The Arts

Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology.

Tracing the recent changes to the technology of film editing, this book offers an account of the aesthetics of digital montage.

This book brings together two of the most important figures of twentieth-century criticism, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to consider a topic that was central to their thinking: the place of and reason for art in society and culture.

In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and "e;magic"e; from an unusual perspective: that of food studies.

Manoeuvring around mainland China's censors and pushing back against threats of lawsuits, online harassment, and physical violence, #MeToo activists shed a particularly harsh light on the treatment of women in the cinema and entertainment industries.

Jolted Images brings together a large cast of mainstream and avant-garde cineastes, artists, photographers, comics creators, poets, and more, to reflect on a wide range of phenomena from the realms of cinema and visual culture in the Yugoslav region, broader Europe, and North America.

The lute's cultural impact throughout the Dutch Golden Age can be compared to that of the piano in the 19th century.

Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800.

Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento.

The most strikingly missing piece of functionality in current digital editions is that of annotation.

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world.

Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics.

The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature tracks an important shift in early modern conceptions of selfhood, arguing that the period hosted the birth of a new subset of the human, the eco-self, which melds a deeply introspective turn with an abiding sense of humans' embedment in the world.

Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is the first study on early cinema in the region from a transnational and cross-cultural perspective.

A key figure in early avant-garde cinema, Walter Ruttmann was a pioneer of experimental animation and the creative force behind one of the silent era's most celebrated montage films, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City.

The motif of the woman and the dragon has been prevalent in Western art since antiquity, yet has hitherto remained understudied, and artworks featuring this motif in Western Mediterranean cultures have been examined primarily in relation to the topos of the male dragon-slayer.

In the early 1650s Ferdinand Bol produced a series of wall-covering paintings.

Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence.

What do we do when we listen?

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts.

Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as 'over the top' and 'excessive'.

In his own day, Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706) was an internationally renowned Dutch painter, but little is known about the four years that he spent in London.

In-Between Textiles is a decentred study of how textiles shaped, disrupted, and transformed subjectivities in the age of the first globalisation.

Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento.

The question whether or not seventeenth century painters such as Rembrandt and Rubens created the paintings which were later sold under their names, has caused many a heated debate.

What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy?

'I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole', Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do.

This is the first monograph on the subject to be published in English.

This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918.

Doctor Who is a BBC transmedia franchise that has lasted over sixty years.

Fans of cult films don't just watch the movies they love-they frequently engage with them in other, more creative ways as well.

Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology attempts to grasp media in the making.

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting.

What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian?

In the twenty-first century horror television has spread across the digital TV landscape, garnering mainstream appeal.

Albanian cinema truly represents a terra incognita for most of the world.

Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China examines the recent developments in school education and music education in Greater China, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and the relationship between, and integration of, national cultural identity and globalization in their respective school curriculums.

While scholars have theorized major film festivals, they have ignored smaller, ephemeral, events.

Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment.

Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque' is the first substantial biographical study of Claude III Audran, a late 17th- and early 18th-century master of ornament and a proponent of cutting-edge design who took inspiration from contemporary sources.

During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication.

The green mantle of the earth!

Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velaizquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a new self-consciousness with respect to artistic tradition.

Not since Edward Wood's Giants and Dwarfs published in 1868 has the subject been the focus of a scholarly study in English.

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland.

Vladimir Nabokov was one of the greatest novelists of the previous century and his mastery of English and Russian prose is unequalled.

In the twenty-first century horror television has spread across the digital TV landscape, garnering mainstream appeal.

Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction between text, image, and experience in the culture of commemoration that thrived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era.

Poussin's Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works examines the paintings and drawings of the well-known seventeenth-century French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) from a gender studies perspective, focusing on a critical analysis of his representations of women.