Ebook Collections
E-book collections
We are pleased to offer subject area or custom ebook collections to our library customers.
Find all current ebook collections here.
We offer large e-book collections, frontlist or archive books in our all our main subject areas. As well as offering smaller subject specific collections (please see tabs for some of the collections we offer) we can also offer tailored collections personally picked to your requirements.
All our book series are available to purchase as collections too.
All our collections are constantly updated with new titles on cutting edge research in arts and humanities. We are able to offer discounts to our journal collection subscribers and small institutions.
Main Subjects
- Film Studies
World Film Locations, Directory of World Cinema and Mediated Cities - Visual Arts
- Performing Arts
- Cultural Studies
Intellect's extensive cultural studies collection, with 300+ front and back list titles, including the series Fan Phenomena and Crime Uncovered in addition to a range of titles on popular culture, music and politics - Media & Communication
The access is provided through our partner ebooks.com (the most ethical ebooks retailer according to the Ethical Consumer magazine). The collections are available on both subscription and perpetual ownership basis, with a 30 day free trial.
Please contact Jelena Stanovnik (jelena@intellectbooks.com) to enquire.
For individual e-book purchase please visit our page Order Our books.
Architecture
Architecture viewed through the lens of cultural studies, film studies and art. Also includes Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series.
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
The Architecture of the Screen
Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World
Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices
Connecting People, Place and Design
Architectural Dynamics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran
Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture
Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin
Performative Materials in Architecture and Design
Digital Futures and the City of Today
Israel as a Modern Architectural Experimental Lab
Locality, Regeneration and Divers(c)ities
Art Education Practice and Research
Front and backlist titles from Intellect's highly regarded art education list. Includes the best-selling titles Artist-Scholar, Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, The Critical Eye, in addition to books on the practice and theory of drawing, design and live performance. This list will continue to grow as new titles join our Art Education list.
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
Educating Artists for the Future
On Repetition: Writing, Performance and Art
Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition
Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science
Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters
Culture, Technology and the Image
Engendering Interaction with Images
Spellbound: Rethinking the Alphabet
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
Artistic Research in the Future Academy
Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching
Dysfunction and Decentralization in New Media Art and Education
Representations of Working in Arts Education
Art, Community and Environment
The Artist as Culture Producer
Performing Processes
Visual Language for the World Wide Web
Unmapping the City
Handwriting of the Twentieth Century
Dance
A collection of cutting edge research from Intellect’s influential dance list. This list will continue to grow as new titles join our Dance list.
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
Throwing the Body into the Fight
The Wise Body: Conversations with Experienced Dancers
Performing Revolutionary: Art, Action, Activism
Drawing
Intellect's small but important collection of books on the theory, practice and research on drawing.
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and Research
Drawing: The Enactive Evolution of the Practitioner
Frontlist
All books published in the last two years across subject areas, updated quarterly. Includes The Critical Eye: Fifteen Pictures to Understand Photography, Fellini's Films and Commercials, entire Re:Research collection, Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter, Preston Sturges, The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global and more.
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
Performing Palimpsest Bodies
Raymond Williams
EXPOSING VULNERABILITY
Writing Belonging at the Millennium
The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran
Giuseppe Pagano
Fan Phenomena
Agency
Israel as a Modern Architectural Experimental Lab
Provoking the Field
Morality by Design
BRITPOP CINEMA
One Hundred Years of Futurism
The Punk Reader
(RE)POSITIONING SITE DANCE DG
Teachers and Teaching on Stage and on Screen
Instafame
The Anarchist Cinema
Communication and Discourse Theory
Architectural Dynamics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran
Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science
Through the Prism of the Senses
The Critical Eye
From Méliès to New Media
African Luxury
Consumer Identities
Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium
Architecture Filmmaking
Keepin' It Real
The Idea of the Avant Garde
Spiritual Herstories
The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company
Art inSight
Performing Arts in Prisons
Performance / Media / Art / Culture
Disability Arts and Culture
MASKS
Preston Sturges
Redefining Theatre Communities
Queer Communion
Dancing with Parkinson's
Field Notes on the Visual Arts
Connecting People
#Nodes
Revolution in the Echo Chamber
Culture
Design and Living Well
Cosmopolitics of the Camera
Modern Melbourne
Heavy Metal Music in Argentina
The Media-Democracy Paradox in Ghana
The Baroque Technotext
Women in Iberian Filmic Culture
Design Discourse on Culture and Society
The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces
Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine
Philosophical Frameworks and Design Processes
The Traumatic Screen
The Cinematic Sublime
Design and Digital Interaction
Design Discourse on Business and Industry
Punk Now!!
