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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
ISBN: 9781522726487 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Benvenuto Cellini (1500 -1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist. He started his autobiography in the year 1558 and ended around the year 1563. The memoirs give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his numerous passions and delights. It has been considered a classic and commonly regarded as one of the most colorful autobiographies.
Benvenuto Cellini (1500 -1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist. He started his autobiography in the year ...
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68,74 |
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Scripting the Environment: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space
ISBN: 9783319404325 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each script is followed by discussion of the author's choices of initiating idea, research sources, format, voices, world of the story, structure and visual style, and other notes on the convergence of synthesis, analysis and (re)presentation in the script.
Each script is followed by discussion of the author's choices of initiating idea, research sources, format, voices, world of the story, structure and ...
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402,53 |
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Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism
ISBN: 9781137531957 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considering films such as Candyman, Frozen, and The Cabin in the Woods, Michael J. Blouin contends that fantastic tales allow audiences to maintain the status quo instead of inspiring purposeful action.
Considering films such as Candyman, Frozen, and The Cabin in the Woods, Michael J. Blouin contends that fantastic tales allow aud...
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201,24 |
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Performing Policy: How Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programs Redefined U.S. Artists for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781349470488 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates how and why a majority of US artists must now function as producers of their original works, as well as creators. The author shows how, over the span of 20 years, the USA's cultural policy sector radically redefined US artists' practices without cohesively articulating the expectations of artists' new role.
This book demonstrates how and why a majority of US artists must now function as producers of their original works, as well as creators. The author sh...
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266,99 |
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Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage, and the Art of Blending in
ISBN: 9781349445592 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performing Ground explores camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we negotiate our identities through space. The book offers a critically rich investigation of how the performative practice of camouflage renders the politics of space, power, and gender (in)visible.
Performing Ground explores camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we neg...
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201,24 |
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Art and Aesthetics at Work
ISBN: 9781349428663 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last decade or so, aesthetic and art theory has played an increasingly significant role in the way work and its organization has come to be understood. Bringing together the work of an international spectrum of academics, this collection contributes, in an overall more critical vein, to such emerging debates. Combining both empirical and theoretical material, each chapter re-evaluates the emerging relationship between art, aesthetics and work, exploring its potential as both a medium of critical analysis, and as a site of conflict and resistance.
Over the last decade or so, aesthetic and art theory has played an increasingly significant role in the way work and its organization has come to be u...
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402,53 |
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Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance
ISBN: 9781349336807 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions from scholars in critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual culture, marketing, museum studies, architecture, and popular music studies.
An interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions...
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101,80 |
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Theatre and Aural Attention: Stretching Ourselves
ISBN: 9781349483655 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening. Focusing on four core aural phenomena in theatre - noise, designed sound, silence, and immersion - George Home-Cook concludes that theatrical listening involves paying attention to atmospheres.
Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening. Focusing on four core aural phenomena in theatre - noise,...
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483,04 |
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Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema
ISBN: 9781349484690 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen Kane, The Double Life of Veronique, The Great Gatsby, Gilda, Vertigo and Wings of Desire."
This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, ide...
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266,99 |
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The Art of Reconciliation: Photography and the Conception of Dialectics in Benjamin, Hegel, and Derrida
ISBN: 9781349440276 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dag Petersson offers a comprehensive critique of the philosophy that has dominated 200 years of modern thought, politics, economy, and culture. The basic question is this: why does dialectical metaphysics fail to keep what it promises? What is it about dialectics, that makes it fall into irreducibly distinct variations of itself, when all it promises is to synthesize, to reconcile and make whole what is fragmented and alien to itself? An undisciplined creativity intrinsic to completing reason comes to light through analyses of how dialectical systems begin. Every dialectical philosophy must...
Dag Petersson offers a comprehensive critique of the philosophy that has dominated 200 years of modern thought, politics, economy, and culture. The ba...
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201,24 |
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Post-Cinematic Theatre and Performance
ISBN: 9781349477364 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A cinema without cameras, without actors, without screen frames and without narratives almost seems like an antithetical impossibility of what is usually expected from a cinematic spectacle. This book defines an emergent field of post-cinematic theatre and performance, challenging our assumptions and expectations about theatre and film.
A cinema without cameras, without actors, without screen frames and without narratives almost seems like an antithetical impossibility of what is usua...
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201,24 |
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Adorno and Performance
ISBN: 9781349491957 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adorno and Performance offers the first comprehensive examination of the vital role of performance within the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. Capacious in its ramifications for contemporary life, the term 'performance' here unlocks Adorno's dialectical thought process, which aimed at overcoming the stultifying uniformity of instrumental reason.
Adorno and Performance offers the first comprehensive examination of the vital role of performance within the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. Capacio...
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201,24 |
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Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox
ISBN: 9781349488346 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsession with remaking and rebooting classic and foreign films. Through an analysis of cinematic repetition and difference, the book approaches remakes from a range of philosophical perspectives.
Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsession ...
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201,24 |
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Performing Cities
ISBN: 9781349441129 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic perspectives of performances occurring in cities and the city itself as performance.
Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, ...
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201,24 |
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Encounters in Performance Philosophy
ISBN: 9781349499113 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Encounters in Performance Philosophy is a collection of 14 essays by international researchers which demonstrates the vitality of the field of Performance Philosophy. The essays address a wide range of concerns common to performance and philosophy including: the body, language, performativity, mimesis and tragedy.
Encounters in Performance Philosophy is a collection of 14 essays by international researchers which demonstrates the vitality of the field of Perform...
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402,53 |
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Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy: The Comic 'i'
ISBN: 9781349465903 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins.
One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entert...
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201,24 |
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Performance, Madness and Psychiatry: Isolated Acts
ISBN: 9781349463749 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike.
This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unear...
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442,79 |
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Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology: Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities
ISBN: 9781349457427 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance.
This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical eleph...
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402,53 |
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Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer: Moving Identities
ISBN: 9781349491933 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspectives, drawn from interviews, current writing and evocative accounts from inside the choreographic process, illuminating the myriad ways that dancers contribute to the production of dance culture.
This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspecti...
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201,24 |
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Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism
ISBN: 9781349483631 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western 'intercultural theatre' project, as a more nuanced and embodied approach to representing Othernesses, from his own position of the Other.
Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western ...
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523,30 |