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  • Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9

    Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century

    by James Fisher, Susan Kattwinkel, John E. O'Connor, Barry B. Whitham, Jonathan Chambers, Steve Ernest, Christopher Herr, Carol Burbank, Mary Trotter, Kurt Elgin, Jeff Turner, Anne Fletcher ...
    Series Book 9 - Theatre Symposium Series
    This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time.Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, this collection of essays presents a compelling mix of theoretical and practical viewpoints from a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974

    by Arthur Marwick ...
    If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous decade.Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Silence on the Shore

    by Hugh Garner ...
    Series Book 19 - Voyageur Classics
    Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garners best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the books events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Not Like Us

    How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II

    by Richard Pells ...
    Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Pells provides a new paradigm for understanding the survival of local and national cultures in a global setting. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The History of Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century. Today, it continues to adapt and grow as new technologies and viewing platforms become available, and remains an integral cultural and aesthetic entertainment experience for people the world over. Cinema developed against the backdrop of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Anarchy and Art

    From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    by Allan Antliff ...
    Allan Antliff is the Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics and the First American Avant-Garde, has written extensively for the anarchist press, and is currently contributing editor to the Alternative Press Review and art editor of Anarchist Studies. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Democratic Surround

    Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

    by Fred Turner ...
    A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Read more

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  • Civilizing Rituals

    Inside Public Art Museums

    by Carol Duncan ...
    Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Avant Garde

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration. If not, then by and large they have not, and ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of John Berger's Ways of Seeing

    by Emmanouil Kalkanis ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... Read more

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  • Committing Theatre

    Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada

    by Alan Filewod ...
    Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book’s historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber ... Read more

    $22.39 USD