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ItemTV Transformations and Transgressive Women From Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth(Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers, 2022)This book explores Australian TV dramas about women in prison, offering a range of scholarly and industry perspectives.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableArt from Milingimbi( 2016-11-01)This book presents - for the first time - the exquisite bark paintings by 15 artists, as well as ceremonial and utilitarian objects, from the small island community of Milingimbi in far northern Australia.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableForms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions(BRILL, 2021-09-30)
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ItemLook at the Lake(Puncher & Wattmann, 2018-05-08)This is a book about deep history and living in the moment; beauty and poverty; comic discovery and tragic loss. Kevin Brophy writes about people and place like no-one else. Research Statement: This work is in the field of Creative Writing (FOR 190402). its contexts are multiple and complex. They are: poetry by white writers about Aboriginal Australia, poetry on the desert landscape of Australia, on isolation in the outback, and on life in an Aboriginal community. The research aim is to make a book of poems that will work powerfully in an aesthetic and linguistic sense while exposing intimately a truthful picture of how it is to live in a desert landscape and a remote Aboriginal community. There has never been such a book of poems written in Australia, produced through negotiation with the local people of the community. The new knowledge this book aims to provide is to stand as a test of whether it is possible to write truthfully, powerfully, intimately and respectfully about being a white person in an Aboriginal community and environment. The publication of these poems by an important Press and favourable critical reception in Australian Book Review, the Australian and the Australian Poetry Review are all evidence of excellence.
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ItemThe Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy(Officina Libraria, 2019-12-04)The first biography of Giovanni Morelli, one of the founding fathers of modern art history and of connoisseurship - An intriguing biography of a man who trained as a physician, was soon a patriot and ended up as an influential senator of ...
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMedieval Literature and Social Politics: Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts(Routledge, 2021-03-02)Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine Chaucer's readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of the Arthur and Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur', and the ways in which Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and political history, medieval literature and modern medievalism.
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ItemInge King: The Memorial Gallery, with a foreword by Ken Scarlett(Skulpturenpark Wesenberg, 2016)
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ItemMelbourne Modern European Art and Design at RMIT Since 1945(RMIT Gallery, 2019)Melbourne Modern celebrates the contribution of European émigré artists, architects and designers who taught at RMIT after 1945. It surveys the work of Viennese architects, German, Czech and Baltic sculptors and silversmiths, and Dutch and British designers. It also includes migrants who arrived in Australia as children and Australian-born artists whose formative experiences in Europe influence their teaching. Collectively their stories illuminate RMIT’s model of inclusion. The profound impact of émigré teaching on the new pedagogy that developed in the 1950s through the 1970s placed the RMIT School of Art and Applied Art at the forefront of Australian art and design education. Melbourne Modern examines the legacy of this rich and educational experiment today.
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ItemThe Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business(Cambridge University Press, 2020)The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this book, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017-2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The book argues that buzz at the Fair exists in two states: as market-ready media reports and partial, lived experiences linked to mood. The physical structures and absences of the Fair enact its power relations and direct the flow of books and buzz. Further, the Fair is not only a site for commercial exchange but a carnival of sorts, marked by disruptive historical events and problematic socio-political dynamics. Key themes emerging from the book are the presence of excess, the pseudo(neo)liberal self-satisfaction of book culture, and the interplay of optimism and pessimism in contemporary publishing.
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ItemMuseum Diplomacy in the Digital Age(Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2020)Building on scholarship that highlights how museums can constitute and regulate citizens, construct national communities, and project messages across borders, the book explores the political powers of museums in their online spaces.