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  • Popular New Orleans

    The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875–2015

    by Florian Freitag ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simultaneously contributed to New Orleans’s fame and popularity by recreating the city in popular media from literature, photographs, and plays to movies, television shows, and theme parks. Addressing ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies

    Understanding Tourism and Leisure Spaces

    by Florian Freitag, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Salvador Anton Clavé, Sabrina Mittermeier, Crispin Paine, Ariane Schwarz, Astrid Böger, Jean-François Staszak, Scott A. Lukas, Céline Molter, Thibaut Clément, Jan-Erik Steinkrüger, Torsten Widmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies. It identifies and discusses relevant economic, social, and cultural as well as medial, historical, and geographical aspects of theme parks worldwide, from the big international theme park chains to smaller, regional, family-operated parks. The book also describes the theories and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ten Years after Katrina

    Critical Perspectives of the Storm's Effect on American Culture and Identity

    by Joseph Donica, Florian Freitag, Kate Horigan, Arin G. Keeble, Christopher Lloyd, Daisy Pignetti, Michael Samuel, Thomas Stubblefield, Laura Tansley, Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza ...
    Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an unparalleled trail of physical destruction. In addition to that damage, the storm wrought massive psychological and cultural trauma on Gulf Coast residents and on America as a whole. Details of the devastation were quickly reported—and misreported—by media outlets, and a slew of articles and books followed, offering a spectrum of socio ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Suburbia Reconsidered, Volume 3

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives on History, Sociology, and Urban Planning

    Edited by Pavlína Flajšarová, Jiří Flajšar, Florian Freitag, Becky Nicolaides, Andrew Wiese ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This 3-volume set examines how suburban spaces shape and reflect human experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, bringing together works by an international group of scholars who explore suburbia through critical analyses of literature, culture, sociology, history, politics, and urban planning. The multidisciplinary and international scope of each volume offers readers a wide breadth of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Suburbia Reconsidered, Volume 2

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Suburbia and Culture

    Edited by Pavlína Flajšarová, Jiří Flajšar, Florian Freitag, Becky Nicolaides, Andrew Wiese ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This 3-volume set examines how suburban spaces shape and reflect human experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, bringing together works by an international group of scholars who explore suburbia through critical analyses of literature, culture, sociology, history, politics, and urban planning. The multidisciplinary and international scope of each volume offers readers a wide breadth of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Suburbia Reconsidered, Volume 1

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Suburbia and Literature

    Edited by Pavlína Flajšarová, Jiří Flajšar, Florian Freitag, Becky Nicolaides, Andrew Wiese ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This 3-volume set examines how suburban spaces shape and reflect human experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, bringing together works by an international group of scholars who explore suburbia through critical analyses of literature, culture, sociology, history, politics, and urban planning. The multidisciplinary and international scope of each volume offers readers a wide breadth of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Silence, Sounds, Music

    Acoustic Dimensions of Immersion

    Edited by Florian Freitag, Laura Katharina Mücke, Peter Niedermüller ...
    Series series Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
    This book examines the intersections of silence with immersive arts and experiences. Silence and immersion may seem antithetical: while immersion is supposedly induced by acoustic and other stimuli, silence is commonly understood as the absence or opposite of sound. Since the eighteenth century, however, silence has been established as a multifarious and polyvalent cultural concept. Immersion, in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Expo 67

    Not Just a Souvenir

    Edited by Johanne Sloan, Rhona Richman Kenneally ...
    Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by critics as a laboratory for urban and architectural design as well as for cultural exchange, intended to enhance global understanding and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • National Performance

    Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion

    by Erin Hurley ...
    In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness' for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Translating Montreal

    Episodes in the Life of a Divided City

    by Sherry Simon ...
    Translating Montreal follows the trajectories of adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein - pioneers of the 1950s and 1960s - Pierre Anctil, whose translations from Yiddish to French are emblematic of the dramatic reroutings now occurring across the Montreal landscape, and contemporary writer-translators such as Gail Scott, Erin Mouré, Jacques Brault, ... Read more

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  • Theatricality of Robert Lepage

    by Aleksandar Dundjerovi ...
    Drawing on field research in Namibia and the Solomon Islands and case studies of international organizations such as USAID and Oxfam Suzan Ilcan and Anita Lacey argue that aid programs have forged new understandings of poverty that are more about governing the poor through neo-liberal reforms than providing just solutions to poverty. By analyzing these programs they reveal that concepts of ... Read more

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  • Canadian Film

    Perspectives on Canadian Culture

    by David Clandfield ...
    Canadian Film is a historical overview of film in both English and French Canada, from its early use to encourage immigration and, in Quebec, to promote traditional fidelities, to its struggles to project a uniquely Canadian identity and experience. All major modes of film are discussed—the documentary tradition from the NFBs wartime production to the award winners of the eighties, fictional film ... Read more

    $10.69 USD