The arts: general topics Books
Princeton University Press Throne of Wisdom
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£999.99
Princeton University Press Liberals in the Russian Revolution The Constitutional Democratic Party 19171921
£180.00
Princeton University Press Only Connect Art and the Spectator in the Italian
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£98.40
Princeton University Press Peasants in Power Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union 18991923
£92.65
Princeton University Press Peasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire A Social and Demographic Study 5480 Princeton Legacy Library 5480
£120.70
Princeton University Press Throne of Wisdom
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£133.60
Project Row Houses Collective Creative Actions
Book SynopsisLocated in Houston''s Third Ward—a historic African-American neighborhood—Project Row Houses (PRH) is a community platform that enriches lives through art with an emphasis on cultural identity and its impact on the urban landscape. Since its inception in 1993, PRH has fostered a positive, creative environment in the community by infusing it with art and creativity and creating sustainable opportunities for artists, mothers, entrepreneurs, and residents. Today the PRH site encompasses five city blocks and houses thirty-nine structures that serve as home base to a variety of community-enriching initiatives, art programs, and neighborhood development activities.Collective Creative Actions: Project Row Houses at 25 highlights the history of the Third Ward neighborhood, PRH''s role in its development over the past quarter-century, and the idea of social art practice from the perspective of PRH''s five pillars: art and creativity; education; social safety
£21.59
White Lion Publishing The Art of Love The Romantic and Explosive
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£14.24
Phaidon Press Ltd Arte Minimalista Minimalism Abridged Edition
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£22.20
Phaidon Press Ltd Nigel Cooke
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary paintingTrade ReviewOn the Contemporary Artists Series'The boldest, best executed, and most far-reaching publishing project devoted to contemporary art. These books will revolutionize the way contemporary art is presented and written about.' – Artforum 'The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for specialists but also interesting for casual readers, it makes these books a must for the library of anyone who cares about contemporary art.' – Time Out 'A unique series of informative monographs on individual artists.' – The Sunday Times 'Gives the reader the impression of a personal encounter with the artists. Apart from the writing which is lucid and illuminating, it is undoubtedly the wealth of lavish illustrations which makes looking at these books a satisfying entertainment.' – The Art Book
£26.96
Phaidon Press Ltd Adjudicado 250 Aos de Cultura Gusto Y
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£50.74
Phaidon Press Ltd El Arte Como Terapia Art as Therapy Spanish
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£18.86
Phaidon Press Ltd El Arte de la Lectura. Los Libros Y La Lectura En
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£32.27
Phaidon Press Ltd 30.000 Años de Arte Mini 30000 Years of Art
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£32.37
Phaidon Press Ltd 500 Autorretratos
£28.00
Phaidon Press La Anunciation
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£14.34
Lexington Books The Late Socialist Good Life in Bulgaria Meaning
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewScarboro’s ground-breaking study explores the textured experience of life under communism in postwar Bulgaria. With erudition, pointed anaylsis, and a marked thematic originality, this work reveals the complexity of a system in which state and society were intricately intertwined. Far from exposing human complicity or duplicity, Scarboro’s analysis posits the interdependence of ruler and ruled in a way that questions traditional notions of totalitarianism under communism. -- Mary Neuburger, University of Texas at AustinThe best regional studies shed light on broader trends, and Cristofer Scarboro's work illuminates national and even transnational issues. He brings a much needed challenge to the historiography of socialist humanism in this regional study of Haskovo, Bulgaria and shows the complex and fluid nature of socialism and the construction of subjectivity. The regime's attempts to create a monolithic structure collided with the multiple ways of understanding, living, and using the culture being foisted upon citizens. What remains is a perfect example of the law of unintended consequences. This is a model study for this period in eastern Europe. -- Karl Qualls, Dickinson CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Creating Socialist Humanism Chapter 2. "Stroim za rodinata" Chapter 3. Haskovo and Tashkent: Brothers in Socialism Chapter 4. Touring, the Sacred and the Socialist Self Chapter 5. Plotting the Self in the Socialist Humanist Art Gallery Chapter 6. Conclusions: Socialist Humanism: Promises and Perils Bibliography Index
£96.90
Rowman & Littlefield Centaur
Book SynopsisPreserving art, freedom, and human dignity in the age of the totalitarian state was one of the great challenges of the twentieth century. In Centaur, Slavic scholar Albert Leong chronicles the life and work of the greatest living Russian sculptor and philosopher of art. Based on extensive research in the formerly closed Soviet archives, exclusive interviews with Neizvestny, his family, and friends, Centaur tells the amazing story of a visionary artist and World War II commando officer who narrowly escaped death on the battlefield, successfully defied Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and the KGB to create acclaimed works of monumental art. Forced into exile to the West in 1976, Ernst Neizvestny returned in triumph to the Soviet Union in 1989 to design the first monuments in Russia to the countless victims of Stalinist political repression. Supplemented by 75 photographs, Centaur will engross specialists and general readers interested in biography, cultural history, art, architecture, politTrade ReviewAlbert Leong has written an outstanding book on the life and oeuvre of Ernst Neizvestny. Centaur is both thrilling in its narrative and fundamental in its analyses. Ernst Neizvestny is a gigantic personality of our time. I am proud to have been close to him for decades witnessing his quest for independence and outbursts of his genius. -- Vassily Aksyonov, author of Generations of WinterCentaur: The Life and Art of Ernst Neizvestny is the first full biography of the most prominent and artistically accomplished sculptor and memorial-builder of the Soviet era. [Leong] excels at placing Neizvestny in the context of Soviet political and cultural history, and examining how he was misunderstood initially in the United States because of cold war stereotypes. Centaur is a serious and worthy consideration of the vexing moral and philosophical issues underlying the career of a courageous artist who (like Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Mstislav Rostropovich) confronted the evil of the Soviet system mano a mano. -- Harlow Robinson * The New York Times *Centaur describes an artist whose life, work, and reputation are almost mythic in nature. Ernst Neizvestny is a visionary and pragmatist—the ultimate survivor. Author Albert Leong distills encyclopedic research to provide a synthesis of a complex era and a compelling individual. -- Alison Hilton, Georgetown UniversityThis is a book for those interested in the details of 20th-century Russian art with its social and political ramifications. * CHOICE *Albert Leong's detailed, and highly documented account of the numerous twists and turns in Neizvestnii's long, complex, and highly diverse artistic career to date offers some fascinating insights into the problems faced by the monumental sculptor in the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. Sadly, Albert Leong died shortly after the publication of Centaur. May the book long serve as a suitable epitaph for a man whose passion, dedication, and enthusiasm for Neizvestnii's work is inscribed within each and every word of this text. * Seer *Ernst Neizvestny answered the official demands for optimistic 'depiction of life in the life's forms' with his tragic and highly symbolic grotesques. Albert Leong's sensitive study shows Neizvestny as a child of his time as well as a true heir to the Russian early 20th century avant-garde, with its peculiar quest for the synthesis of art, philosophy, and religion. -- Lev Loseff * Dartmouth College *Centaur is a truthful and beautiful work of art in its concept, subject, and design. * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Odyssey of a Russian Artist Chapter 2 Roots of a Russian Centaur Chapter 3 The Formation of an Artist in the Soviet Union Chapter 4 The Artist in War Chapter 5 Riga Chapter 6 Moscow Chapter 7 The Challenger Chapter 8 Art Intrigues Chapter 9 Confrontation with Khrushchev Chapter 10 The Years of Disfavor Chapter 11 Ernst Neizvestny, Monumentalist Chapter 12 Road to Emigration Chapter 13 Exile Chapter 14 Return to Russia Chapter 15 The Gulag Triangle Chapter 16 Mask of Mourning Chapter 17 Shelter Found
£64.60
Rowman & Littlefield Jewish Art in America An Introduction
Book SynopsisA study of Jewish art in America, which explores works from the early settlers of America onwards. It focuses on the examination of Jewish subject matter employed by artists, their responses to their religious and ethnic heritage as well as to significant events of the time.Trade ReviewA pioneer in the field of Jewish American art, Baigell has fittingly written the first full-length introduction on the subject. A welcome and much-needed contribution. -- Samantha Baskind, author of Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists and Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish ArtWhat Matthew Baigell is proposing is something quite unique and certainly cutting edge: the presentation that there is a Jewish art in America which is distinct to its practitioners and which does not necessarily conform to European conceptions of Jews and Jewish art and which at the same time in America is both part of the mainstream and a unique stream unto itself. Very fresh and in some ways radical. -- Seth Wolitz, Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Texas at AustinIn this first book-length study of Jewish art in America, Matthew Baigell explores works from the early settlers of America to the present. Baigell concentrates on Jewish subject matter employed by artists as they illustrated aspects of their religious and ethnic heritage and as they responded to major events over the decades, including the Great Migration, Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel, as well as the dispersal of Jewish artists around the country and the rise of feminism and spiritualism in the late-20th century. * Jewish Book World *The book's...merit lies in its useful documentation of the work of artists, some of them like Max Weber or Ben Shahn, reasonably well known, but in many instances much less familiar and perhaps worthy of greater attention that they have received. -- W. Cahn, emeritus, Yale University * CHOICE *[Baigell] provides an excellent background for understanding the various contexts in which American Jews, including artists, have operated....[a] worthy addition to one's library. * American Jewish History, November 2008 *Given his unmatched expertise in Jewish American art, and his experience as an author of general narrative history in the field of American art, I could think of no one more suited to the task of putting together the a textbook on Jewish American Art history than Matthew Baigell. -- Daniel Morris, Professor of English and Jewish Studies, Purdue UniversityThe editors hope that 'by historicizing the Jewish art question, the essays in this volume pose the question in different ways and, above all, keep it alive and unpredictable as a question that can shed light on the relationship between Jews, the arts, and modernity' (18)…. What is impressive about The Art of Being Jewish, and marks it as the most significant edited volume in the field since Catherine Soussloff's Jewish Identity in Modern Art History, published a decade ago, is the overall rigorousness and variety of its contributions…. Once thought to be a liability, it is precisely the imprecision of the term 'Jewish art,' its fecund ambiguity, which makes it most worth holding on to. * Religion and The Arts *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Until 1920, Preliminaries and Beginnings Chapter 4 The 1920s, Settling In Chapter 5 The 1930s, Social Issues Chapter 6 The 1940s, The Holocaust Years and After Chapter 7 The 1950s and After, The Older Generation Chapter 8 The 1950s and After, The Younger Generation Chapter 9 The 1970s and After, Representative Figures Chapter 10 The 1970s and After, Later Holocaust Responses Chapter 11 The 1970s and After, Spiritualism Chapter 12 The 1970s and After, Feminism Chapter 13 Conclusion Chapter 14 Works Cited Chapter 15 Index
£113.05
DK The Artists Manual
Book SynopsisTake your creativity to the next level with the ultimate artist’s bible! Covering everything from how to draw and paint to ceramics, sculptures and printmaking, you’ll get the most out of your passion for art with this beautifully illustrated artist’s handbook. It also includes newer areas like digital art and animation — perfect for modern artists!Discover everything you need to help you release the artist within: • All areas of visual and digital art, including drawing, painting, 3D art, printmaking, textiles and photography. • Each section is written by an acknowledged expert in that field — both practicing professionals and university-level teachers. • Comprehensive coverage of equipment and tools, including step-by-step sequences, where appropriate on how to use. • Techniques are illustra
£29.75
DK How Art Works
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£22.50
DK Timelines of Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Aside from being an art lover's muse, Art That Changed the World is a perfect coffee table solution for any home in need of conversation or enlightenment" – The Art Mag "Informative new book on history of art movements makes a loaded subject an easy and enjoyable read." – Utne Reader
£34.00
Pluto Press Delirium and Resistance
Book SynopsisDraws on thirty years of critical debates and practices by artists and activist groups to advocate the undermining of capitalism through artTrade Review'Read this book and you will never see contemporary art the same way again.' -- Guerrilla Girls'Sholette is representative of a new artist type that emerged after Conceptualism in that his work as a critic, theorist, and curator is central to his practice as an artist. He is one of the most cogent artist-theorists currently working in the domain of social practice art' -- Andrew Hemingway, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University College London'Shifting between artistic practice, curating, writing, and activism Gregory Sholette has been surfing the waves of activist art for more than three decades' -- Gerald Raunig, philosopher and author of DIVIDUUM: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution, Part 1 (2016)'A timely contribution to this ongoing global conversation between several generations of art activists around the ways in which their practice weaves between the contexts of art display, political campaigning and social movements' -- FriezeTable of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword: Is Another Art World Possible? - Lucy R. Lippard Art on the Brink: Bare Art and the Crisis Of Liberal Democracy - Kim Charnley Part I: Art World Introduction I: Welcome to Our Art World 1. Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: Within and Beyond the Post-Cold War Art Museum 2. Let’s Do It Again Comrades, Let’s Occupy the Museum! 3. Bare Art, Debt, Oversupply, Panic! (On the Contradictions of a Twenty-First-Century Art Education) Part II: Cities Without Souls Introduction II: Naturalizing the Revanchist City 4. Nature as an Icon of Urban Resistance on NYC's Lower East Side, 1979–1984 5. Mysteries of the Creative Class, or, I Have Seen the Enemy and They Is Us 6. Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of Disorder versus the People’s Archive 7. Art After Gentrification Part III: Resistance Introduction III: Critical Praxis/Partisan Art 8. Counting on Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice 9. Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere 10. On the Maidan Uprising and Imaginary Archive, Kiev 11. Delirium and Resistance After the Social Turn Postscript: December 2016 Notes Bibliography Index
£24.29
Pluto Press Delirium and Resistance
Book SynopsisDraws on thirty years of critical debates and practices by artists and activist groups to advocate the undermining of capitalism through artTrade Review'Read this book and you will never see contemporary art the same way again.' -- Guerrilla Girls'Sholette is representative of a new artist type that emerged after Conceptualism in that his work as a critic, theorist, and curator is central to his practice as an artist. He is one of the most cogent artist-theorists currently working in the domain of social practice art' -- Andrew Hemingway, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University College London'Shifting between artistic practice, curating, writing, and activism Gregory Sholette has been surfing the waves of activist art for more than three decades' -- Gerald Raunig, philosopher and author of DIVIDUUM: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution, Part 1 (2016)'A timely contribution to this ongoing global conversation between several generations of art activists around the ways in which their practice weaves between the contexts of art display, political campaigning and social movements' -- FriezeTable of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword: Is Another Art World Possible? - Lucy R. Lippard Art on the Brink: Bare Art and the Crisis Of Liberal Democracy - Kim Charnley Part I: Art World Introduction I: Welcome to Our Art World 1. Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: Within and Beyond the Post-Cold War Art Museum 2. Let’s Do It Again Comrades, Let’s Occupy the Museum! 3. Bare Art, Debt, Oversupply, Panic! (On the Contradictions of a Twenty-First-Century Art Education) Part II: Cities Without Souls Introduction II: Naturalizing the Revanchist City 4. Nature as an Icon of Urban Resistance on NYC's Lower East Side, 1979–1984 5. Mysteries of the Creative Class, or, I Have Seen the Enemy and They Is Us 6. Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of Disorder versus the People’s Archive 7. Art After Gentrification Part III: Resistance Introduction III: Critical Praxis/Partisan Art 8. Counting on Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice 9. Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere 10. On the Maidan Uprising and Imaginary Archive, Kiev 11. Delirium and Resistance After the Social Turn Postscript: December 2016 Notes Bibliography Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Painting the Town Red
Book SynopsisAn examination of the dialogue between art and politics during the short Hungarian Soviet RepublicTrade Review'Dent has done a creditable job in conducting in-depth, original research, integrating it into a highly readable text that touches on a number of subjects never treated before in the literature in any language. He is to be praised for his dedication to this understudied but fascinating episode in the history of modern politics and the role of culture in politics' -- Professor Oliver Botar, School of Art, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsAuthor's Preface Acknowledgements A Note on Terminology Introduction 1. The Political and Historical Context 2. Budapest Turns Red 3. Poster Power 4. Art for the People 5. Cultural Polemics 6. The Silent Screen Talks Politics 7. Opening up the Auditoriums 8. Music for All 9. The Pen Goes to Battle 10. Why? 11. What Went Wrong? Postscript: What Happened to Them? Sourced Used and Useful Sources Index
£25.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Hollywood in the Information Age Beyond the
Book Synopsisaeo This book is a major new assessment of the American movie industry in the 1990s. aeo The author considers Hollywood in its entirety -- home videos, cable tv and other communication technologies. She examines the impact of such technologies in areas such as distribution, production, exhibition, marketing and merchandising.Trade Review'This book is a timely contribution to the debate on the Information Super Highway and the globalization of media markets. Full of up-to-date information, it is essential reading for all those studying current developments in the media.' Nicholas Garnham, University of Westminster 'Looking for a rudder to steer through the shifting currents of moviedom in the information age? Wasko's ... treatise may be just the thing.' Box Office 'Wasko provides a full analysis of the major ways the Hollywood movie business is maintaining its monopoly on film making. This is an important look at the lucrative business of big movie making. Recommended.' The Reader's ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: Hollywood and the Culture Industry. 2. The Way We Were: An Historical Look at Hollywood and Technology. 3. Film Production: In the Information Age. 4. The Big Boys: The Hollywood Majors. 5. The Wired Nation and the Electronic Super Highway: Cable Television, Pay Cable, Pay-Per-View and Beyond. 6. Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution: Home Video. 7. The Silver Screen: Theatrical Exhibition in the Information Age. 8. Hollywood Meets Madison Ave: The Commercialization of U. S. Films. 9. Around the World in Nanoseconds: International Markets for Filmed Entertainment. 10. Hooray for Hollywood: Moving into the 21st Century. Index.
£18.04
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Woody Allen
Book SynopsisThis book is the first detailed study of Woody Allen''s life and work, and an original attempt to locate Allen''s work in the great tradition of American popular culture. It explores that inimitable New York Jewish voice in the themes, dreams, hopes and hidden meanings of Allen''s urban humour, with countless examples of Allen''s own hilarious comic lines.Trade Review'McCann's book is incisive, perceptive and adept at examining the Woody Allen persona.' City Limits 'A praiseworthy shot at paying sustained and serious attention to a mainstream film-maker ... a brave foray into uncharted territory.' The Guardian 'McCann has written a critical biography that's a model of concision and acuity ... a rigorous and rewarding read.' Empire '...[a] wide-ranging, highly intelligent, generally smart critique ... [McCann] excels at improvising creative riffs of prose around a theme.' The Times 'Thorough and readable study' Daily TelegraphTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. New Yorker. 2. The Bluebird of Anxiety. 3. Love and Death. 4. Celebrity & Integrity. 5. Stardust Memories. 6. Part of the Experience. Bibliography. Index.
