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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.
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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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World Film Locations: Prague
Prague, the 'Hollywood of the East', has played an important role in the history of cinema and World Film Locations: Prague traverses the city’s topography to examine an internationally diverse range of movies made in the Czech capital: landmark early films such as Ecstasy, controversial due to t...
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Chapter 2
This chapter provides a broad overview of recent trends in the television industry and related business and policy challenges. The chapter stresses the very different national origins and histories of television production within Europe that have underpinned distinctive production ecologies. Part...
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Directory of World Cinema: East Europe
Part of the Directory of World Cinema series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as a...
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Advertising and Identity in Europe
As European business ties develop, how are they reflected in the way companies promote themselves? As our sense of group identity is broken down by global communications technologies, how do adverts target mass audiences? This volume is the first structured assessment of advertising's impact, in ...
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Governing Visions of the Real
This book traces the emergence, development and techniques of Griersonian documentary in New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Lars Weckbecker focuses on the productions of the National Film Unit in the 1940s and '50s, following the shifting practices and governmentality...
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Resetting the Stage
Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption. Resetting the Stage argues that public theatre is best served not by imitating its much larger commercial counterpart, but by asserting its artistic distinctiveness and...
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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...
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Wuthering Heights on Film and Television
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights has been adapted countless times for film and television over the decades. Valérie V.Hazette offers a historical and transnational study of adaptations, presenting the afterlife of the book as a series of cultural journeys that focuses as much on the readers, film...
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Throbbing Gristle
This book situates the British band Throbbing Gristle as both a lens and critical tool for England during the punk years and the Winter of Discontent. Using detailed archival research and testimony from key performances, it plots the impact and affective reach of the band. 20 b/w illus.
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International Horror Film Directors
Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together a group of scholars to explore the ways that this fear is utilized and played upon by a wide range...
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Configuring America
Elvis Presley. Marilyn Monroe. LeBron James. Like many cultural figures who hail from the United States, they are known all over the world. ConFiguring America provides a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody America’s tendency to produce celebritie...
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World Film Locations: Athens
A filmic guidebook of the Greek capital, World Film Locations: Athens takes readers to film locations in the central historical district, with excursions to the periphery of Athens – popular neighbourhoods, poor suburbs and slums often represented in postwar neorealist films – and then on to gard...
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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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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, ...
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Vanishing Points
Deftly deploying Derrida's notion of the 'unexperienced experience' and building on Paul Virilio's ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Points explores the aesthetic character of presence and absence as articulated in contemporary art, photography, film and emerging media.
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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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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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Architecture and the Virtual
Architecture and the Virtual is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists, working with the tools of our post-digital age.
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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...
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Dancing Across the Page
An innovative exploration of understanding through dance, Dancing Across the Page draws on the frameworks of phenomenology, feminism and postmodernism to offer readers an understanding of performance studies that is grounded in personal narrative and lived experience. Through accounts of contempo...
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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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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...
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Brian Ferneyhough
One of contemporary music's most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's music draws inspiration from painting, literature, philosophy and more. This book balances critical analysis of the music and close scrutiny of its aesthetic and philosophical contexts, also examining the ...
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Entering Transmasculinity
Entering Transmasculinity is a holistic study of the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape transgender identities. In the book, matthew heinz offers an examination of mediated and experienced transmasculine subjectivities and aims to capture the apparent contradictions that structure...
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Artist, Researcher, Teacher
Artist, Researcher, Teacher explores the relationship of three professional identities that often intersect in the lives of art practitioners, educators and students. Challenging conventional wisdom about specialization and professional identity, Alan Thornton shows that many individuals have c...
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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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Money Talks
Money Talks explores the ways the concepts of money and capital are understood and talked about by a range of people, from traders to ordinary investors, and how these accounts are framed and represented across a range of media. This collection brings together leading writers and emerging researc...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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Fan Phenomena: Jane Austen
Austen’s novels are inextricable from the culture, media and fans they have created. Essential reading for Austen’s legions of admirers, Fan Phenomena: Jane Austen collects essays from writers and critics that consider the culture surrounding Austen’s novels.
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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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Who's Who in Research: Film Studies
This volume of Who’s Who in Research series offer a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect’s subject area of Film Studies. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and research interests of hundreds of leading international academics as well as references to the researc...
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Art inSight
A first encounter with art is like meeting a stranger: it opens you to new ideas, people, places and parts of yourself. In Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters, Fanchon Silberstein delves into the first known art and explores what it can reveal about how its makers saw the world and ...
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Who's Who in Research: Visual Arts
Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. 'Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after,' noted the online magazine Inside Higher Ed in a recent article about research in the social sciences and humanities...
