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Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen, by Maier and Friars, argues that the on-screen portrayal of lesbians situated in the long nineteenth century across various countries is at the very least a dual task; the imperative project of revoicing lesbian silence and female companionship is complicated by the lack of and/or complex representation of such women in the past.

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This book explores the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Basque region of Northern Spain.

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This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising it among many artforms which created new works from pre-existing parts. Its history is interwoven with society's transition from a predominantly oral to literate culture and evolutions in conceptualising the self.

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Picturing the Romantic redefines European Romanticism by exploring its transnational connections in the visual arts. This volume, featuring fifteen essays by established and emerging scholars, delves into various Romantic works of art, challenging conventional definitions and highlighting the dynamic exchanges that shaped the artistic movement.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini's influential cinematic and literary works attest to a crucial early formation: his intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume's wide-ranging chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini's aesthetic concerns, from Greek vase painting to the painting of Andy Warhol.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini's influential cinematic and literary works attest to a crucial early formation: his intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume's wide-ranging chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini's aesthetic concerns, from Greek vase painting to the painting of Andy Warhol.

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The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

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Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music th

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Popular song is an artform which reaches far beyond the music itself, and in order to fully appreciate its impact, the modern critic needs to analyse the elements that we find outside the song as well as those they find within i

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This book is the definitive study of how skin was debated, understood and misunderstood in Europe between 1500 and 1700. It is based on deep historical research and includes hundreds of colour images from the period.

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Resisting from Morocco's Margins explores the socio-political context in which Ahmed Amrani's oil-on-paper painting Protesta (1969) was made, specifically, the Rif Revolts of the late 1950s.

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This book-length study of Sally Wainwright's television, including analysis of globally recognised television series such as Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, and Gentleman Jack, considers Wainwright's work in terms of genre, melodrama and through the concept of emotion.

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The way in which the spectator responds to the song, and how narrative, lyrics, music, mise-en-scenes, all come together to accentuate sentimentality and melodrama in the Golden Age of Bollywood cinema (19511963) is the book's key thematic concern.

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This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the celebrated works of William Shakespeare.

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This book explores the Stiliagi, the Soviet Union's first youth subculture from the late 1940s to the 1960s. It examines their Western-influenced fashion, love of jazz, and defiance of Soviet norms, revealing how they challenged traditional masculinity and reshaped Soviet cultural identity. Through rigorous research, it offers insight into their lasting impact on Soviet and Post-Soviet culture.

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Surrealists idealized feminine madness for its purportedly unfettered access to the unconscious. At the same time, an unusually large number of surrealist women artists, including Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo, experienced mental illness. Die these women find the dream of feminized, mad genius prohibitive-or productive

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Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothics collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermys imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.

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Founded in 2005, Whitehot Magazine has become one of the leading channels for contemporary art criticism. On the occasion of its upcoming 20th anniversary, founder Noah Becker and contributor Michael Maizels are compiling a critical anthology of the magazine's writings.

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Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolome casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational women's cinema. This book places Bartolome among other key auteurs of national Spanish, and transnational feminist, cinema.

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This book provides a new perspective on the work of Jim Henson, the important but often overlooked creator of screen fairytales.

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The first comprehensive English-language study of Bigas Luna's complete filmography, this book explores genre, gender representation, Iberian and Mediterranean identities, and meta-cinematic narratives. It can be read as a cohesive study of his oeuvre or as a reference for specific films.

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This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. Richly contextualised analyses of individual productions by major directors help produce a nuanced picture of the performance history of the play, guiding the reader from the 1930s through the early twenty-first century.

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The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipas career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.