Non-graphic and electronic art forms Books

This book traces Dàdàkúàdá's history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the...

This updated third edition introduces readers to the basic fundamentals of studio and control room production. Accessible and focused, readers will gain fluency in essential studio terms and technology and acquire the necessary skills to make it in the...

The Art and Craft of TV Directing offers a broad and in-depth view of the craft of TV Directing in the form of detailed interviews with dozens of the industry's most accomplished episodic television directors.Author Jim Hemphill provides students with...

Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in the media, politics, sport and art of New York at the turn of the twentieth century.This book investigates stunts in sport,...

This revised edition offers an indispensable guide to the business and legal aspects of the entertainment industry, from copyright law and government media regulation to development, distribution, revenue, the role of agents, managers, and unions,...

Femininity, Time and Feminist Art explores feminist art of the 1970s through the lens of contemporary art made by women. In a series of original readings of artworks by, amongst others, Tracey Emin, Vanessa Beecroft, Hannah Wilke and Carolee Schneemann,...

Film Restoration: The Culture and Science of Audiovisual Heritage is the first monograph-length work intended to enable the general public and readers with a humanities background to understand what film restoration does and does not involve. In doing...

The most authoritative, authentic text of a classic guide to actingIn the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov's To the Actor has become a standard text for students of the theater. But To the Actor is a shortened, heavily modified...

You want to create a video game? Great!You want to tell a story? Fantastic!You want to create a video game that tells a story? What? Are you insane?!I’m joking, kind of. You don’t have to be insane to tell a good story through your Indie...

Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm is a celebration of artist Clare Reilly’s life and work. Reilly’s passions for coastal New Zealand and the country’s wildlife are brought to life in this beautiful collection, which explores themes of habitat destruction and...