Film Studies in China

The first 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...

Playwriting and Young Audiences

From the success of Matilda on Broadway to the 2015 revival of Annie in movie theatres, it's clear that theatre with and for young people has widespread and enduring appeal. Despite this, there is no contemporary guide designed for playwriting for youth in professional and educational contexts. I...

Directory of World Cinema: American Independent

Directory of World Cinema: American Independent chronicles the rise of the independent sector as an outlet for directors who challenge the status quo, yet enjoy box office appeal. Key directors are interviewed, and a sizeable selection of films are referenced and reviewed. Copious illustrations a...

Radio Content in the Digital Age

The traditional radio medium has seen significant changes in recent years as part of the current global shift toward multimedia content, with both digital and FM making significant use of new technologies, including mobile communications and the Internet. This book focuses on the important role t...

Fan Phenomena: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

In Fan Phenomena: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Marisa C. Hayes brings together a diverse group of writers who explore the film’s influence on the development of the pastiche tribute film, emerging queer activism of the 1970s, glam rock style and the creative use of audience dialogue in recreati...

Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field

From an Eastern nation on the global periphery to a European neoliberal democracy enmeshed in transnational networks, Poland has experienced a dramatic transformation in the last century. Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field uses the lens – and mirror – of media art to think through the politics...

Directory of World Cinema: China 2

A survey of a vibrant – and expanding – industry, Directory of World Cinema: China 2 examines, among other themes, China’s desire for success and fulfilment in the United States, as well as the extensive history of representing China – and the Chinese in America – on US movie screens. With contri...

Artist Scholar

Artist Scholar is part history, introduction and discussion for artists and designers entering, graduating and employed by the contemporary art academy in the United States. Variables of craft, skill, technique, theory, history and criticism shift and expand as the perspective of arts-based resea...

Teaching Actors

Teaching Actors is the first book-length treatment of how actor trainers work and understand their work. Prior draws on history, literature and original research conducted across leading drama schools in England and Australia and devotes attention to the different ways in which teachers and stude...

Europe Faces Europe

This book examines Eastern European perspectives on European identity. The contributors map narratives of Europe rooted in Eastern Europe, examining their relationship to philosophy, journalism, social movements, literary texts, visual art and popular music. The essays explore how Europeanness is...

Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood 2

Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood 2 builds on its predecessor by exploring how the industry has evolved and expanded throughout its history. Touches on classic films such as North by Northwest and Dirty Harry, comedies such as When Harry Met Sally and Jerry Maguire and CGI blockbuster...

Throwing the Body into the Fight

Throwing the Body into the Fight is the first English-language publication dedicated to the German choreographer Raimund Hoghe. Curated and edited by Mary Kate Connolly, the book operates as a collage, drawing together a variety of international voices to create a fragmented portrait of the artist.

Picturing the Cosmos

Space is the ultimate canvas for the imagination. In the 1950s and ’60s, as part of the space race with the United States, the solar system was the blank page upon which the Soviet Union etched a narrative of conquest and exploration. In Picturing the Cosmos, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of ...

Photography, Narrative, Time

Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image by providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs. He applies contemporary research and theories to the analysis of photographs, using forensic photographs to argue for the centrality of the perception an...

Sparks of Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction

Performative Materials in Architecture and Design

This volume illuminates both the interaction of these technologies and the role of materiality in research, design and practice, and provides an overview of representative design projects and relevant theories.

Lure of the Big Screen

This book explores film exhibition and consumption in rural parts of the UK and Australia, examining how film theaters in areas of social and economic decline are sustained by resourceful individuals and sub-commercial operating structures. The systematic analysis of cinemas in these locations yi...

National Conversations

Public service broadcasting is in the process of evolving into 'public service media' as a response to the challenges of digitalization, intensive competition and financial vulnerability. While many commentators regard public service as being in transition, a central dimension of its mission - to...

The Virtual Classroom

The Only Way Home is Through the Show

Lois Weaver is one of the world's leading figures in feminist and lesbian performance, a true pioneer in the growing field. This book offers the first book-length assessment of her career and work, tracing its history, aesthetics, principles, inspirations, innovations, and more. Contributors incl...

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...

Britpop Cinema

Featuring exclusive interviews with key players such as Simon Pegg, Irvine Welsh, Michael Winterbottom and Edgar Wright, Britpop Cinema combines eyewitness accounts, close analysis and social history to celebrate a golden age for UK film.

Fundamentals of Expert Systems Technology

Communication Patterns and Textual Forms

This book provides a systematic, scientific explanation of natural language as well as the author's Communicative Positioning Program and Text Representation Systems (CPP-TRS) framework.  The framework is a visual language based on a highly articulated Theory of Text Comprehension and a related ...

Reframing Reality

The surrealist object is an everyday item that takes on multiple associations by provoking the viewer’s imagination. It also poses a specific challenge for some filmmakers who seek to apply surrealist ideas and approaches when making feature-length narrative films. In Reframing Reality, Alison Fr...

