Intellect spring 2012 books catalogue

2012 spring books

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Welcome Welcome to Intellect’s new books catalogue for 2012. Included in this catalogue are all the exciting new books we are publishing this season. Our distinct subject areas of film studies, performing arts, visual arts, and cultural & media studies host books in ever-expanding topics of enquiry, such as photography, teaching and learning in art, and humour in rock music. The titles are often gloriously multidisciplinary, presenting scholarly work at the cross section of arts, media and creative practice.

Our two film series, Directory of World Cinema and World Film Locations, are also expanding.

These books take us to locations as diverse as Istanbul, France, South Korea, and Dublin respectively, with many wonderful journeys in between.

Alongside these print books we launch all new books as e-books (see the full list of distributors on our website) and ePUBs for iTunes iBookstore and Amazon Kindle, in order to make them accessible in a range of formats.

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World Film Locations Paris Edited by Marcelline Block ISBN 9781841504841 | 128 pages | 230x155mm Paperback | UK £9.95 | US $18 Part of the World Film Locations series

Marcelline Block is completing her Ph.D. in French at Princeton. She is the editor or co-editor of several volumes, including Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema and World Film Locations: Las Vegas.

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‘We’ll always have Paris,’ Humphrey Bogart assures Ingrid Bergman in the oft-quoted farewell scene from Casablanca in which Bogart’s character, hard-hearted restaurateur Rick Blaine, bids former lover Ilsa Lund goodbye. Paris, the backdrop against which they first fell in love, later serves as a reminder of their deep mutual longings. And with a host of different realizations by film-makers including Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Agnes Varda, François Truffaut, and Woody Allen, among many others, there is no question that Paris has likewise endured in the memories of cinephiles worldwide.

World Film Locations: Paris takes readers on an unforgettable tour of the City of Light past and present through the many films that have been set there. Along the way, we revisit iconic tourist sites from the Eiffel Tower – whose stairs and crossbars inspired more than one famous chase scene – to the Moulin Rouge overlooking the famously seedy Place Pigalle. Other films explore lesser-known quartiers usually tucked away from the tourist’s admiring gaze.

Handsomely illustrated with full-colour film stills and contemporary photographs, scenes are individually considered with special attention to their use of Paris’s topography as it intersects with characters, narrative, and plot.

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World Film Locations New Orleans Edited by Scott Jordan Harris ISBN 9781841505879 | 128 pages | 230x155mm Paperback | UK £9.95 | US $18 Part of the World Film Locations series

Scott Jordan Harris is a writer and critic, as well as the editor of the Big Picture magazine, also published by Intellect. He is also the editor of World Film Locations: New York and a staff writer for both Film International and PopMatters.

With more and more film-makers taking advantage of its rich and varied settings, New Orleans has earned star-studded status as the ‘Hollywood of the South’.

From the big-screen adaptation of the stage classic A Streetcar Named Desire to the Elvis Presley musical King Creole, many well-known films have a special connection with the Big Easy, and this user-friendly guide explores the integral role of New Orleans in American film history.

World Film Locations: New Orleans features essays that reflect on the city’s long-standing relationship with the film industry. Among the topics discussed are popular depictions of Hurricane Katrina on film, the prevalence of the supernatural in New Orleans cinema, and recent changes to city ordinances that have made New Orleans even more popular as a film destination. As the most frequently filmed area of New Orleans, the French Quarter is given particular attention in this volume with synopses of scenes shot or set there, including The Big Easy, Interview with the Vampire, and the much-loved Bond film Live and Let Die. Additional synopses highlight numerous other film scenes spanning the city, and all are accompanied by evocative full-colour stills.

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World Film Locations Dublin Edited by Jez Conolly and Caroline Whelan

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ISBN 9781841505503 | 128 pages | 230x155mm Paperback | UK £9.95 | US $18 Part of the World Film Locations series

With its rich political and literary history, Dublin is a sought after destination for cinematographers who have made use of the city’s urban streetscapes and lush pastoral settings in many memorable films.

World Film Locations: Dublin offers an engaging look at the many incarnations of the city on-screen through 50 synopses of key scenes – either shot or set in Dublin – accompanied by a generous selection of full-colour film stills.

Throughout the book, a series of essays by leading film scholars spotlight familiar actors, producers, and directors as well as some of the themes common to films shot in Dublin, including literature, politics, the city’s thriving music scene, and its long history of organized crime. Also included is a look at the representations of Dublin before, during, and after the Celtic Tiger era. Sophisticated yet accessible, this volume will undoubtedly take its place on the shelves of film buffs and those interested in Irish culture.

Jez Conolly is the author of Beached Margin: The Role and Representation of the Seaside Resort in British Films. Caroline Whelan is a freelance writer and researcher.

World Film Locations Las Vegas Edited by Marcelline Block ISBN 9781841505886 | 112 pages | 230x155mm Paperback | UK £9.95 | US $18 Part of the World Film Locations series

Marcelline Block is a lecturer in history at Princeton University, where she is completing her Ph.D. in French. She is the editor or coeditor of several volumes, including Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema.

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Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime.

The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Visited by millions of fortune seekers – and starry-eyed lovers – each year, Las Vegas is a city with as many apparent contradictions as Elvis impersonators, and this complexity is reflected in the diversity of films that have been shot on location there.

A copiously illustrated retrospective of Vegas’s appearances on the big screen, this new volume in Intellect’s World Film Locations series presents synopses of scenes from a broad selection of films – from big-budget blockbusters like Oceans 11 to acclaimed classics Rain Man, Casino, and The Godfather to cult favourites like Showgirls and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Insightful essays throughout explore a range of topics, including the Rat Pack’s Las Vegas, the cinematized Strip, Las Vegas as a frequent backdrop for science fiction, and the various film portrayals of iconic pop-cultural figures like Elvis and Frank Sinatra. Rounding out this information are film stills juxtaposed with photographs of the locations as they appear today.

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World Film Locations Istanbul Edited by Ozlem Koksal

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ISBN 9781841505671 | 128 pages | 230x155mm Paperback | UK £9.95 | US $18 Part of the World Film Locations series

From Fatih Akin’s Head-On (2004) to Sydney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express (1974), World Film Locations: Istanbul offers a compelling look at many films shot on location in this multicultural metropolis. Central to this volume are the film industry’s changing representations of Istanbul.

The book includes essays focusing on diverse subjects related to the city and its representation, exploring Istanbul’s place in the imagination of audiences and film-makers. Articles cover topics such as: the significance of Istanbul in criticallyacclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s cinema; the city’s representation in films made in the West and in Turkey in different periods; and key locations, such as the famous train station Haydarpaşa and Beyoglu/Pera.

With 38 insightful short reviews, the book includes illustrative screen-grabs from the films discussed and present-day images of each location. It offers a compelling picture of this historic and culturally stimulating city and its changing representation in cinema.

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Ozlem Koksal completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published various articles and reviews both in English and Turkish and is also contributing to the forthcoming Directory of World Cinema: Turkey. From February 2012 she will be teaching at Bilgi University, Istanbul.

World Film Locations Madrid Edited by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano ISBN 9781841505688 | 128 pages | 230x155mm Paperback | UK £9.95 | US $18 Part of the World Film Locations series

From Death of a Cyclist to Open Your Eyes to The Limits of Control, Madrid has graced the big screen countless times across a wide variety of genres envisioned by a similarly eclectic array of directors, including Carlos Saura, Luis Buñuel, and Pedro Almodóvar. With the aim of capturing the full range of portrayals of the city on-screen, this volume pairs short synopses of scenes from 46 films with an accompanying array of dynamic fullcolour film stills. These scenes are set in context through a series of incisive essays that examine significant periods from Madrid’s rich film history, as well as its key industry figures and recurring themes.

Packed with fun facts, World Film Locations: Madrid offers a fascinating – and often surprising – tour of the many film representations of Madrid. For jet-setters planning a jaunt to this richly cinematic city, the book also includes photographs of locations as they appear now and city maps with information on how to locate key features.

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Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. He is the editor of Directory of World Cinema: Spain, also published

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Directory of World Cinema Britain Edited by Emma Bell and Neil Mitchell ISBN 9781841505572 | 327 pages | 240x170mm Paperback | UK £15.95 | US $25 Part of the Directory of World Cinema series

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Emma Bell is a senior lecturer in film and screen studies at the School of Humanities, University of Brighton. Neil Mitchell is a freelance writer and critic whose writings have appeared in the Big Picture magazine, Rogue Cinema, and Electric Sheep. He is also the editor of World Film Locations: London.

Bringing to mind rockers and royals, Buckingham Palace and the Scottish Highlands, Britain holds a special interest for international audiences who have flocked in recent years to quality British exports like Fish Tank, Trainspotting and The King’s Speech. A series of essays and articles exploring the definitive films of Great Britain, this addition to Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema series turns the focus on England together with Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

With a focus on the most successful, cerebral and critically important films to have come out of Britain, this volume explores the diversity of genres found throughout British film, highlighting important regional variations that reflect the distinctive cultures of the countries involved. Within these categories, Emma Bell and Neil Mitchell have curated a diverse and rich collection of films for review – from Hitchcock’s spy thriller The 39 Steps to Powell and Pressburger’s art classic The Red Shoes to the gritty and heartfelt This is England. Interspersed throughout the book are critical essays by leading experts in the field providing insight into shifting notions of Britishness, important industry developments and the endurance of the British film industry. For those up on their Brit film facts and seeking to test their expertise, the book concludes with a helpful ‘Test Your Knowledge’ section. film Stuies 19

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Directory of World Cinema France Edited by Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael ISBN 9781841505633 | 327 pages | 240x170mm Paperback | UK ÂŁ15.95 | US $25 Part of the Directory of World Cinema series

Tim Palmer is associate professor of film studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, the author of Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema, and has published widely in journals such as Cinema Journal, The French Review, and Studies in French Cinema. Charlie Michael recently completed a Ph.D. in cinema studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he focused on contemporary French cinema. He has written for The Velvet Light Trap and French Politics, Culture & Society.

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Artistic, intellectual, and appreciably avant-garde, the French film industry has, perhaps more than any other national cinema, been perennially at the centre of international film-making. With its vigorous business and wide-ranging film culture, France has also been home historically to some of the most influential film-makers and movements – and, indeed, the very first motion picture was screened in Paris in 1895.

This volume addresses the great directors and key artistic movements, but also ventures beyond these well-established films and figures, broadening the canon through an examination of many neglected but intriguing French films. Framing essays explore the salient stylistic elements, cultural contexts, and the various conceptions of cinema in France, from avantgarde to film-making by women, from documentary and realism to the Tradition of Quality, as well as genres like comedy, crime film, and horror. Illustrated by screen shots, film reviews by leading international experts offer original approaches to both overlooked titles and acknowledged classics. Readers wishing to explore particular topics in greater depth will be grateful for the book’s reading recommendations and comprehensive filmography.

A visually engaging journey through one of the most dynamic, variegated, and idiosyncratic film industries, Directory of World Cinema: France will be a musthave for Francophiles and cinema savants.

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Directory of World Cinema Sweden Edited by Marcelline Block ISBN 9781841505596 | 327 pages | 240x170mm Paperback | UK £15.95 | US $25 Part of the Directory of World Cinema series

Boasting landmark classics like Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and screen legends such as Greta Garbo, Sweden is home today to a rich and exciting national cinema that comprises the works of a diverse group of film-makers, including Tomas Alfredson, Roy Andersson, and Niels Arden Oplev (of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo fame).

In Directory of World Cinema: Sweden, Marcelline Block has assembled a team of leading international experts who situate Sweden’s film industry in a global context. Among the topics discussed in this volume are the characteristic genres of Swedish cinema – among them silent films, erotica, animation, and crime noir – and the great impact Swedish films have had on film-makers internationally, especially in America and France, for whose audiences Swedish films have often been adapted. Additional essays examine the significance of Swedish actors like Ingrid Bergman, who made a lasting contribution to global cinema, as well as a critical re-examination of the Swedish landscape in film. Completing this volume are reviews of classic and contemporary Swedish film, recommendations for further reading, considerations of the Swedish film industry, and critical biographies of Swedish directors.

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Marcelline Block is completing her Ph.D. in French at Princeton. She is the editor or co-editor of several volumes, including Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema and World Film Locations: Las Vegas.

Directory of World Cinema China Edited by Gary Bettinson ISBN 9781841505589 | 327 pages | 240x170mm Paperback | UK ÂŁ15.95 | US $25 Part of the Directory of World Cinema series

Commended for their social relevance and artistic value, Chinese films remain at the forefront of international cinema, bolstered in recent years by a new generation of talented young film-makers.

Directory of World Cinema: China presents an accessible overview of the definitive films of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, with particular attention paid to the achievements of prolific industry figures, the burgeoning independent sector, and the embrace of the avant-garde practices of art cinema. Spanning a variety of characteristic genres, including horror, heroic bloodshed, romantic comedy, and kung-fu, reviews cover individual titles in considerable depth and are accompanied by a selection of full-colour film stills. A comprehensive filmography and a bibliography of recommended reading complete this essential companion to Chinese cinema.

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Gary Bettinson is a lecturer in film studies at Lancaster University, and co-author of What is Film Theory? An Introduction to Contemporary Debates.

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Directory of World Cinema South Korea Edited by Colette Balmain ISBN 9781841505602 | 327 pages | 240x170mm Paperback | UK £15.95 | US $25 Part of the Directory of World Cinema series

Concurrent with the growing body of scholarship on South Korean cinema, Directory of World Cinema: South Korea offers an accessible overview of South Korea’s film industry. In addition to the action and horror films usually considered in studies of South Korean cinema, this volume also examines genres that have traditionally lacked critical attention, including romantic comedies and gay and lesbian features. Essays by leading film scholars explore a variety of topics, including the emergence of South Korean cinema onto the global marketplace in the late 1990s and its relationship to Hanyru (known as ‘The Korean Wave’), its consumption in both local and global contexts, and the centrality of film festivals in promoting new South Korean films. The most comprehensive English-language publication available on South Korean cinema, this informative, analytical, and entertaining guide will be widely appreciated by film fans and enthusiasts of Korean pop culture.

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Directory of World Cinema Japan 2 Edited by John Berra ISBN 9781841505510 | 327 pages | 240x170mm Paperback | UK ÂŁ15.95 | US $25 Part of the Directory of World Cinema series

Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first installment of Directory of World Cinema: Japan, this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favourites, and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with new contributions from leading critics and film scholars. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of two previously unexplored genres – youth cinema and films depicting lowerclass settings. These are considered alongside discussions of popular narrative forms, including J-Horror, samurai cinema, anime, and the Japanese New Wave.

Accompanying the critical essays in this volume are more than 150 new film reviews, complemented by full-colour film stills, and significantly expanded references for further study. From the Golden Age to the film festival favourites of today, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 completes this comprehensive treatment of a consistently fascinating national cinema.

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John Berra is a lecturer in film studies at Nanjing University. He is the author of Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production and the editor of Directory of World Cinema: Japan and Directory of World Cinema: American Independent, also published by Intellect.

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Framing Film Cinema and the Visual Arts Edited by Steven Allen and Laura Hubner ISBN 9781841505077 | 176 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK ÂŁ19.95 | US $30

In Framing Film, film studies experts Steven Allen and Laura Hubner draw on a selection of historically and culturally diverse texts to explore the intricate relationships between cinema and the visual arts. Broad in scope, the volume considers a range of visual arts media, including posters, paintings, photography, comic books and production design. By examining these various forms of media, Allen and Hubner emphasize the ability of visual arts to frame the spectator’s experience of cinema. Among the films and artists considered in this thought-provoking interdisciplinary volume are selections from both the high- and lowbrow aspects of culture.

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Steven Allen and Laura Hubner are both senior lecturers in film studies at the University of Winchester.

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Cinemas of the Other A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from Iran and Turkey, Second Edition

Cinemas of the Other A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from Central Asia, Second Edition

By Gönül Dönmez-Colin

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ISBN 9781841505480 | 240 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £19.95 | US $30

ISBN 9781841505497 | 120 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £15.95 | US $20

Updated collections of recent interviews with film-makers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia and the Middle East, these two new geospecific editions expand upon the earlier volume Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with FilmMakers from the Middle East and Central Asia.

