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Brecht, Broadway and United States Theater

Edited By: J. Chris Westgate

£34.99

This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht's encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.

This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht’s encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.

Photographing Papua

Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public Domain

Edited By: Max Quanchi

£39.99

This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.

France at the Flicks

Trends in Contemporary French Popular Cinema

Edited By: Isabelle Vanderschelden, Darren Waldron

£34.99

Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood's dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.

Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood’s dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.

Theatres of Thought

Theatre, Performance and Philosophy

Edited By: Daniel Watt

£29.99

Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.

Women Willing to Fight

The Fighting Woman in Film

Edited By: Silke Andris, Ursula K. Frederick

£34.99

This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.

Hunting the Collectors

Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives

Edited By: Susan Cochrane, Max Quanchi

£34.99

This volume investigates Pacific collections in Australian museums and the diverse 19th- and 20th-century collectors responsible. Essays reveal the motivations that led to the preservation of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island art, objects, and documents.

Views, Positions, Legacies

Interviews with German and British Theatre Artists, 1985-2007

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£34.99

This book collects 24 interviews with German and British theatre artists over 20 years. Actors, directors, and dramatists discuss boulevard comedy, Brecht’s legacy, and seminal productions like Sir Richard Eyre’s account of his Hamlet at the Royal Court.

Literary Readings of Billy Wilder

Edited By: Georges-Claude Guilbert

£39.99

Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.

A Century of the Marx Brothers

Edited By: Joseph Mills

£34.99

A century later, the Marx Brothers are cultural icons who have permeated our culture. Most scholarly work on them is biographical; this collection of eleven essays suggests other approaches, examining their work from a number of critical perspectives.

Out of the Stream

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Mural Painting

Edited By: Luís Urbano Afonso, Vítor Serrão

£34.99

This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe's periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.

This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe’s periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.

Narration and Spectatorship in Moving Images

Edited By: Barbara Fisher Anderson, Joseph D. Anderson

£39.99

Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.

Querying Difference in Theatre History

Edited By: Ann Haugo, Scott Magelssen

£29.99

As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.

Movie Time

By: James Combs

£34.99

Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.

Searching for America

Essays on Art and Architecture

Edited By: Robert Sheardy Jr.

£34.99

These essays explore American paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture from diverse, multidisciplinary points of view. From traditional analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, these critical works represent the multicultural identities of America.

Marcel Duchamp and Eroticism

Edited By: Marc Decimo

£39.99

While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now "lift the veil" on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.

While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now “lift the veil” on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.

Zoom In, Zoom Out

Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema

Edited By: Sandra Barriales-Bouche, Marjorie Attignol Salvodon

£34.99

European films are a vital space where borders and identity are renegotiated. This collection explores how filmmakers question the continent by crossing geographic, cultural, and aesthetic boundaries, framing European cinema as a work-in-progress.

Realities and Remediations

The Limits of Representation in Film

Edited By: Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Elizabeth Wells

£29.99

This volume of new essays examines how representations are put into place through mise-en-scene, editing and technology. In a hyper-visual era, these essays challenge commonplaces, problematising our relationship to a perceived reality.

Holocaust Film

The Political Aesthetics of Ideology

By: Terri Ginsberg

£34.99

Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.

Etching Our Own Image

Voices from Within the Arab American Art Movement

Edited By: Anan Ameri, Holly Arida

£34.99

A celebration of Arab American art and identity. In the wake of 9/11, a movement of artists galvanized to define themselves, rather than be defined by others. By telling their own stories, these voices reclaim their image and tell the world who they are.

Global and Local Art Histories

Edited By: Celina Jeffery, Gregory Minissale

£39.99

Global and Local Art Histories analyzes art outside of hegemonic Euro-American themes. Essays from a broad range of cultural perspectives contest concepts of history and culture, exploring global and local identities and questioning "the work of art.”