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Sport, recreation and green space in the European city
Green space has become a major issue in European cities in recent years as a result of enhanced environmental awareness, urban marketing, planning policy and growing population densities. Up to now, however, the subject of sports areas and grounds has attracted little research, despite the fact that since the First World War such public and private areas – from football pitches and running tr…
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- 9789522227911
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- 220 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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- Studia Fennica. 16
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- 796 SPO s
The NFL, activism, and #BlackLivesMatter
"What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book brings together scholars and sport commentators to examine the relationship between American football, violence and the larger relations of power w…
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- 9781138923560
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- p.227-253
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- 796.332 MOD n
Theater as metaphor
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.
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- 9783110622034
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- 276 p.; 22 cm.
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- 792.01 THE t
Sergei M. Eisenstein: notes for a general history of cinema
One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevskii and Ivan the Terrible. His craft as director and film editor left a distinct mark on such key figures of the Western cinema as Nicolas Roeg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah and Akiro Kurosawa.This comprehensive volume of Eisenstein’s writ…
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- 9789089648440
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- Film Theory in Media History
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- 791.430233092 SER s
The unmaking of home in contemporary art
In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that ‘home’ is…
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- 9781442649828
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- IX, 212 p.
- Series Title
- Cultural Spaces
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- 704.9496431 LAU u
Street theatre and the production of postindustrial space : working memories
Street theatre and the production of postindustrial space explores how street theatre transforms industrial space into postindustrial space. Deindustrializing communities have increasingly turned to cultural projects to commemorate industrial heritage while simultaneously generating surplus value and jobs in a changing economy. Through analysis of French street theatre companies working out of …
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- 9781526147288
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- X, 205 p.
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- 792.0220944 CAL s
Constructions of cultural identities in newsreel cinema and television after …
Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today’s potent televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archived newsreel footage is repeatedly used to both illustrate and re-stage past events and their si…
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- 9783839429754
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- 230 p.
- Series Title
- MedienAnalysen
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- 791 CON c
Cinema of confinement
In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room,…
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- 9780810139237
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- X, 179 p.
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- 791.43653 CON c
Lace narratives: a monograph, 2005-2015
Lace Narratives: A monograph, 2005 – 2015 documents Cecilia Heffer’s innovative lace-making practice over a decade, including major exhibitions and commissions. This publication examines ways that Cecilia’s research practice responds to changing ideas and technologies as a means to extend our perception of textiles. It presents an in-depth reflection on studio practice in a discursive spi…
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- 9780992451868
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- 82p.: ill.
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- 746.22 HEF l
Martial arts and well-being: connecting communities and promoting health
This book draws on data from over 500 people, across all age ranges, and powerfully demonstrates that participating in martial arts can have a profound influence on the construction of behaviour patterns that are directly linked to lifestyle and health. Making individual connections regarding the benefits of practice, improvements to health and well-being – regardless of whether these imp…
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- 9781315448084
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- xiv, 116p.: ill.
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- 796.8 FUL m
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