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Recollecting resonance: Indonesian-Dutch musical encounters
Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to. Readership: All those willing to learn more about the impact and consequences of musical encounters between Dutch and Indonesian performers in both a colonial and postcolonial …
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- 9789004258594
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- xi, 353p.: ill.
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- 780.959809492 REC c
Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics
This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices. Readership: All interested in Classics, the Classical Tradition, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Am…
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- 9789004241923
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- VII, 372 p.
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- 791.43658 ANC a
Medium, format, configuration : the displacements of film
In contrast with media constructed as vast, ontologically homogeneous, non-localized systems, formats show material networks of interoperability and exclusions, inscribed in local specificities, and involving precise conditions for the circulation of images and sounds. Formats, institutionalized as standards, frame the “technical networks” defined by Gilbert Simondon, that unfold technical …
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- 9783957960047
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- 54 p.
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- Configurations of Film
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- 791.43079 TUR m
Facing forward: art & theory from a future perspective
This spirited exploration of the interfaces between art and theory in the 21st century brings together a multidisciplinary range of viewpoints on their future. The authors examine contemporary visual culture based on speculative predictions and creative scientific arguments. Focusing on seven themes - Future Tech, Future Image, Future Museum, Future City, Future Freedom, Future History, and Fut…
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- 9789089647993
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- 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 701 FOL f
Women in the silent cinema
This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and…
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- 9789048524518
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- 573 p.; 22 cm.
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- 791.43 FOR w
Creating healthy and sustainable buildings : an assessment of health risk fac…
The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the consequences of lack of attention to health in current building design and planning. Current designing of energy-efficient buildings is mainly focused on looking at energy probl…
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- 9783030194123
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- xviii, 160p. : ill.
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- 720.47 DOV c
Why are artists poor? the exceptional economy of the arts
Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low incomes. But their support is ineffective: subsidies only increase the artists' poverty. The economy of the arts is exceptional. Although the arts operate successfully in the mar…
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- 9053565655
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- 369p.
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- 709 ABB w
Film Museum Practice and Film Historiography
Exploring the history of several important collections from the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, Bregt Lameris shows how archival films and collections always carry historical traces.
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- 9789048526741
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- 270 p.
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- 791.43072 LAM f
Materiality, techniques and society in pottery production : the technological…
Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in archaeology in order to develop wide and deep analysis of ceramic pastes. The book provides an adequate framework for understanding the way pottery production is organised and clarifies the meaning and role of the …
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- 9783110410204
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- X< 324 p.
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- 738.2 ALB m
Fashion, history, museums
The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions. This book explores the history of fashion curating and exhibitions, highlighting the continuity of past and present curatorial practices. Comparing and contrasting exhibitions from different museums and decades – from the Paris Exposition Unive…
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- 9781350048997
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- 746.92 PET f
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