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Bordighera Press Journeys on the Wheel
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£999.99
Bellissima Publishing What You See Is What You'll Get!
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£9.60
Bellissima Publishing You'll Never Know . . . If You Don't Try!
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£9.60
Cambria Press A History of Taiwan Literature
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£86.39
Buckman Publishing LLC The Right Tool: and Other Poor Choices
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£13.30
Books by Chris M. Balz Burning The May Tree: The Sacrifice of Jim
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£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Black Artists in British Art: A History since the
Book SynopsisBlack artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners of note. At other times they faced challenges of visibility - and in response they collaborated and made their own exhibitions and gallery spaces. In this book, Eddie Chambers tells the story of these artists from the 1950s onwards, including recent developments and successes. Black Artists in British Art makes a major contribution to British art history. Beginning with discussions of the pioneering generation of artists such as Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling, Chambers candidly discusses the problems and progression of several generations, including contemporary artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare. Meticulously researched, this important book tells the fascinating story of practitioners who have frequently been overlooked in the dominant history of twentieth-century British art.Trade Review'Eddie Chambers' Black Artists in British Art is a breathtaking tour de force. Brilliantly conceptualised, beautifully written and inspirationally theorised, this volume's seminal contribution to art history is unparalleled. Spectacularly well researched and stunningly original, it is an exemplary scholarly feat, essential for researchers, students and general audiences alike, and one which offers yet further confi rmation of Chambers' reputation as the leading international scholar of his generation.' Celeste-Marie Bernier PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM; 'If you told most art-world types you were interested in black British art, they might point you to Yinka Shonibare, Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen, and-maybe-a couple of others. That's it. But if you really want to know about the history and context of this vital part of contemporary practice in the UK, Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s (I. B. Tauris) by Eddie Chambers is the book you need. Chambers writes an authoritative history of black British art, but also explores its fraught relationship with white, establishment institutions... a refreshing mix of the art historian's meticulous archival work, the thrilling, blow-by-blow account of the eyewitness, and the impassioned, candid argumentation of the seasoned critic.' - Chika Okeke-Agulu, ArtForumTable of ContentsBlack Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present Chapters Foreword: Celebrating Nelson’s Ships Introduction: Some Problems with History and its Treatment of Black-British Artists. Chapter One: The Pioneering Generation of Caribbean Artists Chapter Two: Early Contributions by South Asian Artists Chapter Three: The Significance of the 1970s Chapter Four: Uzo Egonu and Contemporary African Art in Britain Chapter Five: The Earliest Black-British Practitioners Chapter Six: South Asian Stories Chapter Seven: The ‘Black Art’ Generation and the 1980s Chapter Eight: The Rise and Fall of The Black-Art Gallery Chapter Nine: The Emergence of Black Women Artists: Arguments and Opinions Chapter Ten: Sonia Boyce and Other Black Women Artists Chapter Eleven: Substantial Sculpture: The work of Sokari Douglas Camp, Veronica Ryan, and Permindar Kaur. Chapter Twelve: Black Artists of the 1990s Generation Chapter Thirteen: The Triumphant Triumvirate: Yinka Shonibare, Chris Ofili, and Steve McQueen. Epilogue: The New Generation
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) John Mortimer Plays Two
Book SynopsisJohn Mortimer is best known as the creator of Rumpole QC, hero of the Rumpole of the Bailey television series. In this second volume of his Collected Plays published by Oberon, these five plays combine London settings with the complexities of relationships between the sexes. Includes: The Wrong Side of the Park, Mill Hill, Bermondsey, Knightsbridge, Marble Arch and Edwin.
£999.99
Walleah Press Andrew Burke New and Selected 2020
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£999.99
Mensch Publishing Little Women: The contemporary dramatisation of
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£11.40
DIRTYillness Habitat
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£18.00
PPR Publishing The THE FIRST TIME: a book of twentieth and
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£999.99
Thorntree Press Psyche
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£999.99
Hat & Beard The Lumpen Times
Book SynopsisA deep archive of the secret histories of Chicago''s countercultural milieus over 30 years of community and artistic engagement. Way back in 1991, a freely-circulated zine called The Lumpen Times was born in Champaign, Illinois. The creators would go on to relaunch it in Chicago in 1993. Over time, the underground magazine would lead to building a Community of the Future. Through the certainty of chance, collective engagement, casual encounters, and accidental actions, The Lumpen Times became the hub for a series of cultural platforms spawning hundreds of projects, spaces, happenings, exhibitions, and initiatives. Some were short-lived, but each project fueled a new one in its wake. As an example, they started a record label, which spawned other publications. Other projects include engaging in dot-communism, opening community art spaces, hosting international art and activism festivals, and producing thousands of exhibitions and events. They also built an FM radio station, opened a bar, restaurants, launched a brewery, built another beverage company, created an artists'' retail shop, and started community kitchens. This range of passions has become an interconnected and deeply inclusive set of ventures now called The Buddy System. The Lumpen Times: 30+ Years of Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future shares stories from a few dozen of the thousands of Lumpen collaborators over the years. It contains a visual survey of the printed matter they produced over the past three decades, illustrating the evolution of the xeroxed-and-stapled zine into an internationally recognised cultural periodical. The book is also a catalogue of strategies, highlighting dozens of ''case studies'' demonstrating how artists, activists, educators, and creative entrepreneurs of all stripes have built community and culture in their beloved city of Chicago via the printed word, physical spaces, and over the airwaves and digital networks. Each study includes the reason it started, examples of its production, and the reasons it failed, mutated, or continues to this day.
£43.19
Hendrik Varju Mexican Dinner Parties: Complete Menus for
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£30.35
Freya Rothwell-Bodycomb Blush Feelings Notebook: We Are Greater Series
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£999.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Science and Drama: Contemporary and Creative
Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to drama and science in education. Drawing on a solid basis of research, it offers theoretical backgrounds, showcases rich examples, and provides evidence of improved student learning and engagement. The chapters explore various connections between drama and science, including: students’ ability to engage with science through drama; dramatising STEM; mutuality and inter-relativity in drama and science; dramatic play-based outdoor activities; and creating embodied, aesthetic and affective learning experiences. The book illustrates how drama education draws upon contemporary issues and their complexity, intertwining with science education in promoting scientific literacy, creativity, and empathetic understandings needed to interpret and respond to the many challenges of our times. Findings throughout the book demonstrate how lessons learned from drama and science education can remain discrete yet when brought together, contribute to deeper, more engaged and transformative student learning.Table of Contents1. Setting the stage.- 2. Responding to climate change: developing primary students’ capability to engage with science through drama.- 3. Using dramatic inquiry to mediate pre-service teachers’ conceptualization of sustainable development.- 4. Dramatising the S and the M in STEM.- 5. Veg-in? A Copernican shift in our dreams? Making ornaments from human parts? A small island counselling session?.- 6. Mutuality and inter-relativity in drama and science.- 7. Ice Age is approaching: Triggering students’ interest in gamified outdoor rough play activities.- 8. The role of embodied metaphor in art (drama)/science education.- 9. “This is the funniest lesson”: The production of positive emotions during role play in the middle years science classroom.- 10. Dramatic and Undramatic Emotional Energy: Creating aesthetic and emotive learning experiences in science classrooms.- 11. Exploring Contemporary and Controversial issues in Science: The question of stem cell therapies and tourism.- 12. School is everywhere: the pedagogical possibilities of imaginative scientific inquiry.- 13. Does being positioned in an expert scientist role enhance 11-13 year-old students’ perceptions of themselves as scientists?.- 14. Meaning in the Middle: Middle School Science and Drama.- 15. Stories from History.- 16. Australian Women in Science.- 17. Science, Drama and the Aesthetic.
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Leonardo Durer
Book SynopsisDürer's Praying Hands are one of the world's most popular artworks. Few artists have changed the art world more profoundly than Leonardo and Dürer. They bring their subjects to life with breath-taking virtuosity, creating masterpieces of incredible intimacy. Mythology, religious faith and history, images of everyday life and travel scenes were core themes of the 15th century and stand at the centre of the art displayed in the drawings of Leonardo and Dürer. The images reveal their charm in the interplay of chiaroscuro effects on coloured paper. The works of both masters are shown alongside sheets by their contemporaries like Albrecht Altdorfer and Raphael. How could this art form assert its independence and what made it so popular and successful? The lavish publication examines these fascinating questions and illustrates the wide-ranging expressive possibilities that the technique offers.
£36.00
Tulip Seminars Love in Action: Encountering Gods Manifold
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£11.88
University of Chicago Press The Arts of the Hausa VT
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£66.12
The University of Michigan Press Chinese Dreams
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLucid and accessible . . . an important contribution to the field of East-West comparative studies, Asian studies, and modernism. —Comparative Literature Studies|""Instead of trying to decipher the indecipherable 'China' in Western literary texts and critical discourses, Hayot chose to show us why and how 'China' has remained, and will probably always be, an enchanting, ever-elusive dream. His approach is nuanced and refreshing, his analysis rigorous and illuminating."" —Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis
£21.80
The University of Michigan Press Illuminating Childhood
Book SynopsisWhile literature and the arts are rarely considered primary sources for knowledge about human motivation and behaviour, people read novels, attend movies, watch television, and go to the theatre not solely to be entertained but also to learn about one another and about themselves. This title formalises this quest for psychological knowledge in the domain of the arts.
£26.06
The University of Michigan Press A Player and a Gentleman
Book SynopsisActor, playwright, and producer Harry Watkins (1825-94) was also a prolific diarist. For 15 years Watkins recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Theatre historians Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs have selected, edited, and annotated substantial excerpts from the diary.
£65.50
Hilaire Wellness and Beauty Clinics Sydneys Bleu Journey of a Girl Who Never Gave Up
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£18.38
James Clarke & Co Ltd Stories in Glass
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£23.75
Manchester University Press StepDaughters of England British Women Modernists
Book SynopsisJane Garrity shows how four British women modernist writers - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Conquering new worlds - women, modernism and nationalism. Domesticating the empire - British womanhood and national culture; "Neither English nor civilised" - Dorothy Richardson's spectatrix and the feminine crusade; encoding bi-location - Sylvia Townsend Warner and the primitive erotics of Sapphic dissimulation; Mary Butt's England - racial memory and the daughter's mystical assertion of nationhood; mapping "the body of our mother" - national desire, imperial nostalgia, and language in Virginia Woolf; epilogue - rebuilding the house of England.
£18.99
Manchester University Press Bringing Modernity Home
Book SynopsisBringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period.
£68.00
Manchester University Press The Films of Luc Besson
Book SynopsisA fascinating and revealing set of essays discussing the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - Susan Hayward and Phil Powrie1. Three neo-baroque directors - Raphaël Bassan2. Du côté de Europa, via Asia: the post-Hollywood Besson - Rosanna Maule3. Musical narration in the films of Luc Besson - Gérard Dastugue4. Hearing Besson: the music of Eric Serra in the films of Luc Besson - Mark Brownrigg5. Of suits and men in the films of Luc Besson - Phil Powrie6. From Rags to Riches: Le Dernier combat and Le Cinquième élément - Susan Hayward7. The sinking of the self: Freudian hydraulic patterns in Le Grand bleu - Laurent Jullier8. Imprisoned freedoms: space and identity in Subway and Nikita - Mark Orme9. Nikita: consumer culture’s killer instinct and the imperial imperative - Hilary Ann Radner10. Léon and the cloacal labyrinth - Phil Powrie11. Jeanne d’Arc: high epic style and politicising camp - Susan Hayward12. An unpublished interview with Luc Besson - Gérard DastugueFilmographySelect bibliography
£23.83
Manchester University Press Monstrous Adaptations Generic and Thematic
Book SynopsisThe first book devoted to the study of horror film and adaptation. Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this anthology includes analyses of such under-examined films as Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein, John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde, Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la maison Usher, Gus van Sant’s Psycho and Guillermo de Toro’s CronosTable of ContentsMonstrous adaptations: an introduction – Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoyPART I: From page to scream: literary adaptation and horror cinema1. Paradigms of metamorphosis and transmutation: Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein and John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde – Richard J. Hand2. Painting the life out of her: aesthetic integration and disintegration in Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la maison Usher – Guy Crucianelli3. The unfilmable? H. P. Lovecraft and the cinema – Julian Petley4. Imperfect geometry: identity and culture in Clive Barker’s ‘The Forbidden’ and Bernard Rose’s Candyman – Brigid CherryPART II: Re-imaginings and re-articulations: thematic adaptation in contemporary horror cinema5. Out from the realist underground; or, the Baron of Blood visits Cannes: recursive and self-reflexive patterns in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and