Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Narrating the Catastrophe
An Artist’s Dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
"Narrating the Catastrophe" is an extraordinary collaboration between contemporary art and critical discourse, which guides the reader through unfamiliar textual landscapes, 'lost worlds' of the text, where Being is defined as act rather than form. Focusing on the nature of figuration in...
Configuring America
Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
ConFiguring America brings together a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody America’s tendency to produce celebrities and iconic personalities with global reach. Drawing on theoretical insights from a variety of fields—including cultural iconography,...
Drawing
The Enactive Evolution of the Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In an era which has seen many forms of artistic creation becoming digitized, the practice of drawing, in the traditional sense, has remained constant. However, many publications about the relationship between drawing and thinking rely on discipline-dependent distinctions to discuss the activity’s function.Drawing:...
The Morality of Mrs. Dulska
A Play by Gabriela Zapolska
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Gabriela Zapolska (1857-1921) was an actor, journalist and playwright. She was born during the 123 year partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia and wrote over thirty plays. The Morality of Mrs. Dulska (1906), a 'petty-bourgeois tragic-farce', is probably her best known. Mrs Dulska is...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Diasporas of Australian Cinema is the first volume to focus exclusively on diasporic hybridity and cultural diversity in Australian filmmaking over the past century.Topics include post-war documentaries and migration, Asian-Australian subjectivity, cross-cultural romance, "wogsploitation"...
Zapolska’s Women
Three Plays - Malka Szwarcenkopf, The Man and Miss Maliczewska
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This groundbreaking book contains the first English language translations of three plays by Polish playwright, actress and journalist Gabriela Zapolska. They were initially performed in fin-de-siecle, partitioned Poland. Each play focuses on the economic and social pressures faced by women. A general...
From Nwico to Wsis
Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Two major events have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) in the 1970s–80s and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003–05. Yet they are rarely studied in their continuity/discontinuity and the intermediary period...
Serious Play
Modern Clown Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2009
Clowns’ slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and Europe over the last 50 years, investigates the nature and function of clown performance in modern...
The Postdigital Membrane
Postdigital Membrane
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
To what extent is our time characterised by the 'digital'? Does it announce a bright new age of technological progress, or is it not much more than a marketing tag for manufacturers? What is clear is that much of the cultural theory we have so far accumulated is showing signs of strain as it struggles...
The Potentials of Spaces
The Theory and Practice of Scenography & Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
The book interrogates notions of distance, interval, time and space explorations in scenography and performance which are concerned to encompass the creative, historical, performing, interdisciplinary, writing, architectural, and senses of presence in space. Space becomes practice; scenography becomes...
by Albertine Gaur
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all 'proper' forms of writing must necessarily progress. This beautifully illustrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
World Film Location: Madrid is a trip through the urban space conceived as film location. The premise is that these locations must have been protagonist of films shot in Madrid since the silent era to the present. Madrid is the film capital of the Hispanic World from the standpoint of production....
The Trustus Plays
The Hammerstone, Drift, Holy Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
The Trustus Plays is an intriguing collection of three full-length plays by US playwright Jon Tuttle. The Hammerstone (1994) is an academic comedy about two professors aging gracelessly; Drift (1998) is a dark comedy about marriage and divorce, and, Holy Ghost (2005) portrays the plight of German...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
In recent times, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their...