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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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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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Analyses films, paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of hispanic visual culture 'manage' or 'mediate' risk, as articulated stylistically and ideologically in the visual artefact. This title includes essays on visual cultural artefacts and their histories/modes of consumption and reception.

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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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This book is unique in that it covers the visual research process and detail and relates it not only to fashion design but also to all areas of the fashion industry.

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The first comprehensive directory of visual resources to be published in more than a decade, this ambitious guide reflects the enormous changes in the field and lists more than 500 visual collections in the areas of art, architecture, and design throughout the United States and Canada.

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Originally published in hardcover in 2010.

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Offers perspectives on contemporary Islamic iconography and the use of imageries in ritual contexts. This book provides new understanding of Islamic iconography and Muslim perspectives on the use of imageries in ritual contexts and devotional life. It introduces and analyzes imageries (tile-paintings, posters and wall-hangings).

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Regarded by many as the finest American female composer of the 20th century, Vivian Fine's accomplishments ranged from the first performances of her work to the composition of a ballet choreographed by Martha Graham. This work provides a bibliography of her compositions.

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Just to say the name Vivien Leigh invokes two quick images to anyone familiar with motion pictures--Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois.

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A collection of essays on the legendary actress that uses archival sources in the US and UK to re-examine her attitude to acting and the public perception of her work. -- .

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Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990), a pioneer in electronic music, was also a composer, teacher and administrator of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

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Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic.

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"Examines the way that (human and other) voices in documentary not only serve rhetorical and political purposes, but also create meaning by engaging the audience through affective and aesthetic registers"--