Books published by INTELLECT

Media independence is vital for democracies, and so is the independence of the regulatory bodies governing it. This book explores the complex relationship between media governance and independence of media regulatory authorities within Europe, which form part of the wider framework in which media's independence may flourish or fade.

Brings together contributions from editors at premiere news outlets like Reuters and the BBC to discuss how to assess, measure, and apply impartiality in news and current affairs in a world where the impact of digital technologies is constantly changing how news is covered, presented, and received.

Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema. This book open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures.

The surrealist object is an everyday item that takes on multiple associations by provoking the viewer's imagination. It poses a specific challenge for filmmakers who seek to apply surrealist ideas and approaches when making feature-length narrative films. This book looks at French and Czech films in order to offer a new take on surrealist film.

Explores modes of migrant representation and participation in Irish radio, focusing on the national public broadcaster Raidio Telefis Eireann (RTE) and Dublin community stations and examining the opportunities provided for voicing migrant experience in transcultural program production.

This book acknowledges the increasing cultural impact of the videogame industry. Topics include machinima, game console artwork, politically oriented videogame art and production of digital art. It contains an extended introduction from the editors, updated interviews with artists in the field and a critique of the commercial videogame industry.

Elvis Presley. Marilyn Monroe. LeBron James. Like many cultural figures who hail from the United States, they are known all over the world. ConFiguring America provides a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody America's tendency to produce celebrities and iconic personalities with global reach.

Proposing a new way of understanding the relationship between the city and personal identity, this book argues that there is no longer a distance between the two. It explores the technology, research findings, and new ideas that have made it impossible to sustain conceptions of the city that are based on the criterion of a boundary.

A collection that provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old. In a series of studies, it features contributors who reconsider evaluation practices used in art education and examine various ideas about children's development of visual skills and abilities.

Brings together international scholarship to explore the changing relationships between war, media, and the public from multidisciplinary perspectives and over an extended historical period, spanning from World War I through the so-called 'War on Terror'.

Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema - or the interplay of the still and moving image, this title features photographs and critical essays that explore the ways in which the two media converge and diverge, expanding the boundaries of each in interesting and unexpected ways.

Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception provides new and compelling insights into the social, cultural and economic factors that influence the circulation, presentations and consumption of film. This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the rapidly changing nature of modern cinema.

Explores the impact that factors such as digital design, digital fabrication and prototyping have had on built environments. This book addresses the convergence of several significant and fundamental advancements in the ways that materials and environments are designed, evaluated, and experiences within architecture and related disciplines.

Explores the public constructions of gay, lesbian, and queer identities, as well as ways of thinking about sexuality and gender, in post-socialist cultures across the European region formerly known as the Eastern bloc.

Some of America's most exciting film directors have emerged from the theater world. Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again features a series of interviews with directors who did just that. Each conversation traces its subject's personal artistic journey and explores how he or she handled the challenge of moving from stage to screen.

Why do we buy? How do our acts of - and ideas about - consumption impact our selves, our institutions and our societies? Why I Buy explains how consumption came to give meaning and value to social and personal life. Gabriel offers an analysis of the psychological roots of the American consumer society and points towards a more sustainable future.

This collection profiles canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, featuring interviews with Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and more. It poses questions that engage with issues within film studies to stimulate debate. Each interview is preceded by the director's photograph, biographical information and filmography.

A book-length study of the narratology of film music. It brings together work on film music theory and analysis and the literature of narratology and film narratology. It proposes a narratological toolkit for the description and analysis of music in film. It is suitable for those researching or studying film music or film narratology.

American independent cinema has undergone several incarnations since its emergence as an underground movement in the 1960s. In addition to essays on such genres as African American films, documentary, and queer cinema, this volume features new sections devoted to "brutal youth," religion, and war movies.

Are witnesses, jurors, or others in courtrooms distracted by in-court television cameras and their operators? Citing a lack of evidence one way or the other, the US Supreme Court has recommended additional research on the matter. Answering the court's recommendation, this proof-of-concept study demonstrates for the first time that eye-tracking t..

The Ned Kelly Films recounts the nine feature films, three miniseries and two TV movies that have been made about this controversial character, Irish Australian outlaw Ned Kelly . The book offers new insights about the textual characteristics of cinematic material and the conditions of film distribution, circulation and reception.

Deals with the development of the TV format business. This book offers a definitive history of programme franchising. It shows how production adaptation and remaking became the billion-dollar business it is today.

The first part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy.

The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in southeastern and central European cities became cinema makers. Drawing on interviews with cinema activists in Germany, Austria and the former Yugoslavia, Anna Schober illuminates the differences and similarities in the development of political culture and cinema's role in that development.

Exploring theatre works created for, by, and with refugees, this collection of essays combines newly commissioned scholarly work with examples of writing by refugees. These varied contributions illuminate performances that range from theatre in Thai refugee camps to site-specific works staged in a run-down immigrant community in the United Kingdom.

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century marked a tumultuous period in Poland's history, with artists and writers working under difficult sociopolitical conditions. This book contains the first English-language translations of four plays by Polish writers in the modernist tradition: Snow by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, In a Small House by Tadeusz Rittner, Ashanti by Wlodzimierz Perzynski and All the Same by Leopold Staff. Well-chosen and carefully annotated, these translations provide important insight into this under-explored area of Polish dramatic history and practice and facilitate greater understanding of its role in the development of European theatre. Also included is a broad discussion of the characteristics of translation for the theatre.

This volume contests the current higher educational paradigm of using objectives and outcomes as ways to measure learning. Instead, the contributors propose approaches to learning that draw upon the creative arts and humanities, including cinema, literature, dance, drama and visual art.