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Global Culture after Gombrich
Art, Mind, World
Ernst Gombrich can be considered the most influential art historian of the 20th-century. Until now however the global impact of his work has been under-appreciated. Global Culture after Gombrich: Art Mind World presents essays by historians of art and culture - themselves students of Gombrich or associated with his scholarly home the Warburg Institute - from Asia the USA and Europe.
Subjects range from picture-making’s place in human evolution to the visual marginalia of the Renaissance and from nineteenth-century modernism to the implications of the latest neuroscience for cultural history. Other chapters treat fundamental issues such as the notion of connoisseurship the fate of the idea of ‘culture’ or the cultural specificity of modernism. They range from theoretical broadsides – notably a defence of the ‘intelligence’ of art - to intricate reflections – for example on caricature as a style.
In showing how Gombrich initiated enquiries that have spread in numerous – and global – directions Global Culture after Gombrich: Art Mind World makes a vital contribution to contemporary debates around the languages of art history and showcases the range of approaches and methods by which art history is and has yet to be written.
Gender, Race and Religion in Video Game Music
This book provides semiotically-focused analyses and interpretations of video game music focusing specifically on musical representation of three demographic diversity traits. Adopting a narratologist orientation to supplement existing ludological scholarship these analyses apply music semiotics to crucial modern-day issues such as representation of gender race and religion in video games.
An original and welcome contribution to the field it considers musical meaning in relation to the aspects of gender race and religion. This book will help readers to develop language and context in which to consider video game music in terms of society and representation and will encourage future research in these critical areas.
Yee analyses music's contributions to video games' narrative and thematic meanings specifically concerning three master categories of identity – gender race and religion. Containing twenty-five detailed analytical case studies of musical representation in video game music it sets out theoretical and conceptual frameworks beneficial for interpreting musical meaning from video game soundtracks. Though players and commentators may be tempted to view a game's soundtrack as mere 'background music' this research demonstrates video game music's social relevance as a major factor impacting players' cultural attitudes values and beliefs.
Part I explores immersion interactivity and interpretation in video game music proposing a theory of 'interpretative interactivity' to account for players' semiotic agency in dialogue with their ludic agency. Part II explores gender representation in a trajectory from conventional gender construction alternative femininities/masculinities and potential for non-binary representational possibilities. Part III explores musical representation of nationality culture and race proposing the concept of 'racialised fantasy' and applying frameworks from race scholarship to connect media representations of race to real world racial justice movements. Part IV examines religion introducing the concept of 'sonic iconography' to connect theological
meanings to the use of sacred music in video game music.
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre
He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night
Critics and fans alike often mistake theatrical song and dance as evoking a sweeping sense of simplicity heteronormativity and traditionalism. Nothing drove home this cultural misunderstanding for Kelly Kessler as when a relative insisted she watch the Clint Eastwood-Lee Marvin cinematic transfer of Paddy Chayefsky’s Paint Your Wagon (1969) with a young niece and nephew because it was a ‘sweet movie.’ In the relative’s memory good old-fashioned singing and dancing—matched with the power of an assumed hegemonic embrace of social norms—far outweighed the whoremongering alcoholism wife-selling and what appears to be narratively sanctioned polyamory.
This collection seeks to trouble such an over-idealized impression of musical theatre. Tackling Rockettes divas and chorus boys; hit shows such as Hamilton and Spring Awakening; and lesser-known but ground-breaking gems like Erin Markey’s A Ride on The Irish Cream and Kirsten Childs’s Bella: An American Tall Tale.
Gender Sex and Sexuality in Musical Theatre: He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night takes a broad look at musical theatre across a range of intersecting lenses such as race nation form dance casting marketing pedagogy industry platform-specificity stardom politics and so on. This collection assembles an amazing group of established and emergent musical theatre scholars to wrestle with the complexities of the gendered and sexualized musical theatre form. Gender and desire have long been at the heart of the musical whether because ‘birds and bees’ (and educated fleas’) were doing it a farm girl simply couldn’t ‘say no’ or one’s ‘tits and ass’ were preventing them from landing the part.
An exciting and vibrant collection of articles from the archives of Studies in Musical Theatre with contributions from Ryan Donovan Michele Dvoskin Sherrill Gow Jiyoon Jung David Haldane Lawrence Stephanie Lim Dustyn Martinich Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers Deborah Paredez Alejandro Postigo George Rodosthenous Janet Werther Stacy Wolf Elizabeth L. Wollman Bryan Vandevender and Kelly Kessler brought together with a newly commissioned piece by Jordan Ealey. All set against the backdrop of Kelly Kessler’s scene-setting introduction.
Excellent potential for classroom and course use on undergraduate and graduate courses in theatre studies musical studies women’s and gender studies.
Giuseppe Pagano
Design for Social Change in Fascist Italy
Giuseppe Pagano-Pogatschnig (1896–1945) was a twentieth-century polymath operating at the intersection between architecture media design and the arts. He was an exhibition and furniture designer curator photographer editor writer and architect. A dedicated Fascist turned Resistance fighter he was active in Italy’s most dramatic social and political era.
Giuseppe Pagano provides a comprehensive overview of the influential architect and his contribution to the development of modern architecture. It follows a central biographical line with in-depth mini chapter contributions on aspects of Pagano’s cultural production concluding with writings by Pagano himself and a critical bibliography to aid scholars in further study.
The Global Road Movie
Alternative Journeys around the World
The road movie is one of the most tried and true genres a staple since the earliest days of cinema. This book looks at the road movie from a wider perspective than ever before exploring the motif of travel not just in American films—where it has been most prominent—but via movies from other nations as well. Gathering contributions from around the world the book shows how the road movie altered and refracted in every new international iteration offers a new way of thinking about the ever-shifting sense of place and space in the globalized world.