Following an introduction delineating the histories of the film industries of countries including Iran, Turkey, and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, both books contain interviews stretching over a decade, which position the film-makers and their creative concerns within the social or political context of their respective countries. The striking variety of approaches toward each interview creates a rich diversity of tone and opens the door to a better understanding of images of ‘otherness’ in film. In addition to transcripts of the interviews, each chapter also includes stills from important films discussed, biographical information about the filmmakers, and filmographies of their works.

Gönül Dönmez-Colin is a film scholar specializing in the cinemas of Central Asia and the Middle East. She is the author of Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging, Women, Islam and Cinema, and The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East (ed.)

‘An unprecedented set of insights into the creative domain where the politics of creativity meet the poetics of emancipation; an exceedingly readable and informative book’.

– Professor Hamid Dabashi, Colombia University

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Polanski and Perception The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski Davide Caputo ISBN 9781841505527 | 208 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £24.95 | US $40

A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed by the events of his personal life, Polanski and Perception focuses on Roman Polanski’s interest in the nature of perception and how this is manifested in his films. The incorporation of cognitive research into film theory is becoming increasingly widespread, with novel cinematic technologies and recent developments in digital projection making a strong grasp of perceptual psychology critical to fostering cognitive engagement.

Informed by the work of neuropsychologist R. L. Gregory, this volume focuses primarily on two sets of films: the ‘Apartment Trilogy’ of Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Tenant; and the ‘Investigation Trilogy’ of Chinatown, Frantic, and The Ninth Gate. Also included are case studies of Knife in the Water, Death and the Maiden, and The Ghost.

Polanski and Perception presents a highly original and engaging new look at the work of this influential film-maker.

Davide Caputo studied psychology and film at the University of Manitoba and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Exeter. His primary research interest is examination of the cognitive experience of cinematic spectatorship, and how this has, and continues to be, affected by evolving technology.

Un-American Psycho Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible Chris Dumas ISBN 9781841505541 | 160 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £24.95 | US $40

Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of controversial films – many of which are consistently misread or ignored – directed

by De Palma over his more than four-decade career.

In Un-American Psycho, Chris Dumas places De Palma’s body of work in dialogue with the works of other provocative film-makers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Luc Godard, and Francis Ford Coppola with the aim of providing a broader understanding of the narrative, stylistic, and political gestures that characterize De Palma as a film-maker.

De Palma’s films engage with a wide range of issues surrounding American political and social culture, and this volume offers a rethinking of the received wisdom on his work.

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Chris Dumas is an independent scholar and artist based in San Francisco.

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Passion of the Reel Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe ISBN 9781841505640 | 216 pages | 230x174mm Hardback | UK £45 | US $60

Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reel provides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe shows that, far from being an empty receptacle for colonial legacies, Cameroon – and Africa – must move beyond their colonial legacies to focus on indigenous productions of meaning informed by traditional wisdom and ordinary Cameroonian life experience. Tchouaffe’s analysis sets the stage for a film-driven exploration of postcolonialism, social construction, and modernization.

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Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe is visiting assistant professor in the Communication Studies Department at Southwestern University in Georgetown.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Political Dissident The Life and Work of Aleksandar Petrovic Vlastimir Sudar ISBN 9781841505459 | 232 pages | 230x174mm Hardback | UK £45 | US $60

In the liberal West, as in socialist Yugoslavia, the films of Aleksandar Petrovic dramatize how enforced dogmatism can corrode any political system. A case study of the oft-overlooked Yugoslav director’s colourful and eventful career, A Portrait of the Artist as a Political Dissident explores how Petrović developed specific political and social themes in his films. A response to the political vagaries of his time, these anti-dogmatic views were later to become a trademark of his work. Although interest in socialist Yugoslavia and its legacy has risen steadily since the 1990s, the history of Yugoslav cinema has been scarcely covered. This book marks a fresh contribution to a burgeoning area of interest.

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Vlastimir Sudar teaches film history and theory at the University of the Arts London.

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Brit Wits A History of British Rock Humor Iain Ellis ISBN 9781841505657 | 208 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £15.95 | US $25

Iain Ellis is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Kansas, a bimonthly columnist for PopMatters, and the author of Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humorists.

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The Sex Pistols. David Bowie. Pink Floyd. Rebel rockers and provokers of the public, vivid in our memories as much for their subversion of the mainstream as for their signature sounds. Yet what very few people realize is that a substantive part of the weaponry used by these rockers and their contemporaries was humour: outrageous onstage antics, coded cultural references, and clever lyrical constructs were all critical to expressions of youth rebellion that could still slip past the powers that be.

Focusing on key subversive rock humourists, Brit Wits shows how and why humour has been such a powerful catalyst and expressive force in these artists’ work. Distinguishing rock humourists from rockers who are merely sometimes humorous, Iain Ellis focuses on those whose music and persona exude defiance – beginning with the Beatles, the Kinks, and Pink Floyd; and continuing through the Smiths, the Slits, and even the Spice Girls – to investigate the nature of rock humour and the ways in which these groups have used it to attack prevailing social structures. Politics and issues of gender, class, and race are all laid open to ridicule, as is the music industry itself – epitomized by the Sex Pistols’ scathing ‘EMI’. And although lyrics are foregrounded, Ellis demonstrates that a guitar solo, dissident dance move, or antisocial hairstyle may, in context, be every bit as subversive and humorous as a song.

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TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault An Unreasonable Body of Work Edited by Judith Rudakoff ISBN 9781841505718 | 160 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £19.95 | US $30

Transgendered playwright-performer, columnist, and sex worker Nina Arsenault has undergone more than 60 plastic surgeries in pursuit of a feminine beauty ideal. In TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault, Judith Rudakoff brings together a diverse group of contributors, including artists, scholars, and Arsenault herself, to offer an exploration of beauty, image and the notion of queerness through the lens of Arsenault’s highly personal brand of performance art.

Illustrated throughout with photographs of the artist’s transformation over the years and demonstrating her diversity of personae, this volume contributes to a deepening of our understanding of what it means to be a woman and what it means to be beautiful. Also included in this volume is the full script of Arsenault’s critically-acclaimed stage play, The Silicone Diaries.

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Judith Rudakoff is an award-winning dramaturg and co-author of Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy. She is a Professor of Theatre at York University in Toronto.

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Beyond the Dance Floor Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music Culture Rebekah Farrugia ISBN 9781841505664 | 130 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £19.95 | US $30

A groundbreaking study of the women who DJ electronic dance music, Beyond the Dance Floor focuses on the largely neglected relationship between women and the hegemonic conceptions of gender and technology that continue to inform this male-dominated music culture.

In this volume, Rebekah Farrugia explores a number of important issues, including the politics of identity and representation, women-centred DJ communities, and the role female DJs and producers play in dance-music culture as well as the larger public sphere.

Though Farrugia primarily focuses on women’s relationships to music-related technologies – including vinyl records, mp3s and digital production software – she also deftly extends her argument to female DJs’ strategic use of the Internet and web design skills for purposes tied to publicity, networking, and music distribution.

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Rebekah Farrugia is assistant professor of media studies in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Oakland University. Her writings have appeared in Popular Music and Society, Feminist Media Studies, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies.

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Teaching Actors Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training Ross W. Prior ISBN 9781841505701 | 224 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £19.95 | US $30

Teaching Actors draws on history, literature, and original research conducted across leading drama schools in England and Australia in order to offer those involved in actor training a critical framework within which to think about their work. Prior, who brings to this volume more than twenty years of experience as both a teacher and performer in the field, devotes particular attention to the different ways in which teachers and students acquire and share knowledge through practical craft-based experience. The first book-length treatment of how actor-trainers teach – and understand their work – Teaching Actors will be an invaluable educational resource in an increasingly important area of theatre training and research.

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Ross Prior is a reader and principal lecturer in drama and acting at The University of Northampton. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health, also published by Intellect.

Italian Women’s Theatre, 1930–1960 An Anthology of Plays Edited and translated by Daniela Cavallaro ISBN 9781841505558 | 224 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £19.95 | US $30 Part of the Playtext series

Between 1930 and 1960, popular female dramatists Paola Riccora, Anna Bonacci, Clotilde Masci and Gici Ganzini Granata set the stage for a new generation of Italian women playwrights and the development of feminist theatre. Now largely forgotten, the lives and works of these dramatists are reintroduced into the scholarly conversation in Italian women’s theatre, 1930–1960. Following a general introduction, the book presents a selection of dramatic works, rounded out by commentary, performance histories, critical analyses, and biographical information.

