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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...
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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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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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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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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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Dancing with Parkinson's
This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease. Sara Houston argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs and challenges of people living with Parkinson’s...
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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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Pleading in the Blood
Ron Athey is an iconic figure in the development of contemporary art and performance, frequently questioning the limits of artistic practice. Pleading in the Blood explores how Athey’s visceral practice foresaw and precipitated the central place afforded sexuality, identity and the body in art an...
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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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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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The Student Actor Prepares
The Student Actor Prepares is a practical, interactive approach to a student actor’s journey. Each chapter includes acting principles, their importance to the process, and workbook entries for emotional work, script analysis and applications to the study of theatre. Topics cover a brief history o...
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New Flows in Global TV
Although TV distribution has undergone a massive increase in volume and value over the past fifty years, there is a systematic lack of both curiosity and knowledge on the part of both industry and scholars about this area. This book assists in the filling of this gap by studying what, in fact, oc...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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TV-Philosophy
The first book to explore the hold of the TV series on ordinary life from a philosophical and ethical perspective.
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TV-Philosophy in Action
This book gives Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to selected TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times.
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Decoding the Movies
This book “decodes” 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved as they did. Representing the summation of Richard Maltby’s four decades of scholarship in the field, it uses a series of case studies to demonstrate how an appreciation of these movies is enhanced by examining th...
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Cinema on the Front Line
Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how British soldiers engaged with and were engaged by the medium of cinema during World War I. Utilizing extensive archival records and soldier testimony, the book offers a unique perspective on the cultural value and...
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The Screen Censorship Companion
This companion gives an exhaustive overview of how screen censorship touches our lives, from historical studies to today’s intrusions into how screen content is controlled, made available, or taken away. The cases studies range from the forbidden over politically ‘subversive’ materials, to plain ...
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Picturegoers
This book shows the impact of cinema on individuals across the globe, from the 1890s to the present day. It analyses and celebrates the audience’s point of view, shaped by time, experience and place, providing a rich, entertaining portrait of a medium that became so transformative because anyone,...
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Film, Cinema, Genre
This Reader brings together for the first time key works by Steve Neale, one of the founding figures of UK film studies. It includes selections of his influential writing on genre, together with other critical work encompassing film analysis, representation, cinema history, technology, and the fi...
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Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe
With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts, and impacts of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe.
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Screening Sherlock
A cultural history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film and television from early cinema to the present.
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Beautiful doom
The first multi-authored volume on the work of contemporary British writer Dennis Kelly, Beautiful Doom examines the full range of his work for stage and screen, from new writing to adaptations of classic playtexts, musical theatre, and original works for television.
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Ida Lupino
This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood’s classical era.
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Screen borders
A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders.
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市井香港
1937年抗日戰爭爆發，大批南來文人和電影製片人在上海淪陷後遷居香港，拍攝了不少粵語抗日宣傳電影，又稱「國防電影」。在《市井香港：戰前香港的粵語電影、宣傳電影和文化空間》中，趙傑鋒以這段發生在香港的歷史為開端，闡釋了抗日宣傳電影如何與香港的通俗文化交匯，藉此重組由晚清到戰前香港的通俗文化空間。在這個「眾聲喧嘩」的文化空間中，粵劇和電影、影像和聲音、傳統與現代之間的辯證，意外地開闢了一條渠道予各種文化想像和新可能。這種種因素不但影響了戰前香港粵語電影的發展，更為戰後香港的電影業奠下堅實的基礎。本書亦為1937年至1941年的香港電影史，補上一塊或缺已久的拼圖。
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ROMARD, Volume 60
ROMARD is an academic journal devoted to the study and promotion of Medieval and Renaissance drama in Europe. Previously published under the title of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (RORD), the journal has been in publication since 1956. ROMARD is published annually at the University ...
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Sliding Worlds
Famous for its ‘Modern Dance on Baby Oil’, the Taipei Dance Circle (1984–2019) changed how we think about movements. This book captures a rare behind-the-scenes look in dance ethnography at the group's final experimental years (2014-2017) after losing their founder, Shaw-Lu Liu.
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Parallel Tracks
This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture.
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'Film Europe' and 'Film America'
A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of the American film industry to these plans to rival its hegemony.
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Green Screen
This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'green...
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The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 3
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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Reading the Cinematograph
The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.
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The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 1
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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London’s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror
A companion to UEP’s Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). London’s Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. It was a high-profile venture that enjoyed popular success as much as critical controversy.
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Picture Perfect
The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape.
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The World According To Hollywood,1918-1939
The World According to Hollywood examines the world-wide influence of the American film industry during its golden age — the 1920s and 1930s — and investigates the business policies that shaped the fictional universe of Hollywood movies.
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Going to the Movies
This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South ...
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Theatres of the Troubles
The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain.
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Young And Innocent?
This book brings together the study of silent cinema and the study of British cinema, both of which have seen some of the most exciting developments in Film Studies in recent years. The result is a comprehensive survey of one of the most important periods of film history.
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The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 4
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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Charles Urban
Based on original research from Charles Urban’s own papers, this is the first biography of this influential film maker and innovator. A historical study of the development of the non-fiction film in Britain and America in the early years of cinema. Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book A...
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Multimedia Histories
Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and ear...
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Making Theatre in Northern Ireland
This book examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern Ireland since 1969. It explores key theatrical performances which deal directly with this context. The book is aimed at a student readership: it is largely play-text-based, and it conta...
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Silent Features
Silent Features is a collection of essays on seventeen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features, their diverse stylistic, generic and structural characteristics, and the national, historical and industrial contexts from which they emerged. Of the 17 films discussed, 15 are still...
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In Comes I
‘In Comes I’ explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, and local ...
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Bill Douglas
This book uses new source material to reappraise the work of Bill Douglas – one of Britain’s most significant and singular filmmakers. Douglas’s poetic and moving films continue to inspire filmmakers today but his struggles within the film industry raise questions as to whether it is possible to...
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The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 2
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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A Chorus Of Raspberries
This is the first full-length study of one of the most popular, profitable and persistent genres in British cinema. It redraws the map of British film history by arguing that comedy was the most successful, and important, genre of the 1930s, and that the very qualities which ensured the comedy fi...
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Finding Birt Acres
Birt Acres was the first commercial filmmaker in Britain and Germany but has been ill-served by film history. Of mysterious origins, this book tells his full story for the first time: tracing his American beginnings, his fame in the field of British photography, his embrace of the moving image an...
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Global TV Series and the Political Imagination
This book examines how contemporary TV series reflect and address social issues, power dynamics, and ideological perspectives in different cultural and political contexts. By analysing examples from around the world, the volume explores the transformative power of TV series in the age of digital ...
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Alternative Empires
This is the first book to study representations of the non-Western world in European modernist cinema. In offering new perspectives on the history of Soviet montage cinema and on the British documentary movement, it connects with the growing body of work analysing manifestations of orientalism, E...
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Acting Greek Tragedy
With a strong interest in the performance of ancient Greek tragedy, Graham Ley’s short text explores the dynamics of physical interaction between performers and of the dramaturgical construction of scenes.
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Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind
The first book devoted exclusively to how Stanley Cavell’s thoughts about film apply to television. In a dozen chapters, a number of acknowledged critics and philosophers articulate how Cavell’s remarks on the moral perfectionism of cinema apply even more to the twenty-first century television se...
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Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain
In the 1930s there were close to a billion annual admissions to the cinema in Britain and it was by far the most popular paid-for leisure activity. This book is an exploration of that popularity. The book establishes similarities and differences between national and regional tastes through case s...
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A Paul Rotha Reader
Paul Rotha was one of the major figures of the British Documentary Movement, second only to John Grierson. He was also a prolific writer. This volume brings together an edited collection of some of his most important writings and addresses a variety of topics.
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Hoxton Hall
Hoxton Hall is an early Victorian music hall built in 1863, one of only a handful surviving in Britain. This book offers a history of the Hall and its role in the social life of a deprived but resilient area of London, bringing together social and religious history with the history of architectur...
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Hollywood, Westerns And The 1930S
For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s.
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Nonhuman Cinema
This book proposes a radical new nonhuman cinema: it examines how cinema challenges human superiority and the anthropocentric gaze while opening up new sensory, ethical, and material encounters between human and nonhuman, including the cinematic apparatus itself. It raises key ethical questions a...
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Marking Time
This book charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city – Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local topographical and social contexts, and in relation ...
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The Lost Jungle
Why has the Hollywood sound serial received so little scholarly attention? Here, the author presents a thorough analysis based on detailed historical research, focusing on the period between 1930 and 1946, when Universal stopped their production. 30 b&w illus.
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The Beginnings Of The Cinema In England,1894-1901: Volume 5
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years
This offers an understanding of British Cinema between 1928 and 1939 through an analysis of the relationship between the British film industry and other ‘culture industries’ such as the radio, music recording, publishing and early television.
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Celluloid War Memorials
British Instructional Films was at the centre of a number of issues important to Britain and the Empire in the 1920s: the memory and history of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature...
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Picturing Cornwall
This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s portrayal on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Innovative new research looking at amateur film and newsreels, avant-garde and documentary works alongside mainstream popula...
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Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain
In the first book-length study to concentrate specifically on Britain, Jamie Sexton examines the rise of avant-garde and experimental film-making between the wars.
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The Theatre of Drottningholm - Then and Now
This book provides a vivid picture of the Drottningholm Court Theatre: the architecture, the many different activities which took place here during the Gustavian era, and the use made of the theatre since its rediscovery to explore the nature of Baroque performance.
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Dancing in Utopia
In 1925 Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst bought the Dartington Hall Estate, planning for a community where arts and education would underpin a fulfilling life. There was an emphasis on the art of dance, with artists from Europe, America and Asia gracing its studios and gardens. This is the story of u...
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Legitimate Cinema
This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre.
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The Great Art Of Light And Shadow
Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth.
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Chinese Court Drama
The first ever anthology of English translations of Chinese court drama. Taking the reader inside the Forbidden City for a unique perspective on the life of the court, which was punctuated by these plays. At the same time, they give English readers a glimpse of a sophisticated performance tradition.
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Marketing Modernity
In this study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic lantern le...
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The Body Swap Film
An enduring yet underexamined tradition in popular cinema, body swap narratives have captivated audiences across cultures and genres. This volume offers the first study of the ‘body swap’ film, examining notable examples such as the Freaky Friday films alongside comedies, horrors, and hybrid form...
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Superheroes and Contemporary Cultures
The interdisciplinary collection links in-depth close readings of central texts of the superhero discourse from a variety of media with larger societal and cultural discourses such as cross-medial, meta-textual and more general intersections and negotiations between the figure of the superhero an...
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Postcolonialism, Diaspora, and Alternative Histories: The Cinema of Evans Chan
This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of the cinema of Evans Chan, a New York–based playwright, author, and filmmaker whose acclaimed films include To Liv(e), The Map of Sex and Love, and Datong. In this collection of essays on Chan’s documentary and feature films seven experts on cul...
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Performing #MeToo
Voices from diverse cultural and environmental contexts writing on forms of engagement with the topic of performing #MeToo – testimony, witnessing, interpretation and field reports. Includes people who speak from personal experience, as well as allies, activists and scholars. Examines contemporar...
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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...
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