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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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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...
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Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace focuses on the music, the individual and the creativity of a worldwide community, a subject not often covered by academic books. Whether you were part of the scene or are just fascinated by different modes of expression, this book will transport you to another ti...
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Greek Cinema
Covering the silent era to the present, this wide-ranging collection of essays examines Greek cinema as an aesthetic, cultural and political phenomenon with the potential to appeal to a diverse range of audiences. Using a range of methodological tools, the authors investigate the ever-shifting fo...
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Broadway and West End Casting
When theatre audiences see Black actors or women portraying characters typically imagined or written as white or men should they ignore it or celebrate these nods to diversity? Should this casting be construed as a political statement or changing the plays’ meaning? A broad, informal overview of ...
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Critical Digital Art History
This anthology highlights emerging critical perspectives on digitization, computational methods and datafication in art history and the museum/heritage sector. The aim is to develop a deeper understanding of the theoretical and political aspects of the use of digital tools in these areas. 25b&...
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Performing with the Dead
A methodology for incorporating concepts drawn from ancestor trance in Afrolatinx ritual for actors trained in Western methods. Working toward an understanding of the performer’s lived experience while performing, drawing on knowledge of trance in Lukumí and Palo Monte and examining how the ontol...
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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...
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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...
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Designing and Conducting Practice-Based Research Projects
A practical guide to conducting practice-based research projects in the arts, specifically aimed at undergraduates and new researchers. This is a textbook aimed primarily at upper undergraduate and Master’s students, including practical guidance, examples, exercises, and further resources. 10 b&a...
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Connecting People, Place and Design
Connecting People, Place and Design examines the human relationship with place, how its significance has evolved over time and how contemporary systems for participation shape the places around us. This volume examines people, place and design across architecture, design, cultural studies, sociol...
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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...
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Modes of Spectating
Modes of Spectating investigates the questions posed by new artistic and technological mediums on the viewer experience. Oddey and White analyze how gaming and televisual media and entertainment are used by young people and the resulting psychological challenges of understanding how viewers navig...
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Punk & the Animal
This book explores synergies, crossovers, and alignments of punk thinking in terms of the animal. It includes contributions from leaders of the punk movement, chapters by artists, scholars of visual and popular culture, animal studies specialists, and others in artistic and art-affiliated discipl...
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Supernatural
Exploring the history, themes, production and fandom of Supernatural, this book shows how an unlikely cult fantasy drama became a global television phenomenon and a key example of the changing relationship between television, social media and participatory fan culture.
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Seinfeld
A loving and detailed tribute to legendary sitcom Seinfeld, examining its humour, cultural impact and enduring appeal through the history of comedy, everyday life and contemporary popular culture. Includes chapters on the show’s history and cast, relationship with Theatre of the Absurd, treatment...
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The Intellect Handbook of Class and Culture
Class and culture are mutually constitutive forces shaping all areas of life. This handbook offers a penetrating examination of their interaction across seven sections, ranging from theoretical foundations to emerging futures, integrating empirical analysis with theoretical depth, insisting on cl...
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The Performing Observer
Collection of short, critical writings on contemporary art, performance, and photography written over the course of two decades. These include essays and interviews, profiles and reviews. They were originally published in a variety of settings, including art magazines and exhibition catalogues, o...
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Student-Centered Musical Expertise
Explores how student-centred learning and expert musical instruction can be combined in popular music education. Introducing the Student-Centred Musical Expertise (SCME) framework, the book examines personalised approaches to instrumental teaching through theory, research, and classroom practice.
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Global Fashion Brands
Fashion branding is a process that needs to be analysed from a style, luxury and historical pop cultural view using critical, ethnographic, individualistic or interpretive methods. Contributors examine the meaning behind branding in the context of contested power relations underpinning the produc...
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Compassionate Communication
Explores communication as an existential choice between compassion and hostility. Drawing on communication studies, philosophy, history, and human rights scholarship, the book argues for compassionate communication as a foundation for care, responsibility, and human coexistence.
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Imaging the City
Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who investigate how we perceive the city, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we might better design it. The editors open up the field of urban analysis and thought to the perspectives of c...
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Streaming Across Media
Streaming services are central distributors of media content across music, film, television,games, audiobooks, ebooks and more. Increasingly, the boundaries between these media content categories are blurred. Streaming is a phenomenon that we can witness in multiple media sectors, connecting medi...
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Off Earth Atlas
A guidebook to the extraterrestrial. A compendium of short pieces from critical scholars in the social sciences, arts and humanities who provide a guide to the social worlds of outer space. The book bridges the critical social sciences, a wider public and space industry to think about outer space...
