Intellect imprint: 532 books
Media Between Culture and Commerce
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This book addresses the consequences of the main changes the media have undergone over the last 10 years: increasing commercialisation, concentration, convergence and internationalisation. The contributors reflect on the debate and the concern about the role of the media in a rapidly changing society....
Lure of the Big Screen
Cinema in Rural Australia and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Lure of the Big Screen explores film exhibition and consumption in rural parts of the UK and Australia, where film theatres are often highly valued as spaces around which isolated communities can gather and interact. Going beyond national borders, this book examines how theatres in areas of social...
by Hugo De Burgh, Zeng Rong
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Environmental issues are of growing concern in China, with numerous initiatives aimed at cultivating dialogue and increasing awareness. And key to these initiatives is the environmental journalist. The first English-language study of this burgeoning new field, this book investigates Chinese environmental...
Media in the Enlarged Europe
Politics, Policy and Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
The EU is in a constant state of flux: its constitution, its institutions and especially its political, economic and regulatory borders. Media in the Enlarged Europe deals with the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media, looking beyond national and...
Why We Make Art And Why it is Taught
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2010
Governments around the world spend millions on art and cultural institutions, evidence of a basic human need for what the author refers to as 'creating aesthetic significance.' Yet what function or purpose does art satisfy in today’s society? In this thorough and accessible text, Hickman rejects...
Ancient Laws and Modern Problems: The Balance Between Justice and a Legal System
Ancient Laws and Modern Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
John Sassoon’s study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical. On the contrary, the earliest legal systems honestly tried to get to the truth, do justice to individuals, and preserve civil order. They used...
Playwriting and Young Audiences
Collected Wisdom and Practical Advice from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Despite the fact that there is a thriving presence of theatre for young people in today’s society, there is, however, no contemporary guide dedicated to the writing of plays for young people in both professional and educational contexts. We only have to look at the colourful and compelling plays of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Media, Democracy and European Culture presents some of the most recent, cutting edge research on Europe, from social, political and cultural perspectives, equally focusing on each dimension of democracy in Europe. The role of the media, communication policy and the question of how the media report...
The Grey Zone of Health and Illness
Culture, Disease, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identifies...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book reviews past practice and theory in critical studies and discusses various trends; some papers keenly advocate a re-conceptualisation of the whole subject area, while others describe aspects of current and past practice which exemplify the 'symbiotic' relationship between practical studio...
Orphan Black
Performance, Gender, Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics presents a groundbreaking exploration of the hit television series Orphan Black, and the questions it raises for performance and technology, gender and reproduction, and biopolitics and community. Contributors from a range of backgrounds explore the digital...
Crash Cultures
Modernity, Mediation and the Material
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Since Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and scientific history of our responses to the car crash, as well as showing the personal impact of the crash on...
Franklin Furnace & the Spirit of the Avant-Garde
A History of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization whose mission is to preserve, document, and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists - particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content. Over more than thirty years,...
Convergence and Fragmentation
Media Technology and the Information Society. Changing Media Changing Europe Series, Volume 5.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Convergence under pressure leads to fragmentation. Therefore, the role of the newest information and communication technologies and formats in a changing Europe must be analysed not only in terms of optimistic market projections but also in terms of realistic trends toward complementary fragmentations.