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The Cool-Kawaii - Thorsten Botz Bornstein - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Cool-Kawaii - Thorsten Botz Bornstein - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

At the turn of the millennium, international youth culture is dominated by mainly two types of aesthetics: the African American cool, which, propelled by Hip-Hop music, has become the world''s favorite youth culture; and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute, that is distributed internationally by Japan''s powerful anime industry. The USA and Japan are cultural superpowers and global trendsetters because they make use of two particular concepts that hide complex structures under their simple surfaces and are difficult to define, but continue to fascinate the world: cool and kawaii. The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, analyzes these attitudes and explains the intrinsic powers that are leading to a fusion of both aesthetics. Cool and kawaii are expressions set against the oppressive homogenizations that occur within official modern cultures, but they are also catalysts of modernity. Cool and kawaii do not refer us back to a pre-modern ethnic past. Just like the cool African American man has almost no relationship with traditional African ideas about masculinity, the kawaii shôjo is not the personification of the traditional Japanese ideal of the feminine, but signifies an ideological institution of women based on Japanese modernity in the Meiji period, that is, a feminine image based on westernization. At the same time, cool and kawaii do not transport us into a futuristic, impersonal world of hypermodernity based on assumptions of constant modernization. Cool and kawaii stand for another type of modernity, which is not technocratic, but rather "Dandyist" and closely related to the search for human dignity and liberation.

DKK 919.00
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Reading Japan Cool - John E. Ingulsrud - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Reading Japan Cool - John E. Ingulsrud - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Japanese animation, video games, and manga have attracted fans around the world. The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities that come out of these cultural products are together called Japan Cool. This is not a sudden fad, but is rooted in manga—Japanese comics—which since the mid-1940s have developed in an exponential way. In spite of a gradual decline in readership, manga still commands over a third of the publishing output. The volume of manga works that is being produced and has been through history is enormous. There are manga publications that attract readers of all ages and genders. The diversity in content attracts readers well into adulthood. Surveys on reading practices have found that almost all Japanese people read manga or have done so at some point in their lives. The skills of reading manga are learned by readers themselves, but learned in the context of other readers and in tandem with school learning. Manga reading practices are sustained by the practices of other readers, and manga content therefore serves as a topic of conversation for both families and friends. Moreover, manga is one of the largest sources of content for media production in film, television, and video games. Manga literacy, the practices of the readers, the diversity of titles, and the sheer number of works provide the basis for the movement recognized as Japan Cool. Reading Japan Cool is directed at an audience of students of Japanese studies, discourse analysts, educators, parents, and manga readers.

DKK 1016.00
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After War - Zoe H. Wool - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

After War - Zoe H. Wool - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

In After War Zoë H. Wool explores how the American soldiers most severely injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggle to build some kind of ordinary life while recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from grievous injuries like lost limbs and traumatic brain injury. Between 2007 and 2008, Wool spent time with many of these mostly male soldiers and their families and loved ones in an effort to understand what it''s like to be blown up and then pulled toward an ideal and ordinary civilian life in a place where the possibilities of such a life are called into question. Contextualizing these soldiers within a broader political and moral framework, Wool considers the soldier body as a historically, politically, and morally laden national icon of normative masculinity. She shows how injury, disability, and the reality of soldiers'' experiences and lives unsettle this icon and disrupt the all-too-common narrative of the heroic wounded veteran as the embodiment of patriotic self-sacrifice. For these soldiers, the uncanny ordinariness of seemingly extraordinary everyday circumstances and practices at Walter Reed create a reality that will never be normal.

DKK 881.00
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The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro - Jarle Leirpoll - Bog - APress - Plusbog.dk

The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro - Jarle Leirpoll - Bog - APress - Plusbog.dk

This book provides you with in-depth knowledge of Premiere Pro, and explains how the software “thinks”. With new skills you can choose the best workflow for your project, and simplify and accelerate your video editing process. All the authors are professional editors and want to know exactly how to cut your film as fast as possible with top quality output. There is invaluable information in The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro that’s not available anywhere else – not even in Adobe’s own manuals. - Advanced workflows for huge speed boosts:Learn why your old workflow is outdated, and how you can edit a lot faster with smarter workflows that automate several steps in the editing process - Learn how custom settings, presets, keyboard shortcuts and templates saves hours of work:Premiere can be customized in many ways that most editors don’t know. By tailoring the software to your needs you save clicks on just about every task - Understand audio smoothing, color grading, motion graphics, and advanced editing techniques:With many traditional jobs now being done by one single person, you need skills in all these disciplines. You’ll learn how, but more importantly why, to do everything. What You''ll Learn: - Choose the best and fastest workflow for every task from "import" all the way to "export" - Make your video look and sound better without spending more time - Working on a 15 sec promo, a 2 minute news story, a 30 minute documentary or a 2 hour feature film? With the knowledge in this book you’ll edit faster, no matter what you’re editing - Understand the technical stuff, like timeline settings, render codecs, color subsampling, export settings, effect controls and monitor settings - Know when to send your clips to other Adobe software, and how to treat them there. Use integration with Audition to fix bad audio, do tracking in After Effects, improve graphics in Photoshop and prepare logos for animation in Illustrator - Master the Premiere Pro timeline, even stacks of timelines, and edit, trim and adjust with ease Who This Book Is For: - Video journalists (and everyone else) will learn how to edit faster and get home in time for dinner. - Bloggers will learn how to make their online video and audio “pop”. - Film cutters will learn how to organize, rough cut and fine tune huge amounts of material effectively and how to output for digital cinema. - Experienced video editors will learn how to deal with multi-track audio and to work faster in every step of the edit. - Marketing people who edit video for social media and web pages will learn simpler ways to make a faster cut. - Teachers in media studies will understand the logic in Premiere Pro, and be better prepared for teaching video editing.

DKK 967.00
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A Country Merchant, 1495-1520 - Christopher Dyer - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

A Country Merchant, 1495-1520 - Christopher Dyer - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Around 1500 England''s society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an age of fierce controversy, in which the government was fearful of beggars and wary of rebellions. The ''commonwealth'' writers such as Thomas More were sharply critical of the greed of profit hungry landlords who dispossessed the poor. This book is about a wool merchant and large scale farmer who epitomises in many ways the spirit of the period. John Heritage kept an account book, from which we can reconstruct a whole society in the vicinity of Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire. He took part in the removal of a village which stood in the way of agricultural ''improvement'', ran a large scale sheep farm, and as a ''woolman'' spent much time travelling around the countryside meeting with gentry, farmers, and peasants in order to buy their wool. He sold the wool he produced himself, and the fleeces he gathered, to London merchants who exported wool through Calais to the textile towns of Flanders. The wool growers named in the book can be studied in their native villages, and their lives can be reconstructed in the round, interacting in their communities, adapting their farming to new circumstances, and arranging the building of their local churches. A Country Merchant has some of the characteristics of a biography, is part family history and part local history, with some landscape history. Dyer explores themes in economic and social history without neglecting the religious and cultural background. His central concern is to demonstrate the importance of the peasants'' contribution to a changing economy.

DKK 1006.00
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