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Book SynopsisThe secret weapon for business experts to ensure strategically creative results, this is an indispensable field guide to evaluating creative advertising, branding, and design ideas and solutions, and to working with creatives.Strategic Creativity is a fundamental resource that enables business professionals to stand out amongst their colleagues and enhance their ability to communicate the creative why throughout their organizations, and it covers what every business expert should fully comprehend about the creative process. To effectively grow a business and reach the right audience or move a brand forward, advertising and branding need to be relevant, engaging, and worth people's time. This book contains what a CEO, CMO, manager, business owner, or client didn't learn about the creative side of advertising and design in business school.Featuring insightful conversations with creative experts, this book will earn a place on the desks of executives, leaders, manaTrade Review"Few mysteries confound business leaders more than how creative professionals work their magic. In Strategic Creativity, Robin Landa pulls back the veil to reveal the hidden logic of great marketing communications, from copywriting to graphic design to brand design. Armed with the insights in this book, business leaders will have a vastly easier time interfacing with creative professionals to produce game-changing marketing communications. Filled with compelling insights, checklists, and real-world business cases, Strategic Creativity drills into the details yet never loses sight of the big strategic picture: to build brands with purpose and humanity."—Neal Roese, Professor and Chair of the Marketing Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University"Robin Landa has written a fascinating new book on Strategic Creativity. The book hands executives the keys to harnessing the best out of creative professionals while also learning how to generate ideas and be more creative yourself. This guided tour of strategic creativity should be on the desk of anyone hoping to build a strong brand, fine tune your advertising, and avoid costly mistakes."Paul A. Argenti, Professor of Corporate Communication, The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth"Professor Landa has written a remarkable and valuable book, simultaneously enlightening and pragmatic. Business professionals are the customers of advertising, but rarely understand or contribute to what they are ‘buying’. This book enables a business professional to rise above their peers with superior creative outcomes as well as enhances their ability to communicate the ‘why’ throughout their organization. Landa provides a compelling rationale and checklists in a stepwise manner and illustrates them with clear examples. If only I had read this at the start of my career!" Donald Fishbein, Senior Biotech and Pharmaceutical Executive"Again and again, Robin Landa has brought forth her inexhaustible well of creativity to help us see and deal with the world in new and imaginative ways. Now with her latest work, Strategic Creativity, she shows us how to use our own imaginative understanding in a detailed way that guides us to achieving our overall aims and intentions in a variety of environments. This highly original volume provides a practical handbook to harnessing the creative potential within us all."Professor Craig P. Donovan, Kean University Senate Chair"Robin Landa has done it again! This is a must-read for anyone in the marketing or advertising industry who wants to be the one businessperson in the room who speaks knowledgeably about creative directions and solutions. This explains the importance of strategic creativity better than I ever could."Brooke Roderick, Senior Art Director, VCCP "Marketers, strategists, and business-owners alike will benefit from reading Robin Landa's book Strategic Creativity. This book is filled with important and easily-digestible advice that you won't find anywhere on 'Dr. Internet.' It's apparent that a significant amount of research has gone into this book, and as a marketing strategist and business owner myself, I plan to revisit Strategic Creativity again and again. Robin defines exactly what brands need to do to make consumers stop their scrolling and take notice. As Robin mentions, the riskiest idea is the one people will not notice. If you don't take notice of this book, you are missing out on an incredibly valuable read." Megan Lynn Levy, Entrepreneur and Marketer"Strategic Creativity is one of those books that no matter where you open it, you’ll find creative insights that you can use in your everyday. I found myself making notes throughout the entire read. Robin’s writing and way of storytelling are engaging and easy to follow. It all just makes sense and will have you asking yourself, as well as others, all the right questions. It’s an ace in your back pocket when dealing with creative teams. Strategic Creativity will have you zeroing in on the 'WHY' and should be in every execs toolbox."Mike Sickinger, Creative Marketing"Robin Landa’s new book distills the complexity out of modern marketing decision-making. You’ll be more strategic, more creative, and more effective after reading this great playbook." Drew Neisser, Founder, Renegade & CMO Huddles and Author of Renegade Marketing: 12 Steps to Building Unbeatable B2B Brands"Strategic Creativity is essential for any brand, particularly creating a compelling story about a brand, product, or service that stands out from the noise and sticks with the intended audience. When done well, buyers feel a connection to the brand and the message resonates. This book provides a solid framework to help organizations think beyond the status quo, which is a trap many brands fall into today. Landa packs a lot of valuable information into every chapter."Lauri A. Harrison, Lecturer, Business Certificate Program, Columbia University, School of Professional Studies"Exceptionally well written, organized and presented…the ideal DIY 'hands on' combination of instructional guide and 'how to' manual that will have a very special appeal to anyone engaging in branding/logo design, advertising, graphic design, and general business marketing…a complete course on corporate creativity in advertising…especially and unreservedly recommended for community, corporate, college, and university library contemporary business management collections and supplemental curriculum MBA studies lists."Wisconsin Bookwatch"…the key to creating ad and design concepts and campaigns that work…Landa focuses on realizing, embracing, and cultivating the uniqueness of each business endeavor. Chapters in Strategic Creativity are steeped in marketing, design, and communication processes designed to promote and support not just the special selling points of a business operation, but how to creatively and compellingly represent them…The result synthesizes real-world experiences and examples with admonitions on how to integrate creative problem-solving with strategic positioning methods that embrace and represent a brand's uniqueness. Business managers, entrepreneurs in different professions, and anyone who would better understand the link between business success and creative strategic positioning must add Strategic Creativity: A Business Field Guide to Advertising, Branding, and Design to their reading lists. Libraries will find it a key addition, but ideally Strategic Creativity's message will gain wider attention in classrooms and reading groups, where budding entrepreneurs and seasoned professionals alike can absorb the book's specific, important focus."D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review"This book packs a fast-paced set of best practices, checklists, and examples of outstanding marketing and advertising campaigns into a convenient handbook…strong on fundamentals and adds an important chapter on infusing creative strategy with a regard for diversity, equity, inclusion, and purpose-led marketing…Landa’s expertise and comprehensive approach to creative strategy make her field guide an important addition to a marketer’s collection. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates, two-year technical program students, practitioners, and general readers."CHOICE, January 2023Table of Contents1.Why Strategic Creativity, 2. Thinking Creatively, 3. Strategically Creative Ideas, 4. Strategically Creative Copywriting, 5. Strategically Creative Design, 6. Branding & Art Direction, 7. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Purpose-led Marketing, 8. Building a Culture for Results

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world.Disability arts festivals are growing in different parts of the world; theatre and dance companies with disabled artists are increasingly touring and collaborating with international partners. At the same time, theatre spaces are often not accessible, and the necessity of mobility excludes some disabled artists from being part of an international disability arts community. How does disability performance travel, who does not travel and why? What is the role of funding and producing structures, disability arts festivals, and networks around the world? How do the logics of international (co-)producing govern the way in which disability art is represented internationally? Who is excluded from being part of a touring theatre or dance company, and how can festivals, conferences, and other agents of a growing disability culture create other forms of participation, whicTable of ContentsContributor BiographiesNeil Marcus: Storm Reading TourINTRODUCED BY PETRA KUPPERS AND RAQUEL ESCOBARIntroduction: How Does Disability Performance Travel?CHRISTIANE CZYMOCH, KATE MAGUIRE-ROSIER, AND YVONNE SCHMIDTPART 1The Politics of Touring and Travelling1 Putting Myself into People’s Spaces: A Performer’s Journey Through World StagesNADIA ADAME2 The Journey of Maui and Different Light: Fellow Travelling and Learning-Disabled TheatreTONY McCAFFREY3 Travel PoeticsFELIPE HENRIQUE MONTEIRO OLIVEIRATRANSLATED BY MARIA CAROLINA MONTEIRO OLIVEIRA4 How Disability Performance Travels in Australia: The Reality Under the RhetoricBREE HADLEY WITH EDDIE PATERSON, MADELEINE LITTLE, AND KATH DUNCANPART 2International Flows and Cultural Settings5 The Travels of The ApartmentALEKSANDRA DUNAEVATRANSLATED BY YULIA SAVIKOVSKAYA6 Teatro Patologico Abroad: A Medea for International AudiencesJOSEPH PAUL HILL7 How Disability Performances Travel within Taiwan: Sustaining Confrontations and Letting Differences Coexist in I am a Normal Person No.1 and No.2 I-LIEN HOPART 3Embodying Spaces, Mobilizing Environments8 Unsettling Sitting Modes of Living: The Disability of Sitting as Creative Environmental MobilityCIANE FERNANDESENGLISH REVISION BY MELINA SCIALOM9 Travel, Mobility, and Kinetic Hierarchies in Disability PerformanceMEGAN JOHNSON10 Building Communities Online: #DisabilityTwitter and Digital MobilityJESSICA WATKIN11 The Animacy of Ekphrasis: Documenting Performance as Acts of Unfurling ReciprocityBRONWYN PREECEPART 4Local, Site-Specific Work, Microcosms, and the Periphery12 HAPPY ISLAND and the Islands within the IslandHENRIQUE AMOEDO, DIOGO GONCALVES, ELISABETE MONTEIRO, AND PAULA LEBRE13 The Travels of a Municipal Theatre Group for People with Learning Disabilities: Attempts at Subverting the Axes of InjusticeVIBEKE GLORSTAD14 Optimistic Becomings: Learning Disability Performance Outward BoundMARGARET AMESIndex

