Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
Pop Fiction
The Song in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Pop Fiction's unique essays individually consider one song within a cinematic context. Unlike previous collected volumes about pop music in film, where a generalised approach has been adopted, this offers instead a close examination of two pervasive and significant mediums in combination. The collection...
The Art Rules
Wisdom and Guidance from Art World Experts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
A well-known advocate and proponent of art in Chicago, Paul Klein is a long-time gallerist whose friendships with artists, dealers, collectors, and curators have afforded him a rare vantage point on the vagaries and victories of the art world. Since closing his gallery in 2004, he has parlayed his...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This book is written by media scholars from all over Europe who are members of the Euromedia Research Group. What unites the group is the joint interest of its members in the analysis of media structures and media policy in Europe against the background of contemporary communication theories and concepts....
Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe
Unpacking the Policy Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Unpacking the Policy Cycle - Critical Issues in Comparative Media Regulation and Governance in Europe represents the continuation and further development of a long tradition of media policy books, focusing on the development of media structures and media policy within Europe. It provides a comprehensive...
Lure of the Big Screen
Cinema in Rural Australia and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Lure of the Big Screen explores film exhibition and consumption in rural parts of the UK and Australia, where film theatres are often highly valued as spaces around which isolated communities can gather and interact. Going beyond national borders, this book examines how theatres in areas of social...
Why We Make Art And Why it is Taught
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2010
Governments around the world spend millions on art and cultural institutions, evidence of a basic human need for what the author refers to as 'creating aesthetic significance.' Yet what function or purpose does art satisfy in today’s society? In this thorough and accessible text, Hickman rejects...
The Artist as Culture Producer
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life is a collection of essays by 40 visual artists. Edited by artist and educator Sharon Louden, the book describes how artists extend their practices outside of their studios. All of these contributors have impactful, artistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 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....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving...
Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain
Modernity and Mass Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The so-called “Silver Age” of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility, and a boom in mass culture. This book offers a close look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collections of...
Applied Theatre Second Edition
International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Six years after its initial publication, Applied Theatrereturns with a second edition. As the first book to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for implementing their own theatrical projects, it served as a vital addition to this area of growing interest, winning the...
African Theatre for Development
Art for Self-determination
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This book acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of the performing arts in this region. The book provides an opportunity...
Creativity, Culture and Commerce: Producing Australian Children’s Television with Public Value
Producing Australian Children’s Television with Public Value
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Since the late 1970s, Australia has nurtured a creative and resilient children’s television production sector with a global reputation for excellence. Providing a systematic analysis of the creative, economic, regulatory, and technological factors that shape the production of contemporary Australian...
Digital Futures and the City of Today
New Technologies and Physical Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now inter-woven within an invisible digital matrix. This matrix alters human perceptions of the city, informs our behavior, and increasingly influences the urban designs we ultimately inhabit. Digital...