Intellect imprint: 532 books
Harm and Offence in Media Content: A Review of the Evidence
A Review of the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In today's media and communications environment, pressing questions arise regarding the media's potential for harm, especially in relation to children. This fully revised edition offers a unique and comprehensive analysis of the latest research on content-related media harm and offence. For the first...
Futures of Chinese Cinema
Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
With the burgeoning interest in Chinese film, this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese screen cultures. Futures of Chinese Cinema contains essays by international scholars...
Imaging the City
Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers, and media specialists to investigate how we perceive the city, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we might better design it. Steve Hawley, Edward M. Clift, and Kevin O’Brien provocatively open up the field of...
Russia, Freaks and Foreigners
Three Performance Texts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Russia, Freaks and Foreigners is a collection of three thematically linked plays set against the backdrop of a fractured, post-Soviet Russian society. Written by acclaimed playwright James MacDonald, who is cerebral palsied, these performance texts critique accepted notions of normality within authority,...
One for the Girls!
The Pleasures and Practices of Reading Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Against the claims of increasing sexualisation of culture, one truism is constantly rehearsed – that women have little taste for pornography. In One for the Girls!, a new basis for understanding women’s pleasures in sexually explicit materials is offered focusing on the production and consumption...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Modern Argentine Masculinities gathers essays that explore the social construction of gender from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors analyze literary and cinematic texts, as well as contemporary popular songs, and offer a wide-ranging picture of the performance of masculinity as it has...
Audiences and Publics
When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere. Changing Media - Changing Europe Series, Volume 2nces and Publics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
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...
Entering Transmasculinity
The Inevitability of Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Entering Transmasculinity is a holistic study of the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape transgender identities. In the book, matthew heinz offers an examination of mediated and experienced transmasculine subjectivities and aims to capture the apparent contradictions that structure...
by Nicola Balkind
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
An exciting dystopian fantasy thriller series, The Hunger Games began its life as a trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins, the first released in 2008. An immediate success, the first instalment had a first printing of 50,000 hardcover copies, which quickly ballooned to 200,000. Spending one hundred...
Zombies in the Academy
Living Death in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies, and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural, and pedagogical state of...
Confronting Theory
The Psychology of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory (‘with a capital-T’) in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as risibly pretentious and abstract, Confronting...
Polanski & Perception
The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Polanski and Perception, the psychology of seeing and the cinema of Roman Polanski, is about the Roman Polanski’s interest in the nature of perception and how this is manifested in his films. Firstly, this book discusses Roman Polanski’s, his career, his early shorts and his features, the Knife...
by Wendy Everett
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution and exhibition and detailed critical analysis of specific films, directors, and national cinemas, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn Monroe was an actress, singer, and sex symbol whose influence far outlasted her short life. Contributors to Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe situate the platinum blonde starlet’s omnipresent cultural relevance within the zeitgeist of current popular culture...