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Book SynopsisThis book examines diverse ways of questioning, critiquing, and communicating site in the creative process of architecture, interior design, urban planning, and historical and cultural studies. The authors use the term site to connote a series of complex, established, or pre-existing conditions a setting, an atmosphere, an area to read, to interpret, to relate to, and to engage with, to redefine, or to create in relation to a design prompt. By acknowledging, accommodating, and empowering the physical, intellectual, and cultural characteristics of a site, students question its history, boundaries, posture, and situational aspects. Such inquiries promote a deeper appreciation of a site and thus help students to acknowledge its capacity to influence design throughout the iterative creative process. Understanding Site in Design Pedagogy adds to the body of literature on design studio pedagogy by presenting a collection of essays that challenge normative ass

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 The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics is an authoritative reference work that provides the reader with a wide-ranging introduction to this exciting new scientific discipline. The book brings together leading international academics to offer a well-balanced overview of this burgeoning field while addressing two questions central to the field: how the brain computes aesthetic appreciation for sensory objects and how art is created and experienced.The editors, Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal, have compiled a neuroscientific, physiological, and psychological overview of the systems underlying the evaluation of sensory objects and aesthetic appreciation. Covering a variety of art forms mediated by vision, audition, movement, and language, the handbook puts forward a critical review of the current research to explain how and why perceptual and emotional processes are essential for art production. The work also unravels the interaction of art w

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Book SynopsisMost writers, composers, librettists, and music directors who make their careers in musical theatre do so without specific training or clear pathways to progress through the industry. Conversations with Women in Musical Theatre Leadership addresses that absence by drawing on the experiences of these women to show the many and varied routes to successful careers on, off, and beyond Broadway. Conversations with Women in Musical Theatre Leadership features 15 interviews with Broadway-level musical theatre music directors, directors, writers, composers, lyricists, stage managers, orchestrators, music arrangers, and other women in positions of leadership. Built around extensive interviews with women at the top of their careers in the creative and leadership spheres of musical theatre, these first-hand accounts offer insight into the jobs themselves, the skills that they require, and how those skills can be developed.Any students of musical theatre and stagecraTable of Contents1. The State of Things 2. The Writers 3. The Music Team 4. The Director-Choreographers 5. The Producers 6. The Management 7. The Resources

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Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection examines different dimensions of the interrelationships between sport and the arts. It is a consequence of the Fields of Vision initiative that challenges their typical separation into distinct realms. Whether at school or in the highest realms of public life people struggle to reconcile the two; they lack the necessary conceptual vocabulary. Worse, there are entrenched positions characterised by mutual suspicion, distrust and denigration. In contrast, the contributors to this book challenge the creativity/competition binary and highlight the potential for collaboration in theoretical discourse, policy, education and professional practice. In doing so, the authors draw strength from the Olympian ethos of the Greeks and the vison of the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin. The book seeks to problematise, interrogate and provoke'. The papers shed new light on sport and the arts as representations of cultural identity and embody

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Welcome to the fourth volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices the first series of its kind dedicated to the art, science, and craft of game audio programming. This volume contains 17 chapters from some of the top game audio programmers in the industry and dives into subjects that apply to diverse game genres and from low-level topics such as thread-safe command buffers and pitch detection to high-level topics such as object management, music systems, and audio tools.With such a wide variety of topics, game audio programmers of all levels will find something for them in this book. The techniques presented in this book have all been used to ship games, including some large AAA titles, so they are all practical and many will find their way into your audio engines. There are chapters about timed ADSRs, data-driven music systems, background sounds, and more.This book collects a wealth of advanced knowledge and wisdom about gam

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Book SynopsisThis companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations.As increasing ecological and economic challenges question opportunities for new construction, the process of restoring, transforming, and readapting buildings for new or continued use is becoming an essential part of architectural practice. At the same time, the role of building conservation is changing from mere material preservation to being part of a broader strategy for social regeneration, eco-awareness, and inclusive urban planning. Chapters of this volume explore the complex set of considerations that inform decisions to merely preserve, accurately restore or variously reuse a building. They also look at the broader philosophical concerns such as ethical and aesthetic values, combined with ideas of heritage, history, and collective identity. Case studies on reconstruction after war, gentrification, the restoration of ancient edifices, reconstruction following the effects of climate change, and the use of technology solutions among many others, make this a timely and urgent volume.Adopting a broad transcultural perspective with contributions from five continents, the volume combines theoretical approaches with more practical, case study-based investigations and will be of great interest to upper-level students and academics working in the fields of architecture, conservation, urban design, aesthetics, and heritage management.

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Book SynopsisThis book supports readers to transition to more advanced independent game projects by deepening their understanding of the concept development process. It covers how to make concepts sufficiently viable, ambitious, and innovative to warrant the creation of a polished prototype in preparation of a publisher pitch.The book is divided into six sections. After a brief tutorial (Preliminary Phase), readers embark on a journey along the book's methodology. They travel through successive conceptual phases (Preparations, Procedures, Processes, and Propositions); advance through levels and action beats in each of these phases; master challenges (conceptual tasks) and overcome level bosses (design decisions) that become successively harder; collect items (fulfilled documentation tasks); and win the game by having progressed from a raw, initial idea to a full-fledged, polished game treatment. Additional resources for the bookare available at Table of ContentsPhase 01: Preliminaries. 1. Level One: The Thing. 2. Level Two: The Map. 3. Level Three: The Stage. Phase 02: Preparations. 1. Level One: Spawning Ideas. 2. Level Two: Panning for the Core. 3. Level Three: Tough Investigations. 4. Level Four: An Army of Avatars. 5. Level Five: Enter the Value Matrix. 6. Level Six: Serve with Distinction. Phase 03: Procedures. 1. Level One: The Enchanted Theme. 2. Level Two: The Design-Driven Goal. 3. Level Three: The Desire-Driven Goal. Phase 04: Processes. 1. Level One: Integral Perspectives I. 2. Level Two: Interactivity. 3. Level Three: Plurimediality. 4. Level Four: Narrativity. 5. Level Five: Architectonics. 6. Level Six: Integral Perspectives II. Phase 05: Propositions. 1. Level One: Prototyping. 2. Level Two: Polishing. 3. Level Three: Presenting. Phase 06: Postmortems. 1. Level One: References. 2. Level Two: Rightsholders. 3. Level Three: Responses.

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Book SynopsisHow do cables and data centers think? This book investigates how information infrastructures enact particular forms of knowledge. It juxtaposes the pervasive logics of speed, efficiency, and resilience with more communal and ecological ways of thinking and being, turning technical âœsolutionsâ back into open questions about what society wants and what infrastructures should do.Moving from data centers in Hong Kong to undersea cables in Singapore and server clusters in China, Munn combines rich empirical material with insights drawn from media and cultural studies, sociology, and philosophy. This critical analysis stresses that infrastructures are not just technical but deeply epistemological, privileging some actions and actors while sidelining others.This innovative exploration of the values and visions at the heart of our technologies will interest students, scholars, and researchers in the areas of communication studies, digital media, technology studies, sociology,

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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers, Seventh Edition, teaches the skills of script analysis using a formalist approach that examines the written part of a play to evaluate its potentials for performance and production.This new edition features new and revised content, including an analysis of two new plays, Kalidasa's Shakuntala and Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba; information for the theatre designer integrated in chapters throughout the book; and an expanded appendix on critical approaches to script analysis. Explorations of both classic and unconventional plays are combined with clear examples, end-of-chapter summaries, and stimulating questions that will allow actors, directors, and designers to immediately incorporate the concepts and processes into their theatre production work.An excellent resource for students of acting, script analysis, directing, playwriting, and stage design courses, this book provid

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a close look at systems and rhetorics of silencing in sports training. Using the case study of the Larry Nassar abuse scandal at Michigan State University and within USA Gymnastics, the book explores multifaceted problems of speaking, silencing, and listening in youth and college athletic organizations, investigating the cultures of abuse and discursive practices that silence victims while protecting abusers.The author foregrounds the victims' voices through an analysis of victim impact statements and victim interviews, while examining other textual artifacts to understand the institutional behaviors and actions both before and after the case caught public attention. Exploring the issue far beyond the single organization, the author discusses the norms, values, ideologies, and expected behaviors of youth and college sports programs as institutions to help describe rhetorical cultures of champion-building.This innovative study offers new perspectives thaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Violence, Silence, and Athletics; 2. Just Do It: Rhetorical Cultures of Champion-Building; 3. A Predator in USA Gymnastics; 4. Victims’ Voices; 5. Institutions of Silence; 6. The Uphill Climb Forward

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Book SynopsisThis book is a theoretical and practical deep dive into the craft of worldbuilding for video games, with an explicit focus on how different job disciplines contribute to worldbuilding. In addition to providing lenses for recognizing the various components in creating fictional and digital worlds, the author positions worldbuilding as a reciprocal and dynamic process, a process which acknowledges that worldbuilding is both created by and instrumental in the design of narrative, gameplay, art, audio, and more. Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games encourages mutual respect and collaboration among teams and provides game writers and narrative designers tools for effectively incorporating other job roles into their own worldbuilding practice and vice versa.Features: Provides in-depth exploration of worldbuilding via respective job disciplines Deep dives and case studies into a variety of games, both AAA and indie <Table of Contents Author. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Being in Awe. Chapter 1 Overview of Worldbuilding. Chapter 2 A Cross-Discipline Breakdown of Worldbuilding. Chapter 3 How to Get Started Creating a World. Chapter 4 Collaboration in Worldbuilding: A Series of Deeper Dives. Chapter 5 Identity, World Systems, and Responsibility. Chapter 6 Conclusion: It’s in the Details. INDEX.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1982, Intrusions examines a wide range of cases down through history, showing how ordinary people have regarded the paranormal in contrast with âofficialâ attitudes, and how society as a whole has attempted to deal with happenings that are inexplicable in terms of current scientific or religious theory. He discusses questions such as What did Shakespeareâs audience feel about Hamletâs fatherâs ghost? Why did a renewed interest in magic follow âthe age of enlightenment?â How did Victorian science respond to spiritualism, and why has scientific psychical research, when it finally came, encountered continued opposition? Drawing on reports and accounts of very kind, Mr. Evans gives an authentic account of prevailing attitudes, focussing for the first time directly on the experiences and points of view of ordinary people. He demonstrates that society has been, and still is, badly served by the intellectual establishment in matters relating to the paranormal. Alt

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field. Firstly, the collection offers new insights on the fundamental question of how thinking happens: where, when, how and by whom philosophy is performed. Secondly, it provides a plurality of new accounts of performance and performativity â as the production of ideas, bodies and knowledges â in the arts and beyond. Comprising texts written by international artists, philosophers and scholars from multiple disciplines, the essays engage with questions of how performance thinks and how thought is performed in a wide range of philosophies and performances, from the ancient to the contemporary. Concepts and practices from diverse geographical regions and cultural traditions are analysed to draw conclusions about how

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which children''s musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals, including works inspired by the books of children''s authors such as Roald Dahl, P.L. Travers, and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lionel Bart, and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of incrTable of Contents1. Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater: an IntroductionJames Leve and Donelle Ruwe 2. Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music Ryan Bunch 3. Walt Disney, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Gospel of Ideal Childrearing: Creating Superlative Nuclear Families in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks William A. Everett 4. Saving Mr. [Blank]: Rescuing the Father through Song in Children’s and Family Musicals Raymond Knapp 5. Dickensian Discourses: Giving a (Singing) Voice to the Child-Hero in Oliver! and Copperfield Marc Napolitano 6. Ghetto Chic: Utopianism and the Authentic Child in The Me Nobody Knows (1970) Donelle Ruwe 7. Little Girls, Big Voices: Annie James Leve8. Urchins, Unite: Newsies as an Antidote to Annie Marah Gubar 9. Agency, Power, and the Inner Child: The "Revolting Children" of Matilda the Musical Helen Freshwater 10. Children’s Musicals for Educational and Community Settings Lauren Acton 11. Broadway Junior Stacy Wolf Bibliography of Scholarly Sources

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Book SynopsisEntangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of entangled histories as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography.Entangled histories denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the worldspanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europethe book's contributors systematically expand, exemplify and examine the concept of entangled histories, thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater HistoriographyPART I: Methodological Reflections1 Interweaving Stories, Altering Discourses2 Writing Entangled Theater/Performance Histories in the Arab WorldPART II: Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering3 William Kentridge’s The Head & The Load: Theatrical Collage and the Color of Memory4 Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition’s Pepsi Pavilion, 1970: Multiple Historiographies of a Lost PerformancePART III: Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies5 Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore6 The Thorny Entanglements of Theater and Colonial Historiography in the Netherlands: Anti-colonial Critique and Imperial Nostalgia in J. Slauerhoff ’s Play Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1931)PART IV: Emergence and Transformation of Genres 7 Reversibility as Historiographical Method: Japanese Theater and Its Doubles 8 Plumbing the Past to Project into the Future: The Entangled Trajectories of Flamenco’s Twenty-First-Century Avant-Garde PART V: National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements 9 The Interwoven Performance Culture of Algeria 10 Writing History as Disentanglement: Toward a Historiography of Modern Greek Theater Coda: The Whirligig of Tech: Theater as Media Archaeology Index

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Book SynopsisAre you an experienced programmer who wants to get started quickly in JavaScript and the HTML DOM? This is your book.Do you need encyclopedic knowledge of JavaScript and/or the HTML DOM? This book is not for you.Are you a novice who wants to learn to program? This book is not for you. In fact, this language is not for you. Get a good Python book.This book will get you programming in JavaScript as quickly as possible. In addition, it will provide you with a basic understanding of the Document Object Model, the massive data structure used to represent web pages. With these tools, you will be able to build interactive web pages.If you program in C++ or Java, there are parts of the book you can skip over because the JavaScript statements are exactly the same. These parts are clearly marked.JavaScript is the languageâthe only languageâused by browsers. To create interactive web pages, you need to know both JavaScript and the DOM. This book will get you started.Table of Contents1.Introduction, 2.JavaScript: The Bare Minimum, 3.JavaScript: In More Detail, 4.Client-Side JavaScript

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Book SynopsisAquatopia documents Harmattan Theater's ecological interventions and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes, colonial histories, climate change, and public space across New York City, Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cochin. The volume uses Harmattan's site-specific performances as a point of departure to consider climate change and rising sea levels as geographical, ecological, and urban phenomena. Instead of a collection of flat, static surfaces, the Aquatopia atlas is animated by a disorienting, anti-mapping strategy, producing a deterritorialized, nomadic, fluid atlas unfolding in real time as an archive of climate change in multidimensional, active space. The book is designed for pedagogical access, with interludes that consolidate the learning outcomes of the experimental theory animating each site-specific performance.Accompanied by close descriptions of five performances and supplemented by digital documentation available online, this volume in

