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“simon sigley”

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  • Transnational Film Culture in New Zealand

    by Simon Sigley ...
    In this innovative work of cultural history, Simon Sigley tells the story of film culture in New Zealand from the establishment of the Auckland Film Society in the 1920s to the present day.Rather than focusing on the work of individual filmmakers, Sigley approaches cinema as a form of social practice. He examines the reception of international film theories and discourses and shows how these ideas ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Authorship and Genre in Photojournalism and Film

    by Philippe D. Mather ...
    From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. Offering a comprehensive examination of the work he produced during this period – before going on to become one of America’s most celebrated filmmakers – Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine sheds new light on the aesthetic and ideological factors that shaped his artistic voice. ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Art of Nick Cave

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by John H. Baker ...
    Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave's creative endeavours, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career. The contributors, who hail from an array ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Mediation and Protest Movements

    Edited by Bart Cammaerts, Alice Mattoni, Patrick McCurdy ...
    Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread. Correcting that imbalance, Mediation and Protest Movements explores the nature ... Read more

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  • Creativity in the Classroom

    Case Studies in Using the Arts in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

    Edited by Paul McIntosh, Digby Warren ...
    This volume contests the current higher educational paradigm of using objectives and outcomes as ways to measure learning. Instead, the contributors propose approaches to learning that draw upon the creative arts and humanities, including cinema, literature, dance, drama and visual art. ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • When Trucks Stop Running

    Energy and the Future of Transportation

    by A.J. Friedemann ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Stephen King on the Small Screen

    by Mark Browning ...
    This book is the first written by a film specialist to consider Stephen King’s television work in its own right, and rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fit rigid thematic categories. Browning examines what makes a written or visual text successful at evoking fear on a case-by-case basis, in a highly readable and engaging way. He also considers the relationship between the big ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Polanski and Perception

    The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski

    by Davide Caputo ...
    A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed his personal life, Polanski and Perception focuses on Roman Polanski's interest in the nature of perception and how this is manifested in his films. The incorporation of cognitive research into film theory is becoming increasingly widespread, with novel cinematic technologies and recent developments in digital ... Read more

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  • Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault

    An unreasonable body of work

    Edited by Judith Rudakoff ...
    After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost $200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social networking presentation sites, stage plays, print media writing and performance of the body in both ... Read more

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  • Configuring America

    Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity

    Edited by Klaus Rieser, Michael W. Phillips, Michael Fuchs ...
    ConFiguring America brings together a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody America’s tendency to produce celebrities and iconic personalities with global reach. Drawing on theoretical insights from a variety of fields – including cultural iconography, visual culture, star studies and history – a diverse group of international contributors sheds ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Un-American Psycho

    Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible

    by Chris Dumas ...
    Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of controversial films—many of which are consistently misread or ignored—directed by De Palma over his more than four-decade career.In Un-American Psycho, Chris Dumas places De Palma’s body of work in dialogue ... Read more

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  • Re-Imagining the City

    Art, Globalization and Urban Spaces

    Edited by Kristen Sharp, Elizabeth M. Grierson ...
    Re-Imagining the City: Art, Globalization, and Urban Spaces examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of place and identity through events, artefacts and attitudes. This book recasts how we understand ... Read more

    $23.79 USD