Visual Arts – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Blaze

Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism

Edited By: Karen Frostig, Kathy A. Halamka

From £19.99

How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.

Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch

Thinking about Television's Mad Men (Second Edition)

Edited By: Jennifer C. Dunn, Jimmie Manning, Danielle M. Stern

£24.95

This collection of essays explores the popular AMC series Mad Men. It analyzes the seductive world of 1960s Madison Avenue advertising, interrogating identity, nostalgia, and the compelling relationships between characters. For fans, students, and educators.

Women in Art and Literature Networks

Spinning Webs

Edited By: Marianne Camus, Valérie Dupont

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This anthology examines the place of women in art and literature from the 19th century to the present day, whether as artists, critics or collectors. It centres on the idea of the network, as a possible point of entry for women into cultural circles long seen as male territories.

Three German Women

Personal Histories from the Twentieth Century

By: Erika Esau

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The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.

“Survivor” – Representations of the “New Irish”

Dúchas Dóchasach

By: Jean Ryan Hakizimana

£29.99

This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.

Television Series as Mirrors of Contemporary Life

By: Ion Piso

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This study highlights the impressive work of television writers, their inspiration, and their talent for mirroring society. It offers original interpretations of TV shows and explores how series have evolved, noting what has been maintained and changed over time.

Performing Arun Sarma

Theatricality, Transgression, Transformation

Edited By: Namrata Pathak, Dhurjjati Sarma

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This collection of essays on the life and works of renowned Assamese litterateur Arun Sarma pushes his legacy beyond linguistic and geographical barriers, generating a vibrant community of literary enthusiasts and a new body of knowledge on the theatre of Assam.

Stardom in Cinema, Television and the Web

By: Vanni Codeluppi

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This book considers the history of stardom through its connections to three media. The first phase, shaped by cinema, created contemporary stardom. The second, linked to television, made the star more intimate, while the third sees outsiders achieve visibility through the web.

Pop Culture Matters

Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Edited By: Martin F. Norden, Robert E. Weir

From £32.99

We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture but rarely pay critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation and critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas.

Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural

Art and Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Edited By: Andrew Graciano

£34.99

Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.

Transmission Image

Visual Translation and Cultural Agency

Edited By: Birgit Mersmann, Alexandra Schneider

£34.99

A challenging survey of the debate about visual culture from a global perspective. This volume proposes a truly global outlook, with scholarly perspectives from around the world, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and their impact.

Power and Image in Early Modern Europe

Edited By: Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire

£34.99

How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.

Pathographies of Modernity with Aby Warburg and Beyond

An Astral Map of Warburgian Constellations

Edited By: Daniela Padularosa

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This volume follows the intersections between art history and other disciplines in Aby Warburg’s writings. Designed as an “astral map,” each chapter is a “constellation” of keywords used to investigate an artwork's “dynamic energy”—its ability to move and change over time.

This volume follows the intersections between art history and other disciplines in Aby Warburg’s writings. Designed as an “astral map,” each chapter is a “constellation” of keywords used to investigate an artwork’s “dynamic energy”—its ability to move and change over time.

Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema

Queer Visuals

Edited By: Srija Sanyal

From £36.99

This volume explores India's queer space through its presence in film and the digital arena. Essays from multicultural perspectives depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness in a rare scholastic endeavour.

This volume explores India’s queer space through its presence in film and the digital arena. Essays from multicultural perspectives depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness in a rare scholastic endeavour.

Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Western Tradition

No More Miss Perfect

Edited By: María Dolores García Ramos, María José Ramos Rovi

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Western art has often portrayed women as objects of desire or inspirational muses. This multidisciplinary volume challenges these roles, presenting womanhood from new perspectives and highlighting characters who have been neglected, misrepresented, or reduced to the margins.

Thomas Cole’s Americas

By: George H. Gilpin, Hermione de Almeida

From £38.99

This book situates the reader between a passionate retelling of Cole’s life and a deep investigation into his work. It recounts the interconnected story of art and life, detailing how his paintings incorporate prophetic stories of human history witnessed by pristine landscapes.

A Lucian for our Times

Edited By: Adam Bartley

£39.99

The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.

Sensi/able Spaces

Space, Art and the Environment Proceedings of the SPARTEN conference, Reykjavík, June 1st and 2nd, 2006

Edited By: Edward H. Huijbens, Ólafur Páll Jónsson

£39.99

SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of "sensible" spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the "sensable"—what we perceive through our senses.

SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of “sensible” spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the “sensable”—what we perceive through our senses.

Belonging and Exclusion

Case Studies in Recent Australian and German Literature, Film and Theatre

Edited By: Ulrike Garde, Anne-Rose Meyer

£39.99

This is the first cross-cultural analysis of how belonging and exclusion are represented in literature, film and theatre in the context of migration in Australia and Germany. The focus on artistic works offers unique snapshots of these processes.

Television, Aesthetics and Reality

Edited By: Anthony Barker

£39.99

This collection of essays explores television's state of flux. It examines how news packages the 'real,' how reality styles have influenced dramas like CSI, and how shows like Big Brother have created a culture of performance and surveillance.

This collection of essays explores television’s state of flux. It examines how news packages the ‘real,’ how reality styles have influenced dramas like CSI, and how shows like Big Brother have created a culture of performance and surveillance.