Lolita between Adaptation and Interpretation
Presenting an analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, this investigation explores how Nabokov envisioned his creation rendered in a movie, and the divergences between this and said adaptation.
New Approaches to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
This volume explores the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the largest in mainland Greece. International experts from many fields offer new perspectives on its architecture, sculptural decoration, and the cult of Zeus, bridging classical studies with new digital technologies.
An Edgy Realism
Using actor-network theory, Schaefer’s study offers an investigation of the new realism that has characterized cinema since the turn of the millennium due to the proliferation of the digital.
On the Edge of the Panel
This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium’s cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.
Magical Suspension
This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.
The Sides of the North
In tribute to Yona Pinson’s extensive work on Northern Renaissance art, this volume offers new insights from leading scholars. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, genres, and media, from Bosch to gender, and an overview of contemporary art scholarship.
A New Gaze
This book examines the work of professional women in Spanish film and television since the arrival of democracy. Focusing on well-known names while rescuing others from oblivion, it analyzes their contributions and challenges through essays and interviews.
What is the value of art in an age of corporatized knowledge? This volume explores the crucial intersection of aesthetics and ideology. Through a wide range of international examples, these essays argue that the arts are fundamental to any progress in society.
We Speak a Different Tongue
This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era’s tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.
European Theories in Former Yugoslavia
Theories are not directly transferred from the centre to the margins, but are borrowed, translated, and reinterpreted. Posed from the perspective of former Yugoslavia, this book explores the tense relationship between original theories and their transformed perspectives.
Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress
Explore the golden age of 1970s Italian cult cinema. This book considers the social and political factors that spawned a decade of stylish films dominated by extreme sexuality and violence, profiling icons like Dario Argento and genres from giallo to sex comedy.
Romantic poet Justinus Kerner’s Sketches from My Boyhood is a vivid, charming, and entertaining narrative of growing up in Württemberg. Set against the ever-present reality of the French Revolution, it is a gem of 19th-century autobiographical writing.
This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity’s transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.
The Art of the Real
Art of the Real registers the materialist turn in contemporary visual studies. As scholars move beyond post-structuralist theory, this is the first book to treat the new materialism for its meta-theoretical commitments, ontology, and political implications.
Shifting Paradigms in Culture
This book frees Jean Genet’s plays from the overpowering Sartrean perspective, revealing the hidden spaces of the prison and brothel. It traverses challenging issues—the ghettoized existence of social discards and others rotting on the margins.
Eloquent Design
From cave to computer, Eloquent Design explores ancient image-making as a basis for understanding the modern uses of image-texts in New Media. It proposes a generative method called “Rhetorical Vision” for creating innovative image-texts.
Photography and Cinema
Visionary filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker blurred the lines between the still and moving image. This volume explores this fusion through his masterpiece La Jetée, analyzing its profound and lasting influence on art and cinema.
Useless Beauty
The story of Australian art is not just landscape. Useless Beauty puts flowers front and centre, exploring how major artists like Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan used blossoms to define identity and bring a psychological dimension to the everyday.
British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement’s mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.
Art and money are both given symbolic value, turning a simple object into a commodity. These essays examine this complex relationship across different cultures and historical periods, from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Pop Art.