The Arts

"e;Musical Theatre Acting is a practical and handy resource to supplement classes and to peruse on one's own, even in the waiting room before an audition.

Make More Immersive and Engaging Magic Systems in GamesGame Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice explains how to construct magic systems and presents a compendium of arcane lore, encompassing the theory, history, and structure of magic systems in games and human belief.

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist period?

Looking at the dark history of Italian fashion by focusing on the impact of 1930s Fascism, this is the second edition of Eugenia Paulicelli's classic text.

30-Second Rock Music starts with 1950s rock'n'roll (and its roots) and exploresblues and folk, progressive and heavy metal, punk, indie and alt rock,profiling extraordinary bands and musicians along the way.

Do you want to live a life driven by intention, not impulse?

Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic representation.

This is a clear, accessible manual of storytelling techniques and learning activities for spatial computing, augmented reality and mixed reality.

Véritable mosaïque ethnique, la Côte d’Ivoire dispose d’un héritage musical riche et diversifié, composé d’une infinie variété d’instruments de musique et de genres musicaux traditionnels.

Vingt ans de travaux sur les partitions concernées ont conduit à proposer ici une synthèse sur le rapport entre nuit et musique dans la catégorie-reine du nocturne (des origines à Chopin, Fauré, et jusqu’à notre époque), parallèlement aux berceuses, romances, sérénades, caprices, fantaisies, rêveries…, en passant par quelques ouvrages scéniques.

Manchester Beethoven studies presents ten original chapters by scholars with close ties to the University of Manchester.

The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War.

Hybrid Documentary and Non-Binary Cinema offers an expansive exploration of the contemporary documentary cinema form, aesthetics, and ethics.

Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video.

Founded in 1421, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, which became a cathedral in 1847, is of outstanding historical and architectural importance.

Reframing remembrance examines films about the Nazi Occupation of France, charting how this period has been commemorated and how it has affected the articulation of French national identity.

Take your doodles to a whole new level with this fun and easy guide to learning the meditative art of Zentangle.

Busby Berkeley's big-production numbers are emblematic of the Hollywood dream factory.

Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past.

As an introduction to ballet's history, culture, and meanings, this book draws on the latest ballet scholarship to describe the trajectory of a dance form that has risen to global ubiquity and benefited from many diverse influences along the way.

Immersive technology is going to govern the next generation in terms of education, health, military, tourism, and much more.

This book is a concise hands-on guide that provides students a useful tool for a systematic approach to scientific inquiry.

An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the 'Moments in Television' collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.

Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett's work across the world following the author's death in 1989, Beckett's afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon.

Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written.

Bringing together scholars, journalists, and researchers from 27 European countries, this book provides a comparative and longitudinal analysis of the evolution of conditions and standards relevant for sustainable, free, and plural media and journalism in Europe in the last ten years.

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.