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Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback): Kelsey Blair Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Kelsey Blair
R1,086 Discovery Miles 10 860 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century offers a field intervention, a series of in-depth performance analyses, and an investigation of the intersection between sport performances and public life in the historical present in the global north. The objectives of this book are three-fold. First, the book advocates for the study of sport in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies and, through in-depth performance analyses, demonstrates how the critical language and methods of performance studies help illuminate the manifold impacts of the practices, activities, and events of sport. Second, the book introduces new critical language that was originally developed in conjunction with sport but is also designed for cross-genre performance analysis. In introducing novel terminology, the book aims to simultaneously facilitate analysis of sport performances and to demonstrate how the study of sport can contribute to the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies. Finally, the book investigates the epistemological, affective, and socio-political effects of sport performances in order to illuminate how sport performances influence, and are influenced by, their historical conditions. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies, Physical Culture Studies, and Socio-Cultural Sports Studies.

Gaming Disability - Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games (Paperback): Katie Ellis, Tama Leaver, Mike Kent Gaming Disability - Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games (Paperback)
Katie Ellis, Tama Leaver, Mike Kent
R1,106 Discovery Miles 11 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is an important collection for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of digital games, and will be of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game design and development, internet studies, visual studies, cultural studies, communication studies, and media studies, as well as disability studies The book explores the opportunities and challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of digital games from the perspective of three related areas: representation, access and inclusion, and community Drawing on key concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital games Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokemon Go The book also asks how game developers can attempt to represent diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as examples

Design for Global Challenges and Goals (Paperback): Emmanuel Tsekleves, Rachel. Cooper, Jak Spencer Design for Global Challenges and Goals (Paperback)
Emmanuel Tsekleves, Rachel. Cooper, Jak Spencer
R1,163 Discovery Miles 11 630 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Design for Global Challenges and Goals charts the developments, opportunities and challenges for design research in addressing global challenges facing developing contexts focusing on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The book explores the role that design and social responsibility play in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how design works in developing contexts. It presents 10 design-led case studies addressing different Sustainable Development Goals ranging from reducing poverty and hunger, improving health and wellbeing, promoting gender equality, developing more sustainable cities and communities, encouraging more responsible consumption and production, and tackling climate change. Design for Global Challenges and Goals also addresses the future, offering foresight into the research in global challenges by identifying the opportunities and emerging trends for researchers. Providing a guide to the state of the art of design research that addresses the Sustainable Development Goals, this book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students who want their research to address global challenges.

The Sound of a Room - Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place (Paperback): Sean Street The Sound of a Room - Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place (Paperback)
Sean Street
R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What does a place sound like - and how does the sound of place affect our perceptions, experiences, and memories? The Sound of a Room takes a poetic and philosophical approach to exploring these questions, providing a thoughtful investigation of the sonic aesthetics of our lived environments. Moving through a series of location-based case studies, the author uses his own field recordings as the jumping-off point to consider the underlying questions of how sonic environments interact with our ideas of self, sense of creativity, and memories. Advocating an awareness born of deep listening, this book offers practical and poetic insights for researchers, practitioners, and students of sound.

Psychogeography and Psychology - In and Beyond the Discipline (Paperback): Alex J. Bridger Psychogeography and Psychology - In and Beyond the Discipline (Paperback)
Alex J. Bridger
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The only book to consider the relationship between psychology and psychogeography. Psychogeography is a young but growing area of research, with a cross-disciplinary readership. Author is one of the leading lights of this new field. Subject are is inherently international in scope and appeal.

Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey - A Teacher's Guide (Hardcover): Kristen M. Turner, Horace J. Maxile,... Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey - A Teacher's Guide (Hardcover)
Kristen M. Turner, Horace J. Maxile, Jr.
R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide provides concrete information and approaches that will help instructors include women and people of color in the typical music history survey course and the foundational music theory classes. This book provides a reconceptualization of the principles that shape the decisions instructors should make when crafting the syllabus. It offers new perspectives on canonical composers and pieces that take into account musical, cultural, and social contexts where women and people of color are present. Secondly, it suggests new topics of study and pieces by composers whose work fits into a more inclusive narrative of music history. A thematic approach parallels the traditional chronological sequencing in Western music history classes. Three themes include people and communities that suffer from various kinds of exclusion: Locales & Locations; Forms & Factions; Responses & Reception. Each theme is designed to uncover a different cultural facet that is often minimized in traditional music history classrooms but which, if explored, lead to topics in which other perspectives and people can be included organically in the curriculum, while not excluding canonical composers.

Heidegger and the Work of Art History (Hardcover, New Ed): Amanda Boetzkes Heidegger and the Work of Art History (Hardcover, New Ed)
Amanda Boetzkes
R4,231 Discovery Miles 42 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Heidegger and the Work of Art History explores the impact and future possibilities of Heidegger's philosophy for art history and visual culture in the twenty-first century. Scholars from the fields of art history, visual and material studies, design, philosophy, aesthetics and new media pursue diverse lines of thinking that have departed from Heidegger's work in order to foster compelling new accounts of works of art and their historicity. This collected book of essays also shows how studies in the history and theory of the visual enrich our understanding of Heidegger's philosophy. In addition to examining the philosopher's lively collaborations with art historians, and how his longstanding engagement with the visual arts influenced his conceptualization of history, the essays in this volume consider the ontological and ethical implications of our encounters with works of art, the visual techniques that form worlds, how to think about 'things' beyond human-centred relationships, the moods, dispositions, and politics of art's history, and the terms by which we might rethink aesthetic judgment and the interpretation of the visible world, from the early modern period to the present day.

The Video Games Textbook - History • Business • Technology (Paperback, 2nd edition): Brian J. Wardyga The Video Games Textbook - History • Business • Technology (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Brian J. Wardyga
R1,787 Discovery Miles 17 870 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Explores the history, business, and technology of video games, including social, political, and economic motivations Facilitates learning with clear objectives, key terms, illustrative timelines, color images, tables and graphs Highlights the technical specifications and key titles of all major game consoles, handhelds, personal computers, and mobile platforms Reinforces material with market summaries, reviews of breakthroughs and trends, as well as end-of-chapter activities and quizzes New content in every chapter, from the PC-98, MSX, Amstrad, and ZX Spectrum to expanded coverage on mobile gaming, virtual reality, Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5

A New History of Western Art - From Antiquity to the Present Day (Hardcover): Koenraad Jonckheere A New History of Western Art - From Antiquity to the Present Day (Hardcover)
Koenraad Jonckheere
R1,764 Discovery Miles 17 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana duct-taped to a wall worth more on the art market than a beautiful seventeenth-century landscape? By taking art for what it actually is - a piece of stone or wood, a sheet of paper with some lines drawn on it, a painted canvas - this lively and accessible account shows how seemingly meaningless objects can be transformed into celebrated works of art. Breaking with conventional notions of artistic genius, Koenraad Jonckheere explores how stories and emotions give meaning to objects, and why changing historical circumstances result in such shifting opinions over time. Tracing its story from ancient times to present, A New History of Western Art reframes the evolution of European art and radically reshapes our understanding of art history. Published in association with Hannibal Books

Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music (Paperback): Ritwik Sanyal, Richard Widdess Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music (Paperback)
Ritwik Sanyal, Richard Widdess
R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Examines the relationship between the structures provided by tradition, and the actual performance in reconsideration of the nature of 'tradition' in dhrupad. Includes a transcription of a compete dhrupad performance. First book-length study of an Indian vocal genre to be co-authored by an Indian practitioner and a Western musicologist

