Covering the myths that surround Singaporean film and exploring the realities of the movies that come from this exciting city, World Film Locations: Singapore introduces armchair travellers to a rich, but less known, national cinema.
A collection that takes readers on a virtual tour of Sydney, from Kings Cross, the city's red light district and frequent film location, to the famous beaches to explore how... Læs mere
The Roots of Modern Hollywood studies the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films... Læs mere
Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions... Læs mere
Directory of World Cinema: Scotland provides an introduction to many of Scottish cinema’s most important and influential themes and issues, films and filmmakers, adding... Læs mere
The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Britain provided an overview of British cinema from its earliest days to the present. In this, the second volume, the contributors focus on specific periods and trace the evolutions of individual genres and directors.
Since the publication of the first volume of Directory of World Cinema: China, the Chinese film industry has intensified its efforts to make inroads into the American... Læs mere
A volume that takes as its subject not the genres or movements that constitute the cinema of the Land of the Rising Sun but the filmmakers themselves. Focusing entirely... Læs mere
Explores the ways the concepts of money and capital are understood and talked about by a range of people, from traders to ordinary investors, and how these accounts are framed and represented across a range of media.
An analysis of reality and "the real" as presented in contemporary artistic creation, this book examines the responses given by performing arts to the importance placed on reality beyond representation. It is suitable for scholars of aesthetics and contemporary artistic practice.
The first title in the new Intellect series ‘Critical Photography’, features photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in fourteen different cities around the... Læs mere
Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as visibly pretentious and abstract, this book examines its principal concepts from the perspective of... Læs mere