Intellect imprint: 532 books
Contingency in Madagascar
PHOTOGRAPHY • ENCOUNTERS • WRITING
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
As they set off for Madagascar in 2003, photographer Max Pam and writer Stephen Muecke adopted as their guiding principle the idea of contingency—central to which is the conscious embrace of risk and chance. In doing so, they established a new aesthetic in which image and text are inextricably linked...
by Jeremy Strong, Garin Dowd, Lesley Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This collection of new essays addresses a topic of established and expanding critical interest throughout the humanities. It demonstrates that genre matters in a manner not constrained by disciplinary boundaries and includes new work on Genre Theory and applications of thinking about genre from Aristotle...
Queer Mythologies
The Original Stageplays of Pam Gems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title 'Queer Mythologies'. Pam Gems has written over 25 plays, and has not had adequate detailed analysis of her plays to date. She is a popular playwright produced often at the West End and has a widespread appeal by being on the pulse...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. The earthquake, especially, transforms our understanding of the limits and possibilities of cinema, as well as of life itself. After major quakes in countries as dissimilar as Japan, Chile, Iran and New Zealand, film-makers have...
Transformations
Art and the City
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Critically challenging the notion of cities as hegemonic spaces, Transformations: Art and the City explores interactions between the human subject and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways in which Chapters include case-studies raging from corporate-...
Sacred Theatre
Theatre & Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The notion of sacred has long informed the work of British dramatists such as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, and Ralph Yarrow’s Sacred Theatre is the first book to examine the role of the sacred in the practice, process and performance of drama. The volume considers the definition of the terms...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Though the creative community of Reykjavík, Iceland, has earned a well-deserved reputation for its unique artistic output—most notably the popular music that has emerged from the city since the 1980s—Reykjavík’s filmmakers have received less attention than they merit. World Film Locations:...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving...
The Last Empire
Thirty years of Portuguese Decolonisation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field...
Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain
Modernity and Mass Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The so-called “Silver Age” of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility, and a boom in mass culture. This book offers a close look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collections of...
Hollywood Utopia
Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Utopianism, alongside its more prevalent dystopian opposite together with ecological study has become a magnet for interdisciplinary research and is used extensively to examine the most influential global medium of all time. The book applies a range of interdisciplinary strategies to trace the evolution...
Applied Theatre Second Edition
International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Six years after its initial publication, Applied Theatrereturns with a second edition. As the first book to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for implementing their own theatrical projects, it served as a vital addition to this area of growing interest, winning the...
Transnational Ecocinema
Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema. Transnational Ecocinema, open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures. By foregrounding these films with their...
Horizon of the Unseen
Visual Reflections on Spiritual Themes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Horizon of the Unseen' is a compilation of quotes taken from the eternal and universal truths that exist in all of the world’s spiritual traditions. The twelve themes are interpreted visually by the author, each page containing full colour reproductions. This book grew out of a series of guided...