In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dancing in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an original expression of Islam.
This book addresses the debate within feminism and critical studies of men and masculinities on whether men should be encouraged to develop alternative masculinities, or whether they should be challenged to renounce masculinity altogether.
This book addresses the debate within feminism and critical studies of men and masculinities on whether men should be encouraged to develop alternative masculinities, or whether they should be challenged to renounce masculinity altogether.
This book explores the remarkable ability of political cartoons in the region to craft and preserve an alternative narrative by employing the potent tool of political humor.
This book explores the remarkable ability of political cartoons in the region to craft and preserve an alternative narrative by employing the potent tool of political humor.
Ontolinguistics theological Hermeneutics: sources and Daly's proposal analyses the method used by Mary Daly, her constructive criticism of the traditional theological method and her proposal to combine the best insights of the Christian tradition, hermeneutic philosophy and feminist theology.
Ontolinguistics theological Hermeneutics: sources and Daly's proposal analyses the method used by Mary Daly, her constructive criticism of the traditional theological method and her proposal to combine the best insights of the Christian tradition, hermeneutic philosophy and feminist theology.
As the popularity and diversity of participatory theatre productions increase, scholarly and artistic attention toward the audience as agentive contributors and interpreters must keep pace.
As the popularity and diversity of participatory theatre productions increase, scholarly and artistic attention toward the audience as agentive contributors and interpreters must keep pace.
This book evidences the cyclical failures of online safety policy and challenge conventional policy and educational approaches to tackling online harms, and provide a robust argument for a critical, evidence-based approaches which align with the needs of those we claim to wish to protect.
This book evidences the cyclical failures of online safety policy and challenge conventional policy and educational approaches to tackling online harms, and provide a robust argument for a critical, evidence-based approaches which align with the needs of those we claim to wish to protect.
This book explores the way stories that emerge from the garden and are consumed in the digital space can become a nourished method of environmental communication.
Historically in middle-class Bengali Hindu households it has been the matriarch's responsibility to arrange and maintain the domestic shrine and to perform daily rituals of deity worship and caretaking-termed in this book as domestic shrine traditions.
Historically in middle-class Bengali Hindu households it has been the matriarch's responsibility to arrange and maintain the domestic shrine and to perform daily rituals of deity worship and caretaking-termed in this book as domestic shrine traditions.
This book brings together essays from a range of disciplines within Early Modern Italian Studies, which focus on research areas pioneered by the prestigious Italianist, Letizia Panizza.
This book brings together essays from a range of disciplines within Early Modern Italian Studies, which focus on research areas pioneered by the prestigious Italianist, Letizia Panizza.
This book explores the way stories that emerge from the garden and are consumed in the digital space can become a nourished method of environmental communication.
This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world.
This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world.
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of theatrically-released spinoff films derived from British radio and television sitcoms.
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children's Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are 'good' or 'bad' for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts.
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children's Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are 'good' or 'bad' for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts.
This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr).
This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr).
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of theatrically-released spinoff films derived from British radio and television sitcoms.
From ice puppets to robots, from intricate marionettes to abstract forms, Making Meaning in Puppetry investigates the elusive and multifaceted how of how puppets make meaning in performance.
Dans l'atelier parisien de Madame Suzanne, cantatrice sur le declin et professeure de chant de renom, les jeunes chanteurs lyriques se reunissent pour une seance de travail collective : cours de chant et de technique vocale, ou ils s'ecoutent mutuellement.
Ou il est question d'ange est un recueil de cinq pieces de theatre qui presente successivement des demeles entre Lucifer et le bon Dieu ; un ange qui vient chercher Gustave, grand chirurgien en fin de vie ; une histoire de balade en montagne ; un denomme Fernand parlant a son petit-fils par photos interposees et, enfin, une histoire d'autopunition.
Karagiozis-a form of comic folk drama employing stock puppet figures-was immensely popular in Greece until recent years, when newer forms of entertainment have virtually eclipsed it.
