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Travel & See
Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts...
by Michael J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard,...
by Michele Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Michele Wallace burst into public consciousness with the 1979 publication of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, a pioneering critique of the misogyny of the Black Power movement and the effects of racism and sexism on black women. Since then, Wallace has produced an extraordinary body of...
The Aesthetics of Shadow
Lighting and Japanese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes how this notion...
Kurosawa
Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2000
The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
At the Edge of Sight
Photography and the Unseen
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible....
Leaving Art
Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics, and often collaborating with other...
Still Moving
Between Cinema and Photography
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those...
Lost in Translation
Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather...
Crash
Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Ousmane Sembène have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of modernity. In Crash, Karen Beckman argues that representations of the crash...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The contributors to...
Present Tense
Rock & Roll and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 1992
The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings...
Museum Skepticism
A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
In Museum Skepticism, art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Carrier contends that since the inception of the public art museum during the French Revolution, its development has...