Arts

Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film

de Amresh Sinha & Terence McSweeney

In spite of the overwhelming interest in the study of memory and trauma, no single volume has yet explored the centrality of memory to films of this era in a global context; this volume is the first anthology...

Heritage Film: Nation, Genre, and Representation

de Belen Vidal

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema of the 1980s to its expansion into a versatile international...

Modern Korean Drama: An Anthology

de Richard Nichols

Carefully selected and represented, the plays in this collection showcase both the fantastic and the realistic innovations of Korean dramatists during a time of rapid social and historical change. Stretching...

The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies

de Toby Talbot & Martin Scorcese

The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart...

Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet

de Peter Decherney

Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers’ artistic decisions, Hollywood’s corporate structure, and the vatieties of media consumption. The...

Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua

de Donald Sanders

In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders examines the history of musical composition and performance at the northern Italian court of Mantua from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century....

Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits

de Michelle Phillipov

Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits, by Michelle Phillipov, is a significant intervention in popular music studies, and in the growing area of metal studies in particular. Combining original...

Playing to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema

de Thomas Cohen

Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from music education films to punk rock concert films to experimental video art featuring...

Dekalog 4: On East Asian Filmmakers

de Kate E. E. Taylor

East Asian cinema has become a worldwide phenonemon, and directors such as Park Chan-wook, Wong Kar Wai, and Takashi Miike have become household names. Dekalog 4: On East Asian Filmmakers solicits scholars from...

The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia

de Ben McCann & David Sorfa

Michael Haneke is one of the most important directors working in Europe today, with films such as Funny Games (1997), Code Unknown (2000), and Hidden (2005) interrogating modern ethical dilemmas with forensic...

Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice

de Clive Myer & Bill Nichols

Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice purges the obstructive line between the making of and the theorising on film, uniting theory and practice in order to move beyond the commercial confines of Hollywood....

When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence

de Connie Bruck

In When Hollywood Had a King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry— businessman, politician,...

A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart

de Gary Marmorstein

An unforgettable portrait of an exuberant yet troubled artist who so enriched the American songbook

“Blue Moon, ” “Where or When, ” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Isn’t It...

Hollywood Nation

de James Hirsen

Now entering Hollywood Nation—where fact blurs with fiction, virtue with vice

Millions of Americans are outraged by the radical politics of self-appointed celebrity pundits like Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand,...

Setting up a Successful Photography Business

de Lisa Pritchard

Setting Up a Successful Photography Business is a practical handbook which covers everything you need to know to start your own photography business. Packed full of helpful information and advice on all the...

Canon EOS 5d Mark III Digital Field Guide

de Charlotte K. K. Lowrie

Guides you step-by-step through the functions on your new Canon EOS 5D Mark III dSLR camera

The Canon EOS 5D Mark III full-frame dSLR camera features an impressive 22.3 megapixels, a 3.2-inch LCD screen, 6 fps...

The Horses of St. Mark's: A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice

de Charles Freeman

The Horses of St. Mark's in Venice are among art's finest creations-and certainly one with a story like no other. Celebrated historian Charles Freeman, author of the 2009 surprise hit A.D. 381, explores the...

Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture

de Deyan Sudjic

Norman Foster is a phenomenon - as an architect, but also as an individual. He is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognizable buildings of the last 30 years.

Amongst many other buildings, Norman...

The Theatre of the Absurd

de Martin Esslin

In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators....

Digital Photography FAQs

de Jeff Wignall

Straightforward, clear answers to the most commonly asked digital photography questions

What's the difference between optical zoom and digital zoom? Do more megapixels equate to better photo quality? Why is there...