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  • Making the invisible visible

    Reclaiming women’s agency in Swedish film history and beyond

    Edited by Ingrid Stigsdotter ...
    As film stars, actresses have contributed to the film industry's glamorous surface. To talk about women in film as invisible may thus seem odd. This book, however, is concerned with the paradox that on the other side of the camera, women are clearly underrepresented. This is true of contemporary film culture, and has been true historically, despite significant variations between countries ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making the invisible visible: Reclaiming women's agency in Swedish film

    Edited by Ingrid Stigsdotter ...
    Att beskriva kvinnors roll i filmhistorien som osynliga kan tyckas underligt. Skådespelerskorna har ju genom filmens historia försett publiken med tolkningar av det feminina, och som filmstjärnor har de genomgående förknippats med filmindustrins glamorösa yta och gett karaktär åt kvinnlig lockelse och njutning.I den engelskspråkiga antologin Making the Invisible Visible ägnar sig dock en grupp ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • An Analysis of John Berger's Ways of Seeing

    by Emmanouil Kalkanis ...
    series The Macat Library
    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 9.5 Theses on Art and Class

    by Ben Davis ...
    9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art's most persistent debates, from definitions of political art to the troubled status of "outsider" and street art to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself.Ben Davis currently lives and works in New York City where he is Executive Editor at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Victor Papanek

    Designer for the Real World

    by Alison J. Clarke ...
    The history and controversial roots of the social design movement, explored through the life and work of its leading pioneer, Victor Papanek.In Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World, Alison Clarke explores the social design movement through the life of its leading pioneer, the Austrian American designer, theorist, and activist Victor Papanek. Papanek's 1971 best seller, Design for the Real ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Art Deco

    A mode of mobility

    by Michael Windover ...
    Journeying across the globe – from a skyscraper in Vancouver, B.C., to a department store in Los Angeles, and from super-cinemas in Bombay (Mumbai) to radio cabinets in Canadian living rooms – this richly illustrated book examines the reach of Art Deco as it affected public cultures. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Fashion Studies

    Research Methods, Sites, and Practices

    Edited by Heike Jenss ...
    series Dress, Body, Culture
    The study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to explore fashion and dress in wide-ranging contexts. With an emphasis on material culture and ethnographic approaches in fashion studies, this groundbreaking volume offers fascinating insights into the complex dynamics of research and fashion.Featuring ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki

    Contrarian Stories

    by Andrew Nestingen ...
    series Directors' Cuts
    Aki Kaurismäki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismäki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has earned an international art-house audience and many prizes, influencing such directors as Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. Yet Kaurismäki is often depicted as the loneliest, most ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Hollywood and the Culture Elite

    How the Movies Became American

    by Peter Decherney ...
    series Film and Culture Series
    As Americans flocked to the movies during the first part of the twentieth century, the guardians of culture grew worried about their diminishing influence on American art, education, and American identity itself. Meanwhile, Hollywood studio heads were eager to stabilize their industry, solidify their place in mainstream society, and expand their new but tenuous hold on American popular culture ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • After Uniqueness

    A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation

    by Erika Balsom ...
    series Film and Culture Series
    Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering greater dissemination and access. But digital reproduction has also stoked new anxieties concerning authenticity and ownership. From this ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Swedish Film

    An Introduction and a Reader

    Edited by Mariah Larsson, Anders Marklund ...
    A compilation of carefully selected articles written by international film scholars, this record provides an in-depth look into the history of Swedish film. This scholarly account covers various phenomena, including the early screenings at the turn of the century, Swedish censorship, the golden age of silent films, 1930s' comedies and melodramas, documentaries, pornography, and experimental films. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making a Scene

    Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden

    by Kimberly A. Creasap ...
    In the three largest cities in Sweden, social movement “scenes”—networks of social movement actors and the places they inhabit—challenge threats such as gentrification. The geography of the built environment influences their ability to lay claim to urban space and to local political processes. In Making a Scene, Kimberly Creasap emphasizes that it is the centrality, concentration, and visibility ... Read more

    $20.99 USD