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ALTAIR 4 Multimedia was established in 1986 byAlessandro Furlan, Pietro Galifi and Stefano Moretti, who conceived the studio as an actual workshop where various technological and artistic disciplines would interact in a coordinated and rewarding dialogue.The members of the Altair4 creative team come from diverse backgrounds and experience in computer animation, graphic arts, design and broadcast production.The ongoing dialogue between past and present characterizes all Altair4 productions and its innovative and multi-faceted approach to creating computer products where advanced technological tools and artistic and cultural processes are joined.
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Promoted ContentAugust 2003
Ein Schaf fürs Leben
by Maritgen Matter, Anke Faust, Sylke Hachmeister
In "Ein Schaf fürs Leben" von Maritgen Matter entfaltet sich die ungewöhnliche Freundschaft zwischen einem hungrigen Wolf und einem arglosen Schaf an einem kalten Wintertag. Ursprünglich vom Wolf als leichte Beute angesehen, überredet er das Schaf zu einer gemeinsamen Schlittenfahrt durch die verschneite Landschaft, mit dem verborgenen Ziel, das Schaf am Ende der Reise zu verspeisen. Doch während ihrer abenteuerlichen Fahrt durch die Winternacht, die sich durch lustige und unerwartete Begebenheiten auszeichnet, entwickelt sich zwischen den beiden eine tiefe Verbindung, die den ursprünglichen Plan des Wolfes in Frage stellt. Die Reise nimmt schließlich eine überraschende Wendung, die das gegenseitige Verständnis und die neu entdeckte Freundschaft zwischen Schaf und Wolf in den Mittelpunkt rückt. Dieses von der Kritik gefeierte Kinderbuch, ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2004, zeichnet sich durch seine aufwändigen Illustrationen in Collagetechnik aus, die die Geschichte für Leser jeden Alters zum Leben erwecken. Maritgen Matters Erzählung über Freundschaft, Vertrauen und die unerwarteten Wendungen des Lebens spricht sowohl Kinder als auch Erwachsene an und macht "Ein Schaf fürs Leben" zu einem unvergesslichen Leseerlebnis. Die Geschichte wird durch die kunstvollen Bilder von Anke Faust ergänzt, die den Text nicht nur visuell untermalen, sondern auch die Atmosphäre der Erzählung auf besondere Weise einfangen. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2004: Anerkennung für herausragende literarische Qualität. Tiefgründige Erzählung über Freundschaft und Vertrauen: Bietet wertvolle Lebenslektionen für junge Leser. Aufwändige Illustrationen in Collagetechnik: Machen das Buch auch visuell zu einem Genuss und fördern die Vorstellungskraft. Für Leser*innen jeden Alters: Ansprechend sowohl für Kinder ab 6 Jahren als auch für Erwachsene, die die tiefere Bedeutung hinter der Geschichte schätzen. Humor und Weisheit: Eine Geschichte, die sowohl unterhält als auch zum Nachdenken anregt, begleitet von humorvollen und zugleich nachdenklichen Dialogen.
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsDecember 2012
Laughing matters
Understanding film, television and radio comedy
by Glyn White, John Mundy
Laughing Matters takes an analytic approach to film, television and radio comedy and provides an accessible overview of its forms and contexts. The introduction explains the value of studying comedy, concisely outlines the approach taken and summarises the relevant theories. The subsequent chapters are divided into two parts. The first part examines the specific forms comedy has taken as a constant and key element in film and broadcast comedy from their origins to the present. The second part shows how the genre gravitates towards contentious issues in British and American culture as it finds humour in the boundaries of class, gender, sexuality, race and logic. The authors cover silent cinema comedy including Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton, sound film comedies including the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, Romantic film comedy, radio, television situation and sketch comedy, comedy and genre (including parody and spoof), animations from cartoons to CGI, issues of gender and sexuality from drag comedy to queer reading, issues of taste and humour from Carry On to contemporary 'gross-out' , and issues of race and ethnicity including a case study of African-American screen comedy. Numerous opportunities for following up are highlighted and advice on further reading, writing academically about comedy and an extensive bibliography add to the value of this textbook. ;
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesOctober 2022
Migrants shaping Europe, past and present
by Helen Solterer, Vincent Joos
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The ArtsMarch 1905
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by Wassily Kandinsky
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crystallizes the ideas that were influencing many other modern artists of the period. Along with his own groundbreaking paintings, this book had a tremendous impact on the development of modern art. Kandinsky's ideas are presented in two parts. The first part, called "About General Aesthetic," issues a call for a spiritual revolution in painting that will let artists express their own inner lives in abstract, non-material terms. Just as musicians do not depend upon the material world for their music, so artists should not have to depend upon the material world for their art. In the second part, "About Painting," Kandinsky discusses the psychology of colors, the language of form and color, and the responsibilities of the artist. An Introduction by the translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, offers additional explanation of Kandinsky's art and theories, while a new Preface by Richard Stratton discusses Kandinsky's career as a whole and the impact of the book. Making the book even more valuable are nine woodcuts by Kandinsky himself that appear at the chapter headings. This English translation of Über das Geistige in der Kunst was a significant contribution to the understanding of nonobjectivism in art. It continues to be a stimulating and necessary reading experience for every artist, art student, and art patron concerned with the direction of 20th-century painting.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesOctober 2023