eXistenZ – Steffen Hantke6. ‘These Children That You Spit On’: horror and generic hybridity – Andy W. Smith7. ‘Our Reaction Was Only Human’: monstrous becomings in Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers – Jay McRoyPART III: From avant garde to exploitation: cinematic experiments as monstrous adaptation8. Adapting the occult: horror and the avant garde in the cinema of Stan Brakhage and Ken Jacob – Marianne Shaneen9. The Gorgon: adapting classical myth as gothic romance – I. Q. Hunter10. Marion Crane dies twice – Murray PomerancePART IV: Displacements and border crossings: horror cinema and transcultural adaptation11. Adapting legends: urban legends and their adaptation in horror cinema – Mikel J. Koven12. Fulcanelli as a vampiric Frankenstein and Jesus as his vampiric Monster: the Frankenstein and Dracula myths in Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos – Brad O’Brien13. Gothic horrors, family secrets and the patriarchal imperative: the early horror films of Mario Bava – Reynold Humphries14. ‘In the Church of the Poison Mind’: adapting the metaphor of psychopathology to look back at the mad, monstrous 80s – Ruth Goldberg15. ‘Everyone Will Suffer’: national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Nakata Hideo’s Ringu and Gore Verbinski’s The Ring – Linnie Blake
£81.00
Manchester University Press Emilio Fernandez Pictures in the Margins Spanish
Book SynopsisThis book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernández, (1906-1986), one of Mexico’s and Latin America’s most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernández’ most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, María Candelaria).Table of ContentsIntroduction1. ‘Poor reception’ and the popular in classical Mexican cinema2. ‘El Indio’ Fernández, Mexico’s marginalized golden boy and national auteur 3. Calendar María - hybridity, indigenismo and the discourse of whitening4. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Enamorada5. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Salón México, Las abandonadas and Víctimas del pecado6. Progress, modernity and Fernández’ ‘anti-modernist utopia’: Río EscondidoEpilogue: Mexican Cinema and Emilio Fernández post the Golden Age – From Golden Boy to ‘the man in black’Filmography
£23.83
Rlpg/Galleys Rainbow Jews
Book SynopsisRainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1960s to the present. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed multidimensional images of, and a welcoming public space for, the gay, lesbian, and transgendered community as a whole. Through a close reading of the texts of numerous American and Israeli plays and films (some famous, but mostly lesser known), the author evaluates some of the key conventions and tropes that have been employed to construct, critique, and reflect the social reality of the connection between Jewishness and gay identity in the United States and Israel. Secondarily, the author explores ways in which gay-Jewish playwrights and filmmakers have assisted the re-evaluation of sexual norms within Judaism over the past three decades, inspiring and reinforcing measures across the spectrum of belief geared towards integrating JewishTable of ContentsChapter 1 Homophobia and Tolerance in Judaism Chapter 2 Jews, Homosexuality, and the Performing Arts in the United States: The Evolution of a Sensibility, 1890-1969 Chapter 3 Gay Jewish Voices "Come Out": Plays and Films, 1969-1982 Chapter 4 Kaddish: AIDS, Jews, and the Performing Arts Chapter 5 The 'Great Work' Continues: Gay Jewish Representations in American Film and Theater, 1990 to the Present Chapter 6 A Minority within Several Minorites: Jewish-Lesbian Films and Plays Chapter 7 Queer in the Holy Land: Gay and Lesbian Cinema in Israel
£82.80
Lexington Books Rainbow Jews
Book SynopsisRainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1960s to the present. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed multidimensional images of, and a welcoming public space for, the gay, lesbian, and transgendered community as a whole. Through a close reading of the texts of numerous American and Israeli plays and films (some famous, but mostly lesser known), the author evaluates some of the key conventions and tropes that have been employed to construct, critique, and reflect the social reality of the connection between Jewishness and gay identity in the United States and Israel. Secondarily, the author explores ways in which gay-Jewish playwrights and filmmakers have assisted the re-evaluation of sexual norms within Judaism over the past three decades, inspiring and reinforcing measures across the spectrum of belief geared towards integrating JewishTable of ContentsChapter 1 Homophobia and Tolerance in Judaism Chapter 2 Jews, Homosexuality, and the Performing Arts in the United States: The Evolution of a Sensibility, 1890-1969 Chapter 3 Gay Jewish Voices "Come Out": Plays and Films, 1969-1982 Chapter 4 Kaddish: AIDS, Jews, and the Performing Arts Chapter 5 The 'Great Work' Continues: Gay Jewish Representations in American Film and Theater, 1990 to the Present Chapter 6 A Minority within Several Minorites: Jewish-Lesbian Films and Plays Chapter 7 Queer in the Holy Land: Gay and Lesbian Cinema in Israel
£40.50
AltaMira Press Performing Femininity
