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Humoring the Other
Comedy and the Mitigation of Colonial Discourse
Sanhaji presents an inquiry into the ways in which entertainment discourse extends beyond entertainment and its initial humorous function due to its political and ideological underpinnings. In doing so, he justifies the importance of taking such discourse seriously.
Sanhaji presents an inquiry into the ways in which entertainment discourse extends beyond entertainment and its initial humorous function due to its political and ideological underpinnings. In doing so, he justifies the importance of taking such discourse seriously.
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Identity Mediations in Latin American Cinema and Beyond
Culture, Music and Transnational Discourses
This book explores how the flows of music, films, and artists shape cultural identities. It analyzes these transits, mainly in the Ibero-American space but also Soviet and Asian cinema, revealing cultural networks that extend beyond national borders.
This book explores how the flows of music, films, and artists shape cultural identities. It analyzes these transits, mainly in the Ibero-American space but also Soviet and Asian cinema, revealing cultural networks that extend beyond national borders.
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Imaginaries Out of Place
Cinema, Transnationalism and Turkey
These bold essays engage the question of transnational cinema in the context of Turkish national identity. This collection is essential reading for those interested in migrant cultures, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
These bold essays engage the question of transnational cinema in the context of Turkish national identity. This collection is essential reading for those interested in migrant cultures, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
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Imagined Utopias in the Built Environment
From London’s Vauxhall Garden to the Black Rock Desert
Novakov surveys visionary architecture and urban planning from the 18th century onwards. She starts with the design of social space in Georgian-era pleasure gardens and ends with a study of modern Utopian groups that use early literary references as a focus for their societies.
Novakov surveys visionary architecture and urban planning from the 18th century onwards. She starts with the design of social space in Georgian-era pleasure gardens and ends with a study of modern Utopian groups that use early literary references as a focus for their societies.
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Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
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Intermingled Fascinations
Migration, Displacement and Translation in World Cinema
This collection of essays analyzes Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema, exploring films about migration, exile, and imprisonment. United by themes of displacement and liminality, this anthology reveals how cinema represents diasporic communities.
This collection of essays analyzes Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema, exploring films about migration, exile, and imprisonment. United by themes of displacement and liminality, this anthology reveals how cinema represents diasporic communities.
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Investigating Format
The Transferral and Translation of Televised Productions in Italy and England
Hughes discusses the transferral of a televised format from its original country to a different cultural and linguistic ambit. Focusing on the formal police interview, she shows that international format transferral is becoming increasingly local to the country of arrival.
Hughes discusses the transferral of a televised format from its original country to a different cultural and linguistic ambit. Focusing on the formal police interview, she shows that international format transferral is becoming increasingly local to the country of arrival.
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Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
Design across Borders
This collection covers a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities to Anatolia and the Aegean region. It explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analysed on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials.
This collection covers a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities to Anatolia and the Aegean region. It explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analysed on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials.
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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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Kam Women Artisans of China
Dawn of the Butterflies
Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.
Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.
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Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey
The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance
By delving into Kurdish documentary films as products of complex societal, political, and historical processes, the articles here highlight the intersections of media production, film text, and audience reception.
By delving into Kurdish documentary films as products of complex societal, political, and historical processes, the articles here highlight the intersections of media production, film text, and audience reception.
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Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings
Art, Beauty, and Wisdom
This volume investigates Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. The first female painter of sixteenth-century Italy to depict female nudes and mythological subjects, Fontana challenged the male tradition of history painting and paved the way for future female artists.
This volume investigates Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. The first female painter of sixteenth-century Italy to depict female nudes and mythological subjects, Fontana challenged the male tradition of history painting and paved the way for future female artists.
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Lee Miller’s Surrealist Eye
New Insights
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
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This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
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These studies offer a fresh look at the complexity of artistic and cultural contacts, transfers, and exchanges between Europe and the Middle East. They reach far beyond the geographical regions where these cultures have met and interacted throughout their long histories.
These studies offer a fresh look at the complexity of artistic and cultural contacts, transfers, and exchanges between Europe and the Middle East. They reach far beyond the geographical regions where these cultures have met and interacted throughout their long histories.
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Looking Through Gender
Post-1980 British and Irish Drama
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
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Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch
Thinking about Television’s Mad Men
Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show's cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.
Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show’s cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.
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Making Meaning, Making Money
Directions for the Arts and Cultural Industries in the Creative Age
The arts are at the heart of policy discussions, but as culture is justified by its commercial value, is its intrinsic worth at risk? Leading thinkers debate the directions cultural policy should take in the future. For artists and policy makers.
The arts are at the heart of policy discussions, but as culture is justified by its commercial value, is its intrinsic worth at risk? Leading thinkers debate the directions cultural policy should take in the future. For artists and policy makers.
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Meanings of Ripley
The Alien Quadrilogy and Gender
This collection offers varied interpretations of sci-fi icon Ellen Ripley. Is she a feminist hero? A patriarchal mother? Does she move beyond dichotomous gender roles? Voices from multiple disciplines explore these questions against the backdrop of Second Wave Feminism.
This collection offers varied interpretations of sci-fi icon Ellen Ripley. Is she a feminist hero? A patriarchal mother? Does she move beyond dichotomous gender roles? Voices from multiple disciplines explore these questions against the backdrop of Second Wave Feminism.
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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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