Beyonce and Beyond - 2013-2016 (Hardcover): Naila Keleta-Mae Beyonce and Beyond - 2013-2016 (Hardcover)
Naila Keleta-Mae
R1,504 Discovery Miles 15 040 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book identifies and examines three years of Beyonce's career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist, and performance studies methodologies. This book explores how the careful choreography of Beyonce's image, voice, and public persona, coupled with her intelligent use of audio and visual mediums, makes her one of the most influential entertainers of the 21st century. Keleta-Mae proposes that 2013 to 2016 was a pivotal period in Beyonce's career and looks at three artistic projects that she created during that time: her self-titled debut visual album Beyonce, her video and live performance of 'Formation', and her second visual album Lemonade. By examining the progression of Beyonce's career during this period, and the impact it had politically, culturally, and socially, the author demonstrates how Beyonce brought 21st Century feminism into the mainstream through layered explorations of female blackness. Ideal for scholars and students of performance in the social and political spheres, and of course fans of Beyonce herself, this book examines the mega superstar's transition into a creator of art that engages with Black culture and Black life with increased thoughtfulness.

Management and the Arts (Paperback, 6th edition): William J. Byrnes Management and the Arts (Paperback, 6th edition)
William J. Byrnes
R1,567 Discovery Miles 15 670 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Sixth Edition employs a "read-explore-do" concept, fully integrating the additional case studies posted on the companion website with the background information provided in the book, and the exercises listed at the end of the chapter. Each chapter contains a learning module aligned with its content, designed to help the reader better grasp the theories, principles, terms, and practices related to each topic area. Contains chapter summaries, key terms, key concepts, chapter learning maps, and For Further Study sections.

Total Sports Media - Production, Performance and Career Development (Paperback, 2nd edition): Marc Zumoff, Max Negin Total Sports Media - Production, Performance and Career Development (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Marc Zumoff, Max Negin
R1,814 Discovery Miles 18 140 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Covers all aspects of modern sportscasting, giving readers the tools to navigate the web, television, radio, and other emerging formats Gives readers the knowhow to jumpstart and maintain their careers in sportscasting Interviews with working professionals provide insight into real world of broadcasting sports An updated chapter on Future Trends and Possibilities helps prepare readers for the technical and industry changes on the near horizon

The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects - The Art and Techniques of VFX for Directors, Producers, Editors and... The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects - The Art and Techniques of VFX for Directors, Producers, Editors and Cinematographers (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Eran Dinur
R4,931 Discovery Miles 49 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- Learn what it takes for editors, cinematographers, directors, producers, lighting technicians, and other filmmakers to work more effectively with visual effects artists on productions, use visual effects as an aid in visual storytelling, reduce production costs, and solve problems created on-set - Achieve a fuller understanding of common types of visual effects and their role in filmmaking; 3D, 2D and 2.5D visual effects; how to support “invisible” visual effects; matchmoving and compositing; the visual effects production timeline; photorealism; and VFX considerations for pre and postproduction - See visual effects concepts brought to life in practical examples drawn from the experiences of industry professionals, and discover how to better integrate visual effects into your own projects

The Color Management Handbook for Visual Effects Artists - Digital Color Principles, Color Management Fundamentals & ACES... The Color Management Handbook for Visual Effects Artists - Digital Color Principles, Color Management Fundamentals & ACES Workflows (Hardcover)
Victor Perez
R3,768 Discovery Miles 37 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Victor Perez brings together the research and expertise of world-leading color scientists, to create a comprehensive guide for VFX Artists in Color Management. The book explores the latest standards of HDR and ACES workflows, in an easily digestible and widely applicable resource. Its purpose is to make artists confident and familiar with Color Management and its science, to improve the quality of visual effects worldwide. Without assuming any previous knowledge, this self-contained book builds the readers understanding from the ground up, exploring all the elements of the Color Workflow at a scientific level. It covers how to setup a consistent pipeline in relation to other departments, inside and outside visual effects, from camera to screen, so everybody is aligned to the same standards, preserving color qualities, consistency, and maintaining the artistic intent end to end. It also delves into all the integral concepts for color management, ranging from Color Theory to Digital Image Fundamentals, and much more. This book is an invaluable resource for VFX students and professionals who want to be well-informed of the latest HDR and ACES pipelines, as well as those at every level of production, wishing to gain a deeper understanding of managing color in visual effects projects.

Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition - Antonio Fava in Conversation with John Rudlin (Paperback): John Rudlin,... Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition - Antonio Fava in Conversation with John Rudlin (Paperback)
John Rudlin, Antonio Fava
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Commedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts in commedia dell'arte - master practitioners Antonio Fava and John Rudlin. These discussions were recorded during three recent visits by Fava to Rudlin's rural retreat in south west France. They take in all of commedia dell'arte's most striking and enduring elements - its masks, its scripts and scenarios, and most outstandingly, its cast of characters. Fava explores the role of each stock Commedia character and their subsequent incarnations in popular culture, as well as their roots in prominent figures of their time. The lively and wide-ranging conversations also take in methods of staging commedia dell'arte for contemporary audiences, the evolution of its gestures, and the collective nature of its theatre-making. This is an essential book for any student or practitioner of commedia dell'arte - provocative, expansive wisdom from the modern world's foremost exponent of the craft.

Beyond Continuity - Script Supervision for the Modern Filmmaker (Paperback, 2nd edition): Mary Cybulski Beyond Continuity - Script Supervision for the Modern Filmmaker (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Mary Cybulski
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A guide to the craft of script supervising, the updated second edition features practical instruction through real-world examples that demonstrate and explain the skills needed by a professional script supervisor. Author Mary Cybulski, one of Hollywood’s premier script supervisors, imparts her sage wisdom as she walks you through the process of training and working as a professional script supervisor, covering the basic skills of breaking down a script, taking notes on set, matching, cheating, determining screen direction, and knowing what the director, actors, and editor expect from a script supervisor. She also details many of the subtler, but just as important skills - how to get a job, how to think like an editor, how to tell what is important in a script and on-set, how to get along with the cast and crew, and how not to get overwhelmed when there is too much information to process. This second edition has been fully updated throughout to address significant changes to workflow as script supervisors utilise new technologies, software and apps. The book also provides brand new coverage on how the role varies when working on episodic TV, commercials and lower budget film projects. Ideal for aspiring, early career and established continuity and script supervisors, as well as filmmaking students wanting to gain a better understanding of script supervision and film continuity. An accompanying e-resource features downloadable version of the various forms, templates, logs, and checklists used by professional script supervisors.

Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV - The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen (Paperback): Loren-Paul Caplin Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV - The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen (Paperback)
Loren-Paul Caplin
R948 Discovery Miles 9 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides you, the screenwriter, with a clear set of exercises, tools, and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern conversation at a more complex level, in turn allowing you to create better, more nuanced, complex and compelling dialogue. The process of understanding dialogue writing begins with increasing writers' awareness of what they hear. This book provides writers with an assortment of dialogue and language tools, techniques, and exercises and teaches them how to perceive and understand the function, intent and thematic/psychological elements that dialogue can convey about character, tone, and story. Text, subtext, voice, conflict, exposition, rhythm and style are among the many aspects covered. This book reminds us of the sheer joy of great dialogue and will change and enhance the way writers hear, listen to, and write dialogue, and along the way aid the writers' confidence in their own voice allowing them to become more proficient writers of dialogue. Written by veteran screenwriter, playwright, and screenwriting professor Loren-Paul Caplin, Writing Compelling Dialogue is an invaluable writing tool for any aspiring screenwriter who wants to improve their ability to write dialogue for film and television, as well as students, professionals, and educators.

