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Dear Reader, We are pleased to introduce our new catalogue of titles in Visual Culture, comprising fine critical writing on world cinema and television, contemporary art and photography, cultural and media theory, fashion, design and popular culture. The list is increasingly dynamic and ambitious in scope and continues to provide cutting-edge resources for those grappling with the ever-changing world of the visual arts. Highlights from this season include a new series for the contemporary art list Radical Aesthetics/Radical Art which reconsiders the relationship between how art is practiced and how art is theorized in the twenty first century and new additions to the flourishing Contemporary Thinkers Reframed series in the shape of Adorno, Badiou, Agamben and Guattari. Our list on world cinemas is expanding, with books on new Argentine and German cinemas, Australian and New Zealand film histories, and fresh approaches to the films of Lynch, Tarkovsky and Sokurov, as well as the Batman films of Christopher Nolan. New titles in contemporary television include Reading Asian Television Drama: Crossing Borders and Breaking Boundaries. We welcome new proposals from authors passionate about their subjects who are keen to develop new approaches to visual culture and offer fresh perspectives on them Best wishes Philippa Brewster Senior editor:Visual Culture philippabrewster@gmail.com pbrewster@ibtauris.com Liza Thompson Editor: Art and Critical Theory lthompson@ibtauris.com
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CONTENTS
FILM 2-14 WORLD CINEMA 2-7 HOLLYWOOD AND AMERICAN CINEMA 7-9 BRITISH CINEMA 9-11 RUSSIAN AND SOVIET CINEMA 12-14 TELEVISION 14-17 CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION 14-15 TV HISTORY 16-17 SCI-FI AND FANTASY TV 17 INTERNATIONAL MEDIA 18-19 ART AND CRITICAL THEORY 19-27 ARCHITECTURE 27 PHOTOGRAPHY 28 FASHION & DESIGN 29-30 POPULAR CULTURE 30-31 INDEX AND ORDER FORM 31-36
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Rajinder Dudrah
Making Film and Television Histories approaches film and television texts as primary historical media with the potential to bring historical topics alive through their interplay between past and present. It is a major text, the first to situate in a clear historical context selected New Zealand and Australian films and television programs ranging from highly successful films such as Gallipoli, The Piano, Australia, Once Were Warriors and Heavenly Creatures to less well-known texts that form the basis for intriguing examinations of history, representation and identity. This book is designed for all those with an interest in Australian or New Zealand history, film or television, and is written by leading scholars in these interdisciplinary fields, as well as filmmakers involved in the production of some of the films and TV shows discussed.
328 PAGES 234 X 156MM OCTOBER 2011 9781848859432 HARDBACK 54.50 9781848859449 PAPERBACK 18.99 35 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
This key text explores the place of World Cinema in the cultural imaginary. The editors with contributors John Caughie, Felicia Chan, Song Hwee Lim, Laura Mulvey, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, David Oubia, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Julian Smith and Ismail Xavier reposition World Cinema in a widerdiscursive space than hitherto, as an object of theoretical enquiry. They develop approaches and case studieswhose organizing principle is cinematicpolycentrism used to reevaluate how cinema shapes and responds to the philosophical,cultural and political effects of transnationalism and cosmopolitanismin the age of the moving image. They define and redefine such concepts in film studies as identification,representation and identity, narrativity and the everyday, allegoryand referentiality, auteurism and the popular, modes of production, anddominance and hegemony.
288 PAGES 234 X 156MM OCTOBER 2011 9781848859098 HARDBACK 49.50 9781848859104 PAPERBACK 16.99 20 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS TAURIS WORLD CINEMA SERIES
Having been in the doldrums since the 1980s, German language cinema is again attracting attention at home and abroad with now regular Oscar nominations and wins for the likes of Downfall and The Lives of Others, as well as attention at all the main international festivals. New Directions in German Cinema looks afresh at the developments in German language film since 2000. An international group of specialists on German film, society, culture and politics offer a wide-ranging study of its remarkable turn of fortunes. From the development of the so-called heritage films, which now dominate the countrys mainstream and examine Germanys problematic pasts (the Nazi, East German and terrorist legacies) to those which focus on the contemporary social reality of the Berlin Republic, the book considers just what German language film now has to offer.
272 PAGES 234 X 156MM SEPTEMBER 2011 9781848859081 HARDBACK 51.50 9781848859074 PAPERBACK 16.99 27 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS TAURIS WORLD CINEMA SERIES
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Around 1990, films about Jews and their representation in cinema proliferated and took on new forms, marking a radical rupture with the past. This original book is grounded in the study of over 300 films from Hollywood and the rest of the world, which have been depicting a multiplicity of new Jews, including tough Jews, brutish Jews, gay and lesbian Jews, Jewish cowboys, skinheads and superheroes, and Jews in space.The book explores these new and changing depictions of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism, providing a wider, more representative picture of the subject than has hitherto been attempted. It reveals how the representation of the Jew is used to convey confidence or anxieties about Jewish identity and history and engages with questions of racial, sexual and gender politics. In so doing, Nathan Adams also provides a welcome overview of important Jewish films produced globally over the last twenty years.
240 PAGES 234 X 156MM NOVEMBER 2011 9781848855748 HARDBACK 49.50 9781848855755 PAPERBACK 14.99 26 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
In the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iranian society and culture underwent massive changes. Khatereh Sheibani argues that cinema evolved after the national uprising in 1978/79, and ultimately replaced poetry as the dominant form of cultural expression. She presents a comparative analysis of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema as an offshoot of Iranian modernity, and explains its connections with the themes present in traditional Persian poetry and conventional visual arts. She examines the pre-revolutionary film industry such as Iranian new wave and filmfarsi movies its styles and themes, and its relation to the emerging cinema after 1978. Sheibani argues that Iranian art cinema, as one of the signifiers and agents of modernity, underwent a cultural revolution by employing the aesthetics of Persian literature and visual arts in a modern context.
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM SEPTEMBER 2011 9781848857414 HARDBACK 54.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRANIAN STUDIES,VOL. 33
Far from helping people to escape harsh realities to a realm of pure fantasy, fairy tales and the films that rooted themselves in their tropes and traditions played an integral role in formulating and expressing the anxieties of modernism as well as its potential for radical, magical transformation. In Film and Fairy Tales, Kristian Moen examines the role played by fairy tales in shaping cinema, its culture, and its discourse during its most formative years. Through analysis of early film theorists and detailed case studies of the films of Mlis, Tourneur and Walt Disney, Moen shows how the visual tropes and theoretical vocabulary of the fairy tale negotiated different experiences of modernity the giddy adventures of social mobility and identity transformation, the threats and anxieties of technology, impermanence and mutability. From the nineteenth century fairy play to the contemporary fantasies of Tim Burton and Harry Potter, Moen shows how cinema made fairy tales modern and fairy tales made the cinema what it is today.
