Books published by INTELLECT

Theatre teachers are forced to adapt constantly and they struggle to serve both their students and craft. This book uses a theatre arts programme at a Midwestern high school to explore how change, good or ill, directly impacts students and teachers. Gonzalez shows teachers how to sustain confidence and outlines 'critically conscious' teaching.

Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2 is an essential companion to the filmic legacy of one of the world's most storied countries.

Directory of World Cinema: Argentina focuses on Argentina's film industry, one of the most popular, diverse and successful industries in Latin America. This book contains essays, reviews, full-colour stills, interviews, references and trivia. Topics include a survey of the country's key films, the Buenos Aires film festival and iconic directors.

Maps the rebirth of the manifesto as it appears at the crossroads of philosophy, performance, and politics. Featuring contributions from trailblazing artists, scholars, and activists currently working in the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Norway, this volume is suitable to scholars across the disciplines.

Suitable for teachers and those in the caring professions, this title intends to clarify the power of contextual drama as a beneficial learning medium for children and adults, both within and beyond the classroom.

Focuses on issues of power, social positioning, and practices among creators, producers, practitioners, wearers, and consumers of fashion. This book offer a critique of some of the fundamental assumptions of ethical fashion and exposes how products are often framed as fair trade in order to relieve consumers' guilt.

Identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance. This book also presents case studies of audience engagement and methodology, reviewing both conventional and innovative ways of collecting and using audience feedback data.

Presents and illustrates diverse fashions, including shoes, hats, jewellery, undergarments, and outerwear. This book explains the environmental influences that shape fashion. It helps readers learn that fashion is a reflection of the way of life at a given time, rather than an arbitrary and unpredictable force.

Cinematic representations of Helsinki range from depictions of a northern periphery to a space of cosmopolitanism, from a touristic destination to a substitute for Moscow/St Petersburg during the Cold War. This volume on Europe's northernmost capital, Helsinki, explores the relationship between the city and cinema and Finnish cultural history.

Marseilles, France's oldest city, has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when Lumiere brothers shot many films there. This book features maps of film scenes, high quality screengrabs, and images of movie locations as they appear today, accompanied by original texts penned by leading international film scholars and critics.

World Film Locations: Vancouver offers insight into how the city functions as the fourth largest film and television production center in North America. This book provides new perspectives on the relationship between the movies and the metropolis, using analyses of different film scenes and spotlight essays to highlight Canadian filmmaking.

Extensively illustrated with maps, film stills and present-day location photos, World Film Locations: Venice provides both a colourful guide to, and an incisive examination of, the floating city on film.

World Film Locations: Glasgow explores Scotland's biggest city and the many locations in which its films are viewed, set and shot. Taking in the important moments and movements in its rich cinematic history, this book seeks to discover the city's culture, character and comedy through its cinematic identity.

European governments are ceding control of national media to international organizations. European Media Governance investigates how the print, broadcast, film and advertising industries lobby in Brussels. Offering an analysis of media-related debates that affect future Europeans, this volume is essential for media professionals and scholars.

International and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. This book explores the nature of the relationship between protest movements, media representation, and communication strategies and tactics.

Penned by contributors from a range of disciplines, including art history, sociology, and media and cultural studies, this title explores such topics as the conceptual relationship between advertising and culture; the relationship of advertising to cultural fields such as art, fashion, and music; and developments in digital media practice.

Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine features never-before-published photographs from the Look archives and complete scans of Kubrick's photo essays from hard-to-obtain back issues of the magazine. It will be an indispensable addition to the libraries of Kubrick scholars and fans.

Uncommon Goods traces the shift in artistic concern toward the hidden ethical dimensions of global commerce, discussing the work of, among many others, Ai Weiwei, Cory Arcangel, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Santiago Sierra. The resulting volume will be an important contribution to scholarship on readymade art as well as to the study of materiality, embodiment and globalization.

The most creative attire is often found not on the catwalks or inside the auditoriums but on the streets. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai. Shanghai Street Style gets at the roots of Shanghai trendsetters' distinct personal styles, identifying the ideas and important cultural forces behind the trends.

This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice and participation in a cultural, political and technological sense. It also incorporates current audience and reception studies.

A guide to academics in subject areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies. It includes references to the researchers' principal articles in "Intellect" journals.

This volume of Who's Who in Research series offer a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect's subject area of Film Studies. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and research interests of hundreds of leading international academics as well as references to the researchers' principal articles in Intellect journals.

Acts as a guide to academics in subject areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies. In this series, each volume focuses on a particular subject area and gives details of researchers' principal and bibliographic information as well as a list of articles published in Intellect journals.

This book discusses spaces of performance from formal opera houses to parks and graffiti around the world and is a companion to Theatre in Passing: A Moscow Photo-Diary. Drawing on Michel de Certeau's notion of a 'second poetic geography', this new volume examines theatrical destinations in New York, London and Paris, Canada, Mexico and Turkey.

Highlighting the ways that digital media can be used in interdisciplinary curriculum, Images and Identity brings together ideas from art and citizenship teachers in the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Portugal and the United Kingdom on producing online curriculum materials. It will be of great interest to students and teachers of art and citizenship education.

When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude. Many new media artworks employ various strategies of dysfunctionality in order to explore issues of power within societies and culture.

Crossing the Street in Hanoi is a study of media and cultural artifacts that constitute the remembrance of a tragic war as reflected in the stories of eight people who lived it. Using memoir, history and criticism, this book is based on scholarly research, teaching and writing, as well as personal journals, interviews and primary source material.

Investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twenty-first century, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regards to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary culture?