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Musical Modernism and German Cinema from 1913 to 1933 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017): Francesco... Musical Modernism and German Cinema from 1913 to 1933 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Francesco Finocchiaro
R4,102 Discovery Miles 41 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates the relationship between musical Modernism and German cinema. It paves the way for anunorthodox path of research, one which has been little explored up until now. The main figures of musical Modernism, from Alban Berg to Paul Hindemith, and from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill, actually had a significant relationship with cinema. True, it was a complex and contradictory relationship in which cinema often emerged more as an aesthetic point of reference than an objective reality; nonetheless, the reception of the language and aesthetic of cinema had significant influence on the domain of music. Between 1913 and 1933, Modernist composers' exploration of cinema reached such a degree of pervasiveness and consistency as to become a true aesthetic paradigm, a paradigm that sat at the very heart of the Modernist project. In this insightful volume, Finocchiaro shows that the creative confrontation with the avant-garde medium par excellence can be regarded as a vector of musical Modernism: a new aesthetic paradigm for the very process - of deliberate misinterpretation, creative revisionism, and sometimes even intentional subversion of the Classic-Romantic tradition - which realized the "dream of Otherness" of the Modernist generation.

Glitch Art in Theory and Practice - Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics (Paperback): Michael Betancourt Glitch Art in Theory and Practice - Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics (Paperback)
Michael Betancourt
R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital art and aesthetics. While prior literature on glitch practice in visual arts has been divided between historical discussions and social-political analyses, this work provides a rigorous, contemporary theoretical foundation and framework.

Kill Local (Paperback): Mat Smart Kill Local (Paperback)
Mat Smart
R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Project Dawn (Paperback): Karen Hartman Project Dawn (Paperback)
Karen Hartman
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Exploring, Experiencing, and Envisioning Integration in US Arts Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.... Exploring, Experiencing, and Envisioning Integration in US Arts Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Nancy H Hensel
R858 Discovery Miles 8 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the dedication of the New American Colleges & Universities to the purposeful integration of liberal education, professional studies, and civic engagement through the performing, literary, and visual arts. Examples of course level and programmatic integration of the arts are discussed from both an applied practice-based approach and a philosophical framework that posits student benefit from exploring, experiencing and envisioning creativity in their future professions. The authors believe that the development of professional skills in combination with the theoretical aspects of liberal arts curriculum, which traditionally includes music, theatre, art and literature, provides a high quality undergraduate educational experience that uniquely prepares students for adaptability in their careers and engaged citizenship grounded in the ability to think creatively, critically, and ethically.

Murder for Two (Paperback): Joe Kinosian, Kellen Blair Murder for Two (Paperback)
Joe Kinosian, Kellen Blair
R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Essential Knowledge for the Aspiring Media Professional (Paperback): John Zaffuto Essential Knowledge for the Aspiring Media Professional (Paperback)
John Zaffuto
R1,275 Discovery Miles 12 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Essential Knowledge for the Aspiring Media Professional provides readers with the skillset needed to produce professional, high-quality video content in today's competitive media landscape. The author draws on over two decades of industry experience to offer strategies for how to develop a sense of design, adopt a holistic approach to the media production process, and craft a distinct idea for a project's intent and form. In five in-depth chapters, the book delves into topics ranging from pre-production and planning processes to technical considerations and post-production methods. It concludes with an overview of career opportunities for aspiring media-makers. This book is an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike looking to hone creative production techniques within a broad range of formats and environments, particularly those requiring effective marketing and advertising-oriented content.

Disability Arts and Culture - Methods and Approaches (Paperback, New edition): Petra Kuppers Disability Arts and Culture - Methods and Approaches (Paperback, New edition)
Petra Kuppers
R960 Discovery Miles 9 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection offers insight into different study approaches to disability art and culture practices, and asks: what does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? International scholars and practitioners use ethnographic and participatory action research approaches; textual and discourse analysis; as well as other methods to discover how disability figures into our contemporary world(s). Chapters within the collection explore, amongst other topics, deaf theatre productions, representations of disability on-screen, community engagement projects and disabled bodies in dance. Disability Arts and Culture provides a comprehensive overview and a range of case studies benefitting both the practitioner and scholar.