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Daniela Cavallaro is a senior lecturer in Italian at the University of Auckland.

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The Rehearsal Pigeon Theatre’s Trilogy of Performance Works on Playing Dead Edited by Anna Fenemore ISBN 9781841505565 | 112 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £19.95 | US $30 Part of the Playtext series

Pigeon Theatre – comprised of Anna Fenemore, Gillian Knox, and Amanda Griffkin – specializes in experimental works that incorporate non-traditional spaces, unconventional social arrangements, and shared intimacies between performer and audience. A trilogy of site-specific performance texts, The Rehearsal raises questions about the interplay in contemporary theatre between the process of rehearsal and the theatrical metaphors that shape our everyday dealings with trauma, including death. Accompanied by critical essays, these studio-based works – developed using verbatim strategies – explore the double meaning of ‘playing dead’.

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Clown Through Mask The Pioneering Work of Richard Pochinko as Practised by Sue Morrison Veronica Coburn and Sue Morrison ISBN 9781841505749 | 292 pages | 230x174mm Hardback | UK £55 | US $75

Richard Pochinko (1946–1989) played a pioneering role in North American clown theatre through the creation of an original pedagogy synthesizing modern European and indigenous Native American techniques. In Clown Through Mask, Veronica Coburn and one-time Pochinko apprentice Sue Morrison lay out the methodology of the Pochinko style of clowning and offer a bold philosophical framework for its interpretation. Morrison is today a leading teacher of Pochinko’s Clown through Mask technique and this book extends significantly the literature on this under-documented form of theatre.

Related items Veronica Coburn is a performer, writer, director, and co-founder of Barabbas Theatre Company.

Toronto-based Sue Morrison is a recognized teacher of Pochinko clown.

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Image: Janez Janša, Life [in Progress], Ljubljana, 2009–2010. Photography Nada Žgank. © Maska

Perform, Repeat, Record Live Art in History Edited by Amelia Jones and Adrian Heathfield ISBN 9781841505442 | 650 Pages | 230x174mm Paperback | £50 | US $95

Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies, and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other art forms because it may never be performed in precisely the same way twice, ephemeral artwork exists both at the time of its staging and long after in the memories of its spectators and their testimonies, as well as in material objects, visual media, and text, all of which offer new critical possibilities. Among the artists, theorists, and historians who contributed to this volume are Marina Abramovic, Guillermo GómezPeña, Rebecca Schneider, Boris Groys, Jane Blocker, Carolee Schneemann, Tehching Hsieh, Orlan, Tilda Swinton, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

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Amelia Jones is an art historian, curator, and theorist.

She is the author of several books, including Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts. She is professor and Grierson Chair in visual culture at McGill University in Montreal.

Adrian Heathfield is a writer and curator. His previous books include Live: Art and Performance and Out of Now. He is a professor at the University of Roehampton, London.

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Photography and Landscape Edited by Rod Giblett and Juha Tolonen ISBN 9781841504728 | 142 pages | 230x230mm Paperback | UK £29.95 | US $45 Part of the Critical Photography series

Photography and Landscape is a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer. It provides a new critical account of landscape photography that focuses on the settler societies of the United States and Australia.

Beginning with the frontier days of the American West, the subsequent century-long popularity of landscape photography is exemplified by images from Carleton Watkins to Ansel Adams, the New Topographics to Richard Misrach. Along with discussions of other contemporary photographers, this illustrated volume explores the influence of settler societies on landscape photography, and photographers’ fascination with the land and its expanse.

The latest instalment in Intellect’s Critical Photography series, edited by Alfredo Cramerotti, Photography and Landscape is a visually striking introduction to one of the most important modes of photography.

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Rod Giblett is associate professor in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University.

He is the author of People and Places of Nature and Culture, also published by Intellect. Juha Tolonen is a renowned landscape photographer and a lecturer at both Edith Cowan University and Curtin University.

