Forthcoming Visual Culture Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Creative Geographies

   Geography, Visual Art and the Making of Worlds

   By Harriet Hawkins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   Since the publication of Iconography of the Landscape and Fields of Vision, wherein the valuable contribution of the analysis of representational landscape painting, among other creative practices, to debates on landscape, space, politics and power was realized, geography’s engagements with the...

   To Be Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Critical Live Art

   Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

   Edited by Dominic Johnson

   Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and...

   To Be Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Interrogating Trauma

   Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media

   Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

   Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 April 9th 2013 by Routledge
5. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

   Asia in Flight

   By Sheng-mei Ma

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Crime and the Urban Imagination

   Law, Space and the Art of the Streets

   By Alison Young

   Crime and the Urban Imagination investigates the practices of street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Street art has become a highly significant part of the ways in which people shape their urban surroundings. Cities are engaged in a continual...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Pervasive Animation

   Edited by Suzanne Buchan

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection aims to foreground new critical perspectives on animation, connect them...

   To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture

   Edited by Tim Shephard, Anne Leonard

   As a coherent field of research, the field of music and visual culture has seen rapid growth in recent years. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture serves as the first comprehensive reference on the intersection between these two areas of study, an ideal introduction for those coming...

   To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama

   Acts of Seeing

   By Amy Holzapfel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere "seed" of modernism, a simple or crude attempt to copy objective reality on stage. This book challenges this misconception by redefining realism as an under-examined form of visual modernism that positioned theatre at the crux of the unstable...

   To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Transnational Horror Across Visual Media

    Fragmented Bodies

    Edited by Dana Och, Kirsten Strayer

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts....

    To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge