Meanings of Ripley
The Alien Quadrilogy and Gender
This collection offers varied interpretations of sci-fi icon Ellen Ripley. Is she a feminist hero? A patriarchal mother? Does she move beyond dichotomous gender roles? Voices from multiple disciplines explore these questions against the backdrop of Second Wave Feminism.
This collection offers varied interpretations of sci-fi icon Ellen Ripley. Is she a feminist hero? A patriarchal mother? Does she move beyond dichotomous gender roles? Voices from multiple disciplines explore these questions against the backdrop of Second Wave Feminism.
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This volume explores the intersection of media, culture, and conflict in Africa. It examines how cultural practices, media, social movements, and new technologies can address the continent's political and social challenges. A vital contribution to an underexplored field.
This volume explores the intersection of media, culture, and conflict in Africa. It examines how cultural practices, media, social movements, and new technologies can address the continent’s political and social challenges. A vital contribution to an underexplored field.
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Merry Murderers
The Farcical (Re)Figuration of the Femme Fatale in Maurine Dallas Watkins’ Chicago (1927) and its Various Adaptations
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
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In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection investigate the recent powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a ‘new’ medium.
In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection investigate the recent powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a ‘new’ medium.
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Minority Theatre on the Global Stage
Challenging Paradigms from the Margins
This volume explores contemporary theatre's affinity with the margins. Essays examine how minority theatre challenges cultural consensus and gives universal resonance to conflicted identities, re-examining the status of theatre itself in a globalized world.
This volume explores contemporary theatre’s affinity with the margins. Essays examine how minority theatre challenges cultural consensus and gives universal resonance to conflicted identities, re-examining the status of theatre itself in a globalized world.
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Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable
The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman
Monsters have always represented what we fear in the Other. But today, they reveal what we fear in ourselves—what we're capable of. These essays explore the monstrous in film, literature, and myth to understand not just who we are, but who we might become.
Monsters have always represented what we fear in the Other. But today, they reveal what we fear in ourselves—what we’re capable of. These essays explore the monstrous in film, literature, and myth to understand not just who we are, but who we might become.
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Monsters have always been border crossers, their transnational nature reflecting our era of global crisis. This book explores the cultural flow of monstrosity, examining its socio-political ramifications in a world framed by the Covid pandemic and our shared vulnerability.
Monsters have always been border crossers, their transnational nature reflecting our era of global crisis. This book explores the cultural flow of monstrosity, examining its socio-political ramifications in a world framed by the Covid pandemic and our shared vulnerability.
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Movies on Home Ground
Explorations in Amateur Cinema
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
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This volume explores the relation between contemporary Turkish film, television, and religion. It concentrates on how religion shapes the politics of new cinema, from the representation of Muslim women to subsequent changes in narratives and characters.
This volume explores the relation between contemporary Turkish film, television, and religion. It concentrates on how religion shapes the politics of new cinema, from the representation of Muslim women to subsequent changes in narratives and characters.
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New Cinema in Turkey
Filmmakers and Identities between Urban and Rural Space
Ottone focuses on Turkish cinema that has seen the emergence and consolidation of a strong internationally-recognised authorship. He assesses the last twenty years of the “New Turkish Auteur Cinema” by comparing the so-called “3rd generation” to a 4th generation of directors.
Ottone focuses on Turkish cinema that has seen the emergence and consolidation of a strong internationally-recognised authorship. He assesses the last twenty years of the “New Turkish Auteur Cinema” by comparing the so-called “3rd generation” to a 4th generation of directors.
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New Cinema, New Media
Reinventing Turkish Cinema
This volume covers the relationship between innovation and politics in new Turkish cinema. It analyzes recurring themes of memory, trauma, and identity, with in-depth studies of renowned filmmakers like Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Fatih Akın, and Semih Kaplanoğlu.
This volume covers the relationship between innovation and politics in new Turkish cinema. It analyzes recurring themes of memory, trauma, and identity, with in-depth studies of renowned filmmakers like Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Fatih Akın, and Semih Kaplanoğlu.
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This book collects Daniel Asia's writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.
This book collects Daniel Asia’s writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.
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Ocean Diffraction
Indigenous Practices, Quantum Theory, Electronic Art and the Anthropocene
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.
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.
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On the Verge of Tears
Why the Movies, Television, Music, Art, Popular Culture, Literature, and the Real World Make Us Cry
Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.
Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.
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Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe
Between Utopia and Nihilism
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe's last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe’s last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
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Exploring the body's role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, 'perform' meaning.
Exploring the body’s role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, ‘perform’ meaning.
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This volume investigates the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category.
This volume investigates the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category.
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Popular and Visual Culture
Design, Circulation and Consumption
This book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, analyzing how iconic productions are outcomes of political, economic, and social circumstances. It explores how visual artefacts are socially built, preserved, and contested as symbolic discourses on values.
This book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, analyzing how iconic productions are outcomes of political, economic, and social circumstances. It explores how visual artefacts are socially built, preserved, and contested as symbolic discourses on values.
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Postcolonial Artist
Johnny Doran and Irish Traveller Tradition
Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.
Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.
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PostGender
Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture
A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.
A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.
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