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Cultural industries in shanghai
This volume gathers articles by Chinese scholars dealing with developments in Shanghai’s cultural industries over the past thirty years. Like many cities in China and elsewhere, Shanghai has explicitly stated that fostering the creative economy is its top economic and political priority over the ...
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New queer television
This edited volume draws attention to a dynamic field in which a wide variety of queer identities can be put on display and consumed by audiences rather than framed as marginal. Cementing a foundational understanding of queerness that is at odds with current shifts in media production, contributo...
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The urban refugee
This collection focuses on the spatial forms and urban consequences of forced migration. The chapters shed light on the multiple dimensions of the refugees’ urban experiences from the scale of the interiors to inner city neighborhoods and informal settlements, and from personal accounts to the fo...
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Digital experience design
Digital Experience Design chronicles the diverse histories and perspectives of people working in the dot-com world alongside an account of the current issues facing the industry. From the perspective of older disciplines such as education, fine art and cinema, this volume investigates how dot-com...
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Dancing to transform
Uses original studies of four dance companies to examine the religious lives of American Christians who are also professional dancers. Explores how practices of dancing and Christianity, and experience and performance contexts influence and shape approaches to creating, transforming and performin...
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Modelling international collaborations in art education
Explores online and in-person collaboration as a means of international experience for university art students. Based on a decade of experience, pedagogical and methodological topics are illustrated with student projects, inspiring reflection on teaching and artmaking strategies in online spaces,...
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Wild renaissance
Offers a new and original way of understanding the current ecological turmoil through the lens of art, philosophy and ecology. Draws on a new concept of renaissance and proposes a 360° vision on how to dwell on Earth. The role of art and design appear of paramount importance and play a crucial ro...
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Hip-hop archives
Explores multiple aspects of hip-hop archives in a global context, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization. This collection critically analyzes institutional power, geopolitical influences and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture’s tensi...
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Mindful movement
In Mindful Movement, exercise physiologist, somatic therapist and advocate Martha Eddy uses original interviews, case studies and practice-led research to define the origins of a new holistic field – somatic movement education and therapy – and its impact on fitness, ecology, politics and perform...
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The bitter landscapes of palestine
Through an interplay of words and images, this book documents the life of Palestinian communities of shepherds and farmers under Israeli occupation that threatens their very survival. Years of human rights activism in Palestine have guided the authors in crafting this unique visual and verbal rec...
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(re)viewing creative, critical and commercial practices in contemporary spanish cinema
This volume is a reassessment of contemporary Spanish cinema from 1992 to 2012, bringing leading academics from a broad range of disciplinary and geographical backgrounds into dialogue with critically and commercially successful practitioners to suggest the need to redefine the parameters of one ...
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The future of humanity (second edition)
Additional Prefaces from Theodore Jay Gordon, Hazel Henderson, Randeep Sudan, and new original material in each chapter. Considers impact of Covid-19 and influence beyond health and hygiene, impact on economic, social and geopolitical affairs, and the need to change established behaviour patterns...
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Applied theatre, third edition
Applied Theatre is recognized as the key text in the field of applied theatre and has been adopted by teaching programs around the world. Recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre Education in 2010. Third edition includes refreshed case studies, providing ex...
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Living metal
This collection of thirteen essays is an exploration of metal scenes throughout the world, from Dayton to Hull, from Copenhagen to Osaka. Unique portrayal of how these scenes developed, are experienced by fans, and are influenced by the contexts in which they are embedded. Foreword by Henkka Sepp...
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Provoking the field
Provoking the Field invites debate on, and provides an essential resource for, transnational arts-based scholars engaged in critical analyses of international visual arts education and its enquiry in doctoral research. The book encompasses creative research practices in the visual arts, and advan...
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Art education in canadian museums
Surveys how art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, responding to modern challenges in ways that are uniquely Canadian. Organized into three sections, this collection reconceptualizes museums to consider accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and h...
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Walking in art education
This edited collection highlights ways that arts-educators have taken up important questions around environmental sustainability and land stewardship through walking practices across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. 42 b&w illus.
