Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
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...
Directors
From Stage to Screen and Back Again
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The interviews contained in Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again demonstrate the myriad ways in which a theater background can engender innovative and stimulating work in film. As unique and idiosyncratic as the personalities they feature, the Director’s conversations with Susan Beth Lehman...
Disaster Capitalism
or Money Can't Buy You Love Three Plays by Rick Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The book includes three full-length plays: Shadow Anthropology (a dark comedy about the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan), Through the Roof (a Faustian trip through the social history of "natural" disaster in New Orleans), and Celestial Flesh (a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement, sacred...
The Film Paintings of David Lynch
Challenging Film Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
One of the most distinguished ?lmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is ?rmly rooted in ?ne art. He was motivated to make his ?rst ?lm as a student because he wanted a painting that “would really be able to move.” Most existing studies of Lynch, however, fail...
Photocinema
The Creative Edges of Photography and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema—or the interplay of the still and moving image—the photographs, interviews, and critical essays in this volume explore the ways in which the two media converge and diverge, expanding the boundaries of each in interesting and unexpected ways....
The Visceral Screen
Between the Cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Narrative and spectacle describe two extremes of film content, but the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg resist such categorization. Instead, Robert Furze argues, the defining characteristic of Cassavetes and Cronenberg’ respective approaches is that of “visceral” cinema—a term...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
World Film Locations: London is an exciting visually focused tour of a diverse range of films shot on location in London. The volume will contain concise but knowledgeable reviews of carefully chosen film scenes and evocative essays about key directors, themes, ideas and historical periods that explore...