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21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television
This book offers a vocabulary to discuss contemporary televisual productions that revisit recent pasts in self-conscious and non-nostalgic ways.
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Anna-Brigitte Schlittler
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Katharina Tietze
(eds.)
Bally - A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period
In the 1930s, shoes became fashionable objects with wide consequences for design and industrial production. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution.
Contemporary PerforMemory
Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
An interdisciplinary research journey, introducing the new idea of PerforMemory through a study of contemporary dance-making in Europe, Taiwan, the Caribbean and the USA.
Marko Kölbl
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Fritz Trümpi
(eds.)
Music and Democracy
Participatory Approaches
This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.
Martin Lorber
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Felix Zimmermann
(eds.)
History in Games
Contingencies of an Authentic Past
From the perspective of historical game studies this book illuminates historical authenticity, a buzzword used by game developers and consumers alike.
Taking Stakes in the Unknown
Tracing Post-Black Art
What does it mean to be Black in the early 21st Century? This question guided an art exhibition that deeply shaped our perspective on Black art and artists today.
Alleviative Objects
Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art
Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through the analysis of intersectional entanglements and offers important insight into inter-racial conflicts that shape the global field of contemporary art today.
Gabriel N. Gee
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Caroline Wiedmer
(eds.)
Maritime Poetics
From Coast to Hinterland
An alternate construction of the imaginaries and aspirations of our present societies at the crossroads of sea and land.
Shahram Khosravi
(ed.)
Waiting – A Project in Conversation
Scholars, architects, artists, and writers examine the theme of waiting a as particular experience of time, shaped by class, race, and gender.