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Pop Fiction: The Song in Cinema

Intellect, 2005

Pop Fiction's unique essays individually consider one song within a cinematic context. Unlike previous collected volumes about pop music in film where a generalised approach has been adopted, it offers instead a close examination of these two most pervasive and significant mediums in contemporary culture. The collection introspects, assembling the...

Trends in Functional Programming: Volume 5

Intellect, 2006

Covers all aspects of functional programming, both theoretical and practical, to provide a coherent overview of research's most recent developments. This book features: language design, proof and transformation, semantics and models, implementation, applications, type systems, parallelismand distribution, performance modelling and profiling,...

Videogames and Art

Intellect, 2007

From Madden NFL 2007 to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, videogames are firmly enmeshed in modern culture. Acknowledging the increasing cultural impact of this rapidly changing industry, Videogames and Art is one of the first books devoted to the study of videogame art, featuring in-depth essays that offer an unparalleled...

Trends in Functional Programming (Vol 7)

Intellect, 2007

This is Volume 7 of Trends in Functional Programming (TFP). It contains the Refereed Proceedings of TFP 2006: the Seventh Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming. TFP is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming. Its goal is to provide a broad view of current and future trends in functional...

Trends in Functional Programming 6

Intellect, 2007

This book contains selected papers from the proceedings presented at the Sixth Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP05). Continuing the TFP series with its previous instances held in Stirling (1999), St. Andrews (2000), Stirling (2001), Edinburgh (2003) and Munich (2004) the symposium was held in Tallinn, Estland in co-location with...

Sophia Loren: Moulding the Star

Intellect, 2009

In films from Houseboat to The Millionairess to Two Women, Sophia Loren established herself as an actress whose stardom spanned Italy, Europe, and finally Hollywood. Hers was a highly original rise to fame for a European film actress, and in Sophia Loren, Pauline Small highlights a unique career which transcended...

Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material

Intellect, 2000

Since Princess Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and scientific history of our responses to the car crash, as well as showing the personal impact of the crash on individual lives. In trying to...

Trends In Functional Programming

Intellect, 2005

This paper explores the suitability of functional languages for programming real-time systems. We study the requirements of real-time systems in general, outline typical language approaches for this domain, consider issues relating to memory and time usage and explore how all existing functional languages, including our own...

Computers and Typography

Intellect, 2002

This book is intended as a companion volume to the original Computers and Typography, but in no way supercedes it. The first book discussed many of the traditional typographic guidelines, and related them to modern technology. It recognised that this knowledge had not been part of the training or experience of the earlier...

The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued

Intellect, 2014

The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and ’70s. Split over two volumes, the contributors examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations...

The Audience Experience: A Critical Analysis of Audiences in the Performing Arts

Intellect, 2013

The Audience Experience identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance. Together, new communication technologies and new kinds of audiences and audience research have transformed the expectations of performance, and The Audience Experience explores key trends in the...

Design Integrations: Research and Collaboration

Intellect, 2009

Design Integrations calls for an innovative rethinking of design education, one that recognizes the changing modes of design and the shifting forms of user experience. The contributors urge new methods of approach that focus on interdisciplinary collaboration between the academic and business worlds. These essays, among the...

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