Visual Arts

Cinematic Narration and its Psychological Impact

Functions of Cognition, Emotion and Play

By: Peter Wuss

£44.99

Using cognitive psychology, this book explores how cinematic narration impacts the spectator's mind. It considers storytelling, conflict, suspense, and genre to outline a model for analysing how cinematic devices influence a viewer's cognition, imagination, and emotion.

Using cognitive psychology, this book explores how cinematic narration impacts the spectator’s mind. It considers storytelling, conflict, suspense, and genre to outline a model for analysing how cinematic devices influence a viewer’s cognition, imagination, and emotion.

Performing Adaptations

Essays and Conversations on the Theory and Practice of Adaptation

Edited By: Michelle MacArthur, Lydia Wilkinson, Keren Zaiontz

£39.99

This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.

The Nation on Screen

Discourses of the National on Global Television

Edited By: Enric Castelló, Alexander Dhoest

£44.99

This book focuses on the complex discourses of the nation in the television of twelve countries. It examines how the nation is staged in news, fiction, and entertainment, revealing it as a site of struggle: everywhere and nowhere, endlessly discussed but never grasped.

Cinema and Politics

Turkish Cinema and The New Europe

Edited By: Aslı Kotaman, Ahu Uğursoy

£44.99

This volume presents varied approaches to the relation between cinema and politics, focusing on changing narratives and identities. It highlights filmmakers with ‘hybrid identities’ whose work goes beyond old limits toward the sensitivity of the New Europe.

Practical Approaches to Teaching Film

Edited By: Rachel S. Ritterbusch

£39.99

Unlock film's power in the classroom. Experts show how to use movies from blockbusters to art films to foster critical thinking. This practical guide provides sample syllabi, assignments, and a glossary of key film terms for immediate use.

Unlock film’s power in the classroom. Experts show how to use movies from blockbusters to art films to foster critical thinking. This practical guide provides sample syllabi, assignments, and a glossary of key film terms for immediate use.

The Representation of Working People in Britain and France

New Perspectives

By: Antoine Capet

£34.99

History is about “representation,” but what does that mean? International authors explore this elusive notion, covering working people in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the present, revealing the diverse points of view and the bridges that link them.

The Sublime Now

Edited By: Claire Pajaczkowska, Luke White

£49.99

Once considered an archaic concept, the Sublime has returned to the critical agenda. This book asks why. Spanning philosophy, politics, popular cinema, and digital cultures, these essays explore the relevance and urgency of the Sublime for today's world.

Pinter Et Cetera

Edited By: Craig N. Owens

£39.99

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.

Talking Drama

Edited By: Judith Roof

£34.99

What is the relation between drama and its critics? Drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the problems of human existence. Plays critique society and themselves, while also spurring critique from the audiences and reviewers who are intrinsic to theatre.

Cinemas, Identities and Beyond

Edited By: D. H. Fleming, Cheung Ruby

From £19.99

Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines how film represents and constructs identities, transcending national and temporal boundaries. This collection of essays challenges ideological paradigms and contributes to contemporary debates in film studies.

About Face

Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts

Edited By: Elena Bellina, Lindsay Eufusia, Paola Ugolini

£39.99

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.

Traveller Friends

Edited By: Paul Harrison, Micheal Ó'hAodha

£39.99

The Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction. Paul Harrison’s arresting photos show a “hidden Ireland” relegated to the societal margins. They haunt the viewer and interrogate what it means to be human.

“And that’s true too”

New Essays on King Lear

Edited By: Pierre Iselin, François Laroque

£39.99

Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare's elusive and powerful tragedy.

Crossings

David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media

Edited By: Johan Callens

£39.99

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.

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.

Movies on Home Ground

Explorations in Amateur Cinema

Edited By: Ian Craven

From £34.99

This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.

Spirituality in Late Byzantium

Essays Presenting New Research by International Scholars

Edited By: Eugenia Russell

£34.99

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.

Pageants and Processions

Images and Idiom as Spectacle

Edited By: Herman du Toit

£39.99

Before beauty contests, pageants were spectacles of social, religious, and political power. This anthology reveals the global history of pageantry across centuries and cultures, exploring its purpose as a powerful civic tool.

“The Wandering Life I Led”

Essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and Early Modern Women’s Border Crossings

Edited By: Susan Shifrin

£39.99

International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.

Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory

Edited By: Colin Counsell, Roberta Mock

£39.99

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.

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.

Flash Parade

A Photo Montage of a Theatrical Touring Company

Edited By: Vikki Jackson

£34.99

From the 1920s to the 1960s, legendary Vic Loving’s touring company Flash Parade travelled Ireland. Known as the 'Sequin Queen', this trailblazing woman brought ‘colour, gaiety and glamour’ to an otherwise grey era. A selection of photos and memorabilia.

From the 1920s to the 1960s, legendary Vic Loving’s touring company Flash Parade travelled Ireland. Known as the ‘Sequin Queen’, this trailblazing woman brought ‘colour, gaiety and glamour’ to an otherwise grey era. A selection of photos and memorabilia.

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