Books published by INTELLECT

Provides the frame work for you to write a screenplay. This work contains: the different layouts for film, television, documentary and corporate screenplays; an analysis of what is required from a premise, an outline, a step outline, a treatment and a first draft; a stage by stage guide to the re-write; and tips on finding an agent.

Gives insights into theories, methods and subjects in communication policy research. This title includes articles. It is suitable for understanding future trends in communication policy research.

This volume investigates the relationship between the process of creating performance and spectator responses, and how this exchange is embedded into the product itself.

This work deals with the economic and developmental challenges facing contemporary Algerian society. It considers the social structures, the political institutions, the movements, ideologies, and cultural dilemmas.

How to account for the designer's combination of creativity and practical skill? What part does mental imagination play in the design process? How do designers get their own spatial awareness across to their spectators? How does theatre affect the spectator? Why do spectators react as they do? How do distance and suspension of.

Queer cinema has gained scholarly attention in recent years as a manifestation of the conflicts, anxieties, and liberation of European sexuality. Robin Griffiths' "Queer Cinema in Europe," the first anthology of its kind, probes the questions and implications of sex, gender, and identity in contemporary European filmmaking. An esteemed group of contributors discuss the varieties of lesbian and gay representation to deconstruct and redefine notions of national identity and culture in a diverse European context. This volume explores a wide scope of films, directors, and genres to forge a new understanding of what it means to be queer in the twenty-first century.

This anthology contains three plays (Ceremonial Kisses, Shading the Crime, and The Maternal Cloister), analyses of their processes and themes, and photographs of the performances. The plays are different in style and include the use of physical theatre, naturalistic explorations of human rights abuses, and symbolic structures, puppets and poetry.

Bertold Brecht was an important dramatist/director/theorist of the 20th century. This play focuses on Brecht's life in America, where he resided from 1941 through to 1947. Brecht features as the main character and the play is also Brechtian-influenced. Endnotes and appendices are included.

This work aims to rethink the facial close-up in terms other than those associated with the humanist view of the face as "mirror of the soul". It proposes a dialectical reversal or about-face. It provides detailed studies of media spectacles of faces becoming unrecognizable.

"Drawing - The Process" is a collection of papers, theories and interviews based on the conference and exhibition of the same name held at Kingston University in 2003.Much debate and research is currently undertaken in this area and it is the intention of the book to galvanize this, while providing a vehicle for deep enquiry. The publication will firstly comprise a collection of refereed papers representing a breadth of activity and research around the issues of drawing within the broad context of art and design activity. The second dimension of the book will be an examination of the drawing processes of high profile practitioners. The publication will encompass the best contemporary investigation of a subject pivotal to art and design activity, and should be recognized as a fundamental text for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

This multidisciplinary look at both the causes and the consequences of Portuguese decolonization places the loss of Portugal's Eastern Empire in the context of the loss of its African Empire, and relates the decolonization process to the search for a new Portuguese vision of its place in the world.

This book provides historical and cultural overviews of the country's cinema. Scholars construct an argument that complicates the international view of Finnish cinema as a small-scale industry dominated by realist art-house films. Contributors cover genre, art, and commercial films, independent productions, blockbuster cinema and more.

This text presents an overview of the debate about the intersection between art, technology, and consciousness. It documents work from those connected with the CAiiA-STAR centre including aspects of: artificial life, robotics, technoetics, performance, computer music and telematic art.