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RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television
For about 40 years, RTE's radio and television channels have played an enormous role in shaping Irish social and cultural life. As the national publicly owned and funded broadcaster, RTE is the biggest cinema, school, sports stadium, market square, performance stage, town crier and concert hall i...
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Drawing in the Design Process
In the early days of the digital revolution in graphic design, many designers and teachers of design were convinced that the era of drawing on paper was over – that there would soon no longer be a place for craft-based drawing at any stage of the design process. It soon became apparent, however, ...
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World Film Locations: Reykjavík
In thematic spotlight articles, contributors in World Film Locations: Reykjavík explore such topics as the relationship between Iceland and its capital city; youth culture and night life; the relationship between film and the local music community; cinematic representations of Scandinavian crime;...
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Prison Cultures
Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of 'bad girls' and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt hegemonic ...
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Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who
This book investigates thoroughly the multitude of fandoms, fan works and fan discussions about the always-surprising and energetic programme Doctor Who. Featuring full-colour images of fan work and discussions of both classic and New Who fandom, this is one of only a few - and certainly one of t...
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The City is Me
Proposing a new way of understanding the relationship between the city and personal identity, The City is Me argues that there is no longer a distance between the two. The result of extensive research about our notions of the city and the person throughout time, this volume explores the technolog...
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Directory of World Cinema: Japan
Directory of World Cinema: Japan provides an insight into Japanese cinema through reviews of significant titles and case studies of directors, alongside explorations of the cultural and industrial origins of key genres. The book contains reviews, essays, research resources and full-colour film st...
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Design and Living Well
This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...
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Un-American Psycho
In Un-American Psycho, Chris Dumas places director Brian De Palma’s body of work in dialogue with the works of other provocative filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock and Francis Ford Coppola, with the aims of providing a broader understanding of the narrative, stylistic and political gestures t...
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World Film Locations: Moscow
There are very few preserved filmic depictions of Moscow from pre-Revolutionary years. World Film Locations: Moscow compares and contrasts images from the past and present, giving the forty-six carefully selected scene reviews and seven spotlight essays a historical focus. It also provides an ins...
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Interventions
Interventions contributes to considerations of how cultural initiatives and interventions affect cities’ development. It draws together policies and projects for cultural urban interventions from the UK, Lithuania, India and North America. The book includes policies and strategies for cultural in...
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Spectacular Death
An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life – with the predictable result that we treat it either as a cl...
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Media in the Enlarged Europe
Media in the Enlarged Europe focuses on the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media. This volume presents snapshots of media politics, policies, industries and cultures in the European Union as a whole, incorporating case studies of the history an...
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Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand and offers an in-depth and exciting look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century. Though the two nations share considerable cultural and eco...
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World Film Locations: Vienna
Vienna appears in cinema as, among other things, a historical crossroads, a source of great music and a site of world-famous architecture ranging from gothic cathedrals and baroque palaces to landmark modern structures. A panorama that encompasses all these perspectives, World Film Locations: Vie...
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Are the Kids All Right?
Covering picture books, middle-grade books and young adult fiction, this was the first survey of English-language children’s literature that features lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or otherwise queer characters. It explores how LGBTQ characters are portrayed and what this says about contempo...
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Trends in Communication Policy Research
With contributions from leading international experts from within both the communications industry and academia, Trends in Communication Policy Research comprises the very latest developments in the theories, methods and practical applications of this dynamic field. Topical and politically releva...
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Theatre in Prison
From role-plays with street gangs in the USA to Beckett in Brixton; from opera productions with sex offenders to psychodrama with psychopaths, the book will discuss, analyse and reflect on theoretical notions and practical applications of theatre for and with the incarcerated. Theatre in Prison i...
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Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978–2000)
Hong Kong New Wave Cinema analyzes specific films from Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s and the historical and social conditions that allowed them to flourish. Pak Tong Cheuk also draws on the auteur and genre theories, examines the directors’ cinematic style and aesthetics, traces the developmen...
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Teaching and Learning Design
This collection showcases diverse perspectives in design and design research, with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems. Divided into seven thematic volumes, the Re:Research series maps out wher...
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Art, Community and Environment
Academics, artists and critics focus on specific practices and broader contexts for cultural production, highlighting the work of artists in the former Soviet and East European bloc and in the West. The collection reveals that some practices have not changed, and that in a world of globalized con...
