In the popular imagination, zombies are scary, decomposing corpses hunting down the living. But since the 1930s, there have also been other zombies shambling across the panels of comic books—zombies that aren’t quite what most people think zombies should be. There have been zombie slaves, zombie henchmen, talking zombies, beautiful zombies, and even zombie heroes. Using archival research in…
Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection managers, information specialists, curators, and conservators. This emphasis on practicalities and implementation, while undeniably important, has often meant that there is little room for critical exami…
The Olympic Village is today a key element in the organisation and success of the Games. It brings together the world’s athletes in a unique location, and offers them an accommodation solution adapted to their needs during the final phase of their preparation. It is the fruit of an evolution process inseparably linked to that of the Olympic Games. Already in Antiquity, in order to take part i…
The 2020 Summer Olympics, branded as Tokyo 2020 was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 08 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 07 September 2013. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 09 August 2020, the event was postponed…
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the comics culture of Taiwan. Under martial law (1949–87), Taiwan’s comics culture was shaped by an intriguing mix: mainland Chinese traditions of political cartoons (manhua) and popular “picture books” (lianhuanhua) existed side by side with pirated and often obscured Japanese manga. Triangulating the sociology of culture, media hist…
The glamorous style of Versace Home Collectionis today represented by the sophisticated shapes and innovative materials that live in a “now mood” contexts offering a total home design that highlight “The ver y Versace way”. The collection is inspired by an imaginar y that puts the emphasis on Versace’s energy and it is a homage to the most iconic elements of Versace’s World.
By exploring diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplines and arts-led practices, this open access book addresses the gap between diagrams as a widely valued mode of visual representation and their under-examined status within arts and art education Informed by Charles Sanders Peirce’s understanding of a diagram as an analogy of relations, Drawing Analogies draws o…
Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theater, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles and growing up amid the suspicion and scrutiny epitomized by the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert the racism and sexism that beset her life and caree…
The story of sporting communities and individuals at the University of Westminster over 150 years is the second book to explore the institution's diverse history including its role as a pioneer of women's sports. Drawing upon the University's extensive archives this richly illustrated book celebrates its unique, ground-breaking sports heritage.
This textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and American freeform. We describe three types of transformative RPGs: transformative leisure, therapeutic, and educational. We present our model of nano-game design, offering recommen…
Growing up, my sister and I listened to the soundtrack of the musical Pip-pin (1972) so frequently, with such verve, that a permanent skip formed in the middle of “War Is a Science.” (We eventually bought a replacement record.) I don’t recall her ever expressing interest in any other musical, but she LOVEDPippin. She was a particular fan of Ben Vereen, who received a Tony Award for Best A…
This book shines a light on the value and effectiveness of football clubs’ community engagement work, the cultural value of sport and the position sport plays within people’s daily lives. The book considers the deep historical roots that many football clubs have as charitable institutions within their civic locales. Including original research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, the b…
Which kind of music do I listen to and which not? Can I go to a classical music concert if I have never been to one? Can I, as a pop music fan, attend a heavy metal concert? Which music do I talk about with my friends? How do I communicate my preferences? And what does it even mean to be a jazz fan? In light of the fundamentally social function of music, this book tries to answer the question o…
Four days after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, the Los Angeles Police Department established O.J. Simpson as their prime suspect. Inconsistencies in his statements to law officials and first DNA testing results constituted grounds for an arrest warrant, and Simpson was subsequently ordered to turn himself in; a rare privilege in a homicide investigation that immediately…
grew up without television. My parents believed that television was a badthing; it cost too much, would take attention away from other activities,would lead to passivity and obstruct family life. This was in Norway in the1960s and my parents’beliefs resonated with the dominant misgivingsabout television at the time.As a child, I was proud of our TV-free life. But the resistance did notstick. …
While a larger history of medieval Indian theatre, comprehensively accounting for its different literary, theoretical, and performative strands, still needs to be written, the ambition of the present study is to explore the emergence of an original debate on the nature of dance and dramatic acting in the Abhinavabh?rat?, Abhinavagupta’s eleventh-century commentary on Bharata’s N??ya??stra. …
