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The Place of Poetics within Documentary Filmmaking
The Art of Fact
This collection gives insight into how poetic approaches have developed the documentary form. Focusing on aesthetics, filmmakers discuss how poetics influence their own work, while scholars analyze the work of others. For documentary producers and film enthusiasts.
This collection gives insight into how poetic approaches have developed the documentary form. Focusing on aesthetics, filmmakers discuss how poetics influence their own work, while scholars analyze the work of others. For documentary producers and film enthusiasts.
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The Painting of Stephen Cook
Enhanced Naturalism in a Post-War British Figurative Tradition
The first critical study of artist Stephen Cook, this monograph situates his work within post-war British figurative art. Featuring over 50 colour plates, most previously unpublished, it reveals an art of rigorous observation that uncovers a reality beyond the everyday.
The first critical study of artist Stephen Cook, this monograph situates his work within post-war British figurative art. Featuring over 50 colour plates, most previously unpublished, it reveals an art of rigorous observation that uncovers a reality beyond the everyday.
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Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory
The Spectrum of Absence
This book reflects on Argentinean cinema's role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.
This book reflects on Argentinean cinema’s role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.
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This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.
This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.
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This study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.
This study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.
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Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe
Practices, Projections and Trajectories
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
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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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Shakespeare Meets the Indian Epics
Comparative Themes and Interpretations
This book examines the day-to-day themes in the epics The Ramayanam and The Maha Bharatham and in Shakespeare’s plays. It reveals that writers 6,000 miles and centuries apart have much in common, showing how people, whatever their background, tackle life in similar ways.
This book examines the day-to-day themes in the epics The Ramayanam and The Maha Bharatham and in Shakespeare’s plays. It reveals that writers 6,000 miles and centuries apart have much in common, showing how people, whatever their background, tackle life in similar ways.
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The worlds of theatre, law, and psychology all deal with the human soul and its contradictions. This book examines six classic Yiddish plays for the first time from a legal and psychoanalytical perspective, shedding new light on the characters' universal conflicts.
The worlds of theatre, law, and psychology all deal with the human soul and its contradictions. This book examines six classic Yiddish plays for the first time from a legal and psychoanalytical perspective, shedding new light on the characters’ universal conflicts.
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The Concept of Fluidity in the Baroque Age
Liquid Mirrors
The Baroque world was a flowing one, a realm of presences in constant flux. Everything was in endless motion—space, time, emotions, and the individual itself. This absence of solidity would define the era. This book charts the fluidity of the age, from geographies to souls.
The Baroque world was a flowing one, a realm of presences in constant flux. Everything was in endless motion—space, time, emotions, and the individual itself. This absence of solidity would define the era. This book charts the fluidity of the age, from geographies to souls.
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Daydreams reveal a protagonist’s hopes, fears, and desires. But what do they truly mean for Hollywood cinema? This study investigates fantasy scenes to uncover the key functions daydreams serve from cinematic, thematic, psychological, and ideological perspectives.
Daydreams reveal a protagonist’s hopes, fears, and desires. But what do they truly mean for Hollywood cinema? This study investigates fantasy scenes to uncover the key functions daydreams serve from cinematic, thematic, psychological, and ideological perspectives.
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Four Plays about Disability
Agency
Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute's survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute’s survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
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This engaging and extensively researched book details Eva Green’s film career from 2001 to the present. With critical commentary and biographical context, it covers her roles, the making of her films, and their reception.
This engaging and extensively researched book details Eva Green’s film career from 2001 to the present. With critical commentary and biographical context, it covers her roles, the making of her films, and their reception.
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Bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons are a new political front for justice. Uniting decolonial theory and trans* studies, this book asks what kind of politics can truly attack the hyper-flexible controls of the neoliberal current.
Bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons are a new political front for justice. Uniting decolonial theory and trans* studies, this book asks what kind of politics can truly attack the hyper-flexible controls of the neoliberal current.
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An inner journey on the path of Japanese calligraphy, this book uniquely combines theory with practice. It rediscovers the creative synergy of handwriting in the digital age, revealing a contemplative act of writing by painting and painting by writing.
An inner journey on the path of Japanese calligraphy, this book uniquely combines theory with practice. It rediscovers the creative synergy of handwriting in the digital age, revealing a contemplative act of writing by painting and painting by writing.
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This volume explores the intersection of media, culture, and conflict in Africa. It examines how cultural practices, media, social movements, and new technologies can address the continent's political and social challenges. A vital contribution to an underexplored field.
This volume explores the intersection of media, culture, and conflict in Africa. It examines how cultural practices, media, social movements, and new technologies can address the continent’s political and social challenges. A vital contribution to an underexplored field.
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Greek Interwar Art and Design (1922-1939)
An Overview
This fully documented overview explores Greek interwar art, a period defined by the birth of Modernism and the search for Greekness. It shows how artists blended modern trends with ancient and traditional art to forge a national identity, revealing the continuity of Hellenism.
This fully documented overview explores Greek interwar art, a period defined by the birth of Modernism and the search for Greekness. It shows how artists blended modern trends with ancient and traditional art to forge a national identity, revealing the continuity of Hellenism.
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Barbara Longhi of Ravenna
Art, Grace and Piety
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
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What does an artist express when creating artwork? What does a perceiver contemplate during an aesthetic experience? This book explores the object of reflection for both creator and viewer, relying on Malgorzata Cazarnocka’s conception of symbolic truth to provide answers.
What does an artist express when creating artwork? What does a perceiver contemplate during an aesthetic experience? This book explores the object of reflection for both creator and viewer, relying on Malgorzata Cazarnocka’s conception of symbolic truth to provide answers.
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This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire and the power of doom. The city is the stage where his protagonists, as desiring machines, try to evade modern closed circles of power, anticipating concepts from Gilles Deleuze.
This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire and the power of doom. The city is the stage where his protagonists, as desiring machines, try to evade modern closed circles of power, anticipating concepts from Gilles Deleuze.
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