Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture. Envisioning the Nation, Hardback - ***

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sheldon (University of California, Davis, USA) LuIllustration(s): 40 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Col...

Explores the many links between the centuries-old graphic tradition of Japanese painting and scroll making and the more recent discipline of the ci...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): John WhiteIllustration(s): 22 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2...

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the c...

Suitable for students of art history as well as those seeking an understanding of art and of the cultural and historical context in which it is mad...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 250Collection: Culture & Theory (COL)Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 149 x 224 x 25Cover type: Paper...

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender....

Ten years after it was initiated, this book provides the definitive account of the 'age of austerity' from high politics to everyday life and how i...

This book looks at the largely neglected colour films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) that can teach us about cinema's distinctive...

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Can paintings, buildings or installations be 'read' in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of ap...

Examines the transformation of the Catalan nation in socio-economic, political and historical terms, and offers an interpretation of the determinan...

This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in foster...

Reducere. On two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fift...

Reducere. In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an est...

The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as e...

DescriptionIslamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primarysources in translation accompanied by clear and conciseintroductory essays that...

Provides a fascinating account of the significant battles, sieges and rebellions of the Civil War in Wales.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s...

Explores contemporary Chinese urban youth culture through analyses of three Chinese Internet subcultural artifacts - A Bloody Case of a Steamed Bun...

This book chronicles the experiences of Quechuan bilingual college students who strive to maintain their ethnolinguistic identity while succeeding ...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Marianne HirschIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 57, Number of pages: 320Collection: Gender and Culture S...

This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and soci...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdIllustration(s): 272 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 218 x 35Co...

The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China's political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer cu...

The remarkable true story of the disgraced politician John StonehousePublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Keely WinstoneIllustration(s): 8pp c...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionThis collection of essays explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the ...

Reframing remembrance is an investigation into French cinema's representation of the Second World War. Focusing on films released between 1995 and ...

Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, ...

Visual art has been tied to hip-hop culture since its emergence in the 1970s. Commentary on these initial connections often emphasizes the importan...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Suzanna IvanicIllustration(s): 450 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimension...

The all-American spirit of midcentury modernism, in three US State Department-sponsored exhibitionsThis revelatory volume recovers and presents the...

This book examines Anna of Denmark's engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design, painting and jewellery. It c...

This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established Francophone directors, who all chose to place youth at the heart of...