Images in Asian Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images in Asian Religions write by Phyllis Granoff. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Images in Asian Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding of the role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied, including the many hesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about image worship. Written by eminent scholars of anthropology, art history, and religion with interests in different regions (India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia), this volume takes a fresh look at the many ways in which images were defined and received in Asian religions. Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Religion
Media Studies
Media Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media Studies write by Paul Long. This book was released on 2014-07-10. Media Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Media Studies: Texts, Production, Context, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive introduction to the various approaches in the field. From outlining what media studies is to encouraging active engagement in research and analysis, this book advocates media study as a participatory process and provides a framework and set of skills to help you develop critical thinking. Updated to reflect the changing media environment, Media Studies retains the highly praised approach and style of the first edition. Key Features: Five sections - media texts and meanings; producing media; media audiences; media and social contexts; histography - examine approaches to the field including new and web media, traditional print and broadcast media, popular music, computer games, photography, and film. An international perspective allows you to view media in a global context. Examines media audiences as consumers, listeners, readerships and members of communities. Guidance on analytical tools - language, a range of theories and analytical techniques - to give you the confidence to navigate, research and make sense of the field. New for the second edition: New case studies including Google, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, the life of a freelance journalist, phone hacking at News International, and collaborative journalism. 'New Media, New Media Studies' is an additional feature, which brings into focus ways of thinking about new media forms. Media Studies: Texts, Production, Context, 2nd Edition will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, film studies, the sociology of the media, popular culture and other related subjects.
The Five Scrolls
The Five Scrolls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Five Scrolls write by Athalya Brenner-Idan. This book was released on 2018-02-22. The Five Scrolls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection, scholars from diverse geographical locations revisit a cluster of five biblical texts: Ruth, Song of Songs, Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), Lamentations and Esther. The volume presents various viewpoints and contexts-geographical, communal, religious, social, economical and ethical. Matching scholarship with social awareness, the contributors keep asking themselves and their readers a dual-faced question: how does our life context influence our scholarly and non-scholarly readings of the Bible, and how does reading the Bible critically influence our life? To answer this question and to show it at work the contributors employ a range of contextual lenses. Geography is a major factor of the contributors' contexts – with contributors from South Africa, Argentina, Israel, the Pacific Islands – but not the only one to influence their readings. Issues of society, culture and community are at the foreground for all contributors and their reading agendas with specific focus on the AIDs crisis in Africa, issues of migration and asylum, and feminist approaches to biblical texts.
Reading Graphic Design History
Reading Graphic Design History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Graphic Design History write by David Raizman. This book was released on 2021-03-11. Reading Graphic Design History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading Graphic Design History uses a series of key artifacts from the history of print culture in light of their specific historical contexts. It encourages the reader to look carefully and critically at print advertising, illustration, posters, magazine art direction and typography, often addressing issues of class, race and gender. David Raizman's innovative approach intentionally challenges the canon of graphic design history and various traditional understandings of graphic design. He re-examines 'icons' of graphic design in light of their local contexts, avoiding generalisation to explore underlying attitudes about various social issues. He encourages new ways of reading graphic design that take into account a broader context for graphic design activity, rather than broad views that discourage the understanding of difference and the means by which graphic design communicates cultural values. With a foreword by Steven Heller.
Texts and Contexts
Texts and Contexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Texts and Contexts write by Steven Lynn. This book was released on 1998. Texts and Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory provides an accessible introduction to comtemporary critical theories - from new criticism to cultural studies - as part of the practice of writing about literature. This second edition includes cultural criticism and an expanded treatment of political criticism, as well as additional coverage of the research process and the internet.