Negative/Positive - A History of Photography (Paperback): Geoffrey Batchen Negative/Positive - A History of Photography (Paperback)
Geoffrey Batchen
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored, and uses this to tell a representative, rather than comprehensive, history of the medium. The fact that a photograph is split between negative and positive manifestations means that its identity is always simultaneously divided and multiplied. The interaction of these two components was often spread out over time and space and could involve more than one person, giving photography the capacity to produce multiple copies of a given image and for that image to have many different looks, sizes and makers. This book traces these complications for canonical images by such figures as William Henry Fox Talbot, Kusakabe Kimbei, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Seydou Keita, Richard Avedon, and Andreas Gursky. But it also considers a number of related issues crucial to any understanding of photography, from the business practices of professional photographers to the repetition of pose and setting that is so central to certain familiar photographic genres. Ranging from the daguerreotype to the digital image, the end result is a kind of little history of photography, partial and episodic, but no less significant a rendition of the photographic experience for being so. This book represents a summation of Batchen's work to date, making it be essential reading for students and scholars of photography and for all those interested in the history of the medium

Sunsets and Other Things (Paperback): Sunsets and Other Things (Paperback)
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Real Time Visual Effects for the Technical Artist (Paperback): Chris Roda Real Time Visual Effects for the Technical Artist (Paperback)
Chris Roda
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Introduces the reader to the technical aspects of real-time visual effects. Built upon a career of over twenty years in the feature film visual effects and the real-time video game industries and tested on graduate and undergraduate students. Explores all real-time visual effects in four categories: in-camera effects, in-material effects, simulations and particles.

The Archetypal Artist - Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create (Paperback): Mary Antonia Wood The Archetypal Artist - Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create (Paperback)
Mary Antonia Wood
R1,003 Discovery Miles 10 030 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Brings together the author's own unique perspective with the best-known Jungian and post-Jungian thinkers. Uses examples from creators including Martha Graham. Gives new perspective on the call to create and the artist's role in society.

Secular Renaissance Music - Forms and Functions (Hardcover, New Ed): Sean Gallagher Secular Renaissance Music - Forms and Functions (Hardcover, New Ed)
Sean Gallagher
R8,978 Discovery Miles 89 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music for civic festivities, instrumental music, entertainments provided by minstrels, the unwritten traditions of solo singing, and much else. This collection of essays addresses many of these practices, with a focus on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts, examining their historical and stylistic contexts, their transmission in written and printed sources, questions of performance, and composers' approaches to text setting. Essays have been selected to reflect the wide range of topics that have occupied scholars in recent decades, and taken together, they point to the more general significance of secular music within a broad complex of cultural practices and institutions.

Museums and Public Value - Creating Sustainable Futures (Hardcover, New Ed): Carol A Scott Museums and Public Value - Creating Sustainable Futures (Hardcover, New Ed)
Carol A Scott
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Public Value speaks to our time - to the role that museums can play in creating civil societies, to the challenges involved in using limited assets strategically, to the demand for results that make a difference and to the imperative that we build the kind of engagement that sustains our futures. This book assists museum leaders to implement a Public Value approach in their management, planning, programming and relationship building. The benefits are long term public engagement and support, which can be used to demonstrate that valuable returns result from public investment in museums. A range of authors from around the world unpack the concept of Public Value and examine its implications for museums. They situate Public Value within current management theory and practice, offer tools for implementation, highlight examples of successful practice and examine the evidence of Public Value that governments seek to inform policy and funding decisions. The book will be required reading for senior professionals in museums, as well as museum and heritage studies students.

Musical Theory in the Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed): Cristle Collins Judd Musical Theory in the Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed)
Cristle Collins Judd
R9,683 Discovery Miles 96 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the differing approaches to this body of work by modern scholars, including: historical and theoretical perspectives; consideration of the broader cultural context for writing about music in the Renaissance; and the dissemination of such work. Selected from a variety of sources ranging from journals, monographs and specialist edited volumes, to critical editions, translations and facsimiles, these previously published articles reflect a broad chronological and geographical span, and consider Renaissance sources that range from the overtly pedagogical to the highly speculative. Taken together, this collection enables consideration of key essays side by side aided by the editor's introductory essay which highlights ongoing debates and offers a general framework for interpreting past and future directions in the study of historical music theory from the Renaissance.

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