The cinema of aki kaurismäki

Aki Kaurismäki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismäki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has earned an international art-house audience and many prizes, influencing such directors as Jim Jarm...

Cinematic appeals

Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised to draw...

The western genre

The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey offers close readings of the definitive American film movement as represented by such leading exponents as John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Sam Peckinpah. In his consideration of such iconic motifs as the Outlaw Hero and the Lone Rider, John Saunders t...

Spaces mapped and monstrous

Spaces Mapped and Monstrous explores the paradoxical nature of 3D cinema and its place in today’s visual landscape. Considering 3D’s distinctive visual qualities and its connections to wider digital culture, Nick Jones situates the production and exhibition of 3D cinema within a web of aesthetic,...

Holocaust cinema in the twenty-first century

Analyses of twenty-first-century Holocaust films that venture across national and linguistic boundaries and make visible various formal and intertextual relationships within the substantial body of Holocaust cinema.

Studios before the system

The first book to retell the history of film studio architecture, Studios Before the System expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema’s virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developments

The politics of gender in early american theater

This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors ...

Electric dreamland

Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary ...

The blues brothers

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, the early days of Saturday Night Live, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture“They’re not going to catch us,” Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Ja...

Let's put on a show

The Ultimate Guide to Producing a Play or Musical—From Concept to Curtain CallWhether you're stepping into the world of theater production for the first time or you're a seasoned professional looking to refine your process, this comprehensive, reader-friendly handbook has you covered.Renowned Bro...

The actor's life planner

A 12-Week Undated Planner Designed for Actors Who Want to Take Control of Their CareersThe Actor’s Life Planner is the perfect companion for multi-passionate actors who juggle auditions, rehearsals, day jobs, and personal projects along with their personal lives. Designed by actor and coach Corri...

The marriage of maria braun

A new reading of Fassbinder's most popular film that highlights the roles of race and gender.The Marriage of Maria Braun is the most popular film by the enfant terrible director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the leading exponent of the "New German Cinema" of the early sixties to early eighties. It ex...

It happened at the palace

Discover the Palace Theatre's transformation from a Vaudeville house to a Broadway sensation, its near-demise, and the dramatic restoration that catapulted it back to stardom. With an insider's flair, Lane shares tales of legendary performances and the Herculean efforts to preserve this cultural ...

The long revolution

An essential work on theatre in America by one of its foremost practitioners.

Screening art

 First monograph to explore connections between East German film and other art forms such as painting, sculpture and music  Explores a range of films that have only recently become available in (English) subtitled versions (including films by Jürgen Böttcher) Transnational dimension:...

Aesthetics and the cinematic narrative

‘Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative’ examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the conception, creation and reception of cinematic narrative while placing film, as an art form, in a wider historical and aesthetic context.

Cinema of collaboration

Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” And despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA, the state c...

Polish cinema

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Marek Haltof’s seminal survey takes stock of dramatic shifts in Polish society and to provide an essential account of the nation’s cinema from the nineteenth century to today. It covers such renowned figures as Kieślowski and Wajda along with vastl...

Curating live arts

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions...

The last laugh

A penetrating new reading of Murnau's classic silent film that shows its transitional status, both historically and stylistically, while emphasizing its innovative camerawork and the ethical stakes of its story.An undisputed masterpiece of silent cinema, F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) stars...

Shinji higuchi special effect's field notes

The patriot

Revitalizes Alexander Kluge's classic 1979 film, showing it to be not just great storytelling but also an exploration of the poetic force of Frankfurt School Critical Theory.Alexander Kluge achieved his breakthrough at the 1966 Venice Biennale with his first feature, Yesterday Girl (Abschied von ...

Fritz lang's metropolis

A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis.Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis has justifiably become an icon for the complexities of Weimar culture. Among the important general issues it also raises ar...

Reel resistance - the cinema of jean-marie teno

Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno's thematically and aesthetically challenging body of work, framed here as a form of decolonial cinematic resistance.Co-winner African Literature As...

The african desperate

The acerbically funny and intimate screenplay for acclaimed visual artist Martine Syms's debut film, The African Desperate.The African Desperate follows Palace Bryant on one very long day in 2017 that starts with her MFA graduation in upstate New York and ends at a Chicago Blue Line Station. Set ...

The golem, how he came into the world

Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegener's great 1920 film, recognized at the time as a breakthrough in German cinema.Actor and director Paul Wegener released his 1920 silent film The Golem, How He Came into the World in the aftermath of Germany...

Toni erdmann

The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade's acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death.Maren Ade's tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cannes sensation and Oscar nominee, is an internationally acclaimed classic of recent German cinema. By turn...

Coming out

Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality.It took forty years for East Germany's state-run studios, DEFA, to produce a feature film about homosexuality: Coming Out. The film's story seems radically ordinary today: a young t...

Wings of desire

A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings.Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a fascinating time capsule of that la...

Fitzcarraldo

Revisits Herzog's classic film from a decisively contemporary standpoint, bringing into play the development of his filmmaking career.When it was released in 1982, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo was widely criticized for its demanding use of human and natural resources as well as its director's unc...

The cat has nine lives

Restores the first German feminist film, long neglected, to its rightful status as a classic forebear of more recent cinefeminism, demonstrating that the film is as relevant today as it was upon its 1968 release.Acclaimed as postwar Germany's first feminist film, Ula Stöckl's The Cat Has Nine Liv...

Warning shadows

A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.Artur Robison's Warning Shadows - in German simply Schatten, shadows - premiered in 1923 to critical acclaim. This sto...

Truth and storytelling

The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create.

One more for the road

One More for the Road recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlić in the form of a film dictionary, tying cinematic terms to anecdotes spanning Grlić’s life. With a scholarly introduction by Aida Vidan, these personal stories combine to provide insight into the socialist film...

Ballet russes: the great "ballet russes" and modern art

Staging story

A resourceful guide for new and emerging directors that explores the fundamental elements for navigating the stage.

Invitation to the party

The handbook to attract and involve audiences of color for arts and cultural institutions.

The essential bogosian

“Mr. Bogosian has crossed the line that separates an exciting artist from a cultural hero. What Lenny Bruce was to the 1950s, Bob Dylan to the 1960s, Woody Allen to the 1970s – that’s what Eric Bogosian is to this frightening moment of drift… I Know of no one else like him in pop culture right n...

Lazarus

An out-of-this-world hit musical from the late cultural icon David Bowie and award-winning playwright Enda Walsh.

Audience revolution: dispatches from the field

From experts in the theatre field, an indispensable book of essays on how to engage your audience.

Spanish lessons

Addresses not just film (already much studied) but also TV series (more popular in Spain but unknown to outsiders) Has chapter on self-fashioning of Spain's best known auteur, Pedro Almodóvar, a new approach to an acclaimed director Deals with audiovisual works in Catalan as well as ...

The quality of mercy

One of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on the world’s most revered playwright.

Drama games for devising

An easy-to-use, handy pocket-sized format, this is a rich resource for hard-pressed drama teachers, workshop leaders, directors and theatre companies.