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Fate of Art
Book SynopsisA study of Continental philosophy and aesthetics, from Kant to the present day, discussing the work and aesthetic theory of such figures as Heidegger, Derrida and Adorno.Trade Review'Bernstein has made a much-needed attempt to place art and its relationship to aesthetics back in the foreground of philosophical historical and political debate.' British Journal of AestheticsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Aesthetic Alienation. 1. Memorial Aesthetics: Kant's Critique of Judgement. 2. The Genius of Being: Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art. 3. The Deconstructive Sublime: Derrida's The Truth in Painting. 4. Constellations of Concept and Intuition: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. 5. Old Gods Ascending: Disintegration and Speculation in Aesthetic Theory.
£999.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Watching Television
Book SynopsisDeals with the topic - Watching Television.Table of ContentsTelevision - familiarity and phenomenology; television - hermeneutics and horizon; audiences - constructions of sense; viewing and the veridical effect; mechanisms of identification in film and television; subverting the veridical image; towards an "epic" television; conclusion - resisting television's familiarity.
£17.09
Polity Press Echographies of Television
Book SynopsisIn this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise.Trade ReviewJacques Derrida has been awarded the prestigious Theodor W. Adorno-Preis, 2001Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Translator's Note. Artifactualities: Jacques Derrida. Echographies of Television: Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Chapter 1 Right of Inspection. Chapter 2 Artifactuality, Homohegemony. Chapter 3 Acts of Memory: Topolitics and Teletechnology. Chapter 4 Inheritances – and Rhythm. Chapter 5 ‘Cultural Exception': the States of the State, the Event. Chapter 6 The Archive Market: Truth, Testimony, Evidence. Chapter 7 Phonographies: Meaning – from Heritage to Horizon. Chapter 8 Spectrographies. Chapter 9 Vigilances of the Unconscious. The Discrete Image: Bernard Stiegler. Notes
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Radio in the Global Age
Book SynopsisRadio in the Global Age offers a fresh, up--to--date, and wide--ranging introduction to the role of radio in contemporary society. It places radio, for the first time, in a global context, and pays special attention to the impact of the Internet, digitalization and globalization on the political--economy of radio.Trade Review'Part of what makes this book so engaging to read is its clear understanding and enjoyment of radio as a medium in its own right ... This book should serve to define what it is about radio that makes it so enduringly fascinating to listen to, to think about and study.' Paddy Scannell 'David Hendy's Radio in the Global Age is the best introduction to contemporary radio I have read. Hendy has done a masterful job of providing an outstanding overview while making a compelling argument about the role radio does play - and should play - in the social landscape.' Robert W. McChesney, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 'An invaluable introduction to radio today, with detailed illustrative material from all over the world. Hendy is a practising radio broadcaster and his professional understanding of the medium informs the whole book. It is beautifully written. An essential read.' Professor Paddy Scannell, University of Westminster 'David Hendy's engaging and wide-ranging study offers a galaxy of fascinating insights and revelations ... The book's international scope is impressive ... Media students and radio professionals should welcome the vast sweep and irrepressible enthusiasm of this important survey as a significant contribution to the expanding discipline of radio studies.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'The book is formidably researched, showing a knowledge both of current developments and the views of previous media scholars, which Hendy often expresses more clearly than they have. He writes like a true teacher: distinctions are carefully drawn, key points clearly itemized. But his is not just a taxonomy of modern radio, it is sprinkled with reflections which are clearly the result of some shrewd intellectual thinking ... an outstanding book - a milestone in radio studies.' European Journal of Communication 'Hendy rightly reminds us that radio should be central to discussions about the globalization of the music industry and the concomitant debates about identity and culture. This book, then, comes as a welcome intervention in the debates about media and globalization and offers an essential contribution to a better understanding of this "invisible medium". But Hendy does more than simply fit the radio piece into the jigsaw of globalized media, though this is undoubtedly a useful exercise in itself. With all its peculiarities as a medium of sounds in world of images, as an intimate, localized medium existing in the global age, putting the radio at centre stage allows some of the cliches about globalization to be problematized.' New Media and Society 'David Hendy's book is a well-informed, clearly written and judicious survey of radio at the beginning of the digital era.' Journal of Australian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Table. List of Boxes. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Radio in the Social Landscape. The Structure of this Book. Chapter 1: Industry. The Global Structure of Radio:. Industrial Sectors. Funding and Goals. Local, National and International Dimensions. Commercialization:. Diversity. Consolidation and Control. Technology. A Global or a Local Industry?. Chapter 2: Production. Producers:. Producing 'actuality'. Producing narratives. Producing 'liveness'. Time and Money. Formats:. Programme Formats. Station Formats. Schedules. Creativity versus Predictability. Chapter 3: Audiences. The Act of Listening. The Radio Audience. The Active Audience. Chapter 4: Meanings. Radio as Communicator. Radio texts: Talk and Music:. Talk. Music. Radio and Modernity: Time, Place and 'Communicative Capacity'. Time. Place. 'Communicative Capacity'. Chapter 5: Culture. Radio and Democratic Culture. Radio and Identity. Radio, Music and Cultural Change. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Radio in the Global Age
Book SynopsisRadio in the Global Age offers a fresh, up--to--date, and wide--ranging introduction to the role of radio in contemporary society. It places radio, for the first time, in a global context, and pays special attention to the impact of the Internet, digitalization and globalization on the political--economy of radio.Trade Review'Part of what makes this book so engaging to read is its clear understanding and enjoyment of radio as a medium in its own right ... This book should serve to define what it is about radio that makes it so enduringly fascinating to listen to, to think about and study.' Paddy Scannell 'David Hendy's Radio in the Global Age is the best introduction to contemporary radio I have read. Hendy has done a masterful job of providing an outstanding overview while making a compelling argument about the role radio does play - and should play - in the social landscape.' Robert W. McChesney, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 'An invaluable introduction to radio today, with detailed illustrative material from all over the world. Hendy is a practising radio broadcaster and his professional understanding of the medium informs the whole book. It is beautifully written. An essential read.' Professor Paddy Scannell, University of Westminster 'David Hendy's engaging and wide-ranging study offers a galaxy of fascinating insights and revelations ... The book's international scope is impressive ... Media students and radio professionals should welcome the vast sweep and irrepressible enthusiasm of this important survey as a significant contribution to the expanding discipline of radio studies.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'The book is formidably researched, showing a knowledge both of current developments and the views of previous media scholars, which Hendy often expresses more clearly than they have. He writes like a true teacher: distinctions are carefully drawn, key points clearly itemized. But his is not just a taxonomy of modern radio, it is sprinkled with reflections which are clearly the result of some shrewd intellectual thinking ... an outstanding book - a milestone in radio studies.' European Journal of Communication 'Hendy rightly reminds us that radio should be central to discussions about the globalization of the music industry and the concomitant debates about identity and culture. This book, then, comes as a welcome intervention in the debates about media and globalization and offers an essential contribution to a better understanding of this "invisible medium". But Hendy does more than simply fit the radio piece into the jigsaw of globalized media, though this is undoubtedly a useful exercise in itself. With all its peculiarities as a medium of sounds in world of images, as an intimate, localized medium existing in the global age, putting the radio at centre stage allows some of the cliches about globalization to be problematized.' New Media and Society 'David Hendy's book is a well-informed, clearly written and judicious survey of radio at the beginning of the digital era.' Journal of Australian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Table. List of Boxes. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Radio in the Social Landscape. The Structure of this Book. Chapter 1: Industry. The Global Structure of Radio:. Industrial Sectors. Funding and Goals. Local, National and International Dimensions. Commercialization:. Diversity. Consolidation and Control. Technology. A Global or a Local Industry?. Chapter 2: Production. Producers:. Producing 'actuality'. Producing narratives. Producing 'liveness'. Time and Money. Formats:. Programme Formats. Station Formats. Schedules. Creativity versus Predictability. Chapter 3: Audiences. The Act of Listening. The Radio Audience. The Active Audience. Chapter 4: Meanings. Radio as Communicator. Radio texts: Talk and Music:. Talk. Music. Radio and Modernity: Time, Place and 'Communicative Capacity'. Time. Place. 'Communicative Capacity'. Chapter 5: Culture. Radio and Democratic Culture. Radio and Identity. Radio, Music and Cultural Change. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index
£18.04
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Art and Society in the Middle Ages
Book Synopsisaeo A concise but wide--ranging work by one of Francea s greatest historians. aeo Discusses the relation between art and society in Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century. aeo Demonstrates how the meaning and significance of art changes over time.Trade Review'Georges Duby was one of the leading medievalists of the twentieth century, a historian with a long-standing interest in art. This book compresses the knowledge of a lifetime into an elegant, lapidary essay packed with perceptive comments on both art and society, making it as indispensable for specialists as it is accessible to students and art-loving general readers.' Peter Burke, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College, CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. From the Fifth to the Tenth Century. 2. 960-160. 3. 1160-1320. 4. 1320-1400. Chronologies. Bibliography. Index.
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Incest A New Perspective
Book SynopsisIn this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She places sexual abuse in the context of the whole social order. Hamera s novel and innovative approach challenges the taboo on clear thinking around the subject of incest.Trade Review"Hamer's book plunges into the thicket of our scandals and blindness about incest, to tell us that abuse is the price paid by a society that insists on clear norms of masculinity and femininity. It is not possible to speak of incest, in other words, says Hamer, without addressing the entire social order. And this is what she does, in this clearly written, energetic, and powerful book." Antonia Lant, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University "A personal journey of significance to us all. This account of the routine withdrawal of tenderness from close relationships will go against the grain of much formal cogitation. But it slides along the grain of an important kind of emotional knowledge. Agree with it or not, the effect is uncanny. Its echoes will reverberate a long time." Marilyn Strathern "A brave and original book. Mary Hamer's Incest combines autobiography, literary criticism and psychoanalysis to break down embedded formulae about love, masculinity and tenderness." Terri Apter, Newnham College, CambridgeTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part One: ON KNOWING AND NOT WANTING TO KNOW. Intimacy and pleasure. Mystification. Danger. Louis Malle: Murmur of the Heart. Jennifer Montgomery: Art for Teachers of Children. Sappho Durrell. Father James Porter and Cardinal Law. Sandor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud. Valerie Sinason and Estela Welldon. Part Two: ON BEING REMINDED. Introduction. Suddenly Last Summer. Through a Glass Darkly. Lolita. The Bluest Eye. The God of Small Things. Conclusion. Notes. Index
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Star Trek The Human Frontier
Book SynopsisIn a world that has been shrunk by modern communications and transport, Star Trek has maintained the values of western maritime exploration, and the discovery of Strange New Worlds in space. This - Starry Sea - has become a familiar metaphor in the history of Star Trek, providing a backdrop to the relentless questioning of human nature.Trade Review'Star Trek has been subject to a lot of scrutiny by literary and cultural critics ... The bad conscience that many have about serious discussion of popular culture means that Star Trek can still be read simplistically, as a stalking-horse for denouncing the modernity of the American century. The Barretts are more subtle. A television series is a product of a variety of creators and so, inevitably, a rich complex of signs, hints and idealisms. There is no final reading of Star Trek; just an endless journey.' The Independent 'There are only a handful of book length surveys of Star Trek, and this mother-and-son collaboration is a welcome contribution to those. It provides a valuable overview of the programme from its original appearance 35 years ago, tracing the ways in which successive series have reproduced and challenged the original "liberal humanist" ethos of Star Trek.' New Formations'As we stand on the threshold of the age of human cloning, the leading question asked by this engaging book-- What is human?--could hardly be more timely. The Barretts offer persuasive answers in their thorough analysis of a media phenomenon that has touched virtually everyone who lives in a technologically advanced society.' Andrew Ross, Director, American Studies Program, New York University Star Trek: The Human Frontier goes a long way toward explaining the enduring success of "the franchise" without succumbing to naive celebration. It explores Star Trek's strengths and flaws, its continuities and discontinuities, its intertextualities and its contextualities. The two Barretts explore Star Trak's ambivalent relationship to modernity, to nautical exploration (and colonial empires), humanism, and ultimately, post-modernity. Moving effortlessly from Homer to Foucault, from Orwell to Butler, they manage to give substance to many of the intuitvely experienced, commonsensical assumptions about Star Trek. And they have produced a book that is a delight to read. If this is what intergenerational authorship can accomplish, we should all start writing with our kids. Lawrence Grossberg, Morris davis Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsList Of Illustrations. Preface And Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part One: Exploration. Part Two: Humanity On Trial. Part Three: Boldly Going Postmodern. Conclusion. Notes. Index
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Star Trek The Human Frontier