304 PAGES 26 X 138MM JULY 2012 9781780762517 HARDBACK 56.60 30 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
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Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover the elements that have made for this success, in relation to the countrys profound political, social and cultural crisis during the same period. Jens Andermann shows how the most recent wave of films differs markedly from the Argentine cinema of the preceding decade, following the end of the dictatorship in 1983. Studying films by Lisandro Alonso, Albertina Carri, Lucrecia Martel, Ral Perrone, Martn Rejtman and Pablo Trapero, among others, he identifies a shift in aesthetic sensibilities between these directors and those of the previous generation, as well as a profound change in the way films are being made, and their relation to the audiovisual field at large.
288 PAGES 234 X 156MM NOVEMBER 2011 9781848854628 HARDBACK 59.50 9781848854635 PAPERBACK 16.99 26 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS TAURIS WORLD CINEMA SERIES
With its monsters, vampires and cowboys, Italian popular culture in the postwar period has generally been dismissed as a form of evasion or escapism. Here, four international scholars re-examine and reinterpret the era to show that popular Italian cinema was not only in tune with contemporary political and social trends, it also presaged the turmoil and rebellion of the 1960s and 1970s. Their analysis of peplum (or sword and sandal) films, horror films, spaghetti westerns and Italian-style comedy shows how genre cinema reflected the changes wrought by modernization, urbanization, consumerist culture and the sexual revolution. With striking insights into the links between popular culture and politics, this book will be indispensable for specialists in film and media studies, Italian and cultural studies, as well as social history.
320 PAGES 216 X 138MM SEPTEMBER 2011 9781848855724 HARDBACK 59.50 35 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ILLUSTRATIONS INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF VISUAL CULTURE
The clock plays a significant part in our understanding of temporality, but it fails to reflect and communicate the more experiential dimensions of time. Stop the Clocks! examines filmmakers relationship to time and its visual manipulation and representation from the birth of the medium to the digital present. It engages both with experimentation in narrative construction and with films that take time as their subject matter, such as Donnie Darko, Lost Highway and Pulp Fiction. Helen Powell asks what underpins the enduring appeal of the science fiction genre with filmmakers and audiences and how cinematography might inform our conceptualisation of other imagined temporal worlds, including the afterlife. She examines the role of angels and vampires in contemporary cinema, as well as the distinctive time schemes of new media and their implications for rethinking time and the moving image through digitalisation.
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM JANUARY 2012 9781780762166 HARDBACK 52.50 9781848851757 PAPERBACK 16.99 12 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
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Establishing the backdrop of post-war Italy in which the Roman studio system actively blended Italian and American culture, Austin Fisher looks in detail at the works of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima, Sergio Corbucci, Giulio Questi and Giulio Petroni and how these directors reformatted the Hollywood Western to yield new resonance for militant constituencies and radical groups. Radical Frontiers identifies the main variants of these militant Westerns, which brazenly endorsed violent peasant insurrection in the Mexico of the popular imagination, turning the camera on the hitherto heroic colonialists of the West and exposing the brutal mechanisms of a society infested with latent fascism. The ways in which the films artistic failures reflect the ideological confusions of the radical groups is examined and the genres legacy is reappraised, as the revolutionary energy of Italys New Left becomes subsumed amidst the conflicting agendas of New Hollywood, blaxploitation and the grindhouse revival of Tarantino, Rodriguez and Raimi.
320 PAGES 216 X 138MM AUGUST 2011 9781848855786 HARDBACK 59.50 20 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF VISUAL CULTURE,VOL. 1
In the first full-length analysis of the concept of embodied film theory, Paul Elliott charts the development of a cinema of sensations examining how cinema audiences use their corporeal selves and sensual memory to quite literally flesh out what they see on screen. Through the prism of Alfred Hitchcocks films, Elliott reveals how the bodys sensations have a vital place in cinematic reception and the study of film: demonstrated here through the trope of nausea in Frenzy, pollution and smell in Shadow of a Doubt, physical sound reception in the Psycho shower scene and the importance of corporeality and closeness in Rear Window. He traces the way in which conceptual tools such as haptic vision, synaesthesia, physical sound reception and the aesthesiological body have been employed by film theorists and philosophers to better understand the processes inherent in the cinematic experience. Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations rethinks the body in the cinema seat, seeing it not as a fleshy, insentient shell for the mind and eye but a feeling, thinking, evanescent site of sensation, memory and knowledge.
288 PAGES 216 X 138MM AUGUST 2011 9781848855878 HARDBACK 56.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF VISUAL CULTURE,VOL. 2
In recent years there has been a remarkable surge in Iranian films expressing contentious issues which would otherwise be very difficult to discuss publicly inside the Islamic Republic of Iran such as the role of clergy in Iranian society. Nacim Pak-Shiraz here highlights the Iranian film directors who concern themselves with the content of the religious and historical narratives of culture and society, sparking debate about the mediums compatibility or incongruity with religion and spirituality. She explores the various ways that Shii discourse emerges on screen, and offers groundbreaking insights into both the role of film in Iranian culture and society, and how it has become a medium for exploring what it means to be Iranian and Muslim after thirty years of Islamic rule. This is invaluable reading for students and scholars of both Film Studies and contemporary Iranian cinema and of the culture and identity of Iran.
288 PAGES 216 X 138MM MARCH 2012 9781848855106 HARDBACK 56.50 22 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CULTURAL STUDIES,VOL. 17
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CINEMA ITALIANO
The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult
INGMAR BERGMAN
Howard Hughes
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Geoffrey Macnab
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Waltz with Bashir: Perpetrator Trauma and Cinema proposes a new paradigm for cinema trauma studies the trauma of the perpetrator. Recognizing a current shift in interest from the trauma suffered by victims to that suffered by perpetrators, the book seeks to theorize this as yet undertheorized field. Taking as a point of departure the distinction between testimony given by the victim and confession made by the perpetrator, this pioneering work ventures to define and analyze perpetrator trauma in scholarly, representational, literary, and societal contexts. Driven by the emergence of a new wave of Israeli documentary cinema, the book analyzes Israeli post- secondIntifada films and literature. As Ari Folmans Waltz with Bashir and other new wave films demonstrate, Israeli cinema, attached on one side to the legacy of the Holocaust and on the other to the Israeli Occupation, is a highly relevant case for probing the limits of both victim and perpetrator traumas.
288 PAGES 216 X 134MM AUGUST 2012 9781780762647 HARDBACK 56.50 20 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
LEBANESE CINEMA
Lina Khatib
Andrew Robinson
224 PAGES 216 X 138MM AVAILABLE 9781848855151 HARDBACK 56.00 9781848855168 PAPERBACK 12.99 20 LINE, 45 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
ISRAELI CINEMA
East/West and the Politics of Representation
Ella Shohat
Christopher Gow
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HORROR ZONE
The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema
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320 PAGES 234 X 156MM AVAILABLE 978 1 84885 262 4 HARDBACK 59.50 978 1 84885 151 1 PAPERBACK 14.99 30 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
A SPANISH LABYRINTH
Mark Allinson
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LIVE FLESH
FILM PROPAGANDA
Nazi Germany
QUEERING BUUEL
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ROMAN POLANSKI
Ewa Mazierska
Lina Khatib
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LENI RIEFENSTAHL
A Life
FEDERICO FELLINI
His Life and Work
Jrgen Trimborn
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X FILMS
Alex Cox
Orientalism in Film
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PROJECTING EMPIRE
BRAZIL ON SCREEN
Lcia Nagib
MAKHMALBAF AT LARGE
The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker
240 PAGES 234 X 156MM AVAILABLE 978 1 84511 940 9 PAPERBACK 15.99 26 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS CINEMA AND SOCIETY SERIES
MYSTERIOUS SKIN
Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
Stephen Hay
IRANIAN CINEMA
A Political History Hamid Reza Sadr
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CHASING DRAGONS
David Welch
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NIKITA
Michael Coyne
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UN CHIEN ANDALOU
Melanie J. Wright,
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LA RGLE DU JEU
French Film Guide Keith Reader
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RIFIFI
SPAGHETTI WESTERNS
LE CORBEAU
Christopher Frayling
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The first book to approach David Lynch as a figure composed through language, history and text, Authorship and the Films of David Lynch explores the ways in which shared and disputed opinions on aesthetic quality, originality and authorial essence have shaped receptions of Lynchs films. This fresh contribution to studies of authorship and film traces the development of his career from cult obscurity with Eraserhead, to star auteur through the release of Blue Velvet, and the television event of the early 1990s, Twin Peaks, and on to later films such as Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire. Antony Todd investigates how Lynchs idiosyncratic style introduced the term Lynchian to the colloquial speech of new Hollywood and helped establish Lynch as the leading light among contemporary American auteurs.
240 PAGES 234 X 156MM FEBRUARY 2012 9781848855793 HARDBACK 51.50 9781848855809 PAPERBACK 16.99 25 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
On the eve of the world premiere of Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight Rises, Will Brookers new book explores Batmans twenty-first century incarnations. Brookers close analysis of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight offers a rigorous account of the complex relationship between popular films, audiences and producers in our age of media convergence. By exploring themes of authorship, adaptation and intertextuality, he addresses a myriad of questions raised by these films: did Batman Begins end when The Dark Knight began? Does its story include the Gotham Knight DVD, or the Why So Serious viral marketing campaign? Is it separate from the parallel narratives of the Arkham Asylum videogame, the monthly comic books, the animated series and the graphic novels? Can the brightly campy incarnations of the Batman ever be fully repressed by The Dark Knight, or are they an intrinsic part of the character? A vital text for film students and academics, as well as legions of Batman fans.
272 PAGES 216 X 138MM MAY 2012 9781848852792 HARDBACK 51.50 9781848852808 PAPERBACK 12.99 30 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
LES DIABOLIQUES
French Film Guide Susan Hayward
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LA HAINE
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LA REINE MARGOT
French Film Guide Julianne Pidduck
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Extensively illustrated with posters and stills, When Eagles Dared portrays the men and women who participated in World War II, from the evacuation of the Allied forces from France through to the battle for Berlin and beyond. Each chapter discusses historical events as they unfold and illustrates how subsequently these episodes have been portrayed by filmmakers onscreen. Chapters discuss the war in the skies (Battle of Britain and The Dambusters) and sea (The Cruel Sea, Das Boot), the war in the Mediterranean (The Guns of Navarone) and the North African desert (The Battle of El Alamein and Tobruk). There are special mission movies including Where Eagles Dare and Inglourious Basterds, and classic tales of ingenuity (The Great Escape), valour (Saving Private Ryan) and human endurance (The Bridge on the River Kwai). The conflict is also viewed through such diverse films as Downfall, Patton, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Anzio, The Thin Red Line, Stalingrad, Cross of Iron and A Bridge Too Far.
320 PAGES 246 X 189MM DECEMBER 2011 9781848856509 HARDBACK 19.50 45 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
Mamma Mia! The Movie (2008) was one of the top international box-office hits of its year and the fastest selling DVD in British history. Responses were passionate but polarized: while legions of fans participated in celebratory sing-along screenings, critics dismissed it as a Super Pooper. The critical split often ran along the fault line of gender, with male critics initially unimpressed by the uninhibited, tongue in cheek frivolity of this rare film written, produced and directed by women. This welcome first book on a twenty-first century cultural phenomenon explores these diverse responses to Mamma Mia!, along with key issues such as the films representation of female friendship and its focus on the older female protagonist, as well as its status as jukebox musical and queer text. Empire magazines critic Ian Nathan concluded his bemused account of the films unprecedented success by stating: Mamma Mia! is not like other films.This book aims to explore exactly how and why that is the case.
256 PAGES 234 X 156MM SEPTEMBER 2012 9781848859418 HARDBACK 55.00 9781848859425 PAPERBACK 14.99 15 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
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Exploring the abject through issues as diverse as racism, mental illness or the preservation of bodies for organ donation, this book analyses a range of films including The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Girl, Interrupted (1999) through to cult films such as Carrie (1976) and Bubba Ho-tep (2002). By analysing scenes of horror and disgust within the context of abject space, Frances Pheasant-Kelly reveals how threats to identity manifest in scenes of torture, horror and psychosexual repression and are resolved either though death or through traumatic re-entry into the outside world. This readable and engaging tour of the abject in the institution film will be valuable to students of Film Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies.
288 PAGES 216 X 138MM MAY 2012 9781848855977 HARDBACK 56.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CULTURAL STUDIES,VOL. 18
STAGECOACH TO TOMBSTONE
The Filmgoers Guide to the Great Westerns
ELIA KAZAN
Brian Neve
Howard Hughes
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ARNOLD
CRIME WAVE
Howard Hughes
Dave Saunders
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During the 1930s, the Catholic Church in the US was engaged in a metaphorical war against the increasingly modern and secular values of the American public. Alexander McGregor offers a detailed account of how the Church, feeling itself to be under siege, used media - and particularly cinema - to reach out to Americans. The 1930s were the golden age for Hollywood, and the Church saw the film industry as an opportunity to engender a pro-Catholic social moral code among the US population. McGregor examines the ways in which the American Catholic Church sought to directly influence film production through its involvement with censorship bodies such as the Legion of Decency, and through Catholics in positions of influence within Hollywood itself. This is a vital new contribution to the history of American cinema and religion, as well as American culture and social history.
256 PAGES 216 X 138MM OCTOBER 2011 9781848856530 HARDBACK 54.50 INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CULTURAL STUDIES,VOL. 20
Ben Dickenson
HOLLYWOOD HEROINES
Helen Hanson
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TEEN DREAMS
Roz Kaveney
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WITHNAIL AND US
Justin Smith
Mike Chopra-Gant
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NEW
Roz Kaveney
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INDIEWOOD, USA
Where Hollywood meets Independent Cinema
The study of film has tended to be preoccupied with narrative theory, often to the neglect of a consideration of aesthetic effect. Introducing an interdisciplinary approach based on a correlation between film and painting, Stella Hockenhull draws on nineteenth-century Romanticism in the visual arts, with its roots based in eighteenthcentury philosophical debates of the Sublime, to explore the spiritual aspects of landscape and nature which mobilise a Neo-Romantic effect in contemporary British cinema. She reveals this effect in genres as diverse as social realism, contemporary melodrama and horror, and demonstrates its presence through a visual analysis of rural landscapes in films such as Sweet Sixteen, The Queen, Ratcatcher, My Summer of Love and The Last Great Wilderness.
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Geoff King
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KORDA
LICENCE TO THRILL
Charles Drazin
Geoff King
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James Chapman
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FILM ENGLAND
Andrew Higson
SPECTACULAR NARRATIVES
Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster
Geoff King
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Laurie N. Ede
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TYPICAL MEN
David Pirie
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Andrew Spicer
AN EVERYDAY MAGIC
Annette Kuhn
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BEST OF BRITISH
Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present
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BLACK NARCISSUS
Sarah Street
James Chapman
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James Chapman
IF . . . .
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BRIGHTON ROCK
Steve Chibnall
Tony Shaw
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John Ramsden
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MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE
Christine Geraghty
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
Jeffrey Richards
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DRACULA
Peter Hutchings
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GET CARTER
Steve Chibnall
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THE 39 STEPS
Mark Glancy
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REAL IMAGES
Josephine Woll
NEW
NEW
The phenomenon of time was a central preoccupation of Tarkovsky throughout his career. His films present visions of time by temporal means that is, in time. This book explores the phenomenon of spatio-temporal lapse in Tarkovskys cinema from Ivans Childhood (1962) to Sacrifice (1986). Dreams, visions, mirages, memories, revelations, reveries and delusions Skakov argues, are phenomena which present alternative spatio-temporal patterns; they disrupt the linear progression of events and create narrative discontinuity. Each chapter is dedicated to the discussion of one of Tarkovskys seven feature films and in each, one of these phenomena functions as a refrain. Skakov discusses the influence of the flow of and lapses in space and time on the viewers perception of the Tarkovskian cinematic universe. He opens and closes the book by focusing on the phenomenon of time that is discussed extensively by the filmmaker in his main theoretical treatise Sculpting in Time, as well as in a number of interviews and public lectures.
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RUSSIA ON REELS
Alexander Sokurovs Russian Ark is generally acclaimed as a milestone in cinematography. In this film Sokurov reversed the idea of montage, creating instead the sensation of an uninterrupted flow of time encompassing three centuries of Russias cultural history through a single, 90-minute take. Yet this film is but one milestone in the work of this versatile director. Since the 1990s, Sokurovs films have had international recognition at film festivals and through foreign distribution. In this, the first English-language book to cover Sokurovs full oeuvre, leading scholars on Sokurov unravel his work on documentaries; his early films and literary adaptations; his trilogy on leaders focusing on the decaying body; his films on passing youth and approaching age; and, of course, Russian Ark.
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VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN
Amy Sargeant
Graham Roberts
Jamie Miller
Robert Robertson
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DZIGA VERTOV
Jeremy Hicks
SAVAGE JUNCTURES
Anne Nesbet
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LITTLE VERA
The Film Companion 8
Frank Beardow
Graham Roberts
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ALEXANDER MEDVEDKIN
Emma Widdis
Joan Neuberger
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Birgit Beumers
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REPENTANCE
The Film Companion 4
Vance Kepley, Jr
John Riley
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Julian Graffy
Amy Sargeant
KIRA MURATOVA
The Filmmakers Companion 4
Jane A. Taubman
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MIRROR
CHAPAEV
Julian Graffy
Natasha Synessios
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Josephine Woll
Richard Taylor
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
WRITINGS 192234
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NEW
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Scholar and Who fan Miles Booy has written the first historical account of the public interpretation of Doctor Who. Love and Monsters begins in 1979 with the publication of Doctor Who Weekly, the magazine that would start a chain of events that would see creative fans taking control of the merchandise and even of the programmes massively successful twenty-first century reboot. From the twilight of Tom Bakers years to the newest Doctor, Matt Smith, Miles Booy explores the shifting meaning of Doctor Who across the years including the Third Doctors suggestion that we should read the Bible, via costumed fans on television, up to the 2010 general election in Britain. This is also the story of how the ambitious producer John Nathan-Turner, assigned to the programme in 1979, produced a visuallyexcessive programme for a tele-literate fanbase, and how this style changed the ways in which Doctor Who could be read.
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INVESTIGATING CHARMED
The Magic Power of TV
INVESTIGATING ALIAS
Secrets and Spies
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DEXTER
INVESTIGATING FARSCAPE
Jes Battis
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Television: Contemporary TV
READING CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION SERIES
Series Editors: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe The Reading Contemporary Television Series offers a varied, intellectually groundbreaking and often polemical response to the changing face of television today often while it is happening. Utilising pioneering approaches to writing and thinking about television, scholars and critics, TV professionals and commentators offer commentaries on such diverse subjects as contemporary television shows, the global TV industry and technological innovations.
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READING LOST
READING 24
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QUALITY TV
READING CSI
Michael Allen (Ed.)
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The Asian TV industry is unstoppable, reported Variety in 2008, yet most people living in the West have no idea what the rest of the world is watching on TV: what makes them laugh and cry every day. This informative overview of Asian television drama and its cultural impact shows how TV dramas in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, China and South Korea are diverse in form and content, have local as well as transcultural value South Korean Hallyu shows being a prime example of this and exert strong appeal to large non-Asian as well as Asian audiences in their aesthetics, storytelling, acting and cinematography. Lively, expert contributors provide full and varied coverage of the major issues relating to contemporary Asian television and its cultural formation within Asia as well as in the West.
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MAD MEN
MAKEOVER TELEVISION
Realities Remodelled
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Samuel A. Chambers
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READING DEADWOOD
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Television: TV History
THE WALTONS
Nostalgia and Myth in Seventies America Mike Chopra-Gant,
London Metropolitan University
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NIP/TUCK
Television that Gets Under Your Skin Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy (Eds)
SEEING THINGS
John Ellis
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CHANNEL 4
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The Waltons drama series about John and Olivia Walton, their ageing parents Zeb and Esther and their seven children in 1930s and 40s America was a successful show for CBS TV throughout the 1970s. In 2008 perhaps significantly the first six series of the show were for the first time released on DVD. This is classic television with contemporary relevance, still running on Hallmark channel and remembered with reverence by a generation. The Waltons was on tv screens through a socially and politically volatile period, when Nixon-era America was confronting the impending withdrawal of troops from Vietnam.The show, Mike ChopraGant demonstrates in this book, expressed a wider nostalgic desire in its audience to return to traditional conservatism and paternalistic family values at this time of political crisis. He examines its deployment of key myths, and its vision of family as against current TV depictions, featuring the likes of the Addams, the Simpsons, and the Sopranos.
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The misadventures and soap opera-esque entanglements of the lives of plastic surgeons Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) won Golden Globes and boycotts from the American Family Association.Yet, as this first full critical examination of Nip/Tuck shows, ironically the show is an examination of the American family and its many definitions, the anxieties and complications of gender and sexuality, and the class issues and illusions surrounding the American dream. It is also revealed as a glorious televisual melodrama, full of Gothic tropes and contemporary sensationalism and, at the same time, a deeply misanthropic satire on the American dream whose portrayal of women and minorities sometimes becomes highly problematic. The book also includes an interview with frequent Nip/Tuck director Elodie Keene, and an episode guide.
