Intellect is an independent academic publisher in the arts and humanities, publishing scholarly books and journals that exemplify our mission as publishers of original thinking. We aim to provide a vital space for widening critical debate in new and emerging subjects, and in this way we differ from other publishers by campaigning for the author rather than producing a book or journal to fill a gap in the market.
We are best known for our work in the visual arts, film studies, cultural studies, communication studies, media studies, fashion and performing arts. These categories host Intellect’s ever-expanding topics of enquiry, which include photography, drawing, curation, community music, gaming and scenography. Intellect titles are often multidisciplinary, presenting scholarly work at the cross section of arts, media and creative practice.
Intellect seeks to offer an unbiased platform for quality critical debate. We are committed to representing the author’s voice authentically, without imposition of our personal ideas or opinions. We place great emphasis on serving our authors and editors, customers, and communities. As a mission-based publisher, we are committed to reinvesting in our publishing activities.
We have a robust international distribution arrangement, including partners such as the University of Chicago Press, Turpin Distribution and Footprint.
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Fashion Projects
15 Years of Fashion in Dialogue
This book collects together the best articles from the long-running journal Fashion Projects, most issues of which are now unavailable. Through detailed interviews with designers, critics and curators, the book chronicles the ascent of fashion as a critical force across media, the museum and the academy over the past 15 years. 20 colour illus.
- AvailableHardbackGBP 99.95
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Tribal and the Cultural Legacy of Streetwear
Tribal Streetwear is a lifestyle streetwear brand that is inspired by a variety of southern California sub-cultures that includes graffiti, street art, skateboarding, surfing, tattoos, hip hop, breakdancing, punk, low-riders, and custom culture. This edited volume uses Tribal as a lens for examining the history of streetwear. 40 col. illus.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 24.95
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Copenhagen Chic
A Locational History of Copenhagen Fashion
The first comprehensive study of the Copenhagen fashion culture in English, aims to inspire future generations of thinkers, creators, and practitioners in fashion and design fields to make the fashion industry more sustainable, ethical, and just. Latest in the Urban Chic series. 100 b/w illus.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 27.95
- AvailableHardbackGBP 99.95
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Fashion Education
The Systemic Revolution
Fashion Education maps out a praxis of inclusive fashion pedagogy. In this collection of 17 essays, fashion educators from Australia, Canada, the US and the UK recount their experiences, struggles and strategies of radically redesigning fashion curriculum to centre Black, Indigenous, brown, fat, disabled, queer and trans bodies. 59 b/w illus.
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Canadian Critical Luxury Studies
Decentring Luxury
The first study of Canada’s historical, economic and cultural relationship to luxury. From the fur trade to Indigenous resurgence, Eaton’s Made-in-Canada campaign to Toronto Fashion Week, Vancouver public artworks to Montréal’s fashiontech sector, this collection explains what makes Canadian luxury. 19 b/w illus.
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Heavy Metal Armour: A Visual Study of Battle Jackets
Customized denim battle jackets are worn by heavy metal fans to show their devotion to the music and subcultures of metal. Unique study outlines the significance of battle jackets in metal scenes and makes connections to wider historic and contemporary culture. Original paintings of jackets and photographic portraits of the wearers. 80 col. illus.
- AvailableHardbackGBP 35.00
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Crafting Luxury
Craftsmanship, Manufacture, Technology and the Retail Environment
A fresh approach to contemporary views of luxury focusing on extensive academic research and industry insights, pushing the boundaries by using luxury as a catalyst for innovative research in a variety of domains spanning design, art, craftsmanship, technology, retail, architecture and cultural and social studies. 12 col. illus.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 35.00
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Fashion Knowledge
Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics
Programmatically outlines a paradigmatic shift towards an expanded fashion discourse at the intersection of doing and thinking. Designers, artists, curators and theorists investigate the multifaceted debates on the rise of practice-based research in fashion and thus make a significant step to advance fashion studies. 24 col and 34 b/w illus.
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- AvailableHardbackGBP 80.00
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Clothing Goes to War
Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II
Across the globe, raw materials and workers were shifted to war work and manufacturing for civilians almost ended. Governments mandated rationing programmes in many countries to regulate the limited supply. 75 years later the slow fashion movement is motivating new reductions in clothing consumption. 108 b/w, 16 col. illus.
New Books Network (New Books in History) interview with Nan Turner
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Fashion, Women and Power
The Politics of Dress
As never before, women are rightfully in positions of political power, and into the maelstrom of mass media challenges to their fashions and their right to govern. An examination of the fraught narratives surrounding the clothing of women in leadership in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Indonesia. 7 b/w, 24 colour illus.
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Crossing Gender Boundaries
Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend
This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments – how dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender – the chapters investigate gender issues through the lens of fashion.
A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access: Crossing Gender Boundaries. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License and is part of Knowledge Unlatched.
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MASKS
Bowie and Artists of Artifice
This interdisciplinary anthology explores the complex relationships in an artist’s life between fact and fiction, presentation and existence, and critique and creation, and examines the work that ultimately results from these tensions.
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