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This book foregrounds that English monolingualism reduces both our linguistic and conceptual resources, presenting concepts from the cultures of 4 continents and 26 languages. Concepts seem to work best when created in the interspace between theory and praxis, and between philosophy, art, and science. Deleuze himself had generated many concepts in this encounter between philosophy and non-philosophy, including his ideas of affects and percep...

Particularly for the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, for which writing is their lifeblood, the crisis in academic writing has become existential. It is not hard to diagnose the disease, and its causes. This book showcases what we desperately need: radical alternatives, experiments we can try out, ways of writing that don't just tweak the system but plot a different course altogether. This isn't just about finding new genres,...

This almanac of sound words important to artists and scholars highlights words that expand the way we speak (and write) about sonic experiences. Why write about music, and how? If music philosophy is the attempt "to think about music by philosophical means, " then a metaphilosophical debate appears almost immediately on the horizon: What is called for is an understanding about music and language, but also about the preconditions of musical un...

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The first critical anthology of an important and singular contemporary composer

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The cooperation and collaboration between media, art forms, and cultural studies

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Film studies meets philosophy as never before

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This collection of 20 essays pays homage to a filmmaker who had a reputation for delivering the most movie for the least amount of money. Edgar G. Ulmer delivered classics like The Black Cat, starring Bela Lugosi, and was nicknamed "The King of the Bs" and "The King of Poverty Row." Ulmer's stealing away the wife of a producer led to his exile from Hollywood, and working outside the studio system and with low budgets, he turned out film noir, ...

Known for starring alongside Lon Chaney, Sr., in numerous silents, and for directing the classics Dracula and Freaks, Tod Browning has been called the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema. In this work, film scholars and Browning experts study a number of the major themes in his works. Topics covered include the connection between Browning, Poe and Kant, cinematic techniques, disability, masochism, sound and suspense, duality, parenthood, narrative a...

This collection of essays pays tribute to director Edgar Ulmer, the so-called "King of Poverty Row, " whose classic works include The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945). This volume also includes an interview with Ulmer's wife Shirley, as well as the first English translation of an interview with Ulmer conducted in 1965.