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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Archetypal Artist
Book SynopsisIn this thoughtful and revelatory book, Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art, creativity, and what Jung called the creative spirit in order to illuminate how artists can truly understand what it means to be a creator.By bringing together insights on creativity from some of depth psychology's most iconic thinkers, such as C.G. Jung, James Hillman, and Joseph Campbell, as well as featuring a selection of creators who have been influenced by these ideas, such as Martha Graham, Mary Oliver, Stanley Kunitz, and Ursula K. Le Guin, this book explores archetypal thought and the role of the artist in society. This unique approach emphasizes the foundational need to understand and work with the unconscious forces that underpin a creative calling, deepening our understanding of the transformational power of creativity, and the vital role of the artist in the modern world.Acting as a touchstone for inquiries into the nature of creativity, and of the soul, this enligTrade ReviewThe Archetypal Artist is a long-awaited offering to the fields of creativity and depth psychology. Scholars, students, artists, ecologists, and activists will find revelation here – it’s an accessible yet intricately woven map of Jungian and archetypal concepts and their relationship to artistic expression. Dr. Mary Wood at once honors the great mystery within the soul of every artist, while leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of deeper understanding. Kim Krans, artist and NY Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown TarotMary Wood's fine book, carefully researched and presented, draws on her talents as artist, depth psychologist, and scholar. With a keen historical sense and marshalling a wide range of sources, it leads us to recover and reconceptualize the high purpose and calling of the artist as a conduit for the creative depths of the psyche and the expression of soul. Dr. Keiron Le Grice, professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, CaliforniaDr. Mary Wood’s creative vision that inspires The Archetypal Artist is fiercely and delightfully expansive and deep, measured, but not without a tincture of wildness. Her calling to revision the creative spirit in each of us implies that creativity is a spiritual practice—a way of being enthused to sense the world’s sacredness anew. Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Mythology at Pacifica Graduate InstituteIn an exciting and provocative transformation of Jungian and Archetypal Studies, The Archetypal Artist shifts the center of gravity of depth psychology to the artist, rather than the therapist. For surely those conducting images into being through art-making are individuating for the world as well as themselves? By bringing Jung, post-Jungians, Hillman, soul-making and myth into depth psychology’s re-connection of shaman to artist, Wood restores art to its ancestral homes in medicine, religion, divination and magic. Modernity split the psyche, so reducing art into soul-less artifacts. The Archetypal Artist restores the art of life. It shows artworks as a living medium for the soul. This book is soul-juice for anyone who wants to find authenticity in the urge to create. It is essential reading for all who seek for the art of living, as well as for those driven to fashion life into the in-spirited matter of art. Susan Rowland, Ph.D., Depth Psychology, Creativity, and Humanities Professor at Pacifica Graduate InstituteWood has created a magnificent homage to James Hillman; reminding us of his vibrant mind and presence and simultaneously she introduces new generations to a true genius whose creativity continues to evolve in ways that are timeless. Her superbly researched volume unfolds, in very readable ways a comparative study of the meaning of the soul in the world, an idea much needed in our time of loss and disorientation. She helps clinicians bring to the foreground the profound value of art, aesthetics, and creativity as the combined essence of healing. This book provides the backdrop for understanding the "depth" of "depth psychology." Linda Carter MSN, Jungian Analyst, CS, IAAPTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. An Archeology of Soul, Creativity, and Transformation 2. C.G. Jung: Reluctant Artist, Servant of The Creative Spirit 3. A Thousand Voices: Inflections and Interpretations of Jung’s Creative Vision 4. Archetypal Creativity: Image, Imagination, and Instinct 5. Image Making and Soul-making 6. Mythopoesis: The Archetypal Ancestors of the Modern Creator 7. The Soul, the Creative, and the Archetypal Artist 8. Epilogue as Testament and Talisman
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Taylor & Francis An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in
Book SynopsisAn Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums is a practice-based guide that is designed to introduce qualitative research to established and upcoming museum professionals and increase their confidence to conduct this type of research.Highlighting the work of researchers who are studying museums around the world, the book begins by explaining why there is a need for qualitative research in museums. Rowson Love and Randolph then go on to provide guidance, including theories and frameworks, on how to envision a qualitative research project that facilitates meaningful interpretation of visitor experiences. Chapters in the methodology section begin with descriptions of featured qualitative methodologies and will assist readers as they determine which are most appropriate for their projects and as they advocate for their research. The final section will prepare readers still further by demonstrating data analysis and reporting using the examples in the book.<
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Taylor & Francis Ltd OneHour Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Tragedies, includes the following plays: Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. One-Hour projects in performance: money-saving suggestions to consider with a minimal budget 3. Lesson Plan and Editing Exercise 4. Cross-gender casting suggestions 5. Hamlet 6. Hamlet: suggested cast list and character assignments for a small cast 7. Julius Caesar 8. Julius Caesar: suggested cast list and character assignments for a small cast 9. Macbeth 10. Macbeth: suggested cast list and character assignments for a small cast 11. Othello 12. Othello: suggested cast list and character assignments for a small cast 13. Romeo and Juliet 14. Romeo and Juliet: suggested cast list and character assignments for a small cast
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Character Development and Storytelling for Games
Book SynopsisThis is the third edition of Character Development and Storytelling for Games, a standard work in the field that brings all of the teaching from the first two books up to date and tackles the new challenges of today. Professional game writer and designer Lee Sheldon combines his experience and expertise in this updated edition. New examples, new game types, and new challenges throughout the text highlight the fundamentals of character writing and storytelling.But this book is not just a box of techniques for writers of video games. It is an exploration of the roots of character development and storytelling that readers can trace from Homer to Chaucer to Cervantes to Dickens and even Mozart. Many contemporary writers also contribute insights from books, plays, television, films, and, yes, games.Sheldon and his contributors emphasize the importance of creative instinct and listening to the inner voice that guides successful game writers and designers. Join him on Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Introduction. Part I Background. Chapter 1 Equations. Chapter 2 The Story Remains the Same. Part II Creating Characters. Chapter 3 Respecting Characters. Chapter 4 Character Roles. Chapter 5 Character Traits. Chapter 6 Character Encounters. Part III Telling the Story. Chapter 7 Once Upon a Time. Chapter 8 Respecting Story. Chapter 9 Bringing the Story to Life. Chapter 10 Games: Charting New Territory. Chapter 11 Story Anatomy. Chapter 12 Editing. Chapter 13 The Roots of a New Storytelling. Chapter 14 Modular Storytelling. Part IV Games People Play Today. Chapter 15 Game Types. Chapter 16 Game Genres. Chapter 17 Storytelling in Virtual Worlds. Chapter 18 Storytelling in Small Games. Chapter 19 Storytelling in Applied Games. Part V Reflections. Chapter 20 Postlude: Endgame. INDEX.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Game Audio Programming 3 Principles and Practices
Book SynopsisWelcome to the third volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practicesthe first series of its kind dedicated to the art and science of game audio programming. This volume contains 14 chapters from some of the top game audio programmers and sound designers in the industry. Topics range across game genres (ARPG, RTS, FPS, etc.), and from low-level topics such as DSP to high-level topics like using influence maps for audio.The techniques in this book are targeted at game audio programmers of all abilities, from newbies who are just getting into audio programming to seasoned veterans. All of the principles and practices in this book have been used in real shipping games, so they are all very practical and immediately applicable. There are chapters about split-screen audio, dynamic music improvisation, dynamic mixing, ambiences, DSPs, and more.This book continues the tradition of collecting modern, up-to-date knowledge and wisdom about game audio programmingTable of ContentsChapter 1 ◾ Sound Effect Categories 1Florian FüsslinSection I DSPChapter 2 ◾ Complex Numbers: A Primer for DSPProgramming 15Robert BantinChapter 3 ◾ Building Dynamic Analog-Style Filters: Bi-Quadratic Cascades vs Digital IntegratorCascades 29Robert BantinChapter 4 ◾ Modeling Atmospheric Absorption with a Low-Pass Filter 51Nic TaylorSection II VoiceChapter 5 ◾ Software Engineering Principles of Voice Pipelines 71Michael FilionChapter 6 ◾ A Stimulus-Driven Server Authoritative Voice System 81Tomas NeumannSection III Audio EnginesChapter 7 ◾ Building the Patch Cable 93Ethan GellerChapter 8 ◾ Split Screen and Audio Engines 119Aaron McLeranChapter 9 ◾ Voice Management and Virtualization 133Robert GayChapter 10 ◾ Screen-Space Distance Attenuation 143Guy SombergChapter 11 ◾ Under the Influence: Using Influence Mapsfor Audio 167Jon MitchellChapter 12 ◾ An Importance-Based Mixing System 181Guy SombergContents ◾ ixChapter 13 ◾ Voxel-Based Emitters: Approximating the Position of Ambient Sounds 205Nic TaylorChapter 14 ◾ Improvisational Music 235Charlie Huguenard
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture, physical facility changes and most importantly the new media management workflows and business processes to support the entire lifecycle of the IP broadcast facility from an engineering and workflow perspective. Fully updated, this second edition covers the technological evolutions and changes in the media broadcast industry, including the new standards and specifications for live IP production, the SMPTE ST2110 suite of standards, the necessity of protecting against cyber threats and the expansion of cloud services in opening new possibilities. It provides users with the necessary information for planning, organizing, producing and distributing media for the modern broadcast facility.Key features of this text include: Strategies to implement a cost-effective live and file-based production and distribution system. A cohesive, big-picture viewTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition: 'To my knowledge this is the first attempt by anyone to document the changing technology in broadcast engineering. Gary does it very well; it could finish up as the industry bible on the subject.' - David MacGregor, Chairman, TSL, UK Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Overview Chapter 2 Standards, Protocols and Acronyms Chapter 3 Business Processes and Integration Chapter 4 – Ingest / Acquistion / Capture Chapter 5 Workflow and Processes Chapter 6 Media Management Chapter 7 Technology Infrastructure and Engineering Chapter 8 Transmission and Delivery Chapter 9 Cloud Chapter 10 Artificial Intelligence Chapter 11 - Facility Planning and Design Chapter 12 – Review Appendix
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem
