Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Planet Cosplay
Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This book examines cosplay from a set of ground-breaking disciplinary approaches, highlighting the latest and emerging discourses around this popular cultural practice. Planet Cosplay comprises chapters from scholars who are widely published in this field, examining the subject of cosplay from sources...
Switching to Digital Television
UK Public Policy and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Between 2008 and 2012 the UK plans to turn off its conventional analogue terrestrial television and switch fully to digital TV. This is part of a trend across all the technologically advanced nations of the world. The city of Berlin led the way in 2003. The Netherlands became the first country to...
Research in Art and Design Education
Issues and Exemplars
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. Research in Art & Design Education answers this call, summarizing important issues in the field such as non-text based approaches and interdisciplinary work. Contributions from internationally...
Reclaiming the Media
Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy. The main questions have now become whether the contemporary media conjuncture offers enough to our democracies, how their democratic investment can be deepened and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly...
Applied Theatre
International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Theatre practice and applied theatre are areas of growing international interest. Applied Theatre is the first study to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for planning and implementing their own theatrical projects.This reader-friendly text considers an international...
by Celina Jeffery
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators, and its audience is subverted and democratized. One effect of this has been a growing place for artists as curators, and in The Artist as Curator...
Locating the Audience
How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
How do audiences experience live performances? What is gained when a national theatre is born? These questions and more are the subject of Locating the Audience, the first in-depth study of how people form relationships with a new theatre company. Investigating the inaugural season of National Theatre...
The Mobile Nation
España Cambia de Piel (1954-1964
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The last five years have witnessed a surge in publications on Spanish cinema and Spanish cultural studies, but the subject of consumer culture in Spain has been neglected until now. The Mobile Nation: España cambia de piel (1954–1964) presents the first systematic treatment of this crucial period...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Formulated around a number of key thematic concerns - including new creative trends; the politics and practices of memory; auteurship, genre, and stardom in a transnational age - this reassessment of contemporary Spanish cinema from 1992 to 2012 brings leading academics from a broad range of disciplinary...
Un-American Psycho
Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizable number of controversial films—many of which are consistently misread or ignored—directed by De Palma over his more...
The Spectacle of the Real
From Hollywood to ‘Reality’ TV and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their ‘incredible-seeming reality’. They can appear both ‘incredible’ and ‘real’, their appeal based on their ability to ‘convince’—to appear real in terms such...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The 2006 InSEA conference's general aim was to facilitate debate in global higher art education on an international and multicultural basis. With contributions from across the world, International Dialogues in Art Education reflects this aim, presenting an original volume discussing themes in higher...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
With approximately 16,000 students beginning primary teacher education in the UK each year, and each of those being expected to teach art and design, this pioneering volume provides a renewed emphasis on ideas, issues and research in art and design education in the primary and early years phases....