Art & Aesthetics

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  Rumba on the River

  by Gary Stewart
  Rumba on the River presents a snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization collided along the banks of the Congo.
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  A Civilian Occupation

  Edited by Rafi Segal, David Tartakover, et al.
  Israeli architects, scholars, journalists, and photographers highlight the role of architecture in the Middle East conflict.

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  Privatising Culture

  by Chin-tao Wu
  Mapping for the first time the increasingly hegemonic position that corporations and corporate elites have come to occupy in the cultural arena.
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  Screening the City

  Edited by Tony Fitzmaurice and Mark Shiel
  A diverse collection of essays considering film and the urban experience.

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  Family Secrets

  by Annette Kuhn
  “Reshapes the relations between feminism and cultural studies.”—Meaghan Morris

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  Cinema and Desire

  by Dai Jinhua
  Dal Jinhau's commentary on Chinese cinema, culture and politics. 
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  Lennon Remembers

  by Jann S. Wenner
  The complete and uncensored 1970 Rolling Stone interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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  Close Up

  by Hamid Dabashi
  "The indispensable work on one of the most extraordinary artistic and social adventures of our time."—Edward W. Said

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  Building the New World

  by Valerie Fraser
  The progressive architecture of Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.
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  An Argentine Passion

  Edited by Rosa Bosch, John King, et al.
  The first major study of Maria Luisa Bemberg’s work. 
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  Alien Zone II

  Edited by Annette Kuhn
  New ways of thinking about the science fiction genre.
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  Film and the Anarchist Imagination

  by Richard Porton

  Bearded bomb-throwers, self-indulgent nihilists, dangerous subversives—these characteristic clichés of anarchists in the popular...

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  Repeated Takes

  by Michael Chanan
  How the record changed music, and the way we listen to it.
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  Dangerous Crossroads

  by George Lipsitz
  “Astonishing.”—Jazz Times
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  Readings and Writings

  by Peter Wollen
  Essays and fiction on oppositional art, 1968-1982.
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  Critique of Taste

  by Galvano Della Volpe
  A classic work of twentieth-century aesthetics.