Strolling through the streets of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, an urban observer happens on an advertisement for the Folies-Bergère, a music hall and revue theater (fig. 1). Illustrated on this poster is a slim, captivating woman; her posterior is exposed, and she is on her tiptoes in heels, coyly look-ing back at the spectator. Her flowing hair creates the impression that she is…
It was the last day of October 2015 when I attended Rootlessroot’s (2015) performance Europium [The end of the world will be better this year]1 at the Onassis Stegi in Athens, Greece. Europium, the chemical element, is known for its volatile and unpredictable nature, much like the narratives circulating internationally about Greeks during the Greek financial crisis. …
Funk and disco era California dancing demonstrates a dynamic fluidity of stylistic boundaries, reflective of dancers’ travels within and across neigh-borhoods, cities, and regions. By way of everyday people’s movements of migration and dislocation, physical and imaginative wandering, vernacular dances trace circuitous routes, emerge from multiple centers, and prolifer ate in re…
By the time a child is ready to leave primary school they should be able to swim, know how to get out of trouble if they fall into water, know the dangers of water and understand how to stay safe when playing in and around it. It is part of the national curriculum PE programme of study for England, so all local authority-maintained primary schools must provide swimming and water safety instruct…
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of the game of tennis and its duties and responsibilities include protecting the integrity of the game through determination of the Rules of Tennis. To assist the ITF in carrying out this responsibility, the ITF has appointed a Rules of Tennis Committee which continually monitors the game and its rules, and when considered necessar…
To achieve this, we need to break down barriers to entry and grow the game by bringing new and different audiences into our sport. Indeed, one of our key strategies is to find new ways to grow participation, and padel is a fantastic example of that. It’s an innovative format of tennis that’s fun, sociable and easy to play. It can be played in groups of mixed ages and abilities due to it not…
Paragliding does not only look easy and safe – it actually is. Thanks to the Papillon standards for safe paragliding, almost anyone can experience the great adventure of flying today. However, paragliding can quickly become an extreme sport; for example when out of ignorance or carelessness a too sophisticated glider is flown in meteorologically challenging conditions.This pilot handbook teac…
In this quotation, Sharon draws together two concepts key to understanding The Industry’s vision of “opera for everyone”: the operatic genre’s historical elitism, and the role performance space plays in mediating this generic exclu-sivity. Sharon’s words highlight another juxtaposition as well, that between the site-specific spectacles created by The Industry and the fourth-w…
Although the standard which you will be expected to reach will be the same in every school, the actual training programme and methods may vary. This is because they are determined by the craft (hang glider or paraglider), the type of launch method (hill or tow), the site, and the weather on the day. Once you have mastered controlling the glider on the ground (‘ground handling’) – which i…
Pengetahuan tentang sejarah tari menjadi penting bagi siapapun yang menekuni dunia seni ini. Buku ini memuat berbagai pengetahuan tentang tari di Indonesia dan sejarahnya dengan alur periodisasi. Bagaimana sebuah tari traditional bertahan hingga kini- dan tetap didukung oleh masyarakat pada masa sekarang hingga masa mendatang. Bagaimana sebuah tarian bisa berkembang menjadi karya baru yang kon…
Istilah drama berasal dari drame, sebuah kata Perancis yang diambil oleh Diderot dan Beaumarchaid untuk menjelaskan lakon-lakon mereka tentang kehidupan kelas menengah. Drama adalah lakon serius yang menggarap satu masalah yang punya arti penting tapi tidak bertujuan mengagungkan tragika. Dalam jagat modern, istilah drama sering diperluas sehingga mencakup semua lakon serius, termasuk di dalamn…
The Martial Arts of Indonesia is heavily illustrated and carefully researched work form renowed martial arts cholar and teacher Donn F. Draeger offers an expert perpective on the story of Indonesia's martial culture, providing a comprehensive introduction to the sopisticated forms of empy-hand combat that characterize acrobatic Indonesian fighting styles like Pencak Silat and Kuntao as well as …
Indonesia merupakan negeri kaya budaya yang mempunyai berbagai macam budaya lokal maupun nasional. Salah satu budaya lokal maupun nasional. Salah satu budaya tersebut adlaah aneka lagu daerah yang mewakli berbagai daerah yang ada di Indonesia. Lagu-lagu tersebut adalah wujud kreatifitas seni yang merupakan warisan.
Sudah sejak lama setiap bepergian ke luar negeri, saya selalu menikmati keindahan bangunan-bangunan peninggalan sejarah yang berfungsi modern. Entah itu sebagai restaurant/cafe, perkantoran, bank, museum, ataupun galeri seni. Pengalaman estetik itu lama kelamaan memunculkan suatu obsesi dan kerinduan akan memiliki sebuah bangunan kuno yang di dalamnya difungsikan sebagai galeri seni rupa di Sem…
Salah satu kerasulan Yesuit di abad XX yang bersinggungan dengan seni musik terjadi di Kolese Loyola, sebuah kolese yang dikelola oleh para Yesuit sejak tahun 1949. Di kolese ini, seni musik Gamelan Supra (Gamelan Soegijapranata), yang awalnya disebut sebagai Gamelan Kromatik diatonis, gamelan hasil perpaduan musik Timur dan Barat, digunakan sebagai sarana untuk menerjemahkan Humanisme Ignasian…
This e-book contains origami collection models.
Stretch between the fifth and fourth fingers of the left hand in ascending, and the fifth and fourth fingers of the right hand in descending. For studying the 20 exercises in this First Part, begin with the metronome set at 60, gradually increasing the speed up to 108; this is the meaning of the double mark at the head of each exercise. Lift the fingers high and with precision, playing each not…
This e-book contains beginner's photography guide.
Gym bube is a fun introduction to your little one's gymnastics experience. This parents/caregiven assisted class focuses on play based learning in our fun filled gymnastics play areas. Your child will develop their fine motor skills and movement as they enjoy gripping, swinging, bending and crawling.
This e-book contains boxing's brief practice.
When planning to build a new tennis court then the design and specification of the size and dimensions will be outlined which will change depending on budgets, cost restraints or physically the size restraints onsite. Some projects might only have the space for an 18m x 36m, so although it doesn’t meet the championship size it is more than the minimum recommended that is set out by the ITF. T…
This rectangle is divided in half by a net. On either side of and parallel to the net at a distance of 6.95 m are the service lines. The area between the net and the service lines is divided in half by a perpendicular line called the central service line. The central service line will extend 20 cm beyond the service line. When referring to surface and line layout, the two halves of the court mu…
When we undertook the task of reviewing the clubs identity and its brand values it was clear to us all that the lack of reference to Chelsea FC's heritage was evident. It was always important therefore that history played a big part in any development we decided to do. The result is a set of brand values and a new club badge that everyone involved with the club should be proud of. A Centenary m…
This e-book contains dog's story named Biscuit.
Buku ini dapat dipelajari dalam waktu 7 hari. Dilengkapi contoh dan foto yang menarik dari sembilan negara koleksi Herry Tjiang (Turki, Hongkong, Korea, China, Singapura, Macau, Vietnam, Kamboja, dan Indonesia). Selain mendapatkan pelajaran fotografi, mata anda akan dimanjakan dengan foto-foto menarik dari dalam dan luar negeri. Ditulis oleh fotografer profesional yang sudah 15 tahun berkecimp…
Tidak jauh berbeda dengan edisi sebelumnya, Bothekan Karawitan 2 ini juga merupakan kumpulan cerita pengalaman penulis selama lebih dari 50 tahun sejak mulai belajar menabuh gamelan, kemudian ikut menabuh, membicarakan, dan membuat gendhing atau komposisi baru. Tulisan ini sekedar perwujudan dari usaha mengurangi rasa bersalah penulis dan dosa terhadapk karawitan, dunia yang menghidupinya. Dala…
Sampai beberapa waktu yang lalu, di rumah-rumah keluarga Jawa, hampir semua keluarga memiliki benda yang berfungsi sebagai wadah, berupa rangkaian kotak-kotak kecil yang digunakan untuk menyimpan rempah-rempah, tumbuhan, biji-bijian, bunga, dedaunan kering. Produk tumbuhan yang disebut empon-empon itu, sewaktu waktu dapat diramu dan digunakan untuk menyembuhkan berbagai macam penyakit. Sesuai n…
To undertake a scholarly project on the Wonderful World of Disney, in particular one focused on the historical, cultural and artistic significance of its celebrated cel-animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937), is an endeavour that often feels like jumping headlong ‘into burning coals’. Over eighty years after its ini…
Imagine studying a building not by walking its hallways or perusing its blueprints, but by examining each of its bricks: the pockmarks produced by air bubbles in the clay, the whorls of reds and browns, the trowel’s impressions in the mortar. Imagine evaluating a mosaic not for the bigger picture but for the glint of indi-vidual tesserae. Or imagine not watching a film but looki…
Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for alien life, the stories found in the shapes of constellations to the expansive imaginings of science fiction, there has always been life up there, at the very least, for our imaginations. Mythologies of Outer Space brings together a…
The city is the womb of our history and our civilisation. It is the largest work of art ever created by humanity. The city is «the supremely human achievement» (Lévi-Strauss, 1973: 124) and the driving force of the development of thought, progress and social accomplishments. Over time it has become the main place of production, exchange and the consump-tion of goods; …
This book is about f ilms and f ilmmakers committed to reality. For them, the world is not a mere construct or discourse, but made of people, animals, plants and objects that physically exist, thrive, suffer and die. They feel part of, and responsible for, this material world and want to change it for the better. ‘Realism’, this book argues, is what def ines these f ilms’ mode of producti…
For some time now, in newspapers and books, a series of words keep ap-pearing that begin with the pref ix “post-.” As for these new words, the key to understanding seems to be a semantics of ambiguity. Post does not indicate something absolutely different but something in-between: postcapital-ism would be a new phase of capitalism; postmodernism, a new f igure of modernism; and post-history…
igitalisation and virtual worlds are increasingly permeating the cultural sector and the creative industries. When it is difficult for cultural offerings to find their audience, they can or must actively reach out to their audience. This also applies to museums, which can find and retain audiences in different ways and with different formats. Even a virtual museum is fundamentally a museum. …