ARTS
Building a Performance An Actor’s Guide to Rehearsal
By John Basil and Dennis Schebetta Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6130 2 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1319 9 • $30.00 / £22.99 eBook 978 1 5381 6132 6 • $28.50 / £21.99
Building a Performance provides a clear step-by-step system for actors through all stages of the rehearsal process. It enables actors to make more dynamic choices, craft complex characters with rich behavior, and find engaging and powerful levels of performance.
Acting & Auditioning
Your Breath In Art
By Beatrice Manley
Applause
May 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 4930 6516 5 • $19.95 / £14.99
In her wry, entertaining, and astute style, master of her craft Beatrice Manley dispenses wide-ranging insights and nuanced wisdom accumulated from a lifetime on the stage.
Acting & Auditioning
Bloody Women Women Directors of Horror
Edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislinn Clarke Lehigh University Press
April 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the Critical Conversations in Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 6114 6307 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6114 3088 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror is the first book-length exploration of female creators at the cutting edge of contemporary horror, turning out some of its most inspired and twisted offerings.
Film / Direction & Production
Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film
Edited by John Alexander Williams and Alexandra Hagen
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5898 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8999 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This edited collection explores how contemporary western European film can reflect on and contribute to discourses of conflict and survival in the new century.
Film / General
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Race, War, and the Cinematic Myth of America Dust That Never Settles
By Eric Trenkamp
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4750 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7511 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how Hollywood has promoted the myth of the American White male savior and the way in which this myth has negatively affected people of color throughout U.S. history.
Film / Genres / Action & Adventure
Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Crosscultural Films Interculturing Cinema
By Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith Williams
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8770 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 7686 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8769 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book uses an intercultural communication lens to analyze six cross-cultural films and their depictions of migration, mobility, and the resulting intercultural communications. It argues that the results of these complex and stressful moments of conflict include personal growth, oppression, familial or social separation, and loss of identity.
Film / Genres / General
Animals in Narrative Film and Television Strange and Familiar Creatures
Edited by Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0481 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4826 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines the way these representations intersect with culture, race, gender, class, disability, and health issues. Contributors analyze the narrative functions of familiar animals as well as fantastic and hybrid creatures.
Film / History & Criticism
David Fincher’s Zodiac
Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation
Edited by Matthew Sorrento and David RyanForeword by Christopher Sharrett
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
February 2022 • 274 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Hardback 978 1 6839 3326 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3274 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
David Fincher’s Zodiac, the first book-length study of the critically acclaimed 2007 release, offers various critical approaches to the film ranging from early influences, studies in genre and narrative, and media analysis including cinema history, game theory, musicology, and extensions in television studies.
Film / History & Criticism
German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon Dark Eyes of London
By Nicholas G. Schlegel
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7072 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 0732 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the significance of the thirty-two Krimi films produced by Rialto Film from 1959 to 1972, canonizing their role in the era of German popular cinema during Krimi’s rise to popularity and inevitable decline and evolution.
Film / Genres / General
The 1980s British Conspiracy Thriller Terror Struck by Shadows
By Paul Lynch
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1315 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3163 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The British conspiracy cycle of the 1980s emerged in response to an increasingly Orwellian secret state in Great Britain. This book draws on original interviews with novelists, film-makers, and intelligence community insiders along with original case studies to explore one of the most politically charged periods in film and television history.
Film / Genres / General
Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy Modern God
By Shayne Lee
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0421 5 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 4222 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes how films depict God when black characters experience suffering and tragedy to elucidate how cinema often portrays a God that is considered supportive, yet who does little to mitigate suffering. This sparks theodical contemplation on the role of divinity in protecting people from the consequences of human depravity.
Film / History & Criticism
Lope de Vega on Spanish Screens, 1935–2020 The Shadow of the Phoenix
By Philip Allen
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 258 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1177 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1787 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Philip Allen examines the presence of Lope de Vega’s adapted work on Spanish screens since the mid-twentieth century. In his analysis, Allen revisits and problematizes stereotypes present in popular and academic culture surrounding the author’s life and works, which have at times been co-opted as propaganda.
Film / History & Criticism
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Stigmatized on Screen How Hollywood Portrays Nonstandard Dialects
By Lindsey Clouse
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4741 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7429 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the 500 top-grossing films of the last 20 years to show how speakers of traditionally stigmatized dialects are represented, underrepresented, misrepresented, and mocked. Ultimately, the author demonstrates how Hollywood reinforces long-standing negative beliefs about the languages of marginalized communities.
Film / History & Criticism
The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film
Edited by Erica Joan Dymond and Salvador Jiménez
Murguía
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 456 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5390 1 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3918 8 • $118.50 / £92.00
The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film explores both the best of LGBTQIA+ cinematic depictions and the most problematic. Mainstream and art house/indie films from the last fifty years are unpacked and carefully examined by a diverse collection of talented writers from across the globe.
