World-wide-walks

This book presents Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and changes in climate.

Directory of world cinema: american independent 2

Newly revised and expanded, the Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2 includes 150 reviews of significant American independent films – from such cult classics as Faces, My Hustler, and Supervixens to recent releases like Drive, Mysterious Skin, and Win Win – interviews with influentia...

Sam peckinpah

Director Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) never won an Oscar. His filmography is short and uneven, and his movies have never found a wide audience. Despite this, many filmmakers today – including Tarantino and Scorsese – count him as a major influence. Sam Peckinpah, edited by Fernando Ganzo, investigat...

Digital radio in europe

Radio, the oldest form of electronic broadcasting, has thus far lagged behind TV in the push to go digital, but efforts have been underway for over twenty years in Europe to create digital platforms for radio. Drawing on extensive cross-national research, this volume offers the first comprehensiv...

The hour of all things and other plays

This book presents four plays by Caridad Svich that explore the rough waters of citizenship under the pressure of globalization and the threads of human connection across multiple geographic landscapes. Featuring essays by practitioners such as Zac Kline, this book refuses to pretend that the com...

World film locations: vancouver

World Film Locations: Vancouver offers insight into how the city functions as the fourth largest film and television production center in North America. This book provides new perspectives on the relationship between the movies and the metropolis, using analyses of different film scenes and spotl...

Danish directors

This collection profiles canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, featuring interviews with Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and more. It poses questions that engage with issues within film studies to stimulate debate. Each interview is preceded by the director’s photograph, ...

Anne bean

Anne Bean: Self Etc. is the first major monograph about the performance work of artist Anne Bean, a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. Part of the Intellect Live series, co-published with the Live Art Development Agency, this book includes extensive visual d...

World film locations: london

From Terror on the Underground to Thames Tales to Richard Curtis's affectionate portrayal of the city in Love Actually, this user-friendly guide explores the diversity and distinctiveness of films shot in location in London.

Directors & designers

Directors and Designers explores the practice of scenography – the creation of perspective in the design and painting of stage scenery – and offers new insight into the working relationships of the people responsible for these theatrical transformations. With contributions from leading practition...

Islamic architecture on the move

This book brings together scholars from architectural studies, design, art history and other fields to challenge and expand concepts of Islamic architecture. Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this volume raises key questions about Islamic architectur...

Australian film theory and criticism

A three-volume project tracing key critical positions, people and institutions in Australian film, Australian Film Theory and Criticism interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but also its relationships to adjacent disciplines and institutions. The second volume in the series,...

Context providers

Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are challenging and changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of artists as context providers – people who establish networks of information in a highly collaborative c...

Cinemas of the other

Updated collections of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia and the Middle East, these two new geospecific editions expand upon the earlier volume Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from the Middle East and Ce...

Fan phenomena: mermaids

Fan Phenomena: Mermaids explores the centuries-old interest in mermaids. Mermaids, and merfolk more generally, are everywhere you look: parades, virtual reality, fiction, art, trends and swimming with a mermaid tail. Transgenerational merfolk fan communities stretch around the world - from sea to...

Spatialities

Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture draws on a distinguished panel of artists, cultural theorists, architects and geographers to offer a nuanced conceptual framework for understanding the ever-evolving spatial orderings that materially constitute our world. With chapters coverin...

Empirical studies of programmers

Drama-based pedagogy

Drama-Based Pedagogy examines the mutually beneficial relationship between drama and education, championing the versatility of drama-based teaching and learning designed in conjunction with the classroom curriculum. Written by seasoned educators and based upon their own extensive experience in di...

Passion of the reel

Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reel provides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe shows that, far from an empty receptacle for colonial legacies, Cameroon – and Africa – m...

Roof watching

The aim of the Watching series is to draw attention to some of the very interesting items around us, things that perhaps we don't notice as much as we might. The first was Bridge Watching, and when this was put "on the Net" it produced, to the surprise of the author, such a pleasant flood of e-ma...

Expertise and architecture in the modern islamic world

Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders throughout the world, departing from a narrative that casts European actors as the importers and exporters of Islamic designs and skills. Lo...

Advances in logic programming and automated reasoning

This is the first volume of a series concerned with new research contributions of the methods of logic in computer science. Contributions from leading researchers and practitioners are included in this volume. This series is designed to stimulate and sustain new, productive lines of investigation...

