Intellect imprint: 532 books
Uncommon Goods
Global Dimensions of the Readymade
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Since Marcel Duchamp created his “readymades” a century ago—most famously christening a urinal as a fountain— the practice of incorporating commodity objects into art has become ever more pervasive.Uncommon Goods traces one particularly important aspect of that progression: the shift in artistic...
African Theatre for Development
Art for Self-determination
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This book acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of the performing arts in this region. The book provides an opportunity...
Creativity, Culture and Commerce: Producing Australian Children’s Television with Public Value
Producing Australian Children’s Television with Public Value
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Since the late 1970s, Australia has nurtured a creative and resilient children’s television production sector with a global reputation for excellence. Providing a systematic analysis of the creative, economic, regulatory, and technological factors that shape the production of contemporary Australian...
by Karina Aveyard
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets—with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way. But in a sense, that’s not new: TV formats have been being...
Signs of Change
New Directions in Theatre Education: Revised and Amplified Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
There is no one-size-fits-all way to keep pace with the changes affecting high school students and those who educate them. That’s why Joan Lazarus has gathered here the insights of hundreds of secondary school theater teachers and teaching artists on how they have responded to the shifting demands...
Temporary Stages II
Critically Oriented Drama Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Theatre teachers are forced to adapt constantly. Whether responding to advancing technologies, cuts to (or the growth of) their programme or ever-changing governmental mandates, they struggle to serve both their students and their craft. Using a theatre arts programme at one Midwestern high school,...
Digital Futures and the City of Today
New Technologies and Physical Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now inter-woven within an invisible digital matrix. This matrix alters human perceptions of the city, informs our behavior, and increasingly influences the urban designs we ultimately inhabit. Digital...
Frames of Mind
A Post-Jungian Look at Film, Television and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Frames of Mind provides a fresh and stimulating introduction to the world of Post-Jungian film and television studies. To orientate the reader the book starts with an overview of analytical psychology and how it has been used to analyze films. From that starting point it broadens out to include topics...
Staging Ageing
Theatre, Performance, and the Narrative of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
How can plays and performances, past and present, inform our understanding of ageing? Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates theatrical engagement with ageing from the Greek...
Theatre and Consciousness
Explanatory Scope and Future Potential
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
For the last ten to fifteen years, many disciplines of scholarship have been involved in the study of consciousness, often on an interdisciplinary basis. They include philosophy, neurosciences, psychology, physics and biology, and approaches focusing on human experience. The Centre for Consciousness...
Twilight of the Goths
The Kingdom of Toledo, c. 565-711
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Toledo, former capital of Spain until 1560, is now one of the most monumental of Spanish cities. In Roman times, it was originally a modest tribal township, which was eventually elevated to a national capital by the Visigoths (one of two main branches of the Goths, who along with their cousins, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Few could have predicted the enduring affection inspired by Joss Whedon’s television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With its origins in a script Whedon wrote for a 1992 feature film of the same name, the series far outpaced its source material, gathering a devoted audience that remains loyal...
The Student Actor Prepares
Acting for Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The Student Actor Prepares is a practical, interactive approach to a student actor’s journey. Each chapter includes acting principles, their importance to the process, and workbook entries for emotional work, script analysis, and applications to the study of theatre. Topics cover a brief history...
Filming the City
Urban Documents, Design Practices & Social Criticism through the Lens
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists, and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city. The book presents commentaries on particular films and their social and urban...