Books published by INTELLECT

A memoir of one American's journey through post-9/11 US in search of the lived realities behind the phrase 'I am an American'.

Since the 1990s, women artists have for the first time dominated the creation and evolution of work depicting female bodies, producing what are arguably the most challenging, critically debated, well publicized, and highly collected representations of females. This title explores the representation of girls in contemporary women's art.

This book explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a range of films from the 1920s to the present and looks at how love is portrayed in cinema across Europe and the United States. Essays from top film scholars demonstrate the centrality of desire to film narrative and explores multiple models of love within Europe's frontiers.

In "The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age," artist and educator Mel Alexenberg offers a vision of a postdigital future that reveals a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. He ventures beyond the digital to explore postdigital perspectives rising from creative encounters among art, science, technology, and human consciousness. The interrelationships between these perspectives demonstrate the confluence between postdigital art and the dynamic, Jewish structure of consciousness. Alexenberg's pioneering artwork--a fusion of spiritual and technological realms--exemplifies the theoretical thesis of this investigation into interactive and collaborative forms that imaginatively envisages the vast potential of art in a postdigital future.

Explores spaces of performance in 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 of performance in Moscow.

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts""organization whose mission is to preserve, document, and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists--particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content. Over more than thirty years, Franklin Furnace has exhibited works by hundreds of avant-garde artists, some of whom--Laurie Anderson, Vito Acconci, Karen Finley, Guillermo G"omez""-"Pena, Jenny Holzer, and the Blue Man Group, to name a few--are now established names in contemporary art. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive history of this remarkable organization from its conception to the present. Organized around the major art genres that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, this book intersperses first-person narratives with readings by artists and scholars on issues critical to the organization's success as well as Franklin Furnace's many contributions to avant-garde art.

The analysis of film music is emerging as one of the fastest-growing areas of interest in film studies, but the lack of common language and methodology affects it. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Gregg Redner analyses the problem and offers a solution - a methodological bridge - that will take film music analysis to a new level.

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. This book emphasizes the many oft-overlooked comical renderings of history.

Comprising the most current scholarship from leading experts in the fields of gender and media studies, "Gendered Transformations" offers readers a new foundation from which to reexamine traditional perspectives on gender. Organized into sections concerning representational politics, embodied performance, and social constructions of reality, these essays explore a wide variety of concerns from a similarly wide variety of perspectives, from essentialist to anti-essentialist. A thought-provoking contribution to a number of disparate fields, "Gendered Transformations" offers a rare interdisciplinary approach to gender that reflects the most recent developments in media theory and methodology.

Offers a fresh perspective, outlining a nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, this book identifies the Grey Zone as the persistence and function of ambiguity in everyday life.

The Blind offers an opportunity to explore how we see animals in photography and, in parallel to this exploration which questions the human attitude towards animals, the text examines the role of Darwin's evolutionary theory in the context of human relations.

In the mid- 1980s, film director Marco Bellocchio and renegade psychoanalyst Massimo Fagioli co-wrote "The Devil in the Flesh", a politically and sexually charged film illustrating some of Fagioli's controversial theories. This title considers these divergent readings and what they have to tell us about contemporary society.

Picturing Immigration offers a comparative study of the photojournalistic framing of immigrants in these two southern European nations, which were recently transformed from senders to receivers of migrants.

The essays in this book offer new critical perspectives on race, immigration and identity on the Old Continent. In reconsidering the various forms of encounters with difference, the contributors address a number of issues, including the cartography of postcolonial Europe. It features scholars from a variety of nationalities and disciplinary areas.

In the mid-50s, Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs that resulted in The Americans, which represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. Jonathan Day revisits this work and contributes a thoughtful critical commentary.

This book combines written and audiovisual texts to describe and analyse the use of documentary filmmaking in recording experiences of political conflict. McLaughlin draws on the diverse fields of film and cultural studies in this informed, instructive contribution to documentary filmmaking and post-conflict studies.

This book of essays examines the conditions of cultural production in the first decade of the twenty-first century. With an emphasis on how current neoliberal policies have affected institutions of cultural production and dissemination, it highlights ensuing changes to critical theory and poses questions about cultural democracy and social change.

From the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner to the James Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works - including The Matrix, RoboCop, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -are discussed with reference to their relationship to tech-noir and one another. Featuring an extensive, clearly indexed filmography, Tech-Noir Film will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more about the development of this new and highly innovative genre.

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style and is now a fashion showplace. Berliner Chic charts the stories of entrepreneurially-savvy manufacturers and cultural workers striving to establish their city as a fashion capital, and being interrupted by politics, ideology and war.

This book presents a robust history of the artist-teacher from the classical era to the twenty-first century. Particular pedagogical portraits illustrate the artist-teacher in various contexts. This book focuses on the complex thinking processes artists utilize when teaching and offers a reconciliation of the artistic and educational enterprises.

Provides a theoretical and contextual analysis which highlights the major themes and issues affecting European media. This book maps the scope of contemporary media policy and industry activities, assessing the impact of various technologies and radical changes in distribution and consumption on media practices, organisations and strategies.

From Sergei Eisenstein's anti-tsarist drama, "The Battleship Potemkin", to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic explosion, this title explores the socio-political impact of the cinema of Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Presenting a varied and thought-provoking collage of the city onscreen - from the silent era to the present - World Film Locations: New York provides a fascinating and historic look back at the rich diversity of locations that have provided the backdrop for some of the most memorable films.

With wide appeal to actors, directors, acting students, acting teachers, and trainers, the author draws from twenty-five years of experience as an acting teacher and director to introduce innovative ways of thinking about acting.

In an era which has seen many forms of artistic creation becoming digitized, the practice of drawing, in the traditional sense, has remained constant. This book redefines drawing more holistically as an enactive phenomenon, and makes connections between a variety of disciplines in order to find out how drawing helps us understand the world.

Looks at the development of French screen studies in the United Kingdom over the years and the ways in which innovative scholarship in the UK has helped shape the field in English and French speaking universities. This text is also a tribute to six key figures within the field who have been leaders in research and teaching of French cinema.