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Book SynopsisA Psychotherapist Paints is a unique account of an internationally known psychotherapist and group analyst's struggle to bring together his psychological experience and his interests and talent as an artist. This book describes a body of painting that was responsive to a major existential challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic, but which also comes from deeply personal experience; the paintings are a mirror of life through the decades. These paintings, fifty of which are included here in full colour, were mainly presented online to groups both small and large, who were invited to participate in a dialogue that became a vital part of the developing project. The value of this dialogue is reflected in the author's concept of the artist''s matrix, describing the social context in which an artist produces and presents their work. The paintings, together with the autobiographical narrative and the groups' generativity, combine to produce a moving testament to our times. Trade Review'What an extraordinary, beautiful and inspiring book! Interlinking psychotherapy, group analysis, art and paintings in a totally unique way, this is, simply, a masterpiece. The author, Morris Nitsun, both a psychotherapist and artist, is present throughout, adding a personal narrative to the paintings and sharing a courageous life story. What is most impressive, however, is how much he lets the paintings speak for themselves, coming alive through the eyes of the observers. Their memories, associations, phantasies and projections, all in response to the paintings, are fascinating and moving, and form a continuing thread through the book. A further pleasure are the author’s insights woven from these biographical threads and reminiscences, creating a text that is full of interest and resonance for others. Nitsun has succeeded in creating something entirely new, a new format for applying group analysis and a new way of understanding paintings. No longer separate pieces of art, the paintings are given a social and cultural context. Their stories are both personal and universal. But the paintings are full of contrast. There is beauty but also the uncanny: the embrace but also loneliness; colour and light but also dark and suffering. This book will touch many readers and I recommend it very highly and widely.'Professor Elisabeth Rohr, PhD., Institute of Group Analysis, Heidelberg, formerly Professor of Intercultural Education at Phillips University, Marburg, Germany'This is a fabulous book, a tour-de-force. Through the lens of his wonderful paintings, Morris Nitsun takes us on his journey from South Africa to the UK and from artist to therapist. He moves effortlessly from the consulting room to his artist’s studio and through a powerful narrative draws us, openly and intimately, into his life. The book is rich in psychological theory, deeply personal reflections and artistic prowess. It is unique. As with his previous books, this will become a classic.'Professor Dame Clare Gerada, President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Director of Practitioner Health Service, UK'A Psychotherapist Paints is a visual and conceptual presentation of stunning beauty. Being the artist that he is, Nitsun beckons the reader to join a compelling journey of personal and social discovery, weaving together strands of autobiography, analytic acumen and pure talent. This highly original book is not only a major contribution to psychotherapy: it illuminates the world of the arts and suggests exciting possibilities for cross-fertilization.'Richard M Billow, Clinical Professor and former Director of the Group Program at Adelphi University, USA and author of Richard M Billow’s Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process (2021)'Congratulations on a wonderful book. Morris Nitsun gives his readers a rare gift: the reproduction of fifty of his paintings (the paintings themselves are worth the price of the book), as well as a deep appreciation of the obstacles, inner and outer, he had to overcome to achieve the artistic freedom and devotion to truth that are so evident in this book. In his evocative presentations of his paintings, he touches on poignant themes: childhood identity, loss and trauma, oppression and shame, and more. Offering a vivid portrait of himself as a psychotherapist and artist, he does not flinch from sharing the pain of self-doubt and the problems of ageing and loneliness. He writes with courage and clarity. Painting and writing through the pandemic years, his capacity to integrate beauty with the dark side, to face fear, to find hope in despair, and to remain resolutely creative throughout, shines through this book and offers inspiration to many others.'Jerome S. Gans, MD, Distinguished Fellow, American Group Psychotherapy Association, Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association. Former Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA. Author of Addressing, Challenging Moments in Psychotherapy'In this unique and compelling book, Morris Nitsun treats us to a beautiful portrait of the mind of both the artist and the psychologist. An esteemed group analyst and a talented painter, Nitsun reveals the rich complexities of the human mind in a generous fashion, helping us to appreciate even more fully the ways in which each of us – whether clinicians or patients – can aspire to lead richer and more integrated lives.'Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and Honorary Director of Research, Freud Museum, London, UK'This is a unique book. Weaving together twin passions - painting and psychotherapy – Nitsun’s vivid artwork and lucid writing invite the reader, like a late-comer to his online exhibitions, to be both witness and participant in the "artist’s matrix". Through this matrix we comprehend what is both an artistic and psychological journey; a journey where "The Deserted City’’ (a "dark" exhibition prompted by Covid’s lockdown) is gradually re-animated: with nature’s bounty and resilience, with dancers, with the spirit of a woman’s courage, with the search for transcendence: all testaments to what Winnicott calls "creative living". Movingly, this journey emerges as rooted in Morris Nitsun’s relationship with his own mother, a "place" of absence as well as love. Inspiringly, the journey of art and reflection demonstrates the profound and purposeful engagement we must all make, especially in later years, if we are to choose integrity over despair.'Professor Nick Barwick, Group Analyst and Head of Student Counselling, Guildhall School of Music & Drama'A magnificent book, inspiring and moving. It is not just to be read: it is to be experienced. Through the paintings and the commentary, the author stimulates the senses. You are entranced by the dolls, shudder at the sight of the deserted cities, smell the earth in fragile nature, and dance with the dancers. As in art therapy, Nitsun creates a safe but transformational space in which readers can project themselves, find a mirror in the images and find themselves in the process. The language is intimate and lyrical. It prompted an unforgettable personal journey. In line with his own concept, the author illustrates how art can deepen "the group as an object of desire". A must read!!'Marcia Honig, PsyD, group analyst, art therapist, Chair of the master’s degree in Art Therapy at Seminar HaKibutzim College, Chair of the Transcultural Section of the International Group Psychotherapy Association, International group facilitator'In this unique combination of social experiment and personal history, Morris Nitsun takes the reader on a journey, traversing the territory between art, art therapy and group psychotherapy. Personal biography is woven with the author’s paintings to form a rich tapestry. Nitsun combines his deep knowledge of group analysis and a lifetime of making art to create an innovative approach to working with groups. At conferences, exhibitions and online during Covid lockdown, he offered his paintings as catalysts, courageously exposing his process to the gaze and associations of audience members. Self-analysis, art and group process combine in this engaging personal memoir. A compelling read for art psychotherapists and analysts and all who are interested in the links between art and psychotherapy.'Professor Joy Schaverien, PhD, Jungian analyst, art psychotherapist and author of Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the 'Privileged' Child and The Revealing Image: Analytical Art Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice'This is the story of a man who wanted to be an artist and a psychotherapist, and this book is his answer to the question ‘Can you be both?’ Morris Nitsun is that man; someone who has excelled as both an artist and a group analyst. In this book, Nitsun uses his paintings, and accounts of how groups of people have responded to those paintings, to explore how art and psychotherapy can bring something into being that wasn’t there before. Both art and psychotherapy give us a frame in which we can think new thoughts and maybe change our minds in so doing. This process of change is not always comfortable or easy, and Nitsun never avoids that challenge, whether in his work on the Anti-Group, the disturbing image, or the associated painful thought. This is a rich and complex work, wonderfully illustrated with Nitsun’s work; and that alone makes this book an essential purchase.'Gwen Adshead, consultant forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist Broadmoor Hospital and HMP Bronzefield; co-author with Eileen Horne, The Devil You Know'This book is truly exceptional in every sense. It is the remarkable distillation of the wealth of insights from a long and illustrious career of a psychotherapist and artist. Dr Nitsun's highly accomplished paintings interweave with his therapeutic sensitivity to construct, in respectfully understated tones, a most moving tapestry of the human condition that will touch deeply not only therapists and artists but also all those who can open their heart to the wondrous complexities of suffering and fortitude. The masterful interplay between his visual images and perceptive narrative, his personal journey, group experiences and wider collective, usher the reader into painful and exhilarating caverns of the psyche.'Professor Renos K Papadopoulos, PhD, University of Essex. Clinical psychologist, Jungian psychoanalyst, family therapist and author of 'Involuntary Dislocation. Home, Trauma, Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development''It is a great pleasure to read this book, it is written with such wisdom, humanity and clarity. It is absorbing to read and has helped me understand the influences of Morris's life on his work. He has a gift for communicating personally and universally, which gives us, his readers, permission to allow honesty and purity in the expression of our own life stories. I attended one of Morris's online presentations and loved his work. This led to an ongoing creative collaboration between Morris, his paintings and my cross-art dance/theatre group, SpiralArts. We have had two exploratory sessions inspired by The Dancers, Deserted City and Fragile Nature. The images in the paintings are evocative and triggered an outpouring of spontaneous improvisation in dance, music and voice. Inanimate, timeless paintings became the trigger for living expression, seeming to create an extra dimension through mutual creative communication.This book illuminates the creative resonance and underlying connections between art forms that can cross boundaries and create a new dimension for the expression of life experience in the present time.'Bryony Williams, FHEA, Dance/movement teacher, choreographer and co-founder and director of SpiralArts Dance Theatre Company'This is a very special and creative book. Whereas art and psychotherapy both release unconscious imagery, Morris Nitsun integrates these two processes in his highly original book. He creates a transitional space, which he calls ‘the artist’s matrix’, into which the reader is invited to share his paintings and reflections. Joining this matrix, I became captivated by the images, words and ideas. The way Nitsun merges his two callings, as a well-known group analyst and an experienced artist, into one narrative is powerful and evocative. Therapists, artists and anyone who is open to new learning and experience, will be fascinated by this book.'Haim Weinberg, PhD, psychologist and group analyst, past President of the North California Society of Group Psychotherapy and the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy. Author and co-editor of several volumes on the social unconscious and the spread of online groups'I enjoyed reading this book immensely! In his highly engaging and deeply evocative text, Morris Nitsun eloquently integrates the powerful and reciprocal dimensions of his life: art, identity, creativity, psychotherapy and human relationships – all illuminated within the matrix of group analysis. Replete with his original and beautiful paintings, Nitsun’s narrative demonstrates the rich and transformative unfolding of personal development, shaped both by adversity and by opportunity.'Molyn Leszcz, MD, FRCPC, CGP, DFAGPA, Professor, University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry; Past President, The American Group Psychotherapy Association'There is so much in Morris Nitsun’s new book that is valuable, moving, and inspiring. Reading about his creative and emotional journey and seeing the rich and varied examples of his powerful, symbolic and beautifully executed paintings, is emotionally stirring. I was gripped as it all unfolded. It is an intellectually nourishing read, bringing together rich and deep experience across psychology and the arts. And all this in the context of worrying world events, particularly the pandemic and climate change. The pandemic is an important background to the book and part of Nitsun's achievement is the wave of creativity it unleashed in him. He illustrates on many levels how in leaning into the shadows, in the free associations of ‘the artist’s matrix’, and in the mourning of loss, we can find light. His book will be a lasting reminder of the benefits of online groups, using art as a creative medium to reflect and connect at a time of threat and isolation. The wide audience this book will reach is too long to list, but it certainly will be of great interest to art psychotherapists. It is exciting to think how this approach could develop in the future. This is a book for now and for the future.'Sophie Fletcher, art therapist and psychotherapist, in the NHS and private practice, trainer, workshop conductor and lecturer'Nitsun’s latest book A Psychotherapist Paints is a courageous and personal account that weaves together the world of an accomplished artist, psychotherapist and group analyst. His concept of the "Artist’s Matrix" is an important new contribution, inviting an intersubjective dance between the maker and viewer in a way that is original and unprecedented. Nitsun’s visual research journey taps into and recognises the rich potential of the image in the group analytic discourse. Challenging the usual privileging of words over images, he deconstructs hierarchies of practice, offering a rich and expansive resource for all psychotherapists, particularly those in the arts psychotherapies. At a time of such global fragmentation, his creative group matrix, whether online or in person, opens up the potential for renewal, belonging and connection.'Hayley Berman, PhD, senior lecturer in art therapy at the University of Hertfordshire, visiting professor at the University of Witwatersrand, and founding director of Lefika La Phodiso, a psychoanalytically informed art therapy training in South Africa'I am amazed by the beauty and wisdom of this book. Morris Nitsun has written a compelling work, a testimony to the depths of the creative spirit. The book is richly laden with Nitsun's clinical experience and his stunning, breath-taking paintings. It emphasises how his life journey as a psychotherapist helps to understand the painter in him, and vice versa. Processes that go into making art can shed light on psychotherapy. Nitsun uses his deep knowledge and clinical sensitivity as a group analyst in order to enrich his - and our - insight. The clinician and the artist come together in his exploration of what he calls "the artist's matrix". He highlights dimensions of the creative mind that add to our appreciation, no less, of being alive. The clarity of Nitsun's writing and our delight in the connections between his paintings and his personal and professional odyssey make this an extraordinary book: a sophisticated gift to clinicians at all levels, artists and everybody who reads it.'Gila Ofer, PhD, psychologist, psychoanalyst and group analyst. Co-founder and past President of Tel-Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, founding member of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. Editor of 'A Bridge over Troubled Water: Conflict and Reconciliation in Groups and Society' (2017)'In his new book, Morris Nitsun takes us on a journey of discovery in territory that ranges from interpersonal, intra-psychic and artistic regions of the author's life. Nitsun delineates the route of discovery as a fine artist alongside his development as an exquisitely attuned group leader. This is a tale that weaves Nitsun's development of a projective group technique that employs his paintings as the stimulus for group dialogue. Nitsun's work as a psychologist, painter and group conductor organically comes together in a vivid presentation of paintings and rich description of group members emotional responses to the work. This is pioneering work presented in prose and paintings rendered by the artist/analyst. I highly recommend it!'Elliot Zeisel, PhD, Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, Founder and Faculty Center for Group Studies, Psychoanalyst, Executive Producer of GROUP - The TV Series'Nitsun has exceptional powers of depiction in his art, in his therapeutic and self narrative and in his exploration of the mysterious spaces in between. The result is an absolutely extraordinary book that speaks with deep compassion to distress and pain and celebrates the spirit liberated by creativity and imagination but brings fresh psychoanalytic understanding to the creative essence of therapy. A profound and wonderful achievement.'Professor Peter Fonagy, OBE, FMedSci FBA FAcSS, Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences; Director, UCLPartners Mental Health and Behaviour Change Programme; Chief Executive, Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families; National Clinical Advisor on Children's Mental Health, NHS England; Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science, UCL, UK'Through his latest paintings, memoir and group imagination – a highly original form of travel - Morris Nitsun takes us on a fascinating journey through art and psychotherapy. From the despair and frozen states of the pandemic, he initiates a shift for himself and for us all. Touching on loss, the losses of past and present, of personal and transpersonal, the shift awakens the heart of our being. We take a leap of faith into the freedom of discovery and rediscovery. Through the matrices of art, performance and group dialogue, we discover the possibility of transformation. As if in the dance of the group he describes, we encounter a new joy, a deeper meaning and integrity of being. The book itself becomes a significant transformational object, embracing the infinite, the uncertain, and the wonder of the human condition.'Marina Mojović, psychiatrist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, training group analyst in Belgrade, founder of the International Reflective Citizens Koinonia'Morris Nitsun’s latest book takes us on a personal journey that chronicles the author’s unique ability to nurture a symbiotic relationship between psychotherapy and painting during Covid times. The extraordinary artworks that evolved from this meeting of cultures offer the reader a vivid insight into a wider life of both struggle and fulfilment.'Tim Benson, President, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, fine artist and tutor, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Background 1. "Can I be both?" 2. Early stages 3. The artist's matrix Part 2: The paintings 4. Dolls and demons 5. The deserted city 6. Fragile nature 7. Dancers 8. Four women Part 3: Reflections and review 9. A deeper view 10. Concluding thoughts

