Key articles from the 2023 AusAct conference address innovative post-COVID discussions on how the Performing Arts can survive crisis. Chapters explore the significant role of acting teachers in our education sector and their contribution to the international creative economies.
Leading scholars pose fundamental questions about contemporary art in the global age. This volume maps current debates on archives, politics, labor, and the post-natural condition, providing a cartography of the conceptual intersections in global art studies today.
Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age II
This volume addresses questions that are crucial to approaching art, visuality, and cultural policies from the perspective of global transformations and the rise of new social, political and cultural paradigms.
Critical Method and Contemporary Film
This volume investigates what film critics do and what ideologies inform their evaluations. It traces changes in critical methodologies, arguing for the emergence of neofuturism over postmodernism, and asks: Who evaluates film, why, and does the system need to change?
Crossings
International scholars assess David Mamet’s career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.
Beyond entertainment, Bollywood films are a platform for India’s soft power. They offer a cultural identity that challenges Western hegemony, resonating with global audiences through universal themes, vibrant visuals, and music, creating a bridge between nations.
Culture and Dialogue
Culture and Dialogue explores dialogical practice within culture, be it philosophy, art, or politics. This Special Issue is devoted to the theme of “religion and dialogue,” bringing together a range of outstanding essays on the subject.
Curating Differently
This title offers critical perspectives on, and analyses of, intersections of feminisms, art exhibitions, and curatorial spaces from the 1970s onward, bringing together case studies from Australia, Israel, Europe, and North America.
Curating Organizational Memory
Our most trusted organizations are burdened by an accumulation of knowledge. As this book shows, by incorporating forgetting into their strategies for change, they can evolve. Forgetting is an unexpected theory of organizing that can challenge ossified institutional practices.
Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities
This interdisciplinary study investigates collecting from the sixteenth century to today. Using the cabinet of curiosity as a model, scholars expand our understanding of display, from art and film to everyday objects, showing its urgent relevance in our consumer age.
Explore contemporary design practices through humor, history, and technology. This book covers key aspects of interior architecture, from the adaptive reuse of historical buildings to sustainable approaches that utilize natural resources and enhance indoor environmental quality.
Dance in Ireland
Dance in Ireland provides an in-depth view of dance during the colonial and post-colonial eras. It presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and a signifier of cultural change. An indispensable resource for academics and artists alike.
Dao Entrepreneurship
Thornquist presents an artistic and aesthetic perspective on auteur-driven entrepreneurial management that is overlooked in traditional organizational analysis. He builds on this through an exploration of Bergsonian ontology and Daoism methodology.
Darkening Scandinavia
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
Daydreams reveal a protagonist’s hopes, fears, and desires. But what do they truly mean for Hollywood cinema? This study investigates fantasy scenes to uncover the key functions daydreams serve from cinematic, thematic, psychological, and ideological perspectives.
Dealing with Authorship
This title examines the multiple ways in which the progressive (self-) fashioning of authors and filmmakers interacts with the public sphere, generating authorial postures and arousing attention. It analyses the works of both canonical and non-canonical authors and filmmakers.
Debating with the Eumenides
Greek tragedy takes pride of place in the dialogue between modern Greece and its classical past. In this volume, scholars explore how tragic myth has been reimagined in modern Greek drama and poetry, with extensive coverage of major authors like Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos.
Deconstructing Reaganism
This book explores Reagan’s political legacy in American films. While many films from 1980-2000 seem to celebrate family stability and social order, they create an unsettling mythology that reveals the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of Reaganism.
Deleuze on Art
Jasper considers the role of art in French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s late writings. Using examples from twentieth-century architecture, film, literature, painting and sculpture, he follows Deleuze’s engagement with art to illustrate a new image of thought.
Why do adults write about the child and why do they choose to depict children? Georgieva looks at various examples from literature, art and film to analyze aspects of adults’ outlook on the child, and what it tells us about the adult, paying special attention to the “eye” motif.
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