Book SynopsisA personal, revealing, and sometimes humorous exploration of female experience, Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Using ethnographic method, Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. In several evocative narratives, Lockford uses this experimental methodology to rupture the conventional dichotomy of patriarchal versus feminist points of view, goading and challenging her audience as she breaches the borders of these typically opposed ideologies. She explores how both paradigms constrain women, but also how they are simultaneously enacted and subverted in the performances women play in their daily lives. Performing Femininity will be a provocative read for the student of feminist thought and for those researchers looking at innovative ways to produce and present their research.Trade ReviewThis book is a groundbreaking work of utterly fine prose rendered in a most intriguing and often beguiling style. It is a full performance of theory and self on every page. The exploration of women via 'subversive feminism' is a welcome addition to the growing complexity of theoretical and ethnographic explorations of womanhood in postmodern culture. Lesa Lockford's book is a major contribution to that dialogue and one that I am quite sure will spark a great deal of self-reflexive thought, writing, performance, and debate. -- H. L. Goodall, Jr., head, Hugh Downs School of Communication, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 The Abject Body and Subversive Femininity Chapter 2 Stepping on the Black Box: Kinesthetic Experience and the Transformation of Body Size Chapter 3 "Would You Do It?": Doing the Scholarly Striptease for Academic Gain Chapter 4 Reading the Body: Consuming the Feminist Scholar Chapter 5 Reading Pink: The Beauty Persuasion 6 Thinking and Rethinking Tails, Tales and Tellings
£36.90
University Press of America The culture of jazz
Book SynopsisThe Culture of Jazz is a collection of essays that view jazz from an anthropological perspective. It focuses on aspects of jazz culture and the ways in which jazz scrutinizes the American lifestyle. Jazz musicians filter their perspective on culture based on African roots. They have an obligation to tell truth to power and provide views of alternative realities. These essays explore many dimensions of the jazz life and its perspectives on cultural realities. Heavily influenced by the perspectives of Neil Leonard and Alan Merriam, The Culture of Jazz covers a broad range of topics making it an unparalleled compilation.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Chapter One- The Culture of Jazz and Jazz as Critical Culture Chapter 2 Chapter Two- Music and Anthropology Chapter 3 Chapter Three- Teaching the Culture of Jazz Chapter 4 Chapter Four- Africa as a Metaphor of Authenticity in Jazz Chapter 5 Chapter Five- The Spread of American Music to the International Scene Chapter 6 Chapter Six- Jazz and Its Impact on European Classical Music Chapter 7 Chapter Seven- Creole Performance and the Mass Chapter 8 Chapter Eight- Jazz in Rochester in the Context of the Wider Scene Chapter 9 Chapter Nine - Stereotype and Reality: Social and Cultural Characteristics of Members of the Down Beat Hall of Fame Chapter 10 Chapter Ten -Laughin' Louie: An analysis of Louis Armstrong's Record and Its Relationship to African-American Musical Humor Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven - Dizzy, Humor, and Subversion of Accepted Reality Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve - From the Cotton Club to the Cathedral Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen - Boppers and Moldy Figs: A Tale of Two Cultures Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen -The Force Primeval: The Image of Jazz in American Literature Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen - Puttin' It On Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen - Did They Make the Scene or Did the Scene Make Them?: Expatriate Jazz Musicians in Europe Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen - Close Enough for Jazz: Humor and Jazz Reality Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen - He Sang Away My Blues Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen - Music and Emotion Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty - The Good Die Young- The Tragedy of the Jazz Life Chapter 21 Chapter Twenty-one- Conclusion
£45.00
University Press of America Performing Difference
Book SynopsisPerforming Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and individuals that have been traditionally marginalized or excluded from dominant historical narratives. As a meeting point of several fields of study, this book is organized around three meta-themes: race, gender, and genocide. Included are analyses of films and theatrical productions from the United States, as well as essays on cinema from Southern and Central America, Europe, and the Middle East. Topically, the contributing authors write about the depiction of race, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientation, and genocides. This volume assesses how the performing arts have aided in the social construction of the other in differing contexts. Its fundamental premise is that performance is powerful, and its unifying thesis is that the arts remain a major forum for advancing a more nuanced and humaneTable of ContentsPart 1 Section I - Race and Ethnicity Chapter 2 1. Jonathan C. Friedman, "A Conscience for