Power Resources category: 2047 books
Russia’s New Fin de Siècle
Contemporary Culture between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This volume investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twenty-first century, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regards to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary culture? This question...
Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition
Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Digital technologies are playing an increasingly instrumental role in guiding the curatorial and institutional strategies of contemporary art museums today. Designed around contextual studies of virtuality and the art of exhibition, this interdisciplinary volume applies practice-based research to...
Real Objects in Unreal Situations
Modern Art in Fiction Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Real Objects in Unreal Situations is a lucid account of a much-neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By examining the historical, political, and personal realities that situate the artworks, Susan Felleman offers...
Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault
An unreasonable body of work
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost $200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social networking...
Feminist Ethics in Film
Reconfiguring care through cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Earlier films were seen for the purpose of entertainment but scenario has been changed now. Today’s, films are not seen only for entertainment but they have a great impact on the thinking of human and also make them capable to understand and handle these situations. Further, films can also focus...
Ned Kelly
A Cultural History of Kelly History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
One of Australia's most notorious outlaws, bushranger Ned Kelly was captured in a spectacular gun-battle at Glenrowan in 1880. Stephen Gaunson illuminates a central irony: from novels to comics to the branding of the site where he was captured, most cultural representations of Kelly are decidedly lowbrow.
Teaching Actors
Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In the Teaching Actors book, the author discusses a language for actor training and argues that there is a need to re-assess not only how actors should be trained but also how teachers of acting should be trained. In this book, the author represents several topics that relate to current training practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
An effective and cost efficient protection of electronic system against ESD stress pulses specified by IEC 61000-4-2 is paramount for any system design. This pioneering book presents the collective knowledge of system designers and system testing experts and state-of-the-art techniques for achieving...
Selling War
The Role of the Mass Media in Hostile Conflicts from World War I to the "War on Terror"
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book is the first collection of essays to explore the changing relationships between war, media, and the public from a multidisciplinary perspective and over an extended historical period. It is also the first textbook for students in this field, discussing a wide range of theoretical concepts...
Refugee Performance
Practical Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The title of this book, Refugee Performance, suggests there is a constituency of practices that might be unified under a definite term or god forbid to propose a new field of study. This is far from the intentions of the collection. This collection has grown out of an interest in performance and theatre...
Peter Weir
A Creative Journey from Australia to Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The cinematic output of Australian director Peter Weir has garnered numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim—from his early short films of the 1970s to the Hollywood hits he’s helmed since 1985, including the likes of Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander.Drawing...
EXERGY
Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
This book deals with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental impacts and providing sustainable development. In this regard, several key topics ranging...
Vertically-Oriented Graphene
PECVD Synthesis and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This book introduces the basic concepts, synthesis techniques, and applications of vertically-oriented graphene. The authors detail emerging applications of vertically-oriented graphene such as field emitters, atmospheric nanoscale corona discharges, gas sensors and biosensors, supercapacitors, lithium-ion...
by Simon Sigley
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
This book is an investigation into the transnational nature of ‘film culture’, taking the film culture of one country - New Zealand - as a case study to investigate the dynamics of such a culture. ‘Film culture’ is used here to refer to the network of discursive and non-discursive activities...