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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

The wye plays

A first volume of plays by a startlingly ambitious and inventive dramatist. The Back of Beyond takes the route of a sequel to King Lear, in which the surviving Shakespearean characters set out on an odyssey through a perilous, blasted landscape. The Battle of the Crows extends and concludes the s...

European identity in cinema

The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution and exhibition and detailed critical analysis of specific films, directors, and national cinemas, th...

Don't look now

While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don’t Look Now uncovers forgotten but richly rewarding films, including Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now and the films of Lindsay Anders...

World film locations: helsinki

World Film Locations: Helsinki explores the relationship between the city, cinema, and Finnish cultural history. Cinematic representations of Helsinki range from depictions of a northern periphery to a space of cosmopolitanism, from a touristic destination to a substitute for Moscow and St. Peter...

Doctor who and race

Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television series in the world and is regularly watched by millions of people across the globe. While its scores of fans adore the show with cult-like devotion, the fan-contributors to this book argue that there is an uncharted dimension to Doctor...

New flows in global tv

New Flows in Global TV provides a pioneering investigation into television distribution worldwide and the global trade in television program formats. Topics include explorations of how shows like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Big Brother are reformatted for audiences in diverse markets such ...

The roots of modern hollywood

The Roots of Modern Hollywood studies the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films since 1969, drawing on Hollywood's trends and themes. Smedley explores capitalism, liberalism, pacifism and the treatment of women in Hollywood films. The book also includes interviews with directors Mi...

A divided world

The New Deal introduced sweeping social, political and cultural change across the United States, which Hollywood embraced enthusiastically. Then, when the heady idealism of the 1930s was replaced by the paranoia of the postwar years, Hollywood became an easy target for the anticommunists. A Divid...

The traumatic screen

The Traumatic Screen is a psychoanalytic study that considers the function and presentation of trauma in Christopher Nolan’s films. Using a methodological framework with references to Freud and Lacan, the author argues that Nolan’s films highlight the ways in which the cinema can provide specific...

Zapolska's women

This book features three of Gabriela Zapolska’s plays that focus on the economic and social pressures women faced in Poland at the end of the eighteenth century. In addition, the book includes a biography, an analysis of her significance within Polish and European literary and theatrical traditio...

The emergence of video processing tools volumes 1 & 2

This book presents the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s. Split over two volumes, the contributors examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations among inventors, designers and artists...

On stage

In On Stage, Mathilde Roman explores the resonances that fields of theatre – stage, décor, space, gaze and more  – have in the practice of video arts. Using these notions as points of reference and as a prism through which video installation can be approached, Roman concentrates on questions ofte...

Creativity, culture and commerce

This book provides an analysis of the creative, economic, regulatory and technological factors that shape the production of contemporary Australian children's television for digital regimes. It charts new settlements in children's television, describes challenges in producing culturally specific ...

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 ...

Locating the audience

How do audiences experience live performances? What is gained when a national theater is born? These questions and more are the subject of Locating the Audience—the first in-depth study of how people form relationships with a new theater company. Investigating the inaugural season of National The...

Women in european theatre

World film locations: new orleans

World Film Locations: New Orleans features essays that reflect on the city’s long-standing relationship with the film industry. Among the topics discussed are popular depictions of Hurricane Katrina on film, the prevalence of the supernatural in New Orleans cinema and recent changes to city ordin...

Brecht in l.a.

Bertolt Brecht, perhaps the most important dramatist/director/theorist of the twentieth century, is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university theatre departments, literature departments, and theatre-artist training programs throughout the world....

The artist as curator

Recently, the museum and gallery have become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators and its audience is subverted and democratised. Celina Jeffery brings together scholars and artists to explore the ways that artists have introduced new curatorial ...

Directory of world cinema: italy

Directory of World Cinema: Italy aims to offer a wide film and cultural context for Italian cinema’s key aspects, from political radicalism to opera, from the art house to popular cinema. Essays by leading academics about prominent genres, directors, and themes provide insight into the cinema of ...

Languages of theatre shaped by women

The authors explore a range of different approaches to the languages of theatre, including translation and interpretation of the art form, along with languages, performance work, body language and gesture. Considered alongside the related social issues of race, class and dialect, the following qu...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Studies in french cinema

Looks at the development of French screen studies in the UK over the past twenty years and the ways in which innovative scholarship has helped shape the field in English- and French-speaking universities. Also a tribute to six key figures within the field: Jill Forbes, Susan Hayward, Phil Powrie,...

New irish storytellers

 New Irish Storytellers examines storytelling techniques and narrative strategies in contemporary Irish film. Revealing defining patterns within recent Irish cinema, this book explores connections between Irish cinematic storytellers and their British and American colleagues. 

From child art to visual language of youth

This collection provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old. In a series of studies, contributors reconsider evaluation practices used in art education and examine current ideas about children’s development of visual skill...

World film locations: boston

Boston has a rich tradition of cinematic representation. This book considers the full spectrum of Boston's abundant aesthetic potential, looking in depth into forty-six films that were filmed on location in the city. Presented at the intersection of critical analysis and visual critique, the film...

Directory of world cinema: france

This volume addresses the great directors and key artistic movements of France, but also ventures beyond these films and figures by examining many neglected but intriguing French films. Essays explore stylistic elements, cultural contexts and various conceptions of cinema in France. The book also...

