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A John Heskett Reader
Design, History, Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Heskett's key works, introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons, the New School, USA.
Heskett, who passed away in early 2014, was a pioneering British-born writer and lecturer. His research was foundational...
The Swimsuit
Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk documents the modern swimsuit's trajectory from men's underwear and circus/performance wear to its unique niche in world fashion. It emphasizes the relationship between fashion, media, celebrity, sport and the cultivation of the modern body.
This...
Japanese Fashion Cultures
Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
From Rococo to Edwardian fashions, Japanese street style has reinvented many western dress styles, reinterpreting and altering their meanings and messages in a different cultural and historical context. This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represent...
Shigeru Miyamoto
Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Video games are considered by many to be just entertainment-essentially void of skillful, artistic intervention. But as any gamer knows, there's incredible technical and graphic talent behind even a flickering Gameboy screen.
You may have never heard Shigeru Miyamoto's name, but you've probably...
Beyond Unwanted Sound
Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound.
Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories,...
Critical Semiotics
Theory, from Information to Affect
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity...
by Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot, Susan Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical...
Before-and-After Photography
Histories and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The before-and-after trope in photography has long paired images to represent change: whether affirmatively, as in the results of makeovers, social reforms or medical interventions, or negatively, in the destruction of the environment by the impacts of war or natural disasters.
This interdisciplinary,...
by Lynette Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It looks at how a common heroic...
Inventing the Pizzeria
A History of Pizza Making in Naples
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Pizza is one of the best-known and widely exported Italian foods and yet relatively little is known about its origins in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Myths such as the naming of pizza margherita after the Italian queen abound, but little serious scholarly attention has been devoted to the...
Transforming Type
New Directions in Kinetic Typography
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Transforming Type examines kinetic or moving type in a range of fields including film credits, television idents, interactive poetry and motion graphics. As the screen increasingly imitates the properties of real-life environments, typographic sequences are able to present letters that are active...
The Science of Screenwriting
The Neuroscience Behind Storytelling Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In a world awash in screenwriting books, The Science of Screenwriting provides an alternative approach that will help the aspiring screenwriter navigate this mass of often contradictory advice: exploring the science behind storytelling strategies. Paul Gulino, author of the best-selling Screenwriting:...
The Social Life of Materials
Studies in Materials and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have often been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as 'social' yet the materials which comprise them are considered 'raw' or natural'....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticized for subjecting his female characters to unacceptable levels of violence or reducing them to masochistic...