Books published by INTELLECT

While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. This volume offers insight into the careers of important filmmakers and focuses on the genres of experimental film, horror, and rock and punk films.

Once regarded as a system in decline, public service broadcasters have acquired renewed legitimacy in the digital environment. Exploring this remarkable transformation, this work explores the constraints and possibilities of the public service system and its prospects for continued survival in the age of on-demand media.

Constantly shifting focus between gravity and irony, playfulness and responsibility, absurdity and seriousness, Christoph Schlingensief's work foregrounds the relationship between art and politics in everyday life. This book offers a comprehensive study of the intriguing body of work that Schlingensief has developed.

Explores a diverse range of films including Guitry's "Napoleon" (1955), Vernay's "Le Comte de Monte Cristo" (1953), and Le Chanois' "Les Miserables" (1958) to expose the political cultural paradox between nostalgia for a lost past and the drive for modernization.

Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as visibly pretentious and abstract, this book examines its principal concepts from the perspective of academic psychology and shows that although many of these analyses sound like revolutionary psychological theory, few, if any, have empirical implications that students can evaluate.

Features photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in fourteen different cities around the world. This volume significantly challenges and expands the critical discourse on photography and text may be of interest to artists, curators, photographers, architects, and critical theorists.

A thorough overview of a thriving sector of cultural production, the Directory of World Cinema: American Independent chronicles the rise of the independent sector as an outlet for directors who challenge the status quo, yet still produce accessible feature films that find wide audiences and enjoy considerable box office appeal.

Although Barker is not a 'household name' in the UK, he is revered, as both a theatre theorist and a dramatist, by a great many actors, directors, university teachers and students of acting and theatre. This book collects together a series of interviews conducted with the dramatist and poet Howard Barker throughout the course of his career.

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts includes a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and human suffering (Carthage/Cartagena) and an intimately operatic reflection on Penelope and Odysseus (The Orphan Sea). Accompanied by scholarly essays placing the plays in context, this book showcases the beautiful strangeness and profound resistance in Svich's work.'Svich is one of the finest poet/playwrights of this generation. . . . She is a playwright whose plays perform like dramatic poems that are wondrous to the ear and moving to the heart.' - Seth Gordon, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

Montreal Chic is the first book to document Montreal's fashion scene and its connection to the city's design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Daniele Belanger-Michaud use their firsthand knowledge of the city's fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, uncovering many untold stories.

Modern technology has enabled anyone with a digital camera or cell phone to capture images of newsworthy events, and news organizations around the world depend on these images for their coverage of unfolding events. This book considers the ethical and professional issues that arise with the use of amateur images in the mainstream news media.

With more and more filmmakers taking advantage of its rich and varied settings, New Orleans has earned star-studded status as the 'Hollywood of the South'. This title features essays that reflect on the city's long-standing relationship with the film industry. It offers fans a guided tour of the many films that made the city their home.

World Film Locations: Las Vegas goes beyond the cliches of Sin City to examine what Hal Rothman and Mike Davis called 'the grit beneath the glitter', thus providing an opportunity to find out more about the unique position Vegas occupies in the popular imagination.

Offers an examination of various aspects of media governance, including media ownership structures, government policies, citizen's organisations and union's accountability systems, for 32 European countries. This book includes research into technological developments and provides sources for more information in each country.

Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, this title provides an analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. It shows that Cameroon - and Africa - must move beyond their colonial legacies to focus on indigenous productions of meaning informed by ordinary Cameroonian life experience.

Drawing on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators and academics, this book explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences. It bridges the gap between practice and theory, touches on issues of relational aesthetics and offers an illustrated artist-based approach.

Examines storytelling techniques and narrative strategies in contemporary Irish film and illuminates the craft, skill and creative decisions of Irish film-makers since the 1990s. This book also explores how film gave expression to tensions and fissures in the new Ireland. It reveals defining patterns, styles and tendencies within Irish cinema.

This book draws on work in phenomenology, embodiment and cinema and extends the field by examining metaphysical presence in postcolonial cinema. Through a meditation on three experimental videos by Trinidadian filmmaker Robert Yao Ramesar, this book makes the case that video performs an act of phenomenological inquiry.

The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. This book frames up contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an examination and interrogation of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment.

Blurring boundaries between many disciplines, this title supplies a context and a rationale for discussing how technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are disseminated. It is suitable art historians, theorists and curators, as well as art administrators, and grant providers.

This book redresses the balance of reality shows and the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. It explores topics such as reality TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, talent shows, fiction serials, broadcaster management policies, production decision chains and audience participation processes.

This book uses newspapers and TV listings to present an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. It explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society with in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relations between media and changes in media policies.

Offers an insight and sets out a history of what scenography as a practice and study has come to mean while also looking at specific scenographic practitioners, their work and how they have negotiated that practice with directors. This title also offers the reader insights into the working relationships of people in these creative roles.

Grigorii Aleksandrov's musical comedy films, created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s-1940s. This study presents the history of the films, situating them in the Stalin era, and suggesting fresh interpretations of individual films.

Presents a review of digital radio research in Europe. This title provides an introduction for the student, researcher and practitioner to the technologies, policies and strategies for digital radio broadcasting in both a European and global context. It describes radio, the oldest form of electronic broadcasting, as the last medium to go digital.

Addresses the subject of Serbian and Greek music, focusing on music education, music life and creation. This book examines the assimilation and development of western art music in Serbia and Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Developing Dialogues offers a new perspective on Australian community broadcasting and presents evidence of global trends in the media industry. Based on firsthand research of radio and television audiences in Australia, the authors argue that community radio and television worldwide perform an essential service for indigenous and ethnic audiences.

This book takes an innovative approach, arguing for a broadening of Chinese screen cultures to account for new technologies of screening. The contributors explore transnational connections and consider time and technology in both popular blockbusters and independent art films from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese diasporas.