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Digital experience design
Although the dot-com bubble burst long ago, the interactive media industry is still flush with fresh talent, new ideas and financial success. Digital Experience Design chronicles the diverse histories and perspectives of people working in the dot-com world alongside an account of the current issu...
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Australian post-war documentary film
The postwar period in Australian history was rife with critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization. Australian Post-War Documentary Film tackles these issues in a considered, wide-ranging analysis of three types of documentaries: governmental, instit...
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Imagining antiquity in islamic societies
Long before the Taliban, ISIS and other iconoclasts, Muslims imagined localities of antiquity as places imbued with didactic, historical and moral power. In thirteen articles by leading scholars covering the eighth century to the present, this book explores diverse ways Muslims have valued the ma...
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Islamic architecture today and tomorrow
Scholars and practitioners from the realm of 'Islamic architecture’ consider its changing nature and continued significance. Reflective essays address the meaning of ‘Islamic’ in built environments, and the geographical, chronological, disciplinary diversity of a dynamic field of study encompassi...
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Beijing film academy yearbook 2017
The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook continues to showcase the best academic debates, discussions and research published in the prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy from the previous year. This volume brings together specially selected articles, covering the most up-to-date topics in C...
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Media materialities
Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities, and their significance to the study of media, culture, and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality, and the past, physical and digital tensions an...
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Australian post-war documentary film
The postwar period in Australian history was rife with critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization. Australian Post-War Documentary Film tackles these issues in a considered, wide-ranging analysis of three types of documentaries: governmental, instit...
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Beijing film academy 2020
The Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research, as published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy in 2020. This volume brings together specially selected articles, appearing in English for the first time, to bridge the gap in ...
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Teaching actors
Teaching Actors is the first book-length treatment of how actor trainers work and understand their work. Prior draws on history, literature and original research conducted across leading drama schools in England and Australia and devotes attention to the different ways in which teachers and stude...
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Infrastructure in dystopian and post-apocalyptic film, 1968-2021
Changes to infrastructure allow us to see imagined worlds better, and we can look to dystopian and post-apocalyptic movies from 1968 to 2021 for a sense of where we might begin to re-design and retrofit our current world to face the dystopias and possible apocalypses of our own making. 31 b&w...
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European culture and the media
European Culture and the Media presents new research and thinking on cultural globalisation, with special focus on and in-depth analysis of European media culture. Written by some of the most prominent European media researchers, it introduces new theories, empirical data and analysis of media co...
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Queer contemporary art of southwest asia north africa
Presents new perspectives on queer visual culture in the Southwest Asia North Africa region from artists and scholars. The volume focuses on artworks produced in the contemporary era while recognizing historical and contextual connections to regional and Islamic art and culture. 48 b&w illus....
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The cultural meaning of aleppo
A documentation of the cultural meaning of the urban landscape of the Ancient City of Aleppo though the urban structures and characteristic courtyard houses, this is both a theoretical and practical handbook for architects, urban planners and restorers alike. 70 b/w illus. Free sample: Introduc...
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Sight readings
Discussion of jazz as a visual subject and analysis of how photographers approached their subject. Includes work often overlooked – from African American photojournalists, studio photographers, early twentieth-century émigrés, Jewish exiles of the 1930s and vernacular snapshots. 135 halftones ...
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Dance studies in china
A collection of articles selected from the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, translated here for an English-speaking audience. Beijing Dance Academy is a full-time institution of higher learning with commitment to developing excellent professional dancers, choreographers and dance researchers. ...
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The human shutter
The book celebrates art and artists, philosophers, and scientists inspired by stereoscopic vision. The origin of photographic cinema is reframed based on a multitude of visual examples. Based on what happens after light appears on the retina, the idea of the stereoscope as a tool of critical inqu...
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Film studies in china 2
The second volume in Intellect’s Film Studies in China series, this is a collection of articles selected from issues of the journal Contemporary Cinema, translated into English. The goal of publishing this journal in English is to enable in-depth exchanges about film policy, global culture and fi...
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Ghostbodies
How is illness represented in today's cultural texts? In Ghostbodies, Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisible – a ghost – because it does not always fit society's definition of disability. In these pages, she reflectively engages in a philosophical discussion...
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A/r/tography
Working around the pervasive themes of relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials, the volume simultaneously offers a site for the review of key historical works and at the same time, new scholarship that enters into conceptual c...
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Responding to site
An edited volume that explores the work of the innovative, experimental and internationally acclaimed performance artist Marilyn Arsem, with 200 images. She is an important contributor to the international performance community through her site-specific, one-to-one performances in alternative spa...
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'avant-garde' art groups in china, 1979-1989
'Avant-garde' Art Groups in China gives a critical account of four of the most significant avant-garde Chinese art groups and associations of the late 1970s and ’80s. It is made up largely of conversations conducted by the author with members of these organizations that provide insight into the c...
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Removing the educational silos
An edited collection of essays and chapters relating to interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary methods of teaching. It will provide inspiration, a guide for project replication in practice essays, and interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary teaching topics. For teachers in all stages of educat...
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The future of humanity
The Future of Humanity seeks to answer the question: "What kind of global civilization should human beings pursue and what do we have to do collectively?," one a question that has preoccupied scholars, philosophers and politicians for centuries. In doing so, the book tackles concepts as monumenta...
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Fashion & war in popular culture
Aside from the occasional nod to epaulettes or use of camouflage, war and fashion seem to be strange partners. Not so, argue the contributors to this book, who connect military industrial practices as well as military dress to textile and clothing in new ways. For instance, the book includes a se...
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Morrissey
Known for his outspoken and often controversial views on class, ethnicity and sexuality, Morrissey has remained an anti-establishment figure who continues to provoke argument, debate and devotion amongst critics and his many fans. Focusing exclusively on Morrissey’s solo career, the collected ess...
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Teaching actors
Teaching Actors is the first book-length treatment of how actor trainers work and understand their work. Prior draws on history, literature and original research conducted across leading drama schools in England and Australia and devotes attention to the different ways in which teachers and stude...
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The friday mosque in the city
Edited volume exploring the dynamic relationship between the Friday Mosque and the city. While the Friday mosque and the 'Islamic City' have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this volume specifically examines the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality...
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Spectacle, entertainment, and recreation in late ottoman and early turkish republican cities
An analysis of entertainment, spectacle and recreation activities and spaces of late Ottoman and early Turkish cities, discussing their evolution, and significance for the urban life as well as their interaction with society’s modernization processes, through contributions of numerous authors por...
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Decolonial metal music in latin america
Nelson Varas-Díaz engages in ethnographic work throughout Latin America to explore how heavy metal music is used to challenge the region’s colonial past and present. Through extensive research in nine countries, his work documents how this musical genre allows listeners and musicians to engage in...
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Phenomenology's material presence
This book draws on work in phenomenology, embodiment and cinema and extends the field by examining metaphysical presence in postcolonial cinema. Through a meditation on three experimental videos by Trinidadian filmmaker Robert Yao Ramesar, this book makes the case that video performs an act of ph...
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Shooting women
Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news and documentaries. From pioneers like America's Jessie Maple Patton to China's first camerawomen to women in poverty empowered by cameras in rural India, this book reveals a world of wom...
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(re:) claiming ballet
This anthology explores alternative and parallel influences that shape the culture of ballet. The ‘we’ of ballet is complex, encompassing individuals and communities, often marginalized, who contribute to discourses about ballet beyond the mainstream White, patriarchal, Eurocentric, heterosexual ...
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Dances with sheep
Felt thinking is a body-based way of working with movement in somatic experience of the ecologically inclusive sense of self. Dances with Sheep presents the multitude of personal journeys which bring the lived connections between Nature and the self to the fore and offers new insights into how to...
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Perform, repeat, record
Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history.
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Multimodal comics
Multimodality is of increasing relevance to daily life. Comics are a unique and informative site to study this concept, as they rely on complex interactions between word and image. This collection brings together leading international research, developing comics theory and speaking to additional ...
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How belfast got the blues
Highly original and fascinating cultural and political history told through Belfast’s popular music scene in the 1960s in the context of Northern Ireland’s sociopolitical milieu. With particular emphasis on Van Morrison, Them, and Ottilie Patterson; also features the Peter Whitehead film of The R...
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Fashion education
Fashion Education maps out a praxis of inclusive fashion pedagogy. In this collection of 17 essays, fashion educators from Australia, Canada, the US and the UK recount their experiences, struggles and strategies of radically redesigning fashion curriculum to centre Black, Indigenous, brown, fat, ...
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Fan phenomena: the lord of the rings
Few, if any, books come close to being as beloved – or as ubiquitous – as The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The book delves into the philosophy of the series and its fans, the distinctions between the films’ fans and the books’ fans, the process of adaptation, and the role of New Zealand in the tran...
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The making of modern muslim selves through architecture
Addresses the question of how architecture – defined broadly – mediates the forces that constitute various forms of flows and boundaries, and thus creates nuanced definitions of Muslim selves. It book discusses how different experiences of partition and consolidation informed or resisted architec...
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Phenomenology's material presence
This book draws on work in phenomenology, embodiment and cinema and extends the field by examining metaphysical presence in postcolonial cinema. Through a meditation on three experimental videos by Trinidadian filmmaker Robert Yao Ramesar, this book makes the case that video performs an act of ph...
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Life
Explores nature, cognition and society as an interwoven tapestry across disciplinary boundaries, examining how information and communication are instrumental in and for living systems. Integrates a fuller and richer account through the physical, life, cognitive, social sciences and the arts. 51 b...
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An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art
An introduction to the study and application of performance art through phenomenology for radical artists, educators and practitioner-researchers. Features exercises to activate your practice, clear introductory definitions to key phenomenological terms, and a multimodal design that lets the read...
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Architectural dynamics in pre-revolutionary iran
This volume considers the major trends and developments in Iranian architecture during the 1960s and 70s in order to further our understanding of the underpinnings and intentions of Persian architecture during this period. Free sample: Preface – Mohammad Gharipour
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Scream for me, africa!
Discusses African metal scenes and conversations around the presence of heavy metal in the continent, and how acts in Africa are changing the conversation of what is possible. Looks at the continent's blossoming scenes through themes including hybridity, othering and how scenes have collided with...
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Propositions for museum education
Examines the ways international art educators are engaging with twenty-first-century challenges in museum education. Organized into five sections, this collection reconceptualizes the role of museums via new technologies, socially just practices, accessibility, differences in lived experiences, a...
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The artist as culture producer
The Artist as Culture Producer illustrates how today's contemporary artists add to creative economies through out-of-the-box thinking while also generously contributing to the well-being of others. By turns humorous, heartbreaking and instructive, the testimonies of these forty diverse working ar...
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Youth, power, performance
Draws on over twenty years of scholarship during Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with systemically marginalized youth in high schools, in a youth jail and with street-involved youth. Explores strategies for engaging youth, the potential for youth empowerment and applied...
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Global culture after gombrich
The volume presents essays by 10 eminent historians of art and culture provoked by the work of Ernst Gombrich. The collection shows Gombrich’s concerns to have initiated lines of enquiry that spread beyond Europe and across the globe, and makes a vital contribution to the contemporary debate arou...
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Islamic architecture on the move
This book brings together scholars from architectural studies, design, art history and other fields to challenge and expand concepts of Islamic architecture. Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this volume raises key questions about Islamic architectur...
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Jess dobkin’s wetrospective
How do archives perform? What might it mean for art institutions to take seriously the embodied and communal nature of performance art in their practices of archiving and museological display? Renowned international performance theorists and artists explore and reflect on Dobkin’s celebrated 30 y...
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Product design, technology, and social change
Examines the relationship between products, consumption, sustainability, politics and social movements. This 'pocket history' surveys product design from the agricultural revolution and the birth of cities, through industrialisation, and a digital design revolution. 58 b&w illus. Read the F...
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Men, war and film
The story and analysis of the Calling Blighty series of films made by the Combined Kinematograph Service in Burma and India between 1943 and 1946. These are remarkable and moving documents, a one-way Skype of their day, where men – and a very few women – sent spoken messages home to be shown to f...
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