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Dorothy Hobson
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TV FAQ
John Ellis
NEW
Ever since the first scheduled television broadcasts began in the 1930s, newspapers and magazines took quickly to reviewing this revolutionary new medium. The task of television criticism in the public domain initially fell to radio critics and journalists, but the 1950s saw the rise of the dedicated TV critic.These critics, including Peter Black, Philip Pursor and Clive James, played an important part in shaping the public discourse about television. This book explores the evolution of television criticism in Britain, examining different types of TV critics and reviewers, the form of their work, and evaluating their importance in our understanding of the way television has become such an integral part of modern culture. It also asks whether, with the birth of new technologies, the TV critic is a dying breed.
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CRIME WATCHING
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Deborah Jermyn
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Rob Turnock
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Many of Doctor Whos most memorable protagonists have been its monsters, the Daleks, Cybermen, Slitheen, the Sonterans, Ood, Wiirrn, and others. Entertainingly and provocatively written, and introduced by Who scriptwriter Paul Cornell, The Doctors Monsters takes a new look at these and many other creatures, and asks what inspired them and what lies behind them. If the Daleks are based on ideas of genetic purity, and the Cybermen on fears of transplant surgery, what about the Autons, the Zarbi, or the Weeping Angels? Science fiction critic Graham Sleight examines stories from the whole of Doctor Whos history to give this unique perspective on the series. Why are we so scared of monsters? Why do they look and act the way they do? How do they reflect the time and place that the series is broadcast in? Along the way, the book provides a history from an unusual angle of how this most enduring of TV science fiction series has created and recreated itself. The book also contains a comprehensive glossary of the creatures seen in Doctor Who.
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A Hitchhikers Guide
Jan Johnson-Smith
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READING ANGEL
The TV Spin-off with a Soul
James Chapman
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International Media
ARAB CULTURAL STUDIES PALESTINE ONLINE
Transnationalism, Communications and the Reinvention of Identity
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Miriyam Aouragh,
Tamar Ashuri
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Arab Cultural Studies is a fast emerging field of research and study in Middle East and Western universities. In this book, prominent scholars, writing from both Arab and Western academia, discuss for the first time the ways in which this nascent area can be conceptualised and theorised. They provide a meta-narrative about how scholars have thus far thought and unthought the field, engaging with key complex, epistemic and methodological questions. At the same time they are articulating the new kinds of language and hermeneutics necessary in order to appropriate an historically conscious and coherent field of scientific enquiry into contemporary Arab media, culture and society. The book throughout reflects on and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, epistemology, language, method, politics, literary and cultural criticism, institutionalization, popular culture, creativity, and much more.
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For Palestines diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. She closely examines the uses and limits of internet technology under conditions of war, along with the ways in which virtual participation enables the generation of new ideals for political reconciliation and self-determination. Through the internet, participants reconstruct a virtual Palestinian homeland, gain a space for recovering the past, for overcoming issues of mobility, and for generating social change. This book provides a new angle on those affected by the IsraeliPalestine conflict, and furthers understanding about the connection between electronic media, politics and national identity more widely.
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BLOGISTAN
Discourse, Image and Communication Practices in Lebanon and Palestine Dina Matar, SOAS and Zahera Harb, University
of Nottingham
Tarik Sabry
Zahera Harb
NEW
The term conflict has often been used broadly and uncritically to talk about diverse situations ranging from street protests to war, though the many factors that give rise to any conflict and its continuation over a period of time vary greatly. The starting point of this innovative book is that to consider conflict within a singular concept disables a coherent analysis of the constituent factors behind any particular conflict. At the same time, to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique undermines an attempt to examine common factors in all conflicts. The contributors set out to explore the ways in which the long-term conflicts in Palestine and Lebanon have been and are narrated, imagined and remembered in diverse spaces, including that of the media. They examine discourses and representations of the conflicts as well as practices of memory and performance in the diverse narratives of suffering and conflict, all of which suggest an embodied investment in narrating or communicating conflict.
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OBSERVANT STATES
Geopolitics and Visual Culture Fraser MacDonald, Rachel Hughes and Klaus Dodds (Eds)
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International Media
TRANSNATIONAL TELEVISION IN EUROPE
Reconfiguring Global Communications Networks
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Jean K. Chalaby
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FRAGMENTS OF CULTURE
The Everyday of Modern Turkey
NEW
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What makes art feminist art? Although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic, there can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history. Domesticity, the body, its traces, and sexuality have become prominent themes in contemporary feminist practice but where did these preoccupations begin and how did they come to signify a particular type of art? Battistas (re-) engagement with the founding generation of female practitioners centres on 1970s London as the cultural hub from which a new art practice arose. Emphasising the importance of artists including Bobby Baker, Anne Bean, Catherine Elwes, Rose English, Alexis Hunter, Tina Keane, Hannah OShea, Kate Walker, Silvia Ziranek, Mary Kelly, Judy Clark, Carolee Schneemann and Cosey Fanni Tutti, Battista investigates some of the most controversial and provocative art from the era.
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SATELLITE REALMS
Naomi Sakr
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What makes a piece of art political? Can art catalyse real political change? In exploring how art is used by politics and politics by art, Claudia Mesch analyses the tangled and ever-changing relationship between Art and Politics, a crucial and understudied direction in art history. Individual artworks have incited enormous ideological shifts post 1945, particularly since 1960. Mesch charts these permutations and in doing so provides readers with the tools to decode and appreciate political art. By exploring key artistic and socio-political movements, Mesch will challenge her readers to examine often deprecated and undervalued political artwork as properly part of the history of modern and contemporary art. Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change Since 1945 imparts unique insights into the major historical and theoretical touchstones of post-war political art.
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HELEN CHADWICK
Constructing Identities between Art and Architecture Stephen Walker,
University of Sheffield
Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war, inequalities, ecological disasters, and revolutionary changes in technology. Carnal Aesthetics is a fascinating new examination of this aspect of contemporary visual culture. Employing recent theories of transgressive body imagery, trauma, affectivity and sensation, it provides a fresh look at the meeting point between the politics of representation and the politics of perception, through the prismatic lens of feminist theory.Acclaimed scholars, including Griselda Pollock, Vivian Sobchack, Laura Marks, Erin Manning, Jill Bennett and Martine Beugnet analyse seminal case studies coming from different media: digital photography, video, film and multimedia art. They explore a number of transgressive movements that significantly reconfigure the relationship between the body and the image, challenging also the primacy of vision.
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Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, British artist Helen Chadwick produced a wide-ranging body of work in a variety of media. She also drew upon a panoply of references, from classical Greek through to contemporary architectures, micro-biology, sub-particle physics, and esoteric philosophies. Stephen Walker identifies and explores a consistent range of issues and enduring interests that accompanied and supported Chadwicks realised work, including the relationship between body and space, self and the world; between art and science, the creative self and the creative process. Dismantling and reassembling her thought, Walker here combines a close reading of Chadwicks notebooks and research with broader speculation about their ongoing relevance for artistic and architectural work today.
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Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist to make the world a better place. Art shocks, disrupts and resists the status quo, or it only serves to deaden a disenfranchised society further. So argues This Is Not Art, a radical and vigorous critique that debunks myths about art in order to celebrate it. Highlighting the social mechanisms of legitimisation and dissemination that exclude the genuinely shocking or defiant, This Is Not Art draws on Foucault and Marx to uncover an artworld obsessed with profit and from which diversity, individuality and freedom have been erased. Alana Jelinek returns to the question what is art? retelling the history of art practice. This Is Not Art offers a new way of understanding and practicing art as the embodiment of power and agency within us, the possibility of thinking and acting differently, of finding new stories to tell.
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PERFORMANCE ART
A Guided Tour Peter Bond, Central
St. Martins, University of the Arts London
Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film Lizelle Bisschoff,
Edinburgh University
Presence, immediacy and participation are at the forefront of some of the most influential art of the past fifty years, yet performance art remains mysterious and obscure to any of us who lack knowledge of its context and vocabulary. Written for the interested but uninitiated, Performance Art: A Guided Tour offers just that: an accessible field guide to the shifting terrain of live art. From its beginnings in conceptual art in the 1950s through the media generation of the 1960s to Marina Abramovic and the live art of today, Performance Art: A Guided Tour introduces the history, concepts and agendas of the medium. Including a DIY guide to becoming a performance artist, this accessible and scholarly book locates performance art within shifting circumstances and conflicting discourses, debating different paths and approaches to understanding it. Enlightening, wide-ranging and sometimes surprising, Performance Art: A Guided Tour enables the reader to navigate the terra incognita of the most controversial of modern art forms.
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Although a quintessentially English sculptor, Henry Moore experienced outstanding success in the United States. A man much admired and revered, he was the natural choice for corporate and civil commissions. Based on original sources, and containing many previously unpublished images, Pauline Roses work explores the reasons for Moores fame in America, and the construction of his American persona. This insightful text illustrates the ways in which Moore was presented to an American audience via text and imagery and the influential network of his supporters. It examines a range of sculptural commissions in key American cities, resulting from the ambitions of politicians and businessmen alike who perceived Moores monumental sculptures as expressions of citizenship and humanity. A valuable addition to studies on Moore, this will be indispensable to all those interested in twentieth century art history and cultural studies, Anglo-American relations, and the vibrant relationship between text and image.
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The traumas of conflict and war in postcolonial Africa have been widely documented, but less well-known are their artistic representations. A number of recent films, novels and other art forms have sought to engage with and overcome post-colonial atrocities and to explore the attempts of reconciliation commissions towards peace, justice and forgiveness. This creativity reflects the memories and social identities of the artists, whilst offering a mirror to African and worldwide audiences coming to terms with a collective memory that is often traumatic in itself. Questioning perception and interpretation, these new art forms challenge the inexpressible nature of atrocities. This groundbreaking volume will inspire those interested in African history and politics as well as broader cultural and artistic studies
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CROSS-CULTURAL IDENTITIES
VISUALIZING FEELING
Susan Best
Nadja Stamselberg,
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SITE-WRITING
Jane Rendell
Performance art in the West has developed in part as a response to the commercialisation of the art object. But what are the roots of performance art in Eastern Europe and Russia, where there was no real art market to speak of? While Western performance artists of the late 20th century aimed to create works that could not be bought or sold, performances in the communist bloc in the absence of an art market more often took the form of social critique. Instead of creations that questioned what the art object is, their work often related to local issues within the context of late- or post-socialism. By placing these performances within both a local and international context, this book pinpoints the nuances between performance art East and West. Drawing upon previously unpublished sources and exclusive interviews with the artists themselves, Amy Bryzgel explores the spontaneous theatre of the period from Oleg Kuliks Russian Dog performances to Miervaldis Poliss The Bronze Man and Vladislav Mayhshevs Monroe.
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JUNK
Gillian Whiteley
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HYPERDRAWING
Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art TRACEY,
Loughborough University
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In four decades of abstract art practice, Lynda Benglis has not merely challenged the status quo. She has tied it in knots, melted it down and poured it across the floor, cast in glass, clay and bronze. Daring and sometimes outrageous, her intense and provocative practice produced some of the most iconic images of the late twentieth century. Yet like every woman throughout history who has dared to perform her own exclusion from privilege as Benglis did in her infamous 1974 self-funded nude full-page advert in Artforum, wearing nothing but sunglasses and a dildo the artist has been marginalised and her place in contemporary art history neglected. In the wake of several recent major retrospectives, art critic and historian Susan Richmond examines for the first time the work of Lynda Benglis, demonstrating through visual, contextual and theoretical analyses the enduring resonance of Benglis eclectic oeuvre. Richmond gives serious critical attention to work often dismissed as trivial and rootless, recovering the themes that link the different phases of the artists quest to capture the frozen gesture.
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In Hyperdrawing: beyond the lines of contemporary art, authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become. In this follow-up to 2007s Drawing Now: between the lines of contemporary art, the editors of TRACEY curate contemporary drawing within fine art practice from 2006 through to 2010. Four essays and images from 33 international artists collectively explore the boundaries of the hyperdrawing space, investigating in essence what lies beyond drawing images that use traditional materials or subjects whilst also pushing beyond the traditional, employing sound, light, time, space and technology. Over and above traditional views and practices, the authors and artists in this book recognise and embrace the opportunities inherent in the essential ambiguity of drawing. Practitioners of hyperreal works, 2D3D4D pieces and installations that push beyond photorealism all find their place within this new conception of hyperdrawing as techn, a productive space no longer limited by spatial boundaries.
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Rozsika Parker
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AFTERSHOCK
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Gen Doy
Joanne Finkelstein
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The Reader
Janet Jacobs
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Damian Sutton, Sue Brind, Ray McKenzie (Eds) Contribution by Slavoj Zizek
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PASSIONATE BEING
Yve Lomax
GORDON MATTACLARK
Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism
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John Tusa
Stephen Walker
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Marsha Meskimmon
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Are you baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to those who think in images. Contemporary Thinkers Reframed instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas. Short, contemporary and accessible, these lively books utilise actual examples of artworks, films, television shows, works of architecture, fashion and even computer games to explain and explore the work of the most commonly taught thinkers. Conceived specifically for the visually minded, the series will prove invaluable to students right across the visual arts.
ADORNO REFRAMED
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Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts Geoffrey Boucher, Deakin University
Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of high art, Theodore W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contemporary thinkers. This book challenges this popular image and re-examines Adorno as a utopian philosopher who believed authentic art could save the world. Adorno Reframed is not only a comprehensive introduction to the reader coming to Adorno for the first time but an important re-evaluation of this founder of the Frankfurt School.
