Adaptations
Some Journeys from Words to Visuals
This book explores the journey of written text to the screen, focusing on cinematic adaptations of Indian and international literary works. It engages with issues like ‘fidelity’ and ‘intertextuality’ in the works of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and others.
This book explores the journey of written text to the screen, focusing on cinematic adaptations of Indian and international literary works. It engages with issues like ‘fidelity’ and ‘intertextuality’ in the works of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and others.
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An Edgy Realism
Film Theoretical Encounters with Dogma 95, New French Extremity, and the Shaky-Cam Horror Film
Using actor-network theory, Schaefer’s study offers an investigation of the new realism that has characterized cinema since the turn of the millennium due to the proliferation of the digital.
Using actor-network theory, Schaefer’s study offers an investigation of the new realism that has characterized cinema since the turn of the millennium due to the proliferation of the digital.
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Connecting art, nature, and science, these essays trace the collection and display of objects from early wunderkammern to the 18th century. They reveal a world where art and nature were intrinsically linked, charting the path to their modern divisions.
Connecting art, nature, and science, these essays trace the collection and display of objects from early wunderkammern to the 18th century. They reveal a world where art and nature were intrinsically linked, charting the path to their modern divisions.
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Writing from the Margins
The Aesthetics of Disruption in the Irish Short Story
There is another dimension to the Irish short story tradition that has been overlooked. Led by Samuel Beckett, Aidan Higgins, and Tom Mac Intyre, this marginalized tradition marks an alternative avant-garde movement. This is the first book to highlight it.
There is another dimension to the Irish short story tradition that has been overlooked. Led by Samuel Beckett, Aidan Higgins, and Tom Mac Intyre, this marginalized tradition marks an alternative avant-garde movement. This is the first book to highlight it.
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Why does representational art thrive in the 21st century? This indispensable book skewers contemporary orthodoxies to provide the answer.
Why does representational art thrive in the 21st century? This indispensable book skewers contemporary orthodoxies to provide the answer.
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Tony Kushner’s Postmodern Theatre
A Study of Political Discourse
This book is an insightful examination of Tony Kushner, one of the most prominent political dramatists in the US today. It explores how Kushner theatricalizes politics, drawing on influences like Bertolt Brecht to define his postmodern theatre.
This book is an insightful examination of Tony Kushner, one of the most prominent political dramatists in the US today. It explores how Kushner theatricalizes politics, drawing on influences like Bertolt Brecht to define his postmodern theatre.
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Shifting Paradigms in Culture
A Study of Three Plays by Jean Genet—The Maids, The Balcony and The Blacks
This book frees Jean Genet’s plays from the overpowering Sartrean perspective, revealing the hidden spaces of the prison and brothel. It traverses challenging issues—the ghettoized existence of social discards and others rotting on the margins.
This book frees Jean Genet’s plays from the overpowering Sartrean perspective, revealing the hidden spaces of the prison and brothel. It traverses challenging issues—the ghettoized existence of social discards and others rotting on the margins.
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Eloquent Design
Essays on the Rhetorics of Vision
From cave to computer, Eloquent Design explores ancient image-making as a basis for understanding the modern uses of image-texts in New Media. It proposes a generative method called “Rhetorical Vision” for creating innovative image-texts.
From cave to computer, Eloquent Design explores ancient image-making as a basis for understanding the modern uses of image-texts in New Media. It proposes a generative method called “Rhetorical Vision” for creating innovative image-texts.
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Dramatising Disaster
Character, Event, Representation
As the imagining of disaster intensifies in media, it is vital to understand how it is presented. Dramatising Disaster presents new research focused not on a specific event, but on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.
As the imagining of disaster intensifies in media, it is vital to understand how it is presented. Dramatising Disaster presents new research focused not on a specific event, but on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.
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This collection of scholarly articles explores Strindberg on international stages and in translation. Essays analyze performances, translation problems, and postdramatic theatre, posing key questions for modern Strindberg scholars, directors, and enthusiasts.
