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Book SynopsisCurating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged in exhibitions, collecting practices, communication, and policies.Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum traces the art museum back to the postwar era. Including contributions by established and emerging art historians, academics and curators, the book proposes that the art museum is engaged in the contemporary in a double sense: it (re)presents contemporary art, while the contemporary condition itself also has a significant impact on art and the museum that houses it. Presenting a diverse range of international cases of exhibitions and curatorial practices, which hail primarily from Europe and Scandinavia, the essays examine the politics of staging national, international, and global framings of modernism, as well as the new public spaces shaped in digital practices and changing political frameworks. The book investigates both the seminaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum; Part 1: The Curatorial Now: Performing the Museum; 1. Reform(ulat)ing Infrastructures - Becoming Museum; 2. Dance, Performance and Social Media in the Postdigital Museum; 3. After Institutions; 4. Munchmuseet on the Move and the role of the Contemporary in the Art Museum; 5. Collaborative Curating: Questioning Value Production in the Art Museum through the Project 7 Walks; Part 2: Politics of Curating the Contemporary-Modern in the Art Museum; 6. NowHere: The Curatorial Contemporary; 7. The Rise and Fall of a Nordic Art Institution; 8. Torpedoes and Trees: Staging the Modern Art Collection at the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; 9. The Politics of Contemporary Art Museums. Calouste Gulbenkian's Modern Collection in Lisbon; 10. What’s Happening? Feminism, the Contemporary, and Curating in the Art Museum; 11. Contemporaneity as a Curatorial Approach: Black Models in New York, Paris and Guadeloupe; Part 3: Mapping Exhibition Histories of the Contemporary; 12. In the Ruins of the Present: Arte Contemporanea at the Galleria Nazionale in Rome, 1944-45; 13. Documenta’s Chronopolitics of the Contemporary, or Un/Curating Nazi Continuities in Werner Haftmann’s Historiographic Practice; 14. Moving the Museum towards the Contemporary? Art in Motion (1961) as testing ground for the "new museum" in three versions; 15. MacLeod: Curating Contrasts: Retrieving Solidarity from the Archives; 16. Escape Attempts or Institutional Transformations? On Moderna Museet’s Information Center Project (1970–73) and the Filialen Experiments (1971-73); 17. "That’s why we call it a model" – Restaging Exhibitions and Participation: Palle Nielsen’s The Model: A Model for a Qualitative Society, 1968/2014

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Book SynopsisMaking Radio and Podcasts is a practical guide for anyone who wants to learn how to make successful programmes in the digital era. It examines the key roles in audio and podcasting: announcing, presenting, research, copywriting, producing, marketing and promotions. It also outlines what is involved in creating different types of programmes: news and current affairs, music, talkback, comedy and features, podcasts, as well as legal and regulatory constraints.With contributions from industry experts, the fully updated fourth edition is global in focus and reflects the impact of podcasts and digital radio, including multi-platform delivery, listener databases, social media and online marketing. It also examines how radio stations have reinvented their business models to accommodate the rapid changes in communications and listener expectations. This is the ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on radio, audio and podcasting, media production Trade Review'The book from the internationally respected Steve Ahern is an impressive "must read" for anyone studying audio or embarking on a career in radio or podcasting, covering everything from understanding the strengths and dynamics of radio and audio, to very concrete advice on how to perform successfully in front of the microphone.'Anders Held, founder of the RadioDays conferencePraise for the Previous Edition:'The distilled wisdom and passion of top practitioners makes this an invaluable guide to making radio in Australia.' Siobhan McHugh, award-winning radio feature producer and lecturer, University of Wollongong'a very useful hands-on guide to radio production in Australia'Gail Phillips, Associate Professor of Journalism, Murdoch University'Making Radio has been a core text for all our radio courses since it was written. It covers everything from the basics you need to know when you begin your radio career, to high level skills required for career advancement.'Kim Becherand, AFTRS Radio Division'The book from the internationally respected Steve Ahern is an impressive "must read" for anyone studying audio or embarking on a career in radio or podcasting, covering everything from understanding the strengths and dynamics of radio and audio, to very concrete advice on how to perform successfully in front of the microphone.'Anders Held, founder of the RadioDays conferencePraise for the Previous Edition:'The distilled wisdom and passion of top practitioners makes this an invaluable guide to making radio in Australia.' Siobhan McHugh, award-winning radio feature producer and lecturer, University of Wollongong'a very useful hands-on guide to radio production in Australia'Gail Phillips, Associate Professor of Journalism, Murdoch University'Making Radio has been a core text for all our radio courses since it was written. It covers everything from the basics you need to know when you begin your radio career, to high level skills required for career advancement.'Kim Becherand, AFTRS Radio DivisionTable of ContentsList of Contributors, Preface, 1. History of Radio, 2. The Future of Radio Internationally, 3. Making Podcasts, 4. Broadcast Laws and Regulations, 5. The Studio, 6. Radio Announcing, 7. Presentation, 8. Interviewing, 9. Researching and Producing, 10. Talkback, Steve Ahern, 11. Copywriting, 12. Audio Production, 13. News, 14. Audience Research and Promotions, 15. Radio Sales, 16. Programming, 17. Features and Comedy, 18. Transmission, Glossary

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Book SynopsisAustralian governments at all levels have been engaged with arts and culture in many different forms since the beginning of European settlement. The way this has occurred is documented and analysed here, both from an historical and critical perspective.Changing understandings of culture and the significance of Indigenous Culture to Australia receive special attention. While the focus is primarily directed to Federal Government engagement, there is also consideration paid to both state and local government involvement. There is attention paid to the censorship of arts practice by governments as well as the direct interventions by politicians in arts practice. Different approaches to the arts by governments are also considered, as well as attempts to develop a national cultural policy. The impact of the recent pandemic is addressed and various research reports about the arts sector and its relationship with government are also noted. There is then a final discussion abouTrade Review"This is a timely and well written account of the relationship between the arts/cultural sector and the governments and policy frameworks that are, ostensibly, responsible for supporting it. There is a long history here of contestation, debate and struggle on the part of artists for their work to be appropriately recognised. This book not only tells the story of the nexus between arts and government, it unequivocally advocates for the cultural value of arts practices, and the need for governments to take a bipartisan approach to ensure the arts have a chance of a sustainable future."Professor Hilary Glow, Deakin University"Art and Politics: Government and the Arts in Australia. An Historical and Critical Analysis is a comprehensive, insightful, and remarkably well-researched book on one country’s evolving and often contradictory cultural policies and practices. Jo Caust deftly guides us through the development of Australia’s varied and dynamic cultural landscape over the last 200 years while crafting frameworks that can be used to develop deeper, richer, and more productive conversations among and between artists, arts institutions, indigenous populations, and those in government. This book is a valuable resource for those studying cultural development and arts leaders, policymakers, and funders grappling with the challenges of creating and sustaining vibrant arts ecologies in their countries."Emeritus Professor William J. Byrnes, author of Management and the Arts"Josephine Caust is one of the leading experts on Australian cultural policy. Her published work and frequent policy contributions have been influential both in Australia and internationally. This long-awaited book will create wide interest among researchers, academics and policy makers, as well as among members of the general public interested to gain fresh insights into the past, present and potential future of Australian art and culture."Distinguished Professor David Throsby, Macquarie University"Artists are the forgotten foot soldiers of the creative economy. This book is a timely reminder of the social value of the arts, restoring artists at the core of contemporary cultural policy. Caust’s work is grounded in a detailed historical analysis of Australian culture, government and politics, and draws on her personal story as an academic, arts worker and passionate believer in the power of art and artists to transform lives. Her book will be an inspiration for students, artists and – whisper it – politicians."Chris Bilton, Professor of Creative Industries, University of Warwick Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION GOVERNMENTS AND THE ARTS THE USES AND CONTROL OF ARTS AND CULTURAL PRACTICES BY GOVERNMENTS ARTS AND CULTURE AND THEIR APPLICATION IN AN AUSTRALIAN SETTING AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS AND ARTS AND CULTURE NATIONAL CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND THE ARTS CENSORSHIP AND POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS CULTURAL POLICY CHANGING APPROACHES TO THE ARTS SECTOR AND THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC POSSIBLE FUTURES FOR THE ARTS AND GOVERNMENTS

