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Cross-Cultural Encounters Between the Mediterranean and the English-Speaking Worlds
ISBN: 9783034306041 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mediterranean world has long had strong cultural links to Great Britain as well as to the United States. Through the analysis of artistic objects and critical writings that crystallise this encounter, the essays in this volume demonstrate the variety and complexity of the connections between two geographical zones and two or more cultures.
Mediterranean cultures are shown to haunt American and British culture and artistic productions. The relation between British and American literature and art on the one hand, and Mediterranean arts on the other goes beyond the mere inscription of... The Mediterranean world has long had strong cultural links to Great Britain as well as to the United States. Through the analysis of artistic objects ...
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291,54 |
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Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice
ISBN: 9783034308045 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays showcases the rich diversity of current writing about Irish theatre. The volume includes perspectives from experts in scenography, physical theatre, dramaturgy and stand-up comedy, as well as academic contributions drawing from anthropology, psychology, sociology, gender studies and performance studies. Exploring plays, events, exhibitions, performances, and rehearsal and realization processes, the essays provide a stimulating analysis of the languages and procedures of theatre in Ireland. The book demonstrates that performance studies and practices are continuing to...
This collection of essays showcases the rich diversity of current writing about Irish theatre. The volume includes perspectives from experts in scenog...
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333,26 |
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Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice
ISBN: 9789052010427 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatre in Britain today is composed of many strands ranging from the postmodern, in-yer-face, musical and dance theatre forms or performance art and media work to the contemporary productions of classical playwrights. In the aftermath of Empire or, as it is often termed, the -post-colonial- world, British theatre in all these forms has also developed through the rich and vibrant contribution of those who, from necessity or choice, have come to Britain as migrants, and of their children of the second and third generations.
This book is primarily concerned with giving a voice to some of... Theatre in Britain today is composed of many strands ranging from the postmodern, in-yer-face, musical and dance theatre forms or performance art and ...
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238,91 |
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Ira Aldridge (1807-1867); The Great Shakespearean Tragedian on the Bicentennial Anniversary of his Birth
ISBN: 9783631577349 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the outcome of the Ira Aldridge Symposium, which the British and Commonwealth Studies Department, University of Lodz (Poland), organized to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of this great Afro-American Shakespearean actor (1807-1867). The collection provides invaluable insight into Aldridge s contribution to abolitionist debates raging in mid-nineteenth century in the United States and England. Moreover, it discusses his reception among varied audiences in European countries, such as Germany, Poland, Russia and the Austrian Empire. Last but not least, Aldridge...
This volume is the outcome of the Ira Aldridge Symposium, which the British and Commonwealth Studies Department, University of Lodz (Poland), organize...
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304,48 |
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'Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse': Negotiating Texts and Contexts in Contemporary Irish Studies
ISBN: 9783039115396 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays reconsiders aspects of Irish studies through the medium of literary and cultural theory. The author looks at the negotiations between texts and their contexts and then analyses how the writer both reflects and transforms aspects of his or her cultural milieu. The essays examine literary texts by W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce and Sean O Faolain; media texts such as Father Ted, American Beauty and a series of Guinness advertisements; as well as cultural and political contexts such as globalisation, religion, the Provisional IRA and media...
This collection of essays reconsiders aspects of Irish studies through the medium of literary and cultural theory. The author looks at the negotiation...
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293,18 |
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Europe and Its Others: Essays on Interperception and Identity
ISBN: 9783039119684 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents selected proceedings of a conference on Europe and its Others held at St Andrews University in 2007. It seeks to explore the collective and cultural persona implied by Europe s richly diverse gaze upon, and dealings with, non-Europeans, encountered or represented in the course of travel, trade, conquest or cultural exchange and their gaze-in-return questioning Europe .
The play of defining interperceptions is followed here in a series of essays covering a broad spectrum of imaginative writings, film, history and culture theory produced in many European... This volume presents selected proceedings of a conference on Europe and its Others held at St Andrews University in 2007. It seeks to explore the coll...
