Following his hugely acclaimed TV come-back "Comedy Vehicle", Stewart Lee finds himself in search of ideas for a new Edinburgh show. Thanks to Jeremy Clarkson's casual slur against Gordon Brown and the appearance of a well-meaning young comedian in an advert, a show is born. This title features a transcript of the show annotated with footnotes.

In this memoir, Gabriel Weisz Carrington, son of the renowned Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother and declare her not an icon or a goddess but, first and foremost, an artist. -- .

Louis Le Prince invented the motion picture in 1890. The man's name was Thomas Edison. This book is the story of the birth of motion pictures, restoring the father of the invention to his rightful place in history.

The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by one of the foremost art writers at work today

Featuring perspectives from musicology, film studies, literary studies, ethnomusicology, sound studies, popular music, sociology, media and communications, and psychology, The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening explores the intersection between the history of listening and the history of the moving image.

The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies gathers two dozen original essays that chart the history and current state of interdisciplinary scholarship on music in audiovisual media, focusing on four areas: history, genre and medium, analysis and criticism, and interpretation.

Contributers from image and sound studies explore the history and the future of moving-image media across a range of formats including blockbuster films, video games, music videos, social media, experimental film, documentaries, video art, pornography, theater, and electronic music.

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, this book examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.

Derek Jarman has been called the 'godfather' of the early 1990s cinematic movement now known as 'Queer Cinema'. This book views Jarman's uniquely personal - and pleasurable - cinema through the analytical prism of 'queer'.

A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of Country.