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Book SynopsisDetailed and accurate information on the spatial distribution of individual species over large spatial extents and over multiple time periods is critical for rapid response and e?ective management of environmental change. The twenty first century has witnessed a rapid development in both ?ne resolution sensors and statistical theories and techniques. These innovations hold great potential for improved accuracy of species mapping using remote sensing. Fine Resolution Remote Sensing of Species in Terrestrial and Coastal Ecosystems is a collection of eight cutting-edge studies of ?ne spatial resolution remote sensing, including species mapping of biogenic and coral reefs, seagrasses, salt and freshwater marshes, and grasslands. The studies illustrate the power of fine resolution imagery for species identi?cation, as well as the value of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery as an ideal source of high-quality reference data at the species level. The studies also highlight Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fine resolution remote sensing of species in terrestrial and coastal ecosystemsQi Chen, Tiit Kutser, Antoine Collin and Timothy A. Warner1. Mapping freshwater marsh species in the wetlands of Lake Okeechobee using very high-resolution aerial photography and lidar dataCaiyun Zhang, Sara Denka and Deepak R. Mishra2. Satellite-based salt marsh elevation, vegetation height, and species composition mapping using the superspectral WorldView-3 imageryAntoine Collin, Natasha Lambert and Samuel Etienne3. Mapping semi-natural grassland communities using multi-temporal RapidEye remote sensing dataChristoph Raab, H. G. Stroh, B. Tonn, M. Meißner, N. Rohwer, N. Balkenhol and J. Isselstein4. Very high-resolution mapping of emerging biogenic reefs using airborne optical imagery and neural network: the honeycomb worm (Sabellaria alveolata) case studyAntoine Collin, Stanislas Dubois, Camille Ramambason and Samuel Etienne5. Very high resolution mapping of coral reef state using airborne bathymetric LiDAR surface-intensity and drone imageryAntoine Collin, Camille Ramambason, Yves Pastol, Elisa Casella, Alessio Rovere, Lauric Thiault, Benoît Espiau, Gilles Siu, Franck Lerouvreur, Nao Nakamura, James L. Hench, Russell J. Schmitt, Sally J. Holbrook, Matthias Troyer and Neil Davies6. A comparison of airborne hyperspectral-based classifications of emergent wetland vegetation at Lake Balaton, HungaryDimitris Stratoulias, Heiko Balzter, András Zlinszky and Viktor R. Tóth7. Predicting macroalgal pigments (chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, chlorophyll a + b, carotenoids) in various environmental conditions using high-resolution hyperspectral spectroradiometersEle Vahtmäe, Jonne Kotta, Helen Orav-Kotta, Ilmar Kotta, Merli Pärnoja and Tiit Kutser8. Assessment of PlanetScope images for benthic habitat and seagrass species mapping in a complex optically shallow water environmentPramaditya Wicaksono and Wahyu Lazuardi

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Book SynopsisGiven that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African puppets, masks, and performing objects and contemporary African American puppetry? This study approaches the question by looking at the whole performance complex surrounding African performing objects and examines the material culture of object performance.Object Performance in the Black Atlantic argues that since human beings can attribute private, personal meanings to objects obtained for personal use such as dolls, vessels, and quilts, the lines of material culture continuity between African and African American object performance run through objects that performed in ritual rather than theatrical capacity. Split into three parts, this book starts by outlining the spaces where the African American object performance complex persisted through the period of slavery. Part Two traces how African Americans began to reclaiTable of ContentsPart 1: The African American Object Performance Complex 1. Introduction to the African American Object Performance Complex 2. Minkisi: Ritual Objects as Lines of Resistance 3. Mechanical Negroes 4. African American Story Cycles 5. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Object Performance in African American Dance 6. Music is Our Mother Tongue: Object Performance in African American Music Part 2: African American Object Performance Overcoming Jim Crow 7. From Minstrelsy to Vaudeville: John W. Cooper Crafts an Entrée 8. Shadows Uplifted: African American Object Performance under Jim Crow 9. Creating Communities 10. Throwing Voice: African American Ventriloquists 11. In the Image of God: Puppet Ministry and Object Performance in the Black Church 12. Political Activism and African American Object Performance Part 3: Object Performance in African American Dramatic Presentations 13. African American Puppet Modernism: Alice Swann and the Wonderland Puppet Theatre 14. Staging Stories: African American Folktales and Puppet Theater 15. Object Performance in African American Visual Art 16. African Americans and Object Performance in American Theater 17. African American Puppet Film 18. African American Puppetry in Social Media 19. The Substance of Things Hoped for: Contemporary African American Puppet Theater

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Book SynopsisAll games are potentially transformative experiences because they engage the player in dynamic action. When repurposed in an educational context, even highly popular casual games played online to pass the time can engage players in a way that deepens learning. Games as Transformative Experiences for Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness, and Deep Learning: Strategies & Resources examines the learning value of a wide variety of games across multiple disciplines.Organized just like a well-made game, the book is divided into four parts highlighting classroom experiences, community and culture, virtual learning, and interdisciplinary instruction. The author crosses between the high school and college classroom and addresses a range of disciplines, both online and classroom practice, the design of curriculum, and the transformation of assessment practices.In addition to a wealth of practical exercises, resources, and lesson ideas, the book explains how to use a wide Trade Review"I would posit that David Seelow should be esteemed in the same way we treat John Paul Gee, Jane McGonigal, Jesse Schell, and Lee Sheldon. The book contains significant benefits and is well worth the investment of time and money required to acquire and read the book. This book is highly recommended if you are looking to experiment with GBL in the classroom, either via online, virtual, or hybrid approaches. You will find a wide range of successfully applied games that could be used to stimulate your learners’ interest in achieving a deeper level of learning."- Michael J. D. Sutton, Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching"I would posit that David Seelow should be esteemed in the same way we treat John Paul Gee, Jane McGonigal, Jesse Schell, and Lee Sheldon. The book contains significant benefits and is well worth the investment of time and money required to acquire and read the book. This book is highly recommended if you are looking to experiment with GBL in the classroom, either via online, virtual, or hybrid approaches. You will find a wide range of successfully applied games that could be used to stimulate your learners’ interest in achieving a deeper level of learning."- Michael J. D. Sutton, Journal of Applied Learning & TeachingTable of ContentsIn Memoriam. Author. Introduction: The Power and Potential of Games for Learning. Part I Games as Transformative Classroom Experiences. Chapter 1 My Favorite Game: The Power of Personal Learning. Chapter 2 Ask the Sphinx: Power Up Student Motivation with Superpower Challenges. Chapter 3 Gen Con in the Classroom: Board Games. Chapter 4 Video Games in the English Classroom: Supercharging Critical Literacy. Chapter 5 Playing through Stories: Teaching Interactive Narrative. Part II Games as Transformative Classroom Experiences. Chapter 6 Using a Game to Counter the Prejudice, Bias, and Discrimination against the Transgender Community: If Found and Transformative Storytelling. Chapter 7 "Smart Bets" Balancing Uncertainty with Clear Thinking: Annie Duke’s Poker Skills for Everyday Life. Chapter 8 Chess for Self, School, and Society. Chapter 9 War from the Other Side: Playing Games to Save Democracy. Chapter 10 The Child as Mother to Man: A Game for Saving Nature. Chapter 11 Turning Strangers into Neighbors: Improving the World through a Game of Gratitude. Part III Casual Games as Transformative Online Learning Experiences. Chapter 12 Three Small Games for Big Learning in Math and Physics. Chapter 13 Playing Small Business Owners: Teaching Management, Self-Efficacy, and Authentic Skills through Casual Games. Chapter 14 Teaching Teamwork with a Public Health Game. Chapter 15 There Is an Imposter Among Us: Teaching Truth in the Time of "The Big Lie". Chapter 16 Teaching Tragedy in Real Time: The Syrian Refugee Crisis. Chapter 17 Games for College Orientation: Social Emotional Learning. Part IV Playing across Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Instruction with Films, Games, and Literature. Chapter 18 Teaching the Disclosure Scene: Empathy and Understanding for Transgender People. Chapter 19 Teaching Over the Top: The Great War through a Game, Painting, Poem, and Superhero Film. Chapter 20 How "Memoirs" about the Iranian Revolution Can Help Change Stereotypical Perceptions of the Muslim as "Other". Chapter 21 Teaching about Pandemics During a Pandemic. CONCLUSION A SHORT HIKE TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN: TEACHING THE TRANSCENDENT OR WALKING THE DOG. INDEX.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines key features, problems, and implications of the 20162017 Candlelight Movement, a historical cornerstone for democracy and social movements in South Korea. The Candlelight Movement brought profound social changes with important lessons and questions for scholars, practitioners, activists, and the public. To examine the full complexity of the movement, this edited volume utilises wide-ranging methodological and theoretical approaches, which include case study approaches, ethnography, survey, feminist film criticism, critical discourse analysis, and rhetorical criticism. Chapters place communication' at the centre of their analyses, calling attention to the mediated and mediatised, the performative and other discursive practices of the 20162017 Candlelight Movement. In doing so, the book discusses not only the usual players and factors nor the institutions that exert their influence through democratic politics and the public sphere but also the counteTable of ContentsPart 1: Media and media space 1. A crisis of press freedom: Investigative journalism and the downfall of the President 2. One small action for the larger movement 3. Social media use on protest sites during the 2016–2017 candlelight vigils in Seoul Part 2: Culture and performance 4. "With the brightest light we have": K-pop fandom in candlelight movement and diversification of Korean protest culture 5. Channeling anger into hope 6. Dancing for hope: The shamanic ritual and performative Koreanness at the candlelight protests Part 3: Counterpublics and representation 7. Contested neoliberal vulnerability: Laboring, feminine, and queer subjects in the streets of the impeachment protest 8. The conservative news media outlets: Blowing out candles for economic democracy 9. From flags to candles: Visual hailing and articulation of nation Appendix: An analysis of contemporary Korean society through the candlelight movement: A historical perspective to the social phenomena and changes

