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Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years--and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer--visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form. Cartoons have long since established themselves as a legitimate part of the general political discourse. As a cartoonist, it is Rowson's job to give offence. But the flip side of giving offence is, of course, giving comfort to the opponents or victims of the offended. In Giving Of...

Allowing us access to short films from the 1900s, British Durbar films, the precursors of the newsreel genre, and Empire adventure movies, this book explores Melies, Lumiere and Jean Renoir, moving on to the Raj films of the 80s and international cinema of the late 20th century. It traces the trajectory of changing images of India abroad.

From the Greeks and Shakespeare to the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata", war has often been a major theme of dramatic performances. This work looks at theater and performances that often occur quite literally as bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermath of hostilities.

Brings together the important essays from the Vsevolod Pudovkin's two key books, "Film Technique" and "Film Acting". These essays highlight the development of his revolutionary thinking on scripts, directing, time, sound, and acting. His films - "The Mother", "The End of St Petersburg" and "Storm Over Asia" - are classics of silent cinema.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most visible and controversial cultural critics. Her reputation was first made by her translation and preface to Jacques Derrida's ground-breaking work, "Of Grammatology". The interviews collected here reflect the international character of her intellectual engagement with various ideas and politics.

An anthology of seven contemporary Israeli plays. It looks into the variety of Israeli drama, theatre, and performance, reflecting central questions of identity in Israeli society. It includes an introduction discussing the theatrical contexts of the plays and some of the major issues that Israeli society deals.

Filloux's plays explore social justice from a global perspective, with a focus on Western liberalism. In her plays, Filloux places the personal in the political using imaginative and evocative theatricality. This collection presents five plays by Catherine Filloux, with introductions for each play by leading scholars.

Focuses on the question of disappearance. This book weaves a set of variations on the author's theme, ranging from the potential disappearance of humanity as a result of the fulfillment of its goal of world mastery to the vanishing of reality due to the continual transmutation of the real into the virtual.

Part of an ongoing series that deals with religion and free expression, this title focuses on the current controversy over Israel, and draws on three basic features of Judaism - iconoclasm, commitment to argument, and respect for human dignity - to make a Jewish case for outspokenness.

To many outside India, Hinduism is envisioned as the foundation of an ideal, all-embracing society. Yet this is far from the truth. This work documents how Hindu fundamentalists have succeeded in censoring and banning many cultural works, tampered with university teaching, and prevented academics from continuing in their jobs.

As recent films like "Slumdog Millionaire" attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the images of Bollywood that used to come to mind. In the 1980s the idea of film theory arrived in the Indian scholarly community, stirring anew a fascination with popular cinema, especially that of Bombay, that went beyond previous Bollywood-oriented discussions focused on cinematic styles and genres alone. Ajanta Sircar's "Framing the Nation "grew out ...

Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival has evolved from founder Larry Harvey's personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale. This work explores the spectrum of performance and ritual practices within Black Rock City from the everyday to wild spectacle.

Presents a blend of documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. This title offers an account of German General Kurt von Hammerstein whose acquiescence to Nazism consolidated Hitler's power - and of the heroic few who refused to share in the spoils.

Presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by Adorna: Moments musicaux, containing essays written between 1928 and 1962, and Theory of new music, a group of texts written between 1929 and 1955"--Jacket flap.

By charting the history of the philosophy of conflict in Western discourse, the author offers a critique of contemporary notions of war and terror.

Why do commercial advertisements stress that the products they offer are exactly the same as they used to be in Soviet times? And why, year after year, does the government in Moscow organize impressive celebrations for Victory Day, inevitably drawing parallels to the old Soviet ceremonies? This title tackles these questions.

Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre counted among his friends and associates some of the most esteemed intellectuals, writers, and artists of the twentieth century. This work collects his impressions and accounts of many of his notable acquaintances, in addition to some of his most important writings on art and literature during the early 1950s.

Tzvetan Todorov is one of Europe's leading intellectuals. Beyond his work in cultural and literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Todorov's influence is extraordinarily far-reaching specifically because of the clarity of his writing and his refusal to be bound by systems of thought and disciplinary straitjackets. Todorov's many writings include "The Poetics of Prose, " "The Conquest of America, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle...

After Independence, in 1947, in their efforts to create an 'Indian' theatre that was different from the Westernized, colonial theatre, Indian theatre practitioners began returning to their 'roots' in classical dance, religious ritual, martial arts, popular entertainment and aesthetic theory. The Theatre of Roots - as this movement was known - was the first conscious effort at creating a body of work for urban audiences combining modern Europea...

Crucible Bodies" is one of the first full-length studies of Japanese performance culture. It covers a wide range of historical and theoretical topics, from Brecht in Japan to 'children's' bodies in postmodern Japanese performances, from the notion of beauty in contemporary cultural theory to practical and theoretical readings of more recent intercultural performances, involving not only Japanese but also other Asian theatre practitioners.