This pioneering and unprecedented study shows how portraits of civic officials (mayors, aldremen, college and school masters and civic benefactors) articulated civic values in post-Reformation England. It also explores English portraiture, patrons and painters before the full reception of new-classical styles associated with the Renaissance. -- .

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.