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Book SynopsisThis title provides a systematic examination of the philosophy of Chinese art, exploring the peculiarity of artistic forms and distinctive conceptions and artistic principles of Chinese art which are grounded in the life awareness of the ancient Chinese and interconnect with the Chinese philosophy of life.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Subject 2. Ontological Aspects of Art 3. Aesthetic Traits 4. Artistic Representation of Chinese Art 5. Evolution

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Book SynopsisEmphasizing the medium's reception among several Chinese constituencies, this book explores photography's impact within new discourses on science, as well as its effects in social life, visual modernity and the media during China's transition from imperial to republican government. General knowledge and academic teaching of early modern Chinese visual culture stops short of fitting photography into the larger context of visual practices and theories. This study redraws the boundaries by making photography the central concern within changing priorities of visual representation and its functions during a period of major cultural and political change. No other study draws on such intimate familiarity with the early glamour of photography as science, commerce and communication in the various local conditions of China's cities and towns. Joining a body of critical writing that examines photography's histories outside the familiar confines of the West, this book looks beyondTable of ContentsIntroduction. PART 1: Science 1. Methods of Invention 2. Terms of Description PART 2: COMMERCE 3. Sites of Production 4. Interiors of the Imagination PART 3: COMMUNICATION 5. Categories of Content 6. Circuits of Communication

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories and cultural criticism. It rests on the argument that diasporic jazz is not a passive, second-hand reflection of music originating in the US, but possesses its own integrity, vitality and distinctive range of identities. This companion reveals the contradictions of cultural globalization from which diasporic jazz cultures emerge, through 45 chapters withinseven thematic parts: What is Diasporic Jazz? Histories and Counter-Narratives Making, Disseminating and Consuming Diasporic Jazz Culture, Politics and Ideology Communities and Distinctions Presenting and Representing Diasporic Jazz Challenges and New DirectionsThe Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies tra

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Book SynopsisMastering Unreal Engine: A Beginner's Guide introduces developers of all ages to the beautiful and valuable world of Unreal Engine in particular and game development in general.Unreal Engine is a complete development suite for anyone working with real-time technology when it comes to game development. It provides flexibility and power to artists across many sectors to generate cutting-edge entertainment, engaging visualizations, and immersive virtual environments for games and infotainment alike. Unreal Engine is a prominent game creation engine that is free to use. The majority of people associate Unreal Engine with 3D games. However, it may also be used to create 2D games with ease. It is the de facto standard in the world of game development. That said, it is not hard to be confused when getting started with Unreal Engine because of the wide range of features that it provides. Mastering Unreal Engine will te

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Book SynopsisGame Audio Fundamentals takes the reader on a journey through game audio design: from analog and digital audio basics, to the art and execution of sound effects, soundtracks, and voice production, as well as learning how to make sense of a truly effective soundscape.Trade Review"With his Game Audio Fundamentals, Keith Zizza has delivered a solid, hands-on book that touches on all the important aspects of creating sound and music for video games!"Brian Schmidt, Game Composer/Sound Designer, Executive Director of GameSoundConTable of ContentsPART I: Theory and Tools 1. Acoustics and Analog Audio 2. Digital Audio 3. Music Theory for Audio Designers 4. Production Tools PART II: Soundscapes and Disciplines 5. DAW Essentials, Part I: Editing, Workflow, and Rendering 6. DAW Essentials, Part II: An Overview of Plug-ins 7. Understanding Soundscapes for Games 8. Sound Design 9. Music 10. Dialogue PART III: Practice 11. Production and Development 12. Implementation 13. Listening 14. Finding Game Audio Work

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Book SynopsisActivated Script Analysis engages theatre students in traditional formative script analysis through a fusion of devised theatre and various modes of creative expression, dispelling the notion of script analysis as an isolated pen-to-paper task and reimagining it as a captivating and collaborative process.This book uses diverse, contemporary plays to model the script analysis process for each of four Theatrical Elements: Given Circumstances; Character; Setting; and Structure. By considering each of these elements, readers can uncover patterns and themes within a dramatic text. Woven throughout the study of each theatrical element are Connections: Personal Connections, which encourage readers to explore a theatrical element within their own lives, as though their lives were a script; Play Connections, which make abstract ideas presented in script analysis concrete through theatre-based play; Professional Connections, which examine how a theatre professional might analyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Defining Script Analysis 2. Given Circumstances 3.Character 4.Setting 5. Structure 6.Conclusion Appendices Glossary Index

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Sound Heritage is the first study of music in the historic house museum, featuring contributions from both music and heritage scholars and professionals in a richly interdisciplinary approach to central issues. It examines how music materials can be used to create narratives about past inhabitants and their surroundings - including aspects of social and cultural life beyond the activity of music making itself - and explores how music as sound, material, and practice can be more consistently and engagingly integrated into the curation and interpretation of historic houses.The volume is structured around a selection of thematic chapters and a series of shorter case studies, each focusing on a specific house, object or project. Key themes include: Different types of historic house, including the case of the composer or musician house; what can be learned from museums and galleries about the use of sound and music and what may not transfer to the historic h

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, selfies, with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.This book examines the selfie as a social and technological phenomenon but also engages with digital self-portraiture as representation: as work that is committed to rigorous object-based analysis. The scholars in this volume consider the topic of online self-portraitureboth its social function as a technology-driven form of visual communication, as well as its thematic, intellectual, historical, and aesthetic intersections with the history of art and visual culture.This book will be of interest to scholars of photography, art history, and media studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Selfie as Visual Culture: A Methodological QuandaryDerek Conrad Murray1. Counter-Selfies and the Real Subsumption of SocietyGrant Bollmer2. Self-Portraiture and Self PerformanceKatherine Guinness3. Proliferating Identity: Trans Selfies as Contemporary Art Ace Lehner4. The Evolution of the Selfie: Influencers, Feminism and Visual CultureDerek Conrad Murray5. How Selfies Think: The Cognitive Dimensions of Digital PhotographyKyle Parry6. Domestic Snapshots: Female Self-Imaging Practices Then and NowSoraya Murray7. The Selfie in Consumer CultureJonathan Schroeder8. Selfie Narcissism, Consumerism and the Pathologizing of WomenDerek Conrad Murray

