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Our good pals at the University of Chicago Press have put together a fabulous slideshow, which is composed of images taken from one of Intellect's latest visual arts titles, Atomic Postcards.
To view some images posted from the edge of danger, click here (but don't forget your sunscreen, they are positively radioactive!).
Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages from the Cold War is available to buy in the UK and will be published next week in North America and the Rest of World.
Intellect is Boston bound for the 61st annual International Communication Association conference 26-29 May at the Westin Waterfront Hotel. Come meet Intellect’s founder, Masoud Yazdani, in the town known for founding fathers. Scholars, working professionals and delegates from across North America, Europe and beyond will be gathering to discuss issues facing communication and media professionals worldwide. Amy will join Masoud in introducing Intellect’s latest titles such as Nico Carpentier’s Media and Participation as well as its well established journals International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics and International Journal of War & Culture.
Please come by our stand to learn more about publishing opportunities or check out the “Publish with Us” section on our website.
Two of our books have been reviewed in Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 89, no.2, April 2011).
Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama
By Birgit Beumers and Mark Lipovetsky
'...a valuable interpretive tool, providing much needed assistance in navigating the highly heterogeneous landscape of contemporary Russian theatre.' – Elena Siemens, University of Alberta
The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters
'...a valuable and extremely well-researched contribution that will prove fruitful for
researchers exploring Soviet culture.' – Anna Toropova, UCL SSEES
Join the QUAD Gallery for the launch of All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism on Friday 27th May from 6pm.
Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti and Simon Sheikh, All That Fits is a thought-provoking exhibition that presents the idea that art and journalism are actually two sides of one activity (the production and distribution of images and information) and explores how this affects our perception of what we are seeing.
Directory of World Cinema: Brazil is an important opportunity to synthesise current scholarship on the Brazilian Cinema being undertaken globally, bringing some of the most important movements, genres and themes from across the eras of Brazilian cinema into a coherent picture.
The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process by Greg McLaughlin and Stephen Baker has been reviewed by Sue Curry Jansen for The War and Media Network.
'Most propaganda studies focus on the drumbeats of war, the tactics and strategies that ignite the furies of hate and aggression; however, bringing war to a successful conclusion also requires ideological readjustments and management of public perceptions. It is not enough for the victors to write the history of a conflict. To claim the spoils of war and secure the future, they also must cultivate public acceptance of their interpretive frameworks. That is, they need to deploy what McLaughlin and Baker call the ‘propaganda of peace’ in order to effectively craft a new social reality and idealized vision of the future that reconciles, marginalizes or suppresses animosities and revises or erases historical memories.
McLaughlin and Baker’s well-documented, tightly reasoned and carefully crafted book examines the propaganda of peace that was mobilized in Northern Ireland during the period leading up to the ratification of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and which still sustains the peace process. Unlike the propaganda of war, which is usually organized by the state, the military and paramilitary organizations, McLaughlin and Baker argue that the propaganda of peace involves a much broader range of social forces and cultural forms dedicated to uniting society, culture and nation behind a core idea or shared principle.'
The Unprimed Canvas - Issue 1.2
The second issue of Design Ecologies will give reference to articles in the first issue as a critique or reflection of the new contributor’s own practice and research. The collection of ideas will further define and unpack the complexities and tactics of experience in ecological projects. Each contributor will understand the importance of maintaining a 'constant' with the economic, social and environmental fields of relationships. Every article will establish relations not only within the system of symbols but between that system and the forms and locations of the objects that it symbolises.
This collection of ideas will aid in revealing the immediacy of the making of design work through what some might consider the relationship between people, environment and space, but what is actually our co-existence with it.
Click 'Read more' below to find out more...
Katrien Jacobs, author of People's Pornography is interviewed by CNN
Katrien Jacobs is writing a book about pornography in China. The research process sounds stressful.
Jacobs describes an experiment in which she and a group of her students went to a Starbucks coffeehouse in Shenzhen to search for sexually explicit media on the Internet. The aim was to see what they could access through mainland China’s Great Firewall.
“I was more scared than my students were,” admits Jacobs who is a professor of visual culture studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “We were there for 30 minutes and we found all this porn using an Internet connection in a public space.”
Book Launch:
Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art
Edited by Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman
Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 17.30
Research Forum South Room, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London
Speakers: Harriet Riches (Kingston University) and Lucy Soutter (Royal College of
Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
