Film, Visual Culture, and Performing Arts
Perversions of the Market
An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.
Systems from Hell
Examines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to focus attention on systemic failure.
Eccentric Laughter
Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive, iconoclastic, queer experiments in living for a country that was rebuilding and reimagining itself after years of conflict.
Crisis TV
Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.
The Cinema of the Real
Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an “emancipatory drive” in transnational cinema.
Killing Children in British Fiction
Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.
Woodstock
The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.
Ruling Devotion
Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.
Curriculum, Culture, and Art Education, Second Edition
Through international case studies, this book explores the causes and effects of historical and contemporary cultural changes in art education.
Bodies of Water
Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.
Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload
Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.
The Power of Practice
Situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin
Sounding Bodies
Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.
Theatres of Value
Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.
Music's Making
A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.
From Havana to Hollywood
Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.
The Historic Woodstock Art Colony
Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.
Through a Nuclear Lens
Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.
Listening to Others
A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.
The Algonquin Round Table
The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.
Is Harpo Free?
Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.
The Life and Death of Buffalo's Great Northern Grain Elevator
A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history.
Awakening a Living World on a Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage
Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.
Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations
A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.
Early Jazz
A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.