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the reasons behind the unexpected rise to power of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian with no political background, and offers an in-depth analysis of the populist messages he delivered to the Ukrainian people via his TV show.Taking a discourse analysis approach, the author draws on two main arguments of critical scholarship: the populist explosion of the recent decade came as a reaction to the inequalities and injustices of the global neoliberal order, and the success of neoliberalism can be explained by its ability to mask itself under attractive progressive covers. Developing these lines of argument, the book demonstrates not only how the populist explosion can lead to  further neoliberalization, but also that the euphemizing effect can be achieved by mixing the virtual and the real, as in the case of Zelensky.This first of its kind study will resonate with any scholar or upper-level student working on populism, neTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Populist Explosion as a Reaction to the Neoliberal Order 2. Euphemizing the Neoliberal Promise 3. The People vs. The Elites 4. On the Fringes of the Virtual and the Real: Simulating the Political 5 “Do not Sell Our Motherland!”: Zelensky’s Land Reform 6. “To bury communism”: A Failure of Modernization Rhetoric of “Servants” 7. The Post-Political Tyranny of the Integral 8. Democracy-to-Come: A Perpetual Promise Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of the earliest and finest collated inscription in the history of Chinese calligraphy, the Ji Wang shengjiao xu ????? (Preface to the Sacred Teaching Scriptures Translated by Xuanzang in Wang Xizhi's Collated Characters), which was erected on January 1, 673. The stele records the two texts written by the Tang emperors Taizong (599649) and Gaozong (628683) in honor of the monk Xuanzang (d. 664) and the Buddhist scripture Xin jing (Heart Sutra), collated in the semi-cursive characters of the great master of Chinese calligraphy, Wang Xizhi (303361). It is thus a Buddhist inscription that combines Buddhist authority, political power, and artistic charm in one single monument. The present book reconstructs the multifaceted context in which the stele was devised, aiming at highlighting the specific role calligraphy played in the propagation and protection of Buddhism in medieval China.Trade Review"De Laurentis endeavors from the outset to ensure that the volume does not simply examine the technical aspects of the inscription and the significance and impact it had on Chinese calligraphy, but particularly seeks to also explore the wider background of the monument’s erection, it's broader impact on the religious landscape, and the specific motivations behind its construction. [...] Although this volume will be of greatest worth to those interested in early Chinese Buddhism, those with a broader interest in Chinese religion as a whole will have much to gain from De Laurentis’ attention to the multifaceted context in which the stele was erected."Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review (vol. 48/2, pp. 290-291)"De Laurentis s’efforce de situer la place de l’inscription des Saints enseignements dans l’histoire de la calligraphie chinoise. L’intérêt qu’elle a suscité chez les calligraphes et les collectionneurs d’estampages est manifeste puisqu’elle représente le plus vaste des écrits de Wang Xizhi (ou plutôt exécuté avec les caractères de Wang Xizhi). [...] À La démonstration patiente, minutieuse, enthiusiaste et parfaitement documentée de Pietro De Laurentis vient s’ajouter un ensemble de documents annexes: la transcription et la traduction du texte de la stèle des Saints enseignements, et un inventaire des autres inscriptions utilisent également des charactères empruntés à Wang Xizhi.""De Laurentis tries to situate the place of the inscription of the Holy Teachings in the history of Chinese calligraphy. The interest it has aroused among calligraphers and collectors of stampings is obvious since it represents the largest of the writings of Wang Xizhi (or rather executed with the characters of Wang Xizhi). [...] To the patient, meticulous, enthusiastic and perfectly documented demonstration of Pietro De Laurentis is added a set of additional documents: the transcription and translation of the text of the stele of the Holy teachings, and an inventory of the other inscriptions also use characters borrowed to Wang Xizhi."Jean-Pierre Drège, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, T'oung Pao (vol. 108/3-4, pp. 535-542)"『集王聖教序』が書法資料として研究されてきた主な流れとイメージに対して、畢羅氏は本著作の中において『集王聖教序』はその歴史的意義と文化価値という視角から仏教芸術品の属性を見出した。一方、同書には俗書かどうかなどの問題に対しても書法芸術的な視点から「天然、牽糸、枯筆、節筆、連綿、率意」といった技法的若しくは審美的な視点から具体例をあげながら分析されている。説得力のある数値化、図表化によって論拠が多く挙げられ、有効に論証できたことは非常に印象的であった。""In response to the main trends and images that have been explored in the study of calligraphic material, De Laurentis discusses in this book the Buddhist art of Shuouseikyo from the perspective of its historical significance and cultural value and I discovered the attributes of this from my reading. On the other hand, the same book also gives specific examples from the calligraphic art regarding such issues as whether the material is secular or not, from a technical and aesthetic analysis of elements including the 'naturalness, thread, dry brush, knotted brush, unbroken line, and sincerity'. It was very impressive that many arguments were presented through persuasive quantification and charting, and that De Laurentis was able to demonstrate arguments effectively."Shi Yongfeng 石永峰, "Bi Luo chu Son Yūgun i yoku shōgyō wo yomu—Yūroppa ni okeru Ō Gishi kenkyū no saizensen" 畢羅著尊右軍以翼聖教を読む―ヨーロッパにおける王羲之研究の最前線, Shohō gangaku kenkyū 書法漢學研究, vol. 32 (2022/12), pp. 60-64.Table of Contents1. Buddhism and Calligraphy in Medieval China 2. Wang Xizhi’s Calligraphy and the Semi-cursive Script (Xingshu 行書) 3. The Ji Wang shengjiao xu and Its Texts 4. The Context of the Erection of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu 5. A History of the Location of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu 6. The Collation of Wang Xizhi’s Characters for the Ji Wang shengjiao xu 7. The Carving of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu 8. The Shape and the Calligraphy of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu

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Book SynopsisThis book examines animated propaganda produced in mainland China from the 1940s to the 1970s. The analyses of four puppet films demonstrate how animation and Maoist doctrine became tightly but dynamically entangled.The book firstly contextualizes the production conditions and ideological contents of The Emperor's Dream (1947), the first puppet film made at the Northeast Film Studio in Changchun. It then examines the artistic, intellectual, and ideological backbone of the puppet film Wanderings of Sanmao (1958). The book presents the means and methods applied in puppet animation filmmaking that complied with the ideological principles established by the radical supporters of Mao Zedong in the first half of the 1960s, discussing Rooster Crows at Midnight (1964). The final chapter discusses The Little 8th Route Army (1973), created by You Lei in the midst of the Cultural Revolution.This book will be of great interest to those in Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. INTRODUCTION. Part I Echoes of the National Salvation Movement, 1940s–1950s. Chapter 1.1 Denouncing Chiang Kai-shek: The Emperor’s Dream by Chen Bo’er. Chapter 1.2 Unity in Resistance: Wanderings of Sanmao by Zhang Chaoqun. Part II Calls of the Continuous Revolution, 1960s–1970s: Films of You Lei. Chapter 2.1 "To Live is to Serve the People": Rooster Crows at Midnight. Chapter 2.2 "Bombard the Headquarters": The Little 8th Route Army. FINAL NOTES. GLOSSARY. INDEX.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how being disabled originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relationsthe interplay of which render bodies normal or not.Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling influence how we view dis/ability? How do wheelchair users understand their own bodies and an environment not built for them? By asking questions like these the authors reveal how normalization has informed people's experiences of their bodies and their fight for substantive equality. Understanding these processes requires acknowledging the tension between social construction and embodiment as well as centering the intersection of dis/abilities with other identities, such as race, class, gender, sex orientation, citizen status, and so on. Scholars and researchers will find that this book provides new avenues for thinking about dis/ability. A wider audience will find it accessible and informative. Table of Contents1.Introduction: Dis/abilities at the Intersections Micky Lee, Frank Rudy Cooper, and Pat Reeve. 2.The Art of Regarding Still Life Pam Mullins. 3.Embodiment’s Contributions to Appreciating Life with Disability and to Advancing Justice Mary Crossley. 4.Subjects of Industry: Craft Therapy, Its Photography, and Healing American Soldiers of World War 1 Jennifer Way. 5.Chapter 5 - Medical Discourses on Dis/ability in State Socialist Romania: a Critical Genealogy Radu-Harald Dinu. 6.Embodied Inequalities: Intersections of Disabilities and Gender in West Germany (1950-1990) Sebastian Schlund. 7.Policing Dis/ability Eric J. Miller. 8.Reassessing Japanese Radical Feminism from the Vantage Point of Dis/ability Anna Vittinghoff. 9.Sayōnara CP: the First Filmic Representation of the Japanese Disability Right Movement Anne-Lise Mithout. 10.Voltron: Legendary Defender and Compulsory Ablebodiness Lauren Rouse. 11.Corrective Lens: Dis/abilities and the Materiality of Media Micky Lee. 12.Disability and Race in American History: Rhetoric and Reality in the Civil War and Post-Emancipation South Jenifer Barclay. 13.Bending the Laws of Nature: DNA Literacy and the Coding of the Perfect Human Being Raphaela Tkotzyk and Kim Carina Hebben. 14.Deconstructing Rules for Proof of Cognitive Impairments Tom Lininger. 15.So that playing to win is not playing to die: Constructing Legal Recourse for Athletes with Sickle Cell Trait Laboring in the Actor-Networks of the Brown Commons Madeleine Plasencia.

