Intellect imprint: 532 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
With more and more filmmakers taking advantage of its rich and varied settings, New Orleans has earned star-studded status as the 'Hollywood of the South'. From the big-screen adaptation of the stage classic A Streetcar Named Desire to the Elvis Presley musical King Creole, many well-known films have...
Gay Men at the Movies
Film reception, cinema going and the history of a gay male community
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Cinema has long played a major role in the formation of community among marginalized groups, and this book details that process for gay men in Sydney, Australia from the 1950s to the present. Scott McKinnon builds the book from a variety of sources, including film reviews, media reports, personal...
by Lindy Orthia
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
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...
Negotiating Spain and Catalonia
Competing Narratives of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
This book is a narrative study of four main discourses of national identity in Spain, with a special focus on Catalonia as disseminated in the Spanish press in the period between 1993-1996. The narrative analysis of the discourses of national identity is contained within two sections. The first deals...
Reframing Reality
The Aesthetics of the Surrealist Object in French and Czech Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Marcel Duchamp’s urinal re-named ‘fountain’ and placed in an art gallery. The classic image that can be seen as a duck or a rabbit, depending on how you look at it. A random object that grabs your attention and, like a Freudian slip, sums up whatever’s on your mind. These are just a few examples...
Passion of the Reel
Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reelprovides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe shows that, far from an empty receptacle for colonial legacies, Cameroon – and Africa –...
David Cronenberg
Author or Film-Maker?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
For more than 30 years, David Cronenberg has produced films, mostly outside the Studio system, which continue to disturb, surprise and challenge audiences. He has also been repeatedly drawn to literary fiction for inspiration, adapting works by figures like William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard and Patrick McGrath.
The Importance of Elsewhere
The Global Humanist Tourist
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
A collection of essays grounded in the author’s own personal and intellectual journeys, which tackles themes questioning the significance and meaning of travel. It asks how and why we travel, where we are going and what we hope to achieve by stepping into globalism. The book considers our current...
by Bernard Dumpleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
The paddle steamer holds a unique place in the history of maritime engineering. When the engineers of the early nineteenth century experimented with steamboats they chose the paddle wheel as the form of propulsion. Within twenty years the paddle steamers were at work on inland waters and short sea...
Street Scenes
Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political, social and cultural upheaval, Berlin has continued, since the fall of the Wall in 1989, to be a city in transition. As the new capital of a reunified Germany it has embarked on a journey of rapid reconfiguration, involving issues of memory,...
Educating Artists for the Future
Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in higher education in art and design offer fresh directions for educating artists for a rapidly evolving post-digital future. Their creative redefinition of art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific...
Photography, Narrative, Time
Imaging our Forensic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs, Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image, rather than the sequence. Drawing on ideas from painting, drawing, film, video, and multimedia, he applies contemporary research and theories drawn from cognitive...
Manifesto Now!
Instructions for Performance, Philosophy, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Manifesto Now! maps the current rebirth of the manifesto as it appears at the crossroads of philosophy, performance and politics. While the manifesto has been central to histories of modernity and modernism, the editors contend that its contemporary resurgence demands a renewed interrogation of its...
Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe
Concepts and Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
How free are the media in Europe? Freedom of the press and an independent media system are often taken for granted and all of the EU-member states today have implemented guarantees of press freedom in their constitutions and judicial systems. In Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe, researchers from...