Hollywood? The 'Societal Issue' Films of Twentieth Century Fox, 1947-1950" Chapter 3 2. Dalton Anthony Jones, "Grounding Race: Powder and the Shifting Terrain of Whiteness" Chapter 4 3. Paul Pfeiffer, "Shylock: Shakespeare's Sympathetic 'Other'" Chapter 5 4. Tia Malkin-Fontecchio, "The 'New Marginality': Representations of the Favela in Recent Brazilian Cinema" Chapter 6 5. Margarete Landwehr, "Liminal Spaces in Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand/ Head On: Orientalism vs. Globalization Chapter 7 6. Raz Yosef, "Fantasies of Loss: Melancholia and Ethnicity in Israeli Cinema" Chapter 8 7. Jun Xing, "Cinematic Asian Representation in Hollywood" Chapter 9 8. Bonnie Morris, "Passing: A Reading on a Jewish Woman's Identity" Part 10 Section II - Gender and Sexual Orientation Chapter 11 9. Melissa Ziobro, "This Manifest Idignity: Hollywood's Portrayal of the Gender Integration of the Armed Forces in the World War II Era" Chapter 12 10. John M. Clum, "Batting for the Other Team: Masculinity, Homosexuality, and Sports in Contemporary Drama and Film" Chapter 13 11. Geetha Ramanathan, "Mestiza Feminisms and Julie Taymor's Frida" Chapter 14 12. Jonathan C. Friedman, "The Problematic Ethnic and Sexual Discourses of Eytan Fox's The Bubble" Part 15 Section III - The Holocaust, War, and Genocide Chapter 16 13. Ilan Avisar, "Time and Representation: Generic Transformations and Historicist Interpretations of Holocaust Films" Chapter 17 14. John J. Michalczyk and Susan A. Michalczyk, "The Bystander and the Other in Holocaust Films" Chapter 18 15. Christopher Thomas, "Fiend, Foe and Friend: The German Image in American World War II Films" Chapter 19 16. Edward C. Hanes, "Representations of Genocide in Recent Films" Chapter 20 17. William L. Hewitt, "Genocide and Redemption in the Modern Western"
£50.40
McFarland & Company Deformed and Destructive Beings
Book Synopsis Why are audiences drawn to horror films? Previous answers to that question have included everything from a need to experience fear to a hunger for psychotherapy. This critical text proposes that the horror film''s primary purpose is to present monsters, best understood as deformed and destructive beings. These monsters satisfy the audience''s desire to know these beings, in particular those beings too fantastic and dangerous to know in real life. The text illuminates many aspects of the horror film genre, including epistemology, ethics, evaluation, history, monster taxonomy, and filmmaking techniques.Trade ReviewPreface 1PART I. THE HORROR FILM ANALYZED1. Purpose 52. Knowing 183. DDB Profile 284. Structure 385. Essential Elements 476. Ethics 617. Meaning and Significance 728. Evaluation of a Good Horror Film 839. Evaluation of a Bad Horror Film 96PART II. THE HORROR FILM IN CONTEXT10. Genres 10711. History: Beginnings to the 1950s 11712. History: 1960s to the Present 13113. Reputation 14314. Taxonomy 15115. Techniques 16816. Directors 18117. Stars and DDBs 19418. Other Directions 201Notes 209Bibliography 215Index 219
£20.89
State University Press of New York (SUNY) Creativity and Spirituality Bonds Between Art and
Book SynopsisDrawing from six living faiths, this book philosophically analyzes relations between art and religion in order to explain how the concepts art, beauty, creativity, and aesthetic experience find their place or counterparts in religious discourse and experience.From the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright to the rock gardens of Zen Buddhism, Coleman explores applied, fine, and folk arts in order to uncover points of coalescence between art and religion. Drawing from six living faiths (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Taoism), this book philosophically analyzes relations between art and religion in order to explain how the concepts art, beauty, creativity, and aesthetic experience find their place or counterparts in religious discourse and experience. Coleman repeatedly shows that aesthetic ideas can serve as bridges to spiritual categories, as when he relates aesthetic bliss to the peace that passes all understanding.The author follows a three-fold approach; first, he examines ideas and motifs from religious classics in world literature, such as Lao Tzu''s Tao Te Ching and The Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila, in order to relate them to aesthetic phenomena. Second, he turns to the statements of artists, such as Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Shih-t''ao, and Wassily Kandinsky, for themes and practices that have religious significance. Third, he analyzes and evaluates the writings of various theoreticians-philosophers, theologians, art critics, sociologists, and psychologists-on the relations between art and religion. Coleman demonstrates, for example, that Martin Buber''s I-Thou relationship captures much that is central to art, creativity, and aesthetic experience as well as to religious life.Among the themes that receive sustained treatment are: the varieties of union in art and religion, the child as a paradigm for artists and saints, and creativity as essential to religion. Finally, the author critically weighs proposed distinctions between art and religion and between the broader categories of the aesthetic and the spiritual, rejecting some and showing how others are compatible with his proposal that the aesthetic and the spiritual are cognate categories.