Italian TV Drama and Beyond

Television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society. Informed by the nation's historical and cultural heritage, the narratives offer insight into Italian society and competing versions of Italian identity, highlighting the wide array of television p...

Online Help Systems

Living and Sustaining a Creative Life

The 40 essays collected here in Living and Sustaining a Creative Life are written in the artists’ own voices and take the form of narratives, statements and interviews. Each story is different and unique, but the common thread is an ongoing commitment to creativity, inside and outside the studio....

Peter Weir

Peter Weir's three-decade creative journey from Australia to Hollywood is considered in light of the recent theories on transnational cinema and through an examination of four key films. The films' analyses integrate interviews with Weir and his closest collaborators. The book concludes that Weir...

Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage

An analysis of reality and 'the real' as presented in contemporary artistic creation, Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage examines the responses given by performing arts to the importance placed on reality beyond representation. This book proposes four historic itineraries defined by th...

Computers and Typography

Cultural Quarters

The book offers a concise illustration of how cultural practice is maintained and expanded within an urban environment. This single volume, packed with detail, can be used in higher education courses to support the study of cultural policy, management and regeneration.

From Syntax to Semantics

British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s

This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s. Drawing upon archival research, it does this by exploring the development of the early cinema programme on television - principally Current Release (BBC, 1952-3), Picture Parade (BBC, ...

Sistershow Revisited

Sistershow Revisited uses the antics of a Bristol-based theatre group to tell the history of feminism in Bristol 1973–75.

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...

Invisible Country

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century marked a tumultuous period in Poland’s history, with artists and writers working under difficult sociopolitical conditions. This book contains the first English-language translations of four plays by Polish writers in the modernist tradition: Snow b...

Three Myths of Internet Governance

The Internet is a global medium that defies and sometimes even replaces established media, yet our understanding and ideas surrounding it are largely derived from Internet usage in the USA. This book draws on European and African examples to challenge three established myths about the Internet: t...

The Mobile Nation

Drawing from the methodologies of literature, film studies, cultural studies, feminist theory and history, The Mobile Nation explores consumer culture in Spanish media, mass tourism and the national automobile manufacturing industry from 1954 to 1964 and offers valuable insight to postmodern Spai...

Progress in Neural Networks, Volume Six

Neural network applications have had tremendous growth in the last few years, and pattern recognition played a key role in many areas. One of the more focused areas is shape recognition. The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a fresh perspective on the research. 

The Danish Directors 2

The Danish Directors 2 provides a practitioner’s perspective on the social, cultural and economic milieus in which Danish filmmakers have been able to develop their practice and to thrive. It includes insider information about the making, marketing and distribution of award-winning films, and int...

Trends in Functional Programming Volume 2

Sydney Street Style

Style is predominantly an individual matter – the way people put themselves together creates a sense of individual identity – but collectively it creates a sense of common culture in a community, a city or a country. Geographically isolated from the fashion hubs of Paris and New York, Australia...

'Avant-garde' Art Groups in China, 1979-1989

This book gives a critical account of four of the most significant avant-garde Chinese art groups and associations of the late 1970s and ’80s. It is made up largely of conversations conducted by the author with members of these organizations that provide insight into the circumstances of artistic...

The Morality of Mrs. Dulska

Gabriela Zapolska was an actor, journalist and playwright. Her best-known play, The Morality of Mrs. Dulska, is an uncompromising look at gender, class and relationships in fin-de-siècle Poland. The play is now available for the first time in an English-language edition that firmly situates the p...

World Film Locations: Havana

Havana is among the world’s leading cinematic locales. In films made beyond the island as well as those created by local cineastes, Havana is depicted as a vibrant Caribbean city. The quantity and quality of the works representing this tropical cityscape attest to the prominence of this film loca...

The Art and Science of Computer Animation

Finding the Right Place on the Map

Finding the Right Place on the Map is an international comparison of the media systems and democratic performance of the media in post-communist countries. From a comparative east-west perspective, this groundbreaking volume analyzes issues of commercial media, social exclusion, and consumer capi...

Images and Identity

Highlighting the ways that digital media can be used in interdisciplinary curriculum, Images and Identity brings together ideas from art and citizenship teachers in the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Portugal and the United Kingdom on producing online curriculum materials. It will be of...

Children and Propaganda

Europe in Black and White

The essays in this book offer new critical perspectives on race, immigration and identity on the Old Continent. In reconsidering the various forms of encounters with difference, the contributors address a number of issues, including the cartography of postcolonial Europe. It features scholars fro...

Handwriting of the Twentieth Century

As letter-writing has fallen by the wayside, the art of lavish yet legible handwriting is no longer being taught to schoolchildren or employed in daily life—much to the dismay of those who receive hastily scrawled love notes or try to decipher a doctor’s prescription. In an age when script manual...

Educating Film-makers

Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact and significance of film education in Britain, Europe and the United States. Film schools have historically focused on a film-maker's creativity, but recently placed a new emphasis on technical training. The authors examine co...