Book SynopsisArtificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem highlights the opportunities and rewards associated with the application of AI in the creative arts. Featuring an array of voices, including interviews with Jacques Attali, Holly Herndon and Scott Cohen, this book offers interdisciplinary approaches to pressing ethical and technical questions associated with AI. Considering the perspectives of developers, students and artists, as well as the wider themes of law, ethics and philosophy, Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem is an essential introduction for anyone interested in the impact of AI on music, including those studying and working in the creative arts.Table of ContentsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 The Future – Interview with Jacques AttaliChapter 2 AI music – On the Meaning of Music: Music is a language without a dictionary – David CopeChapter 3 The Developer – What do music software developers do? – Miller PucketteChapter 4 The Student – Shortcuts Guide To Music Theory – Artur Osipov Chapter 5 The Artist – Interview with Holly HerndonChapter 6 Robotics – Fast and Curious: A CNN for Ethical Deep Learning Musical Generation – Richard Savery & Gil WeinbergChapter 7 Extended Reality – Music in Immersive XR Environments:The Possibilities (and Approaches) for (AI) – Gareth W. Young & Aljosa SmolicChapter 8 Data – A Quantified Quickening: Data, AI and the Consumption and Composition of Music – Jennifer EdmondChapter 9 Law– You Can Call Me Hal: AI & Music IP – Martin ClancyChapter 10 Ethics – Whose Ethics? Approaches to a Equitable and Sustainable Music Ecosystem – Martin ClancyChapter 11 Global Ethics – From Philosophy to Practice A Culturally Informed Ethics of Music AI in Asia – Rujing Stacy Huang, Andre Holzapfel & Bob L. T. SturmChapter 12 Start-ups – AI: Why I Care – Mick KielyChapter 13 Music Industry – Interview with Scott CohenChapter 14 Philosophy – Amor Fati: A Theoretical Model of the Music Ecosystem – Martin ClancyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Walking Cities London
Book SynopsisWalking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking, researching and communicating. In particular, the book examines how the city contains narratives, knowledge and contested materialities that are best accessed through the act of walking.The varied contributions take the form of short stories, illustrated essays, personal reflections and accounts of walks both real and fictional. While artist and RCA tutor Rut Blees Luxemburg and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy recount a nocturnal journey from Shoreditch to the City of London; architect Peter St John of the practice Caruso St John offers a detailed and personal reflection on the Holloway Road; and architect and author Douglas Murphy examines what he calls London's more politically charged locations' in his account of a solitary Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part 1. Site 1.My Kind of Town by Peter St John; 2. London Has to Continually Refresh its Offer by Douglas Murphy; 3. Against Porosity, Against the Crowd: Walking for a Spatial Complex City by Adam Kaasa; 4. Gravesend-Broadness Weather Station by Roberto Bottazzi; 5. Walking | Material Conditions of the Street by David Dernie Part 2. Night 6.London Winterreise by Rut Blees Luxemburg & Jean-Luc Nancy; 7. Night Moves by Nayan Kulkarni Part 3. Writing 8. Point to Point by Sean Ashton; 9. Public Notice by Jaspar Joseph-Lester; 10. The Rotherhithe Caryatids by Laura Oldfield Ford Part 4. Monuments 11.Squatted Somers Town by Esther Leslie; 12. Docked and Parked by Jo Stockham; 13. Freud in London by Sharon Kivland & Steve Pile; 14. Walking Round Trafalgar Square (Temenos and Omphalos) by Ahuvia Kahane Part 5. Music 15. The Travelling Mindset: A Method for Seeing Everything Anew by Amy Blier-Carruthers; 16. Practise. Walk by by Peter Sheppard Skærved Part 6. Dialogue 17. Curling up Tight by Phil Smith; 18. Walkative: A Choreography of Resistance by Rosana Antoli; 19. The Sound of Sweetness on the Grand Union Canal by Tom Spooner; 20. The Optimists by Duncan Jeffs
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Taylor & Francis 16mm and 8mm Filmmaking
Book SynopsisThis book is an essential guide to making traditional 16mm and 8mm films, from production to post, using both analog and digital tools. Focusing on low-budget equipment and innovative techniques, this text will provide you with the steps to begin your journey in making lasting work in the legacy medium of great filmmakers from Georges MÃliÃs to Steven Spielberg. The discipline of 16mm or 8mm film can initially seem challenging, but through the chapters in this book, youâll learn strategies and insight to develop your craft. Youâll discover the right camera for your needs, how to light for film, and the options in planning your digital post-production workflow. The book includes numerous hand-drawn diagrams and illustrations for ease of understanding, as well as recommended films and filmmaking activities to help you build your knowledge of film history, technical and creative skills within each chapter theme.By applying the suggested approaches to production planningTrade Review"After reading chapter 9 on Special Effects, I grabbed my Bell & Howell Filmo 70 camera to examine it more carefully, amazed that it held so many possibilities that I had been previously unaware of. Dodd provides indispensable shooting tips, inspiring assignment suggestions, while sharing his passion for filmmaking."Mary Beth Reed, VCUartsTable of ContentsIntroduction, Chapter 1: Why Film, Chapter 2: Motion Picture Cameras, Chapter 3: 16mm and 8mm Formats, Chapter 4: Cinema Lenses, Chapter 5: Motion Picture Film Stocks, Chapter 6: Light Meters, Chapter 7: Planning a Film Production, Chapter 8: Cinema Lighting, Chapter 9: Special Camera Effects, Chapter 10: Magnetic Sound Recording, Chapter 11: Film Processing, Chapter 12: Film Bench Editing, Chapter 13: Film Editing Machines, Chapter 14: Magnetic Sound Editing, Chapter 15: Film Finishing and Projection, Conclusion, Appendix: Camera Guide
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The English Theatrical AvantGarde 19001925
Book SynopsisThe English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 19001925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveals some of the well-known figures of the early twentieth-century English theatre in a strikingly new light. It fluently describes an intensity of innovation and experiment that together made the Edwardian theatre rather more radical, and rather more queer, than we've ever thought.Where the majority of writing on the early twentieth-century theatrical avant-garde is concerned with European movements and experiments, English activity of the period is often seen as parochial and conservative mainly realism and issues-based drama. This book presents a new model of how avant-gardes might work; a model based not on masculine individualism but on communal inclusion. In describing this fascinating material, the author introduces us to many new figures and shows familiar ones in different ways: there's Florence Farr, independTable of Contents1. Experimental Theatre 2. Modernities 3. The Renovation of the Stage 4. Advanced Guards 5. Fantasy Play
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fashion Writing
Book SynopsisActing as a comprehensive primer for the field of fashion writing, this book provides an accessible entry point for readers from diverse backgrounds, giving them a clear understanding of the intricacies of fashion writing, the outlets in which it appears, and the possibilities beyond the page. Fashion Writing: A Primer lays out a framework for various types of fashion writing (runway and trend reports, service pieces, features, and more), while offering students a solid foundation of fashion history, cultural touchstones, common fashion terminology, and contemporary issues affecting the fashion industry today. Featuring interviews with current fashion journalists, such as Robin Givhan, Sarah Mower, Charlie Porter, and Amanda Winnie Kabuiku, as well as annotated bibliographies centred on the themes of each chapter, this book delivers fashion writing essentials for anyone interested in the field. Readers will come away aware of the many influences on the fashion world,Table of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: Foundational KnowledgeChapter 1: Where Did You Get That Outfit? A Brief History of FashionChapter 2: It’s All in the Details: The Language of FashionChapter 3: The Write Stuff: Writing BasicsSection 2: Working ItChapter 4: Ready for Take-off: The Runway ReportChapter 5: Don’t Get Left Behind: Trend Reports and Service PiecesChapter 6: Do You See What I See? Fashion Beyond FashionSection 3: Broadening Your FocusChapter 7: Taking It All In: Contemporary Issues in FashionChapter 8: Pitch, PleaseAppendix: Postgraduate Programmes in Fashion Communication
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fashion Writing
Book SynopsisActing as a comprehensive primer for the field of fashion writing, this book provides an accessible entry point for readers from diverse backgrounds, giving them a clear understanding of the intricacies of fashion writing, the outlets in which it appears, and the possibilities beyond the page. Fashion Writing: A Primer lays out a framework for various types of fashion writing (runway and trend reports, service pieces, features, and more), while offering students a solid foundation of fashion history, cultural touchstones, common fashion terminology, and contemporary issues affecting the fashion industry today. Featuring interviews with current fashion journalists, such as Robin Givhan, Sarah Mower, Charlie Porter, and Amanda Winnie Kabuiku, as well as annotated bibliographies centred on the themes of each chapter, this book delivers fashion writing essentials for anyone interested in the field. Readers will come away aware of the many influences on the fashion world,Table of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: Foundational KnowledgeChapter 1: Where Did You Get That Outfit? A Brief History of FashionChapter 2: It’s All in the Details: The Language of FashionChapter 3: The Write Stuff: Writing BasicsSection 2: Working ItChapter 4: Ready for Take-off: The Runway ReportChapter 5: Don’t Get Left Behind: Trend Reports and Service PiecesChapter 6: Do You See What I See? Fashion Beyond FashionSection 3: Broadening Your FocusChapter 7: Taking It All In: Contemporary Issues in FashionChapter 8: Pitch, PleaseAppendix: Postgraduate Programmes in Fashion Communication
£112.50
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies is a comprehensive, global, and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender, Sexuality, Comics, and Graphic Novels.A diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics, and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Chapters cover a wide array of intersectional topics including Queer Underground and Alternative comics, Feminist Autobiography, re-drawing disability, Latina testimony, and re-evaluating the critical whiteness and masculinity of superheroes in this first truly global reference text to gender and sexuality in comics.Comics have always been an important place for the radical exploration of feminist and non-binary sexualities and identities, and the growth of non-normative comic book traditions as a Trade Review"Yet another milestone in Aldama’s overturning of long held misconceptions that the world of comics and graphic novels lacks space for marginalized voices and diverse perspectives, this collection is essential reading for anyone studying and, more importantly, making comics. While taking a comprehensive look back at gender and sexuality in cartooning of the past, the carefully curated essays suggest a future for comics where previously underrepresented voices will all have equal opportunity to take center stage"Matt Silady, Eisner-nominated comics creator and Chair of the MFA in Comics program, California College of the Arts"A veritable cornucopia of sophisticated, intersectional analysis that digs deep into the history of the comics industry and the sequential art medium to examine how gender and sexuality have shaped our understanding of storytelling, our worldview, and ourselves. This is a necessary compendium that will continue to push comics forward."Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief"With its overarching intersectional framework used to investigate a medium uniquely suited for both personal exploration and collective expression, this volume goes way beyond a clichéd understanding of comics as a playground for pulp anxieties. A remarkably comprehensive tome on an elusive subject!"Katie Skelly, award-winning comics creator and author of Maids with Fantagraphics"Yet another milestone in Aldama’s overturning of long held misconceptions that the world of comics and graphic novels lacks space for marginalized voices and diverse perspectives, this collection is essential reading for anyone studying and, more importantly, making comics. While taking a comprehensive look back at gender and sexuality in cartooning of the past, the carefully curated essays suggest a future for comics where previously underrepresented voices will all have equal opportunity to take center stage"Matt Silady, Eisner-nominated comics creator and Chair of the MFA in Comics program, California College of the Arts"A veritable cornucopia of sophisticated, intersectional analysis that digs deep into the history of the comics industry and the sequential art medium to examine how gender and sexuality have shaped our understanding of storytelling, our worldview, and ourselves. This is a necessary compendium that will continue to push comics forward."Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief"With its overarching intersectional framework used to investigate a medium uniquely suited for both personal exploration and collective expression, this volume goes way beyond a clichéd understanding of comics as a playground for pulp anxieties. A remarkably comprehensive tome on an elusive subject!"Katie Skelly, award-winning comics creator and author of Maids with FantagraphicsTable of ContentsPart I: Interrogating Restrictive Frames; Chapter 1: Translating Masculinity: The Significance of the Frontier in American Superheroes; Chapter 2: Black Boys and Black Girls in Comics: An Affective and Historical Mapping of Intertwined Stereotypes; Chapter 3: Pocket-Sized Pornography: Representations of Sexual Violence and Masculinity in Tijuana Bibles; Chapter 4: The Comic Strip in Advertising: Persuasion, Gender, Sexuality; Chapter 5: Real Men Choose Vasectomy: Questioning and Redefining Mexican National Masculinity in Los Supermachos, from Rius to Anonymous Authors; Chapter 6: Marriage, Domesticity and Superheroes (For Better or Worse); Chapter 7: "Is that a monster between your legs or are ya just happy to see me?": Sex, Subjectivity, and the Superbody in the Marvel Swimsuit Special; Part II: Ethnoracial Queer and Feminist Space Clearing Gestures; Chapter 8: Life Out Loud in the Closet: The Grotesque as Latinx Imagination in Cristy C. Road’s Spit and Passion; Chapter 9: Graphic (Narrative) Presentations of Violence Against Indigenous Women: Responses to the MMIW Crisis in North America; Chapter 10: From "Accidental" Autobiography to Comics Activism: Tracing the Development of an Andalusian-Chinese Feminism in the Work of Comics Artist Quan Zhou; Chapter 11: Plea Deal Compounds: Black Women’s Anger in "the System" of Bitch Planet; Part III: Back to the Future; Chapter 12: Panels of Innocence and Experience: Reading Sexual Subjectivity Through Horror Comics ; Chapter 13: Teenage Biology 101: Serializing a Queer Girlhood in Ariel Schrag's Potential; Chapter 14: Genre, Gender, Sexual, Textual and Visual, and Real Representations in Bande Dessinée; Chapter 15: A Comics Écriture Féminine: Anke Feuchtenberger’s Feminist Graphic Expression; Chapter 16: "I’m Trapped In Here!" Gender Performativity and Affect in Emma Ríos's I.D.; Chapter 17: Empirical Looking: Situating the Multiple Elements of Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout as Vehicles for Articulating a Place for Women in Science; Part IV: Counterpublics; Chapter 18: From Anodyne Animals to Filthy Beasts: Defying and Defiling Safety, Sanctity, and Sexual Suppression in Underground Animal Comics; Chapter 19: Wonder Woman’s Complicated Relationship with Feminism; Chapter 20: "Part of Something Bigger": Ms./Captain Marvel; Chapter 21: Higher, Further, Faster Baby! The Feminist Evolution of Carol Danvers from Comics to Film; Chapter 22: Female Fans, Female Creators, and Female Superheroes: The Semiotics of Changing Gender Dynamics; Chapter 23: Public-Facing Feminisms: Subverting the Lettercol in Bitch Planet; Chapter 24: "I’d Like Everything That’s Bad For Me!": Tank Girl’s Cracks in Patriarchal Pop Culture; Chapter 25: Falling In Stepping Out: Little Red Formation as Agentic Gender Construction in Lumberjanes; Part V: Worldly Interventions; Chapter 26: "A Revelation Not of the Flesh, but of the Mind": Performing Queer Textuality in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home; Chapter 27: BLOOD, or: Gender and Nation in the Contemporary Polish Comic; Chapter 28: My Grandmother Collects Memories: Gender and Remembrance in Hispanic Graphic Narratives; Chapter 29: Feminist Riots and Gay Giants: The Mayo Feminista and Cultural Context of Contemporary Queer Chilean Comics; Chapter 30: Questioning Obscenity: The Place of "Pussy" in Manga and the World; Chapter 31: See Him, See Her, See Xir: LGBTQ Visibility in Shōnen Manga at the Turn of the Century; Chapter 32: An Age of Sparkle and Drama: Exploring Gender Identities and Cultural Narratives in 1970s Shōjo Manga; Part VI: Queer and Feminist Intermedial Textures; Chapter 33: Representing the Extreme End-point of Sexual Violence: Ethical Strategies in Phoebe Gloeckner’s La Tristeza; Chapter 34: The People Upstairs: Space, Memory, and the Queered Family in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris; Chapter 35: Fat Bats, Postpunks, and Ice Witches: Afrogoth and the Undead Music of Militia Vox and the Comix of Calyn Pickens Rich; Chapter 36: Catherine Meurisse and the Gender of Art; Chapter 37: My Life With Toys: An Academic Esai into the Queer Multipurposing of Toys as Interrupted by the Author’s Life; Chapter 38: "Bobby…You’re Gay": Marvel’s Iceman, Performativity, Continuity, and Queer Visibility
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Augmented and Mixed Reality for Communities
Book SynopsisUsing mixed and augmented reality in communities is an emerging media practice that is reshaping how we interact with our cities and neighbors. From the politics of city hall to crosswalks and playgrounds, mixed and augmented reality will offer a diverse range of new ways to interact with our communities. In 2016, apps for augmented reality politics began to appear in app stores. Similarly, the blockbuster success of PokÃmon Go illustrated how even forgotten street corners can become a magical space for play. In 2019, a court case in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, extended first amendment rights to augmented reality. For all the good that these emerging media provide, there will and have been consequences. Augmented and Mixed Reality for Communities will help students and practitioners navigate the ethical design and development of these kinds of experiences to transform their cities. As one of the first books of its kind, each chapter in the book prepares readers to contribute to the Augmented City. By providing insight into how these emerging media work, the book seeks to democratize the augmented and mixed reality space.Authors within this volume represent some of the leading scholars and practitioners working in the augmented and mixed reality space for civic media, cultural heritage, civic games, ethical design, and social justice. Readers will find practical insights for the design and development to create their own compelling experiences. Teachers will find that the text provides in-depth, critical analyses for thought-provoking classroom discussions. Table of ContentsPART 1: THE BODY IN THE XR COMMUNITY. Against the Instrumentalization of Empathy: Immersive Technologies and Social Change. The Body and the Eye-the I and the Other: Critical Reflections on the Promise of Extended Empathy in Extended Reality Configurations. The Civic Media Machine: Moving from a VR Use of Empathy Toward A Sustainable and Participatory Immersive Experience with and for the Community. The Philosopher’s Stone as a Design Framework for Defending Truth and Empowering Communities. PART 2: SITUATING XR IN THE CITY. Designing Lived Space: Community Engagement Practices in Rooted AR. The Ethics of Augmentation: A Case Study in Contemplative Mixed Reality. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Pokémon: The Tension Between Free Speech and Municipal Tranquility. Reconceptualizing Video Games for Community Spaces. PART 3: THE AUGMENTED CITY FOR EDUCATION. Reflecting in Space on Time: Augmented Reality Interactive Digital Narratives to Explore Complex Histories. Augmented Reality, Aura, and the Design of Cultural Spaces. Building a Virtuous Cycle of Activism Using Art & Augmented Reality: A Community of Practice-Based Project. PART 4: PREPARING THE AUGMENTED CITIZEN. XR Content Authoring Challenges: The Creator-Developer Divide. Motivation Enhancement Methods for Community Building in Extended Reality.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Chemistry and Mechanism of Art Materials
Book SynopsisThis unique book presents an integrated approach to the chemistry of art materials, exploring the many chemical processes involved. The Chemistry and Mechanism of Art Materials: Unsuspected Properties and Outcomes engages readers with historical vignettes detailing examples of unexpected outcomes due to materials used by known artists. The book discusses artists' materials focusing on relevant chemical mechanisms which underlie the synthesis and deterioration of inorganic pigments in paintings, the ageing of the binder in oil paintings, and sulfation of wall paintings as well as the toxicology of these pigments and solvents used by artists. Mechanisms illustrate the stepwise structural transformation of a variety of art materials. Based on the author's years of experience teaching college chemistry, the approach is descriptive and non-mathematical throughout. An introductory section includes a review of basic concepts and provides conTable of ContentsChapter 1 Essential ConceptsChemical Bonding, Solubility, Properties of Solids,Hard and Soft Acids and BasesOxidation-ReductionChemical Reaction MechanismsExperimental Methods Used to Characterize Works of ArtChapter 2 Preparation of Inorganic PigmentsIntroductionBlack PigmentsAntimony BlackCarbon BlacksCobalt BlackIron Oxide, MagnetiteManganese BlackBlue PigmentsAzuriteCerulean BlueEgyptian BluePrussian BlueSmaltUltramarineVerdigrisBrown PigmentsIron (III) Oxide PigmentsLead DioxideGreen PigmentsChromium OxideHydrated Chromium Oxide, ViridianMalachite, see AzuriteParis GreenVerdigrisRed Pigmentsα-Cinnabar and VermilionRed LeadIron (III) Oxide, Hematiteα-Realgar, see OrpimentViolet PigmentsPigment Violet 14White PigmentsAntimony WhiteBarium WhiteLithoponeTitanium WhiteWhite LeadZinc WhiteZinc SulfideYellow PigmentsBismuth VanadateCadmium PigmentsCobalt YellowIron (III) OxideLead ChromateLead Tin Yellow type ILead Tin Yellow type IILead Monoxide, Litharge and MassicotLead Tin Antimonate, Naples YellowOrpimentTitanium YellowChapter 3 Silica, Silicates and AluminosilicatesIntroductionSilicaSilicatesPigment-Silicate InteractionsPottery GlazesAluminosilicatesChapter 4 Discoloration StoriesIntroductionSmaltRed LeadRealgarCinnabarHematiteChrome YellowSilverpointCadmium YellowBlackening of Pigments by H2SUltramarineAzurite and MalachiteMedieval PigmentsChapter 5 Toxicology of Art MaterialsIntroductionOrganicsMethylene ChlorideCarbon TetrachlorideTrichloroethylenen-HexaneN-MethylpyrrolidoneDiisocyanatesAlcohols, Glycols and Glycol EthersMineral SpiritsInorganicsLeadZinc, Cadmium and Mercury Familial PropertiesCadmiumMercurySilverArsenicChromiumChapter 6 Ageing of Oil PaintOxidative Degradation of Oil BinderMetal Soap formationChapter 7 Ageing of Wall PaintingsSecco and Fresco methodsReversal of SulfationDeposition of Water Soluble SaltsDegradation of Oil Binder
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Institutional Transformations
Book SynopsisFormal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour. This collection grapples with how affect, imagination, and embodiment can operate to either constrain or enable the justice of institutions and the experiences of specific social identities.This anthology explores the myriad ways institutions work to systematically disadvantage people with particular identities whilst privileging others, and considers the legal, political, and normative interventions that might serve to promote a more just society. Taken together, the chapters represent the scope of existing research within institutional theory, affect theory, race theory, and theories of social imaginaries. Across a range of topics (human rights, racial and sexual violence, transitional justice and democratic movements) this collection critically assesses the extent to which theorists have attended to the conjoined influence of theTable of ContentsIntroductionDanielle Celermajer, Millicent Churcher, Moira Gatens and Anna Hush 1. Racial Violence, Emotional Friction, and Epistemic ActivismJosé Medina 2. South Africa’s Blue Dress: (Re)imagining human rights through artEliza Garnsey3. The ‘Affairs’ of Political Memory: Hermeneutical Dissidence from National Myth-MakingMihaela Mihai4. Character is a Sacred Bond: Reflections on Sovereignty, Grace, and ResistanceRichard K. Sherwin5. The Tick-tick-ticking Time Bomb and Erosion of Human rights InstitutionsDanielle Celermajer6. Toward a Democratic Groove: Cultivating Affective Dynamics in Institutional TransformationRomand Coles and Lia Haro 7. Listening to Claims of Structural InjusticeEmily Beausoleil8. The Imaginary Institution of the University: Sexual Politics in the Neoliberal AcademyAnna Hush9. Reframing Honor in Heterosexual Imaginaries Millicent Churcher and Moira Gatens