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After Ocoee
Beginning with the 1920 Ocoee Voting Massacre of African Americans and describing other lynching activities of the time, this book explores the ways in which art, storytelling, memory work, and public engagement can help communities confront histories of racial violence, pursue truth and justice,...
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WWE Raw
A study of WWE Raw as one of television's longest-running and most influential programmes, exploring how its evolution from cable broadcasting to global streaming reveals changing technologies, industries, audience cultures and the enduring nature of television itself.
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Filming the City
Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city. The book presents commentaries on particular films and their social and urba...
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
A study of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as a landmark work of post-network television, exploring its musical storytelling, narrative innovation, multilingualism, representation and enduring fan culture across production, reception and digital afterlives. Part of the TV Matters series.
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Remaking Perfect Strangers
An interdisciplinary study of Paolo Genovese’s Perfetti sconosciuti as a global remake phenomenon, exploring how translation, adaptation, and 'tradaptation' reshape themes of intimacy, secrecy, trust, and digital identity across diverse cinematic, cultural, and industrial contexts.
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Systems Play
Systems Play reveals how contemporary art and design use play to navigate complexity and uncertainty in interconnected systems. Through vivid case studies, it showcases how contemporary artists expand perception and offer blueprints for a more adaptable and humane world. 49 col. illus.
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Art Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
This collection examines contemporary art education across Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring curriculum, decolonisation, indigenous knowledge, apprenticeship, and creative practice. Bringing together perspectives from across the region, it considers the future of arts education in changing cultural a...
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Essay Film and Narrative Techniques
The collection explores various methods of screen-writing for essay film, through a diverse set of reflections and analyses of canonical and unconventional approaches of essay filmmaking and includes contributions from filmmakers and practice-led researchers. 40 illus.
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Sex on Stage
Sex on Stage examines how British playwrights, actors and directors brought women’s sexuality and gay and lesbian issues to the cutting edge of drama after World War II through a close reading of playwrights such as John Osborne, Harold Pinter, and Terence Rattigan.
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Far Field
Human understanding of the rapidly changing environments of the North and South Poles – and the realities of climate change – has been radically transformed by a host of innovations afforded by the digital technologies. Far Field presents essays from artists and scholars who address the shift in ...
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Reclaiming the Media
At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy. The main questions have now become whether the contemporary media conjuncture offers enough to our democracies, how their democratic investment can be deepened an...
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The Capitalist Imaginaries of Popular Music
Traditionally, popular music has long been said to intrinsically contest, resist and defy the powers that be. This new book challenges this long-standing orthodoxy, arguing that popular music more often participates in the social reproduction of the biggest power there is: neoliberal capitalism. ...
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Critical Filmmaking
An interdisciplinary exploration of critical filmmaking as creative practice research from current and former editors of audio visual journals, examining the journals, platforms, peer review systems, and institutional frameworks that have enabled moving-image work to emerge as a recognised mode o...
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Outside the System
This interdisciplinary edited collection captures documentary productions in the proximity of the eastern and southern hemispheres. It explores documentary making in various facets and forms at the tangents of institutions and screen industry with a focus on social and creative innovation in docu...
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The Intellect Handbook of Global Music Industries
This book presents a critical examination of the contemporary music industries, spanning artists, labels, platforms, live sectors, working practices, cultural policy and AI. Drawing on case studies from multiple regions, it explores the practices that shape creative work and commercial strategy a...
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Vernacular Theatre
A practical description of six intergenerational projects developed during a ten-year period. Over the course of the book, the author develops his argument for a form of civic drama that is accessible to all but rigorous in process. Based on work made with citizens of London and Hiroshima. 13 col...
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Reorienting Performance
Part artist’s book, exhibition catalog, documentation, scholarly inquiry, and mid-career retrospective, Reorienting Performance reframes how South Asian performance practices can be situated on Western concert stages, interrogating the ongoing Orientalization often imposed on artists living withi...
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Bad Religion
An interdisciplinary study of Bad Religion’s impact on punk and broader culture across a forty-five-year career, exploring punk as political critique, philosophy, pedagogy and cultural resistance through music, lyrics, activism and global cultural influence.
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Browser Art
The first major oral history of browser art, exploring how artists transformed the web browser into a medium for aesthetic, political, and technical experimentation across the histories of digital art, internet culture, and software aesthetics. It was developed within the research project Browser...
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Secretary to the People
Chronicling the evolution of Sheryl Oring’s ongoing project I Wish to Say. Since 2004, Oring has set up a public office to type dictated messages to the US president. Recording how analog communication fosters civic engagement in a digital age. Highlighting intersection of art, democracy and acti...
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