Art & Architecture
Introducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.
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Art & Architecture
Hardcover. Examining performers from the ancient Mediterranean world to the modern Islamic Middle East, including India and Pakistan, Shay explores the careers, artistic performances, and legacies of these individuals who were forced to produce entertainment and art for, and have sex with, any and all patrons. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFM; ASD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433602
- ISBN
- 9781137433602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.68
€ 129.68
Hardcover. Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform Shakespearean adaptations. This book focuses on how prison theatre today reveals certain elements of the early modern theatre that were themselves responses to cataclysmic changes in theological doctrine and religious practice. Num Pages: 154 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433954
- ISBN
- 9781137433954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.95
€ 61.95
Hardcover. The magazine Photoplay pioneered the construction of both female stars as social types and fans as aspiring consumers in the first mass consumption society. The construction of female identity based on goods and performance in a consumer society resulted in multiple, fragmented, and unstable selves - a legacy evident in postmodern culture today. Num Pages: 310 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433992
- ISBN
- 9781137433992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardcover. This book looks at the historic and contemporary links between music's connection to emotions and men's supposed discomfort with their own emotional experience. Looking at music tastes and distaste, it demonstrates how a sociological analysis of music and gender can actually lead us to think about emotions and gender inequalities in different ways. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10. BIC Classification: AVA; JFSJ2; JFSK2; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436085
- ISBN
- 9781137436085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.50
€ 170.50
Hardcover. Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine. Series: Transnational Theatre Histories. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137437341
- ISBN
- 9781137437341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.77
€ 93.77
Hardcover. Most scholars agree that reading a play is absolutely unlike live performance, but everything else about their relationship beyond this premise has proven contestable. Focusing on the editorial and textual history of Shakespeare, this book navigates these debates by exploring how textual distortions enrich a play's performance potentialities. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438430
- ISBN
- 9781137438430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Hardcover. The Dancer's World 1920-1945 focuses on modern dancers as they saw themselves. Five chapters describe a narrative arc that encompasses Europe and the USA with a focus between 1920 and 1945. A final chapter considers contemporary relevance for dancers, dance artists, choreographers, dance students and scholars alike. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; ASD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439208
- ISBN
- 9781137439208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.75
€ 61.75
Hardcover. Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439727
- ISBN
- 9781137439727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. Spanish Golden Age drama has resurfaced in recent years, however scholarly analysis has not kept pace with its popularity. This book problematizes and analyzes the approaches to staging reconstruction taken over the past few decades, including historical, semiotic, anthropological, cultural, structural, cognitive and phenomenological methods. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439758
- ISBN
- 9781137439758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how Beckett was introduced to American audiences, this book leads into a wider historical discussion of American theatre in the mid-to-late 20th century. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439857
- ISBN
- 9781137439857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life (Pa...
Keightley, Emily, Pickering, Michael
Hardcover. This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: AJC; AVG; JFCA; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441201
- ISBN
- 9781137441201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.23
€ 129.23
Hardcover. Gao Xingjian has been lauded for his inventive use of Chinese culture in his paintings, plays, and cinema, however he denies that his current work participates in any notion of Chinese. This book traces the development of these forms and how the relate and interact in the French language plays of the Nobel Laureate. Num Pages: 143 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137442529
- ISBN
- 9781137442529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Hardcover. Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film explores 'physical spectatorship': the representation of mutilation on the screen and the physical responses this evokes. The book is organised around the study of a series of dynamic engagements that reconfigure the film-viewer relationship. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444370
- ISBN
- 9781137444370
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
hardcover. Num Pages: 276 pages, 21 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPK; AN; AS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444905
- ISBN
- 9781137444905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.83
€ 170.83
Paperback. Undergraduate theatre programs can play a significant role in accomplishing the aims and learning outcomes of a contemporary liberal education. Here, Kindelan argues that theatre's signature pedagogy helps all undergraduates become actively engaged in developing critical and value-focused skills. Series: The Arts in Higher Education. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JNM; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137445599
- ISBN
- 9781137445599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.56
€ 61.56
Hardcover. A Critical Theory of Creativity argues that a Utopian drive is aesthetically encoded within the language of form. But coupled with this opportunity comes a very human obligation which cannot be delegated to God, to nature or to market forces. As Ernst Bloch declared: 'Life has been put into our hands.' Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446169
- ISBN
- 9781137446169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's The Help. Editor(s): Garcia, Claire Oberon; Young, Vershawn Ashanti; Pimentel, Charise. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446251
- ISBN
- 9781137446251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.80
€ 119.80
Hardcover. This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirne offers an important assessment of how Hogarth's various audiences reacted to his gruesome images and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AGB; AGN; JFFZ; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137447203
- ISBN
- 9781137447203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.61
€ 61.61
hardcover. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 270 pages, 10 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450500
- ISBN
- 9781137450500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.42
€ 130.42
Hardcover. Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; AV; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453365
- ISBN
- 9781137453365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.77
€ 118.77