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Making Meaning, Making Money
Directions for the Arts and Cultural Industries in the Creative Age
The arts are at the heart of policy discussions, but as culture is justified by its commercial value, is its intrinsic worth at risk? Leading thinkers debate the directions cultural policy should take in the future. For artists and policy makers.
The arts are at the heart of policy discussions, but as culture is justified by its commercial value, is its intrinsic worth at risk? Leading thinkers debate the directions cultural policy should take in the future. For artists and policy makers.
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Spirituality in Late Byzantium
Essays Presenting New Research by International Scholars
This collection of essays on late Byzantine spirituality presents new research on an important but under-documented period. Through new evidence and re-appraisals of scholarly views, it is a valuable contribution for academics and students alike.
This collection of essays on late Byzantine spirituality presents new research on an important but under-documented period. Through new evidence and re-appraisals of scholarly views, it is a valuable contribution for academics and students alike.
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Holocaust Film
The Political Aesthetics of Ideology
Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.
Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.
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American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse
Architectural Form and Space as Social Influence
More than just collections, museums are powerful engines of persuasion. This book reveals how their contents and displays influence visitors as effectively as any speech or advertisement, uncovering their profound cultural roles and power.
More than just collections, museums are powerful engines of persuasion. This book reveals how their contents and displays influence visitors as effectively as any speech or advertisement, uncovering their profound cultural roles and power.
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Ein Kabinettstück der Schauspielkunst / A Showpiece of the Art of Acting
Ursula Dinkgräfes Bühnenlaufbahn / Ursula Dinkgräfe’s stage career
Dieses Buch zeichnet die Theaterlaufbahn der Schauspielerin Ursula Dinkgräfe (1947-1987) nach. Sie war in der Theaterszene hoch geschätzt, aber ohne Filmruhm. Ein unberücksichtigtes Kapitel deutscher Theatergeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Dieses Buch zeichnet die Theaterlaufbahn der Schauspielerin Ursula Dinkgräfe (1947-1987) nach. Sie war in der Theaterszene hoch geschätzt, aber ohne Filmruhm. Ein unberücksichtigtes Kapitel deutscher Theatergeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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This book argues that the theater of Stoppard, Hwang, Churchill, Shepard, Walcott, and Karnad induces spectators to deconstruct habitual perception and taste a void of conceptions, pointing through performance toward a trans-verbal, trans-cultural wholeness.
This book argues that the theater of Stoppard, Hwang, Churchill, Shepard, Walcott, and Karnad induces spectators to deconstruct habitual perception and taste a void of conceptions, pointing through performance toward a trans-verbal, trans-cultural wholeness.
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The Shattered Mirror
Irish Literature and Film,1990-2005
This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the 'Celtic Tiger' (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.
This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.
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Kerouac Ascending
Memorabilia of the Decade of On the Road
A memoir by Elbert Lenrow about his relationship with his students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lenrow reveals Kerouac’s academic side through papers, letters, and poems shared as they emerged as writers. With an introduction by Howard Cunnell.
A memoir by Elbert Lenrow about his relationship with his students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lenrow reveals Kerouac’s academic side through papers, letters, and poems shared as they emerged as writers. With an introduction by Howard Cunnell.
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Grace under Pressure
Grey's Anatomy Uncovered
This collection of essays offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Authors examine topics including the show's creation and marketing, the role of music, and its exploration of gender, family, and morality.
This collection of essays offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Authors examine topics including the show’s creation and marketing, the role of music, and its exploration of gender, family, and morality.
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Showing the World to the World
Political Fictions in French Cinema of the 1990s and early 2000s
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these "political fictions" contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these “political fictions” contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.
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The Spectral Body
Aspects of the Cinematic Oeuvre of István Szabó
A powerful and original analysis of István Szabó’s films. Zoltán Dragon argues that a spectral phantom, hiding family secrets, fuels the oeuvre’s haunting effects and uncanny visuals, opening up new possibilities for studying film.
A powerful and original analysis of István Szabó’s films. Zoltán Dragon argues that a spectral phantom, hiding family secrets, fuels the oeuvre’s haunting effects and uncanny visuals, opening up new possibilities for studying film.
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Realities and Remediations
The Limits of Representation in Film
This volume of new essays examines how representations are put into place through mise-en-scene, editing and technology. In a hyper-visual era, these essays challenge commonplaces, problematising our relationship to a perceived reality.
This volume of new essays examines how representations are put into place through mise-en-scene, editing and technology. In a hyper-visual era, these essays challenge commonplaces, problematising our relationship to a perceived reality.
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As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
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Stage Migrants
Representations of the Migrant Other in Modern Irish Drama
This volume investigates how recent migration is reflected in Irish culture, focusing on the representation of outsiders in theatre. It explores debates on national identity, multiculturalism, and racism in plays whose topics are central to any global community.
This volume investigates how recent migration is reflected in Irish culture, focusing on the representation of outsiders in theatre. It explores debates on national identity, multiculturalism, and racism in plays whose topics are central to any global community.
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Giuseppe Tornatore
Emotion, Cognition, Cinema
This authoritative study is a film-by-film analysis of Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso). It explores the powerful blend of emotion and intellect in his work, elucidating his critique of what our societies have become.
This authoritative study is a film-by-film analysis of Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso). It explores the powerful blend of emotion and intellect in his work, elucidating his critique of what our societies have become.
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Theatres of Thought
Theatre, Performance and Philosophy
Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.
Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.
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Crash Cinema
Representation in Film
Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema's power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.
Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema’s power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.
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In Germany, privately run boulevard comedy theatres attract larger audiences than state theatres. This book analyzes this unique phenomenon, exploring everything from its specialized plays and actors to its artistic management, production, and reception.
In Germany, privately run boulevard comedy theatres attract larger audiences than state theatres. This book analyzes this unique phenomenon, exploring everything from its specialized plays and actors to its artistic management, production, and reception.
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This essay collection analyzes recurring images of dismemberment on the western stage, from Classical Tragedy to contemporary drama. Contributors ask what a dismembered body means, revealing how drama’s dismemberment as a form challenges representation itself.
This essay collection analyzes recurring images of dismemberment on the western stage, from Classical Tragedy to contemporary drama. Contributors ask what a dismembered body means, revealing how drama’s dismemberment as a form challenges representation itself.
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Postcolonial Artist
Johnny Doran and Irish Traveller Tradition
Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.
Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.
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