The face on the screen

There was a time in screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image… The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the endless 'talking heads' of television and the ever-changing array of film stars' faces have reduced the ...

Alternative worlds in hollywood cinema

The use of alternate realities in cinema has been brought to new heights by such recent films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Donnie Darko. Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema is the first book to analyze these imaginary realms, tracing their construction and development across pe...

Directory of world cinema: american hollywood

Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood lays out the cinematic history of Tinseltown highlighting important thematic and cultural elements throughout. Profiles and analyses of many of the industry’s most talented and prolific directors give insights into their impact on Hollywood and beyond...

World film locations: florence

World Film Locations: Florence explores Florence as it is manifested in the minds of filmmakers and filmgoers. Contributors consider a wide range of topics and provide scene reviews of films to delve deeper into the makeup of the city, looking at both familiar and unfamiliar locations through the...

Diasporas of australian cinema

This volume is the first to focus exclusively on diasporic filmmaking and the rich cultural diversity within Australian cinema, and it contains previously unpublished articles by some of the foremost experts on Australian cinema in the world. Contributors to Diasporas of Australian Cinema discuss...

Through the prism of the senses

This book is a vital contribution to discussions surrounding research creation and the body in relation to digital media, highlighting the ways in which new technologies confront the sensate, somatic body.

(re)positioning site dance

Site-based dance performance and sited movement explorations implicate dance makers, performers and audience members in a number of dialogical processes between body, site and environment. This book aims to articulate international approaches to the making, performing and theorising of site-based...

Performing process

The chapters in this collection examine the methods, politics and philosophy of sharing choreographic process, aiming to uncover theoretical repercussions of and the implications for forms of knowledge, the appreciation of dance, education and artistic practices.

David cronenberg

For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. ...

Immigration cinema in the new europe

This book examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first-generation immigrants and children of the diaspora in Europe. It also theorizes immigration cinema in relation to notions such as gender, hybridity, transculturation, border c...

Directory of world cinema: japan 2

Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first instalment of Directory of World Cinema: Japan, this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favourites and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with new contributions from leading critics and ...

Directory of world cinema: britain 2

The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Britain provided an overview of British cinema from its earliest days to the present. In this, the second volume, the contributors focus on specific periods and trace the evolutions of individual genres and directors.

Directory of world cinema: turkey

Taking themes of gender, genre, cultural memory and (trans)national identity as its starting point, this book – the first English-language directory of Turkish films – provides an extensive historical overview the country’s cinema since the early 1920s. The resulting volume, which includes a comp...

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.

World film locations: las vegas

World Film Locations: Las Vegas goes beyond the clichés of Sin City to examine what Hal Rothman and Mike Davis called 'the grit beneath the glitter', thus providing an opportunity to find out more about the unique position Vegas occupies in the popular imagination.

Directory of world cinema: latin america

Bringing together contributions by leading experts and emerging young scholars, the Directory of World Cinema: Latin America offers a comprehensive overview of the region's diverse films. It features reviews of important recent films, a filmography, and recommendations from an array of genres. Wi...

Reinventing public service television for the digital future

Since the 1980s there has been much speculation about the demise of public service television, initially because of the advent of cable and satellite television and the variety of entertainment channels they offer. While the proliferation of global niche media might seem to accelerate the demise ...

Christoph schlingensief

The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activism, opera and theatre. Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders is the first book to be published in English on Schlingensief’s groundbreaking, pol...

Drive in cinema

In this book, Marc James Léger presents Žižek-influenced studies of films made by the most influential filmmakers of our time, including Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, William Klein, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Harmony Korine and more. 

The visceral screen

Narrative and spectacle describe two extremes of film content, but the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg resist such categorization. Instead, Robert Furze argues, the defining characteristic of these directors’ respective approaches is that of 'visceral' cinema – a term that illustr...

Inclusion in new danish cinema

Often recognized as one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark, like its Scandinavian neighbors, is known for its progressive culture, which is also reflected in its national cinema. It is not surprising, then, that Danish film boasts as many successful women film directors as men, uses ...

World film locations: berlin

One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exuberance, devastation, division and reconstruction. World Fil...

The film paintings of david lynch

This book addresses director David Lynch's films from the perspective of the relationship between commercial film, avant-garde art and cultural theory. It offers a unique perspective on the director, weaving together a range of theoretical approaches to Lynch's films to make new connections among...

World film locations: singapore

Covering the myths that surround Singaporean film and exploring the realities of the movies that come from this exciting city, World Film Locations: Singapore introduces armchair travellers to a rich, but less known, national cinema.

Cinemas of the other

An original collection of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent the trends in the film industries of their respective countries. Preceding the interviews, the author provides an introduction delineating historical information regarding the film industries of the countries includ...

The trustus plays

The Trustus Plays collects three full-length, award-winning performance texts by American playwright Jon Tuttle. Each play was a winner of the national Trustus Playwrights Festival contest and was then produced by the Trustus Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina. The Hammerstone is a comedy about...

The sensible stage

This book examines how elements from theatre and cinema are integrated into art, in order to question the boundaries and mediations between the body and the image. Opening with a discussion between Alain Badiou and Elie During, this new edition offers a mixture of theoretical, creative and discur...

Rhetoric of modern death in american living dead films

Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. The book frames the tradition of living dead films, discusses the cinematic processes of addressing the viewers, and analys...