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This collection interrogates how sound/image aesthetics can enhance our critical appreciation of television, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.

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Blending theatre history and sensory studies this book recaptures the sound of early modern drama, acknowledging its intangibility while attempting to both describe those sounds heard on the stage and to try and identify those sounds effects on the playgoers.

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Dr Martin argues that musical meaning must be understood as socially constructed, rather than inherent, and the notions of the correspondence between social and musical structures is problematic.

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Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened.

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Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened.

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This book provides a critical history of Western architectural theory from the ancient world to the present day. It focuses on design theory's central question; how does the architect generate architectural form

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This book looks at the economic impact of the transition from white to black rule in South Africa in the 1990s. -- .

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South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and migr South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters.

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South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and migr South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters.

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This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and in material archives, texts, documents, buildings.

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This is a study of the local and global networks which affected the publication, promotion, and reception of a series of key 'South African' writers and their works between 1883 and 2005 (Olive Schreiner, Roy Campbell, William Plomer, Alan Paton, Alex La Guma, J.M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda), and asking why their work was construed as 'South Africa'

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The first anthology of primary material interdisciplinary study of the history of the South Asian presence in Britain over the period 1870-1950, it selects a wide range of official and non-official archival sources. and identifies four key areas of South Asian impact - minority rights, war, culture and reception, and representation. -- .

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This is a unique ethnographic study of the practical, theoretical, methodological, ethical and social dimensions of some key non-governmental organisations (NGOs), non-profit organisations (NPOs), and think tanks in Seoul during Roh Moo Hyun's tumultuous presidency (2003-8). -- .

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Marks a major new contribution to the emerging field of comic studies and the growing literature on superheroes. Using a range of critical theorists the book examines superheroes as sovereigns, addressing amongst other things the complex treatment of law and violence, legitimacy and authority. -- .

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This book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guediguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. -- .

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Spacing Ireland explores questions of 'space' and 'place' to understand the nature of major social, cultural and economic change in contemporary Ireland.The authors explore the intersections between everyday life and global exchanges through the contexts of the 'stuff' of contemporary everyday encounters -- .

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Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured world -- .

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Directors covered include those who spanned the fall of Franco - Bunuel, Saura and Erice, established names from the 80s and 90s - Medem, Almodovar and Amenabar, and those who have made important films in the Noughties, including Woody Allen, Bllain and Martel

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A selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period followed by guided and close readings of each poem. -- .

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Spanish politics today describes and analyses the institutions of government on the Spanish political landscape, and explores the traits of its policy processes at regional, national and European levels. Many of the issues which have dominated Spanish political agendas in the 1980s and 1990s are discussed in this book.

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Spanish Popular Cinema is the first European language work to focus exclusively on this neglected aspect of Spain's film history. Moving from the 1930s to the present, the contributors to this book provide a diverse collection of essays that reassess some of the forgotten and critically overlooked works of Spanish popular cinema. -- .

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This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital themes: emtion, location and nostalgia. -- .

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This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.

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