Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Peter Weir
A Creative Journey from Australia to Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The cinematic output of Australian director Peter Weir has garnered numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim—from his early short films of the 1970s to the Hollywood hits he’s helmed since 1985, including the likes of Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander.Drawing...
Australian Post-war Documentary Film
An Arc of Mirrors
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The post-war period in Australian cultural history sparked critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization. Australian Post-War Documentary Film tackles all these issues in a considered and wide-ranging analysis of government, institutional and also radical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy from...
Educating Film-makers
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
A timely consideration of both the history and the current challenges facing practice-based film training, Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact, and significance of film education in Britain, Europe, and the United States. Film schools, the authors show, have historically...
by Albert Moran
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Although TV distribution has undergone a massive increase in volume and value over the past fifty years, there is a systematic lack of both curiosity and knowledge on the part of both industry and scholars about this area. This book assists in the filling of this gap by studying what, in fact, occurs...
The Face on the Screen
Questions of Death, Recognition and Public Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
There was a time is screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image… The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the endless 'talking heads' of television and the ever-changing array of film stars' faces have reduced the...
by Kari Kallioniemi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
English pop music was a dominant force on the global cultural scene in the decades after World War II—and it served a key role in defining, constructing, and challenging various ideas about Englishness in the period. Kari Kallioniemi covers a stunning range of styles of pop—from punk, reggae,...
by Peter Billingham
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This new series of cutting edge critical essays and articles in issues concerning Drama and Performance opens with Volume I, which will focus on issues of Interventionist Drama and related examples of Drama as Community. The list of contributors is impressive and quite consciously eclectic, ranging...
by Simon Sigley
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
This book is an investigation into the transnational nature of ‘film culture’, taking the film culture of one country - New Zealand - as a case study to investigate the dynamics of such a culture. ‘Film culture’ is used here to refer to the network of discursive and non-discursive activities...
by Jo Davies, Leo Duff
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
A major International conference on this theme took place in January 2003. To coincide with this event, this book documents and expands upon the theme of ''drawing the process.'' Much debate and research is currently undertaken in this area and it is the intention of the book to galvanise this, while...
Martha Graham
Gender & the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Martha Graham’s name was internationally recognized as part of the modern dance world, and though trends in choreography continue to change, her influence on dance as an art form endures. In this, the first extended feminist look at the modern dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham...
Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space
Three Decades of Making Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Cape Town’s Magnet Theatre has been a positive force in South African theatre for three decades, a crucial space for theatre, education, performance, and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, as well as perspectives...
The Cinema Makers
Public Life and the Exhibition of Difference in South-Eastern and Central Europe Since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in south-eastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema ‘events’, writing about film and making films themselves. Drawing on a corpus of interviews with...
Precarious Spaces
The Arts, Social & Organisational Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Precarious Spaces addresses current concerns around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precarity of daily life. The book offers a survey of socially and community-engaged art practices in South America, focusing in particular on Brazil, and contributes to the debate about...