Fine Arts

Storyboarding: a critical history

by Price, Steven, Pallant, Chris

fromPalgrave Studies in Screenwriting

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"This study provides the first book-length critical history of storyboarding. With roots in pre-cinematic experiments in the moving image, the form rapidly developed alongside animation, culminating in Disney's feature-length Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. William Cameron Menz…

Culinary Ephemera: an Illustrated History

by Weaver, William Woys

fromCalifornia studies in food and culture

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This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels,…

Contemporary French Art 2: Gérard Garouste, Colette Deblé, Georges Rousse, G…

by Bishop, Michael

fromFaux Titre, 362

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Gérard Garouste, Colette Deblé, Georges Rousse, Geneviève Asse, Martial Raysse, Christian Jaccard, Joël Kermarrec, Danièle Perronne, Daniel Dezeuze, Philippe Favier, Daniel Nadaud: after the eleven essays of Contemporary French Art 1, devoted to major artists from Ben Vautier an…

What happens when social and political processes such as globalization shape cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the forces at work in the production and circulation of culture in a globalized world.…

Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics

by Adesokan, Akinwumi

fromAfrican expressive cultures

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What happens when social and political processes such as globalization shape cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the forces at work in the production and circulation of culture in a globalized world.…

Design research through practice: from the lab, field, and showroom

by Koskinen, Ilpo Kalevi

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Businesses and the HCI and Interaction Design communities have embraced design and design research. Design research as a field blends methodologies from several disciplines - sociology, engineering, software, philosophy, industrial design, HCI/interaction design -- so designers …

The Defence of Tradition in Brazilian Popular Music: Politics, Culture and the Creation of Música Popu…

by Stroud, Sean

fromAshgate popular and folk music series

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Sean Stroud examines how and why Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) has come to have such a high status, and why the musical tradition (including MPB) within Brazil has been defended with such vigour for so long. He emphasizes the importance of musical nationalism as an underlying …

This is a book which looks at the blurring of distinction between an artwork and its public - that fine line between creator and spectator, maker and viewer, artist and audience. Drawing on contributions from practising artists, writers, curators and academics, Searching for Art…

The discourse of italian cinema and beyond: let cinema speak

by Piazza, Roberta

fromAdvances in stylistics

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Roberta Piazza's book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s to the present day. € It looks at how speech is dealt with in studies of the cinema and tackles the lack of engagement with dialogue in film studies…

John Adams's Nixon in China: musical analysis, historical and political perspe…

by Johnson, Timothy A.

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"John Adams's opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature. Timothy A. Johnson illuminates the opera and enhances listeners' and scholars' appreciation for this landmark work. This music-analytical guide presents a detailed…

Painter's Quick Reference Birds & Butterflies

by North Light Books, Editors of

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The perfect reference for painters!Brighten your paintings with colorful birds and butterflies. Inside you'll find more than 40 step-by-step demonstrations to help you accurately render beautiful butterflies and a wide variety of songbirds, water birds and exotic birds including…

The Jaws log

by Gottlieb, Carl, Benchley, Peter

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To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the now-classic Steven Spielberg film, a new expanded edition, in hardcover for the first time, of one of the best "making of" books of all time. Steven Soderbergh, Bryan Singer, Rod Lurie, John Landis, Steve Martin, and Rob Reiner are am…