Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities
This interdisciplinary study investigates collecting from the sixteenth century to today. Using the cabinet of curiosity as a model, scholars expand our understanding of display, from art and film to everyday objects, showing its urgent relevance in our consumer age.
South American Cinematic Culture
This study of South American cinema offers a new approach, revealing the interconnectivity between state, altruistic, and commercial film organizations. It produces a rich overview of a key non-Western filmmaking site, tracing how films circulate nationally and globally.
An essential gateway to understanding Central Asia. Leading experts present cutting-edge research on the region’s history, politics, culture, and environment, making this collection a vital resource for any student or scholar.
Wit’s End
This book studies the “Great Movies,” the enduring works of cinematic history. It attempts to “make sense” of these films to understand what they express about the universality of human life and the worlds they recreate on screen.
The study of ancient marriage has traditionally focused on elite texts and laws. This collection reveals a shift in focus, with essays examining demographic and contractual evidence, inscriptions, and visual imagery alongside innovative readings of authors.
Le mensonge
This collection of essays considers the political, social, and artistic impact of the dichotomy of truth and lies in French culture. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines, this work is of great relevance to students and researchers alike.
This book explores A. S. Byatt’s visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and “cold” artwork.
Exploring Turkish Cultures
This groundbreaking collection offers new insights into Turkish cultures, moving beyond traditional binaries. It features the first major interviews in English with prominent actors, directors, and critics, alongside essays on Turkish film and theatre.
Stage Migrants
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.
Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe’s last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance
This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.
Docudrama Performs the Past
Docudramas offer performance as persuasion. By re-creating true stories of war, tragedy, and the lives of noteworthy individuals, they perform the past. This performance of memory makes the memories of others our own, shaping public memory itself.
War, Human Dignity and Nation Building
Canada’s longest conflict, the Afghan Mission, is a watershed moment with immense costs, yet it remains little scrutinized by faith communities. This volume is the first to bring together theologians, politicians, and academics to dialogue on its impact.
Explore the Symbolist movement’s profound, interdisciplinary impact on 20th-century culture. These essays trace its evolution across Europe, highlighting the foundational role of French art and literature.
This collection explores the politics of cultural memory. From monuments to film and literature, it shows how cultural memory is actively made: the site of a struggle over meanings that serves various political and cultural purposes.
Connections~Verbindungen
When artist Gerhardt Gallagher discovered etchings by his German grandmother Margarethe, whose career was disrupted by war, it led to an exhibition and this book. This volume connects Irish and German cultures through the work of two artists and a family history.
Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, he succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated, but often misunderstood, masterpieces.
This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century
Book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. This collection is the first step in reconfiguring the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts, offering a multifaceted approach to a society immersed in visual culture and communication.
Touching Art
This study follows the Tree of Life, a Mozambican sculpture made from decommissioned weapons. It explores how its meaning changed when exhibited in its original context versus the British Museum, challenging curatorial concepts of African art.
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