Intellect imprint: 532 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This collection of essays from many of the world’s pre-eminent drama education practitioners captures the challenges and struggles of teaching with honesty, humour, openness, and integrity. Collectively the authors possess some two hundred years of shared experience in the field, and each essay...
Transition and Development in Algeria
Economic, Social and Cultural Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This book deals with the economic and developmental challenges facing contemporary Algerian society. The social structures, the political institutions, the movements and ideologies, as well as cultural dilemmas, are considered in depth to give the fullest picture of the twenty-first century development....
Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe
Consequences of global convergence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
An integrated analysis of the central issues in contemporary media policy. Chapters focus on technological change and its impact on cultural and political identities, the role of the cultural industries in the 'New Economy' and the impact of European integration on national institutions - public service...
Broadcasting Diversity
Migrant Representation in Irish Radio
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Broadcasting Diversity explores modes of migrant representation and participation in Irish radio, focusing on the national public broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and Dublin community stations and examining the opportunities provided for voicing migrant experience in transcultural program production....
by Stanley Raffel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Both sides in controversies tend to argue they have logic on their side. This book proposes that the interminable nature of these controversies suggests there is a problem with the main tool of logic, the syllogism. An alternative mode of judgment is needed. Drawing on contemporary and classic sources...
Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodimnet and Empathy in Performance
Space, Embodimnet and Empathy in Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Performance, dramaturgy, and scenography are often explored in isolation, but in Theatrical Reality, Campbell Edinborough describes their connectedness in order to investigate how the experience of reality is constructed and understood during performance. Drawing on sociological theory, cognitive...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Beijing Film Academy (BFA) is one of the most revered film institutions in the world. Since 1984, the BFA’s Department of Film Studies has been publishing the Journal of the Beijing Film Academy, the only journal of film theory that integrates film education in higher learning with film theory...
Activist Film Festivals
Towards a Political Subject
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Film festivals are an ever-growing part of the film industry, but most considerations of them focus almost entirely on their role in the business of film-making. This book breaks new ground by bringing scholars from a range of disciplines together with industry professionals to explore the concept...
L.A. Chic
A Locational History of Los Angeles Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Los Angeles is undergoing a makeover. Leaving behind its image as all freeways and suburbs, sunshine and noir, it is reinventing itself for the twenty-first century as a walkable, pedestrian-friendly, ecologically healthy, and global urban hotspot of fashion and style, while driving initiatives to...
Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema
Resonance Between Realms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Alternative worlds in films such as The Wizard of Oz, It’s a Wonderful Life, Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind offer similarities and resonances to our world, but provide a way for filmmakers to address the human condition by forming a sincere and serious connection with everyday...
by Martin Botha
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present. Thoroughly researched and fully documented by renowned film...
Television Antiheroines
Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type. Television Antiheroines looks closely at this recent development, exploring the emergence of women...
Kurt Kren
Structural Films
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the post-war period. His structural films, often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately pre-scored charts and diagrams, have influenced filmmakers for decades, even as Kren himself has remained a nomadic and obscure public figure. Kurt...
Broadcasting and National Imagination in Post-Communist Latvia
Defining the Nation, Defining Public Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book uses the case study of public television in post-communist Latvia to explore the question of how audiences respond to TV offerings, and how their choices can be seen as an act of agency. Jānis Juzefovičs builds his book around Albert O. Hirschman’s classic concepts of exit, voice, and...