Fan phenomena: star trek

In this anthology, a panel of rising and established popular culture scholars examines the phenomenon of Star Trek fan culture and its most compelling dimensions. The resulting collection is both critical and respectful, capturing the practices and attitudes of a fan culture that is arguably the ...

Progress in computer-aided vlsi design, volume three

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 ...

Design and the creation of social value

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...

Using media for social innovation

Presenting a number of case studies including campaigns dealing with young people, Indigenous peoples, human rights and environmental issues, this work looks at the guiding principles, assumptions, goals, practices and outcomes of experiments involving social innovation media.

The social use of media

This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice and participation in a cultural, political and technological sense. It also incorporates current au...

Digital dynamics in nordic contemporary art

An embracive, multi-perspective tour through and beyond Nordic artistic experiments, conceptual reconfigurations and new modes of artistic agency. Offering an in-depth exploration of art’s contingent evolution with technology and digital culture, this book goes far beyond familiar depictions of ...

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.

Downtown film and tv culture 1975-2001

Downtown Film and TV Culture, 1975–2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and filmmakers and explore the impact of the historic downtown scene on contemporary cult...

Politics of contemporary european cinema

How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of European cinema and extensively addresses questions like this. Mike Wayne identifies some key the...

Traumatic encounters in italian film

This book addresses the question of the relationship between psychoanalysis and film, bringing together Lacanian theory and Italian cinema. The author explores the relationship between the Real, the under-represented Lacanian category, and some of the most widely celebrated and lesser-known Itali...

Israel as a modern architectural experimental lab, 1948–1978

This collection discusses the innovative and experimental architecture of Israel during its first three decades following the nation’s establishment in 1948. The volume highlights new perspectives on the topic, discussing the inception, modernization and habitation of historic and lesser-research...

Cindy sherman's office killer

Office Killer, the only film by Cindy Sherman, one of the twentieth century's most significant artists, has failed to be critically examined. Dahlia Schweitzer explores the film on a variety of levels, arguing that it is only through a close reading of the film that we can begin to appreciate the...

Television courtroom broadcasting

Are witnesses, jurors or others in courtrooms distracted by in-court television cameras and their operators? Citing a lack of evidence one way or the other, the US Supreme Court has recommended additional research on the matter. Answering the court’s recommendation, this proof-of-concept study de...

Directory of world cinema: american independent 3

This third volume of the successful Directory of World Cinema series to focus on American independent filmmaking presents in-depth essays on forty-four filmmakers who have primarily worked outside the mainstream or on its industrial margins. Contributors offer close analyses of the work of both w...

Frontiers of screen history

Frontiers of Screen History is an edited collection that provides an insightful exploration into the depiction and imagination of European borders in cinema after the Second World War.

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.

Keepin' it real

Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America is a vibrant and eclectic collection of essays written during the most racially turbulent period of the modern era – the end of the Obama Administration and the start of the Trump Administration – that examine emerging racial tensions, curre...

Connecting metal to culture

Though it's given little attention – and even less serious attention – by the mainstream press, metal music has for decades been a major creative and cultural force around the world. This book brings together a group of contributors from Europe, North America and the Caribbean to make a case for ...

The critical eye

The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts – historical, generic, biographical and aesthetic. Lyle Rexer argues that by concentrating on just a few carefully chosen works ...

Dancing bahia

Dancing Bahia is an edited collection that draws together the work of leading scholars, artists and dance activists from Brazil, Canada and the United States to examine the particular ways in which dance has responded to sociopolitical notions of race and community, resisting stereotypes, and red...

Arts integration in education

Arts Integration in Education is an insightful, even inspiring investigation into the enormous possibilities for change that are offered by the application of arts integration in education. Presenting research from a range of settings, from preschool to university, and featuring contributions fro...

Media, monarchy and power

Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity? Media, Monarchy ...

Street scenes

Since 1989, Berlin has continued to be a city in transition. Bertolt Brecht's "Street Scene" model relies precisely on establishing a connection between art's functioning and everyday life. This book interrogates what kind of "life" is permitted to "flow" in the "new Berlin." It strives to establ...

Kinesthetic empathy in creative and cultural practices

Kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to experience empathy by observing another human being's movements. Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices offers innovative and critical perspectives on a variety of topics, encouraging readers to sidestep the methodological and disciplin...

Issues in curating contemporary art and performance

To stay relevant, art curators must keep up with the rapid pace of technological innovation as well as the aesthetic tastes of fickle critics and an ever-expanding circle of cultural arbiters. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance argues that, despite these daily pressures, good cur...

Walking, writing and performance

This collection charts three projects by performers who generate autobiographical writing by walking through inspirational landscapes. Included in the book are the full texts of The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside by Phil Smith, Mourning Walk by Carl Lavery, and Tree by Deirdre Heddon, each accom...

