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This recent addition to the excellent Blackwell Companions series looks at the various forms of classical reception currently being researched as well as those deemed to have future importance. The diversity and volume of the themes and approaches contained in this book are truly impressive. As Hardwick and Stray state in their introduction, this collection "has been constructed on the basis that the activators of reception are many and varied and that we all gain from encountering examples from outside our own immediate areas of knowledge" (p. 4). Throughout the book they stay true to this motto and traditional approaches to classical reception are not given prominence over more recent (sometimes contentious) approaches such as film studies, cultural politics and photography. The same goes for the various cultures involved and there is even a chapter on Greek drama in South Africa.

This book enables readers to develop their own creative thinking and their teams' creative problem-solving skills to generate novel, useful and surprising ideas. The vast majority of companies believe that a culture of innovation and renewal impacts performance and ultimately business results. In contrast, many managers feel ill-equipped to promote a culture of creative endeavour for this type of work-environment and lack the know-how to put it into practice. This book covers theory, practice, and impact metrics of both convergent and divergent thinking tools and provide managers with the ideas, tools and guidance to develop a corporate culture conducive to intrapreneurial thinking, idea creation and testing and moving inventions from ideas to viable business concepts, products and profitable innovations. This book includes numerous step-by-step tutorials to help the reader to learn concepts quickly.

Preface. Venus: Paris is burning -- Introduction: how much does it cost for cinema to tell the truth of sex? -- Street talk and love: Pasolini's cinéma vérité in Comizi d'amore -- Confession porn: Wkiktor Grodecki's Body without soul and Not angels but angels -- Save us from saviors: reflexive feminist documentary and Shohini Ghosh's Tales of the night fairies -- Grey mornings of tolerance: Cui Zi'en's Night scene and queer China, "comrade" China -- Truth under the uniform: youth and sexuality in Hideaki Anno's Love & pop -- Conclusion. Plot twists: live nude girls, unite!