This collection of scholarly articles explores Strindberg on international stages and in translation. Essays analyze performances, translation problems, and postdramatic theatre, posing key questions for modern Strindberg scholars, directors, and enthusiasts.
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Beyond Boundaries
East and West Cross-Cultural Encounters
This collection of essays explores East-West cultural exchanges across centuries and disciplines. It examines the mutual influences of the visual arts and material culture of Asia, Europe, and the US, seeking to inspire new ideas and scholarly debate.
This collection of essays explores East-West cultural exchanges across centuries and disciplines. It examines the mutual influences of the visual arts and material culture of Asia, Europe, and the US, seeking to inspire new ideas and scholarly debate.
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A photographer and a dancer reveal how aesthetic education deepens our understanding of self and world. Discover transformative connections between creativity, the arts, nature, and the sensuous qualities of everyday life.
A photographer and a dancer reveal how aesthetic education deepens our understanding of self and world. Discover transformative connections between creativity, the arts, nature, and the sensuous qualities of everyday life.
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Worlds in Words
Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre and Playwriting
These essays analyze the revival of storytelling in contemporary theatre. Using cultural and post-colonial studies, they trace how new performative techniques are changing the relationship between the text, the stage, and the audience.
These essays analyze the revival of storytelling in contemporary theatre. Using cultural and post-colonial studies, they trace how new performative techniques are changing the relationship between the text, the stage, and the audience.
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Through the Mirror
Reflections on the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
This broad volume on Tarkovsky spans from classical film theories to theological analyses, an approach seriously neglected until now. This inspiring collection of critical essays strikes a compelling pose between cinematic and theological scholarship.
This broad volume on Tarkovsky spans from classical film theories to theological analyses, an approach seriously neglected until now. This inspiring collection of critical essays strikes a compelling pose between cinematic and theological scholarship.
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The study of ancient marriage has traditionally focused on elite texts and laws. This collection reveals a shift in focus, with essays examining demographic and contractual evidence, inscriptions, and visual imagery alongside innovative readings of authors.
The study of ancient marriage has traditionally focused on elite texts and laws. This collection reveals a shift in focus, with essays examining demographic and contractual evidence, inscriptions, and visual imagery alongside innovative readings of authors.
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Round Heads
The Earliest Rock Paintings in the Sahara
The Central Sahara is the world’s greatest “museum” of rock art, but its thousands of prehistoric images have been described and classified, not interpreted. Using interdisciplinary studies, this book proposes new ways to research the art and the societies that created it.
The Central Sahara is the world’s greatest “museum” of rock art, but its thousands of prehistoric images have been described and classified, not interpreted. Using interdisciplinary studies, this book proposes new ways to research the art and the societies that created it.
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What are the characteristics of media in small nations? This collection brings together perspectives and case-studies from across Europe to explore the challenges and advantages, providing insights into media policy, representation, and national identity.
What are the characteristics of media in small nations? This collection brings together perspectives and case-studies from across Europe to explore the challenges and advantages, providing insights into media policy, representation, and national identity.
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These essays examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans. From 19th-century emigrants to contemporary artists, this study explores the conflicted visions of a people striving to come to terms with what it means to be Irish.
These essays examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans. From 19th-century emigrants to contemporary artists, this study explores the conflicted visions of a people striving to come to terms with what it means to be Irish.
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This volume addresses the representation of warfare, assessing the veracity of war images and their impact. War images may trigger horror or paradoxically attain sublimity, blurring the narrow margin between ethics and aesthetics, information, and propaganda.
This volume addresses the representation of warfare, assessing the veracity of war images and their impact. War images may trigger horror or paradoxically attain sublimity, blurring the narrow margin between ethics and aesthetics, information, and propaganda.
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These critical essays explore the representation of sex, gender, and sexual orientation from the early days of cinema to the twenty-first century, investigating the complex relations between film style, sexual politics, and their social ramifications.
These critical essays explore the representation of sex, gender, and sexual orientation from the early days of cinema to the twenty-first century, investigating the complex relations between film style, sexual politics, and their social ramifications.
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