Arts, Film & Performing Arts

Shop art, film, animation, theater, music, and design textbooks for college art programs, film schools, and creative practitioners.

What you'll find

Animation, 3D modeling, and game art textbooks
Film direction, screenwriting, and cinematography
Theater, drama, acting, and stage design
Graphic design, typography, and visual communication
Music theory, performance, and music production
Photography, photojournalism, and documentary practice

Who it's for

Art and design students, animation and game-design majors, film and theater school students, photography programs, music students, and working creatives.

Unthinking Eurocentrism Multiculturalism and the Media by Ella Shohat

Reading Images The Grammar of Visual Design by Gunther Kress

Producing Great Sound for Film and Video Expert Tips from Preproduction to Final Mix by Jay Rose

Building Imaginary Worlds The Theory and History of Subcreation by Mark J. P. Wolf

A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-engineers by Skip Pizzi

The Fabric Formwork Book Methods for Building New Architectural and Structural Forms in Concrete by Mark West

The Filmmaker’s Guide to Digital Imaging by Brown

Three Plays by Aristophanes Staging Women by Aristophanes

Projecting Politics Political Messages in American Films

Superusers Design Technology Specialists and the Future of Practice by Randy Deutsch

Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher Alexander Thinking, Building, Writing by Christopher Alexander

Design-Centered Entrepreneurship by Min Basadur

Alternative Scriptwriting Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen by Ken Dancyger

Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics Handbook Inventory and Production Control by Erick C. Jones

Activated Script Analysis An Integrative Approach to Play Analysis Through Creative Expression and Devised Theatre by Elizabeth Brendel Horn

Project Management Tools and Techniques A Practical Guide, Second Edition by Deborah Sater Carstens

Big Little Hotel Small Hotels Designed by Architects by Donna Kacmar

Decentered Playwriting Alternative Techniques for the Stage by Carolyn M. Dunn

Trump was a Joke How Satire Made Sense of a President who Didn't by Sophia A. McClennen

Introducing Japanese Popular Culture by Alisa Freedman

Business Process Modeling, Simulation and Design

Security by Design Protecting Buildings and Public Places Against Crime and Terror by Manjari Khanna Kapoor

Film, Form, and Culture by Robert Phillip Kolker

America on Film Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies by Harry M. Benshoff