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Book SynopsisCareer Paths of African American Directors is a collection of in-depth conversations with African American directors.These conversations provide an insightful overview of the interviewees' work and artistic vision and explore their personal influences, aesthetic philosophies, directorial styles, and some of the creative successes they achieved while navigating the obstacles, challenges, and biases encountered while establishing their careers in American theatre. The directors are presented with similar core questions as well as pertinent questions related to their own aesthetics, philosophy, and career. Often, these selected directors' productions are grounded in a non-European aesthetic and philosophy, and their directorial styles are refracted through the prisms of ethnicity, gender, race, and culture, thus bringing a fresh approach to their work and the art of directing.Career Paths of African American Directors will be of interest to actors, early car

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Book SynopsisThis accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental in feeling embodied in the world. Bringing together psychological, philosophical and cultural perspectives, the book examines the subjective feeling of movement in a cross-disciplinary manner. It discusses kinaesthesia through the framework of embodied cognition and outlines how contemporary discussion in psychology and phenomenology can inform our understanding of everyday experience. The book also sketches a framework for full appreciation of the sense of movement in performance and cultural life, discussing how a sense of movement is central to one's agency. It is composed in four movements', aiming to achieve a connected and original argument for why movement matters, an argument exemplified in dance. The first movement explains the science of kinaesthesia and the history of the concept to a discussion of current thought inforTable of ContentsPrefaceList of illustrationsPart 1. First movement: theme and variations1. Being alive2. What is the sense of movement?3. Kinaesthesia appears on the map of sciencePart 2. Second movement: andante4. The feel for reality5. Phenomenology and embodiment 6. Movement and timePart 3. Third movement: minuet and trio7. Free dance8. Walking9. The dance of lifePart 4. Fourth movement: allegro10. Gesture11 .Agency12. Finale – con brioReferences and selected readingIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book presents 23 successful arts-based efforts to respond to social problems experienced by disadvantaged communities.The arts are a powerful means of fighting discrimination, marginalisation, neglect and even poverty. The educational programmes described in these chapters help stakeholders find solutions which are research-based, adaptable, repeatable and sustainable. Social problems that are addressed in this book include children living with physical challenges; suffering from financial and educational poverty; elderly women suffering from solitude; migrants facing a strange and not always welcoming cultural context; Roma youth fighting negative stereotypes and many more. Revealing the interconnectedness between social, economic and cultural exclusion, contributors planned interventions to develop skills, strengthen identities and build communities.This book will be of interest to scholars working in the visual arts, art education, design education, drama and tTable of ContentsIntroduction Andrea Kárpáti and Raphael Vella 1. Visual arts for social inclusion 1. Paul Wilson, Tang Tang and Ki Woong Nam: Dialogical correspondence of Socially Engaged Participatory Arts Research Project 2. Tang Tang, Paul Wilson and Kiwoong Nam: Dialogue as social sculpture: a visual method of graphic-ethnography for storytelling. Exploring Participation and Collaboration in Research and Socially Engaged Arts 3. Teresa Eca and ngela Saldanha: Building relationships through arts: Two Case Studies in Portugal 4. Erika Kugler and Andrea Kárpáti: Mathematics Through Art: developing spatial skills and digital literacy of children with learning challenges through visual arts education 5. Amna Qureshi: Engaging Youth through Visuals 6. Magdalena Novotná and Marie Fulková: Searching for Beauty: Art in a Distance 7. Marie Fulková and Magdalena Novotná: Cut for New Times: Emancipatory Effects of Artistic Open Form 8. Raphael Vella and Milosh Raykov: Studying the impact of a collaborative art workshop on social inclusion 2. Drama-based interventions for social inclusion 9. Raphael Vella, Milosh Raykov, Karsten Xuereb and Toni Attard: Developing and evaluating a theatre project for youth with intellectual disabilities 10. Isabelle Gatt: Combatting ageism through participation in a theatre-making process and performance 3. Environmental and design education projects to promote social integration and environmental appropriation 11. Maria Huhmarniemi, Satu Miettinen and Melanie Sarantou: SoftPowerArt: Tackling Environmental and Societal Conflicts 12. Margerita Pulè, Milosh Raykov, Raphael Vella, Karsten Xuereb and Kristina Borg: Telling the Truth: Guerilla art and community engagement in Malta 13. Teresa Eca and ngela Saldanha: Crossing Bridges and Being Together 14. Anna Eplényi, Rita Terbe, Gertrúd Schmidt and Dóra Szentandrási: Spatial skills development for socially challenged children – an in-service art teacher training program 15. Mirja Hiltunen: AMASS-AMAS-WEIRD: Community-based art education project in the Sámi area, Finland 4. Media-based social interventions: film, photography and social media for empowerment and inclusion 16. Carolina Gutiérrez Novoa and Silvia Remotti: #daimieiocchi: Participatory Photography Workshops for Marginalised Young People in Italy - Theoretical foundations and methods 17. Carolina Gutiérrez Novoa and Silvia Remotti: #daimieiocchi Participatory Photography Workshops for Marginalised Young People in Italy: Collaborative creation and results 18. Andrea Kárpáti, Ágnes Veszelszki, Lajos Kovács, Márton Rétvári and Eszter Deli: Cultural empowerment through social media: the Roma Cultural Influencer Project 5. Social interventions in nonformal settings 19. Melanie Sarantou and Niina Karvinen: Is Money a Dirty Word? The entrepreneurial worlds of art and sculpting 20.. Zsófia Somogyi-Rohonczy: Museum: the bridge between art and society. Museum education program and teacher training at the Ludwig Museum 21. Marie Fulková and Magdalena Novotná: Glass is a Treasure! Teaching Art and Culture at a Primary School with Roma Pupils 22. Marie Fulková and Magdalena Novotná: Cut for New Times: A collaborative project at the School for the Deaf and the Museum of Decorative Art in Prague 23. Zsófia Albrecht: SENsational art: an educational program for children with behavioural issues and special educational needs (SEN) and an in-service training program for their teachers at the Hungarian National Gallery Conclusion

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This collection explores the impact of Covid-19 on the production and consumption of television and film content in the English-speaking world. Offering in-depth analysis of select on-screen entertainment, the volume addresses entertainment's changing role during and following the Covid-19 pandemic. It also studies the pandemic's incorporation into the narrative of numerous series, films, and other televised formats, capturing the moments and contexts in which these developments emerged. Chapters examine the pandemic's impact both on a micro- and macro level, focusing on the content as well as form of TV shows and films. Bringing together an international team of scholars, the book offers a range of perspectives, exploring phenomena such as the YouTubification' of audience-reliant late-night television, as well as films and TV shows such as Superstore, Grey's Anatomy, and The Good Fight.Given the pandemic's lasting impact on the film and televi

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Book SynopsisHistorical Pattern Archive 2 features a collection of womenâs period garment patterns taken from The Historic Clothing Collection at The University of Virginia.The book offers an accurate pattern of each garment on a 1/8 graph that can be used to scale the pattern up to its original size, photographs of each piece from multiple angles, instructions about how the original garment was constructed and details on what materials were used. Capturing research and information about garments that would have otherwise stayed hidden or eventually disappeared, this volume is designed to be a tool to preserve history through documenting vintage clothing.Written for historians, reenactors, costumer makers, and costume designers, Historical Pattern Archive 2 will enable readers to study the history behind each piece, implement their original techniques and recreate unique garments that are both beautiful and historically accurate.

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Book SynopsisProviding an introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Islamic world, A Story of Islamic Art explores fifty case studies, taken from different regions of the Islamic world and from the seventh to the twenty-first centuries. The novel aspect of these case studies is that they are presented as fictional narratives, allowing the reader to imagine art and architecture, either in their original cultural settings or at some later point in their histories. These stories are supported by a scholarly framework that allows the reader to continue their exploration of the chosen artefacts and their historical context.The fifty case studies take the form of short stories, each of which focuses on one or more object from the Islamic world. These encompass portable items in a wide variety of media, book illustrations, calligraphy, photographs, architectural decoration, buildings, and archaeological sites. The book also provides a detailed introduction,Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsNotes for the ReaderList of FiguresIntroductionGlossaryTimelineChapter 1: Sanaʿa, 660Chapter 2: Aswan, 691Chapter 3: Aleppo, 695Chapter 4: Damascus, 714Chapter 5: Qusayr ʿAmra, 745Chapter 6: Akhmim, 751Chapter 7: Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi, 774Chapter 8: Basra, 841Chapter 9: Samarra, 856Chapter 10: Qayrawan, 863Chapter 11: Bukhara, 930Chapter 12: Rusafa, 998Chapter 13: Baghdad, 1000Chapter 14: Tripoli, 1070Chapter 15: Samarqand, 1085Chapter 16: Kharraqan, 1093Chapter 17: Harran, 1104Chapter 18: Herat, 1183Chapter 19: Mecca, 1199Chapter 20: Kashan, 1201Chapter 21: Wasit, 1236Chapter 22: Palermo, 1248Chapter 23: Tabriz, 1306Chapter 24: Cairo, 1361Chapter 25: Granada, 1375Chapter 26: Xi’an, 1402Chapter 27: Panjakent, 1490Chapter 28: Nizwa, 1531Chapter 29: Venice, 1547Chapter 30: Erzincan, 1568Chapter 31: Sofia, 1582Chapter 32: Isfahan, 1637Chapter 33: Agra, 1642Chapter 34: Hawizeh Marshes, 1673Chapter 35: Istanbul, 1733Chapter 36: Breslau, 1766Chapter 37: Lahore, 1799Chapter 38: Nafplio, 1831Chapter 39: Kuala Lumpur, 1886Chapter 40: London, 1892Chapter 41: Edirne, 1899Chapter 42: Simunul, 1902Chapter 43: Qalʿat Bani Hammad, 1908Chapter 44: Manzala, 1910Chapter 45: Hindiyya, 1918Chapter 46: Rabat, 1937Chapter 47: Cleveland, 1956Chapter 48: Djenné, 1985Chapter 49: New York, 2015Chapter 50: Anywhere, 2020Appendix: Notes on Chapters 1–50Further Reading

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Book SynopsisVoice Made Visible is an exploration of voice training and performance practice based on the use and application of Multi-Octave Vocal Range techniques.Multi-Octave is understood as the arsenal of sounds that exists uniquely within each human voice, beyond the comfortable average octave that we use in everyday life. In Voice Made Visible, Rafael Lopez-Barrantes builds on the voice work created by Alfred Wolfsohn and developed by Roy Hart and his company in France to assist students, artists, and those interested in the performing arts with their vocal practice. He draws from over three decades of multi-cultural performance and teaching, sharing the three fundamental pillars of his system: Fiction, News, and Body Source. This book will help readers unfold their understanding of the voice by strengthening it and inspire them to create new vocal paths for the stage, camera, and voice acting, as well as for their own personal expressive growth.Table of Contents1. Beginnings 2. Voice Made Visible 3. The Prerequisites: Fiction and News 4. Sound Grounding 5. The Industry of Breath and Alignment 6. The Foundational Pillars: The Body Sources 7. Training ~Conclusion: The Universe in a Lid....

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1987, The Heritage Industry sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. The author sets todayâs obsession with yesterday in the context of a climate of social and political decline. The economic uncertainties and cultural convulsions of post-war life have made the past seem a pleasanter and safer place. But how true is that image of the past, and whose past is it, anyway? Hewison questions the way institutions like the National Trust are helping to create a past that never was. While the real economy crumbles, a new force is taking over: the Heritage Industry, a movement dedicated to turning the British Isles into one vast open-air museum. This book will be of interest to students of history, art and cultural studies.

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Book SynopsisMuseums as Assemblage offers a new way of thinking about the dynamism of art museums. Using the concept of assemblage, this book unpacks relations between visitors, artists, museum staff, and the museum's nonhuman components, providing an analytical framework that celebrates the complexity of museums today. It takes the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania as its primary case study but situates it in global trends by drawing on a range of examples from art museums across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and East Asia. It provides insight into how perceptions around engagement are enabled and constrained in the context of different museums and highlights the necessity of an analytical framework that accommodates the complexity and multiplicity of the contemporary museum landscape. With an emphasis on visitor experience and curatorial strategy, the book is valuable for students and researchers in museum studies, art history, curatorial studiTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Contemporary Museum Practice: The Museum of Old and New Art; 2. Museums as Assemblage: Practice and Potential; 3. The Normative Museum: The authoritative voice of the museum and the visitor-as-spectator; 4. The Responsive Museum: Community and Constituents; 5. The Affective Museum: Atmospherics, aesthesis, and the sensorial’ 6. The Emergent Museum: Dynamic, hospitable, disruptive

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Book SynopsisMuseum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World demonstrates that digital literacy, creativity, and resilience, as the COVID-19 pandemic has so vividly illustrated, are now vital components of the classroom and of the curator's toolbox.Museum studies students are increasingly asked to engage with new team dynamics and collaborative models, often relocated to the virtual world. Authored by academics, cultural heritage partners, students, and alumni, the chapters in this volume move beyond a consideration of the impact of digitisation to envision new strategies and pedagogies for fuller, more sustainable approaches to cultural literacy, exhibition, and visitor engagement. International case studies present models of collaborative practices between teams of diverse sizes and professional backgrounds. The volume demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the use of a variety of pedagogically and culturally significant hybrid and virtual models that provide innovative lear

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Book SynopsisFlourish by Design brings together a range of established and emerging voices in design research for a collection that provides original provocations on topics of global significance. It is an insightful guide to original theory and practice concerning how we can design for a better tomorrow.Featuring contributors from a diverse array of backgrounds and professions, this edited book explores the difference that design and design research can make for people, organisations, and the planet to prosper now and in the future. It offers a range of ideas and techniques through practical examples and ongoing projects showing how applied design research can respond to global challenges. Covering topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, bio-inspired materials, more-than-human design, sustainability, and urban acupuncture, it shares interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary design research not just to demonstrate what could be plausible in the near future but also toexplain whTable of ContentsIntroduction: flourish by design: agendas and practices for positive change Part 1: Flourishing together 1. Flourish together 2. Flourishing, design, and the brain 3. Designing more-than-human urban places 4. Why a design attitude matters in a world in flux 5. Flourish(ing) by design? 6. Memes—designed to flourish or doomed to divide? 7. Can designers and AI flourish together? 8. Challenging capitalism through design for commonism 9. How cross-relational design research can foster pandemic recovery 10. Flourishing in joyful discovery: scaffolding new thinking 11. Build together a flourishing world: let’s give a shit and plant seeds Part 2: Flourishing organisations 12. Flourishing organisations 13. What organisations will flourish in the future and why we need a new design culture that is fit for the 22nd century? 14. Flourishing for all: the imperative for design research to go beyond academia 15. The shadow side: why embracing death and decay is essential to flourishing 16. Making design research work by flourishing through disappearance 17. Working at the junction: reconciling numbers and vulnerabilities 18. Public value by design: toward a flourishing design culture in public services 19. What schools do we need? 20. Evolutionary change of organisations and its flourishment over the design paradigms 21. It is time for radical co-design 22. Design after things Part 3: Flourishing in the world 23. Flourishing in the world 24. Making a difference by design 25. Transdisciplinary design: next generation bio-inspired building materials 26. Can design heal a city? 27. The idea of ‘agency’ in design today 28. The Anthropocene warrants a new standard time 29. Just toys? From material sustainability to co-design and degrowth 30. Legacy and sustainability in design research: A global dialogue 31. Falling UP and caring for better 32 Sustainability: designing for a technological utopia or dystopia? Afterword: to flourish or not to flourish by design