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Europe and Love in Cinema
This book explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a range of films from the 1920s to the present and looks at how love is portrayed in cinema across Europe and the United States. Essays from top film scholars demonstrate the centrality of desire to film narrative and explores m...
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Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future
Once regarded as a system in decline, public service broadcasters have acquired renewed legitimacy in the digital environment, as drivers of digital take-up, innovators and trusted brands. Exploring this remarkable transformation, Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future engag...
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The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran
This volume explores the lives of women in Iran through the social, political and aesthetic contexts of veiling, unveiling and re-veiling. Through poetic writings and photographs, Azadeh Fatehrad responds to the legacy of the Iranian Revolution via the representation of women in photography, lite...
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6+1 Proposals for Journalism
New edited collection that discusses, and recommends solutions to, challenges facing journalism in this digital age. It draws attention to seven key factors that not only highlight the present crisis in journalism, but also indicate the steps we need to take to safeguard and enhance trustworthy j...
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Sonic Multiplicities
Through the lens of popular music in and from Hong Kong, this book examines the material, ideological and geopolitical implications of music production and consumption. Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet draw on empirical research and industry experience to trace the worldwide flow of popular cultu...
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Twin Peaks
Few contemporary television shows have been subjected to the critical scrutiny that has been brought to bear on David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks since its debut in 1990. Yet the series, and the subsequent film, Fire Walk With Me, are sufficiently rich that it's always possible for a close ...
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Switching to Digital Television
Between 2008 and 2012 the UK plans to turn off its conventional analogue terrestrial television and switch fully to digital TV. This is part of a trend across all the technologically advanced nations of the world. The city of Berlin led the way in 2003. The Netherlands became the first country to...
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Aleksandr Sokurov
Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de Custine as he wandered through the vast Winter Palace in St. Petersburg – and through three hundred ...
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Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory
Kate Bush as you have never seen her before. Through in-depth readings of the often critically neglected works of Bush’s career – The Kick Inside, Lionheart, The Dreaming, The Red Shoes and her film The Line, the Cross and the Curve – Withers guides the reader through the complexity of Bush’s art...
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Aleksandr Askoldov
Filmed in 1966 and '67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one of the most important and compelling films of the Soviet era. Based on a short story by Vasily Grossman, it tells of a female Red Army commissar who is forced to stay with a Jewish family near the ...
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NanoCulture
Nano denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter. New instrumentation and techniques have for the first time made possible materials research and engineering at this level, the scale of individual molecules and atoms. Extraordinary visions of material abundance, unprecedented mater...
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The Propaganda of Peace
When political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new Northern Ireland executive in May 2007, a chapter was closed on Northern Ireland’s troubled past. A dramatic realignment of politics had brought these irreconcilable enemi...
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Performing Violence
In this book, Birgit Beumers and Mark Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in new dramatic works by young Russian playwrights. As the first English-language study of Russian drama and theatre in the twenty-first century, it seeks a vantage point for the analysis of brutality in post...
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Truth or Dare
Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with imagination and experimental contemporary art. An experienced group of practitioners, artists, and theorists question this binary in a cross-disciplinary volume that will force us to reco...
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Creative Infrastructures
A new collection of connected essays and case studies that delve deeply into the relationships between art, innovation, entrepreneurship and money. Arts entrepreneurship is a growing field, and this book is ideal for arts administrators and policy analysts as well as for artists who participate i...
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Culture War
The culture wars - intertwining art, culture and politics - have sparked political debates worldwide for many years, but particularly in Europe and America since 2001. Culture War focuses on Denmark's experience during this period, aiming to understand the dynamics of contemporary affective cultu...
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Gendered Transformations
TFP brings together international researchers, students and industry professionals dedicated to promoting new research directions and to investigating the relationship between functional programming and other branches of Computer Science. This TFP volume includes some of the latest trends of func...
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Twilight of the Goths
Toledo, former capital of Spain until 1560, is now one of the most monumental of Spanish cities. In Roman times, it was originally a modest tribal township, which was eventually elevated to a national capital by the Visigoths (one of two main branches of the Goths, who along with their cousins, t...
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The Spectacle of the Real
Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their ‘incredible-seeming reality’. They can appear both ‘incredible’ and ‘real’, their appeal based on their ability to ‘convince’—to appear real in terms such as detail and ...
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Sergei Paradjanov
Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema – yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture broke with Soviet realism, it caused Paradjanov to be blacklisted soon after its release. This b...
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Anthem Quality
Anthem Quality is a book about the lyrics of national anthems. In this theoretical survey, Christopher Kelen deals with the general meaning of an inter-national social phenomenon – the words we sing together with our compatriots when we assert ourselves to be national subjects.
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Prejudice and Pride
Explores aspects of LGBT activist history. It covers educational activism, youth work activism and the history of the LGBT Centre in Manchester.
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World Film Locations: Paris
World Film Locations: Paris takes readers on an unforgettable tour of the City of Lights past and present through the many films that have been set there. Along the way, we revisit iconic tourist sites from the Eiffel Tower – whose stairs and crossbars inspired more than one famous chase scene – ...
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Hollywood Utopia
Utopianism, alongside its more prevalent dystopian opposite together with ecological study has become a magnet for interdisciplinary research and is used extensively to examine the most influential global medium of all time. The book applies a range of interdisciplinary strategies to trace the ev...
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Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art
Since the 1990s, women artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in the perception of women in art. Girls! Girls! Girls! ...
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Confronting Theory
Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory (‘with a capital-T’) in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as risibly pretentious and abstract, Confrontin...
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#Nodes
#Nodes is not a book about science, nor about art, literature or the humanities –or maybe it is about all of them at once. This collection investigates reality from these perspectives and others, demonstrating the possibility of intense interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Body and Mind in Motion
Drawing from the burgeoning field of 'embodiment' – itself an idea at the intersection of the sciences, humanities, arts and technologies – Body and Mind in Motion highlights the relevance of somatic education within dance education, dance science and body-mind studies.
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Directory of World Cinema: Finland
This book provides historical and cultural overviews of the country's cinema. Scholars construct an argument that complicates the international view of Finnish cinema as a small-scale industry dominated by realist art-house films. Contributors cover genre, art, and commercial films, independent p...
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Drawing
In an era which has seen many forms of artistic creation becoming digitized, the practice of drawing, in the traditional sense, has remained constant. However, many publications about the relationship between drawing and thinking rely on discipline-dependent distinctions to discuss the activity’s...
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Fat Activism
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is a rare insider’s view of fat people speaking about their lives and politics on their own terms. It is part of a new wave of accessible, accountable and rigorous work emerging through Research Justice and the Para-Academy. Second addition coming soon www...
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Educating Artists for the Future
In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in higher education in art and design offer fresh directions for educating artists for a rapidly evolving post-digital future. Their creative redefinition of art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific e...
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The Face on the Screen
There was a time is screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image… The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the endless 'talking heads' of television and the ever-changing array of film stars' faces have reduced the f...
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Beyond Auteurism
Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production. Maule examines how the individuals have maintained a dialectical relationsh...
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Futures of Chinese Cinema
This book takes an innovative approach, arguing for a broadening of Chinese screen cultures to account for new technologies of screening. The contributors explore transnational connections and consider time and technology in both popular blockbusters and independent art films from mainland China,...
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Theatre and Consciousness
For the last ten to fifteen years, many disciplines of scholarship have been involved in the study of consciousness, often on an interdisciplinary basis. They include philosophy, neurosciences, psychology, physics and biology, and approaches focusing on human experience. The Centre for Consciousn...
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Joshua Sofaer
With a mixture of intellect, humour, and striking design, Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices. Sample Chapter
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Polanski and Perception
Polanski and Perception focuses on Roman Polanski's interest in the nature of perception and how this is manifested in his films. Informed by the work of neuropsychologist R. L. Gregory, this volume primarily focuses on two sets of films: the Apartment trilogy and the Investigation trilogy. This ...
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The Cinema Makers
The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in southeastern and central European cities became cinema makers. Drawing on interviews with cinema activists in Germany, Austria and the former Yugoslavia, Anna Schober illuminates the differences and similarities in the development of politic...
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The Professionalisation of Political Communication
Has the communication of politics become professionalised? Who are the ‘professionals’ and what part do they play in the political process? Can the process of professionalisation be observed in different political systems? These, and related questions, about the changing nature of practices in po...
