Intellect imprint: 532 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
The growing visibility of lesbian and gay people in the countries of Europe formerly known as the Eastern Bloc over the past two decades has opened up a new controversial field for academic exploration and debate. The authors of this book explore, non-normative sexualities, which were virtually invisible...
Visual Communication
More than meets the eye
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
We exist in a visual culture. The importance of reading and interpreting signs has become a rapidly increasing concern in recent years. This book offers an intricate theoretical perspective regarding the study of visual communication and expands the academic arena for debate concerning the visual....
Governing Visions of the Real
The National Film Unit and Griersonian Documentary Film in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Governing Visions of the Real traces the emergence, development, and techniques of Griersonian documentary – named for pioneering Scottish film-maker John Grierson – in New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Paying close attention to the productions of the National Film...
Screen Education
From Film Appreciation to Media Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Film and media studies now attract large numbers of students in schools, colleges and universities. However the setting up of these courses came after many decades of pioneering work at the educational margins in the post-war period. Bolas’ account focuses particularly on the voluntary efforts of...
by MacDonald James
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Disability studies have long been the domain of medical and pedagogical academics. However, in recent years, the subject has outgrown its clinical origins. In Freaks of History, James MacDonald presents two dramatic explorations of disability within the wider themes of sexuality, gender, foreignness,...
Versions of Hollywood Crime Cinema
Studies in Ford, Wilder, Coppola, Scorsese, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
No society is without crime, prompting Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrator to make his famous statement inThe Scarlet Letter that, however high its hopes are, no civilization can fail to allot a portion of its soil as the site of a prison. By establishing the category of crime - by drawing a line between...
Beauty and the Beast
Italianness in British Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Recent years have seen an increased interest in issues of national identity and representation, and cinema is a major medium where strands and layers of representational systems come together in cross-cultural dialogues. Beauty and the Beast provides an account of the specific development of depictions...
Artist Teacher
A Philosophy for Creating and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The philosophy of the artist-teacher is not a new phenomenon. In fact, many artists working within the Bauhaus, nineteenth century Schools of Design, and The Basic Design Movement all applied this method of thinking to their teaching. The Artist-Teacher explores the many facets of this methodology,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
From Fatih Akin’s Head-On (2004) to Sydney Lumet’sMurder on the Orient Express (1974), World Film Locations: Istanbul offers a compelling look at many films shot on location in this multicultural metropolis. Central to this volume are the film industry’s changing representations of Istanbul....
From Child Art to Visual Language of Youth
New Models and Tools for Assessment of Learning and Creation in Art Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This collective provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old. In a series of studies, contributors reconsider evaluation practices used in art education and examine current ideas about children’s development of visual skills...
Being Human
The Search for Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
We live at a time of unparallelled environmental and moral crisis. Not only do we not believe anything but, despite exponential advances in information production, we do not know very much either. This book is a guide for everyone who, understandably, feels perplexed. Presenting an explanation of...
Learning for Innovation in the Global Knowledge Economy
A European and Southeast Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This book is a major step forward in understanding the learning behaviour of clustered technology-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative research methods and sampling techniques, it identifies how learning for innovation is stimulated or inhibited....
by Aneta Podkalicka, Ellie Rennie
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Using media for social innovation is a critical roadmap for understanding and researching ‘social innovation media’. These media initiatives seek to find new solutions to seemingly intractable social problems by combining creativity, media technologies and engaged collectives in their design and...
Towards a Sustainable Information Society
Deconstructing WSIS
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools...