Pirkko Markula: 3 books

Book cover of The Creation of iGiselle

The Creation of iGiselle

Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games

by Vadim Bulitko, Wayne DeFehr, Christina Gier
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019

The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in the fields of literature, physical education, music, design, and computer science collaborated to revise...
Book cover of Deleuze and the Physically Active Body
by Pirkko Markula
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019

This volume examines Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy as it relates to the study of the physically active body. It explores theoretical and practical examples of how the physically active body can be examined as a material, social, political, and cultural entity using a Deleuzian perspective. Examining...
Book cover of Foucault, Sport and Exercise

Foucault, Sport and Exercise

Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self

by Pirkko Markula-Denison, Richard Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007

Michel Foucault’s work profoundly influences the way we think about society, in particular how we understand social power, the self, and the body. This book gives an innovative and entirely new analysis of is later works making it a one-stop guide for students, exploring how Foucauldian theory can...
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