Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Images & Identity
Educating Citizenship through Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Highlighting the ways that digital media can be used in interdisciplinary curricula, Images & Identity brings together ideas from art and citizenship teachers in the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Portugal, and the UK on producing online curriculum materials. This book offers a practical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 brings together essays by film-makers, exhibitors, cultural critics, and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and film-makers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger...
Citizen Voices
Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This book concentrates exclusively on the dialogic turn in the governance of science and the environment. The starting point for this book is the dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge in which practices claiming to be based on principles of dialogue and participation have...
Cartomancy and Tarot in Film
1940–2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy – the practice of fortune telling via playing cards – and dives deep into its invention and promulgation in film. After providing an introduction to divination and cartomancy, Auger offers...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Performative Materials in Architecture and Designaddresses the convergence of several significant and fundamental advancements in the ways that materials and environments are designed, evaluated, and experiences within architecture and related disciplines. The emergence of experimental and ultra-performing...
Developing Dialogues
Indigenous and Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic community broadcasting, and this is the first comprehensive study globally to chart the rise of its new relationship. Based on studies of radio and television audiences in Australia, the authors argue that community radio and television...
Gavin Bolton's Contextual Drama
The Road Less Travelled
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Gavin Bolton’s Contextual Drama is the result of more than two decades of study of Bolton’s theory and practice. For teachers and those in the caring professions, it will clarify the power of contextual drama as a beneficial learning medium for children and adults, both within and beyond the...
The Search for Mind
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The degree to which cognitive science as currently conceived can aspire to be the science of mind is a difficult issue. Proposing anintegrated approach to cognitive science, this revised edition of The Search For Mind has been updated to meet the newest developments of this rapidly changing field....
Communication and Discourse Theory
Collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
This volume gathers the work of the Brussels group of critical media and communication scholars that deploy discourse theory as theoretical backbone and analytical research perspective. The book seeks to show the value and applicability of discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA) within the field of media...
Octave Mirbeau
Two Plays - Business Is Business & Charity
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Octave Mirbeau was born in Trévières, Normandy, on 16 February 1848. He had a quiet childhood, which seemingly came to an abrupt end when he was sent to a Jesuit college at Vannes in 1859. The next four years were a miserable experience for the young Mirbeau, and the barbarity, tyranny and snobbery...
The Emergence of Video Processing Tools Volumes 1 & 2
Television Becoming Unglued
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s. Split over two volumes, the contributors examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations...
Film Studies in China
Selected Writings from Contemporary Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Film Studies in China is a collection of specially selected articles chosen from issues of the Contemporary Cinema journal published throughout the year. Contemporary Cinema is one of the most prestigious academic film studies journals in China. Recently, this journal has been active not only in publishing...
Australian TV News
New Forms, Functions, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Australian TV News explores the important role of entertainment in Australian television news over the past decade. Through the use of textual analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, it argues that “infotainment” and satire are increasingly becoming significant methods of informing...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Since its premiere in November 1963, the classic British television programme Doctor Who has been a cornerstone of popular culture for half a century. From the earliest ‘Exterminate!’ to the recent ‘Allons-y!,’ from the white-haired grandfather to the wide-grinned youth, the show has depicted...