Intellect imprint: 532 books
Cultural Industries in Shanghai
Policy and Planning inside a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Cultural Industries in Shanghai gathers articles by Chinese scholars that analyse the developments in Shanghai's cultural industries over the past 30 years. Like many cities in China and elsewhere, Shanghai has explicitly stated that fostering the creative economy is its top economic and political...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Iranian cinema has an extraordinary history that has been marked by religion and ever-shifting political, economic, and social environments. This addition to Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of Iran, with particular attention to the major...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Hugest thanks to this book’s many contributorsand tireless photographers: friends and talents all,and without whom Glasgow’s cinema may yet layundiscovered. To Hamish Walker at Glasgow FilmOffice for his expertise, Nick and the Park Circusteam for uncovering hidden gems, and everyonewho answered...
Applied Drama
A Facilitators Handbook for Working in Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Applied Drama, a companion to Intellect’s award-winning Applied Theatre, fulfills the need for an introductory handbook for facilitators and teaching artists working with the dramatic process in diverse community settings. The authors distill the best practices to transfer into the settings within...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
For those moments of tension, when nerves are jangled and feelings stretched. This book uses short quotes from many spiritual and poetic sources to restore, revive and reassure. Among these quotes there may be one which offers companionship throughout the day.
by Neil Blain, Hugh O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity? Media, Monarchy and...
by N. M. Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Henry IV's conversion to catholicism in 1593 and Papal absolution in 1595 were traversed by multiple problems and difficulties. These religious events were inseparable from concurrent political, diplomatic and military issues. The subject is therefore examined both within its civil war background...
by Mike Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of European cinema and extensively addresses questions like this. Mike Wayne identifies some key themes...
Transglobal Fashion Narratives
Clothing Communication, Style Statements and Brand Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Everywhere we look, people are using fashion to communicate self and society—who they are, and where they belong. Transglobal Fashion Narratives presents an international, interdisciplinary analysis of those narratives. Moving from sweatshop to runway, page to screen, camera to blog, and artist...
Reaching Audiences
Distribution and Promotion of Alternative Moving Image
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
With a Foreword by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith From Hollywood blockbusters to artists’ film and video, distributors play a vitally important role in getting films in front of audiences. As the link between production and exhibition, their acquisition policies, promotional practices, and level of resources...
Superman: The Movie
The 40th Anniversary Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
From the film’s record-break budgets to the enmity between director and producers, the story behind the making of Superman is inherently dramatic. Marking 40 years since the film’s commercial release, the book presents original interview transcripts with the cast and crew that, when read together,...
Plays in Time
The Beekeeper's Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This is an anthology of four plays set during seminal events from the late 20th Century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel’s 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture program; and the heroism of climate scientists facing attack...
The Designer
Half a Century of Change in Image, Training, and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Design is one of the most fast-paced fields in the art world, as professionals, students and teachers must reckon with new technologies before the older versions have much time to collect dust. In The Designer, Rosemary Sassoon surveys fifty years of change in the world of design, evaluating the skills...
Theatre in Passing
A Moscow Photo-Diary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Theatre in Passing explores spaces of performance in contemporary Moscow. Inspired by French philosopher Michel de Certeau’s model of a 'second, poetic geography' in which the walker - the everyday practitioner - invents the space observed by the voyeur, this book takes the reader on a tour of spaces...