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International Horror Film Directors
Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together a group of scholars to explore the ways that this fear is utilized and played upon by a wide range of filmmakers. Contributors take up such major figures as Guillermo del Toro Lars Von Trier and David Cronenberg and they also offer introductions to lesser-known talents such as Richard Franklin Kiyoshi Kurosawa Juan López Moctezuma and Alexandre Aja. Scholars and fans alike dipping into this collection will discover plenty of insight into what chills us.
It's All Allowed
Adrian Howells (1962–2014) was one of the world’s leading figures in the field of one-to-one performance practice – the act of staging an event for one audience participant at a time. Developed over more than a decade Howells’s award-winning work demonstrated not only his enduring commitment to this genre of performance but also his determination to find new challenges and innovations in performance art 'intimate theatre' and socially engaged art.
It’s All Allowed edited by Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson is the first book devoted to Howells’s remarkable achievements and legacy. Contributors here testify to the methodological thematic and historiographical challenges posed by Howells’ performances. Citing his permissive mantra as its title It’s All Allowed includes new writing from leading scholars and artists as well as writing by Howells himself an extensive interview scores and visual materials which together reveal new insight into Howells’s groundbreaking process.
Irish Drama in Poland
Imaging the City
Inclusion in New Danish Cinema
Indebted to Intervene
As governments and individuals struggle with growing indebtedness the topic of debt itself – what it is what it means and how we understand it – has never been more salient. This collection brings together a range of contributions from many disciplines and around the world to consider debt through various lenses including design art technology political economy social justice surveillance protest education urban and virtual spaces and more. Aiming not just to advance scholarship but to push ahead real change in the world the book offers not only analytical insights and conceptual apparatuses but practical tools and radical inspirations as well. A powerful analysis of a concept that has become ever more central to everyday society InDEBTed to Intervene will be essential reading for scholars and citizens alike.
Immigration Cinema in the New Europe
Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first generation immigrants and children of the diaspora in Europe. Whether they are authored by immigrants themselves or by white Europeans who use the resources and means of production of dominant cinema to politically engage with the immigrants’ predicaments these films Isolina Ballesteros shows are unmappable – a condition resulting from immigration cinema’s re-combination and deliberate blurring of filmic conventions pertaining to two or more genres. In an age of globalization and increased migration this book theorizes immigration cinema in relation to notions such as gender hybridity transculturation border crossing transnationalism and translation.
Ivar Kreuger and Jeanne de la Motte
Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists
Images and Identity
Invisible Country
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century marked a tumultuous period in Poland’s history with artists and writers working under difficult sociopolitical conditions. This book contains the first English- language translations of four plays by Polish writers in the modernist tradition: Snow by Stanislaw Przybyszewski In a Small House by Tadeusz Rittner Ashanti by Wlodzimierz Perzynski and All the Same by Leopold Staff. Well-chosen and carefully annotated these translations provide important insight into this underexplored area of Polish dramatic history and practice and facilitate greater understanding of its role in the development of European theater. Also included is a broad discussion of the characteristics of translation for the theater.
ICT for Curriculum Enhancement
This book considers the cognitive nature of courses connected with ICT or using ICT as an integral part of the course including some views on the associated learning and teaching styles. Which factors lead to learning outcomes and are these intended or fortuitous? Factors may include ones specific to particular subject areas and their relationship with ICT motivation associated with ICT usage the interest which teachers pupils and students who enjoy using ICT bring to the learning context. Recent developments in the use of ICT particularly in an educational context where us of ICT has become one of the learning strategies in the portfolio of options teachers possess have meant that the pedagogic usage has become more important generally. The focus of this book is on the curricular use of ICT and so course evaluation and design are the main contents of each chapter. In this sense the curriculum becomes the cognitive site of learning. Most other books look at specific pedagogic uses rather than the debate between subject and skill learning. Also a government research paper indicates that thinking skills may well become the new focus for the next phase of development.
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists curators architects and cultural theorists it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance the book's four parts examine forms of thinking in contemporary curating; curating and the interdisciplinary; as intervention and contestation; as a form of reconsideration of conventional museum spaces and as a problematic in 'emerging' practices. Beginning with a contextual 'map' of recent thinking on curating which examines some of the issues that have emerged in curatorial discourse over the last ten years the volume then investigates curating as a research process and a form of collaboration in considering contemporary photography and video. The relationships between writing and curating reception and encounter is proposed as part of a way of thinking as a critical spatial practice and cross-disciplinary issues are considered in curating science / art exhibitions. Historical and contemporary perspectives examine issues of gender and marginalisation and diversity; and the particular issues relating to curating and practices such as animation site-specific dance and computer-based work are discussed.
Italian TV Drama and Beyond
Since its inception in the mid-1950s the television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society with a steadily increasing supply of locally produced domestic dramas offering up competing versions of Italian identity. Informed by the nation's rich historical and cultural heritage—as well as a string of notable foreign imports—the narratives discussed here offer much insight into Italian society and highlight the wide array of television programming available outside of Britain and the United States.
Iranian Cinema and Globalization
Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences Iranian cinema has been the subject of lamentably few academic studies—and those have by and large been limited to the films and filmmakers most visible on the international film circuit. Iranian Cinema and Globalization seeks to broaden readers’ exposure to other dimensions of Iranian cinema including the works of the many prolific filmmakers whose films have received little outside attention despite being widely popular within Iran. Combining theories of globalization and national cinema with in-depth interdisciplinary analyses of individual films this volume expands the current literature on Iranian cinema with insights into the social and religious political contexts involved.
Italian Women's Theatre, 1930-1960
Inspiring Writing in Art and Design
When art and design students are asked for statements to accompany their work reflective journals or critiques reviews and essays they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing. Although these students are comfortable expressing themselves visually they lack confidence working with words. Inspiring Writing in Art and Design is a practical aid for those students who are disheartened or overwhelmed by having to write. Pat Francis provides short writing exercises and creative writing techniques for tutors to use and which will help art and design students develop their ability to verbally articulate the concepts and aesthetics behind their art. Using Francis’s examples students will build confidence and skills that can help them succeed in presenting their work and themselves in and beyond the studio world.
Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
International Dialogues about Visual Culture, Education and Art
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists curators architects and cultural theorists it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance the book's four parts examine forms of thinking in contemporary curating; curating and the interdisciplinary; as intervention and contestation; as a form of reconsideration of conventional museum spaces and as a problematic in 'emerging' practices. Beginning with a contextual 'map' of recent thinking on curating which examines some of the issues that have emerged in curatorial discourse over the last ten years the volume then investigates curating as a research process and a form of collaboration in considering contemporary photography and video. The relationships between writing and curating reception and encounter is proposed as part of a way of thinking as a critical spatial practice and cross-disciplinary issues are considered in curating science / art exhibitions. Historical and contemporary perspectives examine issues of gender and marginalisation and diversity; and the particular issues relating to curating and practices such as animation site-specific dance and computer-based work are discussed.