Books published by INTELLECT

This volume continues exploring cinema produced in Australia and New Zealand since the beginning of the twentieth century. Additions include in-depth treatments of the locations featured in the countries' cinema, essays by critics and film scholars and over one hundred and fifty new film reviews, complemented by film stills and expanded references.

Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices. The Directory of World Cinema: India provides a broad overview of this rich variety, highlighting distinctions among India's major cinematic genres and movements while illuminating the field as a whole.

Which female figures are proposed for our admiration? Who proposes them and what values do they represent? This study offers an analysis of such religious/cultural icons. It addresses contemporary roles and issues concerning women in contemporary France and Spain.

Design Research is an area that is both current and growing, but texts on the subjects are in short supply. This book intends to place Design Research in its rightful place at the heart of studio-based education and practice. It offers a valuable context within which to understand the educational needs and aspirations of the designer.

A narrative analysis of four main discourses of national identity in Spain, with a special focus on Catalonia, as disseminated in the Spanish press in the period between 1993 and 1996. The study includes assessments of the Spanish press coverage of the 1994 USA Football World Cup.

Provides an approach to the study of performing arts in Africa. This text reveals the position of the arts and culture in post-independent countries as well as changes in influences and audiences. It also shows African theatre to be about aesthetics and rituals, the sociological and the political.

Technological change in broadcasting has enabled us to open up media markets, making media and society more internationally-oriented. Chapters focus on technological change and its impact on cultural and political identities, the role of the cultural industries in the 'New Economy' and the impact of European integration on national institutions.

Hollywood continues to reign supreme; from award-winning dramas to multimillion-dollar, special effects-laden blockbusters, Tinseltown produces the films that audiences around the world go to the cinema to see. This volume explores how the industry has evolved and expanded throughout its history.

In today's thoroughly mass-mediated world, audiences and publics are, of course, composed of the same people. Yet social science traditionally treats them quite differently. Indeed, it is commonplace to define audiences in opposition to the public: in both popular and elite discourses, audiences are denigrated as trivial, passive, individualised...

Numerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has ignored them to a large extent. Based on a conference organised in conjunction with the University of London, Professions in Contemporary British Drama presents nine papers discussing the educational professions, the medical profession, priests, archaeologists and artists.

The city's sprawling structure and rapid redevelopment - embodied by the high-rise apartments taking over historic districts - render Beijing's streets hard to navigate and its culture is just as difficult to penetrate. This book offers a revealing introduction to both.

Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is a megalopolis of diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its slums. This title includes scene specific reviews and short essays exploring the ways filmmakers from India and abroad have represented Mumbai's diverse urban and human landscape.

World Film Locations: Melbourne serves as a guide to films set wholly or partially in one of Australia's most diverse and culturally important cities. Offering analyses of iconic scenes, essays on key directors, recurring themes, notable locations, photographs, film stills and city maps, the contributors examine the city's relationship to cinema.

One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exuberance, devastation, division and reconstruction. World Film Locations: Berlin offers a broad overview of these varied cinematic representations.

Since the 1990s, filmmakers in Turkey have increasingly explored notions of gender, genre, cultural memory, and national and transnational identity. Taking these themes as its starting point, this book provides an extensive historical overview of the country's cinema since the early 1920s.

The 1930s were a period of triumph and turmoil in Poland, yet the decade saw the production of a number of exceptional dramatic works. This book provides a glimpse into period of Polish literary culture unfamiliar to most English readers and scholars. It demonstrates why author was one of the leading voices of the Polish interwar era.

A collection of 13 essays exploring the diversity of innovative drama works in prisons. The contributors explore key aspects of practice - "problemitizing", theorizing and describing specific approaches to working with offenders.