consciousness-raising. The collection’s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media...... more

An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity,... more

The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the Western romantic ideal, is now troubl... more

This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary... more

This is the first monograph dedicated to this interdisciplinary research area, combining the views o... more

Educational practice and theory in the 21st century are struggling with the abundance of digital ima... more

Design thinking, the label given to the acts of designing, has become a paradigmatic view that has t... more

inadequate and how best to help today’s highly nicotine-dependent smokers who are struggling with their addiction quit....... more

Tyler Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of storylines about black w... more

In the age of economic globalisation, do art and heritage matter? Once the domain of elitist practit... more

Many of Canada s foremost career practitioners have contributed to this unique textbook for students of career...... more

insights voiced by characters in TV’s most irreverent animated series. Offers readers a philosophically smart and candid...... more

intertextuality or literary complexity, Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi’s edited volume brings a much-needed perspective to...... more

designing and evaluating urban policies and plans. Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S. Fainstein, the volume features original...... more

this day. In Reading Mystery Science Theater 3000: Critical Approaches, Shelley S. Rees presents a collection of essays...... more

interpretation and meaning and in music s interactions with other artistic media, and yet no book has dealt extensively with...... more

settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present....... more

Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing policy-makers, planners, developers ... more

The term ’cult film star’ has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, b... more

There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performanc... more

space that was defined by its two predecessors, this volume investigates the ever-changing state of video’s deployment as...... more

Explores cultural responses to war in Israeli society since 1978. The year 1978 marked Israel’s entry into Lebanon...... more

Ceramic Tabourets (Margaret S. Graves); III. THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: A Symbolic Khassakiyya: Representations of the Palace...... more

Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical cu... more

Functional organic and organometallic polymers and materials have gained much attention as versatile... more

Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but ... more

or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it s the latter, and The Big Lebowski and Philosophy explains...... more

This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means to interrogate research questions i... more

socio-political climate of the time. Twentieth-Century Organ Music examines the organ’s repertory from the entire period...... more

This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizens... more

performance and the lowering of cost of hardware since the mid 1970s, and the continuing advances in many areas of computer...... more

to Professor Daining Fang of Tsinghua University for co-chairing the symposium with J. S. Yang. Our special thanks belong...... more

practices of music education in order to understand the role culture plays in shaping children’s musical learning and thinking...... more

kaleidoscopic compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn’t die at the end of the 1960s; Psychedelic traces...... more

view of Bertolucci’s career from the days of his first radical experiments to the present, when he has become an elder...... more

mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he...... more

in landscape design--from M. Paul Friedberg s Riis Plaza Park in New York to Dan Kiley s Nationsbank Plaza in Tampa--have...... more

original essays investigate such topics as music drama in light of rituals of naming in the composer’s works and the politics...... more

This book, profusely illustrated with original drawings and photographs, is an important case study ... more

Frances Connelly examines how the concept of the "grotesque" has influenced the history, practice, a... more

There are enormous challenges in establishing policing systems in young democracies. Such societies ... more

. Yet Wagner s absolutely central position in the operatic canon continues. This volume serves as a timely reminder of his...... more

. Yet Wagner s absolutely central position in the operatic canon continues. This volume serves as a timely reminder of his...... more

explore the preoccupations of the filmmakers, the sources they used and each film s reception....... more

papers in this book present the state of the art in computer-aided architectural design research. The papers in this year s...... more

The greatest interviews with the greatest rock stars, movie stars, and cultural icons -- uncensored ... more

, and visual habits in myriad constructions of the real. CONTRIBUTORS Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Don Ihde, Alan Gross, Anne...... more

Winter counts--pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past--marked each yea... more

very prominent in the fashion industry of 1930s Germany and Austria. The emergence of Konfektion, or ready-to-wear, and the...... more

This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining ... more

American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable freshness of real... more

Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary s... more

The goal of this edited volume is to provide a much needed bridge between the research on nonverbal ... more

UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL CINEMA: A PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOK is a comprehensive resource on all aspects of ... more

Frances Connelly examines how the concept of the "grotesque" has influenced the history, practice, a... more

jazz became so widely performed in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s but also why it was so controversial. Drawing on...... more

In recent years, the local dimensions of the labour market have attracted increasing attention from ... more