Film / Reference
Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema of Life From Homework to Like Someone in Love
By Julian Rice Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 292 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7124 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 5381 7000 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3701 7 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book focuses on revolutionary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s opposition to war, his eclectic spirituality, and the symbolic texture of his cinema which is more attuned to poetic than philosophical interpretation. It covers the most-up-to-date films, with a focus on thematic continuity within and between individual films.
Individual Director
Reality TV’s Real Men of the Recession White Masculinity in Crisis and the Rise of Trumpism
By Shannon O’Sullivan
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0001 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0026 6 • $45.00 / £30.99
In the 2000s, reality programs showcasing white, working-class men performing hazardous occupations in wilderness settings proliferated on U.S. cable networks. Shannon O’Sullivan argues that this genre represents a reactionary veneration of white, rural, working-class men as “real Americans” amid the Great Recession and current events.
Television / Genres / Reality, Game Shows & Talk Shows
The Films of Walter Hill Another Time, Another Place
By Brian Brems
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1528 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 5297 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is an academic study of the work of an important American director working primarily in the action genre. The book explores the ways in which Hill’s filmography reveals his point of view and intensifies classical approaches to storytelling.
Film / History & Criticism
A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola
By Naaman Wood and Christopher Booth
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 302 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3679 9 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6805 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume offers eight interdisciplinary readings to the films of Sofia Coppola, analyzing her oeuvre with a focus on her treatment of masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love.
Individual Director
A History of Television News Parody in America Nothing but the Truthiness
By Curt Hersey
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3778 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7796 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides the first history of the television news parody genre, analyzing how these shows have functioned as critiques of television news, politics, culture, and American society, while entertaining and informing audiences. Each chapter features a case study and discussion of the genre during a particular decade.
Television / Genres / Comedy
The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals
By Dan Dietz
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 662 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6893 6 • $185.00 / £142.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8943 3 • $175.50 / £137.00
This book examines in detail every Broadway musical which opened during the 1900s. It includes cast and credits, plot, critical reviews, London productions, recordings, published scripts, and film versions. The book also features extensive commentary for 300 musicals which opened during the decade.
Theater / Broadway & Musical Revue
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Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now
Edited by Laury Magnus and Walter W. Cannon
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
September 2022 • 306 pages • Part of the Shakespeare and the Stage series
Paperback 978 1 6839 3202 4 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 6839 2000 0 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 6839 3201 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds examines special listening situations like overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides; it explores complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, nonEnglish languages, and non-verbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, ending with a discussion with ASC Actors.
Theater / History & Criticism
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education
The Play of the In-Between
By Catherine Homan
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 218 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9446 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4448 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9445 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between provides an account of poetic education as an alternative to aesthetic education. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics and philosophy of play, Homan argues that rather than the cultivation of taste, education is the cultivation of formation and a learning to listen.
Aesthetics
Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious The Vital Depths of Experience
By Bethany Henning
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the American Philosophy Series series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2021 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0224 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Bethany Henning argues that within the naturalistic strains of American philosophy, there is an implicit theory of the unconscious that finds its fullest expression within the work of John Dewey. Although the unconscious contributes to all experience, it plays a principal role in experiences that are emphatically aesthetic.
Aesthetics
On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality
A Collection of Pragmaticist Inquires into the Epistemology of Artistic Creation and Evaluation of Artworks
By Dan Nesher
Hamilton Books
May 2022 • 370 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7295 5 • $44.99 / £35.00
eBook 978 0 7618 2962 2 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book is a collection of pragmatist inquiries into the epistemology of artistic creation and evaluation of artworks. It offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and artworks are beautiful when proven aesthetic true representations of reality.
Criticism & Theory
The Incorporeal Corpse Performing Disability in the Liminal Stage
By Jason B. Dorwart
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4507 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5081 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
Disabled characters have been written with an assumption that they would be played by nondisabled actors. In this book, Jason B. Dorwart argues that a recent influx of disabled actors into the profession is changing the way that we reconcile the reality of disability with the fictional framing of performance.
Theater / History & Criticism
Beyond Words
Philosophy,
Fiction, and the Unsayable
By Timothy Cleveland
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1484 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4858 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and unconceived. Such literary works do philosophy, showing us something that a theoretical— scientific or philosophical—discourse cannot literally say.
Aesthetics
Heidegger and Music
Edited by Casey Rentmeester and Jeff R. Warren
Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5413 7 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4144 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from many countries throughout the world, utilizes Heidegger’s philosophy to shed light on the place of music in different contexts and fields of practice.
Aesthetics
Second Nature Comic Performance and Philosophy
Edited by Josephine Gray and Lisa Trahair
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1509 1 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 7866 5107 7 • $38.00 / £30.99
Examining Henri Bergson’s work, philosophy, and the body, this volume explores the history and philosophy of comedy, film, psychoanalysis and the comic performance of the future, creating a theoretical and practicebased framework for the field.
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