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Автор: Ronald Stewart, Shige (CJ) Suzuki
Название: Manga: A Critical Guide
ISBN: 1350072346 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350072343
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of the 21st century. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: · The history of Japanese comics, from influences in early visual culture to the global ‘Manga Boom’ of the 1990s to the present · Case studies of texts reflecting the range of themes, genres, forms and creators, including Osamu Tezuka, Machiko Hasegawa and Katsuhiro Otomo · Key themes and contexts – from gender and sexuality, to history and censorship · Critical approaches to manga, including definitions, biography and reception and global publishing contexts The book includes a bibliography of essential critical writing on manga, discussion questions for classroom use and a glossary of key critical terms.

Автор: Annabelle Honess Roe
Название: Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-Motion
ISBN: 1350194948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350194946
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The Bristol-based animation company Aardman is best known for its most famous creations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. But despite the quintessentially British aesthetic and tone of its movies, this very British studio continues to enjoy international box office success with movies such as Shaun the Sheep Movie, Flushed Away and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Aardman has always been closely linked with one of its key animators, Nick Park, and its stop motion, Plasticine-modelled family films, but it has more recently begun to experiment with modern digital filmmaking effects that either emulate ‘Claymation’ methods or form a hybrid animation style. This unique volume brings together leading film and animation scholars with children’s media/animation professionals to explore the production practices behind Aardman's creativity, its history from its early shorts to contemporary hits, how its films fit within traditions of British animation, social realism and fantasy cinema, the key personalities who have formed its ethos, its representations of ‘British-ness’ on screen and the implications of traditional animation methods in a digital era.

Автор: Steinberg Marc
Название: Anime`s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan
ISBN: 0816675503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816675500
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: Untangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime

Автор: Solnit, Rebecca
Название: A Field Guide To Getting Lost (Canons Edition)
ISBN: 1786890518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786890511
Издательство: Canongate
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Описание: Solnit`s revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics

Автор: Bolton Christopher
Название: Interpreting Anime
ISBN: 151790403X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517904036
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches

Well-known through hit movies like Spirited Away, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell, anime has a long history spanning a wide range of directors, genres, and styles. Christopher Bolton's Interpreting Anime is a thoughtful, carefully organized introduction to Japanese animation for anyone eager to see why this genre has remained a vital, adaptable art form for decades.

Interpreting Anime is easily accessible and structured around individual films and a broad array of critical approaches. Each chapter centers on a different feature-length anime film, juxtaposing it with a particular medium--like literary fiction, classical Japanese theater, and contemporary stage drama--to reveal what is unique about anime's way of representing the world. This analysis is abetted by a suite of questions provoked by each film, along with Bolton's incisive responses.

Throughout, Interpreting Anime applies multiple frames, such as queer theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of postmodernism, giving readers a thorough understanding of both the cultural underpinnings and critical significance of each film. What emerges from the sweep of Interpreting Anime is Bolton's original, articulate case for what makes anime unique as a medium: how it at once engages profound social and political realities while also drawing attention to the very challenges of representing reality in animation's imaginative and compelling visual forms.

Автор: Jacob Pascal
Название: The Circus: A Visual History
ISBN: 1350043109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350043107
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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This beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from antiquity to the present day.

Using over 200 circus related artworks from the French National Library's private collections, celebrated cultural historian Pascal Jacob tells the story of travelling entertainers and their art and trade. From nomadic animal tamers of the Dark Ages to European jugglers and acrobats of the 1800s, from the use of the circus as Soviet propaganda to the 20th-century Chinese performance art renaissance, this is an exhaustive history with a uniquely international scope.

Jacob draws on both rare and famous artworks, including prints dating from the 13th century, and paintings by Picasso and Dor . In doing so he demonstrates the circus to be a visual and physical masterpiece, constantly moving and evolving, and just as exciting an experience for audiences now as it was 1,000 years ago.

Автор: Various
Название: Dynamite Art of Jay Anacleto
ISBN: 1524119636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781524119638
Издательство: Diamond Books
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Описание: For over a quarter century, Jay Anacleto has taken pencil to some of the most iconic and sophisticated covers to grace the comics industry. For Dynamite Entertainment, Anacleto has tackled virtually every character in the company’s library! Now, all of this incredible art is presented in one incredible hardcover collection, curated by the ancient master himself! Vampirella Red Sonja Dejah Thoris Chaos! Plus: Demons, wizards, monsters and superheroes! 191 pages of worlds and characters beyond imagining!

Автор: Smith Richard G
Название: Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance
ISBN: 0748694293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748694297
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was one of the world`s most influential, celebrated and controversial thinkers. This collection gathers 23 insightful yet previously difficult to find interviews, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity.

Автор: Barnes Naomi, Bedford Alison
Название: Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture: Remixing Theoretical Influencers
ISBN: 3030770109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030770105
Издательство: Springer
Цена: 111790.00 T
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Описание: This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. Using a choose your own adventure structure, this book not only shows students of social theory how various theories can be applied but also reveals the multitude of possible pathways theory provides for comprehending society.

Название: Thinking through fashion
ISBN: 1350125202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350125209
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers' ideas.This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design and cultural studies.

Автор: Katherine Byrne, Julie Anne Taddeo, James Leggott
Название: Conflicting Masculinities: Men in Television Period Drama
ISBN: 1350144355 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350144354
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals. Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and Outlander have refashioned the romantic hero and anti-heritage series like Peaky Blinders portray masculinity in crisis, at moments when the patriarchy was being bombarded by forces like World War I, the rise of first wave feminism and the breakdown of Empire. Scholars of film, media, literature and history explore the very different types of maleness offered by contemporary television and show how the intersection of class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences.

Название: Hair. An Illustrated History (Susan Vincent)
ISBN: 0857851713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857851710
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Bobs, beards, blondes and beyond, Hair takes us on a lavishly illustrated journey into the world of this remarkable substance and our complicated and fascinating relationship with it.

Taking the key things we do to it in turn, this book captures its importance in the past and into the present: to individuals and society, for health and hygiene, in social and political challenge, in creating ideals of masculinity and womanliness, in being a vehicle for gossip, secrets and sex.

Using art, film, personal diaries, newspapers, texts and images, Susan J. Vincent unearths the stories we have told about hair and why they are important. From ginger jibes in the seventeenth century to bobbed-hair suicides in the 1920s, from hippies to Roundheads, from bearded women to smooth metrosexuals, Hair shows the significance of the stuff we nurture, remove, style and tend. You will never take it for granted again.