Style Wars
| Author | : David Sparshott |
| Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-04-02 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 9781856699228 |
Dressing a Galaxy
| Author | : Trisha Biggar |
| Publisher | : Insight Editions |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2005-10 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : |
In this exquisite volume, the intricate and beautiful fashions that have appeared in all six "Star Wars(" films are on display--from military gear to royal gowns and the iconic garbs of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader.
The Hip Hop Wars
| Author | : Tricia Rose |
| Publisher | : Civitas Books |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2008-12-02 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0465008976 |
A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce.
Dressing for the Culture Wars
| Author | : Betty Luther Hillman |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2015-10-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0803269757 |
Style of dress has always been a way for Americans to signify their politics, but perhaps never so overtly as in the 1960s and 1970s. Whether participating in presidential campaigns or Vietnam protests, hair and dress provided a powerful cultural tool for social activists to display their politics to the world and became both the cause and a symbol of the rift in American culture. Some Americans saw stylistic freedom as part of their larger political protests, integral to the ideals of self-expression, sexual freedom, and equal rights for women and minorities. Others saw changes in style as the erosion of tradition and a threat to the established social and gender norms at the heart of family and nation. Through the lens of fashion and style, Dressing for the Culture Wars guides us through the competing political and social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Although long hair on men, pants and miniskirts on women, and other hippie styles of self-fashioning could indeed be controversial, Betty Luther Hillman illustrates how self-presentation influenced the culture and politics of the era and carried connotations similarly linked to the broader political challenges of the time. Luther Hillman’s new line of inquiry demonstrates how fashion was both a reaction to and was influenced by the political climate and its implications for changing norms of gender, race, and sexuality.
Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe
| Author | : Nick Jamilla |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786451793 |
Unlike most makers of modern or futuristic films, George Lucas turned away from the standard special operatives or secret agents when he created the heroes for his epic Star Wars saga. Part knight, part monk, the Jedi Knights were an order of swordsmen that helped rule the universe in accordance with law and lofty principles of justice and honor. Without the Jedi, there could be no Star Wars, and without the lightsaber sword, there could be no Jedi. This examination of the Jedi Knights, their adversaries the Sith and their lightsaber swordplay throughout all six episodes of the franchise evaluates the ways in which Lucas blended science fiction with the most ancient and epic tales of traditional samurai and Western swordsmen. It presents swordsmanship as a way to better understand the Jedi Knights, focusing on the human movement and activity surrounding the weapon and the ways in which traditional Japanese martial arts were adapted for use in the films. Topics of discussion include the powerful effects of the master-apprentice relationship; the technical choreography used in the lightsaber scenes of the Star Wars films; and the historical precedents for the Jedi order, including the Sohei fighting monks of Japan, the Janissaries and Mamelukes of Islam, and the knights of the Templar, Hospitaller and Teutonic orders.
Understanding Graffiti
| Author | : Troy R Lovata |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2016-06-16 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1315416123 |
This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts, and shows how they are interpreted in fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, museum studies, and sociology.
From the Platform 2
| Author | : Paul Cavalieri |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Graffiti |
| ISBN | : 9780764352904 |
This is a nostalgic, visual account of the best time and place to be a graffiti writer. In the 1980s, brothers Kenny, a.k.a. KEY, and Paul, a.k.a. CAVS, immersed themselves in the graffiti scene in the Boogie Down Bronx, dutifully photographing hundreds of pieces on now-discontinued MTA subway cars and capturing their proud comrades before, during, and after the act. "Bombing" "White Elephants" with their pilot markers and documenting them with their cameras, which they always carried, they were on the ride of their lives--until 1989, when the last painted train was removed from service. Tags by names like QUIK, IZTHEWIZ, and many others appear here in color exposures, and dozens of artists share stories and drop knowledge with no filter. A foreword by graffiti historian Henry Chalfant, coproducer of Style Wars--the seminal documentary on New York graffiti and hip-hop culture--kicks things off.
Documentary Making for Digital Humanists
| Author | : Darren R. Reid |
| Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2021-11-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1800641974 |
This fluent and comprehensive field guide responds to increased interest, across the humanities, in the ways in which digital technologies can disrupt and open up new research and pedagogical avenues. It is designed to help scholars and students engage with their subjects using an audio-visual grammar, and to allow readers to efficiently gain the technical and theoretical skills necessary to create and disseminate their own trans-media projects. Documentary Making for Digital Humanists sets out the fundamentals of filmmaking, explores academic discourse on digital documentaries and online distribution, and considers the place of this discourse in the evolving academic landscape. The book walks its readers through the intellectual and practical processes of creating digital media and documentary projects. It is further equipped with video elements, supplementing specific chapters and providing brief and accessible introductions to the key components of the filmmaking process. This will be a valuable resource to humanist scholars and students seeking to embrace new media production and the digital landscape, and to those researchers interested in using means beyond the written word to disseminate their work. It constitutes a welcome contribution to the burgeoning field of digital humanities, as the first practical guide of its kind designed to facilitate humanist interactions with digital filmmaking, and to empower scholars and students alike to create and distribute new media audio-visual artefacts.
