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.
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.
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.
Thinking Space, Advancing Art
This book highlights the problems of art theory’s current obsession with theories of spectatorship, and argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one’s experience of space, using the ideas of Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther as support.
The PCI Artists
This book examines the Italian Communist Party’s artistic policies (1944–1951), providing a framework for wider reflections on art and politics. At a time when the world was divided, Italian artists became protagonists of a project to synthesize antagonistic cultural blocs.
Picturing Evolution and Extinction
Fears of extinction stretch back to Darwin. This book explores the interplay of degeneration and regeneration in modern visual cultures from 1860-1930, showing how art betrayed anxieties over decline alongside latent hopes of renewal.
Views on Eighteenth Century Culture
Using the Portuguese architect and city planner Eugénio dos Santos as a reference point, contributions to this text provide insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal and its relationships with other European cultural movements in fields such as philosophy and literature.
A Colourful Presence
This study discusses the representation of women in Iranian cinema since the 1960s, exploring various representative female-centric films, with a focus on their cultural, social and cinematic contexts.
Representing the proceedings of the inaugural conference of the University of Arizona Center for American Culture and Ideas, these contributions explore the relationship between the high arts and culture in America, considering a range of subjects from dance to philosophy.
This volume of conference proceedings discusses the role played by choir stalls in the conceptualisation of space within cathedrals, and the formal, stylistic and constructive motifs, models and solutions reflected in such architecture.
Flowers and Towers
This title explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day, discussing the changes, and the meaning thereof, in its representation during this period.
The Art of Survival
Offering an examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, this title offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies.
Staging Ben
This edited volume offers a rebuttal of the mischaracterization of Ben Jonson’s plays as anti-theatrical. Featuring contributions from both Renaissance literature scholars and theatre practitioners, it demonstrates the playwright’s prodigious theatrical imagination.
This monograph shows how Neapolitan theatre managed to not only survive, but thrive in an era that saw the disappearance of a number of regional theatre traditions in Italy, with Neapolitan playwrights forcefully proclaiming their roots as a primary source for their work.
Mediating Peace
This edited collection examines the role of art, music and film in peace-building and reconciliation in a range of conflict situations. The contributors are composed of prominent scholars and artists, and examine theoretical, professional and practical concerns.
The Word made Visible in the Painted Image
This monograph explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ.
In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection investigate the recent powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a ‘new’ medium.
Curating Differently
This title offers critical perspectives on, and analyses of, intersections of feminisms, art exhibitions, and curatorial spaces from the 1970s onward, bringing together case studies from Australia, Israel, Europe, and North America.
Highlights in Anglo-American Drama
The collection of essays represents perspectives on various aspects of modern Anglo-American drama and dramatists from scholars from ex-Yugoslav republics. It will appeal to both the academic and general reader, given the lack of worldwide scholarship on American drama.
Recent decades in Spain and Latin America have seen transnational voices, typically stereotyped or alienated in the West, gain increasing presence in cultural texts. These essays explore new ways of seeing and interpreting the Middle East and the East in contemporary films.
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