Radio and Society
Radio remains a key medium, developing despite and because of the digital age. This collection of contemporary research explores its history, cultural force, and internet developments, providing new insights into the media and ultimately, ourselves.
Dance in Ireland
Dance in Ireland provides an in-depth view of dance during the colonial and post-colonial eras. It presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and a signifier of cultural change. An indispensable resource for academics and artists alike.
Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress
Explore the golden age of 1970s Italian cult cinema. This book considers the social and political factors that spawned a decade of stylish films dominated by extreme sexuality and violence, profiling icons like Dario Argento and genres from giallo to sex comedy.
“What is knowledge?” is as much a philosophic question as “What is an image?” Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.
Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-garde
This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.
“The Wandering Life I Led”
International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.
Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions
An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
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.
Photographing Papua
This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.
The Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction. Paul Harrison’s arresting photos show a “hidden Ireland” relegated to the societal margins. They haunt the viewer and interrogate what it means to be human.
Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century
These essays explore the literature, aesthetics, music, and art of the long eighteenth century, with a focus on cultural transfers between Britain and Italy. Collectively, they pave the way for new interpretations of the era’s cultural history.
Performing Adaptations
This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.
Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3
This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.
From classical tragedy to post-9/11, these essays explore terror as a perennial theme in the arts—a thread woven into the fabric of artistic expression and life itself.
Agnolo Bronzino
An international assembly of scholars advances modern perceptions of Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino. This volume applies fresh research not only to his well-known portraits, but also to frescoes and tapestries, addressing nudity, sexuality, and satire.
This collection of essays examines new millennium Italian cinema, from established masters like Nanni Moretti to new directors like Paolo Sorrentino. Their films reveal an Italy of converging social and political forces where individuals struggle for self-realization.
The Glory of the Garden
The Glory of the Garden examines regional theatre, a constant source of anxiety and pride. It moves the debate beyond the cliché of crisis to examine the politics and policy of making performance outside London, combining essays with case studies.
Art as “Night”
Art as “Night” proposes a type of dark, a-historical knowledge crossing painting from Velázquez to Richter and Kiefer. It argues for a non-discursive form of intellection embodied in the work of art—a pure visual and moral agency lost since the Baroque era.
Enacting Nationhood
This collection of essays explores constructions of “We the People” during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It interrogates pro- and anti-enslavement nationalism, partisanship, and armed conflict through dramatic literature and live performance.
Celluloid Saviours
In “film blanc,” a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It’s a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.
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