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Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping of ...Show more
'Art and Fear' and 'Art As Far As the Eye Can See' by Paul Virilio; Julie Rose (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Paul Virilio is one of contemporary continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact of modern technology on the contemporary global condition is powerful and disturbing, ranging over art, architecture, science, politics, visual culture and warfare. In Art a ...Show more
Brecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht; Marc Silberman (Editor); Tom Kuhn (Editor); Steve Giles (Editor)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, Brecht's writings are presented in this definitive editi ...Show more
Dissemination by Jacques Derrida; Barbara Johnson (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
"In Dissemination - more than in any previous work - Derrida weav es] a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to be the literature of truth." New StatesmanJacqu ...Show more
Goering - The Iron Man by Richard Overy
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the heart of Hitler's inner circle.Hermann Goering was Hitler's most loyal supporter, his designated successor ...Show more
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. These techniques and exercises were evolved in the a ...Show more
Old Mistresses - Women, Art and Ideology by Rozsika Parker; Griselda Pollock
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Category: Art | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History history yet effected real change? With a new preface by Griselda Pollock, this edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollo ...Show more
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain by Edward Said
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
On Late Style was the final published work of Edward Said, author of Orientalism and one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Said explores the works of artists in their twilight years and find that these works are often rebellious rather than conservative, prophetic not nostalgic ...Show more
Philosophy of Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
In this classic work of music theory Adorno critiques two major composers, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, who he presents as dialectically opposed to one another in terms of their musical styles, techniques and directions. Adorno's readings, especially of Schoenberg, continue to cause controvers ...Show more
Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
The author compares myths about meat-eating with myths about manliness, and seeks to explore the literary, scientific, and social connections between meat-eating, male dominance, and war. Drawing on such sources as butchering texts, cookbooks, Victorian hygiene manuals, and Alice Walker, the author argu ...Show more
The Actor Speaks - Voice and the Performer by Patsy Rodenburg
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this Bloomsbury Revelations edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks. Beginning with what every first-year acting student faces in class and ending with what leading professional actors must achieve ever ...Show more
The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida; Lorna Marshall
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control ...Show more