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Design for Stage and Screen: General Cultural History & Theory

General Cultural History & Theory

◼ Bachelard, Gaston. “The House” in Collins and Nisbet (eds.) Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography. London and New York: Routledge, 2010: A 128-132. Call number: 792.025 THE

◼ Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility.” In Collins and Nisbet (eds.) Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography. London and New York: Routledge, 2010: pp 315-320. Call number: 792.025 THE

 Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Edited and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken Books, 2007. Call number: 809 BEN

 Benjamin, Walter. Selected Writings. Translated by Rodney Livingstone and Others. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Call number: 838.912 WAL

 Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 1999. Call number: 944.361081 BEN/ Also available as an eBook

◼ Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: BBC, 1972. Call number: 701 BER 

Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. Harmondsworth, London: Penguin, 1991. Call number: 153.3 BET

◼ Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books, 2001. Call number: 909.82 BOY 

◼ Calinescu, Matei. Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Durham N.C: Duke University Press, 1987. Call number: 111.85 CAL

◼ Dermody, Brenda and Teresa Breathnach. New Retro: Classic Graphics, Today’s Designs. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009. Call number: 741.60905 DER

 Douglas, Mary. Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. eBook

◼ Dyer, Richard. The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Call number: 791.43653 DYE

◼ Foucault, Michel “On Heterotopias: Of Other Spaces” in Collins and Nisbet (eds.) Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography. London and New York: Routledge, 2010: pp 73-80. Call number: 792.025 THE

◼ Foucault, Michel.  Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. London: Penguin, 1979. Call number: 194 FOU

◼ Foucault, Michel. “Docile Bodies” in Collins and Nisbet (eds.) Theatre and Performance Design. A Reader in Scenography. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. 239-242. Call number: 792.025 THE

◼ Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. London: Vintage, 2001. Call number: 150.1952 FRE

◼ Guffey, Elizabeth. Retro: The Culture of Revival. London: Reaktion Press, 2006. Call number: 306 GUF

◼ Hall, Stuart and Paul du Gay (Eds.) Questions of Cultural Identity. London, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1996. Call number: 306 QUE/Also available as an eBook

◼ Hall, Stuart, David Held and Tony McGrew (eds.) Modernity and Its Futures. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. Call number: 301.0903 MOD

◼ Hooks, Bell. Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. New York: New Press, 1995. Call number: 701.18 HOO

◼ Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. London: Verso, 1991. Call number: 306 JAM

◼ Jameson, Fredric. The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998. London and New York: Verso, 1998. Call number: 809.9113 JAM

◼ Jencks, Charles (ed.) The Post-Modern Reader. London: Academy Editions, 1992. Call number: 306 POS

◼ Jencks, Charles. What is Post-Modernism? London: Academy Editions, 1996. Call number: 306 JEN

◼ Jenks, Chris. Childhood. London and New York: Routldge, 1996. Call number: 305.23 JEN/Also available as an eBook

◼ Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. London: Laurence King, 2010. Call number: 770.9 MAR

◼ Mauss, Marcel. The Gift : Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies. Martino Fine Books 2011. Call number: 394 MAU

◼ Mirzeoff, Nicholas (ed.) The Visual Culture Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Call number: 700.103 VIS

◼ Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Call number: 306.4 INT

◼ Mirzoeff, Nicholas. Bodyscape: Art, Modernity, and the Ideal Figure. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Call number: 704.942 MIR

◼ Rose, Gillian. Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, the Public, and the Politics of Sentiment. Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Call number: 779.201 ROS

◼ Rose, Gillian. Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Interpreting Visual Objects. London, Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2001. Call number: 302.222 ROS

◼ Sofaer, Derevenski. Joanna. Children and Material Culture. London: Routledge, 2000. Call number: 305.2309 CHI

◼ Sontag, Susan, On Photography. London and New York: Penguin, repr. 2008. Call number: 770.1 SON

◼ Turkle, Sherry (ed.) Simulation and its Discontents. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2009. Call number: 003.3 TUR

◼ Warner, Marina. “The Language of Hair” and “From the Beast to the Blonde” in From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. New York, The Noonday Press, 1994. Call number: 398.2 WAR

◼ West, Nancy. Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000. Call number: 659.1977131 WES

◼ Zipes, Jack, Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002. Call number: 398.209 ZIP

◼ Zornado, Joseph. Inventing the Child: Culture, Ideology and the Story of Childhood. New York: Garland Publications, 2001. Call number: 305.23 ZOR