Search Results - "postmodern"

Unbroken thread an anthology of plays by Asian American women

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The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction by Olster, Stacey

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EQUALITY PRACTICE Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights by Eskridge, William N. Jr. 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Equality practice as a postmodern cultural form -- Epilogue : equality practice, the evolution of social norms, and the future of gay rights…”
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The television handbook by Orlebar, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…Television today -- Television regulation -- Public service braodcasting -- Genre -- Approaches to narrative -- Music television and postmodernism -- Schedule and audience -- Documentaries -- Reality TV -- Making factual programmes -- Television news - Television sport -- Drama and quality -- Ralism and soaps -- Drama production -- script writing -- Crime drama -- Production kit -- Framing and shot size -- Lighing for television -- Teh television studio -- Post production and creative writing -- Working in television -- Television and the law.…”
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Art & today by Heartney, Eleanor 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Art & popular culture : the Warhol effect -- Art & the quotidian object : the transformation of the readymade -- Art & abstraction : retreat from purity -- Art & representation : the fiction of realism -- Art & narrative : postmodern story telling -- Art & time : from real time to reel time -- Art & nature and technology : remaking land and body -- Art & deformation : celebrating human imperfection -- Art & the body : from object to subject -- Art & identity : the rise of the hybrid self -- Art & spirituality : rediscovering transcendence -- Art & globalism : negotiating a borderless world -- Art & architecture : the utopian fallacy -- Art & its institutions : art reflects on itself -- Art & politics : the rhetoric of dissent -- Art & audience : reinventing the viewer -- Notes -- Chronology -- List of artists -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Konsep dan Genre Kesusasteraan Melayu

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Art theory an historical introduction by Williams, Robert 1955-

Table of Contents: “…List of plates -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The shield of Achilles -- Imitation and knowledge -- Beauty -- Rhetoric -- Word and world -- The early modern period -- Craftsmen and theorists -- Humanism -- The academic system -- The Enlightenment -- The eighteenth century -- Radical idealism -- The nineteenth century -- The crisis of the academy -- Impressionism -- "Absolute art exists at last" -- Ruskin and the aesthetes -- The early twentieth century -- Beyond nature -- Beyond reason -- American modern -- Postmodernism -- The critique of culture -- The phenomenology of signs -- Future present -- Sources and suggestions for further reading -- Index.…”
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Performance in the twenty-first century theatres of engagement by Lavender, Andy

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Visions from America photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 by Wolf, Sylvia 1957-

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Psychological investigations a clinician's guide to social therapy

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Beyond description Singapore space historicity

Table of Contents: “…Lim -- |t Post-functionalist urbanism, the postmodern and Singapore / |r Heinz Paetzold -- |t The tropical city: slippages in the midst of ideological construction / |r Wong Chong Thai Bobby -- |t Intelligent island, baroque ecology / |r Aihwa Ong -- |t As the wind blows and dew came down: ghost stories and collective memory in Singapore / |r Carole Faucher -- |t Urban new archiving /…”
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Critical readings violence and the media

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The Art of Art History A Critical Anthology

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Reinventing film studies

Table of Contents: “…, or, the riddle of the sphinxes / Vivian sobchack -- 'Animated pictures': tales of cinema's forgotten future, after 100 years of films / Tom Gunning -- The mass production of the senses : classical cinema as vernacular modernism / Miriam Bratu Hansen -- Discipline and fun : Psycho and postmodern cinema / Linda Williams -- Film theory and spectatorship in the age of the 'posts' / Robert Stam and Ella Habiba Shohat -- Digging an old well : the labor of social fantasy in a contemporary Chinese film / Rey Chow -- Facing up to Hollywood / Ana M. …”
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Serene Urbanism A biophilic theory and practice of sustainable placemaking by Tabb, Phillip

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YEARNING race, gender, and cultural politics by Hooks, Bell -1952

Table of Contents: “…Liberation scenes : speak this yearning -- The politics of radical black subjectivity -- Postmodern blackness -- The chitlin circuit : on black community -- Homeplace : a siteof resistance --- Critical interrogation : talking race, resisting racism -- Reflections on race and sex -- Representations : feminism and black masculinity -- Sitting at the feet of the messenger : remembering Malcom X -- Third world diva girls : politics of feminist solidarity -- An aesthetic of blackness : strange and oppositional -- Aesthetic inheritances : history worked by hand -- Culture to culture : ethnography and cultural studies as critical intervention -- Saving black folk culture : Zora Neale Hurston as critical intervention -- Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness -- Stylish nihilism : race, sex, and class at the movies -- Representing whiteness : seeing wings of desire -- Counter-hegemonic art : do the right thing -- A call for militant resistance -- Seductive sexualities : representing blackness in poetry and on screen -- Black women and men :partnership in the 1990s : a dialodue between bell hooks and Cornell West presented at Yale University's African-American Cultural Center -- An interview with bell hooks by Gloria Watkins : No, not talking back, just talking to myself, January 1989 -- A final yearning : January 1990…”
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Brecht and critical theory dialectics and contemporary aestics by Carney, Sean

Table of Contents: “…Brecht and language -- Marxism and rhetoric -- Brecht and postmodernism -- Verfremdungseffekt and unheimlich -- Psychoanalysis and class-consciousness -- Brecht and class -- Gestus, language, negation -- Marxism and science -- Lacanian gestus -- Dialectical images -- Dialectic at a standstill -- Jetztzeit -- Dialectical images -- Modelbooks -- Kafka's gestus -- Trauerspiel -- Brechtian Trauerspiel -- Mourning as a socially symbolic act -- Hamlet -- "Marx" das Unheimliche? …”
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Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis by Lochhead, Judith Irene

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CRITICAL VIEWS ON WORKS BY A. SAMAD SAID

Table of Contents: “…Samad Said's little jewels / Rosnah Baharuddin -- Siti Salina, looking back / Shahnon Ahmad -- Nasib (destiny) and takdir (fate) in Salina / Sohaimi Abdul Aziz -- Postmodernism in literature and its effects on nation building, a study of Hujan pagi and A4 / Sohaimi Abdul Aziz -- Rasa, aesthetic experience from Langit petang / Sohaimi Abdul Aziz -- The works of A. …”
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Movie music, the film reader

Table of Contents: “…Banking on film music : structural interactions of the film and record industries / Jeff Smith -- Cinema, postmodernity and authenticity / Lawrence Grossberg -- The silences of the palace and the anxiety of musical creation / Anastasia Valassopoulos -- Must you remember this? …”
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