Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture
Hardback. Offers the first-ever historical descriptions of the foundation of the "Museo Profano" inside the Vatican in 1761. Using the palace records from the Vatican's Secret Archives, Ruprecht demonstrates that the Vatican museum was the brainchild of J.J. Winckelmann, the so-called father of Art History. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSV; ACQ; AGC; HRAX; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110694
- ISBN
- 9780230110694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.41
€ 128.41
Hardback. Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111271
- ISBN
- 9780230111271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Paperback. Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111288
- ISBN
- 9780230111288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.73
€ 71.73
Hardcover. A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students and scholars of Taiwan, film and visual studies, and East Asian cultural history. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111622
- ISBN
- 9780230111622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.44
€ 67.44
Paperback. This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson's legacy since his death in 2005. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANB; DD; DSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113015
- ISBN
- 9780230113015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 47.16
€ 53.40
€ 47.16
Hardcover. Hecht examines the relationship between Jewish assimilation and the changing face of the American musical though the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; AVGM; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113275
- ISBN
- 9780230113275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 47.09
€ 53.40
€ 47.09
Hardcover. Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASDL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 753.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114081
- ISBN
- 9780230114081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.10€ 82.68
€ 97.10
€ 82.68
Hardback. This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MKP; 3JJH; APF; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116566
- ISBN
- 9780230116566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. This book provides an introduction to spectator response from the perspective of cognitive science, using insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy, and memory in theatregoing. Num Pages: 262 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AN; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116733
- ISBN
- 9780230116733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.25€ 50.13
€ 58.25
€ 50.13
Hardback. How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between East Asian culture heritages and cinemas in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Editor(s): Shuk-Ting Kinnia, Yau. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; APFA; APFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116955
- ISBN
- 9780230116955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardcover. Presents the performance art 'butoh' as an evolving artistic bodily response to the Japanese society of the 1960s-1980s - a society characterized by conflict and proliferating information. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; ASDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120402
- ISBN
- 9780230120402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.81€ 89.12
€ 106.81
€ 89.12
Hardback. This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; AN; DSG; HBLH; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202610
- ISBN
- 9780230202610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema. Editor(s): Hanson, Helen; O'Rawe, Catherine. Num Pages: 252 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; APFA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203617
- ISBN
- 9780230203617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.63
€ 67.63
Hardback. What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches. Editor(s): Foster, Susan Leigh. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230205949
- ISBN
- 9780230205949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardback. Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who has ever been moved by music. Num Pages: 183 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; HPM; HPN; JMR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230209893
- ISBN
- 9780230209893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.06
€ 73.06
Hardback. Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, simultaneity and the representation of time. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230210417
- ISBN
- 9780230210417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardback. The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson's The Road Through the Wall, Murphy discusses representative texts from each decade, including I Am Legend, Bewitched, Halloween and Desperate Housewives. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFN; APT; DSBH; JFCA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218109
- ISBN
- 9780230218109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.90
€ 138.90
Hardback. A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221277
- ISBN
- 9780230221277
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221437
- ISBN
- 9780230221437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. EPUB Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; GTJ; JFFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221604
- ISBN
- 9780230221604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77