Intellect imprint: 532 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Drawing on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators and academics, Searching for Art’s New Publics explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences: from passers-by encountering and participating in the work unexpectedly, to professionals...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Volume 10 in the Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) series presents some of the latest research results in the implementation of functional programming languages and the practice of functional programming. It contains a peer-reviewed selection of the best articles presented at the 2009 Tenth Symposium...
Tech-Noir Film
A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
From the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner to the James Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary...
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...
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...
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...