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Resetting the Stage: Public Theatre Between the Market and Democracy
Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe and the UK, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption—as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when the rationale behind these subsidies is being widely reexamined, it has never been more important for public theatre to demonstrate its continued merit. In Resetting th…
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The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947
In the two decades after the First World War, nationality and citizenship in Palestine became less like abstract concepts for the Arab population and more like meaningful statuses integrated into political, social and civil life and as markers of civic identity in a changing society. This book situates the evolution of citizenship at the centre of state formation under the quasi-colonial mandat…
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Intersections : History, Memory and Discipline
The present book comprises a selection of these shorter pieces, but it is a selection of a selection. Many of Lal’s journal articles on the indenture system in Fiji have already been republished within single covers (Chalo Jahaji: On a journey through indenture in Fiji, 2000; reissued 2006) and his more creative writings (‘faction’) have appeared in a number of volumes, beginning with Mr …
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- 9781922144386
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Practices of Speculation: Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration
This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe in an apocalyptic mode is the order of the day and shapes public discourse on a global scale. It maps an interdisciplinary field of investigation: the chapters interrogate hegemonic ways of shaping the present through investments in the future, while also looking at speculative practices tha…
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Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Research
Focuses on binge-watching and its role in contemporary television studies.
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Practices of Comparing; Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Pr…
Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies; but they can also give an impetus to question and change such structures. Like almost no other human practice, comparing pervades all social, political, economic, and cultural spheres. This volume outli…
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Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers
What makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to elucidate the effects and reader responses to investigate just that. The thirteen contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The co…
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Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading African American Literature and Cultu…
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new re…
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War Pictures: Cinema, History, and Violence in Britain, 1939-1945
In 'War Pictures', Puckett looks at how Britain imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime. How did the material and conceptual pressures of total war affect what it meant to see or to make art? How did culture and, in particular, cinema function as propaganda, as criticism, as a form of self-analysis, as a reflection on war and the kinds of violence it tends to unleash? How …
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The power of vulnerability: Mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-rac…
The power of vulnerability interrogates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and anti-racist debates about the production, use and meanings of media. The book investigates the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language. In today’s media culture, traumatic first-person or group narratives have popular currency, mobilising affect fro…
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