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The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria: Social Critique and an Artistic Movement Charlotte Bank (independent researcher) 9780367244781
RRP: $283.50$245.36This book focuses on the expanding contemporary art scene in Syria, particularly Damascus, during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The decade was characterized by a high degree of experimentation as young artists began to work with artistic... -
Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices Andrew Knight-Hill 9780367271473
RRP: $283.50$245.36Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices brings together international artist scholars to explore diverse sound and image practices, applying critical perspectives to interrogate and evaluate both the aesthetics and practices that underpin the... -
Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures: Threshold, Intermediality, Synchresis Antonio Cascelli (Maynooth University, Ireland) 9780367188047
RRP: $283.50$245.36Bringing the research of musicologists, art historians, and film studies scholars into dialogue, this book explores the relationships between visual art forms and music. The chapters are organized around three core concepts - threshold, intermediality,... -
Shyam Benegal's India: Alternative Images Vivek Sachdeva (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India) 9780367195335
RRP: $283.50$245.36This book examines Shyam Benegal's films and alternative image(s) of India in his cinema, and traces the trajectory of changing aesthetics of his cinema in the post-liberalisation era. The book engages with the challenges faced by India as a nation-state... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172813
RRP: $58.80$54.64By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the... -
Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood Jeffrey Knapp (Eggers Professor of English, Eggers Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley) 9780190935924
RRP: $51.43$36.73Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the... -
Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South Susan Courtney 9780190459970
RRP: $66.13$63.13Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since. If this dynamic became... -
Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema Giorgio Biancorosso (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, The University of Hong Kong) 9780195374711
RRP: $123.90$110.23Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures, the representation of music... -
Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture Julia Nikiel 9783631795576
RRP: $96.50$86.08The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings. The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial... -
Kevin Schmidt Nigel Prince 9781910433768
RRP: $62.90$55.15Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910433768Author Nigel PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press -
Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image Belinda Smaill 9781438462493
$172.18Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438462493Author Belinda SmaillFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressSeries SUNY... -
Seeing Like the Buddha: Enlightenment through Film Francisca Cho 9781438464381
$60.88Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438464381Author Francisca ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption Qiao Li 9781032384719
RRP: $283.50$245.36Showcases film and entertainment industry in a global perspectiveDemonstrates Hollywood distribution trends since the Covid-19 pandemicA critical reference for film students, film scholars and the public etc.Commissioned by UNESCO Cities of Film... -
The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro 9781501388552
$213.13Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular culture; and they fuse and revise multiple frames of... -
Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South Susan Courtney (Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina) 9780190459963
RRP: $252.00$225.73Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since. If this dynamic became... -
Why Horror Seduces Mathias Clasen 9780190666507
RRP: $246.75$205.78From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is... -
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema John Tulloch 9780190244606
RRP: $241.50$206.83Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping... -
Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University, United Kingdom) 9780367650667
RRP: $283.50$230.45Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays. People have... -
Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor Author So Mayer 9780814348536
$224.68Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds the relationship between acts of production on the one... -
Risk in the Film Business: Known Unknowns Michael Franklin 9780367675301
RRP: $283.50$245.36This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. Founded on substantial original research accessing the highest level of industry practitioners.Will be essential reading for scholars with an interest in the... -
Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production Jan Roberts-Breslin 9780367638313
RRP: $283.50$230.45* Provides a unique perspective to media production while considering aesthetics, ideas and ethics and includes a robust companion website with interactive exercises for each chapter as well as a downloadable instructor's manual. * Suitable for beginner... -
Performance of Absence in Theatre, Performance and Visual Art Sylwia Dobkowska 9780367471125
RRP: $283.50$245.36This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance.Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre... -
South and East Asian Cinemas Across Borders: Critical Trends in Transnational Cinema Clelia Clini (Loughborough University, UK) 9780367693732
RRP: $283.50$230.45This edited volume focuses on South and East Asian cinema, exploring transnational connections between these film industries from the point of view of narratives, topics and themes, as well as in terms of co-productions. At a time of resurgent... -
Christoph Schlingensief's Realist Theater Ilinca Todorut 9780367487539
RRP: $283.50$245.36Christoph Schlingensief, film & video, history, criticisim, theatre, performanceAbout the AuthorIlinca Todorut is IB Theatre Arts Teacher at the United World College in Changshu, China.Book InformationISBN 9780367487539Author Ilinca TodorutFormat... -
Major Film Reviews 2020 Yearbook: Lovably Cynical Since 2017 Nathan Major 9798555910301
RRP: $23.10$20.98Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798555910301Author Nathan MajorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 473gDimensions(mm)... -
The American Southern Gothic on Screen Karen Horsley 9789463729444
RRP: $224.70$213.65The Southern Gothic on Screen explores a body of screen texts that conform to certain generic conventions and aesthetics that, since the early twentieth century, have led to the construction of the American South as a space of ruin, decay, melancholy,... -
Balkan Cinema and the Great Wars: Our Story Adrian-Silvan Ionescu 9783631803967
RRP: $124.74$110.23Balkan Cinema is a result of a common cultural space shared by different nations. While operating under a blanket and negative perspective on the region, Balkan filmmakers produced diverse yet comparable narratives creatively responding to their... -
American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image John E. O'Connor 9781474281898
$232.03In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds much of value for the historian seeking to understand and... -
Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence Jinhee Choi (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King's College, London) 9780190254971
RRP: $246.75$206.83Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. This book presents new perspectives on Ozu's aesthetic sensibility and his influence on global... -
Hands on Film: Actants, Aesthetics, Affects Barry Monahan 9789463727716
RRP: $237.30$225.41Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from... -
Wang Bing's Filmmaking of the China Dream: [subtit. in manuscript?] DR. ENG Elena Pollacchi 9789463721837
RRP: $224.70$213.65This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across China's marginal spaces and against the backdrop of the state-sanctioned 'China Dream'. Wang Bing's cinema gives voice to the subaltern. Focusing on contemporary China, his work... -
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability Gerald Sim 9789463721936
RRP: $237.30$225.41Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief. Discover Singapore's preoccupations with space,... -
The Aesthetics of Net Literature - Writing, Reading and Playing in Programmable Media Peter Gendolla 9783899424935
RRