Arts

Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933

by Erik Butler

For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native...

Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers

by Balint Andras Varga

Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences or from, say, the natural world? What influences, past and present, have influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop...

The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy

by Christian Rogowski

Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of 'auteurist' filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been...

Post-Wall German Cinema and National History: Utopianism and Dissent

by Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien

Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the failed socialist state, the...

Dear Dorothy: Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow

by Nicolas Slonimsky & Electra Slonimsky Yourke

In the mid-twentieth century renowned musicologist, conductor, and lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky traveled to cities throughout the world to play and conduct music of the American avant-garde. From trips to...

Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music

by Peter Kaminsky

"Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music" fills a unique place in Ravel studies by combining critical interpretation and analytical focus. From the premiere of his works up to the present, Ravel has been...

This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits

by James, Jr. Greene

This Music Leaves Stains presents the full story behind the Misfits and their ubiquitous, haunting skull logo, a story of unique talent, strange timing, clashing personalities, and incredible music that helped...

Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art

by Peter Osborne

A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time

Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. What kind of discourse can help us give it a critical...

Freud: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

A Romany In The Country

by A. Trystan Edwards

The Rev. George Bramwell Evens was, under the pseudonym Romany (and sometimes The Tramp), a British radio broadcaster and writer on countryside and natural history matters - quite possibly the first to broadcast...

A Christmas Carol - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

by J. T. Carrodus

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

First Crossing of the Polar Sea

by Hans Christian Andersen

This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's 'Thumbelina', first published in May of 1835. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in print in different editions...

Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen - Illustrated by Thomas, Charles and W. Heath Robinson

by Hans Christian Andersen

This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's most famous tale 'The Little Mermaid', first published in May of 1837. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in...

Colonial Folkways - A Chronicle Of American Life In the Reign of the Georges

by J. Anderson

Charles McLean Andrews (February 22, 1863 - September 9, 1943) was one of the most distinguished American historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history. The...

Justice Among Nations

by George Amberg

Horace G. Alexander was a British Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. Also he was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi. This is Alexander's lecture on the Justice among Nations. The thesis of my lecture...

Ipad for Digital Photographers

by Derrick Story

Discover innovative ways to strengthen your photography business with your iPad

Many photographers are turning to the flexible, easy-to-use tools of the iPad and relying on them to wear a variety of hats in their...

Knowing the Score

by David Morgan

This collection of interviews with Hollywood composers offers the most intimate look ever at the process of writing music for the movies.  From getting started in the business to recording the soundtrack, from...

Sundancing

by John Anderson & David Morgan

Every winter, 8,000 feet above sea level in the Utah snow, the hopes and dreams of young moviemakers are put on display at the Sundance Film Festival--the haven for independent films where you can show up a...

Typography 33

by Type Directors Club

For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 33 is the only...

Green Shadows, White Whale

by Ray Bradbury

In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts...