Category: Other Media

By Sangita Shresthova

During this extraordinary ethnography, Sangita Sresthova, who has pioneered quite a few dance varieties brings alive the realm of Bollywood dance. You embark upon this exhilarating trip at a concert in London, and commute with the writer researching how this designated dance shape has united peoples and cultures everywhere. Behind-the-stage arrangements and dance sessions booming with desi exuberance come to existence with a landscape of colourful stills, making this e-book is the first-of-its-kind account of the Bollywood dance tradition flourishing all over the world.

Be encouraged through award-winning animator Barry Purves' sincere perception into the inventive means of making cease movement animations, utilizing his personal vintage movies to demonstrate each step alongside the best way. With Barry's enthusiasm for puppets in all their many guises and in-depth interviews from a number of the world's different prime practitioners, there's recommendation, notion and leisure galore in cease movement: ardour, technique and function.

And there is extra! a number of the artists and craftsmen interviewed have contributed their very own specifically drawn illustrations - exhibiting their inspirations, heroes and keenness for his or her craft. those attractive pictures assist in making the booklet a very own trip into the guts of the animation with wide allure for a person with a love of animation.

By Lucy R. Lippard

Alexander Kluge is healthier referred to as a founding member of the hot German Cinema. His paintings, notwithstanding, spans a various diversity of fields and, during the last fifty years, he has been lively as a filmmaker, author and tv manufacturer. This booklet - the 1st of its type in English - contains a big variety of texts, together with articles and tales via Kluge, tv transcripts, serious essays via well known foreign students, and interviews with Kluge himself. will probably be a helpful source for college kids and students within the fields of movie, tv, and literary reviews, in addition to these drawn to exploring the intersections among paintings, politics, and social swap.

By John Whalen-Bridge

Discusses either depictions of Buddhism in movie and Buddhist takes on quite a few films.

In 1989, an analogous 12 months the Dalai Lama used to be presented the Nobel Peace Prize, a decade-long increase of movies devoted to Buddhist humans, historical past, and tradition started. providing the 1st scholarly remedy of Buddhism and cinema, the editors suggest that there are forms of Buddhist movie: those who are approximately Buddhists and those who aren't. Focusing on modern American choices, the individuals expand a two-pronged strategy, discussing how Buddhism has been captured by means of administrators and proposing Buddhist-oriented evaluations of the worlds represented in movies that may appear to haven't any reference to Buddhism. movies mentioned diversity from these set in Tibet, akin to Kundun and Lost Horizon, to these set good outdoors of any Buddhist milieu, similar to Groundhog Day and The Matrix. The individuals clarify the Buddhist theoretical ideas that emerge in those works, together with karma, the bardo, and reincarnation, and look at them on the subject of interpretive innovations that come with feminism, postcolonialism, and contemplative mental methods.

By Lee Hendrix, Thea Vignau-Wilberg

The courtroom of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced not anything extra awesome than the Mira colligrophioe monumenta, a flamboyant demonstration of 2 arts-calligraphy and miniature portray. The undertaking started whilst Rudolf's predecessor commissioned the grasp calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create a version e-book of calligraphy. A preeminent scribe, Bocskay assembled an enormous collection of modern and old scripts. Many have been meant now not for functional use yet for virtuosic show. Years later, at Rudolf's behest, court docket artist Joris Hoefnagel crammed the areas on each one manuscript web page with pictures of fruit, vegetation, bugs, and different average trivialities. the mix of observe and photographs is unusual and, on its tiny scale, constitutes one of many marvels of the vital eu Renaissance. The manuscript is now within the collections of the Getty Museum. Forty-eight of its pages are reproduced during this booklet, containing samples of vintage italic palms; historic, invented, and exhibition palms; Rotunda, a classicizing humanist script in response to Carolingian miniscule; classically dependent scripts; and Gothic blackletter and chancery.

By Andrea Vianello

This e-book examines how unique fabrics have been exchanged and used around the Mediterranean from the Neolithic period to the Iron Age, targeting the Bronze Age. quite a few fabrics and interpretative techniques are awarded via numerous case experiences. those emphasise how the worth of unique fabrics relied on the context during which they have been fed on. The ebook firmly departs from assumptions of fastened different types akin to status goods or corresponding values, as glaring within the Amarna letters. as an alternative, it indicates how virtually any item can be favored or overlooked based totally on the cultural, social and fiscal dynamics of person communities.a

In cinema reports at the present time, not often will we discover a direct research into the tradition of capitalism and the way it's been refracted and fabricated in worldwide cinema construction below neoliberalism. despite the fact that, the present financial hindrance and the following Wall road bailout in 2008 have led to a global skepticism concerning the final 4 a long time of financial restructuring and the tradition that has followed it. during this edited quantity, a global ensemble of students seems at neoliberalism, either as tradition and political economic system, within the quite a few cinemas of the realm. In essays encompassing the cinemas of Asia, Africa, Latin the United States, Europe, and the USA the authors define how the tradition and subjectivities engendered by way of neoliberalism were variously played, contested, and strengthened in those cinemas. the idea of this ebook is that the cultural and financial good judgment of neoliberalism, i.e., the novel financialization and market-driven calculations, of all elements of society are signs top understood via Marxist conception and its research of the primary antagonisms and contradictions of capital. Taking various techniques, starting from political economic climate, ideological critique, the intersection of aesthetics and politics, social background and critical-cultural concept, this quantity bargains a clean, broad-based Marxist research of up to date film/media. subject matters comprise: the worldwide albeit opposed nature of neoliberal tradition; the hunt for a brand new aesthetic and documentary language; the contestation among hard work and capital in cultural producion; the political economic system of hollywood, and questions of gender, sexuality, and the country nation relating to neoliberalism.

By Nico Carpentier

• What are replacement media?
• What roles do substitute media play in pluralistic, democratic societies?
• What are the similarities and alterations among replacement media, group media, civil society media and rhizomatic media?
• How do substitute media paintings in perform?

This transparent and concise textual content deals a one-stop advisor during the complicated political, social and monetary debates that encompass replacement media and offers a clean and insightful examine the renewed value of this way of communication.

Combing various case reviews from nations together with the united kingdom, North the US and Brazil, the authors suggest an unique theoretical framework to aid comprehend the topic. either ‘old’ and ‘new’ media, the booklet argues for the significance of another media and indicates a political time table as a manner of broadening its scope.

Understanding substitute Media is efficacious interpreting for college kids in media, journalism and communications experiences, researchers, teachers, and journalists.