Films, cinema

1. Tim Greiving

John Williams

Tim Greiving takes us on a fascinating and insightful journey into the brilliant mind of composer John Williams. Fantastic! I could not put it down.

1. Olha , Volynska

Art against Artillery

Wenn die Waffen sprechen, schweigen die Musen? - 'Mitnichten', lautet der Einspruch der hier versammelten Gespräche mit ukrainischen Künstlerinnen und Künstlern aus den Bereichen Literatur, Musik, Theater, Film, Malerei, Bildhauerei und Fotografie. Sie machen deutlich, dass die Kunst gerade in Zeiten des Krieges kein eitles Beiwerk ist, sondern Quelle der Resilienz und Retterin des Humanen. Zugleich vermitteln sie ein tieferes historisches Verständnis für das jahrhundertelange Ringen um ukrainische Identität - nicht zuletzt mit Blick auf die von Stalin ausgelöschte Avantgarde der ¿Hingerichteten Wiedergeburt¿, deren Schicksal sich heute auf tragische Weise wiederholt. Im Changieren zwischen Mut und Verzweiflung, Hoffnung und Schmerz geben die von Olha Volynska geschaffenen Porträts einen vielstimmigen Überblick über die lebendige ukrainische Kunst im Angesicht von Russlands Vernichtungskrieg. Zahlreiche Abbildungen, darunter die Präsentation von Kunstwerken in Farbe, vervollständigen den Band.

1. John A. Riley

The Strickland Continuum: Uncanny Intertexts in the Film and Media of Peter Strickland

‘Rachel White’s excellent new book shows how major English Renaissance authors such as George Chapman, Fulke Greville, and Edmund Spenser were acutely aware that the occult was not considered a special category of strangeness – how alchemy is seen today – but was part of on-going mainstream conversations about the nature of knowledge. Alive to poetic nuances and acute in its readings, Elizabethan Occult Poetics is not only a major work of literary criticism and history, but one that is extremely enjoyable to read.' Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex

1. Steven C. , Smith

Hitchcock and Herrmann

The classic thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, including Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho, achieved much of their power from the music of legendary Academy Award winner Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver). In this book, author Steven C. Smith delivers an intimate account of how the reserved, but deeply anxious, Hitchcock found his ideal creative partner in the cantankerous, but deeply romantic, Herrmann. Their collaboration ended in a bitter break; but today, the music from their movies is more popular than ever, heard in Quentin Tarantino blockbusters and Lady Gaga music videos. Smith takes us inside the friendship between "Benny and Hitch," and explains why Herrmann's pulse-quickening music has become the soundtrack of our own anxious times.

1. Sanne Krogh , Groth
2. Stefan , Östersjö

Audio Paper

Audio Paper offers a conceptual and practice-based approach for researchers across a wide range of disciplines to integrate auditory culture into their published work in the form of the audio paper. The audio paper is an academic text presented as an audio production. Introducing this new format, the book invites scholars to work in a publication format that integrates aesthetic perspectives and technological components in an academic work. This text builds on the authors' experience developing the audio paper and newly collected insights from researchers who have been involved in the production of audio papers over the past five years.By providing you with historical perspectives, ranging from early radio production to present day podcasts, the audio paper is contextualized as a technologically driven publication format, with a grounding in auditory culture and a theoretical framework. Through a structural analysis of published audio papers, the authors seek a more robust understanding of the methods for analysis as well as the dramaturgical means employed. For the future development of the audio paper, the book proposes a series of directions, underlining how the audio paper holds a potential to become a transgressive intervention in academic publishing and a vehicle for new formats for thinking and doing research.

The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical

The authors in this collection have nonetheless produced excellent, comprehensive, and detailed work.