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This classic textbook offers anthropology students a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field.

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This book analyzes the anthropological concept of culture in the development sector of the Kyrgyz Republic. The author calls for a revitalization of the culture concept regarding diversity and social change in order to better inform broader debates about development and well-being.

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This book analyzes the anthropological concept of culture in the development sector of the Kyrgyz Republic. The author calls for a revitalization of the culture concept regarding diversity and social change in order to better inform broader debates about development and well-being.

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Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events.

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Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events.

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An exploration of Englishness, in particular English class, in contemporary cinema. It explores a wide range of film production - from gangster thrillers like "Lock, Stock, Two Smoking Barrels" to the period cinema of "Elizabeth", from cult classics like "Performance and Trainspotting" to the mainstream romantic comedy of "Notting Hill".

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Presents an analysis of the changing landscape of English class and culture. This book explores a range of film production - from thrillers like "Lock", "Stock Two Smoking Barrels" to the period cinema of "Elizabeth", from classics like "Performance" and "Trainspotting" to the mainstream romantic comedy of "Notting Hill" and "Bridget Jones".

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This exciting collection of essays explores the fantastic in world literature, art, theater, film, and popular culture. Highlights include artwork by Edward Carlos and the essay Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by internationally acclaimed Yeats scholar James W.

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This book explores the historical context surrounding various debates, decisions and beliefs about the future in recent centuries. Religious, political, literary and ecological visions of the future in America and Germany are addressed comparatively.

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Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums promotes balanced practices that are visitor-centered while honoring the integrity and powerful storytelling of art objects. Book examples present challenges and best practices that move beyond the turning point, where curation and education are engaged in full and equal collaboration.

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Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums promotes balanced practices that are visitor-centered while honoring the integrity and powerful storytelling of art objects. Book examples present challenges and best practices that move beyond the turning point, where curation and education are engaged in full and equal collaboration.

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This funny, life-affirming play is infused with humour and humanity. Tender and touching, Visitors is an elegiac celebration of a lifetime shared.

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Visual Arts Practice and Affect brings together a group of artist scholars to explore how visual arts can offer unique insights into the understanding of place, memory and affect.

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How has tourism been linked to images of colonial expansion Why are we so intrigued by 'lost' places, such as Tutankhamun's tomb or Machu Picchu, South America's lost city of the Incas What is the relationship between art, tourism and landscape preference

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How has tourism been linked to images of colonial expansion Why are we so intrigued by 'lost' places, such as Tutankhamun's tomb or Machu Picchu, South America's lost city of the Incas What is the relationship between art, tourism and landscape preference

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To help prepare students for the global interior design profession Visual Culture in the Built Environment offers an integrated survey of global interior environments written to explain significant design styles and movements.

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Taking up a range of themes such as spectatorship, pleasure, power, doubles, hallucination and the frame, the book explains them within the context of these theoretical developments. The major theorists are all covered as the authors look at the significance of the visual in their work.

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Theory has become increasingly significant in the field of the visual, giving rise to a whole discipline of 'visual culture' situated within the disciplines of media/communication/cultural studies and also within history of art. This book aims to offer a clear exposition of their ideas and how they have been used in visual cultural studies.