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Art & Architecture

Architecture books onlineIntroducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.

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Paperback. Includes essays by a range of film theorists that propose stimulating approaches to the critical evaluation of modern realist films and such referential genres as reenactment, historical film, adaptation, portrait films, documentary, and realist depictions of urban life. Editor(s): Margulies, Ivone. Num Pages: 360 pages, 36 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330660
ISBN
9780822330660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. This study analyzes a popular festival and vigilante lynching, examining them as a form of political spectacle performed by improverished people who want to gain access to the potential benefits of citizenship in a modern city. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: AN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333708
ISBN
9780822333708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333937
ISBN
9780822333937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Intervenes in the emerging discipline of law-and-film by developing a framework for evaluating how films represent "gender crimes" and how those representations affect audiences' ideas about women, their legal rights, and their roles in society Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSJ1; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336242
ISBN
9780822336242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Num Pages: 328 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336945
ISBN
9780822336945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.44

Paperback. Argues that zombies and murderers in American film and literature embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. This book reveals that each creature has its tale to tell about how a free-wheeling market economy turns human beings into monstrosities. It tracks the monsters spawned by capitalism through pulp fiction and Hollywood blockbusters. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3895 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337454
ISBN
9780822337454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. This richly illustrated history of the pin-up since its birth more than 150 years ago reveals how the development of the pin-up is intimately connected to the history of feminism Num Pages: 464 pages, 103 photographs (incl. 9 in color). BIC Classification: AC; JFFK; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337461
ISBN
9780822337461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
n
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338192
ISBN
9780822338192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Examines the work of more than forty Chicana artists across a variety of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance, photography, and other installations forms. This book describes how Chicana artists invoke a culturally hybrid spirituality to question and confront racism, bigotry, patriarchy, and homophobia. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 408 pages, 90 illustrations ( incl. 73 in color). BIC Classification: ACB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338680
ISBN
9780822338680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Calendar art appears in all manner of contexts in India: in chic elite living rooms, middle-class kitchens, urban slums, and village huts. This book examines the power that calendar art wields in Indian mass culture, arguing that its meanings derive as much from the production and circulation of the images as from their visual features. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 448 pages, 156 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; ACBP; AFH; HBJF; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339267
ISBN
9780822339267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Continuing film lovers' ongoing conversation about the low, the bad, and the sleazy face of cinema, this book examines the ineffable quality of "sleaze" in relation to a range of issues, including the production realities of low-budget exploitation pictures and the ever-shifting terrain of reception and taste. Editor(s): Sconce, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 352 pages, 59 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339649
ISBN
9780822339649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. Imposing Harmony offers an analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; AVGC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341604
ISBN
9780822341604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Scholars of Asia, most of whom are anthropologists, examine the transformations precipitated or accelerated by the spread of photography across East and Southeast Asia. Editor(s): Morris, Rosalind C. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 328 pages, 59 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FP; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 254 x 21. Weight in Grams: 806.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342052
ISBN
9780822342052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa. Series: Asia-Pacific. 288 pages, 16 b&w photographs. Examines how Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. This title analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through the fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; AN; GTB; JHMP. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343714
ISBN
9780822343714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.60

Paperback. In this concise analysis of the television show The Sopranos, a leading film and TV scholar explains the importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry contexts. Series: Spin Offs. Num Pages: 232 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344100
ISBN
9780822344100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. An argument that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary Bollywood cinema are emblematic of the changing conditions of media consumption in a globalizing India. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344124
ISBN
9780822344124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. Argues that fantastic cinema depicts the coexistence of other modes of being alongside and within the modern present, disclosing multiple 'immiscible' temporalities that strain against homogeneous time. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564. Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. 352 pages, 51 photographs. Argues that fantastic cinema depicts the coexistence of other modes of being alongside and within the modern present, disclosing multiple 'immiscible' temporalities that strain against homogeneous time. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345107
ISBN
9780822345107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. A generously illustrated ethnography arguing that popular photographic practices have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 400 pages, 127 photographs, incl. 32 in color. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJP; AJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 896.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345930
ISBN
9780822345930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.43

Paperback. Features writings on contemporary art and culture by the author, a painter and feminist art theorist. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, this book tackles questions about the place of feminism in art and political discourse, and the aesthetics and values of contemporary painting. Num Pages: 336 pages, 53 illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582. Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life. 336 pages, 53 illustrations. Features writings on contemporary art and culture by the author, a painter and feminist art theorist. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, this book tackles questions about the place of feminism in art and political discourse, and the aesthetics and values of contemporary painting. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AC; JFFK. Dimension: 154 x 234 x 25. Weight: 582.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346029
ISBN
9780822346029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Paperback. A study of post-Suharto Indonesia that focuses on the role of architecture and urban space in defining social changes, as well the role that such spaces play in forming social and political identities, particularly social memories. It also looks at the roles of architecture and urban development in Indonesia's efforts to move forward. Num Pages: 352 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AMK; JFCD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346470
ISBN
9780822346470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

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