Arts

Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies

by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek & Louise O. Vasvári

The studies presented in the collected volume Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- edited by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári -- are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative)...

Beyond Suiseki

by Manette Gerstle

Suiseki made its earliest Western debut in the 1960s, traveling as sidekicks of immensely popular Japanese bonsai trees. By the 1980s, suiseki had emerged as an independent art form reigning supreme until year...

Letterboxed

by Harper Cossar

When widescreen technology was introduced to filmmaking in 1953, it changed the visual framework and aesthetic qualities of cinema forever. Before widescreen, a director's vision for capturing beautiful landscapes...

Star Power

by Sande Shurin

STAR POWER! establishes a new wave of Acting. It speaks to current and relevant  issues that creative Actors are grappling with: How do I "BE" authentic and respond from my truth and still BE the character? ...

Peter Selz: Sketches of a Life in Art

by Paul J. Karlstrom & Ann Karlstrom

This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz's own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian...

Museographs: Contemporary African-American Folk Art

by Caron Lazar

The tradition of African-American Folk Art is vast and diverse. With roots that extend overseas, these traditions now flourish and continue to bloom into the twenty-first century. In Contemporary African-American...

Playwriting Across The Curriculum

by Claire Stoneman & Caroline Jester

This book is a guide to using TEEP's (Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme) tailored lesson plans to study playwriting in the classroom. It is an essential resource for anyone wanting to teach playwriting...

Everybody Must Get Stoned:

by R.U. Sirius

Keith's on guitar, Charlie's on drums, and Ronnie's on rhythm. But who's on drugs?

Everybody.

Welcome to the red-eyed world of rock and roll, where every riff comes with a spliff--a coked-up compendium of your...

All Access: Your Backstage Pass to Concert Photography

by Alan Hess

Advice, inspiration, and insight for taking remarkable concert photos

Concert photography poses a unique set of challenges to photographers, including night or low-light, inconsistent stage lighting, a moving...

Fifty Key Texts in Art History

by Diana Newall & Grant Pooke

Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art...

Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

by Sumita Sinha

Architects, development practitioners and designers are working in a global environment and issues such as environmental and cultural sustainability matter more than ever. Past interactions and interventions...

Religion, Theatre, and Performance

by Lance Gharavi

The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some of the world's most pressing and momentous events are contested...

Design Innovation for the Built Environment

by Michael U. Hensel

Today architecture and other fields in the built environment face the steep task of answering complex questions pertaining to sustainability, performance, and adaptability.

• How are these disciplines to accomplish...

The Crow: The Story Behind the Film

by Bridget Baiss

The Crow is the ultimate cult movie, with a dedicated worldwide following, and two sequels, plus a fourth currently in production. Now, ten years after the original film’s release, the full story of this...

The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

by Caroline Brown

This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive...

Gabriel Faure

by Edward R. Phillips

This annotated bibliography is a compact source of information concerning both the nature of primary sources related to Gabriel Faure and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him,...

Tales From Development Hell (New Updated Edition): The Greatest Movies Never Made?

by David Hughes

A compulsively readable journey into the area of movie-making where all writers, directors and stars fear to tread: Development Hell, the place where scripts are written, actors hired and sets designed... but...

Daring to Play

by Manfred Wekwerth & Anthony Hozier

Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht's theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brecht's co-director and former director of the Berliner Ensemble....

Living Over the Store

by Howard Davis

The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings...

On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening

by Rick Moody

Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused...