Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture
Hardcover. A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory, and challenge traditional categorisations of academic and professional crime writing. Editor(s): Miller, Vivien; Oakley, Helen. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230353985
- ISBN
- 9780230353985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Hardcover. Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white tables, 44 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361676
- ISBN
- 9780230361676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.15
€ 63.15
Hardcover. This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it Editor(s): Birch, Anna; Tompkins, Joanne. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230364059
- ISBN
- 9780230364059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.35
€ 119.35
Hardcover. What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artistic and pornographic representations. Editor(s): Maes, Hans. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: AGH; HPN; HPQ; JFMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368200
- ISBN
- 9780230368200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.69
€ 119.69
Hardcover. The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fans through topics such as mentoring, promotion of the real-world space program, merchandising, gender issues, and ranger clubs - all the while promoting the fledgling medium of television. Editor(s): Miller, Cynthia J.; Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Num Pages: 294 pages, 62 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 5. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230377318
- ISBN
- 9780230377318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardcover. Leaders in business and art can gain a lot by listening to each other. In this book thirteen research-based cases demonstrate how software programmers, art curators, financial analysts, orchestra conductors, construction engineers and chefs, share aesthetic leadership talents that hold the key to transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Editor(s): Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre; Gustafsson, Claes; Sjostrand, Sven-Erik. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: A; KJM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230515581
- ISBN
- 9780230515581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.87
€ 62.87
Hardcover. This volume applies two fashionable theoretical paradigms - "The Other" and "intercultural dialogue" - to Russian film and television. Editor(s): Hutchings, Stephen C. Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; APFA; JFC; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517363
- ISBN
- 9780230517363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. Examining the ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over time, this new collection highlights the difficulties these institutions encounter today, in an environment where nationalism and national identity are increasingly contested by global, transnational and local agendas, and where economic forces create conflicting demands. Editor(s): Wilmer, S. E. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; AN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521094
- ISBN
- 9780230521094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84
€ 62.84
Hardcover. Through the analysis of examples that range from cutting-edge Hollywood blockbusters to viral films on the internet, and from Victorian cinema to the present, the contributors to this volume discuss the ways in which thinking about technology is crucial to understanding cinema's forms, significance and impact upon audiences. Editor(s): Bennett, Bruce; Furstenau, Marc; Mackenzie, Adrian. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524774
- ISBN
- 9780230524774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.41
€ 119.41
Hardcover. This topical collection explores the relationship between violence and performance. The authors offer fresh theoretical perspectives and examine media as diverse as street theatre, performance art, photography and cinema in locations as diverse as Korea and South Africa to India and Israel. Editor(s): Anderson, Patrick; Menon, Jisha. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 405 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JFFE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537262
- ISBN
- 9780230537262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.85
€ 63.85
Hardcover. Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's Betty, 1988). Editor(s): Regier, Alexander; De Bolla, Peter; Uhlig, Stefan H. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; HPN; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230549197
- ISBN
- 9780230549197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be. Editor(s): Davis, Tracy C.; Holland, Peter. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230572560
- ISBN
- 9780230572560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Hardcover. In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural memory, analysing how the past is shaped or unsettled by cultural texts including visual art, literature, cinema, photographs and souvenirs. Editor(s): Plate, Liedeke; Smelik, Anneke. Num Pages: 253 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; ACX; APFA; DNF; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230575677
- ISBN
- 9780230575677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them. Editor(s): Agnew, Vanessa; Lamb, Jonathan. Series: Re-Enactment History. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576063
- ISBN
- 9780230576063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.00
€ 120.00
Hardcover. This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France. Editor(s): Finburgh, Clare; Lavery, Carl. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580510
- ISBN
- 9780230580510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.07
€ 63.07
Hardcover. This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, E.R., Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, The L Word and The O.C. Editor(s): Beirne, Rebecca. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JFSK1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600805
- ISBN
- 9780230600805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardcover. This collection brings together important new scholarship focused on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and its institutional presence in shaping and directing American print, film, and art culture. Editor(s): Culleton, Claire A.; Leick, Karen. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACX; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230601352
- ISBN
- 9780230601352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardcover. This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production, distribution and marketing. Editor(s): Haddu, Miriam; Page, Joanna. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 270 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606388
- ISBN
- 9780230606388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.26
€ 63.26
Hardcover. Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller. Editor(s): Hass, Lawrence; Coppa, Francesca; Peck, James. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ASZG; ASZH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230607880
- ISBN
- 9780230607880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.21
€ 119.21
Hardcover. This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and constructs their meaning in a historical context. Editor(s): Wilms, Wilfried; Rasch, William. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 230 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608252
- ISBN
- 9780230608252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54