Intellect imprint: 532 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
World Film Locations: Tokyo gives readers a kaleidoscopic view of one of the world’s most complex and exciting cities through the lens of world cinema. 50 scenes from classic and contemporary films explore how motion pictures have shaped the role of Tokyo in our collective consciousness, as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first installment of Directory of World Cinema: Japan, this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favorites, and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with new contributions from leading critics and...
Robert Frank's 'The Americans'
The Art of Documentary Photography
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In the mid 50s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The resultant photo-book, The Americans, represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America’s...
British Pantomime Performance
British Pantomime Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
This original analysis of contemporary British pantomime addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with, and potentially transformative experience for, its audiences.British This is an accessible and valuable text that encourages readers to review their assumptions...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Since the 1990s, women artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated, and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in the perception of women in art. Girls! Girls! Girls! presents...
TV Museum
Contemporary Art and the Age of Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
TV Museum takes as its subject the complex and shifting relationship between television and contemporary art. Informed by theories and histories of art and media since the 1950s, this book charts the changing status of television as cultural form, object of critique, and site of artistic invention....
Declarations of Independence
American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
American independent cinema has been an important creative and cultural media entity for the past fifteen years. The approach of this sector is one of cultural construction that simultaneously provides a socio-political reference through which critics and audience can attach certain films to popular...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
From his debut in a six-page comic in 1939 to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world’s most popular superhero. The continued relevance of the caped crusader could be attributed to his complex character, his dual identity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 brings together essays by film-makers, exhibitors, cultural critics, and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and film-makers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger...
Digital Art History
A Subject in Transition. Computers and the History of Art Series, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book looks at the transformation that Art and Art history is undergoing through engagement with the digital revolution. Since its initiation in 1985, CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) has set out to promote interaction between the rapidly developing new Information Technology and the study...
A Divided World
Hollywood Cinema and Emigre Directors in the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Roosevelt’s New Deal introduced sweeping social, political and cultural change across the United States, which the Hollywood film community embraced enthusiastically. When the heady idealism of the 1930s was replaced by the paranoia and fear of the post-war years, Hollywood became an easy target...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2014
World Film Locations: Los Angeles is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. Brief but concise reviews of 50 carefully chosen film scenes explore how motion...
Popular Theatre in Political Culture
Britain and Canada in focus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The first comparative study on the history and practice of popular theatre in Britain and overseas. The fragmentation of social groups in the face of the global mass media has begun to threaten the survival of popular theatre companies. This study traces the development of various types of community...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
From a decidedly inauspicious start as a low-rated television series in the 1960s that was cancelled after three seasons, Star Trek has grown to become a multi-billion-dollar industry of spin-off series, feature films and merchandise. Fuelling the ever-expanding franchise are some of the most rabid...