Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
The Exile of Britney Spears
A Tale of 21st Century Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
What we consume matters: a conclusion that is making more sense as sustainability and eco-responsibility become part of our everyday cultural conversations. What we fail to realize is that we consume – unconsciously, continually, and, at times, violently – much more than food. The Exile of Britney...
Reading bande dessinee
Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
World Film Locations: Paris presents reviews of 46 film scenes in their encounters with Parisian topography as it intersects with characters, plots, and narrative. The imagined Paris which has for centuries haunted the collective unconscious is reenacted in these scenes. Along with revisiting iconic...
Open Roads, Closed Borders
The Contemporary French-language Road Movie
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This is the first collection of essays about French-language road movies, a particularly rich yet critically neglected cinematic category. These films, the contributors argue, offer important perspectives on contemporary French ideas about national identity, France’s former colonies, Europe, and...
Montréal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion
A Locational History of Montreal Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Montreal is à la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers, and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and international collections. With its vibrant cultural life and affordable cost of living, designers and...
Performing Violence
Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
From bleak Expressionist works to the edgy political cinema of the New German Cinema and the feel-good Heimat films of the postwar era, Directory of World Cinema: Germany aims to offer a wider film and cultural context for the films that have emerged from Germany - including some of the East German...
Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine
Authorship and Genre in Photojournalism and Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. Offering a comprehensive examination of the work he produced during this period, Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine sheds new light on the aesthetic and ideological factors that...
Don't Look Now
British Cinema in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don’t Look Now uncovers forgotten but richly rewarding ?lms, including Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now and the ?lms of Lindsay Anderson...
Watching Films
New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception provides new and compelling insights into the social, cultural and economic factors that influence the circulation, prensentations and consumption of film. This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the rapidly changing nature of modern cinema.
Aesthetic Journalism
How to Inform Without Informing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge...
Myths
Decode Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Myths is a visual and written exploration on the subject of myths. It contains contributions from writers, illustrators, designers, photographers and artists from around the world who have each responded to the theme in their own unique way. Myths is important as it approaches the theme in various...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
World Film Locations: New York is a visually compelling and incisively written examination, and celebration, of New York’s unique place in cinema. Essays focusing on quintessential New York filmmakers like Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and those of the Beat movement are presented alongside others...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
World Film Locations: Vienna provides a panorama of international motion pictures shot on location in Austria's once imperial capitol. Informative reviews of 46 film scenes and evocative essays examine for the first time Vienna's relationship to cinema outside the waltz fantasies shot in the studios...