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  • Liveness

    Performance in a Mediatized Culture

    by Philip Auslander ...
    Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media and digital technologies?Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander’s groundbreaking book has helped to reconfigure a new area of study. Looking at specific instances of live ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • From Acting to Performance

    Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism

    by Philip Auslander ...
    From Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander. Together these essays provide a survey of the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.Auslander examines performance genres ranging from theatre and dance to performance art ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • In Concert

    Performing Musical Persona

    by Philip Auslander ...
    The conventional way of understanding what musicians do as performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue that it is unnecessary to see musicians in performance as long as one can hear them. But musical performance, counters Philip Auslander, is also a social interaction between musicians and their audiences, appealing as much to the eye as to the ear. In Concert: Performing ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Reactivations

    Essays on Performance and Its Documentation

    by Philip Auslander ...
    Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing on the relationship between the original event and its recorded versions. By contrast, Reactivations focuses on how the audience ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bodies in Commotion

    Disability and Performance

    by Carrie Sandahl, Philip Auslander ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn."-Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-AmherstThis groundbreaking ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • Contemporary Art and Memory

    Images of Recollection and Remembrance

    by Joan Gibbons ...
    Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Archaeologies of Presence

    Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks ...
    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Special Effects

    Still in Search of Wonder

    by Michele Pierson ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Film Paintings of David Lynch

    Challenging Film Theory

    by Allister Mactaggart ...
    One of the most distinguished filmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is firmly rooted in fine art. He was motivated to make his first film as a student because he wanted a painting that “would really be able to move.” Most existing studies of Lynch, however, fail to engage fully with the complexities of his films’ relationship to other art forms. The Film ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Lumière Galaxy

    Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come

    by Francesco Casetti ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and museums, onboard and in flight, or up in the clouds in the bits we download, cinema continues to alter our habits and excite our imaginations.Casetti travels from the remote corners of film history and theory ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Theorizing Visual Studies

    Writing Through the Discipline

    Edited by James Elkins, Kristi McGuire, Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester, Joel Kuennen ...
    This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A Philosophy of Cinematic Art

    by Berys Gaut ...
    A Philosophy of Cinematic Art is a systematic study of cinema as an art form, showing how the medium conditions fundamental features of cinematic artworks. It discusses the status of cinema as an art form, whether there is a language of film, realism in cinema, cinematic authorship, intentionalist and constructivist theories of interpretation, cinematic narration, the role of emotions in responses ... Read more

    $46.79 USD