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Sensuous Cinema
The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries...
Ex-centric Cinema
Giorgio Agamben and Film Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In the beginning, cinema was an encounter between humans, images and machine technology, revealing a stream of staccato gestures, micrographic worlds, and landscapes seen from above and below. In this sense, cinema's potency was its ability to bring other, non-human modes of being into view, to forge...
New Nonfiction Film
Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics. The premise of the book is to propose a new category of nonfiction film that is distinguished from...
Crime and Thriller Writing
A Writers' & Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Crime and Thriller Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing in these exciting genres.
PART 1 explores the nature and history of the genre and helpsyou get started with ideas, planning and research.
PART 2 includes tips by bestselling crime writers:...
by Professor Andrew J. Kunka
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Autobiographical Comics helps readers explore the increasingly popular genre of graphic life writing. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as:
· The history and rise of autobiographical comics
·...
Seeing Fans
Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Split into four sections, Seeing Fans analyzes the representations of fans in the mass media through a diverse range of perspectives. This collection opens with a preface by noted actor and fan Orlando Jones (Sleepy Hollow), whose recent work on fandom (appearing with Henry Jenkins at Comic Con and...
Fashion on Television
Identity and Celebrity Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale.
Examining case studies...
Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational
The Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the International Task Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe and the Nazi-era past in the world arena. It uses a range of primary documentation from the restitution conferences, speeches and presentations made at the Stockholm International...
Showing Off!
A Philosophy of Image
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Drawing on art, media, and phenomenological sources, Showing Off!: A Philosophy of Image challenges much recent thought by proposing a fundamentally positive relationship between visuality and the ethical. In philosophy, cultural studies and art, relationships between visuality and the ethical are...
When the Machine Made Art
The Troubled History of Computer Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines...
An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci
His Life, Thought and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This is a concise introduction to the life and work of the Italian militant and political thinker, Antonio Gramsci. As head of the Italian Communist Party in the 1920s, Gramsci was arrested and condemned to 20 years' imprisonment by Mussolini's fascist regime. It was during this imprisonment that...
Post Sound Design
The Art and Craft of Audio Post Production for the Moving Image
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Post Sound Design provides a practical introduction to the fascinating craft of editing and replacing dialog, creating Foley and sound effects, editing music, and balancing these elements to a final mix. Based on years of experience and teaching this material to students at Drexel University, award-winning...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
El Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas. It is also a rare example of a cultural product that...
Alternative Salvations
Engaging the Sacred and the Secular
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
By considering transformative ideas and experiences which are explicitly articulated or implicitly structured in languages of religion and spirituality, Alternative Salvations probes concepts including 'religious', 'secular', 'spiritual', 'post-Christian', and 'post-secular', providing a series of...