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The New York Clipper (June 1916) (Hardcover): The New York Clipper The New York Clipper (June 1916) (Hardcover)
The New York Clipper
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Coraline - A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA's Stop-Motion Witchcraft (Hardcover): Mihaela Mihailova Coraline - A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA's Stop-Motion Witchcraft (Hardcover)
Mihaela Mihailova
R3,992 Discovery Miles 39 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) is stop-motion studio LAIKA's feature-length debut based on the popular children's novel by British author Neil Gaiman. Heralding a revival in global interest in stop-motion animation, the film is both an international cultural phenomenon and a breakthrough moment in the technological evolution of the craft. This open access collection brings together an international group of practitioners and scholars to examine Coraline's place in animation history and culture, dissect its politics, and unpack its role in the technological and aesthetic development of its medium. More broadly, it celebrates stop motion as a unique and enduring artform while embracing its capacity to evolve in response to cultural, political, and technological changes, as well as shifting critical and audience demands. Divided into three sections, this volume's chapters situate Coraline within an interconnected network of historical, industrial, discursive, theoretical, and cultural contexts. They place the film in conversation with the medium's aesthetic and technological history, broader global intellectual and political traditions, and questions of animation reception and spectatorship. In doing so, they invite recognition - and appreciation - of the fact that Coraline occupies many liminal spaces at once. It straddles the boundary between children's entertainment and traditional 'adult' genres, such as horror and thriller. It complicates a seemingly straight(forward) depiction of normative family life with gestures of queer resistance. Finally, it marks a pivotal point in stop-motion animation's digital turn. Following the film's recent tenth anniversary, the time is right to revisit its production history, evaluate its cultural and industry impact, and celebrate its legacy as contemporary stop-motion cinema's gifted child. As the first book-length academic study of this contemporary animation classic, this volume serves as an authoritative introduction and a primary reference on the film for scholars, students, practitioners, and animation fans. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Our Blessed Rebel Queen - Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia (Hardcover): Linda Mizejewski, Tanya D. Zuk Our Blessed Rebel Queen - Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia (Hardcover)
Linda Mizejewski, Tanya D. Zuk; Contributions by Ken Feil, Jennifer M. Fogel, Cynthia A. Hoffner, …
R2,480 Discovery Miles 24 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia is the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher's entangled relationship with the iconic Princess Leia is a focal point of this volume. Editors Linda Mizejewski and Tanya D. Zuk have assembled a collection that engages with the multiple interfaces between Fisher's most famous character and her other life-giving work. The contributors offer insights into Fisher as science-fiction idol, author, feminist inspiration, and Lucasfilm commodity. Jennifer M. Fogel examines the thorny ""ownership"" of Fisher's image as a conflation of fan nostalgia, merchandise commodity, and eventually, feminist icon. Philipp Dominik Keidl looks at how Carrie Fisher and her iconic character are positioned within the male-centric history of Star Wars. Andrew Kemp-Wilcox researches the 2016 controversy over a virtual Princess Leia that emerged after Carrie Fisher's death. Tanya D. Zuk investigates the use of Princess Leia and Carrie images during the Women's March as memetic reconfigurations of historical propaganda to leverage political and fannish ideological positions. Linda Mizejewski explores Carrie Fisher's autobiographical writing, while Ken Feil takes a look at Fisher's playful blurring of truth and fiction in her screenplays. Kristen Anderson Wagner identifies Fisher's use of humor and anger to challenge public expectations for older actresses. Cynthia Hoffner and Sejung Park highlight Fisher's mental health advocacy, and Slade Kinnecott personalizes how Fisher's candidness and guidance about mental health were especially cherished by those who lacked a support system in their own lives. Our Blessed Rebel Queen is distinct in its interdisciplinary approach, drawing from a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks. Longtime fans of Carrie Fisher and her body of work will welcome this smart and thoughtful tribute to a multimedia legend.

Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Paperback): Gail Grant Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Paperback)
Gail Grant
R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Astrid's Diary 2 - Our Diary of Mine (Hardcover): David Days Astrid's Diary 2 - Our Diary of Mine (Hardcover)
David Days
R1,170 R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Save R197 (17%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
New York Clipper (June 1915); 63 (Hardcover): New York Clipper New York Clipper (June 1915); 63 (Hardcover)
New York Clipper
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Variety (June 1907); 7 (Hardcover): "Variety" Variety (June 1907); 7 (Hardcover)
"Variety"
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Changing Tides - Poetry of Love, Loss and New Life (Hardcover): Katy Hoover Changing Tides - Poetry of Love, Loss and New Life (Hardcover)
Katy Hoover
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Radio Moments - 50 Years of Radio - Life on the Inside (Paperback): David Lloyd Radio Moments - 50 Years of Radio - Life on the Inside (Paperback)
David Lloyd
R435 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R51 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the 1970s, '80s and '90s Britain witnessed what many in the business saw as the second great age of radio. It was a period when FM radio blossomed and local stations opened and broadcast across the land. It was a step away from the output of the national broadcaster, the BBC, which had held a monopoly on the airways since its inception. Broadcaster, station manager and regulator for over forty years David Lloyd was very much a part of this revolution and is, amongst his peers, well placed to tell that story. Lloyd describes the period as one of innovation, his aim to create a timeline of radio of this era through to the present day, to capture those heady days, the characters, the fun and heartache, life on the air, life off the air. And to revisit those station launches, company consolidations, the successes and the failures. Told with the insight of an insider, with his characteristic wit and a huge dollop of nostalgia, David Lloyd brings to life a unique age in broadcasting in this fascinating account.

Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature (Hardcover): Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, Michael Scham Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature (Hardcover)
Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, Michael Scham
R3,298 Discovery Miles 32 980 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected yet crucial field: the importance of casuistical thought and discourse in the development of literary genres in early modern Spain. Faced with the momentous changes wrought by discovery, empire, religious schism, expanding print culture, consolidation of legal codes and social transformation, writers sought innovation within existing forms (the novella, the byzantine romance, theatrical drama) and created novel genres (most notably, the picaresque). These essays show how casuistry, with its questioning of example and precept, and meticulous concern with conscience and the particularities of circumstance, is instrumental in cultivating the subjectivity, rhetorical virtuosity and spirit of inquiry that we have come to associate with the modern novel.

Next Generation Adaptation - Spectatorship and Process (Hardcover): Allen H. Redmon Next Generation Adaptation - Spectatorship and Process (Hardcover)
Allen H. Redmon
R2,942 Discovery Miles 29 420 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine Akkulah Do?fan, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent, Rashmila Maiti, Jack Ryan, Larry T. Shillock, Richard Vela, and Geoffrey Wilson In Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and Process, editor Allen H. Redmon brings together eleven essays from a range of voices in adaptation studies. This anthology explores the political and ethical contexts of specific adaptations and, by extension, the act of adaptation itself. Grounded in questions of gender, genre, and race, these investigations focus on the ways attention to these categories renegotiates the rules of power, privilege, and principle that shape the contexts that seemingly produce and reproduce them. Contributors to the volume examine such adaptations as Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, Taylor Sheridan's Sicario and Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Jean-Jacques Annaud's Wolf Totem, Spike Lee's He's Got Game, and Jim Jarmusch's Paterson. Each chapter considers the expansive dialogue adaptations accelerate when they realize their capacity to bring together two or more texts, two or more peoples, two or more ideologies without allowing one expression to erase another. Building on the growing trends in adaptation studies, these essays explore the ways filmic texts experienced as adaptations highlight ethical or political concerns and argue that spectators are empowered to explore implications being raised by the adaptations.