The Women Who Knew Too Much - Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (Paperback, 3rd edition): Tania Modleski The Women Who Knew Too Much - Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Tania Modleski
R1,248 Discovery Miles 12 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in film theory and feminist criticism. The book consists of a theoretical introduction and analyses of seven important films by Alfred Hitchcock, each of which provides a basis for an analysis of the female spectator as well as of the male spectator. Modleski considers the emotional and psychic investments of men and women in female characters whose stories often undermine the mastery of the cinematic "master of suspense." The third edition features an interview with the author by David Greven, in which he and Modleski reflect on how feminist and queer approaches to Hitchcock studies may be brought into dialogue. A teaching guide and discussion questions by Ned Schantz help instructors and students to delve into this seminal work of feminist film theory.

The British Football Film (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): Stephen Glynn The British Football Film (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Stephen Glynn
R1,890 Discovery Miles 18 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of British football as depicted on film. From early single-camera silents to its current multi-screen mediations, the repeated treatment of football in British cinema points to the game's importance not only in the everyday rhythms of national life but also, and especially, its immutable place in the British imaginary landscape. Through close textual analysis together with production and reception histories, this book explores the ways in which professional footballers, amateur players and supporters (the devoted and the demonized) have been represented on the British screen. As well as addressing the joys and sorrows the game necessarily engenders, British football is shown to function as an accessible structure to explore wider issues such as class, race, gender and even the whole notion of 'Britishness'.

The Lonely Nineties - Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.... The Lonely Nineties - Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Paul Arras
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the most popular American television shows of the nineties-a decade at the last gasp of network television's cultural dominance. At a time when American culture seemed increasingly fragmented, television still offered something close to a site of national consensus. The Lonely Nineties focuses on a different set of popular nineties television shows in each chapter and provides an in-depth reading of scenes, characters or episodes that articulate the overarching "ideology" of each series. It ultimately argues that television shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, Law & Order and The Simpsons helped to shape the ways Americans thought about themselves in relation to their friends, families, localities, and nation. It demonstrates how these shows engaged with a variety of problems in American civic life, responded to the social isolation of the age, and occasionally imagined improvements for community in America.

Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era - Giving Power to the People (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era - Giving Power to the People (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Ashley M Donnelly
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era explores how artists, novelists, and directors were able to present narratives of strong dissent in popular culture during the Reagan Era. Using but subverting the tools of mainstream novels and films, these visionaries' works were featured alongside other books in major bookstores and promoted alongside blockbusters in movie theatres across the country. Ashley M. Donnelly discusses how the artists accomplished this, why it is so important, and how new artists can use these techniques in today's homogenous and mundane media.

Beckett, Deleuze and Performance - A Thousand Failures and A Thousand Inventions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Beckett, Deleuze and Performance - A Thousand Failures and A Thousand Inventions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Daniel Koczy
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, it asks how philosophy can approach what cannot be thought while honouring and preserving its alterity. Employing its method, it creates a series of encounters between aspects of Beckett's theatrical practice and a range of concepts drawn from Deleuze's philosophy. Through the force of these encounters, a new range of concepts is invented. These provide novel ways of thinking affect and the body in performance; the possibility of theatrical automation; and the importance of failure and invention in our attempts to respond to performance encounters. Further, this book includes new approaches to Beckett's later theatrical work and provides an overview of Deleuze's conception of philosophical practice as an ongoing struggle to think with immanence.

Film in the Anthropocene - Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018):... Film in the Anthropocene - Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Daniel White
R1,769 Discovery Miles 17 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of film in the context of the Anthropocene: the new geological era in which human beings have collectively become a force of nature. Daniel White draws on perspectives in philosophy, ecology, and cybernetics (the science of communication and control in animals and machines) to explore human self-understanding through film in the new era. The classical figure of Janus, looking both to the future and the past, serves as a guide throughout the study. Both feature and documentary films are considered.

The Light (Paperback): Loy A Webb The Light (Paperback)
Loy A Webb
R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
James Bond Uncovered (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): Jeremy Strong James Bond Uncovered (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Jeremy Strong
R2,382 Discovery Miles 23 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume brings fresh perspectives to the study of James Bond. With a strong emphasis on the process of Bond's incarnation on screen and his transit across media forms, chapters examine Bond in terms of adaptation, television, computer games, and the original novels. Film nonetheless provides the central focus, with analysis of both the corpus as a whole-from Dr. No to Spectre-and of particular films, from popular and much-discussed movies such as Goldfinger and Skyfall to comparatively under-examined texts such as the 1967 Casino Royale and A View to a Kill. Contributors' expertise and interests encompass such diverse aspects of and approaches to the Bond stories as Sound Design, Empire, Food and Taste, Geo-politics, Feminist re-reading, Tarot, Landscape and Sets.

Religious Imaging in Millennialist America - Dark Gnosis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): Ashley... Religious Imaging in Millennialist America - Dark Gnosis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Ashley Crawford
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ashley Crawford investigates how such figures as Ben Marcus, Matthew Barney, and David Lynch-among other artists, novelists, and film directors-utilize religious themes and images via Christianity, Judaism, and Mormonism to form essentially mutated variations of mainstream belief systems. He seeks to determine what drives contemporary artists to deliver implicitly religious imagery within a 'secular' context. Particularly, how religious heritage and language, and the mutations within those, have impacted American culture to partake in an aesthetic of apocalyptism that underwrites it.

The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018):... The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Raechel Dumas
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating shojo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body in mytho-fiction. Situating the titles examined here amid discourses of crisis that have materialized in contemporary Japan, Dumas illuminates the ambivalent pleasure of the monstrous-feminine as a trope that both articulates anxieties centered on shifting configurations of subjectivity and nationhood, and elaborates novel possibilities for identity negotiation and social formation in a period marked by dramatic change.

The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.... The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Diana Q Palardy
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as globalization, consumerism, immigration, speculation, precarity, and political resistance (particularly by Indignados [Indignant Ones] from the 15-M Movement). The book loosely traces the trajectory of the crisis, with the first part looking at texts that underscore some of the behaviors that indirectly contributed to the crisis, and the remaining chapters focusing on works that directly examine the crisis and its aftermath. This close reading of texts and films by Ray Loriga, Elia Barcelo, Ion de Sosa, Jose Ardillo, David Llorente, Eduardo Vaquerizo, and Ricardo Menendez Salmon offers insights into the creative ways that these authors and directors use spatial constructions to capture the dystopian imagination.

Patricia Highsmith on Screen (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): Wieland Schwanebeck, Douglas McFarland Patricia Highsmith on Screen (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Wieland Schwanebeck, Douglas McFarland
R4,348 Discovery Miles 43 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first full-length study to focus on the various film adaptations of Patricia Highsmith's novels, which have been a popular source for adaptation since Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1952). The collection of essays examines films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Two Faces of January, and Carol, includes interviews with Highsmith adaptors and provides a comprehensive filmography of all existing Highsmith adaptations. Particular attention is paid to queer subtexts, mythological underpinnings, philosophical questioning, contrasting media environments and formal conventions in diverse generic contexts. Produced over the space of seventy years, these adaptations reflect broad cultural and material shifts in film production and critical approaches to film studies. The book is thus not only of interest to Highsmith admirers but to anyone interested in adaptation and transatlantic film history.

