Arts

Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time'

by Courtney E. Smith

Former MTV music programmer and MTV blogger Courtney E. Smith delivers a humorous and edgy look at the world of music from the female perspective.

Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers

by William Murray

H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer,...

Imperial Dancer

by Coryne Hall

The vivacious Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) was the mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes and the greatest ballerina of her generation. As a young girl, she had enjoyed romantic troika rides, and passionate...

Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes, and Passions

by Michael O'Pray

Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It covers...

Class Act: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins

by Cholly Atkins & Jacqui Malone

Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War...

Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City

by Mark Bould

Film Noir explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film’s most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and looks at modern...

The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance

by Marek Haltof

Since his death in 1996, Krzysztof Kieslowski has remained the best-known contemporary Polish film-maker, and one of the most popular and respected European directors, internationally renowned for his ambitious...

The Evil Dead

by Kate Egan

Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981) has been celebrated as a rollercoaster ride of terror and a classic horror hit, a defining example of the tongue-in-cheek, excessively gory horror films of the 1980s. It is...

Documentary: The Margins of Reality

by Paul Ward

In using case studies such as Touching the Void (2003) and the films of Nick Broomfield, this timely introduction to the growing field of documentary explores the definition and understanding of the form, as...

The Cinema of Latin America

by Marina Diaz Lopez, Alberto Elena & Walter Salles

The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique...

The Celluloid Madonna: From Scripture to Screen

by Catherine O'Brien

The Celluloid Madonna is the first book to analyze the life of the Virgin Mary on screen from the silent era through to the present. For decades, Mary has caught the imagination of filmmakers from a range of...

Cinema in the Digital Age

by Nicholas Rombes

Does the digital era spell the death of cinema as we know it? Or is it merely heralding its rebirth? Are we witnessing the emergence of something entirely new? Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of...

Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman into Cinema

by Janet McCabe

An introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present. McCabe traces the broad ranging theories produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical...

Master Posing Guide for Portrait Photographers: A Complete Guide to Posing Singles, Couples, and Groups

by J. D. Wacker

Updated with new photos and a revised text to reflect the latest techniques and styles in posing and portraiture, this second edition of a bestselling book is a welcome addition to the photography libraries...

A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry

by R. Howard Bloch

The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious...

Lost's Buried Treasures

by Lynnette Porter

The Ultimate Unauthorized Resource to the Stories Behind Lost Lost is a complex and mysterious tale, one that draws on many sources for its themes and ideas-sources you must understand to become an advanced...

Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell

by Katherine Monk

From the moment Joni Mitchell's career began — with coffee-house bookings, serendipitous encounters with established stars, and a recording contract that gave her full creative control over her music — the...

Balinese Art: Paintings and Drawings of Bali 1800 - 2010

by Adrian Vickers

[Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene.] Balinese...

Architect's Legal Handbook

by Anthony Speaight

The Architect's Legal Handbook is the established leading textbook on law for architectural students and most widely used reference on the law for architects in practice.

This eighth edition includes all the...

Flip! for Decorating: A Page-by-Page, Piece-by-Piece, Room-by-Room Guide to Transforming Your Home

by Elizabeth Mayhew

In this fresh, fun, and unique book, design consultant and Today show lifestyle expert Elizabeth Mayhew shares essential insider tips for making any space stylish and timeless in a snap. Forget expensive fixes...