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Sarah Temporal
With unflinching honesty and lyrical precision, Tight Bindings grapples with embodied experiences and moments of transition. Birth, death, sex, illness, desire, and motherhood are all brought into conversation with the…
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Sarah Sharma
Based on ethnographic research with taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements, and others, Sarah Sharma argues that people’s relations to labor shape their experiences…
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Sarah Taylor Ellis
Doing the Time Warp explores how song and dance - sites of aesthetic difference in the musical - can ‘warp’ time and enable marginalized and semi-marginalized fans to imagine different…
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In recent years, the term global art has become a catchphrase in contemporary art discourses. Going beyond additive notions of canon expansion, this volume encourages a differentiated inquiry into the…
Cornelia Muller,Hermann Kappelhoff
The book offers a new theory for cinematic metaphor as performative action grounded in the dynamics of viewers’ embodied intersubjective experiences with film. Metaphor in audiovisual media shares this basic…