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Book SynopsisWhat if the work of a nurse, physio, or homecare worker was designated an art, so that the qualities of the experiences they create became understood as aesthetic qualities? What if the interactions created by artists, directors, dancers, or workshop facilitators were understood as works of care? Care Aesthetics is the first full-length book to explore these questions and examine the work of carer artists and artist carers to make the case for the importance of valuing and supporting aesthetically caring relations across multiple aspects of our lives.Theoretically and practically, the book outlines the implications of care aesthetics for the socially engaged arts field and health and social care, and for acts of aesthetic care in the everyday. Part 1 of the book outlines the approaches to aesthetics and to care theory that are necessary to make and defend the concept of care aesthetics. Part 2 then tests this through practice, examining socially engaged arts and hTable of ContentsPart 1: Care Aesthetics 1. What is the aesthetics of care aesthetics? 2. What is the care of care aesthetics? Part 2: Care Aesthetics in Practice 3. Careful Art 4. Artful Care Everyday Care Aesthetics

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Book SynopsisDesign Materials and Making for Social Change spans the two interconnected worlds of the material and the social, at different scales and in different contexts, and explores the value of the knowledge, skills and methods that emerge when design researchers work directly with materials and hold making central to their practice.Through the social entanglements of addressing material impacts, the contributors to this edited volume examine homelessness, diaspora, migration, the erosion of craft skills and communities, dignity in work and family life, the impacts of colonialism, climate crisis, education, mental health and the shifting complexities in collaborating with and across diverse disciplines and stakeholders. This book celebrates the role of materials and making in design research by demonstrating the diverse and complex interplay between disciplines and the cultures it enables, when in search of alternative futures.Design Materials and Making for Soci

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Book SynopsisEnriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950â53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after World War II (WWII).Moving beyond previous studies, this book looks to the archival sources and beyond the history of design for a greater understanding of the stakes of the show. First, the book considers artâs role in this exhibitionâs importâprominent mid-century sculptors like Giacomo ManzÃ, Fausto Melotti, and Lucio Fontana were included. Second, it foregrounds the particular role sculpture was able to play in transcending the boundaries of fine art and craft to showcase innovative formalist aesthetics of modernism without falling in the critiques of modernism playing out on the international stage in terms of state funding for art. Third, the book engages with the larger socio-political use of art as a cultural soft power both within the American and Italian contexts. Fourth, it highlights the important role race and culture of Italians and Italian-Americans played in the installation and success of this exhibition. Lastly, therefore, this study connects an investigation of modernist sculpture, modern design, post-war exhibitions, sociology, and transatlantic politics and economics to highlight the important role sculpture played in post-war Italian and American cultural production.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, design history, museum studies, Italian studies, and American studies.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction: Art and Politics in an Exhibition of "Design" Chapter 2 – Organizing Italy at Work under the Auspices of the Marshall Plan Chapter 3 – Italian Americans as Stakeholders in an American Exhibition of Western Culture Chapter 4 – Ceramic Sculpture’s Special Role in Validating Italian Humanist Culture for an American Audience Chapter 5 – Displaying Italian Producers for American Consumers Chapter 6 – Thoughts on the Cultural Impacts of Italy at Work

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Book SynopsisThis collection provides an in-depth exploration of surtitling for theatre and its potential in enhancing accessibility and creativity in both the production and reception of theatrical performances.The volume collects the latest research on surtitling, which encompasses translating lyrics or sections of dialogue and projecting them on a screen. While most work has focused on opera, this book showcases how it has increasingly played a role in theatre by examining examples from well-known festivals and performances. The 11 chapters underscore how the hybrid nature and complex semiotic modes of theatrical texts, coupled with technological advancements, offer a plurality of possibilities for applying surtitling effectively across different contexts. The book calls attention to the ways in which agents in theatrical spaces need to carefully reflect on the role of surtitling in order to best serve the needs of diverse audiences and produce inclusive productions, from translaTrade Review"A rich collection of case studies, examples of good practice and theoretical challenges found in theatre translation and surtitling, sure to captivate practitioners, trainers and researchers alike. It covers a wealth of languages and contexts, including interventions resulting from the constraints brought about by the COVID-19 outbreak. The authors present fresh perspectives on how theatre translation and surtitling can be strengthened by innovative, collaborative, and technology-supported practices, thus continuing to foster inclusion and communication."Professor Alina Secară, University of ViennaTable of ContentsList of figures and tables Notes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Resetting the scene: theatre translation and surtitling revisitedVasiliki Misiou and Loukia KostopoulouPART IRethinking theatre translation: Text, performance, translator1 Music and sub(sur)titling: Paradoxes and inconsistencies in today’s live performancesLucile Desblache2 Coming to terms: Towards a hermeneutics of expectation in theatre surtitlingSarah Maitland3 At the crossroad of translation and performance: Theatre translation and Practice as ResearchAngela Tiziana Tarantini4 Post-dramatic mediaturgy in translation: The trials of technotextsTitika DimitrouliaPART IISurtitle(r)s taking the stage5 Chicago: A musical on stage and screen in Spanish translationMarta Mateo6 Multiple voices in surtitling on contemporary Catalan stagesEva Espasa7 The acrobatics of theatre surtitling: The case of The Lehman TrilogyMarisa S. TrubianoPART IIICatering for diverse audiences: Minority groups, accessibility, and immersive experience8 On target: Surtitles, translation strategies and audience receptionLouise Ladouceur and Milane Pridmore-Franz9 From stage to screen: Digital transformations and accessibility in the scenic artsEstella Oncins10 Integrated immersive inclusiveness: Rethinking captioning for creative accessibilityPierre-Alexis Mével, Jo Robinson, and Paul Tennent 11 Breaking the conventions about surtitles: The case of Buona la PrimaAntonia Mele ScorciaIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a thorough examination of digital work by women comedians in the US, exploring their use of digital media to perform jokes, engage with fans, remake their reputations, and become political activists. This book argues that despite its many adverse effects, digital work is changing comedy, empowering women to create new comic forms and negotiate the contentious political climate incited by former President Donald. J. Trump. Chapters are focused on video podcasting, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and the streaming platform Netflix each containing informative case studies on significant women comedians who use them, including Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, Leslie Jones, Mindy Kaling, Colleen Ballinger, Lilly Singh, Ms. Pat, Whitney Cummings, Issa Rae, and others. To understand their strategies, this book examines the popularity of their digital content, their career outcomes in television and film, as well as the ups and downs of their critical reputations Table of Contents1. Advantages and Adverse Effects: How Digital Work Empowers Women Comedians in Trump’s America 2. Women Comedians’ Video Podcasting on YouTube: How Complex Authenticity Cultivates Fans 3. Women Comedians Trapped on TikTok: The Opportunities and Limitations of Cringey, Intersectional Comedy 4. Witty Women on Twitter: Collaborative Reputation Making, Anti-Fandom, and Harnessing the Trolls 5.Conformity with Comic Subversion: How Women Comedians Shape their Reputations using Instagram 6.Women Comedians’ Working Practices on YouTube: The Sometimes-Difficult Transition to Television 7. Netflix’s Calculated Risks in Comedy: Unlikely Women’s First Stand-up Specials 8. Trump’s War with Women Satirists on Television: How Carnivalesque Comedy Generates Digital Redistribution 9. Participatory Audiences in Trump’s Cancel Culture: How Women Comedian-Activists Survive and Earn Prestige 10. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisLauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the twentieth century, Federico García Lorca was also an accomplished theatre director with a clear process and philosophy of how drama should be staged. Directing both his own work and that of others, Lorca was also closely involved in the rehearsals for productions of many of his plays, and from his own writings and those of his collaborators, a determined agenda to stimulate audiences and renovate theatre can be seen.This is the first book in English to fully consider Lorca as a director and his rehearsal methodology. The book combines:-          A biographical account of Lorca's work as a director and rehearsal leader, revealing his techniques and methods of approach texts;-          An exploration of his key writings on and around theatre, drawing on his talks, play introductions, and some of the dramatic wor

