Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Fan Phenomena: James Bond explores the devoted fanbase that has helped make Bond what he is, offering a serious but wholly accessible take on the many different ways that fans have approached, appreciated, and appropriated Bond over the sixty years of his existence from the pages of Ian Fleming’s...
Performing Process
Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Choreographic process is increasingly examined, shared and discussed in a variety of academic, artistic and performative contexts. More than ever before, post-show discussions, artistic blogs, books, archives, seminars and sharings provide opportunities for choreographers to explain their individual...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
For those moments of tension, when nerves are jangled and feelings stretched. This book uses short quotes from many spiritual and poetic sources to restore, revive and reassure. Among these quotes there may be one which offers companionship throughout the day.
by Neil Blain, Hugh O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity? Media, Monarchy and...
by N. M. Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Henry IV's conversion to catholicism in 1593 and Papal absolution in 1595 were traversed by multiple problems and difficulties. These religious events were inseparable from concurrent political, diplomatic and military issues. The subject is therefore examined both within its civil war background...
by Mike Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of European cinema and extensively addresses questions like this. Mike Wayne identifies some key themes...
Transglobal Fashion Narratives
Clothing Communication, Style Statements and Brand Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Everywhere we look, people are using fashion to communicate self and society—who they are, and where they belong. Transglobal Fashion Narratives presents an international, interdisciplinary analysis of those narratives. Moving from sweatshop to runway, page to screen, camera to blog, and artist...
Reaching Audiences
Distribution and Promotion of Alternative Moving Image
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
With a Foreword by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith From Hollywood blockbusters to artists’ film and video, distributors play a vitally important role in getting films in front of audiences. As the link between production and exhibition, their acquisition policies, promotional practices, and level of resources...
Superman: The Movie
The 40th Anniversary Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
From the film’s record-break budgets to the enmity between director and producers, the story behind the making of Superman is inherently dramatic. Marking 40 years since the film’s commercial release, the book presents original interview transcripts with the cast and crew that, when read together,...
Plays in Time
The Beekeeper's Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This is an anthology of four plays set during seminal events from the late 20th Century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel’s 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture program; and the heroism of climate scientists facing attack...
The Designer
Half a Century of Change in Image, Training, and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Design is one of the most fast-paced fields in the art world, as professionals, students and teachers must reckon with new technologies before the older versions have much time to collect dust. In The Designer, Rosemary Sassoon surveys fifty years of change in the world of design, evaluating the skills...
Theatre in Passing
A Moscow Photo-Diary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Theatre in Passing explores spaces of performance in contemporary Moscow. Inspired by French philosopher Michel de Certeau’s model of a 'second, poetic geography' in which the walker - the everyday practitioner - invents the space observed by the voyeur, this book takes the reader on a tour of spaces...
Historical Comedy On Screen
Subverting History with Humour
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In 1893, Friedrich Engels branded history 'the cruelest goddess of all.' This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities. There are few places this is more...
Inspiring Writing in Art and Design Education
Taking a Line for a Write
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Art and design students today face a wide range of writing tasks – from reflective and self-promotional pieces to reviews, essays and dissertations. This book is an answer to art and design students and staff, disheartened by negative past experiences, who say that they loathe writing, and encourages...