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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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