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican
Book SynopsisThis book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression.This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It does so by juxtaposing reggae/dancehall against Jamaican African/neo-African spiritual practices such as Jonkonnu masquerade, Revivalism and Kumina, alongside Christianity and post-modern holistic spiritual approaches.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, popular culture, music, theology, cultural studies, Jamaican/Caribbean culture, and dance specialists.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsThe Blessing – Illustrations/images, plates, and video stillsIntroduction: Sanctification Chapter 1. Warm up: Dancehall literature review Chapter 2. Old time story: The convergence of African, neo-African and popular dance in Jamaica Chapter 3. Come back again: Towards a definition of spirituality Chapter 4. The Massive arrive: The gathering and meshing together of knowledge Chapter 5. Party Time – Early Vibe: Thick descriptions/analysis of dance in the dancehall space Chapter 6: Party Hot – Man dem section: The corporeal dancing body creating ‘dancehall spirituality’ Chapter 7. Party Hot Up – Female section: Dancehall spirituality rooted and routed through African/neo-African practices and worldviews Chapter 8. Coupling Section: Male and female relationships Chapter 9. Signing Off/revelation: Findings and meanings Conclusion: Dispersal – recommendations Bruk Down – BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis OneTrack Mind
Book SynopsisThe song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forcesâcultural, aesthetic, and technicalâthe song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks, and spanning nearly five decades, these essays zigzag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are detours through psychedelic rock, Afro-pop, Latin pop, glam rock, heavy metal, punk, postpunk, adult contemporary rock, techno, hip-hop, and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of individual songs, these essays all expand far beyond the track itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively, they show the undiminished power of the individual pop song, both as distillations of important flashpoints and, in their afterlives, as ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good, capital, help us frame these stories, a fact that should surprise no one given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism established in the twentieth century. At the root, readers will find here a history of pop with unexpected plot twists, colorful protagonists, and fitting denouements.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kristin Linklater
Book SynopsisKristin Linklater is one of the most internationally recognised names in the field of voice training, and this volume explores her work and life while also putting her work into practice. Charting the development of Linklater''s process, including her work at LAMDA, the Lincoln Centre, NYU, Columbia, and the KLVC on Orkney, the book provides a comprehensive overview of one of the world's leading voice coaches. This book contains: A detailed biography of Linklater's life, including her work with Iris Warren at LAMDA, as well as the founding of her own companies and the KLVC on Orkney Detailed analysis of her key text, Freeing the Natural Voice, and her work with Carol Gilligan on The Company of Women, an all-female Shakespeare company they co-conceived A comprehensive set of exercises several of these previously unpublished This book offers essential reading and an invaluable practice handbook to the contemporary performer, voice Table of Contents1. Biography in Social and Artistic Context 2. Summary and Analysis of Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Text 3. Linklater’s Voice Work and the Company of Women 4. Practical Exercises
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Taylor & Francis The Art and Craft of Motion Picture Editing
Book SynopsisThis book explains the broader context of what the art and craft of motion picture editing entails, framing the creative acts of editing within an overall view of the production process and requirements for effective storytelling.This book offers real experiences and advice from seasoned editors on the editing process, providing a detailed examination of filmmaking from the editorâs point of view and exploring how best to cultivate creative relationships with other areas of production to form the final personality of the film. Emphasizing both practicality and creativity, industry veteran Michael Hoggan successfully bridges the gap between the mechanical skills of editing and the thought process behind these decisions. While most books focus primarily on the mind of the creator, this book explores the evolution of practices in film production and editing with respect to the ever-changing expectations of the audience. As the book demonstrates, understanding editing from the auTable of Contents1. Snapshot of the Invisible Artist 2. Motion Picture Editor and the Story (the Script) 3. The Motion Picture Editor / Director Partnership 4. The Motion Picture Editor and the Actor’s Performance 5. The Motion Picture Editor and Cinematographer 6. Overview of the Editing Process 7. Narratives Editing: Principles and Techniques - Film Editing "Rules" 8. Forming the "Editor’s Cut," Its Creative Opportunities 9. The Motion Picture Editor and Sound Design 10. The Motion Picture Editor and the Audience Appendix: Film Production’s Historical Timeline About the Author
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Taylor & Francis Projection Design
Book SynopsisProjection Design: The Basics explores the concepts of visual elements in live entertainment. It provides a conversational view of the fundamentals of projection design, from production meetings and the elements of visual design to the equipment necessary to make it all happen.This text examines the themes and theories universal to a wide range of topics, to provide a foundation for anyone interested in using video for their live production or those who are looking where to start as a designer. Topics covered include: Methods of extracting visuals from a script and communicating them to production staff Basics of visual design Understanding human perception and how this influences design How to choose the right equipment to build a system With a detailed glossary, basic formulas, and comprehensive explanation from start to finish, Projection Design: The Basics is an ideal primer for Projection Design courses, and will be of interest to anyone entering the field of projection and media design for the first time.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Opera in Performance
Book SynopsisOpera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions. What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers' bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones? Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between performers and the audience, representation and presence, the familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings, and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera.Trade Review''I find the book not only important and revealing but also downright exciting in how it points out connections and perspectives. An impressive work that I felt to be both brilliantly written and pioneering.'' Hans Neuenfels''With the present volume, Clemens Risi fills a serious desideratum. The discussion in theater studies has so far engaged too little with the repertory system of opera—viewed statistically, still the most common—from the perspective of performance analysis. […] The book will certainly soon develop into a standard reference and hopefully also contribute to conferring more visibility to opera in discussions in theater studies.'' Forum Modernes Theater"As the book’s subtitle suggests, Risi puts the performative dimension at the centre of his study. […] For Risi, the task at hand when analysing a performance from the realm of Regietheater is not rigorously to relate the event to the score in order to evaluate the production as well or badly done. Rather, ‘the focus is on the question of why and how a certain performance was able to affect the audience in a certain way’ (11). […] After a concise first part on the theoretical framework, situated against the backdrop of the performative turn, Risi goes on to approach opera in performance in its ephemerality and uniqueness as a bodily experience that is as subjective as it is intimate. Methodologically, he approaches the performative dimension through a phenomenological framework, arguing that phenomenology does not ‘describe any event independently from one’s own corporeal experience’ (114). Central to this study is the ‘phenomenal body in its materiality’ (95). Not only are the sound and voice produced by the performer’s body of importance, but also each body that belongs to the audience. Consequently, performances experienced by Risi himself take up most of the analysis. The author describes what he observed and felt, how other members in the audience reacted and what the overall atmosphere in the theatre was like. By doing so, he sheds light on experiences that regular opera-goers all have at some point. The quality of his approach lies in their promotion as objects of research and the establishment of an analytical toolbox to tackle them. […] It is a joy to listen with Risi to the many performances he describes so vividly. The longer one engages with his arguments, the more the author becomes the reader’s very own opera buddy. Risi’s descriptions of stage settings, singers’ bodily exertions and their vocal effects, his own impressions and physical tensions, and the atmosphere in the audience, are engaging and comprehensive. By almost ‘resurrecting’ the performance, the author creates the conditions for the performer–audience relation to incorporate the circle of readers too. All in all, Risi’s text proposes an important shift of perspective towards the performative dimension of opera, as well as a methodological approach that has already proved its urgency and applicability in opera studies.“ Elisabeth van Treeck, (Cambridge Opera Journal 34/2022) ''With the present volume, Clemens Risi fills a serious desideratum. The discussion in theater studies has so far engaged too little with the repertory system of opera—viewed statistically, still the most common—from the perspective of performance analysis. […] The book will certainly soon develop into a standard reference and hopefully also contribute to conferring more visibility to opera in discussions in theater studies.’’ T. Sofie Taubert, Forum Modernes TheaterTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Opera and the PerformativePart 1 Theoretical FoundationsChapter 1 Beyond InterpretationChapter 2 Beyond Semiotics: The Interplay of Representation and PresenceChapter 3 Theories of Performance and the PerformativeChapter 4 The Entanglement of the Senses: Premises from Perception TheoryPart 2 Analytical Approaches Chapter 5 Symbioses and Contestations: The Interaction of Auditory and Visual ElementsChapter 6 The Interplay of Representation and Presence in PerformanceChapter 7 The Voice and the Body in Opera PerformancesChapter 8 Rhythm and Experiences of Time in OperaChapter 9 The Future of Opera? On the Mediated Experience and Distribution of Opera PerformancesConclusionList of Performances DiscussedBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Teaching Music History with Cases
Book SynopsisTeaching Music History with Cases introduces a pedagogical approach to music history instruction in university coursework.What constitutes a music-historical case? How do we use them in the classroom? In business and the hard sciences, cases are problems that need solutions. In a field like music history, a case is not always a problem, but often an exploration of a context or concept that inspires deep inquiry. Such cases are narratives of rich, complex moments in music history that inspire questions of similar or related moments. This book guides instructors through the process of designing a curriculum based on case studies, finding and writing case studies, and guiding class discussions of cases.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Book SynopsisCurating in a Time of Ecological Crisis reaffirms the relevance and impactful role of art, revealing how contemporary art exhibitions can capture the zeitgeist and advance new and collaborative approaches to a more sustainable inhabitation of Earth. The book is largely focused on biennales, which it argues are the contemporary exhibition models with the greatest capacity to offer new perspectives and propose alternative ways of connecting with our social and natural environments. Felicity Fenner demonstrates this by showing how curators of these high-profile exhibitions are responding in creative and engaging ways to the issues that preoccupy artists and society more broadly, of which the ecological crisis is paramount. Drawing on case studies from different parts of the world, the author reveals how biennales can make a constructive contribution to debates and attitudes around climate change, and how the role of the curator has evolved to re-embrace a duty ofTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Exhibiting Nature through the Decades: from Earthworks (1968) to Down to Earth (2020); Chapter 2: Critical Ecosystems: Biennales and new curatorial strategies in response to climate change; Chapter 3: Environment and Empowerment: Biennales as legacy projects; Conclusion; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Game Music Toolbox
Book SynopsisThe Game Music Toolbox provides readers with the tools, models, and techniques to create and expand a compositional toolbox, through a collection of 20 iconic case studies taken from different eras of game music. Discover many of the composition and production techniques behind popular music themes from games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Mario Kart 8, The Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter II, Diablo, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, The Last of Us, and many others. The Game Music Toolbox features: Exclusive interviews from industry experts Transcriptions and harmonic analyses 101 music theory introductions for beginners Career development ideas and strategies Copyright and business fundamentals An introduction to audio implementation for composers Practical takeaway tasks to equip readers with techniquesTable of Contents1. SPACE INVADERS (1978) - Mickey Mousing, Programmable Sound Generators, and the Birth of Interactive Game Music 2. BALLBLAZER (1985) - Algorithmic Guitar Solos to Infinity! 3. THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (1986) – Music Sequences, Musical SFX, and the SNES sound 4. AMEGAS (1987) - The Birth of the Tracker Sequencer 5. THE SECRET OF THE MONKEY ISLAND (1990) – The Secrets of Pirate Reggae! 6. STREET FIGHTER II (1991) –Melodic Tension in Guile’s, Ken’s and Blanka’s themes 7. MORTAL KOMBAT (1992) – From the Arcades to the Dance Floor, Formulaic Writing Makes a Classic Hit 8. DIABLO (1996): Chromatic chords and non-functional harmony in Tristram Village 9. ASSASSIN’S CREED - Music as a Time Travelling Device in Four Historical Games of the Franchise 10. JOURNEY (2012) – a Masterclass in Monothematic Scoring 11. THE LAST OF US (2013) – WHEN LESS IS MORE – SPACE & SILENCE AS STORYTELLING DEVICES 12. ALIEN ISOLATION (2014) – In Space None Can Hear You Scream! - Controlling Tension with a Vertical Layers System 13. MARIO KART 8 (2014) – Music as an Information Device 14. APOTHEON (2016) – Recombinant Cells - A Generative Technique for Producing Musical Variation 15. NO MAN’S SKY (2016) – A Conversation With the Audio Director Paul Weir 16. DOOM (2016) – The Doom Instrument – Using FX chains creatively 17. CALL OF DUTY WW2 (2017) – A Conversation with the Composer Wilbert Roget, II 18. SHADOW OF THE TOMB RAIDER (2018) – Music as Meditation, Lost Instruments, and 3D Mixing 19. CONTROL (2019) - A Conversation with Composer Petri Alanko 20. CYBERPUNK 2077 (2021) – Diegetic Music in Night City, Riff-based Composition, and the Sound of Sci-Fi
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Taylor & Francis The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens
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Taylor & Francis Terrence Malick Sonic Style
Book SynopsisIn the course of a decades-spanning career as a filmmaker, Terrence Malick has carved out a distinctive cinematic aesthetic. Central to this style is the use of sound. James Wierzbicki offers the first comprehensive study of Malick's soundtracks, arguing that they create a distinctive sonic style throughout his oeuvre and exploring how that style functions. Considering voice, noise, and music as elements in the soundtrack, this concise book enriches our understanding of one of our most philosophical filmmakers, and of the interplay between the sonic and visual elements in film.Table of Contents1. Prologue / 2. Overview / 3. Voice / 4. Noise / 5. Music / 6. Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making an Entrance
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and online practice, diversity and inclusivity.With improvisation as his central concern Benjamin covers an extensive range of topics, including new autoethnographic writing, mental health, performance, feedback, and The Dancers' Forest, and interrogates what we mean when we talk about inclusive' and integrated dance.' There are over 50 stimulating and challenging exercises purposefully designed for dance students of all levels accompanied by teaching notes, and examples drawn from the author's experience as a teacher, performer, and dance maker. Useful hints are provided on the practicalities of setting up workshops covering issues such as class sizes, the safety aspects of wheelchairs and accessibility.Table of ContentsPart 1: Thoughts 1. Finding It When You Get There 2. Improv, Access and Training 3. Just Movement – Ethical Considerations 4. An Evolution in Practice 5. The Dancers’ Forest 6. I’d Rather be Snow – on Language, Impairment, Integration and Inclusivity 7. The Simpson Board and Lisa’s Journey 8. The Great Mistake – Response-ability, Grace and Clues to Practice 9. Tension Seekers – a Poet/Hunter’s Guide to Improvisation 10. Demons and Dragons – On Feeling Artistically Blocked 11. Life on the Edge – Dance and Mental Health 12. Is it Therapy? Part 2: Practice 13. An Unruly Location 14. An Introduction to the Improvisations 15. The Opening Circle 16. Getting Started 17. Listening Through Touch 18. Making an Entrance in Time and Space 19. Space, Time, Resting and Centre 20. A to B Scores 21. Talking Heads – Finding Voice in Dance Improvisation 22. Speed and Timing 23. Weight Sharing 24. Counterbalances and Chair Tilts: Dicing with Newtonian Physics 25. Frames, Eyes, Escaping the Screen 26. Live Music 27. Art and Dance 28. Improvisation, Choreography, Performance Part 3: Outside (the box) 29. Building Connections 30. Excerpts from an African Diary 31. The Fool’s Journey and Poisonous Mushrooms
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Taylor & Francis Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify
Book SynopsisIn this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the ambiguity of the plays, he suggests, this focus produces a tension that both heightens dramatic effect and facilitates a cynical response to contemporary evocations of and pleas for unity. This book has three main aims. Firstly, it establishes that Marloweâs tragedies exhibit a profound interest in the process of reduction and the ideal of unity. Duxfield shows this interest to manifest itself in different ways in each of the plays. Secondly, it identifies this interest in unity and unification as an engagement in a cultural discourse that was particularly prevalent in England during Marloweâs writing career; during the late 1580s and early 1590s heightened inter-confessional tension, the Trade Review"Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify represents an original, well researched thesis investigating overlooked historical and critical sources. Undergraduates, academics, and interested readers will find in Duxfield’s book invaluable and entertaining insights into Marlowe’s plays."- Frank Swannack, University of Salford, UK"Duxfield’s argument that the plays of Christopher Marlowe show a tendency towards and an ultimate subversion of unity remains strong throughout the monograph and in his extensive coverage of the entirety of Marlowe’s dramatic works. While drawing on past scholarship in order to situate the thesis, Duxfield’s argument remains strong and clear throughout, and adds a fresh texture to the scholarly conversation on Marlowe’s plays."- Hayley Coble, University of Minnesota, USA"This is a significant and welcome addition to the canon of key critical interventions on the work of Christopher Marlowe."- Adam Hansen review: English, 66:252 (2017), pp. 88–91Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Building a Statelier Troy: Dido, Queen of Carthage2 Reduced to a Map: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two3 "Resolve me of all ambiguities": Doctor Faustus4 Individual and Multitude: The Jew of Malta and The Massacre at Paris5 True Contraties: Edward IIAfterword
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Taylor & Francis Glitch Art in Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisGlitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of glitch alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital art and aesthetics. While prior literature on glitch practice in visual arts has been divided between historical discussions and social-political analyses, this work provides a rigorous, contemporary theoretical foundation and framework.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Origins of 'Glitch' in The Stoppage2. The Heritage of Materialist Media3. Digital Misfunction and Materialist Approaches4. Critical Engagements with FailureConclusion: ProspectsGlossary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tracking Color in Cinema and Art
Book SynopsisColor is one of cinemaâs most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stage ideas, and elicit feelings. But what if color is notâor not onlyâa formal system, but instead a linguistic effect, emerging from the slipstream of our talk and embodiment in a world? This book develops a compelling framework from which to understand the mobility of color in art and mind, where color impressions are seen through, and even governed by, patterns of ordinary language use, schemata, memories, and narrative.Edward Branigan draws on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and other philosophers who struggle valiantly with problems of color aesthetics, contemporary theories of film and narrative, and art-historical models of analysis. Examples of a variety of media, from American pop art to contemporary European cinema, illustrate a theory based on a spectatorâs present-time tracking of temporal patterns that are firmly Trade Review'This is an extraordinary achievement -- a major work (perhaps Branigan's most impressive yet) by one of our most important film theorists and philosophers. While color studies in film have exploded over the last fifteen years, most of the work has moved very cautiously and largely in a historicist fashion, one that privileges accounts of emerging technological innovations and to a lesser extent style at the expense of the fascinating perceptual questions color and color filmmaking raises. Branigan takes these questions head on and the results are positively stunning. It is the first book -- in film studies, at least -- to deal at great length and specificity with the question of color perception and color style. As I mentioned, most books shy away from stylistic analysis and the rich philosophical questions that color poses about perception and, as Branigan indicates very daringly, about how real the real world is.' -- Brian Price, University of Toronto'Branigan takes a Wittgensteinian approach to color that "focuses not on what color is, but on how it functions, what it does for us, what we make of it." For our delectation, he offers us an extraordinarily rich and provocative feast that takes us beyond cinema to the uses and meanings of color in painting, philosophy and literature.' -- C.L. Hardin, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Syracuse University. Author of Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the Rainbow (1993). Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction and Overview2. Living with Chromophilia3. Stand or Track?4. What's in White?5. Making it Color-Full6. Musical Hues: Color Harmony7. Track this Color (in Place)8. Track that Color (in Movement)9. Summary10. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marketing the Arts
Book SynopsisWith contributions from international scholars of marketing and consumer studies, this renowned text engages directly with a range of contemporary themes, including: The importance of arts consumption and its socio-cultural, political, and economic dimensions The impact of new technologies, platforms, and alternative artforms on the art market The importance of the aesthetic experience itself and how to research it The value of arts-based methods The art versus commerce debate The artist as entrepreneur The role of the arts marketer as market-maker This fully updated new edition covers digital trends in the arts and emerging technologies, including virtual reality, streaming services, and branded entertainment. It also broadens the scope of investigation beyond the West looking to film in emerging markets such as China, music in Sub-Saharan Africa, and indigenous art in Australia. Alongside in-depth theoreTrade ReviewMarketing the Arts: Breaking Boundaries is a breakthrough volume that serves as an important introduction for and update on the state of the field. The editors have succeeded in gathering a distinctive and diverse set of contributors who provide thoughtful reflections on the multitude of interactions between art and the market. Full of unexpected insights. Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA This second edition does important work for the field of arts marketing because it responds positively to broader demands for the social sciences to decolonise themselves and to address urgent progressive issues. This book, therefore, marks a signal moment for the field of Arts Marketing as its priorities shift. It is a necessary book and presents us with essential reading. Alan Bradshaw, Professor of Marketing, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKMarketing the Arts is, as the title suggests, a truly boundary breaking text. The cases and methods are wide ranging, topical and critical in their analysis, tackling such subjects as social justice to entrepreneurship. The authors do not just talk about the arts, but illustrate how the arts – dance, poetry, drawing, literature, can be used as tools for investigation. It is lively in its presentation and should be a valuable resource for students of marketing, the arts, media studies, sociology and arts management. A genuinely engaging read.Christina Goulding, Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham, UKI am delighted to learn about a new edition of Marketing the Arts edited by Finola Kerrigan and Chloe Preece. These editors have expanded the themes provided by the now-classic earlier edition to include a broadened geographical coverage (China, Nigeria, Australia); managerial applications (case studies, detailed illustrations); and attention to such inherently intertwined themes as the role of aesthetic experience, the art-versus-commerce tension, and the branding of artistic creations. Students of Arts Marketing will again benefit greatly from the insights provided. And, for those who favor food-related metaphors, "dessert" appears in the form of a delicious essay on Ernest Hemingway by the masterful prose stylist, Stephen Brown. Morris B. Holbrook, W. T. Dillard Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Columbia University, US Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marketing the Arts- Breaking Boundaries 1. Arts Marketing, Social Justice Activism, and Government Messaging in the Age of Social Media 2. Arts Marketing & Entrepreneurship – Insights from the Nigerian Music Industry 3. Marketing Nigerian Films 4. Marketing art films in contemporary China: Between the rock of politics and the hard place of economy 5. Researching artistic production: The material turn in arts marketing research 6. Chapter 6: The Marketing of the Arts in the Age of Curatorial Production 7. Music Streaming and Surveillance Capitalism 8. Music festivals and the everyday nature of extraordinary experiences 9. Selling Secrets: the role of 'elusivity' in the liminoid invitations of immersive theatre 10. Consuming Cuba through dance: an embodied ethnography of Salsa 11. Poetic orientation for creating and writing 12. Drawing with women: ethical considerations from an art-based project on domestic violence 13. Accounting for the Selection of Exhibits: Examining the Organisation of Gallery Talks as a Marketing Activity 14. The Many Faces of Indigenous Art: Indigenous Art Market and Decolonizing Perspectives 15. Marketing through Art – The Case of Braded Entertainment 16. Virtual Reality, Film Marketing and Value 17. For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn:What Has Hemingway Ever Done For Us?
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WW Norton & Co Will Eisner Reader
Book SynopsisFour extraordinary autobiographical stories from a legend in American comics.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Differencing the Canon Feminism and the Writing
Book SynopsisIn this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic heroines? Or is the question a chance to resist the phallocentric binary and allow the ambiguities and complexities of desire - subjectivity and sexuality - to shape the readings of art that constantly displace the present gender demarcations?Trade Review'The flow of the book is wondrous, as Pollock buils each new idea onto the next, rounded out with rigorous research.' - Elizabeth Millard, ForeWardo'If you like psychoanalytic feminism accompanied by committed, sensitive writing, then you will enjoy this read.' - Professor Gen Doy, The Art BookTable of ContentsPreface PART I Firing the canon 1 About canons and culture wars 2 Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon PART II Reading against the grain: reading for ... 3 The ambivalence of the maternal body: re/drawing Van Gogh 4 Fathers of modern art: mothers of invention: cocking a leg at Toulouse-Lautrec PART III Heroines: setting women in the canon 5 The female hero and the making of a feminist canon: Artemisia 6 Feminist mythologies and missing mothers: Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte, Artemisia Gentileschi and Cleopatra 7 Revenge: Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories PART IV Who is the other? 8 Some letters on feminism, politics and modern art: when Edgar Degas shared a space with Mary Cassatt at the Suffrage Benefit Exhibition, New York 1915 9 A tale of three women: seeing in the dark, seeing double, at least, with Manet
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Sikh Art and Literature
Book SynopsisSikh Art and Literature introduces Sikhism through its rich artistic culture. Using an assembly of rare imagery and literature, we are given the chance to explore the fruitful world of the Sikhs.Trade Review'An appealing overview of 500 years achievement.' - The Scotsman'Sikh Art and Lierature is a timely addition to much needed scholary work on Sikhism ...[it] will prove to be a valuable resource for those who are engaged in teaching Sikh studies courses in colleges and universities ... I strongly recommend that all Sikh families should buy a copy ...' - Sewa Singh, World Faiths Encounter'... it is to the credit of Routledge ... that it has brought out this absorbing book ...' - Financial TimesTable of ContentsContents List of Colour Plates and Illustrations Art Foreword Literature Foreword AcknowledgementsIntroduction, Narinder Singh Kapany, Founding Chair of Sikh Foundation and Kerry Brown, The Sikh FoundationArt1. From Gurus to Kings: Early and Court Painting Gursharan Singh Sidhu, President of The Society for Art and Cultural Heritage for India 2. An Illustrated Life: Guru Nanak in Narrative Art Robert J.Del Bonta, Asian Art Museum 3. The Sikh Treasury: The Sikh Kingdom and the British Raj Susan Stronge, V&A Curator, Museum 4.Golden Temple, Marble Forum: Form and Meaning in Sacred Architecture Henry J.Walker, Bates College, MaineLiterature1. The Unstruck Melody: Mystical Mysticism in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Gobind Singh Mansukhani, former chair of Sikh Studies at Chandigarh University 6. The Western Gateway toSikhism: The Life and Works of M.A.Macauliffe Harbans Lal, trustee of the Academy of Guru Granth Studies 7. Poetry Urges Poetry: From the Guru Granth to Bhai Vir Singh Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh, Colby College 8. Critical Ecstacy: The Modern Poetry of Puran Singh Surjit Singh Dulai, Michigan State University 9. Old Culture, New Knowledge: The Writings of Bhai Mohan Singh Vaid Ardaman Singh, writer, Delhi and Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz 10. A Mirror to Our Faces: The Short Stories of Khushwan Singh Abdul Jabbar, City College of San FranciscoAppendices 1. The Ten Sikh Gurus 2. The Contributors to Sri Guru Granth Sahib 3. The Structure of Sri Guru Granth Sahib 4. Custodians of Sikh Art Recommended Reading Glossary.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Director Prepares
Book SynopsisA Director Prepares is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with wisdom of the courage required to create ''art with great presence''. Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas Bogart has identified as both potential partner and potential obstacle to art-making. They are Violence; Memory; Terror; Eroticism; Stereotype; Embarrassment; and Resistance. Each one can be used to generate extraordinary creative energy, if we know how to use it. A Director Prepares offers every practitioner an extraordinary insight into the creative process. It is a handbook, Bible and manifesto, all in one. No other book on the art of theatre comes even close to offering this much understanding, experience and inspiration.Trade Review'This is a revolutionary insight into the often misunderstood process of directing.' – Manchesteronstage.comTable of ContentsIntroduction Preface: Story and anti-story 1 Memory 2 Violence 3 Eroticism 4 Terror 5 Stereotype 6 Embarrassment 7 Resistance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Playwriting
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Taylor & Francis Theatre of Movement and Gesture
Book SynopsisPublished in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrault by Jean Perret, together with chapters by Perret on Ãtienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, fill out the historical material written by Lecoq, and a final section by Alain Gautrà celebrates the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s.Trade Review"...this is an important addition to the growing body of scholarship treating Lecoq's work, and any student of 20th-century theatre or the use of movement in performance will find this book invaluable." --TDRTable of Contents1 Imitation: from mimicry to miming 2 The gestures of life 3 From pantomime to modern mime 4 Has mime become separated from theatre? 5 Mime, the art of movement 6 The explosion of mime 7 The theatre of gesture and image
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Third Text 211
Book SynopsisThird Text is an international scholarly journal dedicated to providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture. Third Text addresses the complex cultural realities that emerge when different worldviews meet, and the challenge this poses to Eurocentrism and ethnocentric aesthetic criteria.Table of ContentsNotes on the Internet as a Weapon of the Multitude, Notes from the Beirut Siege, Repetition and Return: The Spectator’s Memory in Abbas Kiarostami’s, Koker Trilogy, Obscene Jouissance: The Visual Poetics of Labour Exploitation, Challenging the Canon: Socialist Realism in Traditional Chinese Painting Revisited, In Conversation, Historiographies of Laughter: Poetics of Deformation in Palestinian Political Cartoon, Listening to Trauma in the Art of Everlyn Nicodemus Reviews, 2006: Yawning Cultural Gaps in Fusing Landscapes, What We Talk About When We Talk, About a Biennale in Singapore, Seeing Up and Down
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Museum Materialities
Book SynopsisThis is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise questions about how objects carry meaning and feeling, the distinctions between objects and persons, particular qualities of the museum as context for person-object engagements, and the active and embodied role of the museum visitor. Museum Materialities is divided into three sections Objects, Engagements and Interpretations and includes a foreword by Susan Pearce and an afterword by Howard Morphy. It examines materiality and other perceptual and ontological qualities of objects themselves; embodied sensory and cognitive engagements both personal and across a wider audience spread with particular objects or object types in a museum or gallery setting; notions Table of ContentsForeword 1. Introduction: Materiality And Matter Reality In The Museum Part I: Objects 2. The Eyes Have It: Eye Movements And The Debatable Differences Between Original Objects And Reproductions 3. Artefacts Re-Made 4. Touching The Buddha: An Extraordinary Object Demanding A Response 5. Photographs And History: Emotion And Materiality 6. Virginia Woolf's Glasses: Material Encounters In The Literary/Artistic House Museum 7. Using Objects To Remember The Dead And Affect The Living: The Case Of A Miniature Model Of Treblinka Part II: Engagements 8. Contemporary Sculpture: An Immaterial Practice 9. When Ethnographies Enter Art Galleries: Viewing Violence And Inhabiting Other's Beauty 10. Visitors, Bodies And Forms In Australian Journeys 11. Not Just Looking: Embodiment And Encounter In The Contemporary Art Museum 12. Playing With Museum Encounters: Art, Materiality And The Aesthetics Of Engagement 13. Perceptions Of Edinburgh: Weight, Vision And Movement In The Northern City Exhibition Part III : Interpretations 14. 'A Thing Is A Thing. Why Bother?' On A Sensory Interpretive Project Involving Chinese Ceramics 15. Churchill Re-Imagined: History, Memory And The Senses And The Modern Museum 16. Children Feeling Africa In The Museum 17. Beyond Display, Making Meaning 18. Beyond Words: Interpreting The Unspeakable? Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Street Art Public City
Book SynopsisWhat is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime? Since the late 1990s, a distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of uncommissioned artworks in public places. Sometimes regarded as a variant of graffiti, sometimes called a new art movement, its practitioners engage in illicit activities while at the same time the resulting artworks can command high prices at auction and have become collectable aesthetic commodities. Such paradoxical responses show that street art challenges conventional understandings of culture, law, crime and art. Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination engages with those paradoxes in order to understand how street art reveals new modes of citizenship in the contemporary city. It examines the histories of street art and the motivations of street artists, and the experiences both of making street art and looking at street art in public space. ItTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law, Literature and the Humanities‘My favourite criminologist in the world’- Banksy‘Street art is an elusive, complex subject, subject to misinformation and much prejudice. Alison Young offers readers a brilliant rigorous analysis, giving a comprehensive account of street art as a global phenomenon, and the tensions it frequently engenders in the control of public and private space, and the licit and illicit behaviour of artists who choose to stay away from the over-managed space of the museum or gallery.’- Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London‘From graffiti to "guerrilla knitting", political "pieces" to place-making "paste-ups", the various homologies and diverse characteristics of contemporary street art can seem bewildering, even to the most hard-bitten of urbanites. This sharp, stylish book provides a reliable and theoretically informed route map that, not only demystifies the genre, but also poses some important questions about street art’s democratic and political potential. Alison Young proves to be a most thoughtful and engaging tour guide as she takes us on a fascinating excursion across the contours of the international urban art scene and deep into the subterranean and ever-evolving world of today’s street artists. Whatever your feelings about graffiti, tagging, and other forms of urban mark-making, this book, just like the very best examples of street art, will challenge your preconceptions and make you think more deeply about the affects and effects of the twenty-first century’s most controversial art form.’- Keith Hayward, Professor of Criminology, University of Kent, UK‘Alison Young's Street Art, Public City is an indispensable sociology of street art, guiding the reader through the streets of many of the world's major cities. Brilliantly intertwining the disciplines of aesthetics, urbanism and legal theory, it paints a rich and compelling picture of the contemporary urban landscape, subtly bringing into focus a vital dimension of public culture.’- Professor Jill Bennett, University of New South Wales, Australia'One of the most notable achievements of Street Art, Public City is the lucidity that comes from having been written by someone with a background in law. As easily narrative and descriptive as the book sometimes becomes (and there are a lot of street art stories in it), it never loses a sharpness of argument and a powerful sense of direction.' - Sabina Andron, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL‘My favourite criminologist in the world’- Banksy‘Street art is an elusive, complex subject, subject to misinformation and much prejudice. Alison Young offers readers a brilliant rigorous analysis, giving a comprehensive account of street art as a global phenomenon, and the tensions it frequently engenders in the control of public and private space, and the licit and illicit behaviour of artists who choose to stay away from the over-managed space of the museum or gallery.’- Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London‘From graffiti to "guerrilla knitting", political "pieces" to place-making "paste-ups", the various homologies and diverse characteristics of contemporary street art can seem bewildering, even to the most hard-bitten of urbanites. This sharp, stylish book provides a reliable and theoretically informed route map that, not only demystifies the genre, but also poses some important questions about street art’s democratic and political potential. Alison Young proves to be a most thoughtful and engaging tour guide as she takes us on a fascinating excursion across the contours of the international urban art scene and deep into the subterranean and ever-evolving world of today’s street artists. Whatever your feelings about graffiti, tagging, and other forms of urban mark-making, this book, just like the very best examples of street art, will challenge your preconceptions and make you think more deeply about the affects and effects of the twenty-first century’s most controversial art form.’ - Keith Hayward, Professor of Criminology, University of Kent, UK‘Alison Young's Street Art, Public City is an indispensable sociology of street art, guiding the reader through the streets of many of the world's major cities. Brilliantly intertwining the disciplines of aesthetics, urbanism and legal theory, it paints a rich and compelling picture of the contemporary urban landscape, subtly bringing into focus a vital dimension of public culture.’- Professor Jill Bennett, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsChapter 1 The Situational Artwork; encounter watching JR, Chapter 2 The Cities in the City; encounter criminal damage?, Chapter 3 Cityscapes; encounter losing the image, Chapter 4 Criminalising the Image; encounter things on walls, Chapter 5 Street Art and Spatial Politics; encounter Banksy under glass, Chapter 6 Transformations: Urban Imagination in the Public City, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Design History
Book SynopsisGlobalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as networks' or flows' and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory. Individual chapters focus our attention on objects, and the stories they can tell us about cultural interactions on a global scale. They place these concrete things into contexts, such as trade, empire, mediation, and various forms of design practice. Among the varied topics included are: the global underpinnings of Renaissance material culture the trade of Indian cottons in the eighteenth-century the Japanese tea ceremony as a case of import substitution' German design in the context of empire handcrafted modernist furniture in Turkey Australian fashions employing ethnic' motifs an experimental UK-Ghanaian design partnership Chinese Table of ContentsSelected Contents: Preface Introduction: Towards Global Design History Sarah Teasley, Giorgio Riello, and Glenn Adamson 1. The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Material Culture and the Creation of a Community of Taste Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Luca Molà Response by Dana Leibsohn 2. Global Design in Jingdezhen: Local Production and Global Connections Anne Gerritsen Response by Beverly Lemire 3. Indian Cottons and European Fashion, 1400-1800 John Styles Response by Prasannan Parthasarathi 4. Import Substitution, Innovation and the Tea Ceremony in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Japan Christine M. E. Guth Response by Maxine Berg 5. The Globalization of the Fashion City Christopher Breward Response by Simona Segre Reinach 6. Performing White South African Identity through International and Empire Exhibitions Dipti Bhagat Response by Angus Lockyer 7. ‘From the Far Corners’: Telephones, Globalization, and the Production of Locality in the 1920s Michael J. Golec Response by Anne Balsamo 8. The Globalization of the Deutscher Werkbund: Design Reform, Industrial Policy, and German Foreign Policy, 1907-1914 John Maciuika Response by Paul Betts 9. Where in the World is Design?: The Case of India, 1900-1945 Victor Margolin Response by Christopher Pinney 10. ‘Handmade Modernity’: A Case Study on Postwar Turkish Modern Furniture Design Gyökan Karakus Response by Edward S. Cooke, Jr. 11. Old Empire and New Global Luxury: Fashioning Global Design Peter McNeil Response by Shehnaz Suterwalla 12. Analyzing Social Networking Websites: The Design of Happy Network in China Basile Zimmermann Response by Ngai-Ling Sum 13. From Nation-bound Histories to Global Narratives of Architecture Jilly Traganou Response by Lucia Allais 14. e-Artisans: Contemporary Design for the Global Market Tom Barker and Ashley Hall Response by Shannon May Bibliography Resource Guide
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Post Critical Museology
Book SynopsisPost-Critical Museology considers what the role of the public and the experience of audiences means to the everyday work of the art museum. It does this from the perspectives of the art museum itself as well as from the visitors it seeks. Through the analysis of material gathered from a major collaborative research project carried out at Tate Britain in London the book develops a conceptual reconfiguration of the relationship between art, culture and society in which questions about the art museumâs relationship to global migration and the new media ecologies are examined. It suggests that whilst European museums have previously been studied as institutions of collection, heritage and tradition, however âmodernâ their focus, it is now better to consider them as distributive networks in which value travels along transmedial and transcultural lines.Post-Critical Museology is intended as a contribution to progressive museological thinking and practice and calls for a new alignment of academics and professionals in what it announces as post-critical museology. An alignment that is committed to rethinking what an art museum in the twenty-first century could be, as well as what knowledge and understanding its future practitioners might draw upon in a rapidly changing social and cultural context. The book aims to be essential reading in the growing field of museum studies. It will also be of professional interest to all those working in the cultural sphere, including museum professionals, policy makers and art managers. Table of ContentsPart 1: Practices of Exhibition Practices 1. Practices of Objects 2. Identity and Difference 3. The Organizational Body 4. Practices of Audience and the Limits of Gallery Education Part 2: Practices of Collection and Display: The National Collection of British Art 5. Identity, Diasporic Narratives and Spectatorship 6. Canonical Practices, Modernism and Globalization 7. The Space of the Museum 8. Media Practices and the Museum Part 3: Post-Critical Museology 9. Research Practices and Policy Formation 10. Critical and Historical practices: The Academy and the Art Museum 11. Reflexive Positions and Institutional Conditions Part 4: Critical Audience 12. The Distributed Museum 13. Productive Practices
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Taylor & Francis Design and Ethics
Book SynopsisThe value of design for contributing to environmental solutions and a sustainable future is increasingly recognised. It spans many spheres of everyday life, and the ethical dimension of design practice that considers environmental, social and economic sustainability is compelling.Approaches to design recognise design as a practice that can transform human experience and understanding, expanding its role beyond stylistic enhancement. The traditional roles of design, designer and designed object are therefore redefined through new understanding of the relationship between the material and immaterial aspects of design where the design product and the design process are embodiments of ideas, values and beliefs.This multi-disciplinary approach considers how to create design which is at once aesthetically pleasing and also ethically considered, with contributions from fields as diverse as architecture, fashion, urban design and philosophy. The authors also address how to teaTable of Contents1. Framing Perspectives on Design and Ethics 2. Design-Ing Ethics: the Good, the Bad and the Performative 3. Design, Ethics and Group Myopia 4. From Allure to Ethics: Design as a ‘Creative Industry’ Part 2: Communication Design 5. Hybridity, Hegemony, and Design in a Globalized Economy 6. Values and Pragmatic Action 7. Designing Well 8. Design and Ethics in Digital Mental Health Promotion 9. Interaction Design, Mass Communication And The Challenge Of Distributed Expertise Part 3: Built Environment 10. Living With Strangers 11. The Social Responsibility of Educational Institutions 12. Rethinking Practice: Architecture, Ecology and Ethics Marci 13. Delivering Sustainable Housing Part 4: Fashion 14. Fashion, Ethics, Ethos 15. Nourishing And Polluting: Redefining the Role of Waste in the Fashion System. Looking Back, Forward And Elsewhere: An Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Entertainment Rigging for the 21st Century
Book SynopsisFrom the basics of physical forces and mathematical formulas to performer flying and stage automation, Entertainment Rigging for the 21st Century provides you with insider information into rigging systems and the skills you need to safely operate them. Over the past decade, the entertainment industry has witnessed major changes in rigging technology, as manually operated rigging has given way to motorized systems in both permanent and touring productions, and greater attention has been paid to standardizing safety practices. This book leads you through what is currently happening in the industry, why it's happening, and how. Accessible for riggers and non-riggers alike, it contains details on the technology and methodology used to achieve the startling effects found in concerts and stage shows. With a foreword written by Monona Rossol, this text contains contributions from industry leaders including: Rocky Paulson Bill Gorlin Trade Review"Entertainment Rigging for the 21st Century is a useful and highly readable addition to the bookshelf of anyone working in the entertainment industry. It brings an awareness of how rigging interacts with set design, lighting, sound, wardrobe, and just about every other department. I thoroughly recommend that you read it— at least twice." - Alan Hardiman, Lighting & Sound America "Bill Sapsis’s Entertainment Rigging for the 21st Century gives us a collection of writings by experienced working professionals explaining topics on which they are undeniably experts. Taken individually, each fills in a small area of the mental map each rigger has of the ever expanding craft of entertainment rigging. Taken together they begin to document what entertainment rigging has become (and is becoming). We can hope that there will be future editions of this book, with similar anthologies to follow to document in print more of the constantly expanding entertainment rigging body of knowledge." - Steve Nelson, Theatre Design & Technology Table of ContentsForeword Chapter 1: Forces & Formulas Chapter 2: Structural Behavior Chapter 3: Lighting Truss Chapter 4: Arena Rigging Chapter 5: Outdoor Roof Structures Chapter 6: Counterweight Rigging Chapter 7: Aerialist Rigging Chapter 8: Performer Flying Chapter 9: Stage Automation Chapter10: The Mechanics of Stage Automation Chapter11: Training in the Twenty-First Century (US version) Chapter12: Training in the Twenty-First Century (UK version) Chapter 13: Working Safely at Height Chapter 14: Medical Issues in Fall Arrest/Rescue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creating Solo Performance
Book SynopsisCreating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you the performer with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. The creation of a solo show may be the most rewarding, liberating and stressful challenge you will take on in your career. This book acts as your silent collaborator as you develop your performance, by helpfully arranging exercises under the following headings: Beginnings Creating character Generating material Using your performance space Technology Endings Collaboration Exercises can be explored in sequence, at random or according to your specific needs and interests as a performer. By enabling you to create a bespoke formula that best applies to your specific subjecTrade Review"A welcome addition to an actor's bookshelves." - Susan Elkin, The StageTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction to contemporary solo performance; Chapter 2 Beginnings; Chapter 3 Character/persona: Performer as vehicle; Chapter 4 Generating material; Chapter 5 Creating, mapping and using your performance space; Chapter 6 Approaching technology; Chapter 7 Structures and endings; Chapter 8 Collaboration;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Games As A Service
Book SynopsisThe games industry is serious business and the role of a games designer has dramatically changed over just the last few years. Developers now have to rethink everything they know about the creative, technical and business challenges to adapt to the transition to games as a service. Games as a Service: How Free to Play Design Can Make Better Games has been written to help designers overcome many of the fears and misconceptions surrounding freemium and social games. It provides a framework to deliver better games rather than the evil' or manipulative' experiences some designers fear with the move away from wasteful Products to sustainable, trustworthy Services.Oscar Clark is a consultant and Evangelist for Everyplay from Applifier. He has been a pioneer in online, mobile and console social games services since 1998 including Wireplay (British Telecom), Hutchison Whampoa (3UK) and PlayStationHome. He is a regular columnist on PocketGameTrade Review"The writer has not only researched widely, he has also read extensively. For non-games professionals, the notes themselves are a treasure trove of information and reference sources to follow up on, even if the thought of playing games is anathema to you." -- Monty Munford, founder of Mob76 OutlookTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Exercise 1: Coming up with an initial conceptChapter 2: What is a game? Exercise 2: Who Are Your Players?Chapter 3: The Anatomy of Play Exercise 3: What is the Mechanic?Chapter 4: Player Lifecycle Exercise 4: What is the Context Loop?Chapter 5: The Rhythm of Play Exercise 5: What is the MetaGame?Chapter 6: Building on Familiarity Exercise 6: What is Your Bond Opening?Chapter 7: Counting on Uncertainty Exercise 7: What is Your Flash Gordon Cliffhanger?Chapter 8: Six Degrees of Socialization Exercise 8: What is your Star Wars Factor?Chapter 9: Engagement Led Design Exercise 9: What is Your Columbo Twist?Chapter 10: Delivering Discovery Exercise 10: What makes your game social?Chapter 11: Counting on Data Exercise 11: How Does Your Design Encourage Discovery?Chapter 12: Service Strategies Exercise 12: How Will You Capture Data?Chapter 13: The Psychology of Pricing&
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reframing Photography
Book SynopsisTo fully understand photography, it is essential to study both the theoretical and the technical. In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes explore photographic theory, history and technique to bring photographic education up-to-date with contemporary photographic practice. Reframing Photography is a broad and inclusive rethinking of photography that will inspire students to think about the medium across time periods, across traditional themes, and through varied materials. Intended for both beginners and advanced students, and for art and non-art majors, and practicing artists, Reframing Photography compellingly represents four concerns common to all photographic practice: vision light/shadow reproductive processes editing/ presentation/ evaluation. Each part includes an extensive and thoughtful essay, providing a broad cultural context for each topic, alongside discussion of pTrade Review'Reframing Photography is excellent – very well-written, beautifully designed, clear and innovative in its structure – an ideal introduction to the current debates about theory and practice in photography.' – Louise Milne, Edinburgh Napier University, UK'Reframing Photography is a wonderful accomplishment with its seamless treatments of theory and a liberated sense of photographs, how they can be made, and how they can look. It will end the senseless separation of photography and art, and technique from idea, right from the beginning. It reframes photography education.' – Terry Barrett, University of North Texas, USA'The essays effortlessly link photography to a history of ideas, not simply a history of cameras and chemical processes. The book does not separate historical work from contemporary work, nor does it separate technique from theory. Past and present are in constant communication with the reader who becomes aware of inter-generational, historical, technological, cultural and transdisciplinary influences in photographic practice. This is how the best teachers understand the world and relate information to their students. A contemporary education in photographic practice has come of age with this book.' – Barbara DeGenevieve, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA'This is a timely book which will be of enormous help to photography and arts students. It combines photography history, useful descriptions of artist’s practices and ideas, and technical information and tips, and encourages experimentation. The volume and website demystify a lot of aspects of practice that are not covered in more conventional books, and make it clear how enjoyable fine art photography can be.' – Michelle Henning, University of the West of England, UK'Modrak and Anthes' handbook has all the qualities to become a pioneer in the effors to bridge the gap between the technical and the theoretical. Their work strikes a perfect balance between what one can find in technical handbooks on photography and what one should expect from a theoretically well-inspired study of the medium.' – Leonardo On-line'Reframing Photography, the 560-page encyclopedic book on the subject includes everything about photography and then some. The book is for students, teachers and those in the self-taught orbit who want to do it themselves with a little help... There are fabulous essays written by the two authors, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes, in each of the four subject parts, and they live up to the encyclopedia: dense, with history, science, and an interweaving of anecdotes of present day usage that reverberate with photography’s past.' – the art blog‘...the content [of Reframing Photography] is literally mind-blowing. Bringing together rigorous theory, idiot proof "how to" tutorials, artistic works that illustrate each concept and method might sound a bit too much for a sole book written by only two authors but somehow, it works. Theory, techniques and illustrative works complement each other efficiently.’ – we make money not artTable of ContentsSelected Contents: Part 1: Vision Essay: Vision: The Eye, Perception and Conventions of Sight Essay: Mediated Vision: Photography & Optical Devices Tools, Materials & Processes: Vision Part 2: Light and Shadow Essay: Light and Shadow Tools, Materials & Processes: Light and Shadow Part 3: Copying, Capturing and Reproducing Essay: Copying, Capturing & Reproducing Tools, Materials & Processes: Reproductive Processes Part 4: Editing, Presentation and Evaluation Essay: Series and Sequence Essay: Word and Image Tools, Materials & Processes: Editing, Presentation and Evaluation
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