£22.96
University Publishing Association The Marionette Actor
Book SynopsisIn this book, Chesse pioneers an approach to classic drama, documents the working of the government-sponsored years with the Federal Theatre Marionette Units in California, and concludes with his fourteen-year adventure in television, producing the award-winning program, Brother Buzz.
£32.40
Scarecrow Press Theatrical Space A Guide for Directors and
Book SynopsisToo often directors and stage designers approach the architectural layout of theatres as obstructive to the creative process. Condee''s book teaches theater professionals to work creatively within even the most restrictive theatrical space and transform it into an asset rather than an obstacle. Condee has interviewed hundreds of prominent American and British directors, designers, and actors, and provides photographs and groundplans of major American theatres. Each chapter tackles a different set of problems, offering thoughtful solutions to common obstacles. Theatrical Space is not only a useful textbook for students of theatre, but also a valuable resource for all directors and designers, both young and experienced. Paperback edition available April 2002. Cloth version previously published in 1995.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Examining the Theatre Space Chapter 4 The Performance's Relationship to the Architecture Chapter 5 Using the Architecture of the Theatre Chapter 6 Involving the Audience Chapter 7 The Proscenium Arch's Effect on Performance Chapter 8 Comparing Performance on Open Proscenium Stages Chapter 9 Designing for the Open Stage: Problems and Solutions Chapter 10 Using the Portal on a Thrust Stage Chapter 11 The Open Stage's Effect on Staging Chapter 12 Director-Designer Collaboration on the Open Stage Chapter 13 Stage Up or Stage Down? The Vertical Relationship of Audience and Performance Chapter 14 Engaging the Stage Volume Chapter 15 Flexible Theatres Chapter 16 Environmental and Promenade Theatre Chapter 17 Transferring a Production Chapter 18 Two Planks and a Passion Chapter 19 Index
£51.30
University of Hawai'i Press Out of the Shadows of Angkor
Book SynopsisPresents an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing. The volume emerges from the thirty-year effort of a community to gather Cambodian literary and cultural works. In doing so, they not only translated rare works into English for the first time, but also helped to rescue writing lost during the Khmer Rouge regime.
£21.21
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers From Option to Opening A Guide to Producing Plays
Book SynopsisFROM OPTION TO OPENING - REVISED AND UPDATED
£13.49
Printed Matter, Incorporated Jaguar Group
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£22.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Spirits of Another Sort
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£57.90
Fitzwilliam Museum 6000 Years of African Combs
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£999.99
Yale University Press Byzantium and the West Jewelry in the First
Book SynopsisThis full-color catalog explores the interrelationships between the East and West during the first millennium.
£33.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bringing Forth the New
Book SynopsisBringing Forth the New provides a headlong introduction into the world of Chinese contemporary visual art, opening from the art world onto the political, technological and economic vectors of recent Chinese history. Each chapter reads an important facet of recent Chinese history through the work of a significant artist. From examining trade war and intellectual property through the work of political pop painters such as Yu Youhan, to the development of gendered constructs in China through the work of Cui Xuiwen.Trade ReviewIn a series of dazzling close readings, Bringing Forth The New offers a non-stop stream of brilliant insights and historical elaborations. It is comparative scholarship of the best kind—moving with grace and trenchant analysis across vast realms of visual experience. Forging connections at every turn, Maizels turns what might at first seem like an arbitrary series of visual examples into an impressive dance of analytic virtuosity, articulating the complexities of “East” and “West” as remediated in Chinese art during the past several decades. No matter where one is situated in relation to its many themes, one will inevitably learn a great deal from this book. * R. John Williams, Yale University, USA *Table of Contents1. Our Own Arrows 2. One Way Glass 3. Half of Heaven 4. Degrees of Separation 5. Muted Situations 6. Survival Robot
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Dagara Verbal Art
Book SynopsisDagara Verbal Art examines verbal art among the Dagara people of West Africa. It provides invaluable primary material for research, and does a close analysis of folktale narration, proverb usage, riddling, chanting of dirges and popular songs by male and female praise singers, and xylophone music performance as forms of verbal art. Folktales are characterized by wit, humor, and satire, and songs within tales are a mise-en-abyme, a story within a story that entertains but also enhances the narration through the participation of the audience in the performance. Moreover, Dagara tales are didactic and moralizing as a way of controlling the behavior of individuals in society. Riddling entertains but also helps to develop the cognitive abilities of children, and demands critical and logical thinking on the part of the participating audience. Proverbs were collected in context and analyzed closely for their meaning. The study also examines closely the art of speech-making, and coTrade Review«Dagara Verbal Art is a comprehensive presentation of Dagara folklore. In addition to analyzing and interpreting the folklore, it explores the relationships among various genres: how, for example, folktales relate to riddles and puzzles, how riddling precedes the telling of folktales, and how songs func-tion in the tales. A scholarly study that is readable, engaging, and peppered with interesting and memorable anecdotes, Da-gara Verbal Art is suitable for general readership and courses on folklore.» (Joseph L. Mbele, Western Folklore, Volume 77, Number 1/2018)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction – Wit, Humor, and Satire in Dagara Tales – Songs as Mode of Communication within Tales – The Female Character in Tales – The Supernatural as a Motif in Tales – The Didactic and Moralizing in Dagara Tales – Dirges, Praise Songs, and Praise Singers – The Female Praise Singer – Verbal Art of the Dagara Xylophonist – Popular Songs as Verbal Art – The Art of Speech-Making – The Art of Proverb Usage – The Art of Riddling Riddles and Other Forms of Orature – Conclusion.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Liberal Arts Education
Book SynopsisThis book traces the historical background of liberal arts education from west to east, expounds its implication and fundamental goal of universities, and introduces its application in Western and Chinese universities, particularly its experimentation at University of Nottingham Ningbo China. It takes the University of Nottingham Ningbo China as an example to introduce readers to the achievements and shortcomings of British education in the process of implementing liberal arts education. The author summarises the five elements of liberal arts education: Bo: integration of arts and sciences, cross-discipline, seeking in-depth knowledge on the basis of extensive learning, understanding the new and gaining a wide knowledge of the old; Ya: human beings first, professionals second; being committed to student-centred idea, prioritizing education among all work; encouraging questioning; and very abundant, organized extra-curriculum classes. This book will appeal to anyone who is interesteTable of ContentsHistory of the Development of Liberal Arts Education 1 Liberal Arts Education in the West 1 Liberal Arts Education in China: The Embodiment of Liberal Arts Education in Ancient Chinese Confucian Classics – Know Widely: Science, Literature and History 19 The Integration of Science, Literature and History – Elegance: Human Beings First, Professionals Second 39 Imparting Knowledge and Educating People, Transmitting Wisdom and Resolving Doubts – The Fundamental Goal of Universities 51 The Fundamental Goal of Universities Lies in Educating People – I Love Plato, but I Love Truth More 59 Questioning the Key to Nurturing Outstanding Talents – Abundant Organized Extra- Curriculum Activities 79 The Students’ Societies, Social Practices and Students’ Scientific Research Activities 79 Teachers and Students in “Chun- Tsung Program” Paid a Visit to Mr. Tsung- Dao Lee in the United State – Implementing Educational Principle and Liberal Arts Education 101 Carry “Liberal Arts” Through the Developments of Talents 101 Learning Wen Jiabao Talking about Education 101– Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States 111 Overview of Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States – University of Nottingham Ningbo China: High- Quality Education and Cultivation of High- Quality International Talents— Preliminary Examination of Liberal Arts Education – One May Distinguish Himself in Any Trade 165 Education Develops in a Balanced Way, One May Distinguish Himself in Any Trade.
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