Performance and Ethnography
This volume explores the intersection of performance and ethnography across dance, drama, and music. It champions an embodied, sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between researchers and participants to understand performance amid migration and commodification.
Since films like Trainspotting, Scottish cinema has gained an international profile. This is the first collection of essays to examine the new films, filmmakers, and images of Scottishness, setting a new agenda for the study of Scotland on screen.
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.
On the Verge of Tears
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.
New Trends in Italian Cinema
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.
It’s all Mediating
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.
Crossings
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.
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.
Elemental Sculpture
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.
Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
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.
The Permanence of the Transient
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.
This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. “This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings.” —Janet M. Davis
Bound by Love
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.
What represents Melanesian art today? Who are the artists? Art and Life in Melanesia is a timely exploration of Melanesian artists and their voices, taking stock of what is happening in the region’s art through themes like Kastom, Christianity, and Globalisation.
About Face
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.
Border States in the Work of Tom Mac Intyre
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.
Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2
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.
Words and Images on the Screen
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.
Looking Through Gender
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.
Shifting Landscapes
An innovative understanding of Europe’s rapidly changing film and media scene. Eighteen analyses re-examine what “European” media means in an era of technological change, globalization, and shifting cultural and geographical borders.