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About Face
Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts
How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.
How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.
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Artistic Ambivalence in Clay
Portraits of Pottery, Ceramics, and Gender
Glimpse into the lives of fifteen prominent women in contemporary ceramics. Spanning generations and geographies, they describe tensions in their art and careers, analyzing the persistence of sexism while celebrating their often neglected perspectives.
Glimpse into the lives of fifteen prominent women in contemporary ceramics. Spanning generations and geographies, they describe tensions in their art and careers, analyzing the persistence of sexism while celebrating their often neglected perspectives.
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From Camera Lens To Critical Lens
A Collection Of Best Essays On Film Adaptation
This collection of essays represents the very best on film adaptation. Diverse international voices explore directors like Hitchcock, writers like Virginia Woolf, and international films from China, Japan, and France. Accessible, engaging, and informative for any reader.
This collection of essays represents the very best on film adaptation. Diverse international voices explore directors like Hitchcock, writers like Virginia Woolf, and international films from China, Japan, and France. Accessible, engaging, and informative for any reader.
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The Post-Industrial Landscape as Site for Creative Practice
Material Memory
This book investigates the role of material memory in the post-industrial landscape and the ways landscape can host many forms of creative practice. Material memory’s role in public artworks and political installation art is detailed, within the post-industrial landscape.
This book investigates the role of material memory in the post-industrial landscape and the ways landscape can host many forms of creative practice. Material memory’s role in public artworks and political installation art is detailed, within the post-industrial landscape.
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African Film Cultures
Contexts of Creation and Circulation
This book offers new perspectives on diverse African film cultures. It uniquely engages with the peoples, histories, geographies, and changing production cultures shaped by audiences at home and in the diaspora, providing useful analyses of socio-political factors.
This book offers new perspectives on diverse African film cultures. It uniquely engages with the peoples, histories, geographies, and changing production cultures shaped by audiences at home and in the diaspora, providing useful analyses of socio-political factors.
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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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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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Conversations with Indian Cartoonists
Politickle Lines
Picking up the pen is like playing with fire in political cartooning. Cartoonists draw the line to shake us out of apathy. In the tradition of Shankar and R. K. Laxman, this volume presents conversations with India’s leading cartoonists, taking us into their recondite art.
Picking up the pen is like playing with fire in political cartooning. Cartoonists draw the line to shake us out of apathy. In the tradition of Shankar and R. K. Laxman, this volume presents conversations with India’s leading cartoonists, taking us into their recondite art.
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Film and Morality examines how morality is presented in films and how they serve as a source of moral values. It shows how audiences explore moral issues by following characters who make life-changing decisions and live with the consequences of their choices.
Film and Morality examines how morality is presented in films and how they serve as a source of moral values. It shows how audiences explore moral issues by following characters who make life-changing decisions and live with the consequences of their choices.
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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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A World of Popular Entertainments
An Edited Volume of Critical Essays
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
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Dramatising Disaster
Character, Event, Representation
As the imagining of disaster intensifies in media, it is vital to understand how it is presented. Dramatising Disaster presents new research focused not on a specific event, but on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.
As the imagining of disaster intensifies in media, it is vital to understand how it is presented. Dramatising Disaster presents new research focused not on a specific event, but on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.
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With over 150 colour illustrations, this collection of essays explores the history and mysteries of the “Coral Road” from the Mediterranean to Japan. Journey from Italy’s fisheries to Tibet, where coral is a sacred treasure, to the magnificent craftwork of the Edo Period.
With over 150 colour illustrations, this collection of essays explores the history and mysteries of the “Coral Road” from the Mediterranean to Japan. Journey from Italy’s fisheries to Tibet, where coral is a sacred treasure, to the magnificent craftwork of the Edo Period.
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New technologies have transformed audiovisual storytelling, turning viewers into creators and participants. Featuring texts by leading media scholars, this book offers analyses of these expanding practices, from mobile media and gaming to interactive documentaries.
New technologies have transformed audiovisual storytelling, turning viewers into creators and participants. Featuring texts by leading media scholars, this book offers analyses of these expanding practices, from mobile media and gaming to interactive documentaries.
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Studies by young researchers explore art's response to social decline, transformation, and rebirth. The book entails diverse perceptions of art and society, from antiquity to modernity, architecture to moving pictures, and the USA to Yugoslavia.
Studies by young researchers explore art’s response to social decline, transformation, and rebirth. The book entails diverse perceptions of art and society, from antiquity to modernity, architecture to moving pictures, and the USA to Yugoslavia.
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This collection leans on the fact that, even in the Cold War era, television could become a cross-border matter. It combines transnational perspectives on convergence zones, observations, collaborations, circulations and interdependencies between Eastern and Western television.
This collection leans on the fact that, even in the Cold War era, television could become a cross-border matter. It combines transnational perspectives on convergence zones, observations, collaborations, circulations and interdependencies between Eastern and Western television.
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This volume investigates the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category.
This volume investigates the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category.
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This book examines the 2011 Occupy LSX protest at St Paul’s Cathedral in relation to media spectacle. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it demonstrates how protestors subverted media and manifested formidable resistance to capitalism.
This book examines the 2011 Occupy LSX protest at St Paul’s Cathedral in relation to media spectacle. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it demonstrates how protestors subverted media and manifested formidable resistance to capitalism.
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Since Plato, the relationship between theatre and learning has been seen as powerful, dangerous, and complex. This volume investigates this intersection, as researchers and practitioners consider the tensions and failures that make learning through theatre so engaging.
Since Plato, the relationship between theatre and learning has been seen as powerful, dangerous, and complex. This volume investigates this intersection, as researchers and practitioners consider the tensions and failures that make learning through theatre so engaging.
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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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