In a post-truth age, this book provides an ethical critique of contemporary British drama. Focusing on the innovative work of playwrights David Greig, Marina Carr, and Martin Crimp, it offers a vital contribution to theatre studies and Ethical Criticism.
European Film Co-Productions
This volume analyzes the growing phenomenon of film-induced tourism. It examines the positive and negative impacts of film production in regions of environmental and cultural importance, and presents a quantitative evaluation of the economic benefits.
European Theories in Former Yugoslavia
Theories are not directly transferred from the centre to the margins, but are borrowed, translated, and reinterpreted. Posed from the perspective of former Yugoslavia, this book explores the tense relationship between original theories and their transformed perspectives.
This book explores exhibition engineering design through illustrated case studies. Analyzing representative booths, it covers every aspect from shape and materials to lighting, installation, and AV. An essential reference or textbook for exhibition companies and students.
New technologies have transformed audiovisual storytelling, turning viewers into creators and participants. Featuring texts by leading media scholars, this book offers analyses of these expanding practices, from mobile media and gaming to interactive documentaries.
Experiments in Freedom
Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.
Ebewo’s text represents a compendium of discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered include ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, and the funeral rites of Nelson Mandela.
Exploring Turkish Cultures
This groundbreaking collection offers new insights into Turkish cultures, moving beyond traditional binaries. It features the first major interviews in English with prominent actors, directors, and critics, alongside essays on Turkish film and theatre.
The performing arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics. This volume collects essays by international scholars who address the core philosophical topic of expression, questioning the roles of the performer, the work, and the spectator.
These provocative essays explore the uneasy relationship between religion and film in the works of masters like Bergman, Tarkovsky, and del Toro. This spiritual and critical journey challenges us to think more forcefully about the values that shape our lives.
This volume provides accessible articles on masters of world cinema whose works explore human spirituality and religious faith. It examines canonical directors like De Sica and Hitchcock alongside contemporary auteurs like Asghar Farhadi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Religious minorities in the Middle East face challenges to their identities and rights. Based on research, this book examines the obstacles they encounter and the role of Islamic societies in their protection, working toward preserving the rich religious diversity of the region.
Female Silences, Turkey’s Crises
Güçlü focuses on the newly emergent silent female characters in Turkish cinema, and explores the relationship between this ‘new’ representational form, the ‘new’ cinema of Turkey, and the ‘new’ socio-political climate in Turkey after the September 12, 1980 military coup.
Feminisms is Still Our Name
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
Explore the Malay World through the eyes of outsiders. This collection examines the personal fiction, diaries, and letters of foreigners and traders from the 18th to 20th century, revealing fascinating insights into their encounters and personalities.
Film and Ethics
This book explores the slipperiness of ethics in Film Studies. It shows that from the silent era to the present day, film has been inherently concerned with ethical issues, forcing the spectator to be an active participant in creating meaning.
International scholars explore the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts. Essays highlight cinema’s impact on writers like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and on directors from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock.
Film and Morality examines how morality is presented in films and how they serve as a source of moral values. It shows how audiences explore moral issues by following characters who make life-changing decisions and live with the consequences of their choices.
These critical essays explore the representation of sex, gender, and sexual orientation from the early days of cinema to the twenty-first century, investigating the complex relations between film style, sexual politics, and their social ramifications.
Film and Television Stardom examines stars as a social phenomenon from the silent era to today’s reality TV. It provides new insights on the star system, media spectatorship, and analyzes individual stars from James Stewart to Jessica Simpson.
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