Images of Conflict
Striking aerial views of war and its scarred landscapes are the focus of this unique book. For the first time, military historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists explore the history and technology of military aerial photography to reassess the landscapes of conflict.
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.
Global Arts Leadership in the Digital Age
Leading voices in the arts discuss how technology—from AI and crypto to the metaverse—is creating today’s most iconic cultural products. Through case studies and expert commentaries, this book offers a manual with tangible tools for all cultural practitioners.
This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
PostGender
A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.
Understanding Bollywood
Explore how Bollywood films reveal the cultural politics of India. This book analyses the on-screen evolution of Indian women, charting their journey from subjugation to empowerment and the fight for human rights.
In an age of media convergence, many have proclaimed the death of cinema. But as moving images enter art galleries, the internet, and our daily lives, what happens to film? This volume explores not the disappearance of cinema, but its blooming post-media life.
Vision of Change in African Drama
This book focuses on Fémi Òsófisan, a major Nigerian dramatist and postcolonial writer. It explores how he questions colonial and postcolonial identity by exploiting his Yorùbá heritage, re-writing mythology and history to comment on contemporary social and political issues.
This volume of essays dissects critical issues in postcolonial African theatre. It moves beyond conventional theory to focus on the concrete realities practitioners face, exploring diverse topics from censorship and cultural policy to text, performance, and production.
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.
Essays on Psychogeography and the City as Performance
Inspired by Psychogeography, this collection of essays by international scholar-artists highlights the performative aspects of cities. It offers a practical guide to experiencing the cityscape as the Artscape, where performance and imagination create immersive public art.
James Bond in World and Popular Culture
The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.
An Exploration of Prehistoric Ontologies in the Bering Strait Region
This book introduces the belief and symbolism in prehistoric Bering Strait art. It challenges traditional archaeology by reconsidering the relationship between materiality and spirituality, analyzing therianthropic motifs on ancient Inuit ivories to explore potential shamanism.
Art as “Night”
Art as “Night” proposes a type of dark, a-historical knowledge crossing painting from Velázquez to Richter and Kiefer. It argues for a non-discursive form of intellection embodied in the work of art—a pure visual and moral agency lost since the Baroque era.
African cinema offers a unique opposition to the injustices of neoliberalism. It deftly analyzes the thread running through globalization and corporate greed that naturalizes a global caste system and generates a culture of permanent anxiety and precarity.
Monsters have always been border crossers, their transnational nature reflecting our era of global crisis. This book explores the cultural flow of monstrosity, examining its socio-political ramifications in a world framed by the Covid pandemic and our shared vulnerability.
For 30,000 years, humans have created visual expressions of their sacred beings. This book investigates these interpretations of deities throughout history, exploring the psychological necessity for us to create gods and goddesses in a human-like form.
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.
A pioneering engraver, map-maker, and friend to Joseph Wright of Derby. But did Peter Perez Burdett’s influence on the great artist end with his emigration in 1774? In his first biography, compelling new evidence suggests their connection was far from over.
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