Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture
Hardcover. An incisive look at the major plays of Harold Pinter Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: AN; CBV; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472071241
- ISBN
- 9780472071241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.94
€ 79.94
Hardcover. Explores how strategies of performance shaped American responses to modernity. By examining a variety of early American authors and cultural figures, from Joseph Fichtelberg shows how early Americans created and resisted a dangerously liberating new world Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; AN; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070947
- ISBN
- 9780472070947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.29
€ 108.29
Hardcover. Presents a conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America. This book also offers an understanding of the 'freedom' of improvisational dance. It is suitable for those interested in dance history and criticism, and for interdisciplinary audiences in the fields of American and cultural studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ASD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070848
- ISBN
- 9780472070848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.26
€ 96.26
Hardcover. Artists like Blind Arthur Blake, Sonny Terry, Arizona Dranes, and Art Tatum have appeared throughout the history of popular music in America - the list of visually impaired black musicians is long. This book examines the ways that blindness, like blackness, shaped both the music these artists produced and the way the nation received it. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVA; JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070640
- ISBN
- 9780472070640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.26
€ 96.26
Hardcover. Fluid by design, the term Alt Country has forced even the genre's own mouthpiece, the magazine/website "No Depression", to declare its terrain to be 'alternative-country music (whatever that is)'. This book explores the influences, meanings, and identity of this significant contemporary music form. Editor(s): Fox, Pamela; Ching, Barbara. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGL; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070534
- ISBN
- 9780472070534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.45
€ 108.45
Hardcover. Explores the question of why Weimar Berlin has such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. This book examines the way in which architectural projects, debates, and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society. Num Pages: 352 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; AM; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472070381
- ISBN
- 9780472070381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.57
€ 128.57
Paperback. Investigates the extent to which German filmmakers have engaged with the ever more fluid trade of images, meanings, and identities in a globalizing world. This volume traces German cinema's negotiation of the global as a multilayered story in which hopes and fears about the prospect of a more cosmopolitan culture often go hand in hand. Editor(s): Schindler, Stephan K.; Koepnick, Lutz. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 b&w images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; APFA; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472069668
- ISBN
- 9780472069668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.16
€ 42.16
Paperback. Collects pieces from Andre Hodeir's three books of jazz writings. This book introduces Hodeir to a different generation of jazz enthusiasts and scholars alike. Editor(s): Pautrot, Jean-Louis J. Num Pages: 320 pages, 27 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068838
- ISBN
- 9780472068838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.27
€ 40.27
Paperback. A controversial and entertaining collection of recent work by this acclaimed performance artist Editor(s): Vorlicky, Robert. Series: Critical Performances S. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: AFKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068661
- ISBN
- 9780472068661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.23
€ 34.23
Paperback. The intersection between social, historical, and political developments in Germany and the emergence of a nonfiction mode of film production Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPG; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068128
- ISBN
- 9780472068128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.09
€ 51.09
Paperback. American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068111
- ISBN
- 9780472068111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.96
€ 42.96
Paperback. International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world Editor(s): Haedicke, Susan C.; Nellhaus, Tobin. Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067602
- ISBN
- 9780472067602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.21
€ 54.21
Paperback. Contemporary approaches to analyzing art as applied to medieval works Editor(s): Sears, Elizabeth; Thomas, Thelma K. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 col pls, b/w pls. BIC Classification: 3H; ACK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 174 x 13. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067510
- ISBN
- 9780472067510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.37
€ 54.37
Paperback. An ambitious study of literary, aesthetic, and philosophical authors on the modern subject versus the modern body Series: The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: AB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 229 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472065523
- ISBN
- 9780472065523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.78
€ 34.78
Paperback. Recreates the 9th-century world of Charlemagne through portraits of outstanding figures of the age Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 320 pages, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 127 x 204 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472061570
- ISBN
- 9780472061570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.71
€ 50.71
Paperback. Examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. McBride offers an historicized reappraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photo montage work to show that its peculiar mimicry was less a rejection of narrative and more an extension or permutation of it. Num Pages: 252 pages, 26 figures. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACXD; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472053032
- ISBN
- 9780472053032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.57
€ 39.57
Paperback. A fascinating look at how the Bible has inspired Broadway plays and musicals, from"Ben-Hur"to"Jesus Christ Superstar"" Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AN; DSBH; DSG; HRCG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472052929
- ISBN
- 9780472052929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.57
€ 39.57
Paperback. Discusses an array of narratives that span the American literary tradition, tracing the evolution of the ofallen womano from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter , The Sound and the Fury , The Color Purple , and Love Medicine , and the films Juno and Mother and Child . Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: APFN; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 227 x 24. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472052639
- ISBN
- 9780472052639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.41
€ 45.41
Paperback. The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; JFSK1; JFSK2; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472051397
- ISBN
- 9780472051397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.10
€ 44.10
Paperback. Fresh approaches to theater historiography and performance studies that bring the two fields productively together Editor(s): Bial, Henry; Magelssen, Scott. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: AN; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472051335
- ISBN
- 9780472051335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.82
€ 41.82
Paperback. Examines literary and cinematic culture of the fin de siecle era - roughly 1880 to 1914 - to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. This title argues that the New Woman Criminal exploited iconic elements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commodity culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; APF; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472050444
- ISBN
- 9780472050444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.68
€ 41.68
Paperback. Investigates the relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment in America, exploring the distinctive practices that have evolved to make the plea for charity legible and compelling. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: AN; JFD; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472036554
- ISBN
- 9780472036554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.33
€ 40.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, photographs (colour). BIC Classification: AMD; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472035212
- ISBN
- 9780472035212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.34
€ 42.34
Paperback. A legendary figure in American theater looks back Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; APB; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472035144
- ISBN
- 9780472035144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.34
€ 42.34