The Political Economy of Hollywood
This book explores the history of the U.S. motion picture industry and examines the political content of movies about war, revolutions, terrorism, and identity.
This manual provides a unique database documenting the evolution of the voice. Based on over 1,000 phonetograms from professional voice users, it offers an objective way to evaluate vocal capacities and provides practical cues for voice education and therapy.
This manual provides a unique database of over 1,000 phonetograms documenting the evolution of the professional voice in singers and actors. It offers tools to objectively evaluate voice capacity and provides practical cues for voice education and therapy during their career.
European Film Co-Productions
This volume analyzes the growing phenomenon of film-induced tourism. It examines the positive and negative impacts of film production in regions of environmental and cultural importance, and presents a quantitative evaluation of the economic benefits.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Slovenian theatre redefined its social role. This first-of-its-kind collection reveals how artists tackled neo-liberalism, the migrant crisis, and social injustice to claim their place on the wider European stage.
This volume moves beyond the deadlock between war’s inevitability and peace as a naïve chimera. Drawing from the humanities, these essays examine war not just as a destructive force but as a catalyst for creative expression, exploring themes of exile, memory, and resistance.
Performing Crisis
This book re-examines crisis and its presentation in theatre from diverse scholarly perspectives. It explores how artists use performance to negotiate identity, reimagine crisis, and facilitate survival, offering a theoretical and artistic inquiry into how we confront our times.
Ocean Diffraction
This book maps Indigenous awareness onto Western science to address today’s environmental and equality issues. A way forward is provided in Ngaru Whenua Ocean Diffraction, a decolonised framework uniting the Māori wave pattern for navigation with the science of diffraction.
The Patrimony of the Religious Orders in Spanish American Colonial Cities
This book documents the historical and architectural patrimony of religious orders in Spanish American cities. It provides a visual record, historical information, and details on current use for specialists and a general audience.
Things Said For, Against, and About Beauty
A corrosive energy gnaws at Western culture. This book looks to 2500 years of history, showing the power of beauty to shape and enrich our civilization. It asks if today’s crises are rooted in the repression of beauty, and dares to suggest that “Beauty can save the world.”
Beyond royal courts lies a rarely seen world: a folk Ramayana etched in stone on humble village temple walls. This pioneering work unveils these intricate plaques, a visual journey through the epic’s seven Kandas and their masterfully sculpted stories.
Artistic Research in Film and Philosophy
To face today’s challenges, this anthology explores artistic research in film and its interlacings with philosophy. Contributions by filmmakers and theorists discuss topics from aesthetics to media technology, outlining a forward-looking research area.
Chinese Export Paintings
This book deciphers the formula for market success of Chinese export paintings, a unique and misunderstood East-meets-West art form. Dr Maria Mok reveals the tactical artistic decisions that made these paintings best-sellers for Western customers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Space, Art and Architecture Between East and West
This timely volume looks beyond the West versus East binary to propose a conceptual revaluation that transcends ruptures. As ancient civilizations rebound, interdisciplinary specialists offer new paradigms to foster mutual communication and deeper global understandings.
Performing the Interview
This book articulates a new method for the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Theatrically framed sites invite participants to co-create “Data-Dramas,” capturing rich, embodied knowledge with relevance far beyond the arts.
This study of rock paintings and engraved art throws light on the lives of prehistoric people. It analyses painted animal and human figures to reveal their society, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and economy, from subsistence strategies to celebrations.
The once-celebrated “Kerala Model” of development has crumbled under pressure. This book takes a new look at the statecraft through the lens of popular cinema, using melodrama to reveal the frictions and slippages that escape official histories and statistics.
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.
The art market is often difficult to understand. Art historian Dr Ruth Polleit Riechert shares her method for assessing art and purchasing high-quality works at fair prices. Learn to recognize good art, which art is a suitable investment, and how new technologies can assist you.
Augustus and the Romana Religio
European specialists explore Roman religion under Emperor Augustus. His reforms did not break with the past, but recovered lost traditions. After his death and divinization, the new cult of emperors emerged, blending respect for tradition with new forms of official worship.
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