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BADIOU REFRAMED
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Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts Alex Ling, University of Western Sydney
Often regarded with suspicion as an antipostmodernist who dared to write about truth and meaning as recognisable categories, in recent years Badiou has become of crucial importance in finding new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed is an original book for an original thinker, applying Badious philosophy for the first time to the visual arts. Drawing on a broad cross-section of artworks, including drawing, painting, photography, cinema, architecture and installation art, Badiou Reframed uses concrete examples to elucidate, extend and critique Badious philosophy. focusing on his critical relationship with the visual arts, Badiou Reframed reinterprets and represents not just the man but art itself in a wholly new light.
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AGAMBEN REFRAMED
University of the Arts London
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Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts Dan Smith, Chelsea College of Art and Design,
One of the most influential living cultural theorists, Agambens ideas continue to engage and trouble students for whom he is an ever more vital part of the theoretical terrain. The first book to offer an accessible account of Agambens work in relation to visual culture, Agamben Reframed turns Agambens model of politics into a powerful and convincing account of art. Seeking a sustained encounter between contemporary visual culture and Agambens world of critical ideas, Dan Smith examines works that mirror the extreme and difficult topography of Agamben. Ideas of the destruction of real experience and the groundlessness of everyday life feed into the contested presence of the body as spectacle and commodity to demand the reimagining of modes of representation as well as social and political forms.
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GUATTARI REFRAMED
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Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts Paul Elliott, University of Worcester
Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth centurys most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers. Best known as an activist and practising psychiatrist, Guattaris work is increasingly understood as both eerily prescient and vital in the context of contemporary culture. Employing the language of visual culture and concrete examples drawn from it, this book introduces and reassesses the major concepts developed throughout Guattaris writings, asserting his significance as a revolutionary philosopher and cultural theorist and to transform both their understanding of Guattari, and their lives through his ideas.
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DERRIDA REFRAMED
K. Malcolm Richards
LACAN REFRAMED
Steven Z. Levine
BAUDRILLARD REFRAMED
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Kim Toffoletti
DELEUZE REFRAMED
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Maria Walsh,
Mark Rawlinson
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Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally invaded the gallery space, from Joseph Beuys co-habiting with a coyote, Janis Kounellis instillation of live horses, Damien Hirsts shark in formaldehyde to Mark Dions natural history displays and Marco Evaristtis goldfish in a blender. In this latest addition to the highly acclaimed Art and... series, Giovanni Aloi surveys the insistent presence of animals in the world of contemporary art, exploring the leading concepts which inform this emerging practice. From exhibitions featuring live animals, to taxidermy, and interspecies communication, Giovanni Aloi explores how animals feature in modern art with a range of thought-provoking and innovative visual representations. Art and Animals challenges ideas of identity, otherness and civilisation by explaining the role animals have occupied in our cultural development and illustrating their presence in the visual arts today.
192 PAGES 210 X 148MM NOVEMBER 2011 9781848855243 HARDBACK 42.00 9781848855250 PAPERBACK 14.99 30 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ART AND SERIES
Often derided as unscientific and selfindulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century. Art and Psychoanalysis investigates these encounters.The dynamics of the dream-work, Freuds familiar unfamiliar, fetishism, visual mastery, abjection, repetition, and the death drive are explored through detailed analysis of artists ranging from Max Ernst to Louise Bourgeois, including 1980s postmodernists such as Cindy Sherman, installation artists such as Mike Kelley and post-minimalist sculpture. Innovative and disturbing, Art and Psychoanalysis investigates key psychoanalytic concepts to reveal a dynamic relationship between art and psychoanalysis which goes far beyond interpretation. There is no cure for the artist but art can reconcile us to the traumatic nature of human experience, converting the sadistic impulses of the ego towards domination and war into a masochistic ethics of responsibility and desire.
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DRAWING NOW
TRACEY
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BLUEBEARDS LEGACY
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Death and Secrets from Bartk to Hitchcock Griselda Pollock & Victoria Anderson (Eds)
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EVA HESSE
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Painting History, Writing Painting
Alison Rowley
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Promoting debate, confronting conventions and formulating alternative ways of thinking, Jane Tormey and Gillian Whiteley explore what radical aesthetics might mean in the twenty first century. This new book series RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt (RaRa) - reconsiders the relationship between how art is practiced and how art is theorized. Striving to liberate theories of aesthetics from visual traditions, this series of single-authored titles expands the parameters of art and aesthetics in a creative and meaningful way. Encompassing the multisensory, collaborative, participatory and transitory practices that have developed over the last twenty years, Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art is an innovative and revolutionary take on the intersection between theory and practice. The RaRa series aims to: l critique conventional approaches to thinking about art practice and aesthetics l reconsider the interrelationships between theories and art practice on equal terms l provide a useful resource to assist research and provoke discussion l address current issues in response to contemporary contexts l encourage an interdisciplinary approach to discussion l survey recent and current material and debate The first title in the series to be released is Practical Aesthetics: Event, Affect and Art after 9/11 by Jill Bennett. Further titles include Eco-Aesthetics by Malcolm Miles and Indigenous Aesthetics by Dylan Miner.The commissioning editors invite submissions from authors (artists and scholars) who can make a provocative contribution to these debates. For further information about the RaRa project see website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/research/ groups/politicised/rara.html For further information or enquiries please contact RaRa series editors Jane Tormey: j.tormey@lboro.ac.uk Gillian Whiteley: g.whiteley@lboro.ac.uk
PRACTICAL AESTHETICS
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Events, Affect and Art after 9/11 Jill Bennett, University of New South Wales
Practical Aesthetics brings a pursuit long seen as rarefied and indulgent out of the ivory tower and down to Ground Zero. Theoretically ambitious, fiercely original, it is a radical new account of arts embeddedness in the social world and the value of aesthetics to contemporary society. Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationallyrenowned scholar Jill Bennett explores artistic developments in relation to current events to argue that understanding aesthetics is as vital to social and political theory as it is to the arts.Taking as its starting-point a definition of art as the critical, self-conscious manipulation of media, Bennett examines a wide range of events from the War on Terror to the football World Cup to elucidate how aesthetic perception works in a social field, a process that begins with the rich emotional content of the visual imagery with which we are constantly bombarded. Now more than ever, Bennett argues, understanding how what we see informs what we do is not merely an artistic but a vital endeavour.
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UNDERSTANDING ARCHITECTURE
Marco Bussagli
Styles and Structures from the Pyramids to Post Modernism
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BOHEMIANS
Elizabeth Wilson
INTERVENTION ARCHITECURE
PRACTICE AS RESEARCH
Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry
OPERA
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Ian Almond
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RETHINKING ORIENTALISM
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PRIVATE PICTURES
Soldiers Inside View of War Janina Struk
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Liz Wells
David Bate
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Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured shocked the world in 2004 and more have followed from the conflict in Afghanistan, but whether the public have been horrified by the soldiers conduct or the fact that they have taken pictures has not been clear. In fact, as this remarkable book reveals and relates, soldiers have taken photographs of war and its atrocities for more than 100 years. But their pictures are private, intended mainly for the soldiers themselves, as mementoes or as attempts to make sense of the chaos, brutality and boredom of war. But with the 21st-century shift to simple digital photography, transmission by the internet available to all, and a new citizen journalism, soldiers pictures are acquiring a new resonance. Private Pictures discusses how these images have been used and it asks: what effect might the wider appreciation of soldiers pictures have on the popular perception of war?
