New Intellect Titles: Truth or Dare / Reading Bande Dessinee
Dear Colleagues
Intellect is proud to announce the recent publication of the following titles!
Truth or Dare: Art and Documentary
Edited by Gail Pearce & Cahal McLaughlin
ISBN 9781841501758 / Paperback / £19.95
Increased experimentation by film-makers such as Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock means that the walls between art and documentary are collapsing, generating innovative ideas and attracting an entirely new audience. Intellect’s new release, Truth or Dare: Art and Documentary, is the innovative product of a Whitechapel Gallery conference, bringing together renowned artists, film-makers, writers and curators. The ethics of this new wave! of documentary are probed when authenticity of documentary clashes with the entertainment and imagination of art.
Truth or Dare explores the blurred boundaries between documentary film and contemporary art, extending discussion to new technological developments that allow for crossover and opportunities for collaboration. This is a unique and timely collection of reflection and analysis by documentary makers and artists about where they position their art forms in relation to each other and the shape of film-making to come.
Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip
By Ann Miller
ISBN 9781841501772/ Paperback / £19.95
The popularity of bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip, means that it is increasingly being included on university syllabuses worldwide. This new title from Intellect, Reading Bande dessinée, provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis of contemporary examples of the art form, its historical context, key artists, and common themes.
Miller’s groundbreaking book demonstrates exactly why bande dessinée is considered to be a visual narrative art form and encourages the reader to appreciate it to the best of their abilities. Miller also provides the terminology, framework and tools necessary for study, highly relevant to current curriculum. In doing so, she creates a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive approach to the subject matter. Reading Bande dessinée draws from analytical viewpoints such as narratology, cultural and gender studies to illuminate the form fully, investigating the satirical possibilities and seeing how the comic strip challenges representations of the body according to gender theories. This volume explores the controversy surrounding the comic strips in French society and traces the historical and cultural implications of its legitimization.
'The work provides both a key analysis for scholars of the bande dessinée, as well as a manual for a modern application of critical theory'. Dr Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow.
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