Three generations of famous movie soundtrack composers reveal the secrets of their art and success.

Includes 22 new settings of period tunes, and examines the expressive culture of the largest antebellum tenant farmer protest from its origin to its 21st-century reverberations.

A fascinating story of how three musicians, who escaped the Nazis, inspired Iceland’s modern classical music.

Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.

Original essays on Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics and philosophy of art, written by some of the most important authors in this field, disclosing the possibility of a renewed understanding of Gadamer's thinking in the context of current aesthetic debates.

The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.

An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.

Explores experimental cinema and alternative film formats from across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, from the 1960s to the present.

Examines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to focus attention on systemic failure.

A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.

Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive, iconoclastic, queer experiments in living for a country that was rebuilding and reimagining itself after years of conflict.

Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an “emancipatory drive” in transnational cinema.

Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.

The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.

Through international case studies, this book explores the causes and effects of historical and contemporary cultural changes in art education.

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.

Situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.