Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture
Hardback. Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age' of British television, the book focuses on the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the makers of television worked tirelessly to shape multiculturalism and undermine racist extremism. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APT; HBTB; JFD; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230292970
- ISBN
- 9780230292970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relations, illustrated with authentic news stories from both print and online news outlets. Num Pages: 260 pages, 46 black & white tables, 46 figures. BIC Classification: AJCR; CFB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301009
- ISBN
- 9780230301009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.68
€ 67.68
Hardcover. Jane Tynan offers new perspectives on the cultural history of the First World War by examining the clothing worn by British combatants on the western front. Khaki emerges as a significant part of war experience, which embodied gender, social class and ethnicity, impacted the tailoring trade and became a touchstone for pacifist resistance. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; AKTH; HBTB; HBWN; JWTU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301573
- ISBN
- 9780230301573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardback. The first ever full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department, covering the theatre's unique programming of international plays and seasons, its London-based residences for writers from overseas, and the legacies of workshops conducted in more than 30 countries. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319486
- ISBN
- 9780230319486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Top scholars explore how familiar and new works of performance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world and how it helps us understand the way we are connected to the land. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337282
- ISBN
- 9780230337282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
hardcover. An epistemological inquiry into the dynamics of interpersonal trust-relations, combining philosophy, science, and critical theory in the analysis of performing bodies - on stage and in life. Rokotnitz argues for the exploration of drama as a conduit to emotional learning that can change the somatic identity of performers and audiences alike. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JMR; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337374
- ISBN
- 9780230337374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 46.68
€ 53.40
€ 46.68
Hardback. Traces changing concepts of masculinity in contemporary Hollywood films against a backdrop of political events, social developments, and popular American myths. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338418
- ISBN
- 9780230338418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Hardcover. French comedy films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time they have always been difficult to classify. This book investigates the different methods in which these comedies textually inscribed and exemplified a variety of cultural and historical landmarks. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338425
- ISBN
- 9780230338425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies, media theory, and Derrida's work, the "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary and mediatized presence that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338753
- ISBN
- 9780230338753
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HBG; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341364
- ISBN
- 9780230341364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West, theatre vs. performance - with reference to genealogies though which these categories have been constructed in the English-speaking world. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; ANF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343108
- ISBN
- 9780230343108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Screenwriting in a Digital Era examines the practices of writing for the screen from early Hollywood to the new realism. Looking back to prehistories of the form, Kathryn Millard links screenwriting to visual and oral storytelling around the globe, and explores new methods of collaboration and authorship in the digital environment. Series: Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFD; APFN; APTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343283
- ISBN
- 9780230343283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic approach and exploring notions of authenticity, realism and identity. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363342
- ISBN
- 9780230363342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the audience laugh. It draws examples from theatre, television and film on both sides of the Atlantic. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AP; ASZB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230364134
- ISBN
- 9780230364134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardback. This collection of essays by scholars with expertise in a range of fields, cultural professionals and policy makers explores different ways in which the arts and humanities contribute to dealing with the challenges of contemporary society in ways that do not rely on simplistic and questionable notions of socio-economic impact as a proxy for value. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; H; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230366657
- ISBN
- 9780230366657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.77
€ 67.77
Hardcover. An in-depth, exhaustive exploration of Bond's output over a fifty-year career, combining rigorous analysis and discussion of plays such as Saved and Innocence. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANB; ANF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367395
- ISBN
- 9780230367395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book discusses British cinema's representation of the Great War during the 1920s. It argues that popular cinematic representations of the war offered surviving audiences a language through which to interpret their recent experience, and traces the ways in which those interpretations changed during the decade. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; 3JJG; APFN; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230371705
- ISBN
- 9780230371705
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230389335
- ISBN
- 9780230389335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. His works have the capacity to activate sophisticated engagements with Hitchcock's films and cinema more generally, tackling issues of time and space, memory and history, and sound and image. Num Pages: 216 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230392151
- ISBN
- 9780230392151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new case studies on the successful ITV soap Emmerdale, Hitchcock's first major screenwriter and David Lean's unfinished film, Nostromo. Series: Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 figures. BIC Classification: APF; APT; CBVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230392281
- ISBN
- 9780230392281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71