Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Spectacular Death
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and (Un)representability
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life - with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical...
by David Rudkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Red Sun and Merlin Unchained are the most recent original stage works by one of the most acknowledged yet neglected dramatists of our time. Red Sun is a two-hander, tightly tethered within the classical unities of theme and space and the span of a single day. Merlin Unchained is an explosive, multitudinous...
Forget-Me-Not, Iran
The Story of Keith Ransom-Kehler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Facing hardship, enduring pain, losing all – such things are a bitter pill to swallow for anyone. For those devoted to the life of the spirit, cruel misfortune – even violent opposition – are familiar stages of the journey of life. Walking a spiritual path in a material world is rarely an easy...
Moving the Eye through 2-D Design
A Visual Primer
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
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Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics
Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In recent years, celebrities from George Clooney to Bono to Angelina Jolie have attempted to play an increasingly important role in global politics. Celebrity activism is an ever-growing, internationally visible phenomenon—yet the impact of these high-profile humanitarians on public awareness, government...
The Philadelphia Connection
Conversations with Playwrights
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Philadelphia is one of America’s most interesting and innovative cities for theatre. This book paints a picture of the city’s burgeoning scene through interviews with some of Philadelphia’s most influential and successful playwrights. Featuring interviews with Bruce Graham, Michael Hollinger,...
by Alison Oddey, Christine White
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The notion of spectatorship has become of increasing interest as artists develop experimental works and manufacturers seek to produce the means for viewing such works. Modes of Spectating explores the visual landscapes which spectators encounter, and how they perceive what they view.The volume questions...
New Zealand Film and Television
Institution, Industry and Cultural Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
This title is authored by well known researchers and authors in the field. Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of...
by Elena Siemens
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Few cities in the world offer the diversity of stunning visuals that can be found on the streets of Moscow, from famous landmarks like Red Square to the Boulevard Ring and Kamergersky Lane and the residential areas beyond the Garden Ring. For this book, former Moscow resident Elena Siemens travelled...
NanoCulture
Implications of the New Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Nano denotes a billionth; a nanometer is a billionth of a meter. New instrumentation and techniques have for the first time made possible materials research and engineering at this level, the scale of individual molecules and atoms. Extraordinary visions of material abundance, unprecedented materials,...
Computers and Art
Computers and Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use of computer technology in art practice. The contributors include an art critic, an educator, a practicing artist and a researcher....
Christoph Schlingensief
Art Without Borders
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activism, opera, and theatre. Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders is the first book to be published in English on Schlingensief’sgroundbreaking, politically...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
This second Volume of Computers and Typography reflects new developments in this rapidlychanging field. This book complements without in any way supplanting Volume1 through an extensive elaboration of issues that were considered only briefly the first Volume. Its aim is to alert those involved in...
Vanishing Points
Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Deftly deploying Derrida’s notion of the ‘unexperienced experience’ and building on Paul Virilio’s ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Pointsexplores the aesthetic character of presence and absence as articulated in contemporary art, photography, film, and emerging media....