Audience Reception of Benin Cinema in Nigeria
This pioneering study explores Benin (Edo) cinema, a vibrant and largely unexplored frontier in Nigerian performing arts. It covers the history, filmography, and audience reception of these films, revealing a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture within Nollywood.
In 1478, Leonardo da Vinci opened his own workshop and began painting the Benois Madonna—a work marking a strong change in his style and representation of human emotion. This book analyzes his growth as an artist in this pivotal year, detailing his training and life in Florence.
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 worlds of theatre, law, and psychology all deal with the human soul and its contradictions. This book examines six classic Yiddish plays for the first time from a legal and psychoanalytical perspective, shedding new light on the characters’ universal conflicts.
This engaging and extensively researched book details Eva Green’s film career from 2001 to the present. With critical commentary and biographical context, it covers her roles, the making of her films, and their reception.
From Shakespeare to Star Wars, how are men represented on the page and screen? These essays argue that men must become aware of these representations to alter toxic patriarchal models, distinguish masculinity from patriarchy, and achieve liberation from its crippling constraints.
The Roots of Visual Depiction in Art
Why ancient humans first began to represent animals is a question that has led to a bewildering number of theories since cave art was discovered. This work provides an answer, demonstrating the intriguing journey of the development of visual imagery in the human brain.
Menander’s Characters in Context
To appreciate Menander’s naturalistic characters, we need a guide to his time: Aristotle. This book examines two of Menander’s comedies in this light, comparing the ancient originals to modern adaptations and shedding new light on cultural values, then and now.
This book explores Wilde’s ideas on the relation of Art to Life, examining The Importance of Being Earnest to discover whether its elegant artificiality aligns with his theories on beauty. It also considers the consequence of his assault on Victorian values.
Heinz-Uwe Haus and Brecht in the USA
As the first renowned East German director in the USA, Heinz-Uwe Haus’s productions of Brecht were historic. This book documents his work through his notes, media reviews, academic analysis, and firsthand reflections from the cast and creative team.
This volume explains methods for examining oil and acrylic paint surfaces. It compares untreated and treated samples of historic and modern paints to reveal ideal cleaning systems, presenting tests of materials ranging from demineralized water and sponges to detergents.
Ambiguous Selves
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
Arts, Politics and Social Movements
This collection describes artistic and activist actions challenging the existing order. With case studies from Europe and the US, it questions contemporary ideas in the face of the Great Transition, proposing utopian forms and asking the vital question: “what is to be done?”
From mythological satyrs and wicked imperial stepmothers to misbehaving students and obstreperous old Athenians, this volume investigates attitudes to age in the ancient world, exploring intergenerational relationships and the intersections with gender, class and status.
The Art of Women in Contemporary China
This book presents the work of over 75 Chinese female artists in visual art and poetry. Their work explores the experience of being a woman through themes of the body, home, fantasy, and social conscience. This unique volume pairs poetry with art, articulating shared concerns.
Technological progress has advanced the forgery of monuments, threatening their historical value. This book presents scientific methods for detecting fakes to help preserve our heritage.
José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho
This blend of biography, history, and literary criticism analyzes José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative, semi-autobiographical novel, *Pocho*. Its hero is Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth of Indigenous and Mexican heritage whose appearance casts him as a social outsider.
Affinities—that nagging sense of familiarity in art—offer a key to how artists work. This book shows how affinity can be a hidden influence, a route to creativity, a shared heritage, or the first step in a lawsuit when it is confused with plagiarism.
This collection analyzes the Star Wars movies from diverse viewpoints—from history and politics to music and economics. The book will appeal to a wide audience, from students and academics to dedicated fans of the saga.
Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.
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