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  • Expanding media histories. Cultural and material perspectives

    Mediehistoria är idag ett snabbt växande fält som vidgats till att omfatta långt mycket mer än studier av medieteknologier eller institutioner som press, radio, film och TV. I denna antologi breddar författarna ramen och analyserar allt från vardagsnära trycksaker till transnationella politiska fenomen, med andra ord sådana motiv som länge uteslutits ur mediernas historiografi.I åtta kapitel visar ... Read more

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  • Expanding media histories

    Cultural and material perspectives

    Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyze ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media. The first ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Travel during the Cold War

    Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of ... Read more

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    Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

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    Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural “practice” (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft, and building) combine to characterize the work performed in the architectural ... Read more

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  • Aesthetic Journalism

    How to Inform Without Informing

    As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as ... Read more

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  • Joined Forces

    Audience Participation in Theatre. Performing Urgencies #3

    Band 3 der von Florian Malzacher herausgegebenen englischsprachigen Reihe Performing Urgency. Im Kontext heutiger Politik, Wirtschaft und sich permanent verändernden kulturellen Trends kommt das traditionelle Theater mit seiner Trennung von aktiven Darstellern und passiven Zuschauern immer mehr aus der Mode. Zeitgenössische Künstler emanzipieren ihr Publikum, laden es auf die Bühne und in die ... Read more

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  • Postmigration, Transculturality and the Transversal Politics of Art

    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study of contemporary art and migration.The book introduces art historians and other scholars with a methodological interest in cultural analysis to the innovative concept of postmigration, offering a comprehensive introduction to the various meanings and uses ... Read more

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  • Culture and Value

    Tourism, Heritage, and Property

    An "eminently readable" collection of essays exploring what happens when cultural heritage meets commerce ( Asian Ethnology).When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the ... Read more

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  • Dutch Design

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    From the colourful abstraction of the Rietveld chair to the dry wit of the ‘milkbottle lamp’ by design cooperative Droog, modern design in the Netherlands has always been a hotbed of experimentation. Dutch designers have consistently pushed to the limits anything from posters to postage-stamps, home furnishings to street signage, ceramics to city airports. Indeed, in the last decade or so, Dutch ... Read more

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  • Use Matters

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    From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of ... Read more

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  • Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures

    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the 'Information Society', motion picture advertising has been part of European visual culture since the late nineteenth century. With the global spread of ad agencies, moving image advertisements became a privileged cultural form to make people experience ... Read more

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  • From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum

    Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. But, could the museum absorb and benefit from its critique, turning into a critical museum, into the site of resistance rather than ritual? This book looks at the ways in which ... Read more

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