Recent Books
Open Access Musicology, Volume Three
Edited by Daniel Barolsky and Trudi Wright
The third volume of Open Access Musicology presents provocative case studies and analyses through which readers can choose their own path while also putting these essays in conversations from those in previous volumes of OAM.
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Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook
Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook is the first anthology of traditional Chinese children’s textbooks in a European language. This selection of eleven primers, spanning over two thousand years of Chinese education history, remains well-known in East Asia and the global diaspora of Confucian-heritage cultures.
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Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film
Gregory Brophy and Shawn Malley
Adaptive Forms employs videographic essays to explore the themes, ideas, and visual language through which media culture constantly evolves and adapts. Focusing on contemporary science fiction film, this analysis considers affinities between the genre’s expansive concerns with technological and social adaption, and cinema’s own evolutionary responses to technological and aesthetic change.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Shane Denson
The inaugural volume in the film|minutes book series, this book offers a close, minute-by-minute analysis of director James Whale’s iconic 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Alternating between a variety of analytical lenses, including descriptive, historical, and philosophical, this study breaks from conventional forms of film-analytical writing and offers an experiment in defamiliarization and looking anew.
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