Intellect imprint: 532 books
Watching Films
New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception provides new and compelling insights into the social, cultural and economic factors that influence the circulation, prensentations and consumption of film. This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the rapidly changing nature of modern cinema.
Aesthetic Journalism
How to Inform Without Informing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge...
Myths
Decode Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Myths is a visual and written exploration on the subject of myths. It contains contributions from writers, illustrators, designers, photographers and artists from around the world who have each responded to the theme in their own unique way. Myths is important as it approaches the theme in various...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
World Film Locations: New York is a visually compelling and incisively written examination, and celebration, of New York’s unique place in cinema. Essays focusing on quintessential New York filmmakers like Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and those of the Beat movement are presented alongside others...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
World Film Locations: Vienna provides a panorama of international motion pictures shot on location in Austria's once imperial capitol. Informative reviews of 46 film scenes and evocative essays examine for the first time Vienna's relationship to cinema outside the waltz fantasies shot in the studios...
Technology and Desire
The Transgressive Art of Moving Images
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The spectral realm at the boundaries of images incessantly reveals a desire to see beyond the visible and its medium: screens, frames, public displays, and projection sites in an art context. The impact of new media on art and film has influenced the material histories and performances (be they in...
Art and Theory After Socialism
Art and Theory After Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Contemporary visual culture, art, theory and criticism shifted after the end of the Cold War, so that cultural production in both the East and the West underwent radical new challenges. Art and Theory After Socialism considers the new critical insights that are produced in the collisions of art theory...
Across the Art/Life Divide
Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Martin Patrick explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres. Examining the impact of various art movements on notions of performance, authorship, and identity, Across the Art/Life Divide argues that the most defining...
Cultural Quarters
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This definitive book provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion concerning the principles of urban design and planning. To examine these issues, the book presents several case studies drawn from Northern England, Ireland and Vienna to position the emergence of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
This book cover both historical and contemporary concerns, including the role fashion plays in subcultures. Fashion is a phenomenon that exemplifies diversity across cultures.It is dependent on time and place and commonly defined as the prevailing style at a given moment or place. Fashion is codified...
Television Courtroom Broadcasting
Distraction Effects and Eye Tracking
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Cameras in court or television courtroom broadcasting (TCB) is topical and controversial. This book explores one important aspect of the TCB debate. It explores one of the central concerns in the TCB debate, namely whether there are effects of television cameras in the courtroom. Are the people in...
Truth or Dare
Art & Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Increased experimentation by filmmakers such as Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock means that the walls between art and documentary are collapsing, generating innovative ideas and attracting an entirely new audience. Truth or Dare is the innovative product of a Whitechapel Gallery conference, bringing...
Engaging with Reality
Documentary and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This book is framed by theories of globalization and delves into the development of a new global media culture. It also deals with theories of documentary genres and their social and cultural functions. Engaging with Reality contributes to a new and broader understanding of our changing, contemporary...
by Shahab Esfandiary
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences, Iranian cinema has been the subject of lamentably few academic studies and those have been limited to the genres most visible on the international film circuit. Iranian cinema and globalization seeks to broaden readers’...