Presenting a collection of interviews, this title features some of the important women artists practising in modern Britain, who talk about their work, their influences and their relationships with the art historical canon. It includes Tacita Dean, Tanya Kovats, Christine Borland, Jane Harris, Vanessa Jackson, Tracey Emin, Maria Lalic, and others.

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An in-depth exploration of how traumatic memories of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) have shaped contemporary filmmaking ethics and aesthetics.

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Sheldon Lu traces how filmmakers and artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have addressed questions of identity, gender, sexuality and class and how their work reflects China's transition to a globalized transnational state.

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Focusing on a selection of internationally known Latin American films, this title is organized around national categories, grounding the readings not only in the context of social and political conditions, but also in those of each national film industry.

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"This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music--from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernac"

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An overview of the dynamics of twenty-first century European cinema

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Presents an introduction to popular French film. This book charts developments in various genres of French cinema with analyzes of over 120 movies, from "Les Valseuses" to "Cache". It reflects the diversity of French film production since the New Wave. It includes chapters on the heritage film, and the thriller and the war movie.

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Contemporary German cinema is aimed at students of European and world cinema. It is wide-ranging, articulate and geared toward cinema and film studies. -- .

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This book examines contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach by focusing on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic. The study will invoke its literary and filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed the modern filmic Gothic.

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An attempt to show how the film industry has homogenised the Latin, the Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, South American and Caribbean into an ethnic enemy, whose negative traits and character have been conditioned by their national origins; and then has profited from this.

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Through a series of conversations with the major European jewellery designers of today, this book opens the door to contemporary practice and offers an essential reference for all students and practitioners of jewellery design.

Through a series of conversations with the major European jewellery designers of today, this book opens the door to contemporary practice and offers an essential reference for all students and practitioners of jewellery design.

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This study defines the significance of filmmaking and film viewing in Korean society. It covers the introduction of motion pictures in 1903, Korean cinema during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45) and the development of North and South Korean cinema up to the 1990s.

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This selection of speeches of all types - serious and comic, realist and absurdist - is drawn from contemporary plays by English, American and European playwrights. The editors have set each piece in its context, presenting a useful resource for acting classes, contests, auditions and rehearsals

Since New Zealand Cinema burst on to the global stage in the late 1970s, it has maintained a high-profile presence, capturing the imagination and enthusiasm of both national and international audiences, through such films as "Vigil", "Whale Rider" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. This title provides an analysis of this fascinating industry.

The political violence that erupted near the end of the 20th century between the Peruvian state and militant group Shining Path left an indelible mark of trauma on the country that resonates even today.