Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Audiences and Publics
When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere. Changing Media - Changing Europe Series, Volume 2nces and Publics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
In today’s thoroughly mass-mediated world, audiences and publics are, of course, composed of the same people. Yet social science traditionally treats them quite differently. Indeed, it is commonplace to define audiences in opposition to the public: in both popular and elite discourses, audiences...
Zombies in the Academy
Living Death in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies, and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural, and pedagogical state of...
Confronting Theory
The Psychology of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory (‘with a capital-T’) in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as risibly pretentious and abstract, Confronting...
Polanski & Perception
The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Polanski and Perception, the psychology of seeing and the cinema of Roman Polanski, is about the Roman Polanski’s interest in the nature of perception and how this is manifested in his films. Firstly, this book discusses Roman Polanski’s, his career, his early shorts and his features, the Knife...
by Wendy Everett
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution and exhibition and detailed critical analysis of specific films, directors, and national cinemas, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn Monroe was an actress, singer, and sex symbol whose influence far outlasted her short life. Contributors to Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe situate the platinum blonde starlet’s omnipresent cultural relevance within the zeitgeist of current popular culture...
The Architecture of the Screen
Essays in Cinematographic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists but also architects a completely new way to think about and describe the visual. The Architecture...
Cinema and Landscape
Film, Nation and Cultural Geography: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
While the consideration of landscape on film has been growing in currency over the past four to five years, as yet no single publication has attempted to embrace the multitude of nationalities, cinematic examples and critical approaches that Cinema and Landscape encompasses. Written by reputed cinema...
Re-Imagining the City
Art, Globalization and Urban Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Re-imagining the City: Art, globalization and urban spaces investigates creative practices in urban space and the diverse ways that contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture, and communications...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of key films and filmmakers, the contributors to this volume resituate discussions of queer representation...
Frontiers of Screen History
Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945–2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Frontiers of Screen History provides an insightful exploration into the depiction and imagination of European borders in cinema after World War II. The editors and authors bring forward the geopolitical issues at the basis both the films of world-wide distribution, known to many, and others, shot within confining conditions or inhighly local places, remain unknown within prevailing canons.
Personal Style Blogs
Appearances that Fascinate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From *Style Rookie *to Style Bubble, personal style blogs exploded onto the scene in the mid-2000s giving voice to young and stylish writers who had their own unique take on the seasonal fashion cycle and how to curate an individual style within the shifting swirl of trends. *Personal Style Blogs *examines...
Pride and Panic
Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia’s anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture. Russian film is shown, in both its creation and perception, to expose the intriguing dynamics of societal psychological conditions. Using specific...
Russia’s New Fin de Siècle
Contemporary Culture between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This volume investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twenty-first century, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regards to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary culture? This question...