"Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed a commercialization of culture as it became less courtly and more urban. The marketing of culture became separate from the production of culture. New cultural entrepreneurs entered the stage: the impresario, the publisher, the book seller, th…
"This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to take stock of the frictions generated by a tumultuous time in the Australian art field and to probe what the crises might mean for the future of the arts in Australia. Specific topics include national and internati…
From the late 1920s through World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan. Detailing the way Japanese directors, scriptwriters, company officials, and bureaucrats colluded to produce films that supported the war effort, Imperial Screen is a highly readable accou…
Houston bound: culture and color in a Jim Crow city
"From World War I through the 1960s, Houston was transformed into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow la…
Modern forces converge and gender roles are challenged in this volume that explores the influence of Yue opera - a subgenre of Chinese opera that transformed all-male opera into an all-female art forms, with women cross-dressing as male characters.
Modern forces converge and gender roles are challenged in this volume that explores the influence of Yue opera - a subgenre of Chinese opera that transformed all-male opera into an all-female art forms, with women cross-dressing as male characters.
Employing the insights of recent cultural critics, Reading Marx Writing uses the eight notebooks (the Grundrisse) Marx worked on in 1857-58 to examine his literary, political, and scientific imagination and the fictional writers he admired. By exploring the Grundrisse, the proj…
"Providing a fresh look at a crucial aspect of the American Civil War, this study explores the day-to-life of people in the Confederate States of America as they struggled to cope with a crisis that spared no one, military or civilian. Mobley touches on the experiences of everyo…