Intellect imprint: 532 books

by Rosan Araujo
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012

The result of extensive research about our notions of the city and the person throughout time, The City is Me explores the technology, research findings, and new ideas that have made it impossible to sustain conceptions of the city that are based on the criterion of a boundary. Showing how this shift...

Dramaturging Personal Narratives

Who am I and Where is Here?

by Judith Rudakoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015

How do people identify, locate, or express home? Displaced, exiled, colonized, and disenfranchised people the world over grapple with this question.Dramaturging Personal Narratives explores the relationship between personal and cultural identity by investigating how people perceive and creatively...

Brecht in L.A.

Brecht in L.A.

by Rick Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2003

Bertolt Brecht, perhaps the most important dramatist/director/theorist of the twentieth century, is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university theatre departments, literature departments, and theatre-artist training programs throughout the world....

The Swedish Porn Scene

Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film

by Mariah Larsson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

This book presents a close look at the golden age of Swedish pornography in the 1970s, with a specific focus on pornographic films screened in Malmö between 1971 and 1976. How, Mariah Larsson asks, was that one small city’s embrace of the era’s sexual liberation both representative and unique...

Cindy Sherman

Another kind of monster

by Dahlia Schweitzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014

One of the twentieth century’s most significant artists, Cindy Sherman has quietly uprooted conventional understandings of portraiture and art, questioning everything from identity to feminism. Critics around the world have taken Sherman’s photographs and extensively examined what lies underneath....

Provoking the Field

International Perspectives on Visual Arts PhDs in Education

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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019

Provoking the Field invites debate on, and provides an essential resource for, transnational arts-based scholars engaged in critical analyses of international visual arts education and its enquiry in doctoral research. The book encompasses creative research practices in the visual arts, and advances...

The Hollywood War Film

Critical Observations from World War I to Iraq

by Daniel Binns
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017

Considering selected films representing three periods in history – World Wars I and II and their interim, the Vietnam War, and the major conflicts in the Middle East – The Hollywood War Film reflects on Hollywood’s representations of war and conflict, in order to map some cinematic discourses...

Inclusion in New Danish Cinema

Sexuality and Transnational Belonging

by Meryl Shriver-Rice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

Often recognized as one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark, like its Scandinavian neighbours, is known for its progressive culture, which is also reflected in its national cinema. It is not surprising, then, that Danish film boasts as many successful women film directors as men, uses...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

Research-based Theatre aims to present research in a way that is compelling and captivating, connecting with viewers on imaginative and intellectual levels at the same time. The editors bring together scholars and practitioners of research-based theatre to construct a theoretical analysis of the field...
by Catherine Madden
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

An educational method used to improve performance, the Alexander Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental effort with consciously coordinated responses, maximizing effectiveness while also relieving, if necessary, any chronic stiffness or stress. Integrative Alexander Technique...

Flesh Into Light

The Films of Amy Greenfield

by Robert Haller
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

Over her more than four-decade career, New York based filmmaker, performer and writer Amy Greenfield has achieved widespread critical acclaim for her genre-bending films which cross boundaries of experimental film, video art and multimedia performance – from her feature film, Antigone/Rites Of Passion...

Ghostbodies

Towards a New Theory of Invalidism

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

How is illness represented in today’s cultural texts? In Ghostbodies, Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisible—a ghost—because it does not always fit society’s definition of disability. In these pages, she reflectively engages in a philosophical discussion...

Performing Process

Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019

Choreographic process is increasingly examined, shared and discussed in a variety of academic, artistic and performative contexts. More than ever before, post-show discussions, artistic blogs, books, archives, seminars and sharings provide opportunities for choreographers to explain their individual...

Tormented Minds

Tormented Minds

by Christine Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003

This anthology contains three plays (Ceremonial Kisses, Shading the Crime, and The Maternal Cloister) that feature a protagonist who is compelled to confront his or her particular oppressors. The critique of this oppression through theatre falls on particular social institutions and differs for each...
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