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399,96 |
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Capital City Cultures: Reconstructing Contemporary Europe in Vienna and Berlin
ISBN: 9789052017396 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna s cultural district Museumsquartier and the planned Humboldt Forum on Berlin s Schlossplatz illustrate two of the most controversial sites of urban reconstruction in Central Eastern Europe since the 1990s.
Tracing the processes of their political emergence through more than a decade of heated public debates, this book narrates the metaphor-rich and engaging stories about these old European... Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities i...
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292,93 |
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A Dissident Voice; Essays on Culture, Pedagogy, and Power
ISBN: 9781433114007 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by Antonia Darder engages a variety of political questions rooted within the contentious terrain of culture and power in the United States. Divided into seven sections that focus on biculturalism, racism, culture and schooling, language rights, Latino issues, the politics of the body, and a public pedagogy of dissent, the essays forcefully speak to the multiple ways in which the dominant culture shapes and perpetuates widespread inequalities and social exclusions, at the expense of oppressed populations. Spanning twenty years, this timely collection not only provides...
This collection of essays by Antonia Darder engages a variety of political questions rooted within the contentious terrain of culture and power in the...
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802,96 |
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Curiosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination
ISBN: 9781433115417 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines intellectual curiosity as the driving force in scholarly endeavor on the borderlands of geography, history, anthropology, and other disciplines. The premise is that curiosity is a salient trait of certain people past and present and that each field has its exemplars in this regard. For Carl O. Sauer (1889-1975), America s leading geographer of the twentieth century, and his intellectual descendants, the inquisitive spirit stood high on the list of indispensable scholarly attributes. Their curiosity-driven studies converging space, time, ecology, and culture involved a fluid...
This book examines intellectual curiosity as the driving force in scholarly endeavor on the borderlands of geography, history, anthropology, and other...
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357,09 |
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African American Students in Urban Schools; Critical Issues and Solutions for Achievement
ISBN: 9781433106873 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African American Students in Urban Schools offers readers a critical yet comprehensive examination of the issues affecting African American students outcomes in urban school systems and beyond. Across disciplines including teacher education, school counseling, school psychology, gifted education, career and technical education, higher education, and more, chapters use theoretical and conceptual analysis and research-based evidence to examine the unique challenges facing urban African American students and illustrate what can be done to help. This book will enable readers to better...
African American Students in Urban Schools offers readers a critical yet comprehensive examination of the issues affecting African American stu...
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855,96 |
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Listening to Latina/O Youth: Television Consumption Within Families
ISBN: 9781433107283 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In light of current and projected demographic changes in the U.S., this book examines the attention paid to Latina/o youth from mainstream media conglomerates and the subsequent impact of this attention. In-depth interviews conducted within a family setting provide a rare glimpse into respondents media consumption patterns and process of reception, and explain the ways in which the media are woven into their daily lives. The book critiques the tendency of mainstream media to reify and contain a Latina/o identity that is then sold back to youth in ways that limit Latino/a agency. Throughout...
In light of current and projected demographic changes in the U.S., this book examines the attention paid to Latina/o youth from mainstream media congl...
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696,70 |
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Listening to Latina/O Youth: Television Consumption Within Families
ISBN: 9781433107276 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In light of current and projected demographic changes in the U.S., this book examines the attention paid to Latina/o youth from mainstream media conglomerates and the subsequent impact of this attention. In-depth interviews conducted within a family setting provide a rare glimpse into respondents media consumption patterns and process of reception, and explain the ways in which the media are woven into their daily lives. The book critiques the tendency of mainstream media to reify and contain a Latina/o identity that is then sold back to youth in ways that limit Latino/a agency. Throughout...
In light of current and projected demographic changes in the U.S., this book examines the attention paid to Latina/o youth from mainstream media congl...
