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Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in...

This collection explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across Europe in flux. It brings together scholars from Spain to Estonia, Hungary to Britain, in order to trace European filmmakers' diverse responses to the interlinked upheavals and...

Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema'Celluloid Singapore' is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the...

This is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining the cultural, production and exhibition contexts of his feature films, shorts and video installations.Book InformationISBN...

An extensive critical study of cinematic representations of Irish queer masculinitiesIn recent years queer identities have become increasingly visible in Irish cinema, a shift that can be linked to political, economic and social changes taking place both...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474446044Author Michelle DevereauxFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Traditions in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474444576Author Andree LafontaineFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The...

A dynamic, scholarly engagement with Susanne Bier's workThe award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidently between cinema and television at a time where the...

Examines the American exploitation film blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation between 1959-1977What is an exploitation film? 'The Style of Sleaze' reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466950Author Patricia PistersFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

In 'Cinema, If You Please', Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.About the AuthorMurray Pomerance is an independent scholar living...

The first book-length study of Reichardt's career and worksOver her six-film career, including works like 'Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff' and 'Certain Women', the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has established a highly individual perspective on questions...

The first book in English dedicated to the actor and director Tanaka KinuyoPraised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, Tanaka's career spanned the industrial development of cinema from silent to sound, monochrome to colour...

Audiences never have a lukewarm opinion of a Subiela film. They either love it passionately or hate it profoundly. That Eliseo Subiela (Buenos Aires, 1944-2016), an original and sensitive thinker, survived, and indeed throve in economically challenged...

Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms explores the intricate complexity of selected films and film-making practices from 1930s Hong Kong (and Shanghai) to the later 'new wave' phenomenon of the 1980s. The result is a Sinophone cinema that...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474447621Author Kim WilkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The American...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466516Author Michael GottFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474413039Author David ForrestFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries Traditions in World...

Metaphysics and the Moving Image is an exploration of how the medium of film inherits metaphysics, the ancient tradition of Western thought, and why it does so at the very moment philosophy sought to overcome it. As the age of metaphysics comes to a...

Ermanno Olmi is one of cinema's great, unsung filmmakers. With no formal filmmaking education, he drew upon his documentary roots to emerge onto the Italian art film scene, just as the last canonical neo-realist movies were released in the late 1950s and...

The tools for independent filmmaking are more accessible today than ever. Yet there is much more to successfully creating a film than access to equipment and software. Chronicling the making of his premier feature film, A Convenient Truth (2015), the...

By giving shape to Imamura Shohei's career, this collection positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of...

Examines the purpose that place serves in filmsAbout the AuthorCorinne Maury, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Universite de Toulouse Jean Jaures.Book InformationISBN 9781399501392Author Corinne MauryFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Edinburgh...

This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954 and 2001. Taking dinner table scenes as a recurring motif, the study analyses changes in televisual style with reference to production...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838322551Author Colin RootFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947704800Author Nick PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Beat Deep BooksPublisher Beat Deep BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944866716Author Jay Slayton-JoslinFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Clash BooksPublisher Clash BooksWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861713056Author JEREMY MARK ROBINSONFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,...

There is now no shortage of media for us to consume, from streaming services and video-on-demand to social media and everything else besides. This has changed the way media scholars think about the production and reception of media. Missing from these...

This is the first book to analyse the aesthetics and narrative structures of Bertolucci's films by using affective and cognitive theory in order to determine the ways in which they engage viewers emotionally and intellectually, as well as to re-establish...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629339177Author Vivien CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629339160Author Vivien CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed ""film geek,"" with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling,...

A detailed feminist study of Bergman's most important films. This book covers the whole of Bergman's production, but concentrates in particular on close analyses of five of his major films: Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, The Silence,...

Essays showcasing Ali and Nino as particularly topical for today's readers both in and out of the classroom, and providing a number of diverse approaches to it. Ali and Nino is a novel published in German in 1937 under the alias "Kurban Said," a...

Critically examines the work of Qu b cois filmmakers Denis Villeneuve Engages with all of Villeneuve's feature films (some individually and some comparatively), including those that have up until now received little critical attention Proposes...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474477932Author Will HigbeeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474451048Author Ana SalzbergFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474448284Author Laura HatryFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressSeries ReFocus: The...