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Book SynopsisFlourish by Design brings together a range of established and emerging voices in design research for a collection that provides original provocations on topics of global significance. It is an insightful guide to original theory and practice concerning how we can design for a better tomorrow.Featuring contributors from a diverse array of backgrounds and professions, this edited book explores the difference that design and design research can make for people, organisations, and the planet to prosper now and in the future. It offers a range of ideas and techniques through practical examples and ongoing projects showing how applied design research can respond to global challenges. Covering topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, bio-inspired materials, more-than-human design, sustainability, and urban acupuncture, it shares interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary design research not just to demonstrate what could be plausible in the near future but also toexplain whTable of ContentsIntroduction: flourish by design: agendas and practices for positive change Part 1: Flourishing together 1. Flourish together 2. Flourishing, design, and the brain 3. Designing more-than-human urban places 4. Why a design attitude matters in a world in flux 5. Flourish(ing) by design? 6. Memes—designed to flourish or doomed to divide? 7. Can designers and AI flourish together? 8. Challenging capitalism through design for commonism 9. How cross-relational design research can foster pandemic recovery 10. Flourishing in joyful discovery: scaffolding new thinking 11. Build together a flourishing world: let’s give a shit and plant seeds Part 2: Flourishing organisations 12. Flourishing organisations 13. What organisations will flourish in the future and why we need a new design culture that is fit for the 22nd century? 14. Flourishing for all: the imperative for design research to go beyond academia 15. The shadow side: why embracing death and decay is essential to flourishing 16. Making design research work by flourishing through disappearance 17. Working at the junction: reconciling numbers and vulnerabilities 18. Public value by design: toward a flourishing design culture in public services 19. What schools do we need? 20. Evolutionary change of organisations and its flourishment over the design paradigms 21. It is time for radical co-design 22. Design after things Part 3: Flourishing in the world 23. Flourishing in the world 24. Making a difference by design 25. Transdisciplinary design: next generation bio-inspired building materials 26. Can design heal a city? 27. The idea of ‘agency’ in design today 28. The Anthropocene warrants a new standard time 29. Just toys? From material sustainability to co-design and degrowth 30. Legacy and sustainability in design research: A global dialogue 31. Falling UP and caring for better 32 Sustainability: designing for a technological utopia or dystopia? Afterword: to flourish or not to flourish by design

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Book SynopsisReligious Satire in the Era of New Atheism presents a contemporary account of religious satire as evidenced by the modern art of stand-up comedy.Focused on the context of the post-9/11 American culture phenomenon, sometimes referred to as the New Atheism â as embodied by public intellectuals such as Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins â it documents the rise of comedic satire in relation to evangelical beliefs and religious dogma. Drawing on the authorâs own experience of stand-up performance, it examines the comedy of figures such as Mark Maron, Bill Maher, and Ricky Gervais and presents material from interviews with comedians including Lewis Black, John Fugelsang, and Leigh Ann Lord to provide unique insights into some of the issues and definitions surrounding satire.With attention to the demonstrable rise in religious satire following the events of September 11, 2001, the author considers the clear link between this increase and the New At

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Book SynopsisThis book uncovers the processes at play in the development of cultural policies, projects and networks in spaces at the edge of their countries, marked by their proximity with a borderline.On a subject which is studied mainly in North America and Western Europe and based on individual case studies, its originality lies in offering a comparative view on the subject, as well as in comparing a European case the France-Germany borderlands to a South American case the Brazil-Uruguay borderlands. Through a multi-sited ethnographic study, the author develops an analysis of the formal and informal processes and networks which sustain this cultural action, looking at the relative contribution of processes led by institutions, cultural agents and the civil society.This book provides theoretical tools for the analysis of the way cultural ecosystems function in borderlands and is valuable reading for scholars of cultural policy, geography and arts management.

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Book SynopsisDisability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day. Using autocritical discourse analysis, a new hybrid research method that combines aspects of the established methods of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and autoethnography, this book explores the formative cultural identity politics of disability via cultural stations of UK popular culture. These cultural stations include action figures, children's books, television miniseries, comics, comedy films, teenage drama and sitcoms, the punk rock movement, and alternative comedy. Although the cultural stations range from toys and comics to aggressive music and chaotic sitcoms, all are considered with a focus on the language and tropes of disability. Indeed, most of the works are not remembered as portrayals of disability but the book's analysis reveals flash if not fleeting reprTable of Contents0.Prologue. 1.Toy Man: Figuring Out the Play Figure. 2.Mr Moral: Animating the Ordinary via the Extraordinary. 3. Made in Misterland: Rain and Shine on the Identity Parade. 4.Comic Priming: To Read and Subscribe. 5.Power and Palaver: Medicalisation of the Funny Film Franchise. 6.Happy Hill: Teenage Television and the Half-Hour Antihero. 7.No Futurity: Non-normative Affinities with the Punk Rock Movement. 8.Anarchy in the Comedy: A Complete and Utter Alternative. 9.Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisExperiments in Art Research: How Do We Live Questions Through Art? is not a conventional research methods guide; it''s an encounter for asking questions through art.Originating from the work of a community of tightly connected scholars, artists, and teachers, the book unfolds through a tapestry of moments, practices, and people, embracing the celebration of works in progress and in community. Rooted in the practice of permission-giving, the narrative intertwines personal storieslaying bare the transformative power of unconventional teaching methods, risky endeavors, and the breaking of scholarly normsand begins by understanding that art and research are not separate. After that, there are endless directions to take up. Instead of a handbook offering rules or best practices, this text offers an inspiring collection of joy, longing, and determination. This is fascinating reading for arts-based researchers, artists, educators in the arts, education scholars, r

