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Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Werner Schroeter is one of the most important and influential directors of the New German Cinema, yet discussion of his films within film theory has been intermittent and un-sustained. This book provides a long-overdue introduction to Schroeter’s visually lavish, idiosyncratic and conceptually rich...
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...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Memory, Space, Sound presents a collection of essays from scholars in a range of disciplines that together explore the social, spatial, and temporal contexts that shape different forms of music and sonic practice. The contributors deploy different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches...
Australian Film Theory and Criticism
Volume 2 Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
A three-volume project tracing key critical positions, people and institutions in Australian film, Australian Film Theory and Criticism interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but also its relationships to adjacent disciplines and institutions. The second volume in the series,...
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...
Australian Post-war Documentary Film
An Arc of Mirrors
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The post-war period in Australian cultural history sparked critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization. Australian Post-War Documentary Film tackles all these issues in a considered and wide-ranging analysis of government, institutional and also radical...
Green Documentary
Environmental Documentary in theTwenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Avant-Garde Art Groups in China, 1979-1989 is one of the most thought-provoking books on the subject of contemporary Chinese art. It addresses head-on the problematic identity and cultural politics of contemporary Chinese art in the late 1970s and 1980s. At the same time, it gives readers unfamiliar with the field a theoretically sophisticated introduction.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy from...
Educating Film-makers
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
A timely consideration of both the history and the current challenges facing practice-based film training, Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact, and significance of film education in Britain, Europe, and the United States. Film schools, the authors show, have historically...