Arts

Music in the Western

by Kathryn Kalinak

Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scores: their history, their generic conventions, their operation...

Bodily Expression in Electronic Music

by Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel & Andreas Dorschel

In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance...

Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11

by Jenny Spencer

This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama's election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments'...

Music, Social Media and Global Mobility

by Ole J. Mjos

This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners' use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook,...

What Photography Is

by James Elkins

In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the...

Shakespeare and Trauma

by Catherine Silverstone

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare's texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for -...

Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

by Christopher Benfey

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012

"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine....

The Only Book You'll Ever Need - Guitar

by Editors of David & Charles

These handy, accessible books provides literally all the information you need to know to gain a new hobby or understand a difficult topic. "Guitar" makes learning how to play an acoustic or electric guitar easy...

Canon EOS 5d Mark II Digital Field Guide

by Brian McLernon

Easy-to-understand techniques for getting the most from your Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLRAt nearly $3,000 for the body only, the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR is for amateurs and semi-professionals who are serious about...

Sony Alpha SLT-A35 / A55 For Dummies

by Robert Correll

A practical, step-by-step guide to Sony's most popular new dSLRs

Sony's new a35 and a55 camera models offer a full range of dSLR features, including pre-sets and auto modes for beginners as well as full manual...

Nik Software Captured: The Complete Guide to Using Nik Software's Photographic Tools

by Tony L. Corbell & Joshua A. Haftel

Learn all the features and functionality of the complete Nik family of products

Styled in such a way as to resemble the way photographers think, Nik Software Captured aims to help you learn to apply all the features...

Saxophone for Dummies

by Denis G?bel & Michael Villmow

The fast and easy way to play this popular woodwind instrument

Saxophone For Dummies offers the ideal introduction to this popular and versatile instrument, whether you lack any musical experience or are picking...

Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year

by Catherine Jurca

In Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars that were "poison...

The Indie Producers Handbook: Creative Producing from A to Z

by Myrl A. Schreibman

Myrl Schreibman has written a comprehensive and practical, step-by-step guide for organizing and running a film from pre-production through post-production and delivery. This invaluable resource provides fundamental...

Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen: Expressive Movement for Performers

by Annette Lust

As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. In Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen, Annette...

Tower and Slab

by Florian Urban

Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy. While in the United...

Invitation to Community Music Therapy

by Brynjulf Stige & Leif Edvard Aarø

Invitation to Community Music Therapy presents the main perspectives and principles of community music therapy as it is practiced around the world. A relatively recent development within the broader field of...

New Playwriting Strategies

by Paul C. Castagno

New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores...

Intangible Natural Heritage

by Eric Dorfman

The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help...

Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music

by Susan McClary

In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states-desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major...