This volume explores the “multisensory” nature of moving images. Pairing the keywords “cinema” and “sensation,” contributors examine the palpable presence of bodies, haptic images, and the link between audiovisual perception and cognitive knowledge.
The Cinema of Tunde Kelani
The first definitive publication on Tunde Kelani, one of Africa’s finest filmmakers. This collection of scholarly articles explores his cinematic oeuvre, visual craft, and how his works represent the African worldview, culture, and history.
The Cinemas of Italian Migration
Three forms of migration—internal, emigration, and immigration—have shaped Italy’s politics and film history. This volume explores these narratives in works from post-WWII classics to contemporary films by both Italian and international directors.
The Cinematographic Activities of Charles Rider Noble and John Mackenzie in the Balkans (Volume One)
In the early 20th century, two Britons filmed the first “living pictures” in the Balkans. This book delves into this under-researched period, examining over 1,200 sources to reveal the secrets its early history still holds for lovers of the ‘Seventh Art’.
The Cinematographic Activities of Charles Rider Noble and John Mackenzie in the Balkans (Volume Two)
This book details the engrossing story of two camera operators sent to the Balkans in the early 20th century. They filmed the first motion pictures of the region’s landscapes, cultural traditions, and public events, providing an exciting trip ‘through savage Europe’.
The Cinematography of Roger Corman
Adopting a methodology based on auteur theory in its structuralist form, Aleksandrowicz investigates the duality of the work of Roger Corman, straddling the line between “the King of the B’s” and an artist whose works are worthy of the highest cinema awards.
An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. As such, this volume discusses the impact of the conflict on entertainment television, offering comparative aspect by studying programs from both Eastern and Western blocs.
The Concept of Fluidity in the Baroque Age
The Baroque world was a flowing one, a realm of presences in constant flux. Everything was in endless motion—space, time, emotions, and the individual itself. This absence of solidity would define the era. This book charts the fluidity of the age, from geographies to souls.
The Conformists
Explore the paradoxes of Bulgarian cinema under Communist rule. This work reveals why intellectuals chose loyalty to the state-controlled film industry over rebellion, challenging the view of Eastern Bloc art as propaganda by showing its parallels with the West.
The Confucian Revival in Taiwan
Xu Fuguan is a central representative of Modern Confucianism. This book focuses on his fundamental contributions to philosophy, particularly his reinterpretations of Confucian and Daoist aesthetics. It highlights the link between ethics and aesthetics in his innovative theories.
This book details the conservation, care, and management of Indian manuscripts. It covers their materials, writing techniques, and dating methods, as well as preventive measures for preservation, including ancient indigenous practices and the hazards of using chemicals.
The Contemporary Art Gallery
Carrier and Jones enliven readers’ latent knowledge of galleries, like architectural motifs, the intended impression conveyed to the visitor, and their human interactions. Much has been written about the art, but the secretive culture of the galleries themselves is now uncovered.
A chance discovery revealed a unique 1504 globe, hand-engraved on an ostrich egg and linked to Leonardo da Vinci. It shows secret knowledge, riddles, and is the first to name countries like Brazil. This book details 500 years of mystery, scholarship, and forensic testing.
The Design Collective
This collection explores the potential of the collective as a structure linking creativity, social change, and politics. Bringing together practitioners, historians, and theorists, it examines how design practices like authorship and agency are being re-evaluated.
The Digital Learning Revolution in Ireland
This book presents case studies from the Irish National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR) service, showing how Open Educational Resources (OERs) are being promoted in Ireland. The NDLR fosters the sharing of resources across the Higher Education sector.
The Disappointed Bridge
This first major study of Ireland’s post-colonial experience draws parallels with other emergent nations. Through literary and musical contexts, it offers unique insight into independence, asking: What happens to an emerging nation after it has emerged?
This study of rock paintings and engraved art throws light on the lives of prehistoric people. It analyses painted animal and human figures to reveal their society, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and economy, from subsistence strategies to celebrations.
This collection of papers deals with cultural changes that occurred in the context of Roman imperial politics. The papers focus on societies on the fringes, both social and geographical, and their response to Roman Imperialism in local contexts.
An emblem is a combination of images and texts that flourished in the early modern period. This book presents the culture of the emblem, its influences on art, and its symbolism, reminding us that understanding images is as demanding today as it was centuries ago.
The Empathic Movement
This book explores the Empathic Movement, which created a new cultural pole in southern Italy. It rejects individualism to give voice to the silent masses, sharing genuine emotion and seeking to reunite the arts, once torn apart by the mythic killing of the Total Artist.