Forthcoming Arts Paperbacks

Forthcoming Books

1. Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory

   By Brett Ashley Kaplan

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery

   Edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman

   In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body

   By Cassandra Jackson

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. While scholars have fittingly focused on the ever-present figure of the hypermasculine black male, little consideration has...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Path Of The Actor

   By Michael Chekhov

   Edited by Andrei A. Kirillov, Bella Merlin

   This is the first English translation of Michael Chekhov’s two-volume autobiography, combining The Path of the Actor (1927) and extensive extracts from his later volume Life and Encounters. Full of illuminating anecdotes and insightful observations involving prominent characters from the MAT and...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre

   Illustrations of the Original Productions

   Edited by and translated by Vera Gottlieb

   The Moscow Art Theatre is still recognized as having more impact on modern theatre than any company in the world. This lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced facsimile edition of a Russian journal from 1914 documents, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's plays produced...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
6. Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain

   Cultural and Clinical Implications

   Edited by Jonathan Berger, Gabe Turow

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and...

   To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Religion, Theatre, and Performance

   Acts of Faith

   Edited by Lance Gharavi

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some of the world’s most pressing and momentous events are contested and played out. That this circumstance warrants continued, thoughtful, and imaginative...

   To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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