Books published by INTELLECT

In On Stage, Mathilde Roman explores the resonances that fields of theatre - stage, decor, space, gaze and more - have in the practice of video arts. Using these notions as points of reference and as a prism through which video installation can be approached, Roman concentrates on questions often overlooked and offers different points of view.

Life at the End of Life explores how art can provide a means for rendering otherwise abstract, personal and spiritual experiences vividly concrete and communicable, even as they remain open-ended and transcendent. Brennan shows how artistic expression can offer valuable aesthetic and metaphysical avenues for understanding and for making meaning.

This book explores the importance of cotton as a major resource for US fashion businesses. It is rooted in an investigative research project that deployed undergraduate and graduate students and faculty researchers to US fashion businesses that rely on cotton to understand how the resource is sourced, priced, transported, manipulated and sold.

This book uses the case study of public television in post-communist Latvia to explore how audiences respond to TV offerings and how their choices can be seen as an act of agency. Juzefovics builds his book around Albert Hirschman's ideas and uses tools from social constructionism to assess how the public responds to the role of public television.

This book looks closely at Swedish pornography in the 1970s. Mariah Larsson combines contemporary case studies with comprehensive analyses of advertisements, critical responses and censorship records to ask how the small city of Malmoe's embrace of the era's sexual liberation was both representative and unique in relation to the rest of Sweden.

Driven by a powerful belief in the value of free expression, Sheryl Oring has for more than a decade been helping people across the United States voice concerns about public affairs through her 'I Wish to Say' project. This book uses that project as the starting point for an exploration of a series of issues of public interest being addressed by artists today.

Filming the City: Urban Documents, Design Practices & Social Criticism Through the Lens brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, media specialists and video artists. It offers three prisms through which to examine and use the medium of film in the context of the city. It gives commentaries of particular films and their social and urban relevance; it offers historical and contemporary criticisms of both film and urbanism from conflicting perspectives; and it documents examples of how to actively use the medium of film in the design of our cities, spaces and buildings. Giving a sense of the diversity of interactions between the medium of architectural-urban design and the medium of film, Filming the City is ideal for readers from both fields. For those coming from a spatial design background the tropes and possibilities of film as a tool and a documentary medium will be explored. For those coming from a film-media background the multiple possibilities of film as a visual backdrop, narrative theme or conceptual tool will be examined.

We live in a society that defines us by what we consume and how. Every day we make purchasing decisions that express our sense of belonging, our commitments to the environment and our systems of belief. We often choose to buy things, not necessarily because we need them, but because we believe that these things will help us express who we are - ...

The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade - the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets - to Agatha Christie's Captain Hastings - the genteel companion in greener surrounds - the P. I. has taken on any number of guises. In Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator, edi.

For three decades, Cape Town's Magnet Theatre has served as a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, this book analyses Magnet's many productions and presents a rich compendium of their work.

Arts Integration in Education is an insightful, even inspiring investigation into the enormous possibilities for change that are offered by the application of arts integration in education. Presenting research from a range of settings, from preschool to university, and featuring contributions from scholars and theorists, educational psychologist...

This book is an examination and celebration of iconic police detectives in the long and bloody history of crime fiction, film and television, identifying the individual characteristics that define these much-loved figures and discussing how they relate to their surroundings, country and class and the criminals they relentlessly pursue.

There are few figures as captivating as the antihero: the character we can't help but root for, even as we turn away in revulsion from many of the things they do. What is it that draws us to characters like Breaking Bad's Walter White, Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley, and Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander even as we decry the trail of destruction they leave in their wake?

The mere hint recently that British actor Idris Elba might take up the mantle of James Bond in future installments of the film franchise was a major international news story-a testament to the enduring interest and appeal of Bond, a figure who has become a true global icon. Fan Phenomena: James Bond explores the devoted fanbase that has hel...

This is the first major collection to reimagine and analyze the role of the creative arts in building resilient and inclusive regional communities. Bringing together Australia's leading theorists in the creative industries, as well as case studies from practitioners working in the creative and performing arts and new material from targeted resea...

Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news and documentaries. From pioneers like America's Jessie Maple Patton to China's first camerawomen to women in poverty empowered by cameras in rural India, this book reveals a world of women working with courage and skill in what has long been seen as a male field.

This book traces the emergence, development and techniques of Griersonian documentary in New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Lars Weckbecker focuses on the productions of the National Film Unit in the 1940s and '50s, following the shifting practices and governmentality of documentary's "visions of the real."

Philadelphia is one of America's most interesting and innovative cities for theatre, rich in new theatres, new plays, and rising playwrights. This book paints a picture of the city's burgeoning scene through interviews with some of Philadelphia's most influential and successful playwrights, including Louis Lippa, Jules Tasca, Arden Kass and more.

Celebrities are some of the most prominent faces of philanthropic activity, yet their participation raises certain questions. This book presents case studies of international celebrity philanthropy, looking at the tensions between celebrity activism and ground-level work and the relationship between celebrity philanthropy and cultural citizenship.

Deftly deploying Derrida's notion of the 'unexperienced experience' and building on Paul Virilio's ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Points explores the aesthetic character of presence and absence as articulated in contemporary art, photography, film and emerging media.

Most ethnographers don't achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver, Colorado, he went from barely able to carry a tune to someone whom other karaoke patrons requested to sing. Along the way, he learned everything you might ever want to know about karaoke and the people who enjoy it.

Recently, the museum and gallery have become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators and its audience is subverted and democratised. Celina Jeffery brings together scholars and artists to explore the ways that artists have introduced new curatorial ways of thinking and talking about artistic culture.

An innovative exploration of the influence of collage on twentieth- and twenty-first-century theatre, Meyerhold and the Cubists will be essential for theatre scholars and practitioners alike.

In a searing 2012 Guardian op-ed, Hannah Azieb Pool took Western fashion designers to task for their so-called African-inspired clothing. 'Dear Fashion, ' she wrote, 'Africa is a continent, not a country. Can you imagine anyone describing a fashion trend as "European-inspired?" Of course not. It's meaningless.' Now, with Fashion Cities Africa, Po...

The Beijing Film Academy Yearbook showcases the best academic debates, discussions and research from the academy in 2015 - all available for the first time in English. Aimed at narrowing the cultural gap for cross-cultural research, the book contributes not only to scholarly work on Chinese cinema, but also to film and media studies more generally.