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Book SynopsisMusic Business: The Key Concepts, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today.This updated second edition responds to the music industry''s increasingly digital and ever-evolving environment, with definitions from a number of relevant fields, including: general business marketing e-commerce intellectual property law economics entrepreneurship In an accessible A-Z format and fully cross-referenced throughout, this book is essential reading for music business students as well as those interested in the music industry.

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Book SynopsisThis book undertakes a deep examination of mentor and disciple relationships in the development of artists. It draws upon a variety of relationships and models, including an in-person mentor, a mentor or apprentice scenario, and non-physical mentors such as historical figures, in order to investigate their history and philosophy.This volume specifically addresses the role of mentoring in the lives of contemporary aspiring artists, asking if and how mentoring can be considered a form of human nurturance. Deep historical inspections and philosophical inquiries are combined with analyses of interviews with contemporary artists ranging from 35 to 101 years old. These holistic insights present the subject of mentoring in the arts from the multiple angles of art history and relevant ideas about the benefits of nurturance and acceptance in human development.Using artists' biographies and discussions of their work, this book sheds light on the role that mentoring has played in

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Book SynopsisThe formation and communication of vision is one of the primary responsibilities of a director, before ever getting to the nuts and bolts of the process.?The Art and Practice of Directing for Theatre, Second Edition?helps the young director learn how to discover, harness, and meld the two.Providing both a?practical and theoretical foundation for directors, this book explores how to craft an artistic vision for a production, and sparks inspiration in directors to put their learning into practice. This new edition is fully revised to address changes in theatre since the Covid pandemic, new technology, intimacy direction, and inclusive practices. It features: Guidance through day-to-day aspects of directing, including a director's skillset and tools, script analysis, and rehearsal structure. Advice on collaborating with production teams and actors, building communication skills and tools, and integrating digital media into these practices.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role of social media in the daily practice of Polish criminal justice and how social media is, in turn, reshaping this practice. Based on empirical research, it confronts common beliefs about how police officers, prosecutors, and judges use social media in their work. Readers will find answers to the following questions: Which social media platforms are popular among law enforcement officers in Poland? How do the police use social media to investigate and prosecute crimes? What are the strategies for using social media to communicate with the community? What strategies are most successful?The findings in this book challenge some popular beliefs and theories about social media in criminal justice. As the first book to explore the use of social media in criminal justice outside of English-speaking countries, this collection of academic research will be of interest to academics focusing on criminology, criminal justice, and policing and will be useful to p

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces the concept of the Picnic Society â a society which we all belong to today because social media has given us unlimited opportunities to create or destroy our own and our circleâs (our bubbleâs) realities, possibilities, and reputations.In todayâs world every organization is integrated into society, and the people belonging to organizations are integrated into various continually interacting communities. Social media has â or soon will â erase any remaining boundaries between organizations and the worldâs social fabric. It is increasingly pointless for organizations to try to establish relationships with society, because these already exist â 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and all 365 days of the year. This is what I mean in talking about the transformation of the field of PR â from Public Relations to People Relations. This book discusses the challenges facing public relations professionals working in a contemporary society that is flooded with inform

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Book SynopsisOpening up a new window to see Shakespeareâs words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the Cue Scripts from the Comedies in Shakespeareâs First Folio.The book invites readers to approach Shakespeareâs texts the way his actors would have â not studying the complete text and drawing conclusions from it, but working from a Cue Script, where all the lines for a particular character are written, with just a two- or three-word cue as to when they should speak. As an actor himself, Shakespeare knew that his actors would have little time to do more than learn their lines for the next imminent performance â for this reason, he placed in the first lines of every Cue Script a range of crucial information on the characterâs motives and intentions. Studying the cues and following the playwrightâs clues opens up a whole new understanding of the roles, and provides a way of approaching a play that is authentic, quick, and cre

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Book SynopsisThe status of women in the creative and cultural industries remains precarious. This comparative analysis provides insights from seven key economies to help understand progress towards gender equality in culture and the arts and the broader cultural economy.With empirical and policy analysis spanning Europe and the US, the authors investigate the extent to which gender equality has entered the mainstream along dimensions of leadership, access and awards, pay and pension gaps, work-life balance, and the monitoring of gender equality. While many of the structural barriers have been erased, countries differ significantly in how much gender equality has been achieved in the creative economy and how much female talent is lost and unrecognized.This book is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners across the human and social sciences, especially those involved with arts management and the creative or cultural economy more broadly.

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