Pride and panic

Pride and Panic probes cinematic representations of the Russian national consciousness, a complex cocktail of fear, anger and anxious uncertainty. Hashamova examines the works of both established and lesser-known Russian directors, drawing parallels between evolving social attitudes in Russia and...

French costume drama of the 1950s

When political and civil unrest threatened France’s social order in the 1950s, French cinema provided audiences a seemingly unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France of the nineteenth and earlier centuries, with costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon...

Red sun and merlin unchained

Red Sun and Merlin Unchained are the most recent original stage works by one of the most accomplished yet neglected dramatists of our time. Red Sun is a two-hander, tightly tethered within the classical unities of theme and space and the span of a single day. Merlin Unchained is an explosive, mul...

Operations research and artificial intelligence

The art of defiance

The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti writers see their city and, in turn, how their city sees them. It explores how becoming a graffiti writer helps disenfranchised urban citizens negotiate their cultural identities, build their social capital and gain a voice within an...

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,...

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...

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...

A journey of art and conflict

A Journey of Art and Conflict is a deeply personal exploration of David Oddie's attempts to uncover the potential of the arts as a resource for reconciliation in the wake of conflict and for the creative transformation of conflict itself.

Teachers and teaching on stage and on screen

Portrayals of teachers in stage plays and films abound. This edited anthology brings together scholars in education to seriously reflect upon portrayals of teachers and teaching in theatre and film.

Advances in human-computer interaction volume 2

Applied drama

A companion to Intellect’s award-winning Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice, Applied Drama fulfils the need for an introductory handbook for facilitators and teaching artists working in community settings through dramatic process, drawing on the best practices...

Justitia

This book offers a series of compelling responses to the Jasmin Vardimon Company's production of Justitia, a multilayered, multimedia dance theatre piece. Through an innovative, visually annotated text, which includes the original script by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the book attempts to record the expe...

Photography from the turin shroud to the turing machine

This book compares two conceptual models for theorizing about photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. It explores new propositions about the theory of photography; the concept of quasi-photography; a unique model for photography as algorithmic art; and an interface between...

András visky’s barrack dramaturgy: memories of the body

This volume is a collection of plays created by András Visky, one of the most innovative voices in Hungarian theatre. Translated for English-language audiences, the book provides critical analyses, scripts, director's notes and interviews with creative teams behind the productions to reveal a hol...

Mediation and protest movements

Covering online and offline contexts, as well as mainstream and alternative media,  Mediation and Protest Movements bridges the gap between social-movement theory and media and communication studies, making this an important text for students and scholars of the media and social change.

Hypertext

Berlin school glossary

Berlin School Glossary is the first major publication to mark the increasing international importance of a group of contemporary German and Austrian filmmakers initially known as the Berlin School. This volume is organized as a glossary and is combined with an informative introduction that is ess...

Russia's new fin de siècle

This volume investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regard to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary cultu...

Confronting technopoly

In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'. This book brings together a number of contributors from different disciplinary perspectives to analyse technopoly both as a concept and as it is seen and understood in contemporary...

Women voice men

It for learning enhancement

Forms of representation

European media governance

A multitude of factors affect how the European media industry is governed, including commercialisation, concentration, convergence and globalisation. George Terzis’ collection, European Media Governance, is the first volume to concentrate on analysing and explaining how European countries are slo...

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 ...

Crash cultures

Since Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and scientific history of our responses to the car crash, as well as showing the personal impact of the crash on...

World film locations: tokyo

From Tokyo Story to Godzilla, World Film Locations: Tokyo presents a kaleidoscopic view of one of the world’s most exciting cities through the lens of cinema. Illustrated throughout with dynamic screen shots, this volume spotlights 50 key scenes from classic and contemporary films shot in Tokyo, ...

Staging ageing

Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates theatrical engagement with ageing. It also explores the relationship of the plays, performances and practices to the material, social a...

Creative communities

This is the first major collection to reimagine and analyze the role of the creative arts in building resilient and inclusive regional communities. Bringing together Australia's leading theorists in the creative industries, as well as case studies from practitioners working in the creative and pe...

Re-imagining the city

This book recasts how we understand cities – how knowledge can be formed, framed and transferred through cultural production and how that knowledge is mediated through the construction of aesthetic meaning and value.

European heritage planning and management

Directory of world cinema: belgium

This volume features contributions from leading Belgian and international film scholars. The essays examine the work and careers of the greatest names of Belgian cinema and investigate its lesser-known productions and intersections with Belgian art, history, literature, culture and the legacies o...

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...

Connectionism and meaning

Trends in functional programming volume 9

Fashion and ethics

Fashion and Ethics focuses on issues of power, social positioning and practices among creators, producers, practitioners, wearers and consumers of fashion. With a special emphasis on the moral fabric of clothing, contributors to the book offer a critique of some of the fundamental assumptions of ...

Composed theatre

A unique contribution to an emerging field, this book explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. It includes insightful essays by a group of international contributors and interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on histor...

