The Arts books

This book brings to life the efforts of Mura Dehn to record, analyse and champion the development of jazz dance...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of Australia’s rich history of LGBTQ+ film and television, covering histories, production,...  Read More >>

The culture of hip hop shifted dramatically soon after the first wave of studio-recorded vinyl releases at the turn...  Read More >>

This book examines the ways in which popular culture has entertained the notion of a female U.S. presidency through...  Read More >>

An authoritative guide to Kunqu, China’s classical song-drama, from its origins in the 16th century to its revival...  Read More >>

Introduces mirrors as material and metaphorical agents of early modern theatricality whose presence in the playhouse...  Read More >>

An invaluable resource for readers seeking to understand the history and practice of folk music and song across...  Read More >>

The first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, this book explores the troupe’s four major...  Read More >>

A multidisciplinary study on how men use photography to illustrate the tension between social expectations and self-expression....  Read More >>

This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular...  Read More >>

Unpacking the phenomenon of celebrity presidents, this book explores how theatrical techniques function as expedient...  Read More >>

This richly illustrated book presents the art, architecture, and material culture of a little-known Byzantine dynasty,...  Read More >>

Creative Writing Unleashed situates creative writing in dialogue with other disciplines to suggest new ways of approaching...  Read More >>

Through the study of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's painting, this book reveals unknown and intriguing aspects of early...  Read More >>

A collection of essays and inteviews that encompass Boris Groys’ ideas on the unity of philosophy, art and politics....  Read More >>

In The Cinema of Social Death: Blackhood At-Large, Tryon P. Woods argues that cinematic counter-narratives to society’s...  Read More >>

In this book, Jonathan Scott Lee argues that Jean-Luc Godard is best seen as a philosopher who uses cinema and video...  Read More >>

Kwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and...  Read More >>

This book provides a history of music education (1839–1960), capturing the beginning of music participation and...  Read More >>

An in-depth exploration of how 20th century Indian art cinema shaped class identity and its often overlooked place...  Read More >>

Offers a re-theorizing of virtual reality through the lens of embodiment and the human experience, rather than tying...  Read More >>

This book examines the representation of the single woman in contemporary popular culture and places it in juxtaposition...  Read More >>

The first book in English exploring the quadrille as danced among the Skolt Saami, one of the indigenous Saami peoples...  Read More >>

This edited collection is compiled from the first MENACA (Middle East, North African, and Central Asian) Dance and...  Read More >>

Exploring the social roles of images in late sixteenth-century Italy, this book demonstrates that the pressures...  Read More >>