![Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts]( "Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts")
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Bonham-Carter, C. (Ed), Mann, N. (Ed) (2017)
The book reveals how the ‘social value of art’ may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist – and it is therefore in the …
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![The Origins of the Arts Council Movement]( "The Origins of the Arts Council Movement")
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Upchurch, A. R. (2016)
This important new book offers an intellectual history of the ‘arts council’ policy model, identifying and exploring the ideas embedded in the model and actions of intellectuals, …
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![Discourse and Disjuncture between the Arts and Higher Education]( "Discourse and Disjuncture between the Arts and Higher Education")
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Hoffmann Davis, J. (Ed) (2016)
This accessible and compelling collection of faculty reflections examines the tensions between the arts and academics and offers interdisciplinary alternatives for higher …
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![The Creative System in Action]( "The Creative System in Action")
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McIntyre, P. (Ed), Fulton, J. (Ed), Paton, E. (Ed) (2016)
The first of its kind, this book focuses on empirical studies into creative output that use and test the systems approach. The collection of work from cultural studies, sociology, …
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![The Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery]( "The Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery")
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Eko, L. (2016)
Lyombe Eko carries out an historical and cultural survey of the regulation of visual depictions of explicit human sexual conduct from their earliest appearance on the clay tablets …
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![Classical Myth on Screen]( "Classical Myth on Screen")
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Cyrino, M. (Ed), Safran, M. (Ed) (2015)
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 …
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![Arts Management and Cultural Policy Research]( "Arts Management and Cultural Policy Research")
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Paquette, J., Redaelli, E. (2015)
This book aims to present concepts, knowledge and institutional settings of arts management and cultural policy research. It offers a representation of arts management and …
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![Digital Creativity]( "Digital Creativity")
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Sporton, G. (2015)
Examining the role and impact of technology on creative practice, and how technology evolution determines the forms and format of an artist's work, this book contextualizes …
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![Subversion, Sexuality and the Virtual Self]( "Subversion, Sexuality and the Virtual Self")
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Elund, J. (2015)
The text analyses identities within virtual on-screen environments. Investigating regions in Second Life, it explores topical issues of the body in virtual space, nature and …
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![Postdigital Aesthetics]( "Postdigital Aesthetics")
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Berry, D. (Ed), Dieter, M. (Ed) (2015)
Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, …
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![Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements]( "Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements")
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Yalcintas, A. (Ed) (2015)
This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired …
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![The Economics of the Audiovisual Industry: Financing TV, Film and Web]( "The Economics of the Audiovisual Industry: Financing TV, Film and Web")
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La Torre, M. (2014)
This book is open access under a CC BY licence. Recent reductions in public funding for audiovisual products have led to dramatic changes in the industry. The lack of interaction …
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![Fandom, Image and Authenticity]( "Fandom, Image and Authenticity")
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Otter Bickerdike, J. (2014)
Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily replicated and distributed …
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![Heritage Crime]( "Heritage Crime")
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Grove, L., Thomas, S. (2014)
Bringing together leading academics and practitioners from across the globe, this unique collection explores the emerging field of heritage crime studies. Moving beyond the …
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![Body, Soul and Cyberspace in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema]( "Body, Soul and Cyberspace in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema")
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Magerstädt, S. (2014)
Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema answers questions about body and soul, virtuality, and spirituality in the digital age by linking cinematic …
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![Abjection and Representation]( "Abjection and Representation")
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Arya, R. (2014)
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 …
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![Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan]( "Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan")
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Chaiklin, M. (2014)
The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that …
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![Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance]( "Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance")
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Picart, C. J. S. (2013)
The effort to win federal protection for dance in the United States was a racialized and gendered contest. Picart traces the evolution of choreographic works from being federally …
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![The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe]( "The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe")
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Gafijczuk, D. (Ed), Sayer, D. (Ed) (2013)
Focusing on Central Europe, the volume proposes a new paradigm of how culture works, based on a model of "inhabited ruins" as a space where contradictory elements come together …
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![Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism]( "Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism")
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Harvie, J. (2013)
This book asks what is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Has it been damaged by cultural policies which have 'entrepreneurialized' artists, cut …
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