The illusion of the Burgundian state
by Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Christopher Fletcher
On 25 January 1474, Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, appeared before his subjects in Dijon. Robed in silk, gold and precious jewels and wearing a headpiece that gave the illusion of a crown, he made a speech in which he cryptically expressed his desire to become a king. Three years later, Charles was killed at the battle of Nancy, an event that plunged the Great Principality of Burgundy into chaos. This book, innovative and essential, not only explores Burgundian history and historiography but offers a complete synthesis about the nature of politics in this region, considered both from the north and the south. Focusing on political ideologies, a number of important issues are raised relating to the medieval state, the signification of the nation under the 'Ancien Regime', the role of warfare in the creation of political power and the impact of political loyalties in the exercise of government. In doing so, the book challenges a number of existing ideas about the Burgundian state.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025
Arctic state identity
Geography, history, and geopolitical relations
by Ingrid A. Medby
This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight 'Arctic states'; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state personnel? It charts the thoughtful reflections and stories of state personnel from three Arctic states: Norway, Iceland, and Canada, alongside analysis of documents and discourses. This book shows how state identities are narrated as both geographical and temporal - understood through environments, territories, pasts and futures - and that any identity is always relational and contextual. As such, demonstrating that to understand Arctic geopolitics we need to pay attention to the people whose job it is to represent the state on a daily basis. And more broadly, it offers a 'peopled' view of geopolitics, introducing the concept and framework of 'state identity'.
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Trusted PartnerTeaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2023
Pluriversal sovereignty and the state
Imperial encounters in Sri Lanka
by Ajay Parasram
Presenting a case study of British colonial rule and its aftermath in Sri Lanka, this book explores the collision of competing ontologies in the making of the modern state system. It develops a decolonial theoretical framework informed by the idea of a 'pluriverse' to reveal the empirical and imperial avenues through which the idea of the modern/colonial state became normalised in Ceylon. The book contributes to three areas of scholarly discussion: the politics of ontology as related to sovereignty, postcolonial and decolonial international relations, and globalisation through the colonial encounter. It argues that in order to understand contemporary postcolonial crises rooted in territorial conflicts, we must first understand the historical and conceptual processes that depoliticised and universalised the norm of 'total territorial rule' rather than treating the modern state as a territorial and developmental inevitability.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJuly 2020
Race talk
Languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets
by Antonia Lucia Dawes
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Race talk is about language use as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relations of domination and subordination in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, while also helping us to understand how transcultural solidarity might be expressed. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted on licensed and unlicensed market stalls in in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, this book examines the centrality of multilingual talk to everyday struggles about difference, positionality and entitlement. In these street markets, Neapolitan street vendors work alongside documented and undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, China, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal as part of an ambivalent, cooperative and unequal quest to survive and prosper. As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, national and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. The edginess of their multilingual organisation offered useful insights into the kinds of imaginaries that will be needed to overcome the politics of borders, nationalism and radical incommunicability.
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesMarch 2024
Borrowed objects and the art of poetry
Spolia in Old English verse
by Denis Ferhatovic
This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginative use of recycled fictional artefacts to create sites of metatextual reflection. Old English poetry famously lacks an explicit ars poetica. This book argues that attention to particularly charged moments within texts - especially those concerned with translation, transformation and the layering of various pasts - yields a previously unrecognised means for theorising Anglo-Saxon poetic creativity. Borrowed objects and the art of poetry works at the intersections of materiality and poetics, balancing insights from thing theory and related approaches with close readings of passages from Old English texts.
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