Art and Architecture

La Donna è Mobile: Portraits of Suburban Women in 1970s American Cinema

Author: 

Francescato, Simone

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Ca'Foscari /University of Venice (American Culture); MA University of Birmingham; Faculty,Ca'Foscari

This book examines the relationship between suburban lifestyle and gender construction in the American cinema of the 1970s. Inspired by the work of scholars such as historian Bruce Schulman, and film critics Peter Lev and Thomas Elsaesser, this book argues for a reassessment of two classic films that perfectly conveyed the anti-suburban stance characterizing what is now considered a pivotal decade in American cinema.

Market: 
American Studies, Film, Women/Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Film History
Release Date: 
07/15/2010
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-97-3
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes - B/W photographs/graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Beyond the Page: Latin American Poetry from the Calligramme to the Virtual

Author: 

Huizar, Angelica J.

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Professor of Spanish and the Latin American Studies Program, Old Dominion University,VA.

This scholarly monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America. The work uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative lens. Examined structures and textures inherent in these performed works vary: they include paintings, typographical art, optophonetic (visual representations of sounds) techniques, and music, to name only a few examples.

Market: 
Latin American [Spanish-language] poetry, theories of performance, contemporary poetics and aesthetics, literary theory and cultural studies, Brazilian poetry, Antillean (Francophone)poetry
Release Date: 
06/2009
ISBN: 
978-1-933146-41-6 / 1933146-41-9
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
228
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture: Text, Context and Hermeneutics

Author: 

Morkoc, Selen

Credentials: 

Ph.D., University of Adelaide (Australia)

It is widely accepted that documents on Ottoman architects are rare and that little is known about the architectural practice in the Ottoman world. A group of texts that have appeared between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, however, form an exception to this general assumption. While these texts have been cited and referred to in diverse previous studies on Ottoman architecture, they have not been the topic of a major interpretative approach before.

Market: 
Architectural history, Ottoman (Turkish) architecture and design, historiography of Turkish Architecture
Release Date: 
10/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-54-6 / 193314654-0
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Origin of Culture

Author: 

Marsland, Amy and Marsland, William B.

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Cultural Anthropology

Drawing on the work of Levi-Strauss, Malinowski, Dumezil, Van Gennep, Eliade and many others, Dr. Marsland proposes a dual/triune structure to early religion--a structure which appears to be worldwide.

Market: 
Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Art History, History of Philosophy
Release Date: 
02/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-47-8 / 193314647-8
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
186
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Art Matters: The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art

Author: 

Koenig, Bernard

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Fanshawe College,Canada

ART MATTERS is a clear and comprehensive overview of art criticism as it relates to both the value of art and the aesthetics of art. The author offers a new perspective on how science, philosophy and art overlap each other, the author argues that art can give us knowledge of our world and our place in it the same way that science or philosophy do (per se Deleuze or Kristeva).

Market: 
Aesthetics, Art Sociology of Art,, Philosophy, Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Media
Release Date: 
12/2008
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-1-933146-58-4 / 193314658-3
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
292
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
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