Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture
Hardcover. The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Using film theory and close textual analysis, Tucker offers an explanation of the Internet and a brief history of its portrayal on film in order examine how it has shaped contemporary versions of self-identity, memory, and the human body. Num Pages: 265 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386687
- ISBN
- 9781137386687
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of film history and analysis from the optical to the sonic, demonstrating how this translates into a shift of canonical narratives and interpretations. Num Pages: 236 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137387707
- ISBN
- 9781137387707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardback. From Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to Bella Swan in Twilight, the girl has been a subject of intense cinematic interest. This collection considers the specificity of girls' experiences and their cinematic articulation through a multicultural feminist lens which cuts across the divides of popular/art-house, Western/non Western, and north/south. Editor(s): Taylor-Jones, Kate E. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388919
- ISBN
- 9781137388919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.03
€ 162.03
Hardback. Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study moves from the sexual abandon of the 1930s to filmmakers' circumvention of censorship, the demolition of taboos by arthouse directors and pornographic films, and an examination of how explicit imagery invaded modern mainstream cinema. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390042
- ISBN
- 9781137390042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.67
€ 128.67
Hardcover. The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered terrifyingly hostile, and encounters with other travellers almost always have sinister outcomes. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391193
- ISBN
- 9781137391193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily replicated and distributed commodities bearing their image. This book examines how the anglicised singers provide secular guidance to the modern consumer in an ever more uncertain world. Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393524
- ISBN
- 9781137393524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western 'intercultural theatre' project, as a more nuanced and embodied approach to representing Othernesses, from his own position of the Other. Series: New World Choreographies. Num Pages: 216 pages, 16. BIC Classification: ASDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393654
- ISBN
- 9781137393654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.62
€ 160.62
Hardcover. History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance. Editor(s): Dean, David; Meerzon, Yana; Prince, Kathryn. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393883
- ISBN
- 9781137393883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.24
€ 129.24
Hardcover. In this unique collection, theologians born and formed during the Cold War offer their insights and perspectives on theological relationships with such musical artists and groups as Joy Division, U2, Nick Cave, and John Coltrane. These essays demonstrate that one's personal music preferences can inform and influence professional interests. Editor(s): Grimshaw, Michael. Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Num Pages: 229 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGP; HRAC; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394132
- ISBN
- 9781137394132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 292 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394347
- ISBN
- 9781137394347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 46.85
€ 53.40
€ 46.85
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSY; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2018
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395405
- ISBN
- 9781137395405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.40
€ 140.40
Hardcover. This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and aesthetics, exploring how their oeuvres constitute a critical and self-reflexive approach to documentary-making in India. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395436
- ISBN
- 9781137395436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKP; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396075
- ISBN
- 9781137396075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.66
€ 138.66
Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project: The Ecocide...
Chaudhuri, Una, Enelow, Shonni
Hardcover. Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change. Encompassing academic research, theatre work-shopping, playwriting, dramaturgy, and theoretical writing, this book offers a practical, theoretical, and critical engagement with the urgent issue of making art in the age of climate change. Num Pages: 140 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ANF; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396617
- ISBN
- 9781137396617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.39€ 72.44
€ 87.39
€ 72.44
Hardcover. This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen Kane, The Double Life of Veronique, The Great Gatsby, Gilda, Vertigo and Wings of Desire. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396709
- ISBN
- 9781137396709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Hardcover. This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; ACND; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397799
- ISBN
- 9781137397799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
hardcover. Editor(s): De Valk, Mark. Num Pages: 342 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations, 17 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399175
- ISBN
- 9781137399175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.28
€ 69.28
Hardcover. In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer alternatives to the dominant Hollywood model. Num Pages: 222 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399205
- ISBN
- 9781137399205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardback. Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema answers questions about body and soul, virtuality, and spirituality in the digital age by linking cinematic themes with religious, philosophical and ethical concepts. Num Pages: 115 pages, biography. BIC Classification: A; AP; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 115
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399403
- ISBN
- 9781137399403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation, this book discusses not only a single case study, but also the intermedia exchanges in which literary modernism at large is rooted. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APFA; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400352
- ISBN
- 9781137400352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96