Acts of Dramaturgy
Design and the Creation of Social Value
Producing Childrens Television in the On Demand Age
Journalism
Teaching and Learning Design
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Fandom
Front and backlist titles from Intellect's fandom and celebrity studies list. This list will continue to grow as new titles join our Fandom list.
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones
Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes
Twin Peaks: Unwrapping the Plastic
MASKS: Bowie and Artists of Artifice
Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia
Fan Phenomena: The Hunger Games
Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics
Fan Phenomena: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski
Superman: The Movie: The 40th Anniversary Interviews
Forthcoming titles in Intellect's Fandom Studies:
The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race: Why are We All Gagging?
A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms
Film
Intellect's largest collection, the film studies list: A round-up of all front and backlist titles in Intellect's growing film studies portfolio.
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema
Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2
Stephen King on the Small Screen
The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces
World Film Locations: San Francisco
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
Live Art
Includes IntellectLive series plus a number of other live art titles from Intellect's front and back list collection.
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
Walking Writing and Performance
Lexicon for an Affective Archive
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
Throwing the Body into the Fight
Agency: A Partial History of Live Art
Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde
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Material Culture
Material Culture studies are a growing field of academic research. Its aim is to understand societies and cultures through careful observation and discussion of the physical objects generated by those societies, as well as the interaction with them.
The source material for study is exceptionally interdisciplinary, so Intellect is proud to present its dedicated Material Culture ebook Collection, offering important research across fashion, film, media, popular culture and more in one bundle:
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
Real Objects in Unreal Situations
Field Notes on the Visual Arts
The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran
Coming soon:
Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
For more information about our Material Culture collection including journal articles and more, click here
Music
Front and back list titles from Intellect's music collection, including the Global Punk series.
Browse all titles currently in the collection here.
The Lived Experience of Improvisation
Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace
Radio Content in the Digital Age
Connecting Metal to Culture
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
Visual Arts
Intellect's list on essential reading in the realm of Visual Arts, from photography to drawing, as well as cross-disciplinary titles.
You can find the full current Visual Arts ebook collection here.
The Artist as Culture Producer
Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art
Field Notes on the Visual Arts
Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers.
Tailored Collection
We can also offer tailored collected specialized to your requirements. These can be very much specific to your needs and subject or budget requirements.
Please contact Jelena Stanovnik (jelena@intellectbooks.com) to enquire.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does it work?
Access is provided through our partner Ebooks.com (the most ethical e-books retailer according to the Ethical Consumer magazine). The collections are available on both a subscription and perpetual ownership basis with a free trial of 30 days.
You will be assigned a library administration portal where you can see the collections you own, collect COUNTER-compliant usage reports, create new logins for your colleagues and download MARC records, which you can use to integrate the collection into your own OPAC.
How do our patrons access the books?
The access is provided either through IP range, patron login or both. Our customers usually opt for IP range access. EZProxy is also available for remote access. Ebooks.com supports Shibboleth and soon OpenAthens access too.
What formats are available for download?
The books are downloaded as ePub or PDF for Adobe Digital Editions. E-book Collections reader does not require the use of proprietary plug-ins or software.
Can I see my library’s usage stats?
You can access COUNTER-compliant usage reports from your administration portal.
Where can I see the MARC records for books that I own?
You can export MARC records from the library administration portal and upload them to your catalogue using the Z39.50 protocol.
My library subscribes to a journals collection. Can I have a discount?
Yes, we are happy to offer e-book and journal packages at a discount for both purchases and subscriptions. Please note that access for journals will continue to be provided through Ingenta Connect.
I need a particular set of titles that is not offered by any of the collections.
We are able to put together Tailored Collections upon request. Please get in touch if this is of interest to you. All book series are available as e-book sets too.
I am only interested in purchasing one book.
Individual e-book titles are available for purchase from our distributors – please see this page: https://www.intellectbooks.com/how-to-order-books.
I have more questions.
Please contact Jelena Stanovnik (jelena@intellect.com), who will be happy to help.