This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embod......more

This book explores the critical and transformative potential of arts and popular culture for constructions of religion, ......more

This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to adv......more

This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to adv......more

Focusing on the Mediterranean region from 2015 onwards, this volume explores photography’s engagement with displacement,......more

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, u......more

Originally published in 1958, A Guide to Western Architecture charts the origins of the system of architectural design t......more

Originally published in 1952 but enlarged and revised in 1969, this dictionary became a standard authoritative work of r......more

This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained thr......more

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that are invo......more

People have played games forever, but it’s only in the past few decades that people really started thinking about what g......more

With forewords by Mario Carpo, Jenny Sabin, and Branko Kolarevic. This book is the first comprehensive overview of the p......more

With forewords by Mario Carpo, Jenny Sabin, and Branko Kolarevic. This book is the first comprehensive overview of the p......more

Originally published in 1943, The Place of Glass in Building gives the facts about the physical properties, the possibil......more

Originally published in 1944, The Missing Technician shows how Industrial Design must begin at the very first stages of ......more

Originally published in 1946, this book is based on a series of broadcast talks on design. Led by an engineer, an artist......more

Originally published in 1946, when Britain was facing a post-war housing crisis, this book dealt with the issue of the f......more

Originally published in 1948, A History of Cast Iron in Architecture is a comprehensive history of the part that has bee......more

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and......more

This is an authoritative companion that is global in scope, recognizing the presence of African Diaspora artists across ......more

Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books’ contents, the paratext around the coll......more

Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their ar......more

Secularism has produced from within itself a crisis of fragmentation and incoherence that is widespread today. Detailed ......more

’Insecure Digital Frontiers’ is an immersive exploration into the tumultuous realm of cybersecurity, where the ever-expa......more

’Insecure Digital Frontiers’ is an immersive exploration into the tumultuous realm of cybersecurity, where the ever-expa......more

This book by preeminent planning theorist Martin H. Krieger explores how cities are much more than their economies, demo......more

This book explores how cities are much more than their economies, demographies, or geographies. The chapters explore pla......more

This book examines Gore Vidal’s lifelong engagement with the ancient world and the influence of antiquity on himself and......more

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of Audio Description, the practice of rendering t......more

This accessible, up-to-date textbook covers the history of comics as it developed in the U.S. in all of its forms: polit......more

What is design in modern China? And what are the ecological stakes in understanding how modern Chinese design encourages......more

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual ’origins’ of feminist per......more

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual ’origins’ of feminist per......more

Focusing on an integral aspect of screenplays, this book takes students and writers at all levels through the process of......more

Future Memory Practices addresses a crucial challenge in pluralistic societies: the organisation of open, participatory ......more

We are in a decisive decade that demands more inspired and informed practitioners who can use positive futures to rebala......more

This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immat......more

Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the fims of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss,......more

Voice and Identity draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading figures to explore the evolving nature of voice tra......more

This accessible book outlines the key ideas that define the global phenomenon of applied theatre, examining not only its......more

Translated from its original Dutch, Strategic Brand Design offers students and professionals a clear overview of the mos......more

Translated from its original Dutch, Strategic Brand Design offers students and professionals a clear overview of the mos......more

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that ......more

Musical scores - like literature, poetry, and technical manuals - are documents. The central tenet of this book is that ......more

This collection explores the translation of dialogue from the adaptations of literary classics across audiovisual media,......more

Dramaturgy and History provides a practical account of an aspect of dramaturgical practice that is often taken for grant......more

The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design offers a comprehensive overview of the diverse contexts of creativity and researc......more

Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the author’s theories, practices, and c......more

Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britain......more

Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to exp......more

Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to exp......more

Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy’s music through the lens of Bergson’s philoso......more

Fiddles in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures presents fresh data and debates drawn from extensive research to broaden the stu......more

This book illustrates how money and marketing, in combination with general trends, play decisive roles in shaping the ar......more

This book provides a unique insider’s look at the world’s largest film industry, now globally known as ’Bollywood’ and c......more

Fashion education is changing. Not only is it preparing students for induction into the ethos and business practices of ......more

This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to ......more

After assuming power in 1980, the Zimbabwe African National Union has sought to control the narrative of the struggle fo......more

Interaction of Symbols is a book for everyone engaged with icon design. It presents a theory of how icons work: symbols ......more

Interaction of Symbols is a book for everyone engaged with icon design. It presents a theory of how icons work: symbols ......more

This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in......more

Museums as Ritual Sites critically examines the assumption that museums inherently function as ritual sites and, in turn......more

This book defines, illustrates, applies, and explores current and future tools and methods for measuring landscape perfo......more

This book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy, became one of the highest gross......more

This book investigates Jimmie Durham’s community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europ......more

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century......more

Using Open Scenes as a "way in" to scripted material, this book establishes a foundational actor training methodology th......more

This book studies R. Buckminster Fuller’s World Game and similar world games, past and present....more

This book focuses on experimental theatre company, GAle GAtes, credited as "the true innovator" of the contemporary imme......more

Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, author Timothy Cheek demonstrates how a university lyric diction class -......more

This book explores the concept that, as participation in traditional religion declines, the complex and fantastical worl......more

This book examines the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performanc......more

This book provides an integrated solution for security and safety in the home, covering both assistance in health monito......more

This book explores the new theoretical and political questions raised by food TV’s digital transformation. This book wil......more

This book looks at alternative ways of analyzing traditional and contemporary architectural design and building practice......more