Rethinking Darkness : Cultures, Histories, Practices.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Venturing into the Dark: Gloomy Multiplicities -- Part I: Histories of the Dark -- 2 Affordances of the Night: Work After Dark in the Ancient World -- 3 Shakespeare's Darkness: A Stage and State of Mind -- 4 In the Night Garden: Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London 1800-1859 -- 5 A Brief History of Artificial Darkness and Race -- Part II: Cultural practices in the Dark -- 6 Purda: The Curtain of Darkness -- 7 Inuit's Perception of Darkness: A Singular Feature -- 8 Darkness in Video Game Landscapes: Corporeal and Representational Entanglements -- 9 Dancing in the Darkness to the Darkness -- Part III: Sensing Darkness -- 10 Creatures of the Night: Bodies, Rhythms and Aurora Borealis -- 11 Contact Zones: The Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park as Creative Milieu -- 12 How Does the Dark Sound? -- 13 Ghosts and Empties -- Part IV: Designing with Darkness -- 14 Going Dark: The Theatrical Legacy of Battersea Art Centre's Playing in the Dark Season -- 15 On Darkness, Duration and Possibility -- 16 Darkness as Canvas -- 17 Designing with Light and Darkness -- 18 Afterword: Revisiting the Dark: Diverse Encounters and Experiences -- References -- Index.

This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised.

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