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Visual Counterculture in JapanPolitical Shifts and the Dynamics of Resistance
This book presents innovative analysis of emergent visual trends in Japan from the late 1960s to the present day. Adopting a thematic approach, this interdisciplinary text deconstructs the role that visual practices played in shaping a variety of countercultural discourses related to politics, gender, identity, sexuality, censorship, ethics and disasters. The book makes the case that visual pra…
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The NightwatchmanEssays on Portraiture and the Black Male Figure in Colonial …
Drawing on a rich archive of colonial photography, Mokoena explores how images of African policemen and nightwatchmen in colonial South Africa challenged traditional narratives of oppression, revealing how uniform and portraiture transformed the black male figure into an aesthetic subject worthy of admiration. This illustrated collection of essays brings into focus African men in colonial unif…
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Life in the Georgian ParsonageMorals, Material Goods and the English Clergy
An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption and lifestyle of Church of England clergy in the long 18th century, linking moral debates and popular representations of the clergy to the material culture of their houses and their motivations as consumers. By focusing on ethical and moral dimensions…
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Pop & PostfeminismFemale Dandyism in Popular Music
In Pop & Postfeminism, Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and disrupts postfeminist notions of femininity, including maintaining a physique conforming to contemporary beauty standards, constant self-surveillance and self-improvement, and the naturalisation of gender difference and heterosexuality. Weidhase examines how music videos functi…
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Boys Love Media in ThailandCelebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Pop…
Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of "Boys Love" (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing…
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Food Cultures of Great BritainCuisine, Customs, and Issues
There's far more to British food than fish and chips. Discover the history and culture of Great Britain through its rich culinary traditions. Part of the Global Kitchen series, this book takes readers on a food tour of Great Britain, covering everything from daily staples to holiday specialties. In addition to discovering Great Britain's long culinary history, you'll learn about recent trends,…
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Food Cultures of ChinaRecipes, Customs, and Issues
Exploring the rich and varied culinary traditions of China, this book enables a better understanding of Chinese history and culture through food. Part of Bloomsbury's Global Kitchen series, this book takes readers on a food tour of China, covering everything from daily staples to holiday specialties. In addition to discovering China's long culinary history, you'll learn about recent trends, fo…
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- 1 online resource (272 pages)
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Intimate InteriorsSex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Centu…
A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces – motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavement taking place, and an appetite for solace and comfort – led to interiors taking on more specific roles in the eighteenth century. By examining the architectural, visual, and material culture of eighteenth-century spaces, Intimate Interiors fo…
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- 9781350277625
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Commoning Art – Die transformativen Potenziale von Commons in der Kunst
Auf Selbstorganisation und Fürsorge basierende Commons-Ansätze eröffnen auch der Kunst Chancen zur Veränderung und Transformation. Aber wie kann Gemeinschaffen – Commoning – in der Kunst gelingen? Das transdisziplinäre Autor*innenteam verbindet die aktuelle Commons-Forschung mit feministischen, queeren, postkolonialen und ökosozialen Perspektiven. Mit der Analyse von Kunst für Common…
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L'art et l'affectÉtude comparative de Jeff Koons et de Marina Abramovic
De nombreux théoriciens issus de domaines variés - sociologues, historiens, psychologues et autres philosophes - s'accordent à dire que le monde actuel est totalement gouverné par l'affect et vit à travers une certaine exacerbation du pathos. L'art, en étant pour chacun le miroir de la société, ne semble pas en reste quant à la décharge affective qu'il permet. Pourtant, les arts actue…
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