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Art & Architecture
paperback. Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives. Editor(s): Walter, K. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 245 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341771
- ISBN
- 9781349341771
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Condition: New
€ 137.72
€ 137.72
paperback. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HPS; JFD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341900
- ISBN
- 9781349341900
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Condition: New
€ 126.68
€ 126.68
Performing Magic on the Western Stage: From the Eighteenth Century to ...
. Ed(S): Hass, Lawrence; Coppa, Francesca; Pe...
paperback. "Performing Magic on the Western Stage" examines magic as a performing art and meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality. Editor(s): Hass, Lawrence; Coppa, Francesca; Peck, James. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 253 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS; HBJK; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349374649
- ISBN
- 9781349374649
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
paperback. An extended study of the writings of Lil' Kim, the multi-platinum selling Hip Hop artist. Examines Lil' Kim's anti-sexist, gender-defiant and ultra-erotic verse alongside issues of race and the politics of imprisonment. This is the first study to apply the tools of literary criticism to Hip Hop's lyrical writings. Num Pages: 243 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AP; AV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2009
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349376827
- ISBN
- 9781349376827
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Condition: New
€ 67.95€ 58.34
€ 67.95
€ 58.34
American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam: Politics, Ideology, and C...
Keeton, Patricia; Scheckner, Peter
paperback. No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBJK; HBL; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447435
- ISBN
- 9781349447435
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Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
paperback. Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction. Series: Avant-Gardes in Performance. Num Pages: 260 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; APF; AS; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459063
- ISBN
- 9781349459063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.24€ 50.01
€ 58.24
€ 50.01
The Sounds of Silent Films: New Perspectives on History, Theory and Pr...
Tieber, Claus; Windisch, Anna Katharina
paperback. The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies. Series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; AV; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349489053
- ISBN
- 9781349489053
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Condition: New
€ 149.29
€ 149.29
The Politics of Adaptation: Media Convergence and Ideology
. Ed(S): Hassler-Forest, Dan; Nicklas, Pascal
paperback. In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling. Editor(s): Hassler-Forest, Dan; Nicklas, Pascal. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; JFC; JFD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495429
- ISBN
- 9781349495429
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Condition: New
€ 116.70
€ 116.70
paperback. This book explores the religious foundations, political and social significance, and aesthetic aspects of the theatre created by the leaders of the Occult Revival. Lingan shows how theatre contributed to the fragmentation of Western religious culture and how contemporary theatre plays a part in the development of alternative, occult religions. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 261 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HRAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349497270
- ISBN
- 9781349497270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 105.74
€ 105.74
paperback. An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume looks at specific story-patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman culture. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, highlighting key cultural relay points at which a myth is received and reformulated for a particular audience. Editor(s): Cyrino, Monica S.; Safran, Meredith E. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APFN; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349504800
- ISBN
- 9781349504800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 116.00
€ 116.00
Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Le...
. Ed(S): Campbell, Alyson; Farrier, Stephen
paperback. Editor(s): Campbell, Alyson; Farrier, Stephen. Series: Contemporary Performance InterActions. BIC Classification: AS. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349570287
- ISBN
- 9781349570287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
hardcover. Rare. Out of print. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear, small tear rear top edge. Extremely light spotting on top page edges, otherwise internally crisp and clear text and illustrations. A fine copy of an indispensable title
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Barrie & Jenkins London
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0031030
- ISBN
- 9780214204920
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 85.00
€ 85.00
Hardcover. The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? Scholars address these and other questions in this collection. Editor(s): Eaglestone, Robert; Langford, Barry. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019362
- ISBN
- 9780230019362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? Scholars address these and other questions in this collection. Editor(s): Eaglestone, Robert; Langford, Barry. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019379
- ISBN
- 9780230019379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Hardcover. An introduction by leading experts in the field to the fascinating subject of translating audiovisual programmes for the television, the cinema, the Internet and the stage and the problems the differences between cultures can cause. Editor(s): Diaz-Cintas, Jorge; Anderman, Professor Gunilla M. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 134 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019966
- ISBN
- 9780230019966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.07
€ 139.07
Hardcover. This book analyzes the music that young portenas/os (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, Argentina) actually listen to nowadays, which, contrary to well-entrenched stereotypes, is not tango but rock nacional, cumbiaand romantic music. Chapters examine the music and what the Argentinean youth use it to say about themselves. Editor(s): Vila, Pablo; Seman, Pablo. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVG; JFC; JFSL4; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104631
- ISBN
- 9780230104631
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Providing new and challenging ways of understanding the medieval in the modern and vice versa, this volume highlights how medieval aesthetic experience breathes life into contemporary cinema. Engaging with the subject of time and temporality, the essays examine the politics of adaptation and our contemporary entanglement with the medieval. Editor(s): Rouse, Margitta; Johnston, Andrew James; Hinz, Philipp. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 252 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; APFN; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112506
- ISBN
- 9780230112506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Editor(s): Morgan, Iwan W. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 252 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113282
- ISBN
- 9780230113282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.42
€ 138.42
Hardcover. An exploration of the social significance of Shrek from a variety of theoretical perspectives, this book pursues two different, yet intertwined objectives Editor(s): Lacassagne, Aurelie; Nieguth, Tim; Depelteau, Francois. Num Pages: 190 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114159
- ISBN
- 9780230114159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This collection of essays sets out to challenge the dominant narrative about Victorian theatre by placing the practices and products of the Victorian theatre in relation to Victorian visual culture, through the lens of the concept of 'Ruskinian theatre', an approach to theatre which values its educative purpose as well as its aesthetic expression. Editor(s): Heinrich, Anselm; Newey, Kate; Richards, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200593
- ISBN
- 9780230200593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Economic activities are becoming increasingly globalised. One result being that for companies in developed market economies price-based competition is being replaced or supplemented by other forms of competitiveness. This book explores the shift towards design-based competitiveness and the escalation in the design-intensity of goods and services. Editor(s): Rusten, Grete; Bryson, John R. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AKP; KJF; KJMV6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203495
- ISBN
- 9780230203495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardcover. Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Orr, Shelley; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230204973
- ISBN
- 9780230204973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. EPUB Editor(s): Forsyth, Alison; Megson, Chris. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221154
- ISBN
- 9780230221154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. Featuring contributions by new and established nineteenth-century theatre scholars, this collection of critical essays is the first of its kind devoted solely to Victorian pantomime. It takes us through the various manifestations of British pantomime in the Victorian period and its ambivalent relationship with Victorian values. Editor(s): Davis, Jim. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221598
- ISBN
- 9780230221598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.58
€ 116.58