Intellect imprint: 532 books
On Repetition
Writing, Performance & Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
On Repetition aims to unpack the different uses and functions of repetition within contemporary performance, dance practices, craft and writing. The collection, edited by Eirini Kartsaki, explores repetition in relation to intimacy, laughter, technology, familiarity and fear – proposing a new vocabulary...
Utopia
Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In a room in the middle of nowhere, a man and a woman dream up spectacular worlds: a decaying city, a lush and crumbling garden, a train journey across a drowned landscape. Darkly humorous, absurd and surreal, these are plays for a theatre in which time and space, character and setting are as uncertain...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
An illuminating and visually led guide to a selection of the films set wholly or in part in Melbourne, World Film Locations: Melbourne covers the big screen representations of life in the city from the Victorian era to the present day. Short analyses of iconic scenes and themed essays focusing on...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
World Film Locations: Dublin aims to present a selective snapshot of the city through the medium of the movies made or set in it and allow the reader to inhabit these spaces, passing through a stimulating choice of words and pictures that inform and precipitate an imagined exploration.It is a collection...
Beyond the Dance Floor
Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The Beyond the Dance Floor book is a path breaking study about the women who DJ electronic dance music. In this study, the main focus is given on the largely neglected relationship between women and the hegemonic conceptions of gender and technology that continue to inform this male dominated music...
Pleading in the Blood
The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Ron Athey is an iconic figure in contemporary art and performance. In his frequently bloody portrayals of life, death, crisis and fortitude in the time of AIDS, Athey calls into question the limits of artistic practice. These limits enable Athey to explore key themes including gender, sexuality, radical...
Italian TV Drama and Beyond
Stories from the Soil, Stories from the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Since its inception in the mid-1950s, the television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society,
Perform, Repeat, Record
Live Art in History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies, and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other art forms in that it may never be performed in precisely the same way twice, ephemeral artwork exists...
Andre Malraux: An Age of Oppression (le Temps Du Mepris)
Andre Malraux
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Aimed to coincide with the centenary of Malraux's birth, André Malraux: An Age of Oppression is the first translation/annotated edition of Le Temps de mépris in a comprehensive format. The story (with the emphasis upon the psychological trauma suffered by a German political prisoner of the Nazis in...
Media and Participation
A site of ideological-democratic struggle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be...
The Roots of Modern Hollywood
The Persistence of Values in American Cinema, from the New Deal to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In this insightful study of Hollywood cinema since 1969, film historian Nick Smedley traces the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films, showing how the more thoughtful recent cinema owes a profound debt to Hollywood’s traditions of liberalism, first articulated in the New Deal era....
Theatre, Time and Temporality: Melting Clocks and Snapped Elastics
Melting Clocks and Snapped Elastics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Theatre, Time and Temporality is the first book-length exploration of the subject of temporality within theatre and performance. David Ian Rabey brings in sources ranging from medieval and Renaissance theatre to contemporary performances – in addition to recent writings from physics, philosophy, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and other plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award–winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts include a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and...
by Persephone Sextou
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Recent decades have seen a new appreciation develop for Applied Theatre and the role of art in arts-based activities in healthcare. This book looks specifically at the place of theatre for children who are hospitalized, showing how powerfully it can enhance their social and mental well-being. Child-led...