Intellect

Las Vegas was once again, appropriately enough, the venue for the Far West Popular Culture and American Culture Associations annual conference, from 11-13 March, and Intellect was delighted to attend this friendly and welcoming conference. I was lucky enough to sit in on a number of very interesting and thought-provoking panels on topics ranging from popular culture in Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel to vampires and other fictional serial killers.
 

To celebrate the launch of The Big Picture iPad App – which is now available to download for free from the iTunes App store – Intellect is offering our readers a chance to win an Apple iPad!

To enter, simply click here, answer the question and click send on the web form. All answers must be submitted by May 1st 2011 and the winner will be announced shortly after.

What is The Big Picture…
The Big Picture is a magazine that explores film in a wider context using the power of imagery to show just how moving moving-pictures can be. From posters and evocative objects to photo essays and real-life stories beyond the borders of the screen, The Big Picture offers a unique perspective on the world of film.

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We're delighted to announce that Intellect is one of the first publishers to have reached agreement with Thomson Reuters to include our books in the Social Science Citation Index, due to go live in late 2011. 

Choreographic Practices (http://bit.ly/hveEQo) operates from the principle that dance embodies ideas and can be productively enlivened when considered as a mode of critical and creative discourse. The journal provides a platform for sharing choreographic practices, critical inquiry and debate.

Placing an emphasis on processes and practices over products, this journal seeks to engender dynamic relationships between theory and practice, choreographer and scholar, so that these distinctions may be shifted and traversed.

Choreographic Practices encompasses a wide range of methodologies and critical perspectives such that interdisciplinary processes in performance can be understood as they intersect with other territories in the arts and beyond (for example, cultural studies, psychology, phenomenology, geography, philosophy and economics). In this way, the journal will open up the nature and scope of dance practice as research and draw together diverse bodies of knowledge and ways of knowing to illuminate an emerging and vibrant research area.

Issue 1.1 is available for FREE online: http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/chor/1/1?cookieSet=1

To subscribe or contribute please visit the journal’s page on Intellect’s website: http://bit.ly/hveEQo

Last week I was invited to join a group of students touring the London College of Communication’s impressive Stanley Kubrick Archive. Having navigated the Elephant & Castle’s bewildering subterranean underpass system – the sort of place you wouldn’t want to encounter any rowdy malchicks late at night – a temple to the visionary American film-maker awaits in the LCC’s lower depths.

Comprehensive to a fault, the care with which notes, drawings, photos, props and ephemera are preserved herein would surely impress the notoriously obsessive director. Granted access to the temperature-controlled storeroom, electronically operated doors slide open to greet us, recalling a space-age time capsule devised by the BBC special effects department. Short only of dry ice and a Cyberman sentry, row upon row of carefully arranged reference material awaits. It’s a hermetically sealed environment that would delight Dr Strangelove’s General Jack Ripper, given his aversion to alien bodies intermingling with our precious bodily fluids. Here the Kubrick student can graze upon the original faked newspapers used in A Clockwork Orange, or contrasting pictorial research gathered for films set in the Victorian age (Barry Lyndon) and the near future (2001: A Space Odyssey). Ornate masks used on Eyes Wide Shut are present, as are scripts, location notes and Kubrick’s oft-terse personal correspondence. Simply put, it’s an outstanding research facility.

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This Graduate/Undergraduate Student Research Symposium was inspired by and serves to honor Dr. Annette Lermack, Associate Professor of Art History, upon her retirement from Illinois State University. Her dedicated professionalism is an example for all of us interested in continuing our scholarly pursuits and dreams. Sunil Manghani’s 2008 book entitled: Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall is the text that informs the theme of the symposium.

For more information go to: http://writingwithimages.wordpress.com/

Southeastern Theatre Conference
Atlanta, Georgia
2–6 March 2011

Add drama to your life! Join Amy for the 62nd Annual Southeastern Theatre Conference at the Hilton Atlanta Hotel 2-6 March. Over 4,000 theatre artists and practitioners are set to participate in this year’s 4+ day event. 300 workshops are scheduled as well as master classes, musical coaching, auditions and staged readings. A collection of Intellect’s books and journals will be on display throughout the conference so come by, take a look at our portfolio and learn more about publishing with us.  Hope to see you there!