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Fashion and Age
Dress, the Body and Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate - for people as they age. Older women in particular have long been subject to social pressure to tone down, to adopt self-effacing, covered-up styles. But increasingly there are...
Critical Fashion Practice
From Westwood to Van Beirendonck
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs of criticism and subversion, these were either in the form of subcultures or perversions, such as punk...
European Modernity
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history.
Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner re-position Europe in the global context...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being fundamental to our...
by David Toop
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.
In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice...
The Act of Documenting
Documentary Film in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Documentary has never attracted such audiences, never been produced with such ease from so many corners of the globe, never embraced such variety of expression. The very distinctions between the filmed, the filmer and the spectator are being dissolved. The Act of Documenting addresses what this means...
9/11
Topics in Contemporary North American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 have had a profound impact on contemporary American literature and culture. With chapters written by leading scholars, 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature is a wide-ranging guide to literary...
Aesthetics of Displacement
Turkey and its Minorities on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Displacement does not only have an effect on groups' and individuals' ways of relating to their identity and their past but the knowledge and experience of it also has an impact on its representation. Looking at films that represent the experience of displacement in relation to Turkey's minorities,...
by Hilary Neroni
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from...
Félix Ravaisson
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This reader makes the key essays of 19th century French philosopher Félix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy. The volume contains the classic 1838 dissertation...
by Professor Susanna Braund
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim...
Philosophical Chemistry
Genealogy of a Scientific Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science, DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of divergence, specialization and hybridization through...
From Byzantium to Italy
Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Which famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats to circulate a speech by Demosthenes – in Latin translation – when the Turks threatened to invade Europe? Why would enthusiastic Florentines crowd a lecture on the Roman Neoplatonist Plotinus, but...
The Superhero Costume
Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing him or her from the civilian alter ego. The often garish garb expresses a hero's otherness and empowers its wearers to seek a primal form of justice.
This book provides the first interdisciplinary analysis of the superhero costume...