![The Crafty Animator]( "The Crafty Animator")
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Ruddell, C. (Ed), Ward, P. (Ed) (2019)
This collection is a study of the value of craft as it can be understood within the study and practice of animation. The book reconsiders the position of craft, which is often …
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![Arabic Script in Motion]( "Arabic Script in Motion")
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Khajavi, M. J. (2019)
This book is a pioneering study of temporal typography and time-based calligraphic art written in the Arabic system of writing. Inspired by the innate qualities of Arabic script …
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![Against Art and Culture]( "Against Art and Culture")
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Dee, L. (2018)
Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of ‘art/culture’ to describe the unity of these two fields around …
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![Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms]( "Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms")
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Fantone, L. (2018)
This book offers gendered, postcolonial insights into the poetic and artistic work of four generations of female Asian American artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nancy Hom, …
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![International Performance Research Pedagogies]( "International Performance Research Pedagogies")
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Bala, S. (Ed), Gluhovic, M. (Ed), Korsberg, H. (Ed), Röttger, K. (Ed) (2017)
This book offers a unique and much-needed interrogation of the broader questions surrounding international performance research which are pertinent to the present and the future …
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![The Aesthetics of Development]( "The Aesthetics of Development")
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Clammer, J. (Ed), Giri, A. K. (Ed) (2017)
Through a unique range of theoretical and practical case studies, this collection considers the relationship between the arts (understood as the visual arts, crafts, theatre, …
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![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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![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 Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research]( "The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research")
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Benneworth, P., Gulbrandsen, M., Hazelkorn, E. (2016)
Drawing on original international research by a cross-European social science team, this book makes an important contribution to the discussion about the future of arts and …
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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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![What is Journalism?]( "What is Journalism?")
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Nash, C. (2016)
This book argues that journalism should treat itself as an academic discipline on a par with history, geography and sociology, and as an art form in its own right. Time, space, …
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![Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art]( "Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art")
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Hackett, P. M. (2016)
This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including …
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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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![Staging China]( "Staging China")
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Ruru, L. (Ed) (2016)
An insightful analysis of more than a dozen Chinese stage productions, Staging China illustrates how Chinese society is reflected by and even constructed through theatre. Scholars …
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![Genre Trajectories]( "Genre Trajectories")
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Dowd, G. (Ed), Rulyova, N. (Ed) (2015)
This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on genre and identifies developments in genre studies in the early 21st century. Genre approaches are applied to examine a …
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![The New Time and Space]( "The New Time and Space")
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Potts, J. (2015)
In the networked age, we are living with changed parameters of time and space. Mobile networked communication fosters a form of virtual time and space, which is super-imposed onto …
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![Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture]( "Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture")
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King, E. (2015)
Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with …
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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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![Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama]( "Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama")
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Champagne, J. (2015)
Offering queer analyses of paintings by Caravaggio and Puccini and films by Özpetek, Amelio, and Grimaldi, Champagne argues that Italian masculinity has often been articulated …
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