The cultural practice of immigrant filmmaking

Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book analyses 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson consider the creativity that lies in the state of exile, offering analyses of over 50 rarely seen immigra...

Technology and desire

The spectral realm at the boundaries of images incessantly reveals a desire to see beyond the visible and its medium: screens, frames, public displays and projection sites in an art context. The impact of new media on art and film has influenced the material histories and performances (be they in...

Design and digital interaction

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...

Clown through mask

Richard Pochinko (1946–89) played a pioneering role in North American clown theatre through the creation of an original pedagogy synthesizing modern European and indigenous Native American techniques. In Clown Through Mask, Veronica Coburn and onetime Pochinko apprentice Sue Morrison lay out the ...

Human factors in information systems

Creative intelligences

Fashion in popular culture

When we open our closet doors each morning, we seldom consider what our sartorial choices say, whether we tend toward jeans and a well-worn concert t-shirt or wingtips and a three-piece suit. Yet, how we dress divulges more than whether we crave comfort or couture; our clothing communicates who w...

Reverberations across small-scale british theatre

Between 1960 and 2010, a new generation of British avant-garde theatre companies, directors, designers and performers emerged. By questioning what 'Britishness' meant in relation to the small-scale work of these practitioners, contributors articulate how it is reflected in the goals, manifestos a...

Screen education

In Screen education, Terry Bolas provides the first definitive history of the development of film and television studies in Britain, from its origins as a grassroots movement to its current status as serious scholarship. The focus is on the United Kingdom, where the development mirrors that of fi...

Aestheticizing public space

A photo-collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through their graffiti, street art, and other visual forms in public space. 

Double exposures

A new collaborative venture between Manuel Vason and 40 of the most visually arresting artists working with performance in the United Kingdom, Double Exposures brings together newly commissioned images and essays to explore new ways of bridging performance and photography. Ten years after Vason's...

The howff project

The Howff Project is an exploration of artist Tim Knowles’s network of hidden, site-specific shelters across the Scottish landscape. The book also features an essay on shelter by anthropologist Tim Ingold, a survey of existing alternative, hidden or secret shelters and a text by Claudia Zieske ex...

Framing film

In Framing Film, Steven Allen and Laura Hubner use a selection of diverse texts to explore the relationships between cinema and visual arts. They consider a range of visual arts media, including posters, paintings, photography, comic books and production design to emphasize the ability of visual ...

Fan phenomena: marilyn monroe

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn Monroe was an actress, singer, and sex symbol whose influence far outlasted her short life. These essays explore representations of Monroe in visual culture by looking at the ways she is reimagined in visual art and considering how her posthumous appearance and...

Sophia loren

In films from Houseboat to The Millionairess to Two Women, Sophia Loren established herself as an actress whose stardom spanned Italy, Europe, and finally Hollywood. Hers was a highly original rise to fame for a European film actress, and in Sophia Loren, Pauline Small highlights a unique career ...

Directory of world cinema: africa

Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at African film as representing Africa for its o...

Machine-tractable dictionaries

World film locations: los angeles

World Film Locations: Los Angeles is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-colour fil...

Narrating the catastrophe

This book guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where 'being' is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa creates an alternative perspective from whic...

Advances in connectionist and neural computation theory vol. 2

Language and marginality

Linguistics is a huge discipline with many sub-fields, many of which drift towards, and often overlap with, the primary concerns of cultural studies. In general, however, linguistics is concerned with the deconstruction of language itself, with the nuts and bolts (phonetics, morphology, syntax, l...

By accident or design

In this reflective autobiography, Rosemary Sassoon, a leading expert on handwriting and typography, looks back on her long and varied career, paying special attention to her unorthodox progression through a variety of fields. She details the route that took her from design to the educational and ...

Crossing gender boundaries

This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments – how dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender – the chapters investigate gender issues t...

Selling war

This book is the first collection of essays to explore the changing relationships between war, media and the public from a multidisciplinary perspective and over an extended historical period. It is also the first textbook for students in this field, discussing a wide range of theoretical concept...

Consensus politics in spain

The success of the Spanish transition to democracy has made it a classic case study for students and theorists of political change. This is the first book in English to present the perspectives of influential contemporary leaders who were actively involved in the process of reform, and to highlig...

Trends in functional programming volume 7

The making of an artist

What drives an artist to create? And are there common traits that successful artists possess? In The Making of an Artist, Kristin G. Congdon draws on her years of studying and teaching art at all levels – from universities to correctional settings – to identify three traits that are regularly fou...

Montréal chic

Montréal Chic is the first book to document Montréal's fashion scene and its connection to the city's design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud use their firsthand knowledge of the city's fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes ...

Engineering artificial intelligence software

This book is aimed at the computer-literate person interested in the reality of exploiting the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in practical, maintainable software systems. It cuts through the hype, so commonly associated with discussions of AI, and presents the realities, both the promise...

Directions and implications of advanced computing

Freaks of history

Freaks of History presents two dramatic explorations of disability within the wider themes of sexuality, gender, foreignness and the Other. MacDonald recognizes that disability narratives are rarely written by and for disabled people. Therefore his plays, accompanied by critical essays and direct...

Dance and authoritarianism

How dance and mass movement are used as a political tool by political regimes, especially authoritarian governments, as a way of showing symbolic mass support for the regime. Such regimes require spectacle to present them as protectors of the ethnic and national identities of their subjects, repr...

Trends in functional programming volume 3

This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners in the field of functional programming. The work presented here covers many aspects of the field, including: language design  proof and transformation semantics and models implementation type systems parallelism and distribution pe...

From nwico to wsis: 30 years of communication geopolitics

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an...

Artus 2011-2012

artUS Magazine collects international art criticism and is celebrated for its critical vigor and uncompromised perspective. Presenting new art reviews, essays, and features covering global contemporary art scenes and cultures, the magazine has gained a loyal following among scholars of internatio...

Using art as research in learning and teaching

Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts...

The anarchist cinema

This book examines the complex relationships that exist between anarchist theory and film. No longer hidden in obscure corners of cinematic culture, anarchy is a theme that has traversed arthouse, underground and popular film. 

Computers and society

"How do we ensure that computers are used for socially beneficial purposes, particularly in an age when market forces are the major arbiter of human affairs?" This book is a reponse to this very important question. The papers represent an integration of research into technological and social asp...

Film studies in china 2

The second volume in Intellect’s Film Studies in China series, this is a collection of articles selected from issues of the journal Contemporary Cinema, translated into English. The goal of publishing this journal in English is to enable in-depth exchanges about film policy, global culture and fi...

Empirical studies of programmers

World film locations: barcelona

Barcelona is one of the world’s most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaudí, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all over the world – among them Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar and Michelangelo Antonioni – have set their ...

Orphan black

This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of the hit television series Orphan Black and the questions it raises for performance and technology, gender and reproduction and biopolitics and community. Contributors come from a range of backgrounds and explore the digital innovations and techni...

Inspiring writing in art and design

When art and design students are asked for statements to accompany their work, reflective journals, or critiques, reviews and essays, they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing. Although these students are comfortable expressing themselves visually, they lack confide...

Journalism, society and politics in the digital media era

This volume of research papers provides a scientific and critical assessment of the impact of the modern digital media era on our societies, communities and practices in diverse sociopolitical landscapes. It presents evidence, theories, practices and arguments that can lead to a literate and bett...

Searching for art's new publics

Drawing on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators and academics, this book explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences. It bridges the gap between practice and theory, touches on issues of relational aesthetics and offers ...

Image critique and the fall of the berlin wall

Although we are now accustomed to watching history unfold live on the air, the fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the first instances when history was produced on television. Inspired by the Wall and its powerful resonances, Sunil Manghani’s breakthrough study presents the new critical concept of...

Disaster capitalism

This book includes three full-length plays by award-winning dramatist Rick Mitchell: Shadow Anthropology, a dark comedy about the US occupation of Afghanistan; Through the Roof, a Faustian trip through the social history of natural disaster in New Orleans; and Celestial Flesh, a sacrilegious romp...

Havana street style

Havana Street Style is the first book that explores and reveals the relationship between culture, city and street fashion in Cuba’s capital. Matching visual ethnography with critical analysis, the book documents a unique street style few in the United States have yet experienced.

Field notes on the visual arts

In Field Notes on the Visual Arts, 75 scholars, curators and artists traverse chronology and geography to reveal the meanings and dilemmas of art. 

Artificial intelligence and education, volume one

The second international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education was held in September, 19851 at Exeter University, United Kingdom.The two years marking the period to the third conference at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh, USA, have witnessed significant growth in the research communi...

Tech-noir film

From the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner to the James Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and lit...

South african cinema 1896-2010

Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present. Thoroughly researched and fully documented by renowned film...

Connectionist natural language processing

Connectionism is a new information-processing paradigm which attempts to imitate the architecture and process of the brain and brings together researchers from disciplines as diverse as Computer Science, Physics, Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, Engineering, Neuroscience and AI. Work in Connecti...

Writing as a visual art

Writing as a Visual Art offers a revolutionary approach to writing by exploring a visual and multidimensional experience that is fun and common to people's experience. Clearly written and liberally illustrated chapters show writing text as akin to creating a drawing or painting, or designing a st...

Critical studies in fashion and beauty

Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty brings together articles from the first volume of this cutting-edge journal – which is also the first of its kind in the field. Taken together, the pieces collected here offer a snapshot of critical debate in fashion, a growing area of scholarly interest. ...

Directory of world cinema: iran

This addition to Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of that nation. A wide range of genres are presented, including comedy, Film Farsi, new wave, children’s films, art house film and women’s cinema. For the film studies scholar, students w...

West country history

Thomas Hardy was born there, Sir Walter Raleigh chose to live there and Lawrence of Arabia is buried there. With so many great figures shaping its history, it is unsurprising that Dorset should provide such fascinating stories from eminent leaders like Alfred the Great and Charles II to notable ...

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 ...

New trends in argentine and brazilian cinema

As part of a raft of neoliberal economic reforms in the early 1990s, Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello and Argentine president Carlos Menem eliminated long-standing state financial support for cinema. National film production, distribution and exhibition were deeply affected by the abs...

Directory of world cinema: germany

Directory of World Cinema: Germany aims to offer a wider film and cultural context for the films that have emerged from Germany. With contributions by leading academics and emerging scholars in the field, this book explores the key directors, themes and periods in German film history. Rounding ou...

Development through technology transfer

Technology transfer is shown to be more complicated than a handover of new hardware to developing countries. This book covers the practical issues of the transfer, including product, process, cost reduction and more, and also integrates an analysis of theories of innovation to identify key stages...

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.

Virtuality and the art of exhibition

Digital technologies play an increasingly instrumental role in guiding the curatorial and institutional strategies of contemporary art museums. Designed around contextual studies of virtuality and the art of exhibition, this interdisciplinary volume applies practice-based research to a broad rang...

A compendium of machine learning i

Intelligent tutoring systems

The english language in europe

Cultures and settlements

This volume considers the making of a settlement as a process of identity formation. Taking the position that a culture signifies a way of life, it asks how cultural frameworks inform patterns of settlement, and how the built environment, as process and design, conditions cultural production and ...

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...

World film locations: melbourne

World Film Locations: Melbourne serves as a guide to films set wholly or partially in one of Australia’s most diverse and culturally important cities. Offering analyses of iconic scenes, essays on key directors, recurring themes, notable locations, photographs, film stills and city maps, the cont...

Binding time

This book is a collection of related but independent essays. Such books are notoriously hard to classify-a fact that alarms me, since they thereby become hard to shelve, review, and sell. And so I imagined, when I first conceived the idea of collecting them, that I would have to devote some consi...

The baroque technotext

An analysis of the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics in technotexts, reframing critical debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age of print. Works by Jonathan Safran Foer, Chris Ware and David Clark are investigated alongside other authors and media such as d...

Directory of world cinema: china

Directory of World Cinema: China presents an accessible overview of the definitive films of Hong Kong and mainland China, with particular attention to the achievements of prolific industry figures, the burgeoning independent sector and the embrace of avant-garde practices of art cinema. Spanning ...

Saudade in brazilian cinema

The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia, which brings together love and grief, a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory, an absence. Saudade in Brazilian Cinema looks specifically at how this emotion is imagined on the screen.

Artificial intelligence: applications for business

Image understanding

Language, community and the state