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Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research is part history, introduction and discussion for artists and designers entering, graduating and employed by the contemporary art academy in the United States. The evolution of art education in the university continues to expand in the twenty-first century as the variables of craft, skill, technique, theory, history and criticism shift and expand as the perspective of arts-based research is introduced into this professionalized environment. Given this context: what can MFA students do to improve their understanding of writing and research without sacrificing their commitment to their studio art process?Through a series of essays, the text argues for better writing at the MFA level with the purpose of becoming better artists. By contextualizing art practice in the university and providing a foundation for future artist scholarship, it serves as an invitation to artist scholars to push their work further and develop the confidence to situate their art in the university context.

Turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand. This title offers a look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century.

This book comprises three related dramatic works, all of which use Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of carnival, a literary style designed to subvert dominant assumptions through chaos and humour. The texts blur the distinction between spectator and performer in an exploration of physical, moral and cultural upheaval in a postmodern age.

Looks at the usually invisible branch of moving image distribution. This book examines the role of distribution, especially with regard to the processes of selection and promotion, in order to explore the ways in which the distribution link plays a major role in determining the nature of our moving image culture.

Focuses on Media Philosophy, Art Theory, Image Theory and Visual Culture. This book helps to gain insights into the field of film and media studies, expounding a philosophy of technology in the arts. It provides analyses and evidences of what has been seen as the 'medial turn' in cultural studies.

By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, this title proposes fresh approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance, this book examine various forms of thinking in contemporary curating.

Based on his many years in both the art world as a gallery owner and educator, The Art Rules is a practical, operational guide for visual artists that demystifies the art world and empowers practitioners to find success on their own terms.

Offers fresh interpretations of feminist film history. This book explores how the liberal experiments of Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal affected the Hollywood film industry and how the reactions of the European directors differed.

Through the analyses of select films of New Zealand, this title examines the role of the national cinema in nation-building, and explores how the signifying strategies of cinema have been harnessed to attribute meaning to this country's evolving history.

Part of the "Directory of World Cinema" series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from Eastern Europe. It also features comprehensive filmography as an index.

World Film Locations: Los Angeles is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the 'screen spectacle'. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-colour film stills.

In this thorough and accessible text, Richard Hickman rejects the current vogue for social and cultural accounts of the nature of art-making in favour of a largely psychological approach aimed at addressing contemporary developmental issues in art education. This second edition will be an important resource for anyone interested in arts education.

Analyses how the 'traditional' radio medium is evolving in the multimedia age. This book focuses on an intercultural dialogue about the important role that technologies play in the different configurations of FM and digital sound broadcasting.

A collection of two plays.

Artist and media researcher Bill Seaman's term 'neosentience' describes a new branch of scientific inquiry related to artificial intelligence. This book focuses on the work of Seaman and theoretical physicist Otto E. Rossler in exploring the potential of an intelligent robotic entity possessed of a form of sentience that resembles that of a human.

Includes the facsimile postcards and handwritten messages that date from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the end of the Cold War. This book investigates the part played by atomic postcards in creating and disseminating a public image of the bomb and nuclear power between 1945 and 1989.

Part of the "Directory of World Cinema" series, this book focuses on America and Hollywood cinema. It also includes a series of essays on specific directors, discussing their impact on the industry and how their work has influenced Hollywood film.

Using the rich and vital Australian Aboriginal understanding of country as a model, People and Places of Nature and Culture affirms the importance of a sustainable relationship between nature and culture. This book demonstrates the problems inherent in the notion that humans have a mastery over the Earth and projects what needs to change.

Celebrity activism is an ever-growing, internationally visible phenomenon - yet the impact on public awareness, government support and resource mobilization remains under-researched. Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics brings together contributors to create a new framework for the analysis of international celebrity activism.

As leader of The Smiths and as a solo-artiste, Morrissey has consistently provoked a response from fans and critics alike in which there are no half-measures. This book examines the many complexities and contradictions that make up one of the most important, iconic and controversial figures within popular culture and alternative music.

Includes the plays: "Shadow Anthropology" (a dark comedy about the US occupation of Afghanistan), "Through the Roof" (a Faustian trip through the social history of 'natural' disaster in New Orleans), and "Celestial Flesh" (a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement, sacred sex, and CIA drug running in a Los Angeles Catholic Church).

Reviews the mechanisms by which cinema and the moving image contribute to our understanding of cities, addressing two key issues: how do film-makers make use of cities and how do cities make use of cinema? This title explores the use of cinema as a tool/approach to investigate the phenomena, experience and narrative of cities.

A memoir of one American's journey through post-9/11 US in search of the lived realities behind the phrase 'I am an American'.

Since the 1990s, women artists have for the first time dominated the creation and evolution of work depicting female bodies, producing what are arguably the most challenging, critically debated, well publicized, and highly collected representations of females. This title explores the representation of girls in contemporary women's art.

This book explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a range of films from the 1920s to the present and looks at how love is portrayed in cinema across Europe and the United States. Essays from top film scholars demonstrate the centrality of desire to film narrative and explores multiple models of love within Europe's frontiers.

In "The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age," artist and educator Mel Alexenberg offers a vision of a postdigital future that reveals a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. He ventures beyond the digital to explore postdigital perspectives rising from creative encounters among art, science, technology, and human consciousness. The interrelationships between these perspectives demonstrate the confluence between postdigital art and the dynamic, Jewish structure of consciousness. Alexenberg's pioneering artwork--a fusion of spiritual and technological realms--exemplifies the theoretical thesis of this investigation into interactive and collaborative forms that imaginatively envisages the vast potential of art in a postdigital future.

Explores spaces of performance in Moscow. Inspired by French philosopher Michel de Certeau's model of a 'second, poetic geography' in which the walker - the everyday practitioner - invents the space observed by the voyeur, this book takes the reader on a tour of spaces of performance in Moscow.

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts""organization whose mission is to preserve, document, and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists--particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content. Over more than thirty years, Franklin Furnace has exhibited works by hundreds of avant-garde artists, some of whom--Laurie Anderson, Vito Acconci, Karen Finley, Guillermo G"omez""-"Pena, Jenny Holzer, and the Blue Man Group, to name a few--are now established names in contemporary art. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive history of this remarkable organization from its conception to the present. Organized around the major art genres that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, this book intersperses first-person narratives with readings by artists and scholars on issues critical to the organization's success as well as Franklin Furnace's many contributions to avant-garde art.