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Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research practices in various community and national contexts, mapping out the landscape of this new field. more...
Broadway and Corporate Capitalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 100.00Broadway and Corporate Capitalism examines two overlapping and, in many ways, symbiotic phenomena of early 20th century America - the emergence of the Professional-Managerial Class within American corporate capitalism and the evolution of Broadway. Michael Schwartz shows how the class movements moved - literally and figuratively - to the rhythm... more...
Cinema Inferno
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 59.99This is a provocative collection of essays that provide cutting edge, original research in film studies, discussing a number of 'transgressive' films that have never before had such in-depth analysis and treatment. From '70s Italian horror films and extreme European cinema to Nazi propaganda films and fundamentalist Christian 'scare' movies, these... more...
Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This book addresses how Saturday Night Live's confrontational, boundary-pushing approach spilled over into film production, contributing to some of the biggest hits in Hollywood history. more...
The Dude Abides
Zondervan 2009; US$ 11.99Join award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani as she explores the serious existential questions raised in the movies of the wildly popular and always irreverent Coen brothers. Coen fans and film lovers will appreciate Falsani's unique blend of contemporary insight and spiritual discernment that is both entertaining and illuminating. more...
Ingrid Bergman
Faber & Faber 2010; US$ 13.99?Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, ?natural? Swedish girl?she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation.? Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Bergman commanded a love that has hardly ever been... more...
Becoming a Reader
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 28.00Becoming a Reader in allowing us to predict our reading experience, allows us, as adults, to choose what to do with the power which reading gives us. more...
The Profession of the Playwright
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00This book examines the working world of the playwright in nineteenth-century Britain. more...
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 32.00A collection of essays of Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch. more...
Performance in the Borderlands
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean. more...