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Book SynopsisStages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and practices and to make new pedagogical choices for students with racialized identities. Centering the voices of actor trainers of color to acknowledge their personal experience and professional pedagogy as theory, this volume illuminates actionable ideas for text work, casting, voice, consent practices, and movement while offering decolonial approaches to current Eurocentric methods. These offerings invite the reader to create spaces where students can bring more of themselves, their communities, and their stories into their training and as fodder for performance making that will lead to a more just world.This book is for people in high/secondary schools, higher education, and private training studios who wish to teachTable of ContentsList of figuresList of contributorsAcknowledgementsForeword: navigating liberation: a conversation between friendsNicole Brewer and Walton WilsonIntroduction: why this book now?Amy Mihyang GintherPART IDistilling/grounding/performing identities1 Black queer autoethnographies: tools for equitable teaching and learning in predominantly white institutionsGregory King2 Societal othering of Asian Americans and its perpetuation through castingJoy Lanceta Coronel3 Embodying racial consciousness: white allyship as given circumstance and objective for the casting and coaching of sceneworkRachel E. BlackburnPART IIEmbodying disruption/abstention/resistance4 I’mma do me: code-switch resistance as collective liberation in voice and speech classesAlicia Richardson5 The erotic of abstinence: refusing the white-possessive and embracing settler abstinence in performance pedagogyMaria Teresa Houar6 Nepantla: lingering in-between to embody our voiceSayda TrujilloPART IIITraveling across time/space/language7 Representation matters: the why and how of decolonizing Stanislavski actor trainingAlison Nicole Vasquez8 Empowering the somatically othered actor through multilingual improvisation in trainingKristine Landon-Smith and Chris Hay9 The possibilities of paradox: decolonial Shakespeare process in practiceAmy Mihyang GintherPART IVTransforming across/through/around disciplinarity10 A time of protest: exploring activism and acting through Hip-Hop Pedagogy & Theatre of the OppressedDaphnie Sicre11 Whose body is dis: taksu, ase, Black queer intersections, and the awakening of the actor’s spiritual practice Budi Miller12 Stigmata: biography of an Arab female body in painMaiada AboudAfterword: morning rain, parting clouds, and what is to comeAmy Mihyang Ginther and Celia Mercedes Espinosa Index

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collectionâs engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts.Featuring four sections, the first part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive neuroscience. Part two examines one of the most important intersections between text and image: the workings of ekphrasis across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel writing, and architectural treatises. Parts three and four consider intermedial crossings from antiquity to the present. The contributors examine the rich intermedial experiments that range from manuscript studies to infographics in graphic narratives, illuminating the vibrant ways in which texts have intersected with illustration, music, dance, architecture, painting, photography, media installations, and television.Throughout this dynamic collection of 37 chapters, the contributors evolve existing critical debates in innovative new directions. The volume will be a critical resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as specialist scholars working in literary studies, philosophy of art, text and image studies, and visual culture.The Introduction and Chapters 10, 14 and 37 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

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Book SynopsisWritten by an AAA industry expert with over 20 years of experience, this book offers comprehensive coverage of the practical skills that all successful level designers need to have. It covers everything from practical production skills to the social and soft skills required to thrive in the gaming industry.This book begins with a theoretical and abstract approach that sets a common language for the later hard-skill applications and practical examples. These later chapters cover a wealth of practical skills for use during the concept phase, while creating layouts, scripting, and working with AI. This book includes essential chapters on topics such as social skills, soft skills, world-building, level design direction, production, as well as how to gain employment in the industry.This book will be of great interest to all level designers, content leads, and directors looking to enhance their skillset. It will also appeal to students of level and game design looking for tips on how to break into the industry.Trade ReviewBen Bauer is one of the top-level designers in the business. His deep knowledge of flow, game space and environment creation and refinement has resulted in some of the most exciting experiences in games. This book gives readers a look into what makes a level great and how to do it the right way.--Jack Mamais, Director, Impeller Studios. Mr. Bauer has achieved something truly rare in a book on specialized game development methodology: He delivers a rigorous framework for the various interconnected practices of Level Design and does it with a witty conversational style that makes you feel like Ben is there coaching you in person. He also takes the time to bring our collective attention to some oft-neglected aspects of the LD’s craft. An outstanding primer for new designers and experienced game devs alike.--Patrick Redding, Creative Director, Warner Bros. Games.This book will be a fantastic read for level designers of all skill sets and experience. Entertainingly written, it shows great insights into how to practically develop levels, but also covers how level designers can excel within a larger game development environment, with many anecdotes from Ben's own work experience in his 20+ years in the industry. "--Sten Huebler, Senior Level Designer, Microsoft. Table of ContentsSection I: Book and Level Design Introduction. Chapter 1: Book Introduction. Chapter 2: Definition of Level Design and Level Designers. Section II: Production and Social Skills. Chapter 3: Level Design Production. Chapter 4: Diplomacy of Level Design. Chapter 5: Teamwork and Leadership Tools. Section III. Level Design Theory. Chapter 6: About Vision, Pillars, and Direction. Chapter 7: Abstract Level Design. Chapter 8: The Big Picture. Chapter 9: High-Level Layouts. Chapter 10: Connective Tissue. Section IV: Practical: How to Get Started. Chapter 11: Concept Phase. Chapter 12: First Steps. Section V: Practical: Layouts. Chapter 13: Cover, Flow, and Player Leading. Chapter 14: Scenarios and Location Types. Section VI: Practical: Technical Aspects and Game Design. Chapter 15: Scripting and Technical. Chapter 16: Working with Ingredients. Section VII: Closing Topics. Chapter 17: Closing and Shipping. Chapter 18: Becoming a Level Designer.

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Book SynopsisThis book will help game designers and those interested in games thoughtfully embed culture into video games and the game design process.This book raises the issue of how some cultures and communities are misrepresented in various video games. In response to this problem, designers can bring cultural considerations and practices into the centre focus of the game design process. The book advocates that designers put different measures in place to better prevent misrepresentations and engage with deeper understandings of culture to build culturally richer and more meaningful game worlds. The book uses the Torres Strait Virtual Reality project as a primary example, in addition to other game projects, to explore cultural representation in game design. Torres Strait culture is also explored and discussed more broadly throughout the book. No prior knowledge of culture studies is needed, and the book deals with higher level game design with little reference to the technical eTrade ReviewThis book is a standout contribution to Indigenous video game development and exemplifies what can happen when Design Research, Indigenous Studies, and Game Studies meet. Rhett Loban cleverly weaves between theory and practice while upholding the Torres Strait community, giving us heartfelt insights and a guide to future related work.Dr Elizabeth LaPensée, Narrative Director at Twin Suns, International Video Game Studio.This book is a brilliant and innovative piece of work, beautiful to read, and a project painstakingly consulted and developed, to present a range of processes and cultural practices that have rarely been discussed before in public. It sensitively guides game designers through reciprocal work with community.Associate Professor Neil Harrison, Associate Professor at Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Australia.Narratives on the Torres Straits Island culture makes the book an intriguing read. The culturally-centred game design captures the cultural connections and representations within the community. Coupled with a methodology which allows for community-participation, the book is engaging and provides the stimulus for discussions on comparative studies.Associate Professor Dr. Dorothy DeWitt, Associate Professor at Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Malaysia.Table of ContentsPrologue: The recent passing of a relative or community member. 1. Cultural representations in video games. 2. Knowing the context: A Torres Strait perspective. Interlude: Preparing for the Tombstone Opening. 3. The palm and the Dogai. 4. Culturally centred game design. 5. Community participation in game design. Interlude: The Tombstone Opening. 6. Cultural immersion, rigorous research and ethics in game design. 7. Designing to produce deep representations. Epilogue: Caring for the tombstone site.

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Book Synopsis  The International Who's Who in Classical Music 2022 is a vast source of biographical and contact information for singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors, managers and more. Each entrant has been given the opportunity to update his or her information for the new improved 2022 edition. Each biographical entry comprises personal information, principal career details, repertoire, recordings and compositions, and full contact details where available. Appendices provide contact details for national orchestras, opera companies, music festivals, music organizations and major competitions and awards. International Who's Who in Classical Music includes individuals involved in all aspects of the world of classical music: composers, instrumentalists, singers, arrangers, writers, musicologists, conductors, directors and managers. Key Features:- about 8,000 detailed biographical entries<Table of ContentsPart 1: BiographiesPart 2: Directory Appendix A: Orchestras. Appendix B Opera Companies. Appendix C: Music Festivals. Appendix D: Music Organizations. Appendix E: Competitions and Awards.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide walks readers through the entire process of getting and keeping a writing job in the games industry. It outlines exactly what a beginner needs to know about education requirements, finding opportunities, applying for roles, and acing studio interviews. Professional writers will learn how to navigate studio hierarchies, transfer roles and companies, work overseas, and keep developing their careers.Written by an experienced games writer with nearly two decades of industry knowledge, this book contains a wealth of interviews and perspectives with industry leaders, hiring managers, and developers from marginalized communities, all offering their tips and insights. Included are examples of materials such as job posts, writing samples, and portfolios, as well as chapter-end challenges for readers to directly apply the skills they have learnt.This book will be of great interest to all beginner and aspiring games writers and narrative designers, as welTrade Review"The Game Writing Guide is the book I wish I’d had when I was starting out. It goes beyond the obvious advice to give you the nitty gritty you need to be able to do the job. It's like getting a year of extra work experience. I’m buying it for all my friends who want to become game writers."Lisa Hunter, Narrative Director, Compulsion Games."There is no one true path into getting a job in the game industry. Chock full of invaluable advice and knowledge only an industry veteran could offer, this book is a definitive insider's guide on how to get your foot in the door while leveraging the very best of yourself in the process."Ann Lemay, Narrative Director, WB Games, Montréal.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Definitions 2 Education3 Finding Work4 Applications5 Resumes6 Cover Letters7 Samples and Portfolios8 Interviews9 Writing Tests10 Contracts and Negotiations11 First Day12 Moving Up13 Steps and Obstacles14 Leadership15 Moving On16 International Work17 Strategies for Marginalized CommunitiesConclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Principality of Epirus was a medieval Greek state established in the western part of the Balkans after the fall of Constantinople to the forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The Epirote rulers from the Komnenos Doukas family claimed to be legitimate successors to the Byzantine imperial throne and, with the support of the high clergy and the aristocracy within their domain, carefully maintained their Byzantine identity under the conditions of exile. This book explores a corpus of Epirote architecture, frescoes, sculpture, and inscriptions from the early thirteenth to the early fourteenth century within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework, focusing on the nexus of art, patronage, and political ideology. Through an examination of a vast array of visual and textual sources, many of them understudied or hitherto unpublished, the book uncovers how the Epirote elite mobilised art and material culture to address the issues of succession and legitimacy, construct memory, reclaTable of ContentsIntroduction / Chapter 1. Artistic Production and Patronage in Epirus during the Thirteenth and the Beginning of the Fourteenth Centuries / Chapter 2. Art, the Memory of Constantinople, and the Formation of the Epirote Political Identity After 1204 / Chapter 3. Catastrophe and the Revival of Epirus: Art and Political Ideology after the Battle at Klokotnitsa in 1230 / Chapter 4. Epirus between the Palaiologoi and the Angevins during the Reign of Nikephoros Komnenos Doukas (1267/8–1297) / Chapter 5. Art and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus after 1296 / Conclusion / Catalogue of Iconographic Programmes in Epirote Churches

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Book SynopsisInterrogating the intersections of food, journalism, and politics, this book offers a critical examination of food media and journalism, and its political potential against the backdrop of contemporary social challenges.Contributors analyze current and historic examples such as #BlackLivesMatter, COVID-19, climate change, Brexit, food sovereignty, and identity politics, highlighting how food media and journalism reach beyond the commercial imperatives of lifestyle journalism to negotiate nationalism, globalization, and social inequalities. The volume challenges the idea that food media/journalism are trivial and apolitical by drawing attention to the complex ways that storytelling about food has engaged political discourses in the past, and the innovative ways it is doing so today. Bringing together international scholars from a variety of disciplines, the book will be of great interest to scholars and students of journalism, communication, media studies, food stuTrade Review"In the contemporary moment, food content—whether on Netflix, YouTube, the New York Times or Tik Tok—sits front and centre of post-broadcast media and journalism. No longer relegated to lifestyle supplements or the domestic realm, celebrity chefs and food journalists mix it up with politicians, climate change activists, and “me too” campaigners. Elizabeth Fakazis and Elfriede Fürsich’s timely and fascinating collection speaks to the power and political impact of food journalism at a time when an intensely mediatised foodie culture meets growing public awareness of ethical, environmental, labour, and animal rights issues in the food sphere. From food blogging and black lives matters to bad boy chefs practising culinary philanthropy, this rich array of chapters provided by an international cast of culinary scholars speak to the centrality of the critical politics of food to our everyday media engagement with food media and so-called lifestyle journalism. This book is a must read for journalism students, critical food studies scholars, and general readers interested in food citizenship, food media, and the politics of everyday life."Tania Lewis, author of 'Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform' and Co-Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia"Can lifestyle journalism ever contribute to civic responsibility? Is contemporary food media a symptom of the narcissism of high consumption and self-serving entrepreneurialism? Are Instagram and Twitter new sites of democratization of public culture or do they mark the death of common debate and discussion? Posing the most important questions that haunt food media today, this volume, carefully collected and closely argued, delivers bracing critique and surprising commentary on the viability of a journalism of everyday life, while alerting us to the symptoms of the fractious death of a common public culture."Krishnendu Ray, author of ‘The Ethnic Restaurateur,” Food Studies, New York University, USA"Food cultures and practices can be political, but often in covert ways. Thoughtful and impassioned journalism uncovers these politics, bringing issues such as food insecurity, environmental degradation, racism, classism, sexism, the cult of celebrity, and nationalism to the attention of the world. This wonderful book provides many examples of how food journalism and digital media content creators can challenge inequities, create controversy, and call for change."Deborah Lupton, Vitalities Lab and Australian Research Centre for Automated Decision-Making and Society, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia "Showcasing work from leading and emerging scholars and bringing together international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this volume offers a rich exploration into the intersections of food, media, and politics. A welcome, and timely, addition to the growing field of food communication, this project centers on the political relevance of food media and journalism and investigates their influence on personal and civic lives. A must-read for students and scholars in the fields of communication, media, and journalism, and anyone interested in food communication and politics."Alla Tovares, co-editor of ‘Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse,’ Howard University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: From the Racist Sandwich to Civil Eats: How Food Journalism Is Engaging with Politics; Part I: Engaging with Systems of Injustice and Disparity; 1. Influencer Activism: Visibility, Strategy, and #BlackLivesMatter Discourse on Food Instagram; 2. Super Bowl Food Politics: On the Menu, on the Screen, and on the Field; 3. Agribusiness, Environmental Conflict, and Food in Travel Journalism: Image Work for the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick; 4. Who Speaks and Are We Listening? Food Sovereign Voices in a Changing Climate; Part II: Raising Questions of Legitimacy, Power, and Good Citizenship; 5. From Bad Boys to Heroes: Culinary Philanthropy and Good Citizenship in the Age of COVID-19; 6. Cooking in the Time of Corona: The Politicized Domesticity of Food Journalism in The New York Times; 7. Paleo and Pain Free: Reporting on Scandals of Food Celebrities; Part III: Negotiating Regional, National, and Global Identities; 8. Of Clay Stoves and Cooking Pots: “Village Food” Videos and Gastro-Politics in Contemporary India; 9. How the Bendy Banana Became a Symbol of Anti-EU Sentiment: British Media, Political Mythology, and Populism; 10. Heritage, Belonging, and Promotion: Food Journalism Reconsidered; Part IV: Recovering History and (Re)producing Memory; 11. Patriotic Hens, Tomato Turbans, and Mock Fish: The Daily Mail Food Bureau and National Identity during the First World War; 12. Influencer before the Internet: The Extraordinary Career of Chef, Editor, and Food Entrepreneur Alma Lach; 13. Chef’s Table and a Collective Past: Netflix, Food Media, and Cultural Memories; Index

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Book SynopsisWorld Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. Based on the Fifth Edition of World Music: A Global Journey, this Third CONCISE Edition maintains the textâs familiar travel theme and strong pedagogical framework to serve as an introduction to the many and varied world music traditions, condensing the number of travel sites from 69 to 44. These sites are carefully selected from the existing compilation to be representative of all continents and regions.Features Easy-to-follow chapter structure, organized by geographic region Listening Guides, detailed maps, and hundreds of colorful photos Coverage of an eclectic blend of world musics, including both popular and traditional music A robust companion website with audio examples, flashcards, quizzes, and video linksâideal for online coursework Used in classrooms around the globe, World Music: A Global Journey is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling textbook with a student-friendly approach. This Third CONCISE Edition is a fundamental resource for exploring world music and culture.Table of Contents1 Before the Trip Begins: Fundamental Issues; 2 Aural Analysis: Listening to the World’s Musics; 3 Cultural Considerations: Beyond the Sounds Themselves; 4 Oceania: Australia, Hawai’i; 5 South Asia: India, Pakistan; 6 Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Northeast Thailand, Indonesia (Java and Bali); 7 East Asia: China, Mongolia, Japan, Tibet; 8 The Middle East: Islam and the Arab World, Iran, Egypt, Israel; 9 Europe: Spain, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, Georgia; 10 Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Zimbabwe, Senegal, South Africa; 11 The Caribbean: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba; 12 South America and Mexico: Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico; 13 North America: Canada and the United States

