Meanings are realized at the point of reception and this volume intends to offer an in-depth discussion of some of the meanings associated with and raised by the figure of Telamonian Ajax at various, specifically contextualized, and yet somehow connectable 'points of reception'.
Covering 2001 to today, Designing Retail Experience in the 21st Century presents readers with a critical, cross-disciplinary perspective on retail design, bringing together scholarship from design, architecture, branding, cultural studies and social studies.
This book provides an overall history of the regional theatre movement in the US, while also utilizing specific accomplishments and failures in addition to crucial administrative and artistic decisions to chart larger developments in American theatre, most notably the craze for new play development, the death of resident companies in professional theatres, the passion to reflect social causes (especially social justice and the #MeToo movement), and the troubling economic state of contemporary regional theatres.
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "e;Promethean"e; tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.
Were it not for authoritarian state censorship, Cecilia Bartolome's name would figure alongside those of her contemporaries Agnes Varda and Claire Denis as a pioneering feminist filmmaker of the twentieth century.
Solar Energy Technologies in Cultural Heritage offers a comprehensive overview of the solar renewable energy possibilities, developments, innovations, and challenges for cultural heritage applications.
Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino.
El espíritu del salvaje Oeste sobrevuela todos los álbumes de Lucky Luke, el personaje creado en 1946 por el dibujante belga Maurice de Bévère (Morris) y publicado por primera vez en el mítico almanaque Spirou en 1947.
Pensar en el mar, en fortificaciones, en una ciudad amurallada, en edificaciones labradas por la historia y calles vibrantes de vida, es pensar en Cartagena.
Michel Chion a consacré sa vie à inventer des sons, des concepts, des mots, des images, remettant en question les idées reçues, déminant les pièges conceptuels, défrichant de nouveaux terrains d’expression.
Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities.
Olvidarse del paisaje del artista visual Guillermo Mena cautiva con su modo de trabajar con el residuo de los bosques, su recoger ramas caídas, hacer la quema y obtener material para el dibujo.
Assist the growing neurodivergent population with strategic adjustments to physical spaces Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces: Advancing Sensory Processing and Cognitive Well-Being in the Built Environment explores how to employ strategic spatial zoning and sequencing, sensory zones, patterns, textures, colors, lighting, and soundscaping to create spaces that cater to the various sensory needs of neurodivergent individuals, who now make up 1/5 of the world's population.
Gustave Doré, der Meister des Lichts und der Schatten, hat mit seinen atemberaubenden Illustrationen Klassiker der Weltliteratur wie Dantes Göttliche Komödie, Miltons Paradise Lost und Cervantes' Don Quijote auf unvergessliche Weise zum Leben erweckt.
Through the lens of performance and politics, this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions, analogies, and micro-histories of the Left to better understand the larger picture.
