The Arts books

In the first detailed history of the Cambridge Footlights in over 40 years, Robert Sellers chronicles the evolution...  Read More >>

The first book from internationally celebrated director John Doyle, which explores his creative journey from UK...  Read More >>

A celebration of the first 50 years of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the award-winning visual effects house behind...  Read More >>

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Falling In and Through Falling In and Through is a visually rich, soul-baring journey of fine artist Heidi Zin's...  Read More >>

This Element reassesses narratives of intercultural transmission in medieval European magic, highlighting complex...  Read More >>

Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) is remembered because she was a member of Les Six, a group of French composers...  Read More >>

This full-scale survey of Corita Kent's work includes prints and ephemera from all phases of her life and work,...  Read More >>

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The second volume of a classic account of 5,000 years of Indian art The Art of Indian Asia is a unique work of...  Read More >>

Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia...  Read More >>

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the...  Read More >>

The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs,...  Read More >>

Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local? Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close...  Read More >>

David Simon's American city examines the work of showrunner David Simon, creator of acclaimed television serials...  Read More >>

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising...  Read More >>

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

This book seeks to detect the ways of thinking about international law present in films and TV series, placing focus...  Read More >>

This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to...  Read More >>

This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance,...  Read More >>

Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the...  Read More >>