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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts
Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the
Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments
have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic
Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and
Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography
constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic
Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that
are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural
studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore
cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan's
Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie
serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction, Colson
Whitehead's novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left
Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi's
novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf's videos, and Samuel
Delany's classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic
Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to "real-ize" that
which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or
subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and
dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in
the fantastic city. Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb,
Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah
Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni
Berns, Chris Pak, Maria Isabel Perez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J.
Jesse Ramirez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey
Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates.
The experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and
performance makers in their own words. Curated stories from over 75
interviews and informal exchanges offer insight into the field and
point out limitations due to discrimination and unequal opportunity
for performance artists in the United States over the past 55
years. In this work, performers, often unknown beyond their
immediate audience, articulate diverse influences. They also
reflect on how artists are educated and supported, what content is
deemed valuable and how it is brought to bear, as well as which
audiences are welcome and whether cross-community exchange is
encouraged. The book's voices bring the reader from 1965 through
the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. They point to more
diverse and inclusive practices and give hope for the future of the
art.
If you're looking for a fun, effective, low-impact workout that
will build stamina, enhance flexibility, and improve your
cardiovascular well-being, look no more. This gentle and effective
dance is not only exciting to learn; it's also a great workout.
Bellydance strengthens your core muscles gracefully, giving you new
confidence in your body's natural sway and movement. These popular
dance steps have been embraced by women of all ages everywhere.
Here, Evyenia Karmi, an experienced dancer, teacher, and member
of the International Dance Council, introduces students to the
basic terminology and movements of bellydance. Through careful,
easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, you can quickly begin
learning the vocabulary of this ancient and beautiful dance.
Once you master the basic steps, the addition of sultry veil
work can add a whole new dimension and excitement to your
experience and performance. This compact and easy-to-use guide is
an excellent teaching tool, featuring a gentle warm-up routine, to
prepare your body for this energetic workout experience.
Create your own choreography or just have fun dancing You'll
learn basic arm movements, technique for both the upper and lower
body, directional and travelling steps, the basics of veil work-and
much more.
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Metallica
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Kieran James, Christopher Tolliday
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The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of
Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers,
filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school
experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations
discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David
Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse
Anderson's Speak and Faiza Guene's Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, the
light-hearted, middle-grade fiction of Andrew Clements and Tommy
Greenwald, and Malala Yousafzai's autobiography for young readers,
I Am Malala. He also responds to stories that take young people as
their primary subjects in such novels as Sapphire's Push and films
including Battle Royale and Cooties. Though ranging widely in their
accounts of young life, such stories betray a mounting sense of
crisis in education around the world, especially in terms of equity
(the extent to which students from diverse backgrounds have fair
chances of receiving quality education) and empowerment (the extent
to which diverse students are encouraged to gain strength,
confidence, and selfhood as learners). Drawing particular attention
to the influence of neoliberal initiatives on school experience,
this book considers what it means when learning and success are
measured more and more by entrepreneurship, competitive
individualism, and marketplace gains. Attentive to the ways in
which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and
social relations operate in the contemporary school story, The
School Story offers provocative insights into a genre that speaks
profoundly to the increasingly precarious position of education in
the twenty-first century.
El cine en el aula de espanol: una propuesta pedagogica provides
students with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and use of
the Spanish language through critiquing films from the
Spanish-speaking world. This interactive workbook is organized into
four units that focus on horror/supernatural films, Hispanic
cinema, Spanish cinema, and immigration in film. Each chapter
features topical questions, readings followed by comprehension
questions, activities with short-answer responses, and links to
short videos and related comprehension questions. Featured films
include El laberinto del fauno, Los ojos de Julia, El orfantato,
Nueve reinas, Bienvenido Mr. Marshall, La cabina, La lengua de las
mariposas, Los invisibles, Flores de otro mundo, and others.
Designed to provide students with an engaging and dynamic way in
which to build their language proficiency, El cine en el aula de
espanol is an ideal resource for advanced courses in Spanish.
In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam
Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish
origin. The artists - Mosa Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller,
Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were
characterized by multiple and changeable identities: nationalist
and universalist, Zionist and Sephardic, communist and
cosmopolitan. These fluctuating identities found expression in
their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates,
partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images,
diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish
life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that
included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe
of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath.
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