Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Playwriting and Young Audiences
Collected Wisdom and Practical Advice from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Despite the fact that there is a thriving presence of theatre for young people in today’s society, there is, however, no contemporary guide dedicated to the writing of plays for young people in both professional and educational contexts. We only have to look at the colourful and compelling plays...
Europe in Black & White
Immigration, Race, and Identity in the ‘Old Continent'
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Europe in Black and White offers new critical perspectives on race, immigration, and identity on the Old Continent. In reconsidering the various forms of encounters with difference, such as multiculturalism and hybridity, the contributors address a number of issues, including geography, politics and...
Green Documentary
Environmental Documentary in theTwenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon. It explores how the films offer a variety of responses to...
Holistic Shakespeare
An Experiential Learning Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
The standard analytical approach to teaching Shakespeare does not tend to help students understand the theatricality of the Bard’s plays and can leave them with an overly dry, disconnected view of Shakespeare. Designed to address this problem, Holistic Shakespeare combines analysis with creative learning...
by Rick Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place. The play admits the truth of Walter Benjamin's view of history as ''time filled by the presence of the now''. Parallels between past and...
Spring and No Flowers
Memories of an Austrian Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Albertine Gaur shares with the reader her childhood memories of the period just before, and during, the Second World War in Austria, her homeland. She relives this time of great social and political upheaval, depicting it through the eyes of a childhood as she passes from infancy to adolescence. It...
On Stage
The theatrical dimension of video image
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
In On Stage, Mathilde Roman explores the resonances that fields of theatre – stage, décor, space, gaze and more – have in the practice of video arts. Using these notions of theatre both as points of reference and as a prism through which video installation can be approached, Roman concentrates...
Memory Fragments
Visualising Difference in Australian History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Taking as its starting point four contemporary visual artists whose work utilizes the conventions of museum display and collecting practices, Memory Fragmentsexamines how these artists have reconfigured dominant representations of Australian history and identity, including viewpoints often marginalized...
Picturing the Cosmos
A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena narrating the Soviet Union’s 1957...
Seamlessness: Making and (Un)Knowing in Fashion Practice
Making and (Un)Knowing in Fashion Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016
Taking the concept of “seamlessness” as her starting point, Yeseung Lee offers an innovative practice-based investigation into the meaning of the handmade in the age of technological revolution and globalized production and consumption. Combining firsthand experience of making seamless garments...
(Re)Positioning Site Dance
Local Acts, Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
This co-authored book aims to articulate international approaches to making, performing and theorizing site-based dance. Intended for artists, scholars, and students, the approaches discussed are informed by interdisciplinary engagements with socio-cultural, political, economic and ecological perspectives....
by Stephen Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book collects the latest research developments in the use of functional programming languages. The contents highlight major research goals and engineering concerns in the subject
by Paul Honeywill, Tony Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Digital Design using QuarkXPress 4 gives you the ability to fully understand QuarkXPress, while developing a knowledge of the rules of design and how computers can exploit them. Students with non visual backgrounds can rapidly improve, producing worthy examples of pages that integrate text and image....
Point Blank
Nothing to Declare; Operation Wonderland; Roses and Morphine
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
This definitive publication of Point Blank’s early work is essential reading for students, audiences, actors and directors interested in radical new writing for performance. Comprehensive notes are provided to enable a range of potential re-stagings of the texts, and the critical essays offer readers...