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Book SynopsisFor nearly two decades, Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the global documentary marketplace: storytelling. As this revised, updated fifth edition makes clear, nonfiction storytelling is not limited to character-driven journeys, but instead encompasses the diverse ways in which todayâs top documentarians reach audiences with content that is creative, original, and often inspirational, all without sacrificing the integrity that gives documentary its power. This book is filled with practical advice for writers, producers, directors, editors, cinematographers, and others committed to reality-based filmmaking that seeks to reach audiences, raise awareness, address social issues, illuminate the human condition, and even entertain.In this new edition, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Sheila Curran Bernard offers: a closer look at the way ethical nonfiction filmmakers take creative, authorial leaps while also remaining transparent with audiences; new tools for understanding how documentaries are structured, how they may rearrange time for storytelling effect, and how a simple narrative throughline can convey complexity without being a conventional heroâs journey; new conversations with filmmakers and educators including Dawn Porter, Madison Hamburg, Tracy Heather Strain, June Cross, Heidi Gronauer, and Julie Casper Roth, and another look at conversations with Stanley Nelson and Orlando von Einsiedel. Please visit the bookâs website, available at www.documentarystorytelling.com, for further information, related articles, and more.Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I: Understanding Story2. Story Basics 3. Identifying the Story 4. Structure 5. Creative Approach 6. Watching Like a Filmmaker Part II: Working with Story7. Research and Casting 8. Project Development 9. The Film on Paper 10. Shooting 11. Editing 12. Narration and Voice-Over 13. Storytelling: A Checklist Part III: Talking about Story14. Julie Casper Roth 15. June Cross 16. Heidi Gronauer 17. Madison Hamburg 18. Stanley Nelson 19. Dawn Porter 20. Tracy Heather Strain 21. Orlando von Einsiedel

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Book SynopsisThis book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing. Centred around materials from the mid-twentieth century, this book focuses on a time when composers and performers were questioning the idea of authorship within their musical practice. Materials drawn upon include recordings, scores, archival content, visual art, interviews, and liner notes to develop a rich conception of practices of performance. Analysis of performances include recordings of singers such as Cathy Berberian, Linda Hirst, Loré Lixenberg, Angelika Luz, and Meredith Monk. Compositions by Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Manuel De Falla are considered. The book utilizes these sources to examine the collective way in which singers and composers form practices as multiple, transforming, emergent, and not hierarchical. The book articulates with a detailed, close consideration of specific iTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Performing Transformations (a risky approach) 3. Transforming Black Square 4. Transforming Fictions 5. Transforming scores, stable performances: Cathy Berberian, Stripsody and Pop art. 6. Transforming analytical assumptions: What is Sequenza III? 7. Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recognition and treatment of certain aspects of the plays as evidence and demonstrates the significance of the implications of that new information. This book is also an assessment of the competing narratives about the processes involved in early modern performance: about the status of manuscript playbooks, about the parts that players memorized, about the functions of the bookkeeper, about casting, about prompting, and about rehearsal practices. Leslie Thomson investigates the bases for the interdependent beliefs that an early modern player relied only on his part to prepare for a performance, that rehearsal was minimal, and that a bookkeeper compensated for these circumstances by prompting any player who was out of his part. By focusing on often ignored (or downplayed) requirements and challenges of early modern play texts, Thomson pTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Pre-PerformanceChapter 1: Evidence and TheoriesChapter 2: Rehearsal Reconsidered Part II: In-PerformanceChapter 3: Pronouns in ActionChapter 4: Uncued ActionsChapter 5: Staging Asides Chapter 6: Dumb Shows on StageChapter 7: Doubling and Disguise Chapter 8: Large Properties Off and On StageConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a creative and practical guide for K-6 teachers on how to effectively integrate movement into the curriculum to increase student engagement, deepen learning, improve retention, and get kids moving during the school day.Chapters offer concrete ideas for integrating creative movement and theater into subjects such as math, science, literacy, and social studies. Drawing on two decades of experience, Dr. Becker outlines key skills, offers rich examples, and provides adaptable and flexible classroom tested lesson plans that align with Common Core Standards, the NGSS, C3 Social Studies Standards, and the National Core Arts Standards. Activities are grounded in arts integration, which is steadily gaining interest in school reform as an effective teaching strategy that increases student outcomes academically and sociallyparticularly effective for students who have traditionally been marginalized.This book will benefit practicing educators who want to invigoratTable of Contents1. Introduction: Let’s Get this Moving! 2. Getting Ready to Move 3. Setting the Stage for Success 4. Leaping for Literacy 5. Moving Through History 6. Moving Math 7. Science in Motion: Don't Lose STEAM! 8. Moving Toward Authentic Assessments Using the Arts

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the ways in which North American Muslim women artists talk back to dominant discourses about Muslim identity and work to counter mainstream stereotypes and representations. It examines the possibilities of constructing discourses of resistance to domination. Against a backdrop of dominant media representations of oppressed and passive Muslim women, the media interventions of the exceptional women artists whose voices are showcased in this book, demonstrate that Muslim women are diverse and autonomous agents who have, historically, and continue contemporarily, to fight against all forms of injustice including those that seek to circumscribe their realities and experiences. To explore expressions and articulations of alternative discourses, this book analyzes the media texts of exceptional women artists: the stand-up comedy of Palestinian-American Maysoon Zayid, the cinematic interventions of Iranian-American Shirin Neshat, and the television comedy Trade Review"Kenza Oumlil’s book is a compelling interdisciplinary analysis of gender and cultural representations of Muslim diasporic communities in North America. The text orchestrates an intellectual dialogue between U.S. black feminists and Muslim diasporic artists, providing a prescient intersectional framework with which to discuss issues of identity and self-representation. Oumlil makes a perceptive intervention that exposes the hegemonic cultural apparatus while also highlighting alternative aesthetic practices that challenge and subvert it."Ella Shohat, author of Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices"Can Muslim women represent themselves? Kenza Oumlil’s North American Muslim Women Artists Talk Back: Assertions of Unintelligibility is the sustained record of her critical reflections on this vital question. The result is a pathbreaking momentum in rearticulatig the possibilities of constructing discourses of resistance to domination—a focussed and deeply satisfying read."Hamid Dabashi, author of Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi"North American Muslim Women Artists Talk Back describes an infiltration. Artists creep up on the mainstream, ambush and unsettle what they can, when they can. Oumlil shows us that the mainstream is no easy place for Muslim women artists to navigate. Riding with them through the currents of patriarchy and white supremacy will fill us with wonder. We will gasp and laugh and shake our heads in dismay and it will all be worth it."Sherene H. Razack, author of Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics and Nothing Has to make Sense, Anti-Muslim Racism, White Supremacy and Law. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Talking Back to Power; 2: Assertions of Unintelligibility: Shirin Neshat’s Visual Innovations; 3: Using Humour to Talk Back: The Stand-Up Comedy of Maysoon Zayid; 4: Transitioning to the Mainstream in Television: Zarqa Nawaz’s Film and Television Productions; 5: Conclusions; Appendix A: Resource Guide

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Book SynopsisTheatre in Towns offers a contemporary perspective on the role of theatre in the cultural life of towns in England. Exploring volunteer-led, professional and community theatres, this book investigates the rich and diverse ways that theatres in towns serve their locality, negotiate their civic role, participate in networks of mutual aid and exchange, and connect audiences beyond their geographical borders. With a geographical focus on post-industrial, seaside, commuter and market towns in England, the book opens questions about how theatre shapes the narratives of town life, and how localism, networks and partnerships across and between towns contribute to living sustainably. Each chapter is critically and historically informed, drawing on original research in towns, including visits to performances and many conversations with townspeople, from theatre-makers, performers, set-builders, front-of-house volunteers, to audience members and civic leaders. Table of Contents1. Theatres in Towns: Places of Hope and Experiment 2. Local Theatres: Cultures of Participation 3. Making a Civic Spectacle: Towns for Rent 4. Volunteer-led Theatres: Meshworks of a Coastal Town 5. Made to Connect: Theatrical Exchange between Towns and Cities 6. Hopeful Futures: Theatres in Towns

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