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Visual Language for the World Wide Web
Linking the hieroglyphs of ancient Mayan and Sumerian culture with icons on the modern computer interface, this book shows that human visual communication has come full circle from the earliest representations. Honeywill's analysis shows how ancient visual languages now serve as a source for rene...
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Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Taking the fall of the Berlin Wall as a key marker in recent history – a period in which increasingly we find ourselves watching ‘instant history’ unfold live on air – the book presents a new critical concept of image critique: a double procedure of both a critique of images and the use of images...
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Holistic Shakespeare
Shakespeare's plays are staples of the classroom. Yet too often they are taught as antiquated works of literature with little reference to their theatrical life and enduring human themes. Applying the methodologies of the holistic education model to the study of four Shakespearean plays – Othello...
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Sistershow Revisited
Sistershow Revisited uses the antics of a Bristol-based theatre group to tell the history of feminism in Bristol 1973–75.
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Neosentience
Artist and media researcher Bill Seaman's term 'neosentience' describes a new branch of scientific inquiry related to artificial intelligence. This book focuses on the work of Seaman and theoretical physicist Otto E. Rossler in exploring the potential of an intelligent robotic entity possessed of...
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Trends in Functional Programming Volume 10
Volume 10 in the Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) series presents some of the latest research results in the implementation of functional programming languages and the practice of functional programming. It contains a peer-reviewed selection of the best articles presented at the 2009 Tenth ...
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Why I Buy
Why do we buy? How do our acts of - and ideas about - consumption impact our selves, our institutions and our societies? Why I Buy explains how consumption came to give meaning and value to social and personal life. Gabriel offers an analysis of the psychological roots of the American consumer so...
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Morality by Design
The eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism. Wade Rowland first introduces readers to the basic ideas of leading moral thinkers from Plato to Leibniz to Putnam, and then explores the subject thr...
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The Exciting Life of Being a Woman
The feminist survival manual you wish you had read as a teenager. It is written by Feminist Webs, a cross-generational youth project for girls and young women based in Manchester, UK. Many of their resources are not geographically specific.
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Visual Communication
Whether we’re driving on the interstate highway or trying to find a new restaurant in the city, posted signs are our primary tools for navigating the world. In Visual Communication, Harry Jamieson offers a thorough analysis of this important form of communication and investigates the in...
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World Film Locations: Shanghai
World Film Locations: Shanghai celebrates Shanghai’s rich cinematic history, covering films from the 1930s to 2013. With essays that reflect the city’s relationship to film and scene reviews of iconic titles, this book shows the cosmopolitan glamour through locations steeped in cinematic exoticis...
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Musicals
Collection of essays seeks to initiate a new critical debate by approaching classic Hollywood films from perspectives such as musicology. Examines the ways in which European cinema appropriated the musical to create new meanings, and the influence of the musical on youth culture, modern dance mov...
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Iranian Cinema and Globalization
Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences, Iranian cinema has been the subject of lamentably few academic studies – and those have by and large been limited to the films and filmmakers most visible on the international film circuit. Iranian Cinema and Global...
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Stephen King on the Big Screen
From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. In Stephen King on the Big Screen, Mark Browning addresses the question of why some of the film adaptations of the world’s best-selling author are much more successful than others.By...
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Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter
Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter is a journey – yes, a magical one – through one of the largest fanbases of all time and its efforts to ensure that The Boy Who Lived would live forever.
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3D Cinema and Beyond
This book brings together essays that engage with mainstream entertainment, experimental film and historical scholarship as part of a larger context for examining the grammar of 3D cinema, its histories and its futures. From cinema and television to video games and augmented reality, the essays c...
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International Dialogues about Visual Culture, Education and Art
Although art is taught worldwide, art education policies and practices vary widely and there are few opportunities for teachers to exchange information. This book brings together perspectives on teaching art to forge an understanding of the challenges facing art educators by examining global view...
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World Film Locations: Glasgow
World Film Locations: Glasgow explores Scotland’s biggest city and the many locations in which its films are viewed, set and shot. Taking in the important moments and movements in its rich cinematic history, this book seeks to discover the city’s culture, character and comedy through its cinemati...
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China's Environment and China's Environment Journalists
Environmental issues are of growing concern in China, with numerous initiatives aimed at encouraging dialogue and increasing awareness. And key to these initiatives is the environmental journalist. The first English-language study of this burgeoning field, this book investigates Chinese environme...
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Feminist Ethics in Film
This book explores a varied group of cinematic narratives from the perspective of care-based ethics. The interpersonal relationships portrayed disclose important dimensions of care that have been overlooked in less contextualized discussions. The book examines the relationships between care and c...
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Performing Processes
Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and scholars in Drama with new insights on performance from poetry to pantomime. These essays make par...
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The Philosophical Actor
There have been many books published on acting, actor training and practical theories for preparing for a role, but none of these books have ever looked philosophically at the language and the concepts that we use when we talk about acting. The Philosophical Actor is the first attempt to grapple ...
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New Flows in Global TV
Although TV distribution has undergone a massive increase in volume and value over the past fifty years, there is a systematic lack of both curiosity and knowledge on the part of both industry and scholars about this area. This book assists in the filling of this gap by studying what, in fact, oc...
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Public Spheres After Socialism
Public Spheres After Socialism challenges the idea of public spaces being associated with urban environments in light of the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This book examines monuments, reconstruction, film and new media to ask whether public spaces are viable in ...
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MASKS
This interdisciplinary anthology explores the complex relationships in an artist’s life between fact and fiction, presentation and existence, and critique and creation, and examines the work that ultimately results from these tensions.
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World Film Locations: New Orleans
World Film Locations: New Orleans features essays that reflect on the city’s long-standing relationship with the film industry. Among the topics discussed are popular depictions of Hurricane Katrina on film, the prevalence of the supernatural in New Orleans cinema and recent changes to city ordin...
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Architecture Filmmaking
This book investigates the ways in which architectural researchers, teachers of architecture, their students and practising architects, filmmakers and artists are using filmmaking uniquely in their practice.
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Life at the End of Life
Life at the End of Life explores how art can provide a means for rendering otherwise abstract, personal and spiritual experiences vividly concrete and communicable, even as they remain open-ended and transcendent. Brennan shows how artistic expression can offer valuable aesthetic and metaphysical...
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The Idea of the Avant Garde
The first volume of The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today provided a lively forum on radical art theory and partisan practices. This second volume presents the work of another 50 artists and writers, exploring the diverse ways that avant-gardism develops reflexive and experimental...
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Understanding the Global TV Format
Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world. Under the new market conditions of the multi-channel cluster brought about by new technologies and increased privatization of service, the adaptation of successful and popular...
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European Media Governance
European governments are ceding control of national media to international organizations. European Media Governance investigates how the print, broadcast, film and advertising industries lobby in Brussels. Offering an analysis of media-related debates that affect future Europeans, this volume is ...
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The Exile of Britney Spears
What we consume matters: a conclusion that is making more sense as sustainability and eco-responsibility become part of our everyday cultural conversations. What we fail to realize is that we consume – unconsciously, continually and, at times, violently – much more than food. The Exile of Britney...
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Visual Cultures
Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland and Slovenia. The content is not only analytic,...
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Amateur Images and Global News
Modern technology has enabled anyone with a digital camera or cell phone to capture images of newsworthy events, and news organizations around the world depend on these images for their coverage of unfolding events. This book considers the ethical and professional issues that arise with the use o...
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The Punk Reader
The first offering in Intellect’s new Global Punk series, The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global is the first edited volume to explore and critically interrogate punk culture in relation to contemporary, radicalized globalization.
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Locality, Regeneration & Divers[c]ities
As British cities lose the cultural connections with their industrial past, many seek to build new postindustrial futures through urban regeneration. Art projects play a key role in policymaking that aims to regenerate neglected neighbourhoods. This study focuses particularly on the ways in which...
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World Film Locations: Rome
This volume explores the city of Rome, which has served as the setting for countless memorable films, spanning all genres and emotions. Readers are taken on a journey through the city with stops at key locations. A carefully selected compilation of films is complemented by essays that further exa...
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Black Swan Lake
Tracing the life of the plants and animals of Forrestdale Lake through the six seasons of the local indigenous people, the first part of Black Swan Lake presents a wetlands calendar over a yearly cycle of the rising, falling and drying waters of this internationally important wetland in south-wes...
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Australian Film Theory and Criticism
The first part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy.
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