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Music as Cultural Diplomacy: Analyzing the Role of Musical Flows from the Arab Levant to New Cultural Poles in the Arab Gulf in the Twenty-First Century
This chapter examines the flows of musics, musicians, aesthetics, and ideologies between the Arab Levant and the Gulf. It questions the centrality of...
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Scratching the Surface: For a Reappraisal of Violence in Contemporary French Cinema
This essay investigates the aesthetic as well as social implications of the body in pain in three recent French films, namely Dans ma peau/In My Skin...
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The Double Marginality of Peripheral Locations
Through the main concepts of peripheral locations and double marginality, this chapter presents an innovative approach to reading and understanding...
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A Sea Without a Shore: Toward Building an Alternative Visual Archive of Guantánamo Bay
This chapter explores the role that art made by Guantánamo Bay detainee Moath al-Alwi plays in building an alternative visual archive of the...
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Guantánamo Bay Ensigns: Material Rhetorics and Moath al-Alwi’s Ships
This chapter brings a material rhetorics approach to artwork by Moath al-Alwi. The chapter does a deep reading of the signification of the Joint Task...
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The Rationality of War: Brecht’s Theatre Experiments at the Limit of the Epic
This article traces the dramaturgy of war as a crucial concept not only for accessing Brecht’s plays but also for his experiments with the model book...
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Game of Thrones and the Sublime
This paper explores the sublime as a key to the aesthetic impacts of Game of Thrones. Starting from the premise that Game of Thrones shares some of...
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Art is Patient: A Museum-Based Experience to Teach Trauma-Sensitive Engagement in Health Care
Psychological trauma is ubiquitous, an often hidden yet influential factor in care across clinical specialties. Interdisciplinary health professions...
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Introduction: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics
The introduction begins with an ephemeral advertisement from Black Arts magazine, preserved within the Unfinished Histories archive. This clip** is...
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Cacography, anomaly detection, and counterfactual violence
The counterfactual sound-byte, a technocratic aphorism for phobogenic rumor, has bisected the public use of (un)reason, such as the counterfactual...
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Musicking the Chinese Martial Arts Cinema
This chapter provides an overview of the conventions and aesthetics of theatre performances that have been inherent to martial arts film production...
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Gothic Cinema After 1960
This chapter gives an overview of Gothic cinema between 1960 and roughly 2000. While the conventions established in the previous decades and...
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Carmilla and the Daughters of Darkness
This chapter presents an overview of the film and media adaptations of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) produced between 1989 and 2019. It presents...
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Food/Drink Consumption, Emotions, and Obsessions in Shakespeare’s Plays and Art
Shakespeare’s plays fill with food and drink as plentiful metaphors for different aspects of life. “Life … consists of eating and drinking,” well...
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Ojo Semilla: Weaving Feminisms Through Community Cinema
This collectively written chapter places Ojo Semilla’s itinerant laboratory of audiovisual practices in dialogue with feminist theories, concepts and...
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Operatic Tradition and Its Transnational Refashioning: A Case Study of The Banquet (2006)
This chapter, I take The Banquet (2006) by Feng **aogang as a case study of the globalized motion picture culture and market. The use of percussive...
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Of Khaar, Pithaa and Aitaa’r Posola: Exploring the Folk Aesthetics and the Erotic in Assamese Food
This paper will discuss the inextricable bond of food and eros with folk aesthetics of the people of Assam. The oral narrative genres like folk...
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“Let Me Be Your Stimy Toy”: Fashioning Disability, Crip** Fashion
This chapter considers how previously marginalised corporealities get incorporated into the visual mainstream and asks how—and if—fashion can help to...
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Cute! Cats! Intimacies of the Internet
In this chapter, we explore the intimacies of the internet cat. Drawing on Berlant’s concept of intimacy, we develop this as including a blurring of...
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Musical Delineations of a PostNational Space for National Struggle: Hazara, Kurdish, and Baloch Cases
In cases where the logic of the nation-state has proved inhospitable or irrelevant to a self-designated national community, musicians often play a...