Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Sacred Theatre
Theatre & Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The notion of sacred has long informed the work of British dramatists such as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, and Ralph Yarrow’s Sacred Theatre is the first book to examine the role of the sacred in the practice, process and performance of drama. The volume considers the definition of the terms...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Though the creative community of Reykjavík, Iceland, has earned a well-deserved reputation for its unique artistic output—most notably the popular music that has emerged from the city since the 1980s—Reykjavík’s filmmakers have received less attention than they merit. World Film Locations:...
The Last Empire
Thirty years of Portuguese Decolonisation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field...
Hollywood Utopia
Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Utopianism, alongside its more prevalent dystopian opposite together with ecological study has become a magnet for interdisciplinary research and is used extensively to examine the most influential global medium of all time. The book applies a range of interdisciplinary strategies to trace the evolution...
Transnational Ecocinema
Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema. Transnational Ecocinema, open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures. By foregrounding these films with their...
Horizon of the Unseen
Visual Reflections on Spiritual Themes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Horizon of the Unseen' is a compilation of quotes taken from the eternal and universal truths that exist in all of the world’s spiritual traditions. The twelve themes are interpreted visually by the author, each page containing full colour reproductions. This book grew out of a series of guided...
Uncommon Goods
Global Dimensions of the Readymade
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Since Marcel Duchamp created his “readymades” a century ago—most famously christening a urinal as a fountain— the practice of incorporating commodity objects into art has become ever more pervasive.Uncommon Goods traces one particularly important aspect of that progression: the shift in artistic...
by Karina Aveyard
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets—with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way. But in a sense, that’s not new: TV formats have been being...
Signs of Change
New Directions in Theatre Education: Revised and Amplified Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
There is no one-size-fits-all way to keep pace with the changes affecting high school students and those who educate them. That’s why Joan Lazarus has gathered here the insights of hundreds of secondary school theater teachers and teaching artists on how they have responded to the shifting demands...
Temporary Stages II
Critically Oriented Drama Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Theatre teachers are forced to adapt constantly. Whether responding to advancing technologies, cuts to (or the growth of) their programme or ever-changing governmental mandates, they struggle to serve both their students and their craft. Using a theatre arts programme at one Midwestern high school,...
Frames of Mind
A Post-Jungian Look at Film, Television and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Frames of Mind provides a fresh and stimulating introduction to the world of Post-Jungian film and television studies. To orientate the reader the book starts with an overview of analytical psychology and how it has been used to analyze films. From that starting point it broadens out to include topics...
Staging Ageing
Theatre, Performance, and the Narrative of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
How can plays and performances, past and present, inform our understanding of ageing? Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates theatrical engagement with ageing from the Greek...
Theatre and Consciousness
Explanatory Scope and Future Potential
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
For the last ten to fifteen years, many disciplines of scholarship have been involved in the study of consciousness, often on an interdisciplinary basis. They include philosophy, neurosciences, psychology, physics and biology, and approaches focusing on human experience. The Centre for Consciousness...
Twilight of the Goths
The Kingdom of Toledo, c. 565-711
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Toledo, former capital of Spain until 1560, is now one of the most monumental of Spanish cities. In Roman times, it was originally a modest tribal township, which was eventually elevated to a national capital by the Visigoths (one of two main branches of the Goths, who along with their cousins, the...