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Catalan Cinema
The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487544508
Pub Date: February 2024
This collection of essays on Catalan cinematography explores one of the most vibrant minority cultures in Europe.
Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487503512
Pub Date: February 2024
This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s.
Politically Animated
Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487544423
Pub Date: November 2023
Shedding light on the political implications that arise from narrative decision-making, this book examines animated non-fiction from the Spanish-speaking world.
The Crimean War and Cultural Memory
The War France Won and Forgot
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487547776
Pub Date: November 2023
Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten.
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487547301
Pub Date: October 2023
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.
Sex Work in Popular Culture
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487548636
Pub Date: July 2023
This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.
A Stage for Debate
The Political Significance of Vienna’s Burgtheater, 1814–1867
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487509552
Pub Date: June 2023
This book examines Vienna’s Burgtheater, the most prestigious German-language stage in the nineteenth century.
Italian Film in the Present Tense
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487546199
Pub Date: February 2023
This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.
Onscreen/Offscreen
Price:
$36.95
ISBN: 9781487541774
Pub Date: January 2023
Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.
The Near-Death of the Author
Creativity in the Internet Age
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487546120
Pub Date: November 2022
The Near-Death of the Author describes the plight of contemporary authors in the internet age
A Decolonizing Ear
Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487544850
Pub Date: November 2022
A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.
Wayward Feeling
Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487540586
Pub Date: July 2022
Wayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South Africa.
Hope in a Collapsing World
Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487541200
Pub Date: April 2022
This ethnographic study explores notions of hope and care by examining how theatre-making with young people might cultivate practices, relationships, and values that support them in engaged, creative, and ethical forms of citizenship.
Narratology in Practice
Price:
$35.95
ISBN: 9781442628373
Pub Date: September 2021
Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.
Fashioning Spanish Cinema
Costume, Identity, and Stardom
Price:
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487509118
Pub Date: July 2021
Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.
The Long Century’s Long Shadow
Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
Price:
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487526955
Pub Date: June 2021
The Long Century’s Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Catalan Cinema
The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487544508
Pub Date: February 2024
This collection of essays on Catalan cinematography explores one of the most vibrant minority cultures in Europe.
Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487503512
Pub Date: February 2024
This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s.
Politically Animated
Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487544423
Pub Date: November 2023
Shedding light on the political implications that arise from narrative decision-making, this book examines animated non-fiction from the Spanish-speaking world.
The Crimean War and Cultural Memory
The War France Won and Forgot
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487547776
Pub Date: November 2023
Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten.
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487547301
Pub Date: October 2023
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.
Sex Work in Popular Culture
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487548636
Pub Date: July 2023
This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.
A Stage for Debate
The Political Significance of Vienna’s Burgtheater, 1814–1867
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487509552
Pub Date: June 2023
This book examines Vienna’s Burgtheater, the most prestigious German-language stage in the nineteenth century.
Italian Film in the Present Tense
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487546199
Pub Date: February 2023
This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.
Onscreen/Offscreen
$36.95
ISBN: 9781487541774
Pub Date: January 2023
Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.
The Near-Death of the Author
Creativity in the Internet Age
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487546120
Pub Date: November 2022
The Near-Death of the Author describes the plight of contemporary authors in the internet age
A Decolonizing Ear
Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487544850
Pub Date: November 2022
A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.
Wayward Feeling
Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487540586
Pub Date: July 2022
Wayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South Africa.
Hope in a Collapsing World
Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487541200
Pub Date: April 2022
This ethnographic study explores notions of hope and care by examining how theatre-making with young people might cultivate practices, relationships, and values that support them in engaged, creative, and ethical forms of citizenship.
Narratology in Practice
$35.95
ISBN: 9781442628373
Pub Date: September 2021
Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.
Fashioning Spanish Cinema
Costume, Identity, and Stardom
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487509118
Pub Date: July 2021
Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.
The Long Century’s Long Shadow
Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487526955
Pub Date: June 2021
The Long Century’s Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.