Through analyses of such films as Guantanamera (Cuba) Wrong Side of the Road (Australia) Five Golden Flowers (China) Africa United (South Africa) and Sightseers (England) The Global Road Movie enables us to think afresh about how today’s road movies fit into the history of the genre and what they can tell us about how people move about in the world today.
Ghostbodies
Towards a New Theory of Invalidism
Gay Men at the Movies
Film reception, cinema going and the history of a gay male community
Governing Visions of the Real
The National Film Unit and Griersonian Documentary Film in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Governing Visions of the Real traces the emergence development and techniques of Griersonian documentary – named for pioneering Scottish film-maker John Grierson – in New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Paying close attention to the productions of the National Film Unit in the 1940s and 1950s Lars Weckbecker traces the shifting practices and governmentality of documentary’s ‘visions of the real’ as New Zealand and its population came to be envisioned through NFU film for an ensemble of political pedagogic and propagandistic purposes.
Global Fashion Brands
Style, Luxury and History
Fashion branding is more than just advertising. It helps to encourage the purchase and repurchase of consumer goods from the same company. While historically fashion branding has primarily focused on consumption and purchasing decisions recent scholarship suggests that branding is a process that needs to be analysed from a style luxury and historical pop cultural view using critical ethnographic individualistic or interpretive methods.
In this collection the contributors explore the meaning behind fashion branding in the context of the contested power relations underpinning the production marketing and consumption of style and fashion as part of our global culture.
Green Documentary
Environmental Documentary in the Twenty-First Century
During the first decade of the twenty-first century a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon. It explores how the films offer a variety of responses to the questions raised by environmental change: about the future of the countryside the relationship between health and industrial pollution the role of corporations and the politics of energy and climate. Offering a coherent analysis of imaginative controversial and high-profile documentary films such as Into Eternity The Yes Men Fix the World and An Inconvenient Truth the book divides the responses into contemplation irony and passionate argument and the recruitment of the filmmaking process itself into the campaign to bring about better change. Along with analysis that includes the wider context of environmental documentary filmmaking about local rural communities in Britain and Europe Green Documentary underlines the important role of documentary film in the on-going public debate about the environment.
Gavin Bolton's Contextual Drama
The Road Less Travelled
Global Technological Change
From Hard Technology to Soft Technology
Professor Jin's new book Global Technological Change: From Hard Technology to Soft Technology is a powerful re-conceptualization of technological options and innovation management which can help steer societies in assessing technologies for the 21st century. As Zhouying Jin correctly points out: in emerging knowledge societies the "soft" technologies are drivers of physical "hard" technologies. These soft technologies include management organizational design education for creativity and entrepreneurship good governance preudent regulation patent systems efficient banking as well as fostering systems of thinking ecological and cultural balance. This book is a major intellectual advance that can help clarify human choices for decades to come.
(Hazel Henderson Advisory Council Member US Office of Technology Assessment National Science Foundation National Academy of Engineering (1974-1980); President Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil); member Club of Rome)
This volume indicates that the complex problems we are facing in the 21st Century can only be solved by a balance between 'yin-yang' environment between hard technology (machine-centred) and soft technology (human-centred). This concept is invaluable as it conveys a new perspective of the assumptions about the relationships between technological innovation institutional innovation as well as of the gap between the developed and developing countries at the turn of the millennium.
(Karamjit S Gill Editor AI & Society: Journal of Human-Centred Systems)
Greek Cinema
Texts, Histories, Identities
Covering the silent era to the present this wide-ranging collection of essays examines Greek cinema as an aesthetic cultural and political phenomenon with the potential to appeal to a diverse range of audiences. Using a range of methodological tools the authors investigate the ever-shifting forms and meanings at work within Greece’s national cinema and locate it within the booming interdisciplinary study of European cinema at large. Designed for undergraduate courses in film studies this well-researched volume fills a substantial gap in the market for critical works on Greek cinema in English.
Global Technological Change
From Hard Technology to Soft Technology - Second Edition
This updated second edition of Global Technological Change reconsiders how we make and use technology in the twenty-first century. With human-centered "soft technology" driving machine-based "hard technology" in ever more complex ways Zhouying Jin provides an understanding of the human dimension of technological advancement. Through a theoretical framework that incorporates elements of both Eastern and Western philosophy she offers insight into the dynamic between the two as it relates to a variety of technological innovation. More relevant than ever Global Technological Change continues to challenge assumptions about technology and the gap between the developed and developing countries in the twenty-first century.
Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art
Since the 1990s women artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence producing challenging critically debated and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in the perception of women in art. Girls! Girls! Girls! presents essays from established and up-and-coming scholars who address a variety of themes including narcissism nostalgia post-feminism and fantasy with the goal of approaching the overarching question of why women artists are turning in such numbers to the subject of girls – and what these artistic explorations signify. Artists discussed include Anna Gaskell Marlene McCarty Sue de Beer Miwa Yanagi Eija-Liisa Ahtila Collier Schorr and more.
Contributors include Lucy Soutter Harriet Riches Maud Lavin Taru Elfving Kate Random Love and Carol Mavor.
The Grey Zone of Health and Illness
Culture, Disease, and Well-Being
Most discussions of health care center on medical advances cost and the roles of insurers and government agencies. With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness Alan Blum offers a new perspective outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care alike. Drawing on a range of thinkers Blum explains how our current understanding of health care tends to posit it as a sort of state of permanent emergency like the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. To move beyond that he argues will require a complete rethinking of health and sickness self-governance and negligence. A heady cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society The Grey Zone of Health and Illness will have wide ramifications in the academy and beyond.
Gendered Transformations
Theory and Practices on Gender and Media
