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By: Olivia Casagrande

ISBN: 9781526161871
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Collectively written with indigenous artists and activists, this book engages with subversive representations of the (post)colonial city. At the intersection of ethnography, art, performance, and the urban space, the book elaborates on the epistemological and creative possibilities arising from collaborative and decolonial methodologies.


(Paperback)

By: Amanda Stuart Fisher

ISBN: 9781526174475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on an analysis of a number of international contemporary verbatim and testimonial plays. Moving beyond discourses of the real, the book argues that testimonial theatre engages in acts of truth telling, performing new modes of witnessing.


(Hardback)

By: Amanda Stuart Fisher

ISBN: 9781526145741
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on an analysis of a number of international contemporary verbatim and testimonial plays. Moving beyond discourses of the real, the book argues that testimonial theatre engages in acts of truth telling, performing new modes of witnessing.


(Paperback)

By: Angela McCarthy

ISBN: 9780719073533
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Drawing predominantly on personal narratives, this book compares Irish and Scottish migration to North America and Australasia between 1921 and 1965. -- .


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By: Anne Kerr

ISBN: 9781526141026
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Bringing the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners to the fore, this book explores how individual and collective futures are crafted through their work and care. The authors chart the different kinds of care and work involved in efforts to personalise cancer medicine, as well as the ways in which benefits and opportunities are unevenly realised and distributed.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Bruce Woodcock

ISBN: 9780719067983
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'. -- .


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By: Andrew Gurr

ISBN: 9780719064852
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Back in print after a lengthy absence, this is one of the most enduring plays of its time, edited by scholar and recent advisor to the Globe Theatre, Andrew Gurr. It joins the roster of "The Revels Plays", almost 30 of which are now in print.


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By: David Brauner

ISBN: 9780719074257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer.


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By: Michael Leonard

ISBN: 9781784991395
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Described by Deleuze as 'one of the greatest modern auteurs', Philippe Garrel is perhaps the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave. This study offers an overview of his work, exploring its intersections with avant-gardes including the Situationists, Surrealism, Arte Povera and the American Underground. -- .


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By: Jane Tormey

ISBN: 9781526106728
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice. -- .


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By: Jane Tormey

ISBN: 9780719081569
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice. -- .


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By: Susie Protschky

ISBN: 9781526124371
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana (1948-80). -- .


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By: Susie Protschky

ISBN: 9781526156990
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana (1948-80). -- .


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By: Luciana Martins

ISBN: 9780719089916
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Investigates the Brazilian image world in the first four decades of the twentieth century. -- .


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By: Andrea Noble

ISBN: 9780719078422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study explores a range of photographic images made during the 1910 revolution. Repeatedly reproduced across a range of media in the aftermath of the conflict, the analysis of this select handful of photographs brings to light compelling stories about cultural memory and identity in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century.


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By: Antigoni Memou

ISBN: 9780719087424
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first thorough study of photography's interrelationship with social movements -- .


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By: Antigoni Memou

ISBN: 9780719099991
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This groundbreaking interdisciplinary analysis of a wide range of practices, amateur and professional, and of previously unpublished archival material is the first thorough study of photography's interrelationship with social movements -- .


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By: Alun Withey

ISBN: 9780719091254
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales -- .


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By: Hollie Price

ISBN: 9781526138200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores how home was pictured in the 'golden age' of British cinema. Drawing on a wide range of evidence to explore the depiction of domestic life in popular culture, it resituates feature films from the 1940s in relation to narratives of domestic, suburban modernity and the middlebrow established in the interwar years. -- .


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By: Dr Beatriz Pichel

ISBN: 9781526151902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians war experiences.


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By: Dr Beatriz Pichel

ISBN: 9781526172006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians war experiences.


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By: Christa Grossinger

ISBN: 9780719041105
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1997
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a range of different media, but making particular use of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories - the Virgin and Eve, good and evil.


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By: Michael Lumbers

ISBN: 9780719096693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's China policy based on a range of recently declassified government documents. This book explores the administration's relationship to both the Vietnam War and the Cultural Revolution and offers a new perspective on Johnson's capacity as a foreign policy leader and his role in the development of the Cold War


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By: Marika Takanishi Knowles

ISBN: 9781526174093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrots recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

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