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Book SynopsisThe three-act structure is so last century! Unlike other screenwriting books, this unique storytelling guide pushes you to break free of tired, formulaic writing by bending or breaking the rules of storytelling as we know them. This new edition dives into all the key aspects of scriptwriting, including structure, genre, character, form, and tone. Authors Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt, and Jeff Rush explore myriad alternatives to the traditional three-act story structure, going beyond teaching you how to tell a story by teaching you how to write against conventional formulas to produce original, exciting material. Fully revised and updated, the book includes new examples from contemporary and classic cinema and episodic series, as well as additional content on strategies for plot, character, and genre; an exploration of theatrical devices in film; and approaches to scriptwriting with case studies of prolific storytellers such as Billy Wilder, Kelly Reichardt, Phoebe Waller-BriTrade ReviewPraise for the fifth edition:"Screenwriting is about making choices. What Dancyger and Rush reveal so effectively in Alternative Screenwriting is just how many options are possible, how the various available choices work and how different decisions will impact screen storytelling. This book substantially broadens every screenwriters' -creative horizons."-David Howard, USC screenwriting professor and author of The Tools of Screenwriting and How to Build a Great Screenplay.""It’s so refreshing to read a book that helps to develop a creative trade like scriptwriting that is written by people who encourage you to differ from the three-act structure and not conform to all the codes that are drilled into us at college. It outlines to us the limitations of common film conventions and dissects mainstream characteristics for structure, dialogue, action, genre, discovery and turning points in a clear and coherent manner. It then teaches us how to be resourceful and take inventive risks to create a more original story that you can call your own and lets you know that there are endless roads for your story to go down... It is perfect for those who get that little itch and sense of disagreement when someone tells you that "you must do scriptwriting this way". With this new edition featuring new case studies on Pans Labyrinth and The Wizard of Oz, it really is a great book to read if you want to keep your story unique, refreshing and rich with memorable characters and themes that will give it a certain emotional weight and show that it was not written by a business man, but by a true story teller."- Raindance.org"Alternative Scriptwriting is invaluable to anyone interested in screenwriting or in directing fiction. Using plain language it demystifies storytelling for the screen, and opens up myriad possibilities for using the cinema with invention, freshness, and imagination." - Michael Rabiger, Professor Emeritus, Film/Video Department, Columbia College Chicago."Just as Aristotle's "Poetics and André Bazin's "What is Cinema are an inseparable part of a Screenwriting reading list, Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush's "Alternative Scriptwriting is an absolute must read for a deeper understanding of the structure of Screenwriting. -Dr. John Bernstein, Director, Graduate Program in Screenwriting, Department of Film and Television, Boston University"Alternative Scriptwriting," by Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush, is one of the few books on the subject that doesn't make you feel stupid while you're reading it.Instead of the usual boring list of "tricks of the trade" that replaces a real table of content in so many "How To Write A Screenplay And Sell It For A Lot Of Money To An Even Bigger Lot Of Talentless Hopeful People" Dancyger & Rush offer real insight for those who take their screenwriting seriously and are not afraid to venture a little bit "beyond the rules". Both as a filmmaker and as a teacher I have found this volume very precious because what the authors do best is mix American craftsmanship with European sensibility.An excellent cocktail, if you ask me. And you did."-Marc Didden - Head Of Screenwriting at St. Lukas Hogeschool, Brussels , Writer/Director ( "Brussels By Night", "Istanbul", "Sailors Don't Cry" )Praise for the third edition:"An insightful alternative to mainstream narrative and character analysis that presents the reader with a clear dissection of the mainstream before revealing the alternatives."-- Script Factory"[Alternative Scriptwriting] aims to challenge its readers to create writing that is exceptional. While no book can possibly replace your own creative vision, as a resource it's thorough and is a good way to help yourself consider alternative ideas."-- Plugin CinemaTable of ContentsForeword; INTRODUCTION; 1. Beyond the Rules; STRUCTURE; 2 Structure; 3 Critique of Restorative Three-Act Form; 4 Counter-Structure; 5 The Three-Act Spectrum; 6 Strategies for Plot and Character: Surprise, Triangulation, and Subtext; 7 Multiple Threaded, Long-Form Episodic Scripts; GENRE; 8 Why Genre?; 9 Working with Genre; 10 Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller; 11 Working with Genre III: Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges; 12 Working Against Genre; 13 The Flexibility of Genre; 14 Genres of Voice; 15 The Nonlinear Film; 16 The Fable, a Case Study of Darkness: The Wizard of Oz and Pan’s Labyrinth; CHARACTER; 17 Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction; 18 Stretching the Limits of Character Identification; 19 Main and Secondary Characters; 20 Subtext, Action, and Character; 21 Exceptional but Opaque Characters in Flattened Scripts; FORM, TONE, AND THEORY; 22 The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form; 23 Theatricality on Screen; 24 Tone: The Inescapability of Irony; 25 Dramatic Voice/Narrative Voice; 26 Writing the Narrative Voice; 27 Regionalism vs Commercialism: Kelly Reichardt, Eugene Martin, and Kathryn Bigelow; 28 Adaptations from Literature ; 29 Rewriting; CONCLUSION; 30 Personal Scriptwriting: The Edge; 31 Personal Scriptwriting: The Short Film

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Book SynopsisEmbodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising is the first book to compile new and adapted exercises for teaching playwriting in the classroom, workshop, or studio through the lens of acting and improvisation.The book provides access to the innovative practices developed by seasoned playwriting teachers from around the world who are also actors, improv performers, and theatre directors. Borrowing from the embodied art of acting and the inventive practice of improvisation, the exercises in this book will engage readers in performance-based methods that lead to the creation of fully imagined characters, dynamic relationships, and vivid drama. Step-by-step guidelines for exercises, as well as application and coaching advice, will support successful lesson planning and classroom implementation for playwriting students at all levels, as well as individual study. Readers will also benefit from curation by editors who have experience with high-iTable of ContentsPart 1: Creating Characters 1. The Meet and Greet: Creating Opportunities for Surprise and Discovery 2. Improvising Between the Lines: Enhancing the Script by Embodying Subtext 3. Using Improv to Create Original Plays: Respectfully Writing Diverse Characters 4. Character’s Search for Authenticity: Improvisation for the Revision Process Part 2: Body and Mind 5. The Picture Project: Originating Story through Movement 6. Physical Expressions in Devised Playwriting 7. Active Group Playwriting: Psychodramatic Techniques Adapted for Playmaking Part 3: Playing Games 8. Building the World of the Play Through Collaborative Performance 9. It’s All About Play: Locating the Game in Embodied Playwriting 10. Folkgames as Creative Stimulus for Devising: The Case of Chaskele Part 4: Changemaking 11. ‘Laughter that shatters’: Improv Techniques for Social Justice Comedy Playwriting 12. Writing for Change: Guiding Activist Playwrights in Classrooms and Communities 13. Community-Based Play Creation 14. Writing Climate Justice: Personal Storytelling and Source Material Devising as Embodied Methodology Part 5: Curated Exercises 15. Embodied Playwriting Exercises for Classroom, Workshop, and Studio: Skill-Building and Content Generation 16. Embodied Playwriting Exercises for Classroom, Workshop, and Studio: The Revision Process

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Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, politics, culture, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music in Scotland. The volume consists of essays by local experts and leading scholars in Scottish music and culture, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Scotland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book includes a general introduction to Scottish popular music, followed by essays organized into three thematic sections: Histories, Politics and Policies, and Futures and Imaginings.Examining music as cultural expression in a country that is both a nation and a region within a larger state, this volume uses popular music to analyse Scottishness, independence, and diversity and offers new insights into the complexity of cultural identity, the pow

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Book SynopsisWhat are cultural centers for? This book offers a unique and dynamic guide to managing these organizations, and the challenge of reconciling cultural aims with business success.Drawing on research and practice, it provides case-based insights into common managerial problems and their solutions. Although international research demonstrates that culture has positive economic impact and many cultural institutions are multimillion dollar institutions, there has been little research on how cultural centers are managed to combine cultural and economic impact. Due to the diversity of their missions and purpose, cultural centers in Europe often struggle to find business success. By drawing on recent cases from Finland and Sweden, and focusing on the challenges that face both managers and organizations, this book explores the incentives that underpin the foundation of cultural centers, and what is needed to make them a success. By defining the complex challenges that face cultuTable of Contents1. Cultural Centers: A Short Introduction 2. The Business Approach and the Core Values 3. New Nordic Initiatives Paving the Way for New Solutions 4. Rethinking the Incentive: What Drives a Cultural Center? 5. Concluding Words

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the postinternet' art of the 2010s, this volume explores the widespread impact of recent internet culture on the formal and conceptual concerns of contemporary art.The postinternet' art movement is splintered and loosely defined, both in terms of its form and its politics, and has come under significant critique for this reason. This study will provide this definition, offering a much-needed critical context for this period of artistic activity that has had and is still having a major impact on contemporary culture. The book presents a picture of what the art and culture made within and against the constraints of the online experience look, sound, and feel like. It includes works by Petra Cortright, Jon Rafman, Jordan Wolfson, DIS, Amalia Ulman, and Thomas Ruff, and presents new analyses of case studies drawn from the online worlds of the 2010s, including vaporwave, anonymous image board culture, irony bros' and edgelords', viral extreme sports stunts, and GIFs.Table of ContentsIntroduction: TINA: Images Under Control 1. A Dysphoric World Picture 2. Dangerous Luxuries and Eloquent Vulgarities 3. Art in the Age of 4Chan 4.The Horror of Digital Photography Coda: From Surfing to Scrolling

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Black Power Music! critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of "movement music." That is to say, much of classic Motown, soul, and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces for the views and values, as well as the aspirations and frustrations, of the Black Power Movement.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection gathers UK and international artists, academics, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of contemporary performance, dance, and live art to offer creative-critical responses to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their work. Themes addressed in these case studies include the ways in which liveness functions across digital platforms, the new demands on audiences and performance-makers, and the impact on international festivals as the digital removes geographical and locational restrictions. Brought together, these examples capture the creative activity and output that this unexpected cultural moment has provoked. Creative-critical responses interrogate what the global pandemic has taught us about what it is to make live work during lockdown and explore what the future of performance-making in a post-COVID?world might look like.?For all scholars and performance-makers whose work brings them into the sphere of contemporary art and culture, this isTable of ContentsIntroducing Performance in a Pandemic: Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir; Part I Precarity and Vulnerability; 1 Katherine Nolan: Life on Pause: Entanglements of the Maternal and the Mortal in a Global Pandemic; 2 Lito Tsitsou: The Impact of COVID-19 on Freelance Contemporary Dance Work: Precarity and the Vulnerabilities of the Dancing Body; 3 Denise Espírito Santo and David Gutiérrez Castañeda: Embrace your Vulnerability: Cultivating Art, Theatricality and Performativity in Times of Catastrophe; 4 Judd Morrissey & Mark Jeffery (ATOM-r) in collaboration with Abraham Avnisan: The Tenders: Cover to Cover – Liner Notes; Part II Art in an Emergency: "It’s work"; 5 Shona Macnaughton: Here to Deliver: Conversations with the Ghosts of Gig Work; 6 Marc Silberschatz: Exploring Mars and other Impossibilities: Liveness as Labour; 7 Chris Elsden, Diwen Yu, Benedetta Piccio, Ingi Helgason, Melissa Terras: Recorded Performance as Digital Content: Perspectives from Fringe 2020; Part III Outreach and Inclusion; 8 Sarah Bartley in conversation with Anna Herrmann: ‘How we open the doors to a community’: Creative collaborations and aesthetic strategies in social isolation; 9 Rebecca Stancliffe: Mediating experience: Online community Arts Participation, a Postphenomenological Framing; 10 Rachel Clive in collaboration with Hughie McIntyre, Euan Hayton, Chloe Maxwell and Alison Mackenzie: not panicky; 11 Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir: Invitation: On making together, apart; Part IV Curation: Performing the Archive; 12 Judit Bodor: Presence at a Distance: Alastair MacLennan and Performing Drawing in Lockdown; 13 Tamsin Hong: Recording My Body, My Archive at Tate Modern: A Collision Course of Curating on the Eve of COVID-19; 14 Kate Craddock: Curating Community and Connection in a Crisis: GIFT 2020; Postscript: Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir

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Book SynopsisThis collection of multi-disciplinary essays offers a fresh, perspective on Central Asian art and culture as it gains increased attention on both the local and international stage. Influenced by the golden ages of its history from the ancient Scythians, through the glory of the Persians and Turks, and shaped by the Russian and later Soviet imperial powers the region is revealed as exotic, dramatic, and universally topical. Contributions come from scholars and participants in the Central Asian cultural scene who specialise in different, often isolated, spheres. Their unifying theme is identity and its formation, including national, ethnic, cultural, religious and gender identities.Art and culture are shown to have active social roles representing, analysing, questioning and supporting social upheavals and change. Culture is seen as an intrinsic part of society; while being affected by the specific historical context, it does at times affect it in return. From major socio-ecTable of Contents1. Introduction: art and culture – actors or representatives? 2. Nation, religion and social heat: heritaging Uyghur mäshräp in Kazakhstan 3. The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull 4. Soviet architecture, Kazakh nationalist sentiments and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan, 1925–33: the cases of Kyzylorda and the House of Government of the Kazakh ASSR in Almaty 5. From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song ‘Imam Hüsäynim’ 6. Contesting convention: agency in Dushanbe’s contemporary art scene 7. Queer identity in the contemporary art of Kazakhstan

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Book SynopsisAuditory Interfaces explores how human-computer interactions can be significantly enhanced through the improved use of the audio channel. Providing historical, theoretical and practical perspectives, the book begins with an introductory overview, before presenting cutting-edge research with chapters on embodied music recognition, nonspeech audio, and user interfaces. This book will be of interest to advanced students, researchers and professionals working in a range of fields, from audio sound systems, to human-computer interaction and computer science.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface0.1 Introduction0.2 Overview0.3 The Authors1 Nonspeech audio: an introduction1.1 Introduction1.2 What About Noise?1.3 Figure and Ground in Audio1.4 Sound and the Visually Impaired1.5 Auditory Display Techniques1.6 Some Examples1.7 Sound in Collaborative Work1.8 Function and Signal Type1.8.1 Alarms and Warning Systems1.9 Audio Cues and Learning1.10 Perception and Psychoacoustics1.11 The Logistics of Sound1.12 Summary2 Acoustics and psychoacoustics2.1 Introduction2.2 Acoustics2.2.1 Waveforms2.2.2 Fourier analysis and spectral plots 2.3 More Complex waves 2.3.1 Sound, Obstacles, Bending and Shadows2.3.2 Phase: its Implication on Sound and Representations2.3.3 The Inverse Square Law2.3.4 Helmholtz Revisited2.3.5 Spectrograms2.3.6 Formants vs Partials2.4 Some digital signal processing concepts2.5 Spatial Hearing2.5.1 Head-related transfer functions (HRTF)2.5.2 3D sound distance and reverberation2.6 Psychoacoustics2.6.1 Just Noticeable Difference (JND)2.6.2 Critical Bands2.6.3 Pitch2.6.4 Pitches, Intervals, Scales and Ratios2.6.5 Loudness2.6.6 Duration, Attack Time and Rhythm.2.6.7 Microvariation and Spectral Fusion2.6.8 Timbre2.6.9 Masking2.6.10 Auditory Streaming2.6.11 Sounds with Variations2.6.12 Psychoacoustic Illusions2.7 Perception of 3D sound2.7.1 Precedence / Hass effect2.7.2 Binaural Rendering2.8 Hearing versus listening2.9 Annoying sounds2.10 Pleasant sounds2.11 Embodied sound and music cognition2.12 Conclusions3 Sonification3.1 Introduction3.2 History3.3 Model based sonification3.4 Case Studies3.4.1 Case Study 1: Presenting Information in Sound3.4.2 Case Study 2: Dynamic Representation of Multivariate Time Series Data3.4.3 Case Study 3: Stereophonic and Surface Sound Generation3.4.4 Case Study 4: Auditory Presentation of Experimental Data3.4.5 Case Study 5: Sonification of EEG data3.5 Discussion3.6 Issues3.7 Issues of Data3.7.1 Issues of Sound Parameters3.7.2 Issues of Evaluation3.8 Conclusions4 Earcons4.1 Introduction4.2 Case Studies4.2.1 Case Study 1: Alarms and Warning Systems4.2.2 Alarms as Applied Psychoacoustics4.2.3 Problems With Traditional Alarms and Convergences with Audio Interfaces4.2.4 Case Study 2: Concurrent earcons4.2.5 Case Study 3: Earcons for visually impaired users4.3 Conclusions5 Everyday listening5.1 Introduction5.2 Musical and Everyday Listening5.2.1 Musical and Everyday Listening are Experiences5.3 The Psychology of Everyday Listening5.3.1 Knowledge About Everyday Listening5.4 The Ecological Approach To Perception5.4.1 Developing An Ecological Account Of Listening5.5 What Do We Hear?5.6 The Physics of Sound-Producing Events 5.7 Vibrating Objects 5.7.1 Aerodynamic Sounds 5.7.2 Liquid Sounds 5.7.3 Temporally Complex Events 5.8 Asking People What They Hear 5.9 Attributes of Everyday Listening 5.10 Patterned, Compound, and Hybrid Complex Sounds 5.10.1 Problems and Potentials of the Framework 5.11 How Do We Hear It? 5.12 Analysis and Synthesis of Sounds and Events 5.12.1 Breaking and Bouncing Bottles 5.12.2 Impact Sounds 5.12.3 Material and Length 5.12.4 Internal Friction and Material 5.13 Sound synthesis by physical modelling 5.14 Conclusions 6. Auditory icons 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Advantages of Auditory Icons 6.3 Systems Which Use Auditory Icons 6.3.1 Case Study 1: The SonicFinder: Creating an Auditory Desktop 6.3.2 Case study 2: SoundShark: Sounds in a Large Collaborative Environment 6.3.3 Case study 3: ARKola: Studying the Use of Sound in a Complex System 6.3.4 Case study 4: ShareMon: Background Sounds for Awareness 6.3.5 Case study 5: EAR: Environmental Audio Reminders 6.3.6 Case study 6: Shoogle: Excitatory Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Devices 6.3.7 Summary 6.4 Issues for Auditory Icons 6.4.1 Mapping Sounds to Events 6.4.2 What is Being Mapped to What? 6.4.3 Types of Mapping6.5 The Vocabulary of Auditory Icons6.5.1 Beyond Literal Mappings: Metaphors, Sound-effects, Cliche´s, and Genre Sounds6.6 Annoyance6.7 The Psychoacoustics of Annoying Sounds6.7.1 The Principle of Optimal Complexity6.7.2 Semantic Effects6.7.3 The Tension Between Clarity and Obtrusiveness6.8 Conclusions6.9 What’s Next?7 Sonic Interaction Design7.1 Introduction7.2 Psychology of sonic interactions7.3 Sonic interactions in products7.4 Examples of objects with interesting sounds7.5 Methods in sonic interaction design7.6 Case studies7.6.1 Case study 1: Naturalness influences perceived usability and pleasantness7.6.2 Case study 2: The Ballancer: continuous sonic feedback from a rolling ball7.7 Challenges of evaluation7.8 Conclusions8 Multimodal Interactions8.1 Introduction8.2 Audio-visual Interactions8.3 Embodied interactions8.4 Audio-haptic Interactions8.5 Case study 1: Haptic Wave8.6 Conclusions9 Spatial auditory displays9.1 Introduction9.2 Hearables9.3 Case studies9.3.1 Case study 1: the LISTEN system9.3.2 Case study 2: Soundscape by Microsoft9.3.3 Case study 3: SWAN: a system for wearable audio navigation9.3.4 Case study 4: Superhuman hearing9.4 Conclusions 10 Synthesis and control of auditory icons 10.1 Introduction10.2 Generating and Controlling Sounds10.3 Parameterized Icons10.3.1 Creating Parameterized Auditory Icons10.3.2 Acoustic Information For Events10.3.3 Analysis and Synthesis of Events10.3.4 Impact Sounds10.3.5 Mapping Synthesis Parameters to Source Attributes10.3.6 An Efficient Algorithm for Synthesis10.3.7 Breaking, Bouncing, and Spilling10.3.8 From Impacts To Scraping10.3.9 Machine Sounds10.4 Physics based simulations10.5 Communicating with sound models10.6 Evaluation of sound synthesis methods10.7 Conclusions11 Summary and future research Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is just that a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an historical costumed interpreter. Jackie Lee has worked in this area of heritage interpretation for over twenty years and sets out what it takes to develop the persona for a character from the past. The methods she shares focus on first-person delivery of an historic character. Lee introduces the reader to two new methods she has developed that support character creation and delivery. The three realms highlight the importance of research and making the character believable and the crystal ball which enables the costumed interpreter to look into the future when the occasion demands it. The book is full of practical help on all aspects of the costumed interpreter's craft including costume making and how to prepare personally for stepping out full of confidence ready to engage visitors of all ages.A Practical Guide to CostumedTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. It’s Not Just Dressing Up; 2. Building Your Character; 3. Who Am I? The Realms; 4. The WOW Factor – The Importance of Costume and Props; 5. Hello Everyone, My Name Is… Techniques for Preparation and Delivery; 6. Working with Different Audiences; 7. Running a Costumed Interpretation Programme; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Drama in Education is a comprehensive reference guide to this unique performance discipline, focusing on its process-oriented theatrical techniques, engagement of a broad spectrum of learners, its historical roots as a field of inquiry and its transdisciplinary pedagogical practices.The book approaches drama in education (DE) from a wide range of perspectives, from leading scholars to teaching artists and school educators who specialise in DE teaching. It presents the central disciplinary conversations around key issues, including best practice in DE, aesthetics and artistry in teaching, the histories of DE, ideologies in drama and education, and concerns around access, inclusivity and justice.Including reflections, lesson plans, programme designs, case studies and provocations from scholars, educators and community arts workers, this is the most robust and comprehensive resource for those interested in DE's past, present and fuTable of ContentsPart I: Boundaries and Contours; 1 Kelly Freebody- A personal genealogy of the idea of drama education as a force for change; 2 Stig A. Eriksson- Distancing as Topos in Process Drama; 3 Mindy R. Carter- Pedagogical assemblages exploring social justice issues through drama education; 4 Eva Hallgren- Drama in education and the value of process; 5 Juliana Saxton & Carole Miller- "Creating conditions for the emergence of the as-yet-unimagined": Drama in education as artistic pedagogy; 6 John O’Toole- Whose Enlightened Pedagogy? a historical mini-tour of the educating process of drama.; 7 Moema Gregorzewski- Reimagining Drama in Education: Towards a Postdramatic Pedagogy; 8 Adam Cziboly, Mette Bøe Lyngstad and Sisi Zheng- The influence of the "conventions approach" on the practice of drama in different cultures; 9 Priya Gain and Viv Aitken- In the Spaces for Play: Learning in Mantle of the Expert; 10 Claire Coleman- Critical Process Drama Framework; 11 Brian Edmiston and Iona Towler-Evans- Humanizing Education with Dramatic Inquiry: Dorothy Heathcote’s Radical and Transformative Pedagogy; 12 Rachael Jacobs- Assessment in Drama Education; Part II: Methods, Programs, and Partnerships; 13 Christine Hatton - Drama as a pedagogy of connection: using Heathcote’s rolling role system to activate the ethical imagination; 14 Branka Bajić Jovanov- Ecological Education of Preschool Children using Process Drama; 15 Anna Lehtonen- Drama for climate change education; 16 Joe Winston- Storytelling theatre and education; 17 Cleo Xiaodi Wang - An Imagined Cultural Identity: Reflections on a Classroom Drama How Wang-fo Was Saved; 18 Pernilla Ahlstrand- Action (re)call in the theatre classroom, Sweden; 19 Sue Bleaken and Viv Aitken- ‘Do Something Different…’ A teaching inquiry into the use of Mantle of the Expert to support struggling writers.; 20 Larry Swartz- A Dramatic Approach to Teaching Tough Topics: Using Children’s Literature and Drama to Explore the Refugee and Migrant Experience; 21 Jennifer Wong- "Freeze!" – building reflective and analytical skills in children through drama; 22 Viviane Juguero- Theatre for children’s dialogical specificities; 23 Elizabeth Brendel Horn- Bodies at Play: Body Image and the Young Actor; 24 Dontá McGilvery and Claire K. Redfield- Little Red and the Wolf: Devising with Young People at Eastlake Park; 25 Heidi Schoenenberger- Facilitating Post-Performance Process Drama in an Irish Primary School; 26 Kathryn Dawson- Accessible for All: Drama-Based Pedagogy in an Inclusive Primary School; 27 Robyn Ayles, Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, and Margaret Mykietyshyn- Harnessing the Power of Flight: Devising Responsive Theatre for the Very Young; 28 Samuel Chun Sum Tsang, Chi Ying Lam and Bonnie Yuen Yan Chan- A Comparative Case Study of a DiE-Inspired Music and Theatre Project for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Pupils in Hong Kong and London; 29 Peter Duffy- Mixed Methods in Drama Education Research: A Project Autopsy; 30 Julie Dunn and Adrianne Jones- Dramatic approaches in the English classroom: Embodied, agentic and aesthetic learning; 31 Eva Österlind- Drama Workshops as Single Events in Higher Education – What can we learn?; 32 Anne Richie G. Balgos- Boal in the Philippine classroom: Using Theatre of the Oppressed in teaching literature; 33 Molly Mattaini- Implementing Universal Design for Learning in Out-of-School Time Drama Education; 34 Cortney McEniry- Trauma-Informed Considerations for Drama in Education with Adults; 35 Joshua Streeter- Humanizing the Curriculum: Exploring the use of Drama Pedagogy in Faculty Development; 36 Rannveig Björk Thorkelsdóttir and Hanna Ólafsdóttir- Dream Stage – Let our dreams come true through the arts; 37 Sarah Dolens-Moon- We Serve Too! A Reflection on Drama and Storytelling with Military Children; 38 Daniel A. Kelin, II- A Dramatic Approach to Appreciating Mythological History; 39 Ava Hunt- Real for Me: Co-Creation Drama Negotiating Safer Sexual Boundaries; 40 Erika Piazzoli- The Elements of Drama in Second Language Education: An Intercultural Perspective; 41 Chipo Marunda-Piki- Formulating a Learning Context using Teacher in Role for Reading Fluency in ESL students; 42 Richard Johnson Sallis and Carol Beck Carter- Drama for cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD): Applying drama with students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australian educational settings; 43 Jenna Nilson- Outcomes of Using Drama-Based Pedagogy in Language Teaching and Learning; 44 John Nicholas Saunders & Robyn Ann Ewing- ‘It Lifts Up Your Imagination’: Drama-Rich Pedagogy, Literature and Literacy: The School Drama Program; 45 Eva Göksel - Daring to be Different: Drama as a Tool for Empowering the Teachers of Tomorrow; 46 Fiona McDonagh - Enlivening teachers’ co-creating attitude; 47 Ailbhe Curran- Challenging your students, challenging yourself: The golden opportunity of being an in-school drama educator today; 48 Robin Pascoe- Drama Teacher Education – a long-view perspective; 49 Cletus Moyo- Looking Back and Forward: Reflecting on My Facilitation as a Drama in Education Teacher and Facilitator at Lupane State University in Zimbabwe; 50 Elizabeth Anderson- Mei Ling, Mary, and Michaela: Mapping drama teaching journeys; Part III: Futures and Possibilities; 51 Robyn Shenfield and Monica Prendergast- Opening up the field of drama education to performance studies: Tensions and opportunities; 52 David Cameron and Michael Anderson- Evolution, diffusion and disturbance: Drama, education and technology; 53 Adisti Anindita Regar - Designing a Transmedia Theatre Experience for Drama Education; 54 Amy Petersen Jensen and Kris W. Peterson- Digital bodies/live space: How digital technologies might inform gesture, space, place, and the performance of identity in contemporary drama education experiences; 55 Marina Henriques Coutinho- Playing with theatre: there can be a place for childhood in the favela; 56 Matt Omasta- Numbers Count: Quantitative Research in Drama Education; 57 Kristin Hunt- When Crises Should Go To Waste, or How I Learned to Stop Supporting Disaster Capitalism and Love the Classroom

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Book SynopsisThe creative and cultural industries represent a growing and important sector in the global economy. Thriving in these industries is particularly tough and organizations face unique challenges in the digital age. This textbook provides a vivid initiation into the creative industries workplace.Managing Organizations in the Creative Economy is the first textbook of its kind, introducing organizational behaviour theories and applying them to the creative world. The text is underpinned by the latest research and theoretical insights into creative industries management and organizational behaviour, covering key topics such as structure, culture and the management of change and creativity as well as contemporary issues such as diversity, sustainability, managing stress, wellbeing and self-care, and remote working. The authors bring theory to life through practical examples and cases provided by industry experts, supported by specially created companion videos featuring managTrade Review'This second edition introduces students to the organizational life and behavior of cultural organizations. The authors have added new topical chapters and have reorganised others and in doing so have provided an updated and even more specialized text concerning organizational behavior in the creative and cultural industries. This book addresses the idiosyncrasies of these industries that are generated by the creative/aesthetic autonomy of the artist. The uniqueness of cultural organizations stems from their subordination to artistic creativities and the fact that such symbolic creativities are not bound to set rules. This means that effective leaders of such organizations are the ones who are able to manage an output or product that is extremely uncertain. This book is a "must read" for those who aspire to become such leaders.'Guy Morrow, University of Melbourne, Australia'I’ve long thought that Saintilan and Schreiber’s book couldn’t be surpassed. But it has been. The second edition is even better!'Stephen Brown, Ulster University Business School, Belfast'The second edition builds upon the substantial strengths of topic coverage and real world applications of the first edition to include opportunities and challenges posed by technology-based innovations in content creation and evolving forms of engagement with social media. Additionally, the new volume addresses evolving sensibilities of cultural sector stakeholders toward the environment, diversity and inclusion.'Robert DeFillippi, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University'This 2nd edition helpfully updates the structures and methodologies currently in practice within the creative industries, taking into account the increased influence of social media and digitization. Two new chapters on diversity and mental health & wellbeing are included, both even more pertinent after the Covid 19 pandemic. As before each chapter begins with a summary of what the student will study for each topic, questions on the chapter and relevant case studies for analysis. Overall an informative reference book for any Creative Industries student wishing to understand how this sector operates with examples of operational and personnel issues it might encounter and how to overcome them.'Marius J Carboni, University of Surrey and Morley College, LondonTable of Contents1 What is Organizational Behaviour? 2 Change in Creative Organizations 3 Personality in Creative Organizations 4 Attitude & Motivation in Creative Organizations 5 Conflict & Negotiation in Creative Organizations 6 Stress, Wellbeing and Self Care in Creative Organizations 7 Decision-making in Creative Organizations 8 Power & Politics in Creative Organizations 9 Leadership in Creative Organizations 10 Teams in Creative Organizations 11 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Creative Organizations 12 Structure of Creative Organizations 13 Organizational Culture in Creative Organizations 14 Ethics in Creative Organizations and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDesigning Spatial Culture investigates a powerful experiential dialogue formed between the habitation of space and a diversified cultural realm. This creative proposition binds and positions human activity and experience framing its histories, currency and future. Whilst the book distinguishes between the conditions of the existing urban/ architecture/ interior canon, it embraces a new agency of space, showcasing the encounters, assemblies and designs that shape human behaviours and the cultural forms of the built environment.Using authoritative case studies, the book examines many locations and spaces, ranging from new urban landscapes, historical domestic spaces and contemporary architecture. It embraces the most lavish and flamboyant to the most simplistic and minimal, establishing a connected cultural narrative. The book shifts the focus in the spatial realm from an object-based experience (where space is filled with things) to a more complete immersive experiencTable of Contents1. Spatial Cultures – A Critical Introduction 2. Cultures, Conundrums and Encounters 3. A Spatial Probe – Investigation into Space 4. Ethnography and the human perspective (Spatial Culture Ecosystem) 5. Determining Spatial Culture: Atmosphere, Character, Enclosure, Space (Figurative Realm) 6. Explaining spatial culture: Comfort, Object, Surface, Experience (Sensory Realm) 7. Understanding Spatial Culture: Colour, Light, Taste and Place (Textual Realm) 8. Cultural placement mapping - Physical/ Digital Cultures Summary: A cultural analysis

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This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in society. A diverse group of authors tackle the impact of esports and the ways in which it has grown within the entertainment industry around the world.Chapters offer a coherent response to the following questions: What role do esports play in the entertainment industry? What communication skills can be learned through esports? What do the media gain from broadcasting esports? What is the relationship between social networks and esports? What are the main marketing strategies used in esports? What effect does communicative globalization have on the development of esports? What is the relationship between merchandising and esports? What do communication experts think about esports? Offering clear insights into this rapidly developing area, this volume will be of great interest to scholars, students, and anyone working in game studies, new media, leisure, sport studies, communication

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Book SynopsisMaterial Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material culture within academic and museal institutions through theory and practice. The rich collection of essays critically addresses the multivalent ways in which mobility reshapes the characteristics of artefacts, specifically under prevailing issues of representation and colonial liabilities. The volume attests to material culture as central to understanding the repercussions of problematic histories and proposes novel ways to address them. It offers valuable reading for scholars of anthropology, museum studies, history and others with an interest in material culture.Table of ContentsList of figures Contributors Preface AcknowledgementsMoving Matter: Worlds f Material Culture Zainabu JalloPart I Museology Representation and Colonial Liabilities1. After Interpretive Dominance Anna Schmid2. "Wo Ist Afrika?": Of Reflexive Museography, and Other (Productive?) Disappointments Sandra Ferracuti3. "Out of Context"- Translocation of West African Artefacts to European Museums: The Case of the Leo Frobenius Collection From Mali Cécile Bründlmayer4. The Museum as a Colonial Archive. The Collection of Victor and Marie Solioz and Its Role in Forgetting the Colonial PastSamuel B. Bachmann5. Museum Collections in Transit: Towards A History of The Artefacts Of The Endeavour Voyage Nicholas ThomasPart II Heuristic Materiality Meanings and Transformations6. "To Give Away My Collection For Free Would Be Nonsense": Decorations And The Emergence Of Ethnology In Imperial Germany Carl Deussen7. Discourse On Objectification And Personification: Modern Forms Of Material Cultural Identity In The Touareg Society Djouroukoro Diallo 8. The Material Culture Of Vodun: Case Studies From Ghana, Togo, Germany And In-BetweenNiklas Wolf 9. Ndambirkus and Ndaokus; Asmat Skulls In Transit Jan Joris Visser 10. On The Art Of Forging Gods: Techniques, Forces And Materials In An Afro-Brazilian Religion. Lucas Marques

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Book SynopsisPlastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century that requires innovative and varied solutions. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder perspectives exploring challenges and opportunities for utilising digital innovations to manage and accelerate the transition to a circular plastic economy (CPE).This book is organised into three sections bringing together discussion of environmental conditions, operational dimensions and country case studies of digital transformation towards the circular plastic economy. It explores the environment for digitisation in the circular economy, bringing together perspectives from practitioners in academia, innovation, policy, civil society and government agencies. The book also highlights specific country case studies in relation to the development and implementation of different innovative ideas to drive the circular plastic economy across theTable of Contents1 Introduction: A Digitally Enabled Circular Plastic Economy for Africa; PART I The Environment for Digitisation in the Circular Plastic Economy 2 Enabling a Successful Transition to a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa; 3 Digital Technologies and the Regime Complex for Plastics in Nigeria; 4 From Polymers to Microplastics: Plastic Value Chains in Africa; 5 Digital Innovation Ecosystem for the Circular Plastic Economy; PART II Digitisation in Action 6 Utilising Plastic Waste to Create 3D-Printed Products in Sub-Saharan Africa; 7 Blockchains for Circular Plastic Value Chains; 8 Transitioning to a Circular Plastic Economy in West Africa through Digital Innovation: Challenges and the Way Forward; 9 A Multi-stakeholder, Multi-sectoral Approach to a Circular Plastic Economy in Eastern Africa; 10 The Application of Digital Technology in Circular Plastic Economy in Southern Africa: Case Studies of Waste Management Start-ups from Namibia and Zambia; PART III A Digitally Enabled Circular Plastic Economy 11 BIG-STREAM: A Framework for Digitisation in Africa’s Circular Plastic Economy; 12 A Plastic Data Exchange Platform for Africa’s Circular Plastic Economy Transition; 13 Enhancing Decentralised Recycling Solutions with Digital Technologies; 14 Assessing Plastic Circular Economy Policies and the Use of Digital Technology in Africa; 15 Gender and Digital Innovation on Circular Plastic Economy in Africa; 16 Conclusion: The Future of Digitisation for the Circular Plastic Economy in Africa

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Book SynopsisThrough a series of case studies, this book explores the interrelations among Greek tragedy, theatre practices, and education in the United Kingdom. This is situated within what the volume proposes as the Classics ecology'.The term ecology', frequently used in Theatre Studies, understands Classics as a field of cultural production dependent on shared knowledge circulated via formal and informal networks, which operate on the basis of mutually beneficial exchange. Productions of Greek tragedy may be influenced by members of the team studying Classics subjects at school or university, or reading popular works of Classical scholarship, or else by working with an academic consultant. All of these have some degree of connection to academic Classics, albeit filtered through different lenses, creating a network of mutual influence and benefit (the ecology). In this way, theatrical productions of Greek drama may, in the long term, influence Classics as an academic discipline, and cer

