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Grace under Pressure
Grey's Anatomy Uncovered
This collection of essays offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Authors examine topics including the show's creation and marketing, the role of music, and its exploration of gender, family, and morality.
This collection of essays offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Authors examine topics including the show’s creation and marketing, the role of music, and its exploration of gender, family, and morality.
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Breaking Forms
The Shift to Performance in Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
During Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" boom, a new theatre emerged to express radical social change. Rejecting literary tradition for physicality and visual performance, artists explored what words alone could not. Breaking Forms analyzes this pivotal movement.
During Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” boom, a new theatre emerged to express radical social change. Rejecting literary tradition for physicality and visual performance, artists explored what words alone could not. Breaking Forms analyzes this pivotal movement.
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On stage, hunger becomes a powerful spectacle. This volume explores the paradox of the thinning body, revealing how staged starvation—material, spiritual, and emotional—has shaped powerfully transgressive dramaturgies throughout history.
On stage, hunger becomes a powerful spectacle. This volume explores the paradox of the thinning body, revealing how staged starvation—material, spiritual, and emotional—has shaped powerfully transgressive dramaturgies throughout history.
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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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This volume addresses the representation of warfare, assessing the veracity of war images and their impact. War images may trigger horror or paradoxically attain sublimity, blurring the narrow margin between ethics and aesthetics, information, and propaganda.
This volume addresses the representation of warfare, assessing the veracity of war images and their impact. War images may trigger horror or paradoxically attain sublimity, blurring the narrow margin between ethics and aesthetics, information, and propaganda.
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Challenging traditional film musicology, this book approaches the film score from practical to theoretical perspectives. Essays explore films from art-house to mainstream, and include interviews with influential composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman.
Challenging traditional film musicology, this book approaches the film score from practical to theoretical perspectives. Essays explore films from art-house to mainstream, and include interviews with influential composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman.
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Showing the World to the World
Political Fictions in French Cinema of the 1990s and early 2000s
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these "political fictions" contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these “political fictions” contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
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This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
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Postcolonial Artist
Johnny Doran and Irish Traveller Tradition
Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.
Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.
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This anthology examines iconic films and the visionary auteurs who introduced new ways of seeing that shifted US culture. A unique collection with a diversity of genres and theoretical approaches, this indispensable text is accessible to scholars and lay readers.
This anthology examines iconic films and the visionary auteurs who introduced new ways of seeing that shifted US culture. A unique collection with a diversity of genres and theoretical approaches, this indispensable text is accessible to scholars and lay readers.
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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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These provocative essays explore the uneasy relationship between religion and film in the works of masters like Bergman, Tarkovsky, and del Toro. This spiritual and critical journey challenges us to think more forcefully about the values that shape our lives.
These provocative essays explore the uneasy relationship between religion and film in the works of masters like Bergman, Tarkovsky, and del Toro. This spiritual and critical journey challenges us to think more forcefully about the values that shape our lives.
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This critical and historical anthology looks at 1968, bringing together scholars, critics, and media-makers. Their work engages the period’s international activism through close readings of cultural production, from mass media to avant-garde practices.
This critical and historical anthology looks at 1968, bringing together scholars, critics, and media-makers. Their work engages the period’s international activism through close readings of cultural production, from mass media to avant-garde practices.
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The Arts and Youth at Risk
Global and Local Challenges
"Philosophically complex and pragmatically provocative," this book interrogates arts-based interventions for "at risk" youth. International experts explore the positive outcomes and ethical challenges of working with marginalised communities.
“Philosophically complex and pragmatically provocative,” this book interrogates arts-based interventions for “at risk” youth. International experts explore the positive outcomes and ethical challenges of working with marginalised communities.
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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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The Gentleman, the Virtuoso, the Inquirer
Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa and the Art of Collecting in Early Modern Spain
Explore the world of Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, a scientific collector in early modern Spain. His cabinet of curiosities, garden, and library reveal a 'virtuoso' immersed in the wonders of nature, furthering the ideal of factuality in the Scientific Revolution.
Explore the world of Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, a scientific collector in early modern Spain. His cabinet of curiosities, garden, and library reveal a ‘virtuoso’ immersed in the wonders of nature, furthering the ideal of factuality in the Scientific Revolution.
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The Idea of the City
Early-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern Locations and Communities
An important and timely work with depth and breadth. International scholars explore the city in literature, history, and film from the medieval period to the present. With a truly global focus, this is a fascinating snapshot of literary urban studies.
An important and timely work with depth and breadth. International scholars explore the city in literature, history, and film from the medieval period to the present. With a truly global focus, this is a fascinating snapshot of literary urban studies.
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Frederick Kiesler
Lost in History; Art of This Century and The Modern Art Gallery
This book uncovers the fascinating story of Frederick Kiesler’s ground-breaking Art of This Century gallery, designed for Peggy Guggenheim. It analyzes their fraught collaboration and restores Kiesler to his place in art and architecture history.
This book uncovers the fascinating story of Frederick Kiesler’s ground-breaking Art of This Century gallery, designed for Peggy Guggenheim. It analyzes their fraught collaboration and restores Kiesler to his place in art and architecture history.
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Longing, Weakness and Temptation
From Myth to Artistic Creations
This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.
This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.
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This wide-ranging collection breaks new ground in feminist film theory, offering close analyses of films from Hitchcock to 21st-century horror. Praised as a “splendid contribution,” it lends readers ‘new eyes’. “Should be required reading for students and scholars.”
This wide-ranging collection breaks new ground in feminist film theory, offering close analyses of films from Hitchcock to 21st-century horror. Praised as a “splendid contribution,” it lends readers ‘new eyes’. “Should be required reading for students and scholars.”
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