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Intellect

Books Catalogue Spring 2010


Film Studies

Cultural & Media Studies | Film Studies | Performing Arts | Visual Arts
Contents

Cultural & Media Studies


05 | The Propaganda of Peace
06 | The Mobile Nation
07 | Reinventing Public Service
Television for the Digital Future
08 | Confronting Theory
09 | Cultural Quarters

Film Studies
11 | The Film Paintings of David Lynch
12 | Directory of World Cinema: Japan
13 | Studies in French Cinema
14 | The Danish Directors 2
15 | French Costume Drama of the 1950s
16 | Don’t Look Now

Performing Arts
18 | Christoph Schlingensief
19 | Pop Up
20 | The Philosophical Actor

Visual Arts
22 | Drawing
23 | Unmapping the City
Contents

24 | E-books
25 | Proposing a new book
2 26 | How to order
Welcome to Intellect’s Spring 2010 books
catalogue. Since 1986, Intellect has
established a diverse and innovative
publishing portfolio, presenting scholarly
work at the intersection of arts, media and
creative practice. Our primary commitment
is to the author, and we champion original,
ground-breaking thought and debate.
Intellect also strives to facilitate a platform
for creative artists to critically reflect on
their work, promoting a blend of artistic
creativity and academic critique.
Welcome

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Cultural
& Media
Studies
Media & Cultural Studies

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ISBN 9781841502724
Paperback
The Propaganda of Peace
UK £19.95 The Role of Media and Culture
US $35 in the Northern Ireland Peace
Related Titles
Process
European Culture and By Greg McLaughlin and
the Media
ISBN 9781841501116
Stephen Baker

Harm and Offence in Media When political opponents Ian Paisley and
Content (2nd Edition) Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First
ISBN 9781841502380 Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new
Northern Ireland executive in May 2007, a
chapter was closed on Northern Ireland’s
troubled past.. The Propaganda of Peace analzes
this incident and others in a wider study of
the role of the media in conflict resolution and
transformation. With analysis of media forms, it
proposes a radically different approach to the
media’s role in reporting and representing.
Media & Cultural Studies

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ISBN 9781841503240
Hardback
The Mobile Nation
UK £24.95 España Cambia de Piel
US $45 (1954–1964)
Related Titles By Tatjana Pavlovic
International Journal of
Iberian Studies The last five years have witnessed a surge in
ISSN: 1364971X publications on Spanish cinema and Spanish
cultural studies, but the subject of consumer
Performing Spanishness culture in Spain has been neglected until
ISBN 9781841501345 now. The Mobile Nation: España Cambia de
Piel (1954–1964) presents the first systematic
treatment of this crucial period during Spain’s
transition to modernity and highlights the
forces that converged during this dramatic
decade to change the face of Spain.
Media & Cultural Studies

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ISBN 9781841503219
Hardback
Reinventing Public Service
UK £24.95
Television for the Digital
US $45 Future
Related Titles
By Mary Debrett
Understanding the Global
TV Format
ISBN 9781841501321
Once regarded as a system in decline, public
service broadcasters have acquired renewed
Interactions: Studies in
legitimacy in the digital environment, as
Communication & Culture
drivers of digital take-up, innovators and
ISSN: 17572681
trusted brands. Exploring this remarkable
transformation, Reinventing Public Service
Television for the Digital Future engages with
the new opportunities and challenges facing
public service media, outlining the ways
in which interactive technologies are now
expanding the delivery of diverse goals and
enhancing public accountability.
Media & Cultural Studies

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ISBN 9781841503172
Paperback
Confronting Theory
UK £17.95 The Psychology of Cultural
US $35 Studies
Related Titles By Philip Bell
International Journal of
Media and Cultural Politics Confronting Theory presents a methodological
ISSN: 17408296 (philosophical) and educational evaluation
and critique of what has come to be known as
Catalan Journal of Theory (‘with a capital-T’) in cross-disciplinary
Communication & Cultural humanities education. Rather than merely
Studies dismissing Theory writing as risibly pretentious
ISSN 17571898 and abstract, Confronting Theory 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.
Media & Cultural Studies

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ISBN 9781841501581
Paperback
Cultural Quarters
UK £19.95
(Second Edition)
US $35
Principles and Practice
Related Titles By Simon Roodhouse
Art, Community and
Environment The much-praised Cultural Quarters returns
ISBN 9781841502571 in a revised edition, offering new case
studies and new chapters on the economics
Public Spheres After of cultural quarters and the importance of
Socialism historic buildings. This definitive text provides
ISBN 9781841502120 a conceptual context for cultural quarters
through a detailed discussion of urban design
and planning.
Media & Cultural Studies

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Film
Studies
Film Studies

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ISBN 9781841503325
Paperback
The Film Paintings of
UK £14.95
David Lynch
US $25
Challenging Film Theory
Related Titles
By Allister MacTaggart
Cultural Quarters (PB)
Principles and Practice
Aimed at both Lynch fans and film studies
ISBN 9781841502137
specialists, Allister MacTaggart addresses
Lynch’s films from the perspective of the
Public Spheres After
relationship between commercial film, avant-
Socialism
garde art, and cultural theory. Individual
ISBN 9781841502120
Lynch works – The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet,
Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, The Straight Story,
Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire – are discussed
in relation to other films and directors. The
Film Paintings of David Lynch offers a unique
perspective on an influential director, weaving
together a range of theoretical approaches to
Lynch’s films to make exciting new connections
among film theory, art history, psychoanalysis
and cinema.
Film Studies

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ISBN 9781841503356
Paperback
Directory of World
UK £16 Cinema: Japan
US $25
Edited by John Berra
Related Titles From the revered classics of Akira Kurosawa
Hong Kong New Wave to the modern marvels of Takeshi Kitano, the
Cinema (1978–2000) films that have emerged from Japan represent
ISBN 9781841501482 a national cinema that has gained worldwide
admiration and appreciation. The Directory
Declarations of of World Cinema: Japan provides an insight
Independence into the cinema of Japan through reviews of
American Cinema and the significant titles and case studies of leading
Partiality of Independent directors, alongside explorations of the cultural
Production and industrial origins of key genres. As the
ISBN 9781841501857 inaugural volume of an ambitious new series
from Intellect documenting world cinema,
the directory aims to play a part in moving
intelligent, scholarly criticism beyond the
academy by building a forum for the study of
film that relies on a disciplined theoretical base.
Film Studies

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ISBN 9781841503233
Paperback
Studies in French Cinema
UK £19.95 UK Perspectives 1985–2010
US $35
Edited by Will Higbee and Sarah Leahy
Related Titles
French Costume Drama of Studies in French Cinema looks at the
the 1950s development of French screen studies in the
Fashioning Politics in Film United Kingdom over the past twenty years
ISBN 9781841503189 and the ways in which innovative scholarship
in the UK has helped shape the field in English
Studies in French Cinema and French speaking universities. This seminal
ISSN: 14715880 text is also a tribute to six key figures within
the field who have been leaders in research and
teaching of French cinema: Jill Forbes, Susan
Hayward, Phil Powrie, Keith Reader, Carrie Tarr,
and Ginette Vincendeau.
Film Studies

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ISBN 9781841502717
Paperback
The Danish Directors 2
UK £14.95 Dialogues on the New Danish
US $25 Fiction Cinema
Related Titles Edited by Mette Hjort, Eva Jørholt
The Danish Directors (PB) and Eva Novrup Redvall
Dialogues on a
contemporary Over the last two decades, the New Danish
national cinema Cinema has established itself as an important
ISBN 9781841508412 source of cinematic renewal and innovation.
With insider information about the making
Studies in of award-winning films, and interviews with
European Cinema seminal directors such as Anders Thomas
ISSN: 17411548 Jensen, Annette K. Olesen, and Lone Scherfig,
The Danish Directors 2 allows entry into
what might seem to be a forbidding body
of work. The editors’ appreciation of the
specific qualities of each director’s work elicits
thoughtful replies. This volume will appeal to
students, scholars, and cinephiles alike.
Film Studies

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ISBN 9781841503189
Paperback
French Costume Drama of
UK £24.95
the 1950s
US $45
Fashioning Politics in Film
Related Titles By Susan Hayward
Studies in French Cinema
ISSN: 14715880 When political and civil unrest threatened
France’s social order in the 1950s, French
International Journal of cinema provided audiences a seemingly
Francophone Studies unique form of escapism from such troubled
ISSN: 13682679 times: a nostalgic look back to the France of
the nineteenth and earlier centuries, with
costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon,
the Belle Époque, the Revolution and further
back to seventeenth-century swashbuckler
adventures and tales of mystery and revenge.
Film critics have routinely dismissed this period
and this genre of French cinema, overlooking
its importance in terms of political cultural
history.
Film Studies

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ISBN 9781841503202
Paperback
Don’t Look Now
UK £19.95 British Cinema in the 1970s
US $35
Edited by Paul Newland
Related Titles
While post-war British cinema and the British
Film, Drama and the Break-
new wave have received much scholarly
Up of Britain
attention, the misunderstood period of the
ISBN 9781841501505
1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don’t
Look Now uncovers forgotten but richly
Cinema and Landscape
rewarding films, including Nicolas Roeg’s
Film, Nation and Cultural
Don’t Look Now and the films of Lindsay
Geography
Anderson and Barney Platts-Mills. This volume
ISBN 9781841503097
offers insight into the careers of important
film-makers and sheds light on the genres
of experimental film, horror, rock, and punk
films, as well as representations of the black
community, shifts in gender politics, and
adaptations of television comedies.
Film Studies

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Performing
Arts
Performing Arts

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ISBN 9781841503196
Paperback
Christoph Schlingensief
UK £19.95 Art Without Borders
US $35
Edited by Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa
Related Titles Scheer With a foreword by Alexander
Allegorical Images Kluge
Tableau, Time and Gesture
in the Cinema of Werner The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph
Schroeter Schlingensief spans three decades and a
ISBN 9781841501383 diverse range of fields, including film, television,
activism, opera, and theatre. Christoph
Beyond Auteurism: New Schlingensief is the first book to be published
Directions in Authorial in English on Schlingensief’s groundbreaking,
Film Practices politically engaged body of work. Leading
in France, Italy and Spain scholars in the field offer a critical assessment
since the 1980s of Schlingensief’s hybrid practice, and an
ISBN 9781841502045 interview with Schlingensief himself provides
the reader with insight into past and present
projects.
Performing Arts

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ISBN 9781841502328
Paperback
Pop Up
UK £14.95 Popular Music Since 1945
US $25
By Anthony May and Cory Messenger
Related Titles
In film, television, and advertising, a few bars
Pop Fiction
from a pop song can evoke a moment in time
The Song in Cinema
– a singular intersection of personal memory
ISBN 9781841500782
and public history – with unparalleled intensity.
In the years after World War II, the recording
Journal of Music,
industry ushered in a new version of popular
Technology and Education
music, supplanting the big bands and crooners
ISSN 17527066
that had dominated the airwaves and dance
halls of previous decades. In its various forms
– singles, albums, and compact discs – the sale
of pop music on disc became a central feature
of western life until the shift to the mp3 in the
new millennium.
Performing Arts

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ISBN 9781841503264
Paperback
The Philosophical Actor
UK £17.95 A Practical Meditation for
US $30 Practicing Theatre Artists
Related Titles By Donna Soto-Morettini
Applied Theatre
ISBN 9781841502816 There have been many books published on
acting, actor training, and practical theories for
Contemporary Theatre in preparing for a role, but none of these books
Education have looked philosophically at the concepts
ISBN 9781841501703 that we use when we talk about acting. This
book is the first attempt to grapple with the
fundamental questions of truth, art, and human
nature unexamined in past treatments, from
the first essay by Diderot to the exhaustive
system described by Stanislavski. With wide
appeal to actors, directors, acting students,
acting teachers and trainers, Soto-Morettini
draws from twenty-five years of experience
as an acting teacher and director to introduce
innovative ways of thinking about acting.
Performing Arts

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Visual Arts
Visual Arts

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ISBN 9781841503257
Paperback
Drawing
UK £19.95 The Enactive Evolution of the
US $35 Practitioner
Related Titles By Patricia Cain
Drawing – The Purpose
ISBN 9781841502014 In an era which has seen many forms of artistic
creation becoming digitized, the practice of
Writing on Drawing drawing, in the traditional sense, has remained
Essays on Drawing Practice constant. However, many publications about
and Research the relationship between drawing and thinking
ISBN 9781841502007 rely on discipline-dependent distinctions
to discuss the activity’s function. Drawing
redefines drawing more holistically as an
enactive phenomenon, and makes connections
between a variety of disciplines in order to
find out how drawing helps us understand the
world.
Visual Arts

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ISBN 9781841503165
Paperback
Unmapping the City
UK £14.95 Perspectives of Flatness
US $25
Edited by Alfredo Cramerotti
Related Titles
Unmapping the City, the first title in the new
Truth or Dare
Intellect series ‘Critical Photography’, features
Art and Documentary
photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in
ISBN 9781841501758
fourteen different cities around the world. The
images are linked by their shared attempts
Aesthetic Journalism
to define a two-dimensional approach to a
How to Inform Without
three-dimensional built reality, and to address
Informing
spatial representation and urbanity through
ISBN 9781841502687
art. In representing the cityscape through a
flat texture of lines and minimal colour tones,
the book draws the reader into a conversation
about the interplay between reality and its
representation. This volume significantly
challenges and expands the critical discourse
on photography and text and will be of interest
to artists, curators, photographers, architects,
and critical theorists.   
Visual Arts

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