Visual Arts – Page 19 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Pageants and Processions

Images and Idiom as Spectacle

Edited By: Herman du Toit

£39.99

Before beauty contests, pageants were spectacles of social, religious, and political power. This anthology reveals the global history of pageantry across centuries and cultures, exploring its purpose as a powerful civic tool.

Culture and Dialogue

Volume 3, Issue Number 1 - March 2013

Edited By: Gerald Cipriani

£39.99

Culture and Dialogue explores dialogical practice within culture, be it philosophy, art, or politics. This Special Issue is devoted to the theme of “religion and dialogue,” bringing together a range of outstanding essays on the subject.

Outside

Activating Cloth to Enhance the Way We Live

Edited By: Claire Barber, Penny Macbeth

£39.99

Artists, scholars, and philosophers explore cloth’s value and impact on society, revealing its potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion.

Adaptations, Versions and Perversions in Modern British Drama

Edited By: Ignacio Ramos Gay

£39.99

This book scrutinises the complexities of adapting plays across cultures. Through modern British theatre, it explores the split between state-imposed and personal identity in an age of globalism, arguing for the need to transcend cultural frontiers.

Film and Ethics

What Would You Have Done?

Edited By: Jacqui Miller

£39.99

This book explores the slipperiness of ethics in Film Studies. It shows that from the silent era to the present day, film has been inherently concerned with ethical issues, forcing the spectator to be an active participant in creating meaning.

Looking Through Gender

Post-1980 British and Irish Drama

By: Samuele Grassi

£39.99

This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.

Words and Images on the Screen

Language, Literature and Moving Pictures

Edited By: Ágnes Pethő

£39.99

Word has been a primordial companion to cinema from its beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in moving pictures, covering their interconnectedness through in-depth case studies and general surveys.

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2

Innovation, Creativity and Social Change

Edited By: Kene Igweonu, Osita Okagbue

£39.99

This collection explores how African theatre instigates social change. Contributions demonstrate the ingenuity of practitioners who adapt indigenous forms to engage with contemporary realities, creating an aesthetic that is identifiably African.

Border States in the Work of Tom Mac Intyre

A Paleo-Postmodern Perspective

By: Catriona Ryan

£39.99

This book introduces "paleo-postmodernism" to define Tom Mac Intyre's unique literary project: fusing Yeatsian revivalism with postmodern deconstruction to unearth Ireland's mythological unconscious.

This book introduces “paleo-postmodernism” to define Tom Mac Intyre’s unique literary project: fusing Yeatsian revivalism with postmodern deconstruction to unearth Ireland’s mythological unconscious.

About Face

Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts

Edited By: Elena Bellina, Lindsay Eufusia, Paola Ugolini

£39.99

How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.

Bound by Love

Familial Bonding in Film and Television since 1950

Edited By: Laura Mattoon D’Amore

£39.99

The bonds of love can bring bliss or demand sacrifice; they can save us or destroy us. This book explores how familial bonds in film and television reveal a cultural dialogue about the changing nature of love and the American family.

The Permanence of the Transient

Precariousness in Art

Edited By: Camila Maroja, Caroline Menezes, Fabrizio Poltroniere

£39.99

Precariousness in art may be transient, yet it instigates permanent changes. These interdisciplinary essays examine the traces of precariousness in contemporary art, locating it as an undercurrent and connective tissue across diverse areas of knowledge and life.

Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things

Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Edited By: Melissa Beattie, Ross P. Garner, Una McCormack

£39.99

These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.

Elemental Sculpture

Theory and Practice

By: Todor Todorov

£39.99

This book explores Elemental Sculpture, a tendency in contemporary art defining a new relationship between sculpture and nature. It examines its development in the works of Hepworth, Moore, and Calder, and includes sculptures from the author’s 35-year career.

Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory

Edited By: Colin Counsell, Roberta Mock

£39.99

Exploring the body's role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, 'perform' meaning.

Exploring the body’s role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, ‘perform’ meaning.

Crossings

David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media

Edited By: Johan Callens

£39.99

International scholars assess David Mamet's career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

International scholars assess David Mamet’s career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

It’s all Mediating

Outlining and Incorporating the Roles of Curating and Education in the Exhibition Context

Edited By: Kaija Kaitavuori, Laura Kokkonen, Nora Sternfeld

£39.99

This book brings together thinkers in curating and education to explore the two core functions of museums. As these fields professionalize, have they drifted too far apart? The volume encourages dialogue, examining collaboration between curators and educators.

New Trends in Italian Cinema

"New" Neorealism

Edited By: Carmela Scala

£39.99

Far from being exhausted, the spirit of Italian Neorealism continues to sustain contemporary artists. The essays in this collection highlight how filmmakers recapture the ethical and moral urgency of the masterpieces of Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti.

On the Verge of Tears

Why the Movies, Television, Music, Art, Popular Culture, Literature, and the Real World Make Us Cry

Edited By: Michele Byers, David Lavery

£39.99

Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.

Public Theatres and Theatre Publics

Edited By: Sara Freeman, Robert Shimko

£39.99

This collection connects theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. Essays from prominent scholars explore how performing in public shapes identity, class, and political agency across three centuries and in multiple global contexts.