Forthcoming Arts Books

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41. Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet

    By Olga Goriunova

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach brilliance. In order to understand the processes that produce culture, the author...

    To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
42. Directing for Animation

    Everything You Didn't Learn in Art School

    By Tony Bancroft

    Get the whole story on directing animation with this rich, visual guide. With personal stories, experiences, and important tips of the trade from the author and his stable of A-list contacts, Directing for Animation is a must-have for the animation professional, or the aspiring animator. ...

    To Be Published July 17th 2013 by Focal Press
43. Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)

    By Raymond Alden

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    This fascinating title, first published in 1922, presents a detailed overview of the life and works of Shakespeare. Alden first considers Shakespeare’s Elizabethan context, alongside exploring the Classical and Italian foundations, political theories, concepts and theatrical trends that influenced...

    To Be Published July 21st 2013 by Routledge
44. Art and Ethics in a Material World

    Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy

    By Jennifer McMahon

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

    In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is...

    To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
45. Video Shooter

    Mastering Storytelling Techniques, 3rd Edition

    By Barry Braverman

    Tired of the all the digital filmmaking guidebooks that give you only the nuts and bolts of how to use a camera? The third edition of Video Shooter takes the how-to knowledge a step further by showing you how to craft a story in your video. Barry Braverman is an experienced shooter and...

    To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Focal Press
46. Beauty, Violence, Representation

    Edited by Lisa Dickson, Maryna Romanets

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing with the multiple inflections...

    To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
47. Isosurfaces

    Geometry, Topology, and Algorithms

    By Rephael Wenger

    Ever since Lorensen and Cline published their paper on the Marching Cubes algorithm, isosurfaces have been a standard technique for the visualization of 3D volumetric data. Yet there is no book exclusively devoted to isosurfaces. Isosurfaces: Geometry, Topology, and Algorithms represents the first...

    To Be Published July 29th 2013 by A K Peters/CRC Press
48. Performing Arts and Therapeutic Implications

    By Tanvi Bajaj, Swasti Shrimali Vohra

    Analysing the ethnographic, social, historical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual facets of performing arts, this book highlights the deep therapeutic impact these have on the psyche of the practitioners and audience, using case studies from dance, music and drama, as also interviews and life...

    To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge India
49. Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere

    Edited by Gerard Delanty, Liana Giorgi, Monica Sassatelli

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere,...

    To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
50. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility

    MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

    By Ole Mjos

    Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

    This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners’ use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between...

    To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge