Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Italian cinema has proved very popular with international audiences, and yet a surprising unfamiliarity remains regarding the rich traditions from which its most fascinating moments arose. Directory of World Cinema: Italy aims to offer a wide film and cultural study in which to situate some of Italian...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films to write a history of twentieth century Hollywood narrative cinema at the intersection of the geographies of narrative location, production, consumption and taste in the post-classical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
With its sprawling celebrity homes, the Walk of Fame, and the iconic sign on the hill, Hollywood is truly the land of stars. Glamorous and larger-than-life, many of the most memorable motion pictures of all time have emanated from its multimillion-dollar film industry, which exports more films per...
by Daniel Butt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The rapid growth of doctoral-level art education provides both a challenge to traditional conceptions of university knowledge and, Danny Butt argues, a blueprint for the university’s future. Synthesizing institutional history and aesthetic theory, Artistic Research in the Future Academy aims to...
by James Elkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and Slovenia. The content is not only analytic,...
Beyond Auteurism
New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain Since the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production. Maule examines how the individuals have maintained a dialectical relationship...
The Place of Artists Cinema
Space, Site and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2009
In The Place of Artists’ Cinema, Maeve Connolly identifies a recurrent concern with site, space and cinema architecture in film and video works by artists, extending from the late 1960s to the present day. Focusing on developments over the past decade, Connolly provides in-depth readings of selected...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
With more and more filmmakers taking advantage of its rich and varied settings, New Orleans has earned star-studded status as the 'Hollywood of the South'. From the big-screen adaptation of the stage classic A Streetcar Named Desire to the Elvis Presley musical King Creole, many well-known films have...
Gay Men at the Movies
Film reception, cinema going and the history of a gay male community
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Cinema has long played a major role in the formation of community among marginalized groups, and this book details that process for gay men in Sydney, Australia from the 1950s to the present. Scott McKinnon builds the book from a variety of sources, including film reviews, media reports, personal...
by Lindy Orthia
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television series in the world and is regularly watched by millions of people across the globe. While its scores of fans adore the show with cult-like devotion, the fan-contributors to this book argue that there is an uncharted dimension to Doctor...
Negotiating Spain and Catalonia
Competing Narratives of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
This book is a narrative study of four main discourses of national identity in Spain, with a special focus on Catalonia as disseminated in the Spanish press in the period between 1993-1996. The narrative analysis of the discourses of national identity is contained within two sections. The first deals...
Reframing Reality
The Aesthetics of the Surrealist Object in French and Czech Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Marcel Duchamp’s urinal re-named ‘fountain’ and placed in an art gallery. The classic image that can be seen as a duck or a rabbit, depending on how you look at it. A random object that grabs your attention and, like a Freudian slip, sums up whatever’s on your mind. These are just a few examples...
Passion of the Reel
Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reelprovides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe shows that, far from an empty receptacle for colonial legacies, Cameroon – and Africa –...
David Cronenberg
Author or Film-Maker?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
For more than 30 years, David Cronenberg has produced films, mostly outside the Studio system, which continue to disturb, surprise and challenge audiences. He has also been repeatedly drawn to literary fiction for inspiration, adapting works by figures like William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard and Patrick McGrath.