This collection explores queer craft and the material cultures of LGBTQ+ activism in Britain since the 1980s. It includes contributions from academics, artists, activists, curators, and heritage professionals. The first book of its kind, it weaves together an important web connecting queerness, craft and activism in Britain. 41 colour photographs
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Responding to site / Jennie Klein -- Performance photographs 1987-1999 -- Section one: Duration and action. On time at the museum / Lucian O'Connor -- Salt, stones, and stars / Jeffery Byrd -- With the others / Sandrine Schaefer -- The lightness and darkness of becoming Marilyn / Paul Couillard -- Performance photographs 2003-2009 -- Section two: Site and history. "Lux Balcanica est umbra Orientis" Marilyn Arsem's Balkan performances / Kristine Stiles -- Impossible totalities: Political performance as palimpsest / El Putnam -- Dropping the frame: Orpheus to red in woods / David P. Miller -- Performance as/of shamanism and mediumship: Writing Ada / John Dennis Anderson -- Performance photographs 2012-2013 -- Section three: Performance and pedagogy. Some thoughts on teaching performance art, in five parts / Marilyn Arsem -- Dialogues with absence: Reflections on time and if to drift / Sandra Johnston -- Documenting Arsem / Michael Woolley -- "Reminding me always that nothing remains"--Marilyn Arsem's performance and pedagogy / Kathy O'Dell -- Performance photographs 2013-2015 -- Afterword: Durational forms and pedagogic encounters / Natalie Loveless -- Performance photographs 2015-2019 -- Appendix: Arsem's performances 1967-2019 -- Author biographies.
This new volume in the acclaimed Global Punk series extends the critical enquiry to reflect broader social, political and technological concerns impacting punk scenes around the world, with international contributors, ranging through topics from digital technology and new media to gender, ethnicity, identity and representation. 50 b/w photographs.
The name 'Disney' is synonymous with its expansive franchises, from princesses to theme parks. The power of the Disney brand is its role as a cultural influencer across multiple generations across the globe. This collection of essays takes a look at Disney beyond its behemoth corporate presence and into the threads of the Disney experience. 3 b/w illus.
Barcelona is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Great directors from all over the world - among them Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, and Michelangelo Antonioni - have set their films there. This book explores the rich cinematic history of this seductive Catalonian city.
The first book to comprehensively engage with Disney fans and the company's relationship with them, spanning theme parks, film, television, stage productions and novels, as well as a variety of fannish interventions. It addresses timely issues such as race and queerness, the Covid- 19 pandemic and the advent of Disney+. 20 b&w; illus.
An exploration of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey that combines 'new' empirical approaches with 'old' formalist approaches. This provides a broader understanding of how Kubrick's methods as a director and auteur were developed to produce a unique aesthetic creation that is still years ahead in its design, vision and philosophical structure.
The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of societies. Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe explore what insights from the outbreak, experience and response to previous epidemics might inform our understanding of the current world. 150 b/w illus.
What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture: Methods and Approaches seeks the answer to this question and more in an exploration of disability studies within the arts and beyond.
Explores cities of exile from different perspectives and presents different methods and sources for exile and urban studies. Internationally recognized scholars writing on themes including mapping, oral history, queerness, photography. A significant contribution to the theory and methodology of research on historical exile. 90 b/w, 18 col. illus.
The first academic collection dedicated to the histories, heritage, people and places of popular music in Leeds. It presents critical social and historical case studies exploring Leeds' music and musical spaces, central players - musicians and music industry figures, and key moments in diverse musical scenes in the city. 36 b/w illus.
This edited collection examines statistics within the music industry. Its aim is to expose the historical and contemporary use and abuse of these numbers, both nationally and internationally. It addresses their impact on consumers' choices, upon the careers of musicians and upon the policies that governments and legislators make.
Voices from diverse cultural and environmental contexts writing on forms of engagement with the topic of performing #MeToo - testimony, witnessing, interpretation and field reports. Includes people who speak from personal experience, as well as allies, activists and scholars. Examines contemporary work, and work from the pre-#MeToo era. 25 b/w illus.
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of heavy metal culture in Argentina between 1983 and 2002. Contributors address the music's rituals, circulations, cultural products, lyrics and intertexts, allowing readers to rethink the place of national heavy metal within Argentinean politics and economics, after the end of the dictatorship.
For Baudelaire, Paris streets conjured visions of the past even as he contemplated the present. This book investigates this and other cases of double vision, tracing back into antiquity and following Baudelaire forwards as his poetry is translated, received and referenced through text and film to the twentieth century and beyond. 8 b/w illus.
An academic reader bridging the disciplines of aesthetics and film studies by focusing on cinematic sublimity. Original essays by contemporary film scholars and philosophers with topics and case studies ranging from early cinema and classical Hollywood to avant-garde film and contemporary digital cinema.
A collection of first-person narratives from an international group of art historians, curators, artists and archivists. Fills a significant gap in the literature by demonstrating how these practitioners' work comes together to teach and write art history, and the relationship between curatorial studies and art history. 5 b/w illus.
Tribal Streetwear is a lifestyle streetwear brand that is inspired by a variety of southern California sub-cultures that includes graffiti, street art, skateboarding, surfing, tattoos, hip hop, breakdancing, punk, low-riders, and custom culture. This edited volume uses Tribal as a lens for examining the history of streetwear. 40 col. illus.
Provides a model for therapeutic decision-making, uniting drama therapy interventions with diagnostic information, individual and group processes, psychological distance, the drama therapy pie, and global outcomes in a series of questions for early career drama therapists and other healing... číst celé