Book SynopsisIn a world that has been shrunk by modern communications and transport, Star Trek has maintained the values of western maritime exploration, and the discovery of Strange New Worlds in space. This - Starry Sea - has become a familiar metaphor in the history of Star Trek, providing a backdrop to the relentless questioning of human nature.Trade Review'Star Trek has been subject to a lot of scrutiny by literary and cultural critics ... The bad conscience that many have about serious discussion of popular culture means that Star Trek can still be read simplistically, as a stalking-horse for denouncing the modernity of the American century. The Barretts are more subtle. A television series is a product of a variety of creators and so, inevitably, a rich complex of signs, hints and idealisms. There is no final reading of Star Trek; just an endless journey.' The Independent 'There are only a handful of book length surveys of Star Trek, and this mother-and-son collaboration is a welcome contribution to those. It provides a valuable overview of the programme from its original appearance 35 years ago, tracing the ways in which successive series have reproduced and challenged the original "liberal humanist" ethos of Star Trek.' New Formations'As we stand on the threshold of the age of human cloning, the leading question asked by this engaging book-- What is human?--could hardly be more timely. The Barretts offer persuasive answers in their thorough analysis of a media phenomenon that has touched virtually everyone who lives in a technologically advanced society.' Andrew Ross, Director, American Studies Program, New York University Star Trek: The Human Frontier goes a long way toward explaining the enduring success of "the franchise" without succumbing to naive celebration. It explores Star Trek's strengths and flaws, its continuities and discontinuities, its intertextualities and its contextualities. The two Barretts explore Star Trak's ambivalent relationship to modernity, to nautical exploration (and colonial empires), humanism, and ultimately, post-modernity. Moving effortlessly from Homer to Foucault, from Orwell to Butler, they manage to give substance to many of the intuitvely experienced, commonsensical assumptions about Star Trek. And they have produced a book that is a delight to read. If this is what intergenerational authorship can accomplish, we should all start writing with our kids. Lawrence Grossberg, Morris davis Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsList Of Illustrations. Preface And Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part One: Exploration. Part Two: Humanity On Trial. Part Three: Boldly Going Postmodern. Conclusion. Notes. Index
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Soap Opera
Book SynopsisThe soap opera is a major form of media art and popular culture. Revered and reviled by fans and critics, its history spans and reflects social change and plays a vital role in the development of broadcasting. This book traces the genre from its beginnings on American radio in the 1930s to the international television genre it has become today.Trade Review"This book achieves what media studies researchers have spent two decades striving for: a comprehensive study for a television text plus on in-depth account of the audience’s relation to the text, solidly grounded in empirical evidence, and in the context of the economics of broadcasting. It is the best book I’ve ever read about soap opera, and one of the best I’ve ever read about television." Ellen Seiter, University of California, San Diego "Dorothy Hobson understands soap opera’s power to involve TV viewers better than any-one alive. This remarkable study is of compelling interest to the soap addict, to the general reader and to the student of mass media’s money magic. A rewarding read." Jeremy Isaacs, Founding Chief Executive, Channel 4 "The art of TV soap opera has finally come of age and is recognized by audience and critics as quality drama. This book is the definitive to the genre, and will prove indis-pensable to fans and academics alike." Mal Young, BBC Controller, Drama SeriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface: Why Soap Opera?. Introduction: History and Theories. Part I: The Soap Business. 1. Soap Opera and the Broadcasting Industry. 2. Elements of Production: Features of the Form. Part II: The Content of Soap Operas. 3. Soap Stars: Actors and Icons. 4. Soap Opera and Everyday Life: Decades of Domestic Drama. 5. The Big Issues. Part III: Soap Opera and its Audiences. 6. A Universal Form. 7. The Cultural History of Soap Opera and the Audience. References. Index
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The European AvantGarde 19001940
Book SynopsisThis book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant--garde in its early twentieth--century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian.Trade Review‘“This is not a Cultural History of the Avant-Garde”: the section title, teasing Magritte’s pipe, says it perfectly. Like the famous painting, this book is more, namely a beautiful blend of history and analysis, criticism and theory, in my favorite phrase: cultural analysis. If, after reading it, it is as if one sees avant-garde all around, in contemporary culture, this is because Andrew Webber has made sense of the past in terms that reflect the urgency posed by the present. Tightly argued yet generously clear, abundantly illustrated with close readings of specific works yet proposing an unambiguously innovative reading of the early avant-garde as a state of culture as a whole, this book will make you wish you had been among the first to see those trenchant texts and images that shocked the world. Learning about the avant-garde, the reader also learns “how to”: how to read and understand, how to analyse, how to frame those texts that are so notoriously hard to grasp.’ Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam ‘Andrew J. Webber's superb new book looks at the constitution of the avant-garde in early twentieth-century European thought. Ranging from architecture and urban space to theatre and film, Webber's take on the avant-garde throws new light on its contradictions and complexities. This is a book for all humanists interested in the formation of twentieth-century sensibilities across the entire spectrum of modern cultural life.’Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsList of Plates. Preface. 1. Introduction: The Historical Avant-garde and Cultural History. 2. Manifestations: The Public Sphere. 3. Writing the City: Urban Technology and Poetic Technique. 4. Modes of Performance: Film-Theatre. 5. Case Histories: Narratives of the Avant-garde. Conclusion: Allegories of the Avant-garde. Epilogue: After the Avant-garde?. Notes. Index.
£52.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The European Avantgarde
Book SynopsisThis book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant--garde in its early twentieth--century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian.Trade Review‘“This is not a Cultural History of the Avant-Garde”: the section title, teasing Magritte’s pipe, says it perfectly. Like the famous painting, this book is more, namely a beautiful blend of history and analysis, criticism and theory, in my favorite phrase: cultural analysis. If, after reading it, it is as if one sees avant-garde all around, in contemporary culture, this is because Andrew Webber has made sense of the past in terms that reflect the urgency posed by the present. Tightly argued yet generously clear, abundantly illustrated with close readings of specific works yet proposing an unambiguously innovative reading of the early avant-garde as a state of culture as a whole, this book will make you wish you had been among the first to see those trenchant texts and images that shocked the world. Learning about the avant-garde, the reader also learns “how to”: how to read and understand, how to analyse, how to frame those texts that are so notoriously hard to grasp.’ Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam ‘Andrew J. Webber's superb new book looks at the constitution of the avant-garde in early twentieth-century European thought. Ranging from architecture and urban space to theatre and film, Webber's take on the avant-garde throws new light on its contradictions and complexities. This is a book for all humanists interested in the formation of twentieth-century sensibilities across the entire spectrum of modern cultural life.’Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsList of Plates. Preface. 1. Introduction: The Historical Avant-garde and Cultural History. 2. Manifestations: The Public Sphere. 3. Writing the City: Urban Technology and Poetic Technique. 4. Modes of Performance: Film-Theatre. 5. Case Histories: Narratives of the Avant-garde. Conclusion: Allegories of the Avant-garde. Epilogue: After the Avant-garde?. Notes. Index.
£25.71
John Wiley and Sons Ltd European Television in the Digital Age Issues
Book SynopsisEuropean Television in the Digital Age traces the development of digital television and provides a clear, concise account of the dynamics and realities of the changing face of television in Europe.Trade Review"This book by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos is a treasury of information and of carefully set out argument ... For students of the media system, it is invaluable and has no substitute." Times Higher Education Supplement "European Television in the Digital Age provides a well-informed, well-researched and comprehensive overview of the issues and the dynamics that impact on European television systems at the beginning of the 21st Century. By charting the key moments in the development of the television industry in the last century, it provides a sound foundation for understanding the present state of the industry as it faces the challenge of digital television. This book will be essential reading for all those who want to better understand the recent past, the present and the prospects for the future of the television industry in Europe." Ralph Negrine, Director, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester "Stylianos Papathanassopoulos has achieved the near-impossible feat of providing a survey and assessment of issues and developments in West European television that manages to be integrated, inclusive and detailed at the same time. It does justice to the considerable diversity of the European television scene, while highlighting shared circumstances and underlying dynamics. There is presently no more authoritative guide to this complex topic and unlikely to be one for the foreseeable future. It has a story to tell as well as a fund of information to offer." Denis McQuail, Department of Politics, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsFigure and Tables. Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Introduction: European Television in the Digital Age. Part I: The Issues. The Effects of Deregulation: An Overview. Going Digital: The Advent of Digital Television in Europe. Public Service Broadcasting in the Digital Age. The Funding of Television in the age of Digitalization. Media Concentration in the Age of Digital Television. Politics in the Television Age. Part II: European Television in the Twenty-first Century. From the General and National to the Particular and Local. More News and More News Channels. More Sports Channels: The Advent of Sports Channels in Europe. More Music Television Channels: Europe Dances to a New Rhythm. More Children’s Channels: The Fastest Growing Television Market in Europe. Conclusions: Television and its Viewers in the Internet Age. References. Index.
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd European Television in the Digital Age Issues
Book SynopsisEuropean Television in the Digital Age traces the development of digital television and provides a clear, concise account of the dynamics and realities of the changing face of television in Europe.Trade Review"This book by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos is a treasury of information and of carefully set out argument ... For students of the media system, it is invaluable and has no substitute." Times Higher Education Supplement "European Television in the Digital Age provides a well-informed, well-researched and comprehensive overview of the issues and the dynamics that impact on European television systems at the beginning of the 21st Century. By charting the key moments in the development of the television industry in the last century, it provides a sound foundation for understanding the present state of the industry as it faces the challenge of digital television. This book will be essential reading for all those who want to better understand the recent past, the present and the prospects for the future of the television industry in Europe." Ralph Negrine, Director, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester "Stylianos Papathanassopoulos has achieved the near-impossible feat of providing a survey and assessment of issues and developments in West European television that manages to be integrated, inclusive and detailed at the same time. It does justice to the considerable diversity of the European television scene, while highlighting shared circumstances and underlying dynamics. There is presently no more authoritative guide to this complex topic and unlikely to be one for the foreseeable future. It has a story to tell as well as a fund of information to offer." Denis McQuail, Department of Politics, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsFigure and Tables. Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Introduction: European Television in the Digital Age. Part I: The Issues. The Effects of Deregulation: An Overview. Going Digital: The Advent of Digital Television in Europe. Public Service Broadcasting in the Digital Age. The Funding of Television in the age of Digitalization. Media Concentration in the Age of Digital Television. Politics in the Television Age. Part II: European Television in the Twenty-first Century. From the General and National to the Particular and Local. More News and More News Channels. More Sports Channels: The Advent of Sports Channels in Europe. More Music Television Channels: Europe Dances to a New Rhythm. More Children’s Channels: The Fastest Growing Television Market in Europe. Conclusions: Television and its Viewers in the Internet Age. References. Index.
£18.04
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Film and Cinema Spectatorship
Book SynopsisFilm and Cinema Spectatorship provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to different debates and traditions of viewing cinema. In this new book, Jan Campbell offers a comprehensive account of the different theoretical perspectives on film and cinema spectatorship, situating these in their cultural and historical contexts. Among the perspectives covered are those of feminism, modernism and cultural studies, with chapters dedicated to important topics such as early film, stars and film aesthetics. Campbell also provides accessible explorations of the importance of key themes to film and cinema spectatorship, such as mimesis, melodrama, performance and time. The timely and comprehensive text will be essential reading for anyone interested in debates on film theory, psychoanalysis and film, and the history of cinema. This book will be of special interest to students of film studies, media studies and cultural studies.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART I: SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, FILM SPECTATORSHIP AND THE TEXT. Introduction to Part I. 1. Sexual Difference, Melodrama and Film Theory. 2. The Sexual-Difference Spectator in Weimar Cinema. 3. Film Theory and the Visual Body. PART II: THE EARLY FILM SPECTATOR. Introduction to Part II. 4. Perception and Early Film. 5. Early Film Spectatorship. PART III: AUDIENCES, STARS AND AESTHETICS. Introduction to Part III. 6. Cultural Studies, Ethnography and the ‘Real’ Film Spectator. 7. Stars and Melodrama. 8. Film Aesthetics and Cultural Re-Memory. Notes. Index.
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Film and Cinema Spectatorship
Book SynopsisFilm and Cinema Spectatorship provides a clear and wide--ranging introduction to different debates and traditions of viewing cinema. In this new book, Jan Campbell offers a comprehensive account of the different theoretical perspectives on film and cinema spectatorship, situating these in their cultural and historical contexts.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART I: SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, FILM SPECTATORSHIP AND THE TEXT. Introduction to Part I. 1. Sexual Difference, Melodrama and Film Theory. 2. The Sexual-Difference Spectator in Weimar Cinema. 3. Film Theory and the Visual Body. PART II: THE EARLY FILM SPECTATOR. Introduction to Part II. 4. Perception and Early Film. 5. Early Film Spectatorship. PART III: AUDIENCES, STARS AND AESTHETICS. Introduction to Part III. 6. Cultural Studies, Ethnography and the ‘Real’ Film Spectator. 7. Stars and Melodrama. 8. Film Aesthetics and Cultural Re-Memory. Notes. Index.
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Contemporary Spanish Culture
Book SynopsisThis accessible introduction to contemporary Spanish culture is the first of its kind, combining cultural context with close readings of particular works. Reviews new developments in television, where original and innovative series drama has recently blossomed.Trade Review"[Smith] touches on a multitude of areas of everyday life in Spain and, as an antidote to the pessimism of theorising about globalization, offers a passionate view of the distinctiveness of modern Spanish culture." Times Higher Education Supplement "Admirably clear, this book should attract interested general readers as well as the more obvious academic audience." British Bulletin of Publications on Latin america, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain "Paul Julian Smith's work is indispensable to the fields of film studies and Spanish cultural studies. Impressive in its range and specificity, this book weaves together cultural theory with detailed studies of Spanish television, male fashion, visual arts and film." Emilie L. Bergmann, University of California at Berkeley "This is an excellent volume, ranging widely but also deeply over many lively issues." Peter Evans, Queen Mary and Westfield, London "Paul Julian Smith’s new book extends the reach of Spanish cultural studies into uncharted territories: through and beyond cinema and the visual arts to fashion and network television. Steeped in Bourdieu’s studies of cultural distinction, Smith is more cosmopolitan ethnographer than armchair academic as he develops a method of thick, layered, and multidisciplinary description to explain and analyse the intersection of markets and aesthetics in the production and consumption of sucessful TV drama, independent Catalan cinema or classic masculine fashion." Kathleen M. Vernon, State University of New York at Stony BrookTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Cultures of Distinction. Chapter 1: Quality TV?: the periodistas notebook. Chapter 2: Classic Fashion?: the Adolfo Domínguez sample book. Chapter 3: Pure Painting?: The Miguel Barceló sketch book. Chapter 4: Queer Conceptualism?: Basque artists on the borders. Chapter 5: Catalan Independence?: Ventura Pons's niche cinema. Chapter 6: Resurrecting the Art Movie?: Aldomodóvar's blue period. Index
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Contemporary Spanish Culture
Book SynopsisThis accessible introduction to contemporary Spanish culture is the first of its kind, combining cultural context with close readings of particular works. Reviews new developments in television, where original and innovative series drama has recently blossomed.Trade Review"[Smith] touches on a multitude of areas of everyday life in Spain and, as an antidote to the pessimism of theorising about globalization, offers a passionate view of the distinctiveness of modern Spanish culture." Times Higher Education Supplement "Admirably clear, this book should attract interested general readers as well as the more obvious academic audience." British Bulletin of Publications on Latin america, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain "Paul Julian Smith's work is indispensable to the fields of film studies and Spanish cultural studies. Impressive in its range and specificity, this book weaves together cultural theory with detailed studies of Spanish television, male fashion, visual arts and film." Emilie L. Bergmann, University of California at Berkeley "This is an excellent volume, ranging widely but also deeply over many lively issues." Peter Evans, Queen Mary and Westfield, London "Paul Julian Smith’s new book extends the reach of Spanish cultural studies into uncharted territories: through and beyond cinema and the visual arts to fashion and network television. Steeped in Bourdieu’s studies of cultural distinction, Smith is more cosmopolitan ethnographer than armchair academic as he develops a method of thick, layered, and multidisciplinary description to explain and analyse the intersection of markets and aesthetics in the production and consumption of sucessful TV drama, independent Catalan cinema or classic masculine fashion." Kathleen M. Vernon, State University of New York at Stony BrookTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Cultures of Distinction. Chapter 1: Quality TV?: the periodistas notebook. Chapter 2: Classic Fashion?: the Adolfo Domínguez sample book. Chapter 3: Pure Painting?: The Miguel Barceló sketch book. Chapter 4: Queer Conceptualism?: Basque artists on the borders. Chapter 5: Catalan Independence?: Ventura Pons's niche cinema. Chapter 6: Resurrecting the Art Movie?: Aldomodóvar's blue period. Index
£26.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction
Book SynopsisThis book collects together Adornos manifold implications for musical interpretation. His reflections lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense. However, it is the quality of uncertainty in his reflections that indicates the scope of the discourse and its continuing relevance to musical thought today.Trade Review"Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction addresses the dialectical relation between the musical score (inscription) and its realized sound (performance), the two elements meeting in an act of interpretation, so as to produce what Adorno several times calls the x-ray image of the work, the subcutaneous depth that lies beyond surface manifestation. Adorno's concern is how music means, better how it is made meaningful. The book is a fragment, a set of extensive notes; what survives - more than 200 print pages - is nonetheless very considerable. Adorno's comments and commentaries, invariably aphoristic, are filled with insight and, into the bargain, are richly provocative and commonly provoking." Richard Leppert, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsEditor's Foreword. Translator's Introduction. Notes I. Ad Dorian. On Richard Wagner's 'Uber das Dirigieren'. Concerning the Older Material. AdAancient Musical Notation. Notes Taken After the Darmstadt Lecture. Notes II. Draft. Structural Keywords for chapters 2, 4 and 5 of the Draft. Material for the Reproduction Theory. Two Schemata. Keywords for the 1954 Darmstadt Seminar. Notes. Bibliography. Index of Names.
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Evolution of Film Rethinking Film Studies
Book Synopsis* A punchy and original upper-level film studies textbook. * Offers a new way of thinking about film studies in the 21st Century and developments like globalisation and technology. * Introduces a range of theorists who have not been brought to bear on the subject before now.Trade Review"Harbord's is a major new voice in film studies, harking back to the classical film theory of Bazin, Kracauer and Epstein, and echoing forward into the twenty-first century. The Evolution of Film makes a decisive contribution to the study of cinema, and to our understandings of the contemporary." Sean Cubitt, University of MelbourneTable of Contents1 One hundred years of film theory 2 Hollywood's last decade 3 The limits of translation: transnational film 4 Assemblage: editing space-time 5 Innocent monsters: film and other media 6 Inertia: on energy and film
£49.50
Edinburgh University Press American Culture in the 1960s
Book SynopsisA clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1960s America -- fiction and poetry; music and performance; film and television; art and photography -- and influential texts of the decade.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Case Studies; Chronology of 1960s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Music and Performance; 2. Film and Television; 3. Fiction and Poetry; 4. Art and Photography; 5. New Social Movements and Creative Dissent; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1960s; Notes; Bibliogrpahy; Index.
£80.75
