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  • Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles

    Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century

    by Marlis Schweitzer ...
    Series series Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
    Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles traces the theatrical repertoire of a small group of white Anglo-American actresses as they reshaped the meanings of girlhood in Britain, North America, and the British West Indies during the first half of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the possibilities and the problems girl performers presented as they adopted the manners and clothing of boys, entered ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Performing Objects and Theatrical Things

    by Marlis Schweitzer, Joanne Zerdy ...
    This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Performance Studies in Canada

    Edited by Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer ...
    Since its inception as an institutionalized discipline in the United States during the 1980s, performance studies has focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours including theatre, dance, folklore, popular entertainments, performance art, protests, cultural rituals, and the performance of self in everyday life. Performance Studies in Canada brings together ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Public Art

    Theory, Practice and Populism

    by Cher Krause Knight ...
    This book takes a bold look at public art and its populist appeal, offering a more inclusive guide to America's creative tastes and shared culture. It examines the history of American public art – from FDR's New Deal to Christo's The Gates – and challenges preconceived notions of public art, expanding its definition to include a broader scope of works and concepts.Expands the definition of public ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Arts of Engagement

    Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

    Edited by Dylan Robinson, Keavy Martin ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Imagining Resistance

    Visual Culture and Activism in Canada

    Edited by J. Keri Cronin, Kirsty Robertson ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of institutions, artists, events, and actions. The history of radical practice is spread ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Popular Culture

    A User's Guide

    by Imre Szeman, Susie O'Brien ...
    Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culturesuitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • What We Made

    Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation

    by Tom Finkelpearl ...
    In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • On Ethnography

    by Sarah Daynes, Terry Williams ...
    In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life.In this book, sociologists Sarah Daynes and Terry Williams team up to explore the art of ethnographic research and the many complex decisions it requires. Using their ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Public Art in Canada

    Critical Perspectives

    by James S. McLean, Annie Gérin ...
    Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public sphere. Annie Gérin and James S. McLean have assembled contributions from new and established ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • One Less Car

    Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

    by Zack Furness ...
    Series series Sporting
    Although millions of people in the United States love to ride bicycles for exercise or leisure, statistics show that only 1% of the total U.S. population ride bicycles for transportation—and barely half as many use bikes to commute to work. In his original and exciting book, One Less Car, Zack Furness examines what it means historically, culturally, socioeconomically, and politically to be a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD