Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Writing on Drawing
Essays on Drawing Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
An increased public and academic interest in drawing and sketching, both traditional and digital, has allowed drawing research to emerge recently as a discipline in its own right. In light of this development, Writing on Drawing presents a collection of essays by leading artists and drawing researchers...
Histories of Art and Design Education
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This Collection of fourteen essays by eleven different authors demonstrates the increasing breadth of enquiry that has taken place in art and design education history over the past two decades, and the expanding range of research models applied to the subject. The essays are grouped into six sections...
Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition
Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Digital technologies are playing an increasingly instrumental role in guiding the curatorial and institutional strategies of contemporary art museums today. Designed around contextual studies of virtuality and the art of exhibition, this interdisciplinary volume applies practice-based research to...
Real Objects in Unreal Situations
Modern Art in Fiction Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Real Objects in Unreal Situations is a lucid account of a much-neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By examining the historical, political, and personal realities that situate the artworks, Susan Felleman offers...
Howard Barker Interviews 1980–2010
Conversations in Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
British playwright Howard Barker coined the term “theatre of catastrophe” to describe his unique brand of complex, poetic, ambiguous, and often unsettling drama. Revered by many – not least in continental Europe, North America and Australia – as one of the greatest living dramatists in the English...
Allegorical images
Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Werner Schroeter is one of the most important and influential directors of the New German Cinema, yet discussion of his films within film theory has been intermittent and un-sustained. This book provides a long-overdue introduction to Schroeter’s visually lavish, idiosyncratic and conceptually rich...
Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault
An unreasonable body of work
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost $200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social networking...
Feminist Ethics in Film
Reconfiguring care through cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Earlier films were seen for the purpose of entertainment but scenario has been changed now. Today’s, films are not seen only for entertainment but they have a great impact on the thinking of human and also make them capable to understand and handle these situations. Further, films can also focus...
Ned Kelly
A Cultural History of Kelly History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
One of Australia's most notorious outlaws, bushranger Ned Kelly was captured in a spectacular gun-battle at Glenrowan in 1880. Stephen Gaunson illuminates a central irony: from novels to comics to the branding of the site where he was captured, most cultural representations of Kelly are decidedly lowbrow.
Teaching Actors
Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In the Teaching Actors book, the author discusses a language for actor training and argues that there is a need to re-assess not only how actors should be trained but also how teachers of acting should be trained. In this book, the author represents several topics that relate to current training practices...
Selling War
The Role of the Mass Media in Hostile Conflicts from World War I to the "War on Terror"
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book is the first collection of essays to explore the changing relationships between war, media, and the public from a multidisciplinary perspective and over an extended historical period. It is also the first textbook for students in this field, discussing a wide range of theoretical concepts...
Refugee Performance
Practical Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The title of this book, Refugee Performance, suggests there is a constituency of practices that might be unified under a definite term or god forbid to propose a new field of study. This is far from the intentions of the collection. This collection has grown out of an interest in performance and theatre...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Memory, Space, Sound presents a collection of essays from scholars in a range of disciplines that together explore the social, spatial, and temporal contexts that shape different forms of music and sonic practice. The contributors deploy different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches...
Australian Film Theory and Criticism
Volume 2 Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
A three-volume project tracing key critical positions, people and institutions in Australian film, Australian Film Theory and Criticism interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but also its relationships to adjacent disciplines and institutions. The second volume in the series,...