The psychology of menu selection

The ned kelly films

The Ned Kelly Films recounts the nine feature films, three miniseries and two TV movies that have been made about this controversial character, Irish Australian outlaw Ned Kelly . The book offers new insights about the textual characteristics of cinematic material and the conditions of film distr...

Redefining theatre communities

Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities. It considers the aesthetic, social and cultural aspects of community-conscious theatre-making. It also reflects on transformations in structural, textual and theatrical conventions, and explores ch...

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. 

Modern argentine masculinities

Setting new standards in assessing how masculinity in Argentina has been represented in film, literature and music, this collection untangles Argentinian construction of masculinity, manhood and gendered difference from the nineteenth century to the present. With methodologies ranging from litera...

Cinema and landscape

The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary ...

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...

Robert frank's 'the americans'

In the mid-50s, Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs that resulted in The Americans, which represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. Jonathan Day revisits this wo...

Karaoke idols

Most ethnographers don’t achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver, Colorado, he went from barely able to carry a tune to someone whom other karaoke patrons requested to sing. Along the way, he learned everything you might ev...

#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. 

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...

Models of cognition

What's next?

By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What’s Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture...

Philosophical frameworks and design processes

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...

The postdigital membrane

The Postdigital Membrane explores the triad of imagination, technology and desire as they play upon each other. It offers fresh insights into the deeper problems of intelligence, reality and being human in order to map the emerging consciousness of the postdigital age.

The hidden words of baha'u'llah

Marcel

Fashion & war in popular culture

Aside from the occasional nod to epaulettes or use of camouflage, war and fashion seem to be strange partners. Not so, argue the contributors to this book, who connect military industrial practices as well as military dress to textile and clothing in new ways. For instance, the book includes a se...

The culture of photography in public space

A range of social, technological, and political issues converge in the rising anxieties and affect the practice, circulation, and consumption of public photography today. The Culture of Photography in Public Space collects essays and photographs that offer a new response to these restrictions, th...

Understanding higher education

The development of Higher Education is taking place at a phenomenal pace, and this book is set to be a guide for ALL the different groups of people who need to understand the consequences of the changes in the years to come.

Picturing immigration

Picturing Immigration offers a comparative study of the photojournalistic framing of immigrants in Greece and Spain. Going beyond traditional media analysis, it focuses on images rather than text to explore a host of hot topics, including media representation of minorities, immigration and stereo...

The world as information

This book takes a very broad view of information, and considers it as a phenomenon in its own right, rather than the technology for handling it. It is very much concerned with the meaning of information, and what we as individuals do with it.

Berliner chic

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style and is now a fashion showplace. Berliner Chic charts the stories of entrepreneurially-savvy manufacturers and cultural workers striving to establish their city as a fashion capital, and b...

Street fashion moscow

In this book, former Moscow resident Elena Siemens travels as an urban flâneur, taking photographs of contemporary fashion in action and setting it alongside explorations of modern and historic representations of fashion and beauty as seen in a wide variety of products of Russian culture. 

Allegorical images

This book provides a long-overdue introduction to Werner Schroeter’s visually lavish, idiosyncratic and conceptually rich cinema, situating it within the context of the West German television and film subsidy system during the 1970s, and engaging with some of the most pertinent and important argu...

Landscape and the science fiction imaginary

There has been plenty of scholarship on science fiction over the decades, but it has left one crucial aspect of the genre all but unanalysed: the visual. Ambitious and original, Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary corrects that oversight, making a powerful argument for science fiction as ...

The artist as culture producer

The Artist as Culture Producer illustrates how today's contemporary artists add to creative economies through out-of-the-box thinking while also generously contributing to the well-being of others. By turns humorous, heartbreaking and instructive, the testimonies of these forty diverse working ar...

Culture and contestation in the new century

This book of essays examines the conditions of cultural production in the first decade of the twenty-first century. With an emphasis on how current neoliberal policies have affected institutions of cultural production and dissemination, it highlights ensuing changes to critical theory and poses q...

The music of antônio carlos jobim

Antônio Carlos Jobim has been called the greatest of all contemporary Brazilian songwriters. He wrote both popular and serious music and was a gifted piano, guitar and flute player. One of the key figures in the creation of the bossa nova style, Jobim's music made a lasting impression worldwide, ...

Traces of the future

This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya and Tanzania. The authors aim to understand the afterlife of scientific institutions and practices and the 'aftertime' of scientific modernity and its a...

Fan phenomena: the big lebowski

From box office flop to one of the most successful cult films of all time, The Big Lebowski has spawned a multi-city festival, college-level courses and its own religion. This book examines how this it evolved from its underwhelming debut to attract a mass following. An essential companion for on...

The musical comedy films of grigorii aleksandrov

Grigorii Aleksandrov’s musical comedy films, created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing on studio documents, press materials, and interviews with surviving film crew members, The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov present...