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today. Focusing on themes of collaboration and dialogue, the book includes two conversations between First Nations and non-Indigenous authors and an historianâs self-reflexive account of mediating between traditional owners and an international art auction house to repatriate art. There are studies of âreverse appropriationâ by early nineteenth-century Aboriginal carvers of tourist artefacts and the production of enigmatic toa. Cross-cultural dialogue is traced from the post-war period to âAboriginalismâ in design and the First Nations fashion industry of today. Transculturation, conceptualism, and collaboration are contextualised in the 1980s, a pivotal decade for the growth of collaborative First Nations exhibitions. Within the current circumstances of political protest in photographic portraiture and againstTrade Review‘Truth-telling and reconciliation between First Nations and those who have since arrived has become the priority for all Australians, in all aspects of our lives and work. Awareness of this fact has been two centuries, and more, in the making. Indigenous art has been crucial to this development. It is a vivid evocation of a sovereign culture, an offering to fellow Australians and the wider world. Non-Indigenous artists, curators and critics have responded in a variety of ways. The complexities of these exchanges are explored in unprecedented depth and detail in this book. There are fascinating chapters on the experiences of first nations artists and curators, given in their own voices. A precise profile of the life and art of William Barak in Coranderrk in the 1880s and 1890s is woven into an account of the recent sale of one of his works in New York. Interactions between Conceptual artists and leading Papunya painters during the 1980s are explored as are several recent examples of collaborative art making, exhibition curating, and fashion design. The challenges, and the triumphs, of transcultural exchange are on vivid display.’Terry Smith, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Sydney, Australia.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Weight of Grief – Maree Clarke and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll on Artist-centricity 2. On Working as an Aboriginal Museum Director and Curator of the Berndt Museum3. Price and Provenance: William Barak as an Artist in the Market4. The Duplicity of Emus and Kangaroos: Coats of Arms from the Australian Frontier5. The Toa of the Dieri6. ‘The Arts are where Cultures Meet’: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Aboriginal Art in Fashion and Textile Design7. Aesthetically Similar but Politically Far Apart: The Art and Designs of Bill Onus and Byram Mansell during the Assimilationist Era8. Shared Motives: New Art and Curatorial Collaborations in the 1980s9. Decolonisation and Conceptual Art: Collaboration, Appropriation, TransculturationIan McLean10. Widening the Aperture: Cross-cultural Collaboration – A Perspective from Borroloola11. Wrecking Culture: Australian Iconoclash 2020

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today. Focusing on themes of collaboration and dialogue, the book includes two conversations between First Nations and non-Indigenous authors and an historianâs self-reflexive account of mediating between traditional owners and an international art auction house to repatriate art. There are studies of âreverse appropriationâ by early nineteenth-century Aboriginal carvers of tourist artefacts and the production of enigmatic toa. Cross-cultural dialogue is traced from the post-war period to âAboriginalismâ in design and the First Nations fashion industry of today. Transculturation, conceptualism, and collaboration are contextualised in the 1980s, a pivotal decade for the growth of collaborative First Nations exhibitions. Within the current circumstances of political protest in photographic portraiture and against the mining of sacred Aboriginal land, Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art testifies to the need for Australian institutions to collaborate with First Nations people more often and better. This book will appeal to students and scholars of art history, Indigenous anthropology, and museum and heritage studies.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems. Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological and methodological considerations. What kinds of sustainable ways are there for knowledge transfer, supporting plural agendas, finding novel ways for unsettling conversations, unlearning and learning and challenging power structures with marginalised groups and contexts through art and design? The main themes of the book are art and design methods, epistemologies and practices that provide critical, interdisciplinary, pluriversal and decolonial considerations. The book challenges the domination of the white logic of art and design and shifts away from the Anglo-European one-world system towards the pluriverse. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, arts-based research, and Table of ContentsPreface- Andrea W. Mignolo and Walter D. Mignolo Foreword: The European Commission policy for promoting arts to tackle societal challenges and increase cohesion and inclusion- Christina Sarvani and Jarkko Siren Introduction: Artistic cartographies and design explorations towards the pluriverse - Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos and Melanie Sarantou Section I: Pluriversal A/r/tographies Record of a multispecies creative exploration in the austral forests - Mariluz Soto Hormazábal and Mauricio Tolosa Dialogues for plurality—art-based exchange for strengthening youth’s role as agents of change - Katri Konttinen, Enni Mikkonen & Mikko Ylisuvanto Multiperspective take on pluriversal agenda in artistic research - Marija Griniuk, Daria Akimenko, Satu Miettinen, Heidi Pietarinen and Melanie Sarantou A critical retrospective on whiteness in Possible Worlds video artwork - Mari Mäkiranta and Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä New genre Arctic art in the city of Rovaniemi: Promotion of de-Arctification and pluralism - Maria Huhmarniemi and Mirja Hiltunen Expanding design narratives through handmade embroidery production: A dialogue with a community of women in Passira, Pernambuco, Brazil - Ana Julia Melo Almeida and Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos Afrikana—burying colonial bones to harvest seeds and bouquets of plurality - Michelle Olga van Wyk Section II: Design explorations towards the pluriverse Excluding by design - Peter West Knowledge plurality for greater university-community permeability: Experiences in art and design from fieldwork - Caoimhe Isha Beaulé, Élisabeth Kaine, Étienne Levac, Anne Marchand and Jean-François Vachon Other worlds are possible: Advanced computational and design thinking in South Auckland - Ricardo Sosa Pluriverse perspectives in designing for a cultural heritage context in the digital age - Jonna Häkkilä, Siiri Paananen, Mari Suoheimo and Maija Mäkikalli Centring relationships more than humans and things: Translating design through the culture of the Far East - Namkyu Chun Professionalised designing in between plural makings - Zhipeng Duan Enacting plurality in designing social innovation: Developing a culturally grounded twenty-first-century leadership programme for a Cambodian context - Joyce Yee, Sovan Srun and Laura Smitheman Section III The pluriverse of activism, diversity and accessibility A history of design education in Brazil: A decolonial perspective - Júlio César Tamer Okabayashi and Maria Cecília Loschiavo Dos Santos Unveiling the layered structures of Youth Work - Ana Nuutinen and Enni Mikkonen Making IMPACT: Visibility status in participatory projects - Teresa Torres De Eça and ngela Saldanha Flag: A shared horizon - Heidi Pietarinen, Amna Qureshi and Melanie Sarantou Ghost bike agency and urban culture through art activism - Eduardo Rumenig, Julio Talhari, Maria Cecilia L. Dos Santos and Luiz E.P.B.T. Dantas Mediating social interaction through a chatbot to leverage the diversity of a community: Tensions, paradoxes, and opportunities - Amalia De Götzen, Peter Kun, Luca Simeone, and Nicola Morelli

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Book SynopsisThis book explores why and how the personal creative practice of arts teachers in school matters. It responds to ethnographic research that considers specific works-of-art created by teachers within the context of their classrooms. Through a classroom-based ethnographic investigation, the book proposes that the potential impact of artist-teacher practice in the classroom can only be understood in relation to the flows of power and policy that concurrently shape the classroom. It shows how artist-teacher practice functions as a creative practice of freedom tending to the present and future aesthetic life of the classroom, countering the effects of neoliberal schooling and austerity politics. The book questions what the artist-teacher can produce within that context. Through the unique focus on artist-teacher practice, the book explores the changing nature of the classroom and the social and political dimensions of the school. It will be key reading for resTrade ReviewI am delighted to see the publication of Artist-Teacher-Practice and the Expectation of an Aesthetic Life. This book, with its excellent combination of sophisticated theory and frontline ethnographic research, makes a vitally important contribution to research into the concept and practices of the artist-teacher movement. The author has a strong personal grounding in the classroom as an artist teacher herself that has enabled her to make this powerful analysis of the movement in context.Jeff Adams, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Chester; Fellow of the National Society for Education in Art and Design.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Imagining new orientations for researching artist-teacher practice in neoliberal spaces through the inspiration of new materialisms and new pragmatisms. Part 1: Classroom ways-of-being. Introduction to Part 1. Turn 1: Artist-teacher practice, site-responsiveness and the classroom as aesthetic movement. Turn 2: Artist-teacher practice and creative, transformative, therapeutic objects in the classroom. Turn 3: Artist-teacher practice, becoming the ideal teacher and the disorientation of classroom subjects. Part 2: Being less-than. Introduction to Part 2. Turn 4: Reading about knowledge with Bourdieu and Bernstein: Artist-teacher practice, School Art and powerful knowing. Turn 5: Reading about creativity with Deleuze and Foucault: Artist-teacher practice, neoliberalism and the impossible ideal. Part 3: Becoming more than... Introduction to Part 3. Turn 6: Reading Rancière and Dewey with Jane Bennet: Reconfiguring the politics of the classroom through artist-teacher practice as a third-thing. Turn 7: The gendering of artist-teacher practice: Nurturing the expectation of an aesthetic life through third-site encounters. Conclusion: Sharing responsibility for a life lived aesthetically with art and design education.

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Book SynopsisConversations on Creative Process, Methods, Research and Practice provides unique insights into the experiences of eight established creative practitioners who use their creative process in a professional and personal context. Each of them details their creative processes and how being creative has helped them to achieve a fulfilling work/life balance. Interviewees discuss how their creativity has helped them to overcome challenges or difficulties they have faced in their lives including grief, health issues, prejudice, divorce, maternity and creative blocks. This book uses original material research and interviews to explore the nature of the creative process from the perspective of understanding the activities, thoughts and feelings that shape an individual artist's creative practice and how this might inform a wider collective understanding of creativity and how it can help us to live well. The book suggests that individual creative practice is a means ofTable of Contents1. The Science of Creativity: A Conversation with Anna Abraham What Is Creativity? A Response to Anna Abraham 2. Real and Imagined Explorations of Self: A Conversation with Katarina Ranković Creative Inspiration: Looking Back to Move Forward: A Response to Katarina Ranković 3. Taking Charge of What You Can Take Charge Of: A Conversation with Sonia Overall Creative Conversations as a Way of Re-establishing Academic Joy: An Autoethnography: A Response to Sonia Overall 4. Desiring a Fulfilled Creative Life: A Conversation with Irene Marot Creativity, Myth, and Memory: A Response to Irene Marot 5. Creating Space, Time and Magic Moments: A Conversation with Grizelda Creative Change: A Response to Grizelda 6. Connected Creativity: A Conversation with Thomasina Gibson Supporting Our Creativity: A Response to Thomasina Gibson 7. Making Your Creative Life Work and Making Work Your Creative Life: A Conversation with Lisa Norman Creative Futures: A Response to Lisa Norman with Megan Bell

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Book SynopsisFemale musical theatre singers produce some of the most exciting and expressive singing an audience can experience. They also face a unique and specific set of issues when approaching their craft, from negotiating the registers of their voice to enable them to belt, to vocal health challenges such as premenstrual voice syndrome. This is the only book that offers a full and detailed guide to tackling those issues and to singing with full expression and technical excellence. Musical Theatre for the Female Voice covers the origin of singing in musicals, from the bel canto style of 300 years ago through to the latest developments in high belting, in shows such as Wicked and Waitress. It offers the reader exercises and methods that have been used to train hundreds of singers at some of the UK's leading musical theatre training institutions and are underpinned by the latest academic research in journals on singing, psychology, and health. Every element of aTrade Review"I can recommend this book to students and professionals alike who can trust the insights given through Shaun's exhaustive study of voice production. This is not just a description of singing but a helpful guide to improvement and best practice." — Sylvia Young OBE, Founder and Principal of the Sylvia Young Theatre School, UK"The book lays out an approach to the singing voice that is filled with the warmth and wisdom of its experienced practitioner author, Shaun Aquilina. Not only is the book informative but it is accessible in tone and avoids any hint of expert condescension. It is clearly a must have for the singer who wishes to discover more about the full story of their voice from posture to performance in order to enhance their vocal artistry." — Jane Boston, Principal Lecturer Voice, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UKTable of ContentsPart 1: Whole-Body Engagement, 1. Posture, 2. Breath, 3. Voice, 4. Vocal Health, Part 2: Expressive Singing, 5. Impression-Expression, 6. Words and Music

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Book SynopsisThis publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography, while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practice. Historically, photography has acted as a technology for documenting the industrial transformation of the world around us; usually to benefit the interests of capitalist markets. An alternative photographic tradition exists, however, in which the indexical image is used 'evidentially' to protest against incidents of industrial pollution. By providing a definition of environmental activism in photographic praxis, and identifying influential practitioners, this publication demonstrates that photography plays a vital role in the struggle against environmental despoliation. This book will be of interest to scholars in photography, art and visual culture, environmental humanities, and the history of photography.

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Book SynopsisPunching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised.The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times, especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, as well as the exploration of race, gender, politics and conflicts, urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia, Finland, France, Iran, Italy, Morocco, India and the USA. It also asks the question whether, along with contestiTrade Review‘The current times are such that one must stand up and be counted, stare straight into the eyes of the nefarious powers that be, throw punchlines well above one's weight, and laugh out loud. And this is what this very timely book teaches and beseeches us to do. A must-read for all those who, even in these grim times, believe that truth must be spoken to power, and that too with a smile, nay a guffaw!’—Professor Saugata Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.‘This intricate analysis of punching up is timely and fascinating. The contributors use diverse methods and approaches to explore what it means to punch up across a range of contexts. The international focus is particularly welcome, with discussion of both established stand-up comedy scenes and more recent additions to stand-up’s increasingly global presence. A brilliant book.’—Dr Sophie Quirk, University of Kent, UK."The current times are such that one must stand up and be counted, stare straight into the eyes of the nefarious powers that be, throw punchlines well above one's weight, and laugh out loud. And this is what this very timely book teaches and beseeches us to do. A must-read for all those who, even in these grim times, believe that truth must be spoken to power, and that too with a smile, nay a guffaw!"Professor Saugata Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India"This intricate analysis of punching up is timely and fascinating. The contributors use diverse methods and approaches to explore what it means to punch up across a range of contexts. The international focus is particularly welcome, with discussion of both established stand-up comedy scenes and more recent additions to stand-up’s increasingly global presence. A brilliant book."Dr Sophie Quirk, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I Punching In and Punching Up: Origins, Limits and Possibilities 1 The History of Moroccan Stand-Up Comedy: From Storytelling to Charged Humour; 2 Standing Up for Speaking Up: Stand-Up Comedy in the Indonesian Context; 3 The Jamel Comedy Club: (Mis)understanding Stand-Up Comedy’s Relationship with Urban Culture in France; 4 Stand-Up Comedy as Escape: Caste and Media Infrastructure in Mumbai; 5 Voices from the Comedy Contact Zone: Regarding Performative Strategies Toward Race and the Transnational Body; Part II Gendered Experiences and Stand-Up Comedy 6 Humour as Antihistamine in the Discourse of Persian Stand-Up Comedy: Female Stand-Up Comedians in Iran; 7 Asserting Cultural Citizenship through Situated Comedy: Female Comedians in India; 8 Notes on Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, Adorno’s Kulturindustrie and Feminism; Part III Comics and the Audience: Connections, Ethics and Efficacy? 9 Awkward Connections: Stand-Up Comedy as Affective Arrangement; 10 The Revolution Will Be a Joke: Semiotic Ideologies of Ethics and Efficacy in Stand-Up Comedy; 11 Standing Up for a Cause: The Cathartic and Persuasive Power of Stand-Up Comedy; 12 Which Direction Do We Punch? The Powers and Perils of Humour against the New Conspiracism

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Book SynopsisDance Production: Design and Technology, Second Edition is an introduction to the skills needed to plan, design, and execute the technical aspects of a dance production.Covering a broad range of topics, author Jeromy Hopgood takes the reader through the process of producing dance from start to finish. Part I addresses the collaborative process, business and organizational concerns for dance companies, planning the production, and the relationship between dance and performance spaces/staging methods. In Part II, each unique production area is examined, including production and stage management, sound, costume and makeup, scenery and props, lighting, and projection/video design. Each design area is divided into two chapters â the first introducing key concepts, and the second focusing on the process of creating the design. Part III brings back the popular quick reference guides from the first edition, providing an expanded and revised tool to bridge the language gap between the worlds of theatrical production and dance, and ensure productive communication across the different fields. This second edition features updated information on technology and processes, two new chapters on touring and non-traditional productions, more information on arts management within dance production, a comprehensive look at dance and video (including remote/streaming performances, as well as dance film), and additional chapter projects throughout the book.This unique book approaches the process of staging a dance production from a balanced perspective, making it an essential resource for choreographers, theatre designers, dancers, and management personnel alike, including for use in Dance and Dance Production courses.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. Exploring how convents were involved in the musical networks operating in sixteenth-century Barcelona, it challenges the invisibility of women in music history and reveals the intrinsic role played by nuns and lay women in the city's urban musical culture.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this innovative study offers a cross-disciplinary approach that not only reveals details of the rich musical life in Barcelona's nunneries, but shows how they took part in wider national and transnational networks of musical distribution, including religious, commercial, and social dimensions of music. The connections of Barcelona convents to networks for the dissemination of music in and outside the city provide a rich example of the close relationship between musical networks, urban society, and popular culture.Addressing how music was understood Table of Contents1. Mapping convents’ sounds in the city 2. Music as a commodity: Music, convents, and the economy of the city 3. Music as a symbol of political power and social status 4. Music to reach heaven 5. Beyond the city: Religious orders as national and international music networks

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. Exploring how convents were involved in the musical networks operating in sixteenth-century Barcelona, it challenges the invisibility of women in music history and reveals the intrinsic role played by nuns and lay women in the cityâs urban musical culture.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this innovative study offers a cross-disciplinary approach that not only reveals details of the rich musical life in Barcelonaâs nunneries, but shows how they took part in wider national and transnational networks of musical distribution, including religious, commercial, and social dimensions of music. The connections of Barcelona convents to networks for the dissemination of music in and outside the city provide a rich example of the close relationship between musical networks, urban society, and popular culture.Addressing how music was understood

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents new ways of approaching photographic discourse from a queer perspective, offering discussions on what a queering methodology for photography may entail by drawing links between artistic strategies in photographic practice and key theoretical concepts from photography theory, queer theory, critical theory, and philosophy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Queer: What Is Queer Photography?2 Representation: Capturing or Staging the Scene3 Refigure: Writing the Photograph, Queerly4 Skin: A Material Image5 Measure: Paradigms of Exactitude6 Ground: On the Margins of PhotographyConclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in games, in a variety of genres and game systems. Games are a cultural form apt at representing real world conflicts, and this edited volume highlights the intrinsic connection between games and conflict through a set of theoretical and empirical studies. It interrogates the nature and use of conflicts as a fundamental aspect of game design, and how a wide variety of conflicts can be represented in digital and analogue games.The book asks what we can learn from conflicts in games, how our understanding of conflicts change when we turn them into playful objects, and what types of conflicts are still not represented in games. It queries the way games make us think about armed conflict, and how games can help us understand such conflicts in new ways.Offering a deeper understanding of how games can serve political, pedagogical, or persuasive purposes, this volume will interest scholars and students Table of ContentsList of Contributors; Acknowledgements; The Inevitable Relation Between Games and Conflict: An Introduction; Part I: Game Systems, Transformation, and Learning; 1. Red in Bits and Bytes: Evolutionary Conflicts in Biological God Games; 2. On Bikers at War: Transformations of Non-Fictional and Fictional Conflicts from Hamlet to Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem; 3. From Zero-Sum Business Games to Coopetitive Simulation; 4. The Limits of ‘Serious’ Play: Frame Disputes Around Educational Games; Part II: Representing War and Armed Conflicts; 5. On Wargames and War: Modelling Carl von Clausewitz’s Theory of War; 6. Wargames as Reenactment: An Ecological Framework for the Development of Military Games for Education; 7. The Grasping Eye: Wargames and the Ideal-Typical Field Commander’s Inner Vision; Part III: Critical Perspectives on Conflicts in Games; 8. War Never Changes? Creating an American Victimology in Fallout 4; 9. Are the Bullets Going Over our Head? Designed Ambivalence in the Representation of Armed Conflict in Games; 10. Where are the White Perpetrators in all the Colonial Board Games? A Case Study on Afrikan Tähti; Part IV: Alternative Ways of Representing Conflicts in Games; 11. Narrative and Mechanical Integration: Playing with Interpersonal Conflicts in Life is Strange; 12. The Most Intimate Conflict of all: Marriage as Conflict in Digital Games; 13. All Smoke, No Fire: The Post-Mortem of Conflicts in the ‘Walking Simulator’ Genre; Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the deeply interwoven connection of education, art and nature in the context of East Asia. With contributions from authors in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, the book considers unnoticed but significant themes involved in the interplay of nature, art, and education. It manifests how nature and art can educate, and how education and nature play the role of art. The chapters explore a range of themes relevant to East Asian characteristics, including skill acquisition, Japanese calendar arts and ritual of feelings, garden architecture, the ritualised body, collaborative poetry art, translational language between humans and nature, the Confucian classical Six Arts, the artistic embodiment of the Kyoto School, and the heritage art based education in Korea. The authors examine these themes in novel ways to bring to light the relevance of the East Asian insights to the contemporary global world. This book is an outstanding resource to all researchers, schoTable of Contents1. Zhuangzi’s Edu-Dào and Dàoful Well-being: Cook Ding and other Craftsmen Revisited 2. Calendar Arts and the Ritual of Feeling 3. The Katsura Imperial Villa and the Educational Function of Japanese Garden Architecture 4. Arts Education for a Translational Experience from Language of Nature into Language of Man: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Mimesis and Traditional Ink-wash Painting in East Asia 5. From Co-operation to Co-creation: Renga (連歌), Renku (連句), Renshi (連詩), and the Possibility of the ‘Inoperative Community’ 6. The Vision of Nature and Human Beings in Kinji Imanishi’s The World of Living Things: An Anthropological Study of Human Approach to the Environment 7. Sojourning in the Arts: Considering the Implications of the Confucian "Six Arts" in a Contemporary Educational Context 8. Communication through Art: A Perspective on the Embodiment Theory of the Kyoto School 9. Project HANA: Working with Korean Heritage Art in a Museum-School Partnership

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Book SynopsisParticipatory Design and Social Transformation introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for society and the environment.Participatory artistic- and design-based research encounters being, making, and learning with people, things, and situations are explored through practices that utilize image-oriented and cinematic narratives. Collaborative alliances are invited to consider aesthetics, visuality, attunement, reflection, reciprocity, and care as a means for transdisciplinary approaches that foster generative and ethically responsible conditions toward collective liberation. The design of spectacles is proposed as a way for collective movements to affectively contribute to positive systemic changes from the ground up. In this way, Participatory Design and Social Transformation bridges contemporary advances in design theory and practice with media and art theTable of Contents1. Images of Crisis, Images of Change 2. Proximity and Duration, Senses and Images 3. Movement and Thresholds 4. Cinematic Tropes and Designing Spectacles

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This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European postwar avant-garde music are told, seeking to approach commonplaces of that history writing from new perspectives. The contributors revisit subjects as varied as the impact of long-playing records on the emergence of open works, Messiaen's interest in non-European musical traditions, Xenakis's turn to information theory, Kagel's strategic invention of a new genre, Berio's dependence on funding from American foundations, and the ways in which figures like Boulez, Stockhausen, Pousseur, and Nono constructed their musical ancestries. Leading experts in their respective fields, the volume's authors have sought to rethink the historiography of European experimental music of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s in ways that resituate that small but influential milieu in broader historical and cultural contexts. In doing so, they suggest new directions and insights for students an

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Book SynopsisMusic and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for Siva documents the musical practices of the periya me?am, a South Indian instrumental ensemble of professional musicians who perform during the rituals and festivals of high-caste (Brahmanical) Tamil Hindu temples dedicated to the Pan-Indian god Siva an important patron of music since at least the tenth century. It explores the ways in which music and ritual are mutually constitutive, illuminating the cultural logics whereby performing and listening are integral to the kinetic, sensory and affective experiences that enable, shape and stimulate ritual communication in present-day devotional Hinduism. More than a rich and vivid ethnographic description of a local tradition, the book also develops a comprehensive and original analytical model, in which music is understood as both a situated and creative activity, and where the fluid relationship between humans and non-humans, in this case divine beings, is truly taTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of Audio ExamplesPreface1 Introduction2 Temple Ritual and Image Worship3 Musicians, from Past to Present4 The Repertoire5 Sound, Space and Divine Images6 Musical Time vs. Ritual Time7 Music, Emotion and Devotion8 ConclusionGlossaryBibliography

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Book SynopsisIs artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more and more expressive, or is human thought adopting more and more structures from computation? What does it mean to perform oneself through AI, or to construct one's subjectivity through AI? How does AI continue to complicate what it means to have a body? Has the golden age of AI, especially with regards to creative applications, already ended?Choreomata: Performance and Performativity after AI is a book about performance and performativity, but more specifically, it is a book about the performance of artificiality and the performance of intelligence. Both humans and human-designed computational forces are thoroughly engaged in an entangled, mutual performance of AI. Choreomata spins up a latticework of interdisciplinary thought, pairing theoretical inquiry from philosophy, information theory, and computer science with practical case studies from visual art, dance, music, and social theory.Through cross-discTable of ContentsTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceList of ContributorsA. Performing Artificiality, Performing IntelligenceSubjectivity0-Degree Plane of Neuroelectronic Continuity: AI & Psychosocial Evaporation Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo 2. Performing the Automated Image Anna Munster & Ned Rossiter 3. Negative Aesthetics: AI and Non-Performance Luciana Parisi 4. Performance, Performativity, and Subjectivity at the Intersection of Art and Digital Cultures Barbara BoltCreativity 5. Performing Creativity: Text-to-Image Synthesis and the Mimicry of Artistic Subjectivity Keith Tilford 6. Galatea Reloaded: Imagination Inside-Out Imagine Reza NegarestaniRepresentation 7. Intelligent Company: Co-creative AI as Anamnesis Jonathan Impett 8. Autonomy, Intention, Performativity: Navigating the AI Divide Jon McCormack 9. Interaction Grammars: Beyond the Imitation Game AA CaviaB. Choreomatic BestiaryEncounter 10. Choreomata Sofian Audry 11. The Musicality of Imperfection Davor Vincze 12. Robot Choreography, Choreorobotics, and Humanist Technology: A Conversation between Dr. Madeline Gannon and Dr. Ken Goldberg Catie CuanProliferation 13. Ars Autopoetica: On Authorial Intelligence, Generative Literature, and the Future of Language Sasha Stiles 14. AI, Architecture, and Performance: Walt Disney Concert Hall Dreams Refik Anadol & Pelin Kivrak 15. Performing AI-Generated Theater Plays Klára Vosecká & Tomáš Musil & Rudolf RosaAnnihilation 16. Identity Dissolution: Using Artificial Intelligence for Artistic Exploration of Identity Models Alexander Schubert 17. Noise and Subjectivity in the Era of Machine Learning MattinAfter-Body 18. Descendent: AI and the Body beyond Hybridization Roberto Alonso Trillo 19. Descendent: Understanding the Digital Production Process from Human Interpretation to Algorithmic Interpolation to AI Inference Peter Nelson 20. Ghosts of the Hidden Layer People & Things Jennifer Walshe

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Book SynopsisStage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice, Second Edition offers theory and methodology for developing a unique and inclusive stage management style, preparing stage managers to develop an adaptive approach for the vast and varied scope of the production process, forge their own path, and respond to the present moment with care and creativity.This book provides tactile strategies, enabling stage managers to navigate different groups of collaborators, venues, and projects. Experiential stories based on extensive experience with world-renowned artists exemplify the practices and provide frameworks for self-reflection, synthesis, and engagement with theory-guided practice. This book empowers stage managers to guide any collaborative project to fruition by incorporating the How You with the How To. This second edition has been expanded, and includes new experiential stories and a new chapter focused on inclusive processes that can be applied from pre-productiTable of Contents1. Theory 2. Practice 3. Environment 4. Communication 5. Orchestration 6. Culture 7. Ethics 8. Purpose 9. Power

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Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences.Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, this volume considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the lenses of theatre and performance studies, visual culture, and museum and curator studies. This book is underpinned by three areas of research enquiry: How are contemporary theatre makers and museum curators staging historical narratives of difficult pasts? How might comparisons between theatre and museum practices offer new insights into the role objects play in generating and representing difficult pasts? What points of overlap, comparison, and contrast among these constructions of history and memory of authoritarianism, slavery, colonialism, genocide, armed conflict, fascism, and coTable of Contents1. Staging the Story of a People: The Politics of Co-Performance at the National Museum of African American History and CultureJordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley2. Theatricality & Spectacle: The Museum as ObjectBryce Lease3. Curating the Experiential: The Imperial War Museum’s Revised Holocaust Galleries.James Bulgin in conversation with Bryce Lease4. The Meaning of Working Through the Past: Of Awkward Objects and Collateral MemoriesMichal Kobialka5. On Crying Perpetrators and Subversive Laughter: Trans-Affiliative Encounters inside ESMA Memory MuseumCecilia Sosa6. Refracting Difficult Pasts: Temporal Answers and the In-Between.Rabih Mroué in conversation with Michal Kobialka7. Listening to the museum, hearing the mine: Mapa Teatro’s live réplica to modernityGiulia Palladini8. Showcasing Anti-colonial Nationalist Struggles: Museums and Theatre in ContestationBishnupriya Dutt9. ‘It’s art, all it can do is bear witness’: Remembering Histories of Enslavement in Black British Women’s Plays and at the International Slavery MuseumLynette Goddard10. Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights: Long Life to the Theatre!Milena Grass Kleiner and Mariana Hausdorf Andrade11. On the Making of the Oratorio for the DisappearedErika Diettes in conversation with Vikki Bell12. Enforced Disappearance and Silenced Histories: Pedro Almodóvar’s Madres paralelas/Parallel Mothers (2021)Maria M. Delgado13. What Remains: Staging Memory of Enslavement in the Western CapeNadia Davids and Jay Pather in conversation with Bryce Lease14. Marketing a Massacre: When Outdoor Dramas Become Dark TourismKatrina Phillips15. Epilogue - 10 Strategies for Exhibiting Absence & Loss: Objects, Narratives and Trauma on DisplayJoanne Rosenthal

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Book SynopsisElectronic Visual Music is a comprehensive guide to the composition and performance of visual music, and an essential text for those wanting to explore the history, current practice, performance strategies, compositional methodologies and practical techniques for conceiving and creating electronic visual music.Beginning with historical perspectives to inspire the reader to work creatively and develop their own individual style, visual music theory is then discussed in an accessible form, providing a series of strategies for implementing ideas. Including interviews with current practitioners, Electronic Visual Music provides insight into contemporary working methods and gives a snapshot of the state of the art in this ever-evolving creative discipline. This book is a valuable resource for artists and practitioners, as well as students, educators and researchers working in disciplines such as music composition, music production, video arts, animation and related media arts, who are interested in informing their own work and learning new strategies and techniques for exploration and creative expression of electronic visual music.Trade Review'This offers an original take on visual music, rooted in the author's extensive experience working as a creator in the field. It has a distinctive focus on electronic music and visuals, and offers a useful mix of historical antecedents, interviews with current practitioners and pointers for practical and creative work.'Joseph Hyde, Emeritus Professor, Creative Music Technology, Bath Spa University'Dave Payling, due to his large experience as a professor, researcher and artist, successfully accomplished the task of producing a comprehensive book on the fascinating theme of electronic visual music. He addresses didactically the relevant theoretical topics and provides fertile insights related to the creative process for those interested in diving into this art.'Antenor Ferreira, University of Brasília, BrazilTable of Contents1. Discover: Electronic Visual Music in Context 2. Communicate: Electronic Visual Music Conversations 3. Perform: Live Electronic Visual Music 4. Compose: Electronic Visual Music 5. Create: Electronic Visual Music

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the world's most important and successful bands. For the first time, this Handbook will tear down the wall,' examining the band's collective artistic creations and the influence of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into five parts, the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd, including coverage of performance and sound; media, reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyd's work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art, design, performance, culture and counterculture, emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed fro

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the art and craft of documentary filmmaking with a focus on ethics and impact from development through distribution. Author Shannon Walsh explores point-of-view storytelling, writing for nonfiction, and the art of social change documentary.Offering an overview of the documentary filmmaking process  from idea to pitch to a final film and impact campaign this book provides nonfiction filmmakers with the methods required to find a voice, style, and cinematic approach to documentary filmmaking. Key areas covered include definition of styles and genres of documentary film; project development and proposal writing; basic elements of documentary storytelling such as interview techniques, vérité filming, use of archives, stills, and point of view; the process of preparing and delivering a project pitch; pre-production; and finding the necessary elements to tell a story cinematically. With a specific focus on ethics and character-driven storytelliTable of Contents1. Documentary Production: Fear, Failure & Intuition 2. Finding Stories & Ideas 3. Research, Access & Point of View 4. Ethics: Representationm Subjectivity and the Colonized Image 5. Challenigng Forms: Ecstatic Truth & Elusive Fiction 6. Intimacies: Autobiography, Family Histories and Personal Story-telling 7. Script & Treatment Writing For Documentary 8. Developing Strategies for Impact 9. Shooting & Editing in Development 10. Preparing the Pitch: Structure and Components of a Good Pitch 11. Directing with the Moment: Aliveness, Adaptation and Awareness 12. Preparing for Production: Considerations As You Start Shooting 13. Ethics in Production: Dealing with Film Participants and Crews 14. Talking to Strangers: Establishing Relationships & Doing Interviews 15. Building Community Through Filming Community 16. Post-Production Editing, Organizing Material and Re-writing 17. Sparking Impact: Creating Strategies for Change 18. Marketing & Distribution in the Digital Age Further Reading & Resources

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art history. Reconsidering canonical figures, re-examining prevalent debates, and revisiting aesthetic developments, the book challenges accepted histories and entrenched dichotomies in art and architecture from the nineteenth century to the present. In doing so, it resituates the artistic production of this region within broader socio-cultural currents and analyzes its interconnections with international discourse, competing political and aesthetic ideologies, and continuous discussions over identity.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 licenseTrade Review"The chronological and geographical coverage of the present volume from the 1830s to the 2010s and from Russia to Italy and the Baltics to the Balkans is truly remarkable. And while the publication does not pretend to be a general history or epochal outline, it brings to light many previously un-discussed or heavily ideologized issues. Also, taking the key events of politics and art throughout two centuries as historiographical points of rethinking unites the whole collection and contextualizes various new narratives in the historical and cultural perspective."--H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction [Maria Taroutina and Galina Mardilovich]; PART I: Mobile Margins: Artists, Artworks, and Instituions; Chapter One. Blood, Skin, and Paint: Karl Briullov in 1832: Allison Leigh; Chapter Two: Iaroslavna’s Lament and its Echoes in Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Art: Alison Hilton; Chapter Three: An Exercise in Close Looking: Ilia Repin’s They Did Not Expect Him: Galina Mardilovich; Chapter Four: "Is disagreement among artists a good thing?": The End of Salon-Type Exhibitions in Russia and Western Europe: Andrey Shabanov; Chapter Five: Blurring Boundaries: Mikhail Vrubel’s Decorative Turn and the Rise of Russian Modernism: Maria Taroutina; Chapter Six: Idiosyncrasy as an Alternative Modernist Narrative: Steven Mansbach PART II: Visualizing Ideology: New systems, Cold War Aesthetics, and Post-Socialist Memory; Chapter Seven: Art in the Age of Binary Inversion: Russian Constructivist Graphic Design and the Interwar Grid: Kristin Romberg; Chapter Eight: The Creative Mistakes of Socialist Realism: Maria Mileeva; Chapter Nine: A Socialist Neo-Avant-Garde? The Case of Postwar Yugoslavia: Nikolas Drosos; Chapter Ten: The Troubled Public Sphere: Understanding the Art Scene in Socialist Hungary: Katalin Cseh-Varga; Chapter Eleven: The Nonidentity Problem in Contemporary Belarusian Art: Tatsiana Zhurauliova; Chapter Twelve: Marking Memories, Mediating Histories in the Work of Deimantas Narkevicius: Ksenia Nouril; Chapter Thirteen: History in the Future Tense: On Recent Installations by Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina: Jane A. Sharp

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas. Inspired by Albrecht DÃrerâs engraving Melencolia I (1514)âthe first visual representation of artistic melancholyâthis volume brings together contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Topics include: Melencolia I and its reception; how melancholia inhabits landscapes, soundscapes, figures and objects; melancholia in medical and psychological contexts; how melancholia both enables and troubles artistic creation; and Sigmund Freudâs essay Mourning and Melancholia (1917).Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Persistence of Melancholia[Andrea Bubenik]Part I: Resonances of Melencolia I (1514) 1. Temporal Turbulence: In Praise of Anachronism[Mieke Bal]2. Between the Angel and the Dog: Dürer’s Melancholy Community [Drew Daniel]Part II: Objects of Melancholia3. Musical Responses to Dürer’s Melencolia I[Denis Collins]4. The Shape of Things to Come: The Melancholy of Dürer’s Polyhedron[Andrea Bubenik]5. The Eyes, Brain and Heart of the Viewer: Love Melancholy & Renaissance Portraiture[Laurinda Dixon]Part III: Landscapes of Melancholia6. The Melancholic Horizon in Australian Art[Allison Holland]7. Sebald’s ‘Under the Sign of Saturn’ and English Hauntology[Rex Butler]Part IV: Politics and Morals of Melancholia8. Melancholia’s Mirror: Moral Conscience in Australian Art[Sally Butler]9. Against a Melancholic Art History: The Afterlife of Images[Chari Larsson]10. After the End: Melancholia and the Politics of Time[Amelia Barikin]Conclusion: Melancholia: Past, Present, Future?[Michael Ann Holly]

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Book SynopsisThis is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists turned to alternative spirituality, the occult, and mysticism, believing that the pure use of line, shape, color, light and texture could convey spiritual insight. Jonson was steadfastly dedicated to this goal for most of his career and he always believed that modernist and abstract styles were the most effective and compelling means of achieving it.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Raymond Jonson and Twentieth Century American Art: Reconsidering the Canonical in American Art History and the Spiritual in American Modernist PaintingChapter One: "Art Is as Broad as Space": Jonson’s Early Years in the West and ChicagoChapter Two: "The Land of Sunshine and Color and Tragedy": New Mexico and Jonson’s Landscape Paintings and CompositionsChapter Three: "These Are the Second Attack on the Abstract": the Thematic, Conceptual Series Paintings of 1929-1936Chapter Four: "A More Intense Participation in the Life of the Spirit": Jonson’s First Totally Abstract Paintings, His Theories of Art and the Transcendental Painting GroupChapter Five: "Fast Arriving and Spontaneous Combustions of Color–space–line and Design": Absolute Painting, 1938-1950Chapter Six: "Causing the Surface to Come to Life": Jonson’s Late Career, 1950-1978ReferencesIndex

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