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Image: Juha Tolonen, Billboard, China

Memory Fragments Visualising Difference in Australian History Marita Bullock ISBN 9781841505534 | 208 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK ÂŁ34.95 | US $50

Taking as its starting point four contemporary visual artists whose work utilizes the conventions of museum display and collecting practices, Memory Fragments examines how these artists have reconfigured dominant representations of Australian history and identity, including viewpoints often marginalized by gender and race. Echoing Walter Benjamin’s reflections on history and time, this interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars working in the arts as well as in modern and postmodern cultural studies.

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Marita Bullock is a lecturer in the Department of English at Macquarie University.

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Image: Donna Marcus. Courtesy of the artist and Diane Tanzer Gallery

Art Education and Contemporary Culture Irish Experiences, International Perspectives Edited by Gary Granville ISBN 9781841505466 | 240 pages | 230x174mm Hardback | UK ÂŁ45 | US $60

Using Ireland as a model, Art Education and Contemporary Culture offers a comprehensive treatment of art education in primary and secondary schools, institutions of higher education, cultural institutions and the diverse communities they serve.

Gary Granville has brought together a diverse group of eminent art educators who, together, lay out the opportunities and challenges of art practice while paying close attention to relevant national policy.

Rounding out the discussion are essays that locate the challenges and innovations of art education in an international context.

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Gary Granville is professor and head of the Faculty of Education at the National College of Art and Design.

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Mobile Nation España Cambia de Piel (1954–1964) Tatjana Pavlovic ISBN 9781841503240 | 256 pages | 230x174mm Paperback | UK £14.95 | US $30

Recent years have witnessed a surge in publications on Spanish cinema and Spanish cultural studies, but the subject of consumer culture in Spain has been neglected. Now in paperback Mobile Nation 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. Drawing from the methodologies of literature, film studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and history, Mobile Nation explores consumer culture in Spanish media, mass tourism, and the national automobile manufacturing industry from 1954 to 1964. It offers valuable insight into postmodern Spain’s transformation and trends.

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Tatjana Pavlovic is associate professor of Spanish at Tulane University.

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From NWICO to WSIS 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides Edited by Divina Frau-Meigs, Jérémie Nicey, Michael Palmer, Julia Pohle, and Patricio Tupper ISBN 9781841505862 | 240 pages | 230x174mm Hardback | UK £45 | US $60 Part of the ECREA series

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an in-depth account from the 1970s to the present of the major issues concerning information flow in international geopolitics, including a look at the negotiations surrounding the major policy debates.

Few studies of NWICO and WSIS have considered the continuity between the two activities – or included in the debate the crucial intermediary period between – and this book provides new insight into an issue of multilingual and multicultural importance.

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Divina Frau-Meigs is professor of media sociology and American studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Jérémie Nicey is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, where Michael Palmer is professor of international communications. Julia Pohle is a Ph.D. student in international communications at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Patricio Tupper is professor of media and communication sciences at the Université Paris 8.

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Picturing Immigration Photojournalistic Representation of Immigrants in Greek and Spanish Press Athanasia Batziou ISBN 9781841505190 | 160 Pages | 230x174mm Hardback | UK ÂŁ40 | US $80

In recent years Greece and Spain have seen an influx of immigrants from nearby developing nations. And as their foreign populations grew, both countries’ national medias documented the change and, in the process, shaped perceptions of the immigrant groups by their new countries and the world.

Now in hardback, Picturing Immigration offers a comparative study of the photojournalistic framing of immigrants in these two southern European nations.

Going beyond traditional media analysis, it focuses on images rather than text to explore a host of hot topics, including media representation of minorities, immigration, and stereotypes.

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Athanasia Batziou teaches in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Athens.

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Marion Richardson Her Life and Contribution to Handwriting Rosemary Sassoon ISBN 9781841505435 | 96 Pages | 230x155 Paperback | UK £19.95 | US $30

In Marion Richardson: Her Life and Her Contribution to Handwriting, Rosemary Sassoon looks at Richardson’s life and work through the artist and educator’s own writings as well as letters and personal recollections from those who knew and worked with her. The driving force behind a momentous shift in the way art is taught to children, Richardson is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking contribution to penmanship, devising two schemes based on her observations of the natural movements of young children’s hands.

The result of extensive original archival research, this book includes many illustrations that depict Richardson’s inventive approach.

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Rosemary Sassoon earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. She is the author of several books, including The Designer, also published by Intellect.

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