The Arts books

This book explores design as the convergence of curiosity, creativity, and strategy-a practical and magical toolkit...  Read More >>

Examines the affective response to rape-revenge films, and how this response can be harnessed to work through complex...  Read More >>

Examines modes of resistance within contemporary Indian documentary culture and films  Read More >>

Examines Polish director Agnieszka Holland's films and television works from the perspective of transnational screen...  Read More >>

Brings together Film Studies and Artificial Intelligence by exploring their mutual interest in the automation of...  Read More >>

A collection of critical chapters on Larisa Shepitko, one of the most significant Soviet (Ukrainian born) filmmakers...  Read More >>

How has the Labour Party in Scotland influenced Scottish politics?  Read More >>

WHAT do actors need to learn at this precise moment?WHY do they need to learn it at this precise moment?HOW best...  Read More >>

In this, the second of two volumes on Lou Reed, we will see the phoenix-like rebirth of his career occur in terms...  Read More >>

In Twelve Mormon Homes , first published in 1874, Elizabeth Kane recorded impressions of what she heard and saw...  Read More >>

A beautifully illustrated, detailed account of all 56 parish churches recorded in Norwich by AD 1200, of which 31...  Read More >>

Discusses the contributions the vampiric figure has made to interactive media.  Read More >>

Explores how Jacques Derrida's deconstruction can help analyse political concepts including justice, democracy,...  Read More >>

Explores the influence of American director Herschell Gordon Lewis on exploitation cinema.  Read More >>

Analyses documentary representations of perpetrators and discusses why these representations matter.  Read More >>

Provides a critical, global perspective on the contested relationship between technology, activism and democracy....  Read More >>

Turn on the radio anywhere in the world, and sooner or later you will hear 'Africa'. Along with just a handful of...  Read More >>

This book explores the synergetic cooperation and sometimes complex relationship between Western pop songs and East...  Read More >>

Explores the global reach of Moroccan cinema.  Read More >>

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Straightaway, Charles Hambitzer recognized the genius in his new pupil. Just how far that 14-year-old George Gershwin...  Read More >>

Argues that Kafkaesque cinema is a critical category that can enable us to consider the interconnections between...  Read More >>

Proposes a new approach to studying martial arts cinema as part of the media ecology by locating various manifestations...  Read More >>

How do we engage with our metamorphic bodies and brains in ways which resist social and political violences and...  Read More >>

Addresses the changing geographical and historical background to Conrad's life as a source for his developing artistic...  Read More >>