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SHIFTING HORIZONS
David Friend
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DOMAINS OF INFLUENCE
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Jacqueline Hassink
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STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
From Atget to Cartier-Bresson
THE PHOTOBOOK
From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond Patrizia Di Bello, Birkbeck, University of London, Colette Wilson, Institute
of Germanic and Romance Studies, London and Shamoon Zamir, New York University,Abu Dhabi
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Clive Scott
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I SPY
Representations of Childhood
CLAUDE CAHUN
Gen Doy
The photograph found a home in the book before it won for itself a place on the gallery wall. Only a few years after the birth of photography, the publication of Henry Fox Talbots The Pencil of Nature heralded a new genre in the history of the book, one in which the photograph was the primary vehicle of expression and communication, or stood in equal if sometimes conflicted partnership with the written word. In this book, practising photographers and writers across several fields of scholarship share a range of fresh approaches to reading the photobook, developing new ways of understanding how meaning is shaped by an images interaction with its text and context and engaging with the visual, tactile and interactive experience of the photobook in all its dimensions. Through close studies of individual works, the photobook from fetishised objet dart to cheaply printed booklet is explored and its unique creative and cultural contributions celebrated.
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What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and beyond price? Its easily found in the gutter, yet you may never be able to replace it.You are always losing it but it faithfully protects you; sexy and uptight, it is knitted into your affections or it may give you nightmares. It has led to conflict, fostered and repressed political and religious change and epitomizes the great aesthetic movements. Its Eurocentric, and is found all over the world. On the Button is an inventive and unusual exploration of the cultural history of the button. It tells tales of a huge variety of the buttons forms and functions, its sometimes uncompromising glamour, its stronghold in fashion and literature, its place in the visual arts, its association with crime and death, its tender call to nostalgia and the sentimental. There have been works addressed to the button collector and general cultural histories. On the Button links the two, revealing why we are so attracted to buttons, and how they punch way above their weight.
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In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing and fashion/ art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. The questions of what can be said, and what can only be experienced, and how these two issues may be reconciled, become questions that fashion addresses on an almost daily basis. By interpreting fashion within a psychoanalytic frame, Bancroft illustrates how fashion articulates some of the essential, and sometimes frightening, truths about the body, femininity and the self.
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Fashion, Sportswear and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York
Rebecca Arnold
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Agns Rocamora
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FASHIONING APPETITE
Restaurants & the Making of Modern Identity Joanne Finkelstein,
University of Greenwich
FASHION AS PHOTOGRAPH
University of Brighton
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It can no longer be said that we are just what we eat. In the contested sphere of gastronomy divided between the golden arches of McDonalds and the prized stars of Michelin where personal identity is expressed through a frenetic quest for socially-approved tastes and distinctions, where, when, how and with whom we eat has become just as fundamental in defining who we are. In this follow-on to her classic 1989 work Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life, dining out in restaurants, and uses it to examine the nature and meaning of manners and social relations in the modern world. This book examines how body images on billboards, social documentaries on the human and environmental cost of food and the abundance of choice in cosmopolitan and crowded cities contribute to a culture in which every forkful is weighted with meaning. When food is fetishised and identity is a capitalist commodity, the social solitude of the restaurant may be read as a semiotic realm where the satisfaction of appetite becomes both pleasure and torment.
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The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. Giving Britons an intimate experience of contemporary design and modern building, it helped them accept a landscape under reconstruction, and brought hope of a better world to come. Drawing on previously unseen sketches and plans, photographs and interviews,The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People travels beyond the Festivals spectacular centrepiece at Londons South Bank, to show how the Festival made the whole country an exhibition ground with events to which hundreds of the countrys greatest architects, artists and designers contributed. It explores exhibitions in Poplar, Battersea and South Kensington in London; Belfast, Glasgow and Wales; a touring show carried on four lorries and another aboard an ex-aircraft carrier. It reveals how all these exhibitions and also plays, poetry, art and films commissioned for the Festival had a single focus: to unite the land and people of Britain.
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Rebecca Arnold
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NAKED EXHIBITIONISM
Gendered Performance and Public Exposure
Claire nally, Northumbria University & Angela Smith, University of Sunderland
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What does it mean to be naked in public? Approaching this question from across the disciplines, this book examines the evolution of female exhibitionism from criminal taboo to prime-time entertainment. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which brings together all fields of popular culture, including literature, media, film and linguistics, Naked Exhibitionism examines gendered exhibitionism from the mid-twentieth century to the present day and asks whether bodily exposure provides the liberation it enacts or restricts our most secret selves to the sanitised realm of socially-sanctioned gender roles. Innovative, unflinching and pertinent, Naked Exhibitionism explores naked bodies in the public gaze and critically reformulates the feminist and cultural debate around the performance of gender
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Vampires and werewolves; phantoms and phantasms: looming out of the fog leaps the menacing spectre of the lycanthrope, ghoul or blood-crazed zombie. Intrigued by some of the most sinister, yet at the same time most compelling, legends of western civilization, Gregory L. Reece dusts down his stake and crucifix, loads his silver bullets and takes off into the wilds in search of answers and fresh adventures. Rummaging around in crumbling tombs and cob&webbed sarcophagi, his latest quest leads him into the haunted realm of the dead and the undead: of those carnivorous, nocturnal hunters that might perhaps better be left undisturbed. Why, he asks, is our culture obsessed by the eerie and the macabre? Why, despite its horrors, does the dark side of the supernatural its sances and ghost-hunting, demonic possession and the occult call to us with such dangerous allure? Whether tracking night-stalking werewolves, chanting black magic mantras with Satanists, or interviewing a funereal modern-day Count Dracula, Reece is determined to uncover the truth.
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THE HOBBITS
The Many Lives of Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin Lynnette Porter
Gregory L. Reece
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Written for all those who are interested in Tolkiens work, and of course for all those interested in hobbits, this is the first book to focus on the changes made to the hobbits characters not only by Tolkien but also by other artists actors, writers, directors, lyricists and choreographers. The beloved characters of Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin have been much adapted for radio, television, film and stage. Lynnette Porter follows the hobbits through these many other lives, from Tolkiens on-page revisions and John Boormans unmade screenplays, through to Peter Jacksons The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and its musical counterpart. She also reviews over 50 years of Hobbit Art, including the work of Alan Lee, John Howe and Ted Nasmith. Journeying through fanzines, videogames, Fanfiction and more, Porter demonstrates how the hobbits, their characters and their stories continue to introduce new audiences to Tolkiens work, in new and adapted forms.
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UFO RELIGION
Gregory L. Reece
ELVIS RELIGION
The Cult of the King
Gregory L. Reece
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PICTURING CHILDHOOD
The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery
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Patricia Holland
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MAINSTREAMING SEX
The Sexualization of Western Culture
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DESIRE BY DESIGN
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SUPERHEROES!
Roz Kaveney
Gwynne Edwards
DIGITAL DESIRES
Language, Identity and New Technologies
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