Visual Arts

Public Theatres and Theatre Publics

Edited By: Sara Freeman, Robert Shimko

£39.99

This collection connects theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. Essays from prominent scholars explore how performing in public shapes identity, class, and political agency across three centuries and in multiple global contexts.

The European Avant-Garde

Text and Image

Edited By: Selena Daly, Monica Insinga

£44.99

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.

Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch

Thinking about Television’s Mad Men

Edited By: Jimmie Manning, Danielle M. Stern

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Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show's cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.

Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show’s cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.

Post-Apartheid Dance

Many Bodies Many Voices Many Stories

Edited By: Sharon Friedman

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This ground-breaking work presents perspectives on post-apartheid dance in South Africa. Reflecting a multiplicity of voices, it juxtaposes contentious issues to draw attention to the complexity of dancing on the ashes of apartheid.

Joseph Wright, Esq. Painter and Gentleman

By: Andrew Graciano

£34.99

Andrew Graciano’s study re-evaluates Joseph Wright’s career, connecting his art to contemporary science, industry, and economics. Graciano reveals Wright as an intellectual painter and a gentleman whose social standing has been ignored by scholars.

The Design Collective

An Approach to Practice

Edited By: Laetitia Shand

£44.99

This collection explores the potential of the collective as a structure linking creativity, social change, and politics. Bringing together practitioners, historians, and theorists, it examines how design practices like authorship and agency are being re-evaluated.

Literacy, Literature and Identity

Multiple Perspectives

Edited By: Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Paul A. Scanlon

£44.99

This volume shows how literature and language shape the identities of individuals and societies. With a truly global reach, it draws on diverse contexts: from women in North America and African identity challenges to New Zealand’s Maoris.

We Are What We Remember

The American Past Through Commemoration

Edited By: Laura Mattoon D’Amore, Jeffrey Meriwether

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Commemoration doesn't just capture history—it creates new narratives that reflect our current values. As our views on race, gender, and class change, so do our commemorations. How do we repair the damage of the past and name forgotten histories?

Commemoration doesn’t just capture history—it creates new narratives that reflect our current values. As our views on race, gender, and class change, so do our commemorations. How do we repair the damage of the past and name forgotten histories?

Quantum Theatre

Science and Contemporary Performance

By: Paul Johnson

£44.99

Quantum Theatre uses quantum mechanics to construct a framework for examining performance. This pioneering analysis reveals hidden aspects of the theatrical event, providing a coherent alternative to postmodernism as a theoretical framework for performance.

Ruptures in the Western Empire

White Female Captives and Cinematic Orientalism

By: Omar Moumni

£39.99

This book investigates the representation of white female captives in Moorish thralldom in Western cinema. It deconstructs how these stories were used for imperialist ambitions and, by rereading this visual culture, gives voice to the stereotyped "other".

The Origin of Hardy’s Tragic Vision

By: Rıza Öztürk

£39.99

Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy's stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.

Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy’s stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.

Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles

Edited By: Juliana Dresvina, Nicholas Sparks

£54.99

This collection traces themes of authority and gender in chronicles from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With contributions from leading specialists, this study spans medieval Europe, drawing on evidence from language, literature, history, and art.

Dossier Chris Marker

The Suffering Image

By: Gavin Keeney

£49.99

A study of Chris Marker's works, focusing on the dynamic interplay of political and subjective agency. It is this very conflict that animates all of Marker’s extensive works, which act as a “mask” or “screen” for forces that reside beyond the frame.

A study of Chris Marker’s works, focusing on the dynamic interplay of political and subjective agency. It is this very conflict that animates all of Marker’s extensive works, which act as a “mask” or “screen” for forces that reside beyond the frame.

The Digital Learning Revolution in Ireland

Case Studies from the National Learning Resources Service

Edited By: Ann Marcus-Quinn

£44.99

This book presents case studies from the Irish National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR) service, showing how Open Educational Resources (OERs) are being promoted in Ireland. The NDLR fosters the sharing of resources across the Higher Education sector.

The Noughties in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Edited By: Niamh Thornton, Kathy Bacon

£44.99

This volume explores the cultural significance of the ‘noughties’ in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, defining a new generation through its film, digital media, theatre, and history.

Film and Morality

By: Philip Gillett

£44.99

Film and Morality examines how morality is presented in films and how they serve as a source of moral values. It shows how audiences explore moral issues by following characters who make life-changing decisions and live with the consequences of their choices.

Fiction and Faction in the Malay World

Edited By: Mohamad Rashidi Pakri

£44.99

Explore the Malay World through the eyes of outsiders. This collection examines the personal fiction, diaries, and letters of foreigners and traders from the 18th to 20th century, revealing fascinating insights into their encounters and personalities.

Dramatising Disaster

Character, Event, Representation

Edited By: Christine Cornea, Rhys Owain Thomas

£39.99

As the imagining of disaster intensifies in media, it is vital to understand how it is presented. Dramatising Disaster presents new research focused not on a specific event, but on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.

Film Style and the World War II Combat Genre

By: Stuart Bender

£49.99

Why does combat on film feel so real? Drawing on cognitive psychology, this groundbreaking study dissects the style of WWII films, revealing how dense audio-visual information creates a powerful sense of realism.

Visible Exports / Imports

New Research on Medieval and Renaissance European Art and Culture

Edited By: Emily-Jan Anderson, Jill Farquhar, John Richards

£49.99

New perspectives on medieval and renaissance art and culture. Essays explore 14th and 15th century European art production, from workshop practice and patronage to the circulation of styles and ideas.

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