The Arts

San Francisco is a city designed for artists and wanderers.

Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world.

Hear the name "e;Igor Stravinsky"e; and the first thing that comes to mind is a composer of ponderous, "e;serious"e; music.

Paul Robeson was a towering figure in American culture, conquering many disparate venues-from football and film to law to Shakespeare.

The Broadway musical has greatly influenced American (and world) culture.

A beautiful tribute to some of the UK's strangest, most charismatic structures - and an invitation to see the world around us a little differently'Allow me to vent my enthusiasm for the oddest book of the year.

Since the 1960s, the Grateful Dead have welcomed and participated in academic work on the band, encouraging scrutiny from a wide variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, from anthropology to sociology.

Regardless of your profession as a teacher, doctor, writer, or business associate, every presentation is a performance.

Contradictory to its core, the sitcom-an ostensibly conservative, tranquilizing genre-has a long track record in the United States of tackling controversial subjects with a fearlessness not often found in other types of programming.

The period from 1925 to 1960 was the heyday of the American Radio Soap Opera.

As they transition into adulthood, many American boys and young men spend a considerable amount of time engaging in physical sports, playing violent video games, and watching action movies, including war films.

What is more important in architectural works-their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them?

It's often said that we are what we wear.

When we speak of "e;classical music"e; it often refers rather loosely to serious "e;art"e; music but at the core is really the music of the classical period running from about 1730 to 1800, give or take.

When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a gun, seemingly, directly at the audience.

Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres.

In the wake of the 1688 revolution, England's transition to financial capitalism accelerated dramatically.

Throughout history and in contemporary times, people worldwide have danced to cope with the stresses of life.

John Boorman has written and directed more than 25 television and feature films, including such classics as Deliverance, Point Blank, Hope and Glory, and Excalibur.

The man who envisioned and realized such landmark buildings as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, Louis Kahn was born in what is now Estonia, immigrated to America, and became one of the towering figures in his adopted country's built world.

The term Old Time Radio refers to the relatively brief period from 1926, when the National Broadcasting Company first began network broadcasting, until approximately 1960, when television became the dominant communication medium in the United States.

The lively and engaging emblems within The Soul, Lover of God unite the 17th century poetry and art of two famous European authors, Madame Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon and Jesuit priest Herman Hugo.

Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades.

Despite the industry being shutdown by two world wars, having its martial arts films dismissively labeled as "e;chopsocky,"e; and operating on shoestring budgets, the films of Hong Kong have been praised and imitated all over the world.

Considered the "e;King of Poverty Row,"e; Edgar G.

This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778).

During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization-shedding ethnic origins and signs of "e;otherness"e; to embrace a constructed American identity-was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream.

John Stilgoe is just looking around.

State Oddities takes a different kind of look at the American nation, spotlighting the fun foibles, peculiarities, and twists in each of the 50 states that are (mostly) united under the Stars and Stripes.

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation.

From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources.

This book introduces readers to the most significant technological developments in music making and listening, including such topics as metronomes and the development of music notation as well as synthesizers, the latest music collaboration apps, and other 21st-century technologies.

"e;Without exception, the essays are accessible, insightful, and entertaining.

An invaluable resource for general readers investigating climate change, this book examines the impact of climate change on popular culture and analyzes how writers and directors treat the disasters caused by climate change in their novels and films.

This book presents the Great Depression through the lens of 13 films, beginning with movies made during the Depression and ending with films from the 21st century, and encourages readers to examine the various depictions of this period throughout history.

In The Drum: A History, drummer, instructor, and blogger Matt Dean details the earliest evidence of the drum from all regions of the planet, looking at cave paintings, statues, temple reliefs, and burial remains before finding existing relics of actual drums, which have survived thousands of years.

You are getting ready for a performance of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and you have a few questions.

Church Woodwork in the British Isles, 1100-1535: An Annotated Bibliography is a thoroughly researched bibliographic guide to monographic, serial, archival, and graphical resources that deal with all aspects of late Romanesque, Gothic, and early Renaissance ecclesiastical woodwork in churches throughout the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders.

In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and 1990s and soon thereafter traveled to the United States.

Immigration is an important and much-discussed topic throughout the world, and its depiction on screen helps shape the way we perceive this issue.

Film noir-literally "e;black cinema"e;-is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959.

This title provides a broad overview of how women are portrayed and treated in America's news and entertainment industries, including film, television, radio, the internet, and social media.

In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious events became increasingly popular-and increasingly grand-in Ireland.

From legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the history of theater are from the past 80 years.

In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time.

Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others.

Imprisonment is a central trope of Irish nationalism, often deployed to portray the injustice of an Ireland occupied by foreign rule.

From Amos 'n' Andy to The Jeffersons to Family Matters to Chappelle's Show, this volume covers it all with entries on all different genres-animation, documentaries, sitcoms, sports, talk shows, and variety shows-and performers such as Muhammad Ali, Louis Armstrong, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey.

For nearly 40 years, David Lynch's works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers.