Film & Performance Studies

This collection of essays on Catalan cinematography explores one of the most vibrant minority cultures in Europe.

This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s.

Shedding light on the political implications that arise from narrative decision-making, this book examines animated non-fiction from the Spanish-speaking world.

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 reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.

This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.

This book examines Vienna’s Burgtheater, the most prestigious German-language stage in the nineteenth century.

This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.

Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.

The Near-Death of the Author describes the plight of contemporary authors in the internet age

A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.

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.

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 draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.

Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.

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.