Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Artist, Researcher, Teacher
A Study of Professional Identity in Art and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book is aimed at all art practitioners, professionals and students who see their practices and identities embracing many aspects of the cultures of art, research and education. It may also be of interest to those in other fields who are concerned with identity formation and professional roles...
Performing Arts in Prisons
Captive Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Performing Arts in Prisons explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management,...
The Global Road Movie
Alternative Journeys Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This edited volume looks at the cinematic travel motif from different perspectives and nations, focusing on movements and flows and how these narratives (re)imagine the contemporary global world. Primarily an American genre, the road movie has been rapidly adopted by other nations. The most recent...
From Theory to Practice
How to Assess and Apply Impartiality in News and Current Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
From Theory to Practice is the first scholarly look at the possibilities and challenges of impartial and objective journalism in our digitized media world. This volume brings together contributions from editors at premiere news outlets like Reuters and the BBC to discuss how to assess, measure, and...
The Cultural Set Up of Comedy
Affective Politics in the United States Post 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
How do various forms of comedy – including stand up, satire and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through comedic performances on social media? The Cultural...
The Audience Experience
A Critical Analysis of Audiences in the Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The Audience Experience identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance. Together, new communication technologies and new kinds of audiences have transformed the expectations of performance, and The Audience Experience explores key trends in the...
Design Integrations: Research and Collaboration
Design Integrations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Design is changing, and to educate the next generation of designers, these changes need to be addressed. In light of the growing role research and interdisciplinary collaboration play in contemporary design performance, Design Integrations calls for an innovative shake up in design education. Poggenpohl...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Supernatural premiered on September 14, 2005, on what was then called the WB Network. Creator Eric Kripke was inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, putting his heroes, brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, in a big black ’67 Impala and sending them in search of the urban legends that fascinated...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The satirical American newspaper the Onion recently ran a story with the headline "College-Aged Female Finds Unlikely Kindred Spirit In Audrey Hepburn," lampooning modern American girls’ continued fascination with the star (along with their habits of hanging posters of Breakfast At Tiffany’s...
by Caridad Svich
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Four plays by playwright/theatre-maker Caridad Svich (OBIE for Lifetime Achievement) – The Hour of All Things, The Breath of Stars, Upon the Fragile Shore and Agua de luna (psalms for the rouge) – explore the rough and necessary waters of citizenship under the effects of globalization and threads...
Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre
Politics, Aesthetics and Forms
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Between 1960 and 2010, a new generation of British avant-garde theatre companies, directors, designers, and performers emerged. Some of these companies and individuals have endured to become part of theatre history while others have disappeared from the scene, mutated into new forms, or become part...
Sonic Multiplicities
Hong Kong Pop and the Global Circulation of Sound and Image
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
‘Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and - captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical - evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled world. The book’s focus on Hong Kong pop...
We Europeans
Media, Representations, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This volume explores the relationship between media and identity along the fault-lines and fissures of the ever-shifting collectivities that constitute Europe. At the centre of this dynamic are human beings, who, as makers and users of media, negotiate identities, affiliations and meanings. The collection...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
David Lynch and Mark Frost’s television series Twin Peaks debuted in April 1990 and by June of 1991 had been cancelled. Yet the impact of this surreal, unsettling show – ostensibly about the search for homecoming queen Laura Palmer’s killer – is far larger than its short run might indicate....