History & Criticism 97

American cinema has always been violent, and never more so than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, racial attacks, and general mayhem. From slapstick's comic violence to film noi……続きを見る

Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive Media Theory takes up……続きを見る

First Published in 1998. This is Volume 8 Part 2 of Contemporary Theatre Review which is an international journal concerned with all aspects of theatre - from text-based drama and current developmen……続きを見る

Lorsque rap et hip-hop apparaissent en France au tournant des années 1980, nombreux sont ceux qui n'y voient qu'un phénomène éphémère. Près de quarante ans plus tard, ce genre musical est non seulem……続きを見る

Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of par……続きを見る

De Maurice Ravel à David Guetta : quel est le secret des tubes? Un livre à lire en musique, grâce à plus de 200 liens vers iTunes ! On peut les moquer, les snober, les détester, mais on ne peut pas ……続きを見る

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Resurrection (1980), Poltergeist (1982), Beetlejuice (1988), Ghost (1990), Groundhog Day (1993), The Sixth Sense (1999) ー these are only a few of the influential movie……続きを見る

American composers are at the forefront of a renaissance in concert music, in the process expanding the very definition of the category. The impact of digital technology on the creative process and ……続きを見る

De Maurice Ravel à David Guetta : quel est le secret des tubes ? Un livre à lire en musique, grâce à plus de 200 liens vers les sites Deezer et Spotify ! On peut les moquer, les snober, les détester……続きを見る

What is a good film? How does a screenplay relate to literature? Why is film censorship futile? Are film societies necessary? Does Bengali cinema still huddle under Satyajit Ray’s umbrella? Is the g……続きを見る

Face au monde, ses crises et son devenir, un théâtre s'invente. Il réagit, dénonce, explique, illustre, propose : ce théâtre est politique. Il s'inscrit dans une longue histoire, souvent déconsidéré……続きを見る

African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years an……続きを見る

Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater pracxadtitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-g……続きを見る

Beyond its elucidation and critique of traditional ‘notation-centric’ musicology, this book's primary emphasis is on the negotiation and construction of meaning within the extended musical multimedi……続きを見る

Sound and Vision is the first significant collection of new and classic texts on video and brings together some of the leading international cultural and music critics writing today. Addressing one ……続きを見る

Re: Direction is an extraordinary resource for practitioners and students on directing. It provides a collection of ground-breaking interviews, primary sources and essays on 20th century directing t……続きを見る

Published in 1999, 'Theatre of Animation' is a valuable addition to the field of performance. 続きを見る

The second edition of this innovative textbook brings together leading scholars to provide detailed analyses of twenty-two key films within the canon of French cinema, from the 1920s to the 1990s. F……続きを見る

Music in the Post-9/11 World addresses the varied and complex roles music has played in the wake of September 11, 2001. Interdisciplinary in approach, international in scope, and critical in orienta……続きを見る

This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos fou……続きを見る

Daytime soap operas. Evening news. Late-night talk shows. Television has long been defined by its daily schedule, and the viewing habits that develop around it. Technologies like DVRs, iPods, and on……続きを見る

SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection" The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology exa……続きを見る

Analyses a wide range of film and still photographs to explore culturally dominant images and how they work. Extensively illustrated, this challenging collection of essays is essential reading for a……続きを見る

When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and……続きを見る

Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This volume of new work will address fundamental questions: What kind of landscape is cinematic landscape……続きを見る

The glorious tradition of the Broadway musical from Irving Berlin to Jerome Kern and Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. And then . . . Cats and Les Miz. Mark Steyn's Broadway Babies Say Go……続きを見る

*Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters,*1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world ……続きを見る

`It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John Lahr 続きを見る

Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this compre……続きを見る

The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers**Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Mich……続きを見る