The Arts books

Building on contemporary scholarship on post-network television, feminism, melodrama, and crime television, Alison...  Read More >>

This volume explores how K-pop has evolved beyond a musical genre into a global cultural phenomenon with its own...  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

Applying novel research techniques to the largest digitized database of literature on acting in the world, this...  Read More >>

Bringing together the work of international scholars, this book investigates the well-known conceptualization of...  Read More >>

This definitive, first-of-its-kind, photographic celebration of the rich history of women's basketball.  Read More >>

Discover what it takes to be a movie maker! Do you have a smartphone and a bit of spare time? Feel like making...  Read More >>

An accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Comics Studies. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes,...  Read More >>

This book unpacks the Michael Chekhov acting technique by putting us in the classroom with master teachers Ted Pugh...  Read More >>

A gorgeous insider’s look at Cornwall, the windswept, coastal home to some of the world’s most romantic villages...  Read More >>

This book explores low-budget horror and exploitation movies produced in filmmaking capitals of the Western Hemisphere....  Read More >>

By the 1980s animated cartoons were seen as an artform in decline. An archaic vestige of the old Hollywood studio...  Read More >>

What's it like to run away with the circus? Cardiff, Wales, 1983. A bunch of university dropouts and unemployed...  Read More >>

The book explains how comfort is ultimately the result of a conversation between people and their environments....  Read More >>

A glorious celebration of color and light showcasing more than 200 exuberant contemporary artworks  Read More >>

Sze's mixed-media works for the Nasher Sculpture Center call into question the definition of artistic mediums and...  Read More >>

Based on interviews with dozens of musicians, I Hear Freedom tells the story of free jazz and its connection to...  Read More >>

The Particular and the Public focuses on three Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors' architecture studios...  Read More >>

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More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state...  Read More >>

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

Exploring cultural resistance by creating and archiving Latinx performance art  Read More >>

Master the complete photographic printing workflow from monitor calibration to final presentation and transform...  Read More >>

How a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilem Flusser...  Read More >>