Intellect Books imprint: 32 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Few, if any, books come close to being as beloved – or as ubiquitous – as The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The book delves into the philosophy of the series and its fans, the distinctions between the films’ fans and the books’ fans, the process of adaptation, and the role of New Zealand in the...
Arts Integration in Education
Teachers as Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Arts Integration in Education is an insightful, even inspiring, investigation into the enormous possibilities for change that are offered by the application of arts integration in education. Presentingresearch from a range of settings, from pre-school to university, and featuring contributions from...
Connecting Metal to Culture
Unity in Disparity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Though it’s given little attention—and even less serious attention— by the mainstream press, metal music has for decades been a major creative and cultural force around the world. This book brings together a group of contributors from Europe, North America, and the Caribbean to make a case...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Crime Uncovered: Detective is an examination – and celebration – of the most iconic police detectives in the long and bloody history of crime fiction, film and television, identifying the individual characteristics that define these much-loved figures and discussing how they relate to their...
Shooting Women
Behind the Camera, Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From first world pioneers like African American camerawoman Jessie Maple Patton who got her job only after suing the union – to China’s first camerawomen –...
On Repetition
Writing, Performance & Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
On Repetition aims to unpack the different uses and functions of repetition within contemporary performance, dance practices, craft and writing. The collection, edited by Eirini Kartsaki, explores repetition in relation to intimacy, laughter, technology, familiarity and fear – proposing a new vocabulary...
The Roots of Modern Hollywood
The Persistence of Values in American Cinema, from the New Deal to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In this insightful study of Hollywood cinema since 1969, film historian Nick Smedley traces the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films, showing how the more thoughtful recent cinema owes a profound debt to Hollywood’s traditions of liberalism, first articulated in the New Deal era....
The Multisensory Film Experience
A cognitive model of experiential film aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The light and sound of the motion picture, once perceived, are a gateway to a multisensory experience of the spectator. Moving beyond the oft-discussed perceptual elements of vision and hearing, The Multisensory Film Experience analyses temperature, pain, and balance in order to argue that it is...
by Robert Sweeny
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors and human ineptitude. Many new media artworks employ various strategies of dysfunctionality in order to explore issues of power within societies and culture. Robert W. Sweeny...
Entering Transmasculinity
The Inevitability of Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Entering Transmasculinity is a holistic study of the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape transgender identities. In the book, matthew heinz offers an examination of mediated and experienced transmasculine subjectivities and aims to capture the apparent contradictions that structure...
by Isolina Ballesteros
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first generation immigrants and children of the diaspora in Europe. Whether they are authored by immigrants themselves or by white Europeans who use the resources...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade - the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets - to Agatha Christie’s Captain Hastings - the genteel companion in greener surrounds - the P. I. has taken on any number of...
The Art Rules
Wisdom and Guidance from Art World Experts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
A well-known advocate and proponent of art in Chicago, Paul Klein is a long-time gallerist whose friendships with artists, dealers, collectors, and curators have afforded him a rare vantage point on the vagaries and victories of the art world. Since closing his gallery in 2004, he has parlayed his...
Lure of the Big Screen
Cinema in Rural Australia and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Lure of the Big Screen explores film exhibition and consumption in rural parts of the UK and Australia, where film theatres are often highly valued as spaces around which isolated communities can gather and interact. Going beyond national borders, this book examines how theatres in areas of social...