Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Dance’s Duet with the Camera
Motion Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Dance’s Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures is a collection of essays written by various authors on the relationship between live dance and film. Chapters cover a range of topics that explore dance film, contemporary dance with film on stage, dance as an ideal medium to be captured by 3D images...
Latin American Neo-Baroque
Senses of Distortion
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Pablo* *Baler studies the ruptures and continuities linking the de-centered dynamics of the 17thcentury to the logic of instability that permeates 20th century visual and literary production in Latin America. Bringing philosophy, literary interpretation, art criticism, and a poetic approach to the...
by M. Barranger
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history.
At Home in the Institution
Material Life in Asylums, Lodging Houses and Schools in Victorian and Edwardian England
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explores the powerful influence of domesticity on all three institutional types.
Lost Mansions
Essays on the Destruction of the Country House
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century. Seven lively essays debate our understanding of what is meant by loss and how it relates to popular conceptions of the great house.
Victoria's Madmen
Revolution and Alienation
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.
by L. Kallestrup
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Italy rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the narratives of witchcraft as they were laid forward by people involved in the trials.
by K. McKim
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Kristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire , Agnès Varda's Jacquot de Nantes , Doris Dörrie's Cherry Blossoms and Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours.
The (Moving) Pictures Generation
The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of visual artists in downtown New York City returned to an exploration of the cinematic across mediums. Vera Dika considers their work within a greater cultural context and probes for a deeper understanding of the practice.
Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event
Peephole Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event – itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole.
The Theatre of Naomi Wallace
Embodied Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Naomi Wallace, an American playwright based in Britain, is one of the more original and provocative voices in contemporary theatre. Her poetic, erotically-charged, and politically engaged plays have been seen in London's West End, off-Broadway, at the Comédie-Française, in regional and provincial...
Imagining the Black Female Body
Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms.
Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground
From Obscurity to Literary Icon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s.
Do Less Better
The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Do Less Better teaches leaders how to recognize the complexity and inefficiencies within their businesses and reveals how they can simplify and streamline through specialization and sacrifice. According to Bell, a company's willingness to focus on a particular vision or identity ensures viability and strengthens its competitive edge.