Contemporary Dance and Southern African Rock Art
In Apartheid South Africa, the author started a mixed-race dance company in her garage. Weaving together research into rock art and transformative choreography, this book shows how dance can change attitudes, perceptions, and the human spirit. Includes a video link to the dance.
Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection investigate the recent powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a ‘new’ medium.
Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable
Monsters have always represented what we fear in the Other. But today, they reveal what we fear in ourselves—what we’re capable of. These essays explore the monstrous in film, literature, and myth to understand not just who we are, but who we might become.
This volume investigates the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category.
Ruskin’s Struggle for Coherence
The ten essays collected here address the coherence in Ruskin’s multi-disciplinary works. Using interdisciplinary approaches, they explore the “polygon” of his thought and what he called “The Mystery of Life and Its Arts.”
The Cinematography of Roger Corman
Adopting a methodology based on auteur theory in its structuralist form, Aleksandrowicz investigates the duality of the work of Roger Corman, straddling the line between “the King of the B’s” and an artist whose works are worthy of the highest cinema awards.