Complex Art Conservation and Preservation Problems
A Case Study on the Work of Egon Schiele
For the first time, this book examines Egon Schiele’s painting technique through his 1918 work, “Stadtende/Häuserbogen III.” A conservation campaign uncovered hidden portrait sketches, unmasked a forged signature, and identified the original frame, guiding future preservation.
For the first time, this book examines Egon Schiele’s painting technique through his 1918 work, “Stadtende/Häuserbogen III.” A conservation campaign uncovered hidden portrait sketches, unmasked a forged signature, and identified the original frame, guiding future preservation.
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The Future of the Creative Industries
A Global Perspective
The creative industries are crucial to the future of culture and national wealth. This collection of papers from researchers and industrialists explores the role of design, covering applied art, fashion and textiles, the built environment, and spatial design.
The creative industries are crucial to the future of culture and national wealth. This collection of papers from researchers and industrialists explores the role of design, covering applied art, fashion and textiles, the built environment, and spatial design.
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Contemporary Practices in Bio-art
When a Tree Becomes an Artwork
This book explores Dendro-art, a new subdivision of Bio-art focused on the human-plant relationship and recreating vanished species. The author, an artist with academic training, offers a unique perspective, examining the works of bio-artists from both the inside and out.
This book explores Dendro-art, a new subdivision of Bio-art focused on the human-plant relationship and recreating vanished species. The author, an artist with academic training, offers a unique perspective, examining the works of bio-artists from both the inside and out.
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Interpreting Sapiens’ Consciousness through Paleolithic Cave Art
The Lascaux Testament
This book identifies a new path through Paleolithic cave art, arguing the shaman-artists of Lascaux depicted the soul's journey between the spirit and natural worlds. Using ethological evidence, it shows how the art maps a spectrum of consciousness involving the five senses.
This book identifies a new path through Paleolithic cave art, arguing the shaman-artists of Lascaux depicted the soul’s journey between the spirit and natural worlds. Using ethological evidence, it shows how the art maps a spectrum of consciousness involving the five senses.
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John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years
Keeping the Fires of Figurative Art Burning
Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate's first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.
Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate’s first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.
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