My Adventure With Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (hardback) - The Making of the Movie Sheena (Hardcover): Yoram Ben-Ami My Adventure With Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (hardback) - The Making of the Movie Sheena (Hardcover)
Yoram Ben-Ami
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dances of Greece (Hardcover): Domini Crosfield Dances of Greece (Hardcover)
Domini Crosfield
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Clipper (September 1906) (Hardcover): New York Clipper Clipper (September 1906) (Hardcover)
New York Clipper
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Movie Weekly (1922) (Hardcover): Physical Culture Corporation Movie Weekly (1922) (Hardcover)
Physical Culture Corporation
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blacks in the Arts - Music, Art, and Theater-Selective Readings (Paperback): Mickey Thomas Terry Blacks in the Arts - Music, Art, and Theater-Selective Readings (Paperback)
Mickey Thomas Terry
R5,703 R4,846 Discovery Miles 48 460 Save R857 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Blacks in the Arts: Music, Art, and Theater - Selective Readings is designed to provide students with general knowledge and a greater understanding of the contributions of African American artists and the interrelationship of their achievements with the world of art and culture. The anthology begins with readings that discuss slavery as a contextual basis for the development of Black art throughout time; the Negro spiritual as the first truly American art form; Blacks and classical music; and the history of gospel music. Additional selections examine colorism and Black racial pride, the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance, and the history and evolution of the blues. Closing units cover the origins of jazz music and the evolution and development of Blacks in the theater. Throughout, editor introductions for each reading provide students with invaluable context and insight into key topics and concepts. Blacks in the Arts is an enlightening and engaging resource for courses in the fine arts, the history of the arts, and Black studies.

Storytelling - A Sort of Memoir (Paperback): Storytelling - A Sort of Memoir (Paperback)
R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During a remarkable lifetime, Andrew Sinclair has bridged the worlds of university and literature, art and cinema. A child of the Second World War, he has known many of the leading figures of the past seventy years - ranging from William Golding to Ted Hughes, Harold Pinter to Francis Bacon, Robert Lowell to Graham Greene, as well as publishing such classic screenplays as 'The Blue Angel', 'The Third Man' and 'Stagecoach'. He also directed a number of films including Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole. This unique `anti-memoires' of episodes and encounters captures new insights into many of the leading creative talents and stars of their times. In his own adventures, Andrew became involved in the revolt against the Suez invasion and overground nuclear tests, the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, the 1968 global student uprisings and finally in the worldwide digital revolution in education and the arts. Now in his ninth decade, this author of some 40 books, including the much-lauded The Breaking of Bumbo and Gog, Andrew Sinclair in the tradition of John Aubrey's Brief Lives looks back on a rich life and fond memories of the people he has studied and known.

Becoming Audible - Sounding Animality in Performance (Hardcover): Austin McQuinn Becoming Audible - Sounding Animality in Performance (Hardcover)
Austin McQuinn
R2,731 Discovery Miles 27 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species, Austin McQuinn discovers that sounding animality secures a vital connection to the creatural. To frame his analysis, McQuinn employs Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of becoming-animal, Donna Haraway's definitions of multispecies becoming-with, and Mladen Dolar's ideas of voice-as-object. McQuinn considers birdsong in the work of Beatrice Harrison, Olivier Messiaen, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, Daniela Cattivelli, and Marcus Coates; the voice of the canine as a sacrificial lab animal in the operatic work of Alexander Raskatov; hierarchies of vocalization in human-simian cultural coevolution in theatrical adaptations of Franz Kafka and Eugene O'Neill; and the acoustic exchanges among hybrid human-animal creations in Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur. Inspired by the operatic voice and drawing from work in art and performance studies, animal studies, zooarchaeology, social and cultural anthropology, and philosophy, McQuinn demonstrates that sounding animality in performance resonates "through the labyrinths of the cultural and the creatural," not only across species but also beyond the limits of the human. Timely and provocative, this volume outlines new methods of unsettling human exceptionalism during a period of urgent reevaluation of interspecies relations. Students and scholars of human-animal studies, performance studies, and art historians working at the nexus of human and animal will find McQuinn's book enlightening and edifying.

Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond - Updated Edition (Hardcover): Gina McIntyre Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond - Updated Edition (Hardcover)
Gina McIntyre
R1,216 Discovery Miles 12 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Explore over eighty years of Batman history in this updated edition that features a wealth of new content, including a new chapter on acclaimed feature film The Batman. Featuring two new chapters and exclusive content from the new feature film The Batman, this updated volume tells the complete story of Batman across comics, TV, animation, film, video games, and beyond. Covering the complete history of Batman in vivid detail, this deluxe edition features exclusive commentary from the key creatives who have been instrumental in building the Dark Knight's ongoing legacy, including Neal Adams, Tim Burton, Paul Dini, Steve Englehart, Mark Hamill, Grant Morrison, Julie Newmar, Christopher Nolan, Denny O'Neil, Joel Schumacher, Scott Snyder, and Zack Snyder. Along with taking readers on an unparalleled journey into the creation of the most memorable Batman moments in the character's eighty-year history-from the "Knightfall" comics arc to Tim Burton's films and the Arkham video game series the book busts open the DC Comics and Warner Bros. archives to deliver an avalanche of never-before-seen visual treasures that are guaranteed to blow the minds of Batman fans everywhere. Filled with exclusive insert items that further deepen the reading experience, this updated edition of Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond, is the ultimate exploration of a true legend whose impact on our culture has no limits.

Clipper (December 1913) (Hardcover): New York Clipper Clipper (December 1913) (Hardcover)
New York Clipper
R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Shark is Roaring (hardback) - The Story of Jaws - The Revenge (Hardcover): Paul Downey The Shark is Roaring (hardback) - The Story of Jaws - The Revenge (Hardcover)
Paul Downey
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Theater of Lockdown - Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (Hardcover): Barbara Fuchs Theater of Lockdown - Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (Hardcover)
Barbara Fuchs; Series edited by Anja Hartl, William C. Boles
R3,176 Discovery Miles 31 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Offering one of the first scholarly examinations of digital and distanced performance since the global shutdown of theaters in March 2020, Barbara Fuchs provides both a record of the changes and a framework for thinking through theater's transformation. Though born of necessity, recent productions offer a new world of practice, from multi-platform plays on Zoom, WhatsApp, and Instagram, to enhancement via filters and augmented reality, to urban distanced theater that enlivens streetscapes and building courtyards. Based largely outside the commercial theater, these productions transcend geographic and financial barriers to access new audiences, while offering a lifeline to artists. This study charts how virtual theater puts pressure on existing assumptions and definitions, transforming the conditions of both theater-making and viewership. How are participatory, site-specific, or devised theater altered under physical-distancing requirements? How do digital productions blur the line between film and theater? What does liveness mean in a time of pandemic? In its seven chapters, Theater of Lockdown focuses on digital and distanced productions from the Americas, Europe, and Australia, offering scholarly analysis and interviews. Productions examined include Theater in Quarantine's "closet work" in New York; Forced Entertainment's (Sheffield, UK), End Meeting for All, I, II, and III; the work of Madrid-based company Grumelot; and the virtuosic showmanship of EFE Tres in Mexico City.

From Artisan's Son to Hamlet (hardback) - The Life of August Schonemann, Comedy King of Norway (Hardcover): Snorre Smari... From Artisan's Son to Hamlet (hardback) - The Life of August Schonemann, Comedy King of Norway (Hardcover)
Snorre Smari Mathiesen
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Variety (May 1907); 6 (Hardcover): "Variety" Variety (May 1907); 6 (Hardcover)
"Variety"
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Religion and the Arts in The Hunger Games (Paperback): Zhange Ni Religion and the Arts in The Hunger Games (Paperback)
Zhange Ni
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this selective overview of scholarship generated by The Hunger Games-the young adult dystopian fiction and film series which has won popular and critical acclaim-Zhange Ni showcases various investigations into the entanglement of religion and the arts in the new millennium. Ni introduces theories, methods, and the latest developments in the study of religion in relation to politics, audio/visual art, new media, material culture, and popular culture, whilst also reading The Hunger Games as a story that explores the variety, complexity, and ambiguity of enchantment. In popular texts such as this, religion and art-both broadly construed, that is, beyond conventional boundaries-converge in creating an enchantment that makes life more bearable and effects change in the world.

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