Nietzsche and Van Gogh
In 1888, the lives of Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh converged. Driven by creative ambition but haunted by madness, their creative frenzies were synchronized, culminating in psychotic breaks just days apart. This book delves into the uncanny parallels between them.
Imaginaries Out of Place
These bold essays engage the question of transnational cinema in the context of Turkish national identity. This collection is essential reading for those interested in migrant cultures, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
In essays, reviews, and interviews, an acclaimed film critic lays out a Christian approach to film. He shows how blockbusters, documentaries, and indies can speak to Christians and how Christian voices can enrich conversations around their meaning and relevance.
Connecting art, nature, and science, these essays trace the collection and display of objects from early wunderkammern to the 18th century. They reveal a world where art and nature were intrinsically linked, charting the path to their modern divisions.
Female Silences, Turkey’s Crises
Güçlü focuses on the newly emergent silent female characters in Turkish cinema, and explores the relationship between this ‘new’ representational form, the ‘new’ cinema of Turkey, and the ‘new’ socio-political climate in Turkey after the September 12, 1980 military coup.
The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
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.
Moving Images, Mobile Bodies
This collection addresses the issue of corporeality as a discursive field (which asks for a “poetics”), and the possible ways in which technology affects, and is affected by, the body in the context of recent artistic and theoretical developments.
Representing Africa in the Motherland and the Diaspora
This publication gathers scholars from Africa, Europe and the USA to explore the representation of Africa in the performing arts and cinema. It represents an extended dialogue between African scholars and artists about the challenges of representing themselves and their societies
Sounds of Life
The papers brought together here examine the various roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimbabwean music has addressed the socio-economic, political and spiritual crisis that the country has endured in recent years.
From classical tragedy to post-9/11, these essays explore terror as a perennial theme in the arts—a thread woven into the fabric of artistic expression and life itself.
This collection explores the politics of cultural memory. From monuments to film and literature, it shows how cultural memory is actively made: the site of a struggle over meanings that serves various political and cultural purposes.
Arising from a conference on multimodal communication, this volume deals with the study and documentation of the performing arts. It presents such issues as multimodality in human interaction and performance, as well as embodied cognition and metaphor.
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.
This anthology is an intellectual smorgasbord of medieval and renaissance thought. Designed not solely for scholars but also for generalists, these essays explore philosophy, poetry, drama, popular culture, linguistics, art, religion, and history.
Emblems and Impact Volume II
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
What are the characteristics of media in small nations? This collection brings together perspectives and case-studies from across Europe to explore the challenges and advantages, providing insights into media policy, representation, and national identity.
Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1
This book explores how plays of the African diaspora acknowledge home cultures while interacting with host cultures. Contributions attest that the diaspora is not solely outside the continent, but can be found in performances within Africa that engage with the world.
Dialogues between Art and Business
As Strauß shows in this insightful monograph, situating art and the business organisation sphere, commonly assumed to be antagonistic, within the discourses of new knowledge creation and learning holds the potential of exploring new ways of relating the two spheres.
PINTER ET CETERA collects essays arguing that Harold Pinter was not merely a unique writer, but an artist influencing and influenced by painters, filmmakers, and poets. This bold volume expands our understanding of Pinter’s importance beyond the absurdist stage.
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