Intellect imprint: 532 books
The Architecture of the Screen
Essays in Cinematographic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists but also architects a completely new way to think about and describe the visual. The Architecture...
Cinema and Landscape
Film, Nation and Cultural Geography: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
While the consideration of landscape on film has been growing in currency over the past four to five years, as yet no single publication has attempted to embrace the multitude of nationalities, cinematic examples and critical approaches that Cinema and Landscape encompasses. Written by reputed cinema...
Re-Imagining the City
Art, Globalization and Urban Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Re-imagining the City: Art, globalization and urban spaces investigates creative practices in urban space and the diverse ways that contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture, and communications...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of key films and filmmakers, the contributors to this volume resituate discussions of queer representation...
by Isolina Ballesteros
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Immigration Cinema in the New Europe 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. Whether they are authored by immigrants themselves or by white Europeans who use the resources...
Frontiers of Screen History
Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945–2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Frontiers of Screen History provides an insightful exploration into the depiction and imagination of European borders in cinema after World War II. The editors and authors bring forward the geopolitical issues at the basis both the films of world-wide distribution, known to many, and others, shot within confining conditions or inhighly local places, remain unknown within prevailing canons.
Personal Style Blogs
Appearances that Fascinate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From *Style Rookie *to Style Bubble, personal style blogs exploded onto the scene in the mid-2000s giving voice to young and stylish writers who had their own unique take on the seasonal fashion cycle and how to curate an individual style within the shifting swirl of trends. *Personal Style Blogs *examines...
Pride and Panic
Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia’s anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture. Russian film is shown, in both its creation and perception, to expose the intriguing dynamics of societal psychological conditions. Using specific...
Russia’s New Fin de Siècle
Contemporary Culture between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This volume investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twenty-first century, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regards to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary culture? This question...
Writing on Drawing
Essays on Drawing Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
An increased public and academic interest in drawing and sketching, both traditional and digital, has allowed drawing research to emerge recently as a discipline in its own right. In light of this development, Writing on Drawing presents a collection of essays by leading artists and drawing researchers...
Histories of Art and Design Education
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This Collection of fourteen essays by eleven different authors demonstrates the increasing breadth of enquiry that has taken place in art and design education history over the past two decades, and the expanding range of research models applied to the subject. The essays are grouped into six sections...
Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition
Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Digital technologies are playing an increasingly instrumental role in guiding the curatorial and institutional strategies of contemporary art museums today. Designed around contextual studies of virtuality and the art of exhibition, this interdisciplinary volume applies practice-based research to...
Real Objects in Unreal Situations
Modern Art in Fiction Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Real Objects in Unreal Situations is a lucid account of a much-neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By examining the historical, political, and personal realities that situate the artworks, Susan Felleman offers...
Howard Barker Interviews 1980–2010
Conversations in Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
British playwright Howard Barker coined the term “theatre of catastrophe” to describe his unique brand of complex, poetic, ambiguous, and often unsettling drama. Revered by many – not least in continental Europe, North America and Australia – as one of the greatest living dramatists in the English...