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192,24 |
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Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age; Global Industries and New Audiences
ISBN: 9781433108235 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultural, social, and economic phenomena, examining them will further our understanding of the role of global media content in the digital age. Moreover, as these programs continue to be exported and transformed at regional levels, and through digitalization, it is more important than ever to analyze where the genre has been, where it is now, and where it is going.
This collection brings together original scholarship from an international and trans-disciplinary perspective. Chapters address timely... Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultural, social, and economic phenomena, examining them ...
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749,70 |
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The Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought; Implications for Social Justice and Civil Society in Nigeria
ISBN: 9781433110115 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought: Implications for Social Justice and Civil Society in Nigeria provides a theoretical and practical framework for a just vision of society. It focuses on how support for individuals and social groups in Nigeria can foster the building of their communities through the practice of social justice. Social justice will ensure the building of trust across ethnic lines, challenge corruption, encourage accountability and servant leadership, protect minority tribes from larger ones, and promote grassroots self-help tribal, communal,...
The Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought: Implications for Social Justice and Civil Society in Nigeria provides a theoretical a...
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521,69 |
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Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past
ISBN: 9780820479408 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historically and culturally specific theory of neocolonialism in U.S. media culture. Noting how colonialism never officially ended in the United States, Kent A. Ono draws together race, gender, sexuality, and nation to examine neocolonialism in popular media narratives. The book asks, -What are the lingering traces within contemporary culture that provide evidence not only of what colonialism was but also of what it continues to be today?- Offering five...
Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historical...
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481,62 |
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Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences
ISBN: 9781433108242 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultural, social, and economic phenomena, examining them will further our understanding of the role of global media content in the digital age. Moreover, as these programs continue to be exported and transformed at regional levels, and through digitalization, it is more important than ever to analyze where the genre has been, where it is now, and where it is going.
This collection brings together original scholarship from an international and trans-disciplinary perspective. Chapters address timely... Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultural, social, and economic phenomena, examining them ...
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198,59 |
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Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past
ISBN: 9780820479392 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historically and culturally specific theory of neocolonialism in U.S. media culture. Noting how colonialism never officially ended in the United States, Kent A. Ono draws together race, gender, sexuality, and nation to examine neocolonialism in popular media narratives. The book asks, -What are the lingering traces within contemporary culture that provide evidence not only of what colonialism was but also of what it continues to be today?- Offering five...
Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historical...
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205,43 |
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Artful Stories: The Teacher, the Student, and the Muse
ISBN: 9781433114076 / Angielski / Miękka / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These are the stories of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer who have made names for themselves internationally. The book centers on their role as educators in their fields; their unique and individual journeys exemplify the classic role artists have (always) played as teachers. Artful Stories is a timely and profound work that captures the teacher-student dynamic. It fills a void by recognizing the contributions of Caribbean artists to U.S. and European artistic scholarship. This book will be a valuable...
These are the stories of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer who have ...
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198,59 |
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Disasters and the Media
ISBN: 9781433108266 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disasters in today s globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. The media play a critical role in communicating and making sense of these cataclysmic events. This book offers unique insights into how news media today make disasters culturally meaningful and politically important, drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work and recent examples. It looks at how globalization is affecting the meanings of disaster but also considers the continued relevance of nations and their citizens as interpretive frameworks. It examines how journalists witnessing of...
Disasters in today s globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. The media play a critical role in communicati...
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749,70 |
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Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School
ISBN: 9781433115370 / Angielski / Miękka / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We get our fixed or malleable notions of sexuality and gender from a variety of sources: family expectations, a hypersexualizing media gaze, and through the dictates of those great monoliths, Faith and Obedience within a/the Church. However, gender is also being formed in the well-worn halls and the ordered environment of classrooms: schools are the great throughways where gender gets most articulated bartered for and with during adolescence.
This book documents a year-long autoethnographic study in an all-boys Catholic secondary school. It elucidates how schooling helps form both... We get our fixed or malleable notions of sexuality and gender from a variety of sources: family expectations, a hypersexualizing media gaze, and throu...
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198,59 |
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