Pamela L Robertson

The Architectural Papers

Flowers : Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Art Is The Flower

Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna

Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna

Island Gods: Exploring the World's Most Exotic Islands

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Architectural Papers

Charles Rennie Mackintosh in France: Landscape Watercolors

Movie Acting, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)

Movie Acting: The Film Reader explores one of the most central but often overlooked aspects of cinema: film acting. Combining classic and recent essays, it examines key issues such as: What constitutes film acting? How is film acting different from stage acting? How has film acting changed over ti...

Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music

From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music. Soundtrack Available fills this gap, as its contributors provide detailed analyses of individual films as w...

Doves And Dreams: The Art of Frances Macdonald And J. Herbert Mcnair

Discussions of the 'Glasgow Four' and the 'Glasgow Style' inevitably lead to the well-documented careers of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. However, this obscures the complete picture and ignores the significant contribution made to British art history by the other two members of t...

New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s (Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)

American culture changed radically over the course of the 1960s, and the culture of Hollywood was no exception. The film industry began the decade confidently churning out epic spectacles and lavish musicals, but became flummoxed as new aesthetics and modes of production emerged, and low-budget yout...

The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk, Rear Window, and The Seven Year Itch, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the “apartment plot,” her term for stories in which the apartment functions as a central narrative device. From the baby boom years into the 1970s, the...

Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna

“Camp,” Mae West told Playboy, “is the kinda comedy where they imitate me.” But what was West doing, if not camp itself? Guilty Pleasures puts women back into the history of camp, a story long confined to gay male practice. Emphasizing the distinctive roles women have played as producers and consume...

Charles Rennie MacKintosh: Art is the Flower

This volume concentrates on the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, influential Scottish architect, artist and designer, who painted flowers and plants prolifically throughout his career. It traces the development of his botanical studies from the early pencil sketchbook drawings, through the introdu...

Island Gods: Exploring the World's Most Exotic Islands

Book by Bangs, Richard