Rethinking darkness : cultures, histories, practices /: cultures, histories, practices. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nick Dunn, Tim Edensor.
• Editors: Dunn, Nick, 1974-; Edensor, Tim, 1957-
• Contents: Introduction; Venturing into the Dark: Gloomy Multiplicities; Tim Edensor and Nick Dunn Part 1: Histories of The Dark 1. Affordances of the Night: Work After Dark in the Ancient World; April Nowell and Nancy Gonlin 2. Shakespeare’s Darkness: A Stage and State of Mind; Elisabeth Bronfen 3. In the Night Garden: Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London 1800-1859; Alice Barnaby 4. A Short History of Artificial Darkness and Race; Noam M. Elcott Part 2: Cultural Practices in the Dark 5. Purda: The Curtain of Darkness; Ankit Kumar 6. Inuit’s Perception of Darkness: A Singular Feature; Guy Bordin 7. Darkness in Videogame Landscapes: Corporeal and Representational Entanglements; Rob Shaw 8. Dancing in The Darkness To The Darkness; Nina J. Morris Part 3: Sensing Darkness 9. Creatures of The Night: Bodies, Rhythms And Aurora Borealis; Katrin Lund 10. Contact Zones: The Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park as Creative Milieu; Natalie Marr 11. How Does the Dark Sound?; Damien Masson 12. Ghosts and Empties; Simon Robinson Part 4: Designing with Darkness 13. Going Dark: The Theatrical Legacy of Battersea Art Centre’s Playing In The Dark Season; Martin Welton 14. On Darkness, Duration and Possibility; Shanti Sumartojo 15. Darkness as Canvas; Leni Schwendinger 16. Designing with Light and Darkness; Chris Lowe and Philip Rafael Afterword; Revisiting the Dark: Diverse Encounters and Experiences; Nick Dunn and Tim Edensor
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.45; Light and darkness -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429535307; 9780429521836; 9780429550003; 9780429259654
• Related ISBNs: 9780367201159
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