Visual Arts

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3

Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa

Edited By: Kene Igweonu, Osita Okagbue

£39.99

This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.

Mediating Religious Cultures in Early Modern Europe

Edited By: Torrance Kirby, Matthew Milner

£44.99

The lingua franca for cultural self-understanding in the early-modern period was ineluctably religious. Without religion we cannot comprehend its myriad facets, from markets and art to the very terminology of unbelief. This collection of essays explores these themes.

Adapting Gaskell

Screen and Stage Versions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction

Edited By: Loredana Salis

£39.99

This collection charts the adaptation of Gaskell’s fiction, placing her alongside authors like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. It will surely prompt more investigations into the adaptability of her work. – Deborah Cartmell

Russian Émigré Culture

Conservatism or Evolution?

Edited By: Christoph Flamm, Henry Keazor, Roland Marti

£49.99

This volume offers a collection of critical articles reflecting current perspectives on Russian émigré culture. Scholars shed new light on cultural diplomacy, literature, art, and music, documenting the diversity and impact of this movement on European life.

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1

Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures

Edited By: Kene Igweonu, Osita Okagbue

£44.99

This book explores how plays of the African diaspora acknowledge home cultures while interacting with host cultures. Contributions attest that the diaspora is not solely outside the continent, but can be found in performances within Africa that engage with the world.

Art and Destruction

Edited By: Jennifer Walden

£39.99

Most writing on art is about creation. This volume addresses its relationship with destruction. It brings together distinct areas for enquiry, from artists whose making is driven by breaking down matter to unique approaches to representing mass destruction.

Rivals and Conspirators

The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre

By: Fae Brauer

£54.99

This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.

The Media in Europe’s Small Nations

Edited By: Huw David Jones

£39.99

What are the characteristics of media in small nations? This collection brings together perspectives and case-studies from across Europe to explore the challenges and advantages, providing insights into media policy, representation, and national identity.

Cinema, Television and History

New Approaches

Edited By: Laura Mee, Johnny Walker

£44.99

Rethinking the relationship between cinema, television and history, this collection of essays explores how historical events are interpreted and adapted for the screen, as well as the work of the historian exploring the archive.

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2013

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£44.99

The essays in this volume explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literature, film, and music. This collection reflects a wide range of international disciplines and highlights the growing interest in consciousness studies.

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2

Innovation, Creativity and Social Change

Edited By: Kene Igweonu, Osita Okagbue

£39.99

This collection explores how African theatre instigates social change. Contributions demonstrate the ingenuity of practitioners who adapt indigenous forms to engage with contemporary realities, creating an aesthetic that is identifiably African.

East Meets West

Edited By: Reiko Aiura, J. U. Jacobs

£44.99

This collection of peer-reviewed papers, from an international conference in Japan, explores the cultural cross-fertilisation between the literatures of East and West. The collection demonstrates the stimulating effect of cross-cultural literary studies.

HBO’s Girls

Questions of Gender, Politics, and Millennial Angst

Edited By: Betty Kaklamanidou, Margaret Tally

From £29.99

This collection is the first to discuss the cultural, political, and social implications of the innovative series Girls. Contributors examine the show through lenses of gender, sexuality, race, and relationships to explain its profound cultural impact.

Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama

A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard

By: Mufti Mudasir

£39.99

This study reveals Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard as postmodern playwrights. Their contradictory dramas subvert theatrical convention to challenge our very understanding of truth, history, and the human subject.

Zen-Life

Ikkyū and Beyond

By: Evgeny Steiner

£54.99

This multidisciplinary study examines Ikkyū Sōjun, the embodiment of Japan's Muromachi era. It reconstructs his creative mentality, exploring his art, interpretation of Zen, and religious principles, showing how his rebellious ways were deeply embedded in tradition.

This multidisciplinary study examines Ikkyū Sōjun, the embodiment of Japan’s Muromachi era. It reconstructs his creative mentality, exploring his art, interpretation of Zen, and religious principles, showing how his rebellious ways were deeply embedded in tradition.

Thebes in the First Millennium BC

Edited By: Julia Budka, Kenneth Griffin, Elena Pischikova

£69.99

This volume assembles studies by prominent scholars on Thebes in the First Millennium BC. It investigates royal and elite monuments of the Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Periods, providing new perspectives on their art, architecture, texts, and conservation.

Art Theory as Visual Epistemology

Edited By: Harald Klinke

£39.99

"What is knowledge?" is as much a philosophic question as "What is an image?" Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.

“What is knowledge?” is as much a philosophic question as “What is an image?” Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.

Applied Drama/Theatre as Social Intervention in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts

Edited By: Hazel Barnes, Marié-Heleen Coetzee

£44.99

This book explores drama as an intervention in conflict. It maps theatre's transformative role in contexts from South Africa to New Zealand, addressing violence in prisons, cities, and families. Includes two new play scripts on xenophobia and family violence.

This book explores drama as an intervention in conflict. It maps theatre’s transformative role in contexts from South Africa to New Zealand, addressing violence in prisons, cities, and families. Includes two new play scripts on xenophobia and family violence.

Rendezvous with the Sensuous

Readings on Aesthetics

Edited By: John Murungi

£44.99

In Rendezvous with the Sensuous, explore the aesthetic experience where human sensuousness combines with that of nature. Where artistic expression coalesces with the natural world, you are invited on a synesthetic journey to appreciate the role of aesthetics.

Arts and Terror

Edited By: Vladimir L. Marchenkov

£39.99

From classical tragedy to post-9/11, these essays explore terror as a perennial theme in the arts—a thread woven into the fabric of artistic expression and life itself.

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