Soft Power Made in China - The Dilemmas of Online and Offline Media and Transnational Audiences (Paperback, Softcover reprint... Soft Power Made in China - The Dilemmas of Online and Offline Media and Transnational Audiences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Claire Seungeun Lee
R2,136 Discovery Miles 21 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyzes the ways in which China's soft power growth faces dilemmas in East Asia through both online and offline platforms. One dilemma for China's transnational soft power-field expansion lies in the intersection of its source and receiving countries. The author discusses how transnational audiences' consumption and reception of Chinese television series are shaped by domestic factors, with interpretations of and desires for different forms of capital, further inhibiting the foreign export of these series. Another dilemma is the "outsourced soft power." While Hong Kong and Taiwan play significant roles as outsourced soft power mediators, their under-established emerging digital media platforms have yet to meet the expectations of transnational audiences in a virtual transnational soft power field. Grounded in the author's multi-site field research focused on television spheres, Soft Power Made in China argues that China's soft power paradox in South Korea and Japan-two quasi-Sinophone countries-is not due to a lack of state-level strategy, but linked to soft power pathways that rely on production in one source country, and both distribution and reception in a receiving country.

Comedy and the Politics of Representation - Mocking the Weak (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): Helen... Comedy and the Politics of Representation - Mocking the Weak (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Helen Davies, Sarah Ilott
R1,890 Discovery Miles 18 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture. Should there be limits to free speech when humour is aimed at marginalised social groups? What are the limits of free speech when comedy pokes fun at those who hold social power? Can taboo joking be used towards politically progressive ends? Can stereotypes be mocked through their re-invocation? Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak breaks new theoretical ground by demonstrating how the way people are represented mediates the triadic relationship set up in comedy between teller, audience and butt of the joke. By bringing together a selection of essays from international scholars, this study unpacks and examines the dynamic role that humour plays in making and remaking identity and power relations in culture and society.

Drones and the Creative Industry - Innovative Strategies for European SMEs (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st... Drones and the Creative Industry - Innovative Strategies for European SMEs (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Virginia Santamarina Campos, Marival Segarra-Ona
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This open access, interdisciplinary book presents innovative strategies in the use of civil drones in the cultural and creative industry. Specially aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the book offers valuable insights from the fields of marketing, engineering, arts and management. With contributions from experts representing varied interests throughout the creative industry, including academic researchers, software developers and engineers, it analyzes the needs of the creative industry when using civil drones both outdoors and indoors. The book also provides timely recommendations to the industry, as well as guidance for academics and policymakers.

Corporeal Legacies in the US South - Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the... Corporeal Legacies in the US South - Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Christopher Lloyd
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence, from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd focuses on corporeality in literature and film to detail the workings of cultural memory in the present. Drawing on the fields of Southern Studies, Memory Studies and Black Studies, the book also engages psychoanalysis, Animal Studies and posthumanism to revitalize questions of the racialized body. Lloyd traces corporeal legacies in the US South through novels by Jesmyn Ward, Kathryn Stockett and others, alongside film and television such as Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Walking Dead. In all, the book explores the ways in which bodies in contemporary southern culture bear the traces of racial regulation and injury.

Gender Inequality in Screenwriting Work (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): Natalie Wreyford Gender Inequality in Screenwriting Work (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Natalie Wreyford
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book to critically examine the recruitment and working practices of screenwriters. Drawing on interviews with screenwriters and those that employ them, Natalie Wreyford provides a deep and detailed understanding of entrenched gender inequality in the UK film industry and answers the question: what is preventing women from working as screenwriters? She considers how socialised recruitment and gendered taste result in exclusion, and uncovers subtle forms of sexism that cause women's stories and voices to be discounted. Gender Inequality in Screenwriting Work also reveals the hidden labour market of the UK film industry, built on personal connections, homophily and the myth of meritocracy. It is essential reading for students and scholars of gender, creative industries, film and cultural studies, as well as anyone who wants to understand why women remain excluded from many key roles in filmmaking.

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