Intellect Books imprint: 32 books
Why We Make Art And Why it is Taught
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2010
Governments around the world spend millions on art and cultural institutions, evidence of a basic human need for what the author refers to as 'creating aesthetic significance.' Yet what function or purpose does art satisfy in today’s society? In this thorough and accessible text, Hickman rejects...
The Artist as Culture Producer
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life is a collection of essays by 40 visual artists. Edited by artist and educator Sharon Louden, the book describes how artists extend their practices outside of their studios. All of these contributors have impactful, artistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
David Lynch and Mark Frost’s television series Twin Peaks debuted in April 1990 and by June of 1991 had been cancelled. Yet the impact of this surreal, unsettling show – ostensibly about the search for homecoming queen Laura Palmer’s killer – is far larger than its short run might indicate....
Applied Theatre Second Edition
International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Six years after its initial publication, Applied Theatrereturns with a second edition. As the first book to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for implementing their own theatrical projects, it served as a vital addition to this area of growing interest, winning the...
Creativity, Culture and Commerce: Producing Australian Children’s Television with Public Value
Producing Australian Children’s Television with Public Value
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Since the late 1970s, Australia has nurtured a creative and resilient children’s television production sector with a global reputation for excellence. Providing a systematic analysis of the creative, economic, regulatory, and technological factors that shape the production of contemporary Australian...
Digital Futures and the City of Today
New Technologies and Physical Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now inter-woven within an invisible digital matrix. This matrix alters human perceptions of the city, informs our behavior, and increasingly influences the urban designs we ultimately inhabit. Digital...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Few could have predicted the enduring affection inspired by Joss Whedon’s television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With its origins in a script Whedon wrote for a 1992 feature film of the same name, the series far outpaced its source material, gathering a devoted audience that remains loyal...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Beijing Film Academy (BFA) is one of the most revered film institutions in the world. Since 1984, the BFA’s Department of Film Studies has been publishing the Journal of the Beijing Film Academy, the only journal of film theory that integrates film education in higher learning with film theory...
Broadcasting and National Imagination in Post-Communist Latvia
Defining the Nation, Defining Public Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book uses the case study of public television in post-communist Latvia to explore the question of how audiences respond to TV offerings, and how their choices can be seen as an act of agency. Jānis Juzefovičs builds his book around Albert O. Hirschman’s classic concepts of exit, voice, and...
Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders throughout the world, departing from a narrative that casts European actors as the importers and exporters of Islamic designs and skills. Looking...
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 – who travelled...
The Art of Defiance
Graffiti, Politics and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti writers see their city and, in turn, how their city sees them. It explores how becoming a graffiti writer helps disenfranchised urban citizens negotiate their cultural identities, build their social capital, and gain a voice within an...
Money Talks
Media, Markets, Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Money Talks explores the ways the financial concepts of money and capital are understood and talked about by a range of people, from traders to ordinary investors, and how these accounts are framed and represented across a range of media. This collection brings together leading writers and emerging...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Crime Uncovered: Antihero is a fascinating and timely collection of essays that all examine the antihero in crime fiction, television and film. The antihero has enticed readers and audiences for generations: why is it that we root for characters such as Tom Ripley, Dexter Morgan and Walter White,...