Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Furuhata Yuriko)(Paperback)

Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Furuhata Yuriko)(Paperback)

During the 1960s and early 1970s, Japanese avant-garde filmmakers intensely explored the shifting role of the image in political activism and media events. Known as the 'season of politics,' the era was filled with widely covered dramatic events from hijackings and hostage crises to student

The Politics of Kathy Acker: Revolution and the Avant-Garde (Borowska Emilia)(Paperback)

Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writers Situates Acker in broader social, political and historical contexts Offers an extensive analysis of the intersections between politics and literary form, asserting Acker's pivotal position in the

Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing (Remes Justin)(Paperback)

Absence has played a crucial role in the history of avant-garde aesthetics, from the blank canvases of Robert Rauschenberg to Yves Klein's invisible paintings, from the 'silent' music of John Cage to Samuel Beckett's minimalist theater. Yet little attention has been given to the important role of

Theory of the Avant-Garde, 4 (Burger Peter)(Paperback)

Suggests a theory of art, tests against the French and German avant-garde movements of the twenties, and discusses hermeneutics, ideology, aesthetic categories, and the autonomy of

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema (Brown Tom)(Paperback)

An examination of the role of direct address within fiction cinema, focusing on its role in avant-garde or experimental cinema, and popular genre

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (Fukai Akiko)(Pevná vazba)

Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century, challenging established notions of beauty and

Butoh Dance Training: Secrets of Japanese Dance Through the Alishina Method (Alishina Juju)(Paperback)

Drawing on avant garde and classical Japanese dance traditions, the Alishina Method offers a systematized approach to Butoh dance training for the first time in its history. With practical instruction and fully illustrated exercises, this book teaches readers: - basic body training and expression

The Japanese Cinema Book (Fujiki Hideaki)(Paperback)

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging

The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People (Leigh Jacob)(Paperback)

The Cinema of Ken Loach examines the connection between art and politics that distinguishes the work of this leading British film director, whose work includes such landmarks of British cinema as Kes, Land and Freedom, and Bread and Roses. Each chapter explores changes in his style by interpreting

Flowers of Perversion, Volume 2: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco (Thrower Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

The disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde films of Jes s 'Jess' Franco, director of such films as Vampyros Lesbos and Lilian the Perverted Virgin.Jes s 'Jess' Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue

Degrees of Separation Bohumil Kubišta and the European Avant-Garde - Marie Rakušanová

In Beyond the Avant Garde, scholars from Czechia, Canada, Germany, and Hungary take a new approach to exploring the work of one of Central Europe’s most interesting modernist painters -- Bohumil Kubišta. While many art historians have consigned Kubišta’s work into an idealized Czech canon,

South Russia: Architectural Guide: Buildings and Projects of the Soviet Avant-Garde 1922-1936 (Tokarev Artur)(Paperback)

The Soviet avant-garde architecture of the 1920s to the mid-1930s has increasingly been attracting attention from researchers worldwide. Yet, in spite of this, entire regions remain unstudied. One of these is the south of Russia. Based on extensive research, this guidebook aims to correct the

The Avant-Garde: A Very Short Introduction (Cottington David)(Paperback)

For over a hundred years, the idea of the 'avant-garde' has been perhaps the most important and influential force in modern culture, ruling the critical assessment of the significance of an artist or a work of art. If they have been judged to be 'avant-garde,' then they are worthy of consideration

The Intimate Beauty of a Japanese Courtyard - Hitoshi Saruta

The Japanese-style courtyard pursues the ultimate in being an area of calm, held in nature's embrace More than 30 case studies of Japanese courtyard and garden design that reflect the fundamentals of Japanese courtyard design With a wealth of pictures to show the visual beauty of various Japanese

Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change (Steinbock Eliza)(Paperback)

In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the 'shimmer' and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows how sex and gender can appear mirage-like on

The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935: A Portable Guide (Bru Sascha)(Paperback)

Introduces the full range and depth of the early 20th-century European avant-gardes This engaging introduction outlines the cultural and political contexts in which the avant-gardes operated, taking readers on a journey throughout the whole of Europe. It discusses the most salient features of the

Painting Like the Impressionists (Yardley Bruce)(Paperback)

Impressionism, an art movement pioneered by a handful of avant-garde painters based in Paris in the 1870s, gave academic oil painting a vivacity and spontaneity it had previously lacked, and remains to this day the single most popular style of art for gallery-goers and amateur painters alike. This

The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (Ruberg Bonnie)(Paperback)

In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games. Speaking with insight and candor about their creative practices

The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Krauss Rosalind E.)(Paperback)

The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1922-47 (Mitter Partha)(Paperback)

The tumultuous last decades of British colonialism in India were catalyzed by more than the work of Mahatma Gandhi and violent conflicts. The concurrent upheavals in Western art driven by the advent of modernism provided Indian artists in post-1920 India a powerful tool of colonial resistance

Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde: Revisiting the Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s (Pearson Luke C.)(Paperback)

Coma (Guyotat Pierre)(Paperback)

A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century.Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverberates and feels and throbs all over, it begins to circumscribe my body along with my self, and my body gives it shape in turn: the 'joy' of living, of

Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch (Copeland Rebecca)(Paperback)

Women, Magic, Wisdom: Explore a Japanese myth through the words and images of key scholars and

Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions (O'Pray Michael)(Paperback)

Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It covers the developments of experimental film-making since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in