Lucy - History & Criticism 1

'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' Brian Eno **'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' J……続きを見る

A revelatory new account of Black innovation in American opera, showing how composers, performers, and critics redefined the genre both aesthetically and politically in the early twentieth century. ……続きを見る

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is one of the most historically pivotal of all films. The first American film of the celebrated German director F.W. Murnau, Sunrise tells the story of a love tr……続きを見る

“This unique, doubly moving memoir unites an outstanding musician with his invaluable impressions of the world-famous maestro.” ーSybil Steinberg, Contributing Editor and Former Book Review Editor f……続きを見る

Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in pub……続きを見る

“It will make you want to form a band, it will make you angry, it will make you laugh, and it will educate you.”GINA BIRCH “This book is a joy on many levels: O’Brien enthuses about music so elegant……続きを見る

Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the o……続きを見る

Australian rock music has a rich history of performers and bands that have created not just the soundtrack for Australian lives but have also shaped the international music scene. In the early days ……続きを見る

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film. B……続きを見る

Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most ……続きを見る

This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion – be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety – to examine cinematic emotion in depth. Drawing on phi……続きを見る

The definitive biography of one of the world’s most famous women. Madonna is the biggest-selling female recording artist in the world and one of our greatest living pop stars. With each pioneering a……続きを見る

This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studi……続きを見る

Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cine……続きを見る

In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works. French cinema, however, appears to undergo a transformation as it reach……続きを見る