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Allan Kaprow's "happenings" and "environments" were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation His sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself is brought into focus in this newly expanded collection of his most significant writings. A new preface and two new additional essays published in the 1990s bring this valuable collection up to date..
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The current emphasis on interdisciplinary teaching offers exciting opportunities to create dynamic literacy experiences across the curriculum Through a unique approach to curriculum integration that combines quality literature, the writing process, and content-area instruction, Blurring the Edges helps you make the most of these opportunities. Barbara Chatton and Lynne Decker Collins blur subject-area and genre distinctions, presenting dozens of ideas on thematic units.

Blurring the Edges embraces three central themes:

• play as a model for learning
• experimentation as a way of knowing
• language as a vehicle for moving in and out of traditional subject area domains.

Each activity provides students with diverse opportunities to read and write in a variety of forms and for authentic purposes. The goal is to encourage students to express themselves more freelyas poets, scientists, historians, journalists, mathematicians, artists. At the end of each activity, the authors provide extensive annotated lists of appropriate literature to get you started. Each annotation includes a helpful grade level designation and the book concludes with a comprehensive index to help you locate specific authors, titles, and subjects.

Blurring the Edges challenges you to broaden the lens of instruction to create unique viewing experiences for your students. You'll find that just as the edges blur, your students' vision of themselves as competent readers, writers, and thinkers will come sharply into focus.

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This essential book documents over twenty-five years of site-specific and multi-media installation artwork; included are James Turrell, Vito Acconci, Terry Allen, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Anish Kapoor, Celia Alvarez Munoz, and others..
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Examines the overlap and blurring of boundaries among humans, animals, and machines .
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Explore ways to connect learning experiences that happen inside and outside school buildings and during and after the school day. This volume presents new structures and arrangements that are helping to meet the needs of vulnerable urban adolescents, and an innovative program to bring together schools, community organizations, policy makers and the general public to create learning-centered communities. It explores programs that are community-based-such as Chicago's After School Matters program, and programs for stimulating out-of-school free-choice learning to accomplish educational goals-as well as school-based programs..
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This text is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Chapters tackling changing class consciousness in Britain, Germany, Italy and the United States offer insight into the movement from a traditional community-based social identity to a modern consumer-based culture; a mass culture influenced by industrialization, new social institutions and the powerful imagery of new media. "Illusive Identity" demonstrates the transformative impact of modernity on the labouring classes, as advertising, entertainment and the rise of the popular press replaced traditionally shared narratives about the nature of work with a new and liberating cultural paradigm..
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Throughout the past decade, the phenomenon of technological convergence has increasingly gained managerial attention. In this special form of technological change, the coming-together of previously distinct knowledge bases gives rise to the creation of new applications and business models. When such innovations emerge at the intersection of industries, the resulting creative destruction may exceed previously established industry boundaries. As a consequence, convergence does not only promise the creation of new value, but may imply significant disruptions to established industries. Based on investigating 26 firms within the ICT industry, this book highlights implications of the convergence phenomenon on firms’ innovation management practices, and derives strategic guidelines for building and sustaining business models beyond blurring industry boundaries.

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The Psychology of Entertainment Media provides a cutting-edge look at how entertainment media affects its viewers, both in intended and unintended ways, and the psychological processes that underlie these effects. The collection represents an international, multidisciplinary investigation of an age-old process--persuasion--in a relatively new guise, which includes product placements, brand films, television programs, and sponsorships.

The collection covers three broad areas:
*the potential effects of embedding promotions within entertainment media content;
*the persuasive power of the entertainment media content itself; and
*individual differences in the interplay between media usage and media effects.

Contributions focus on a variety of topics, including product placement, subliminal perception, narrative impact, cultivation effects on consumers, and individual differences in media use. Virtually all the chapters speak to the issue of how entertainment media are processed, with the conclusion that media consumers do tend to process entertainment and promotional information differently.

Providing a broad perspective on how entertainment media may have an effect that goes largely unnoticed or unattended by consumers, this volume makes a substantial contribution toward creating a more knowledgeable field, as well as a more knowledgeable consumer. With its origins in the 21st Annual Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference, the volume represents scholarship from prominent and emerging scholars in psychology, marketing, and communications. It is appropriate for advanced students and scholars in marketing, advertising, psychology, and mass communication; for research-focused practitioners working in marketing, advertising, and public policy; and for individuals interested in entertainment studies, consumer behavior, attitudes, persuasion, media studies, and consumer psychology.
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This study combines art history and literary criticism in a joint study of the canonical "fathers" of modernism. Arden Reed argues that modernism is a matter of genre bending, hybridization and movements between text and image. Focusing on key works, Reed reveals how Manet and Flaubert actively mix and contaminate their work- Flaubert with images, Manet with narration. Reed extends the argument to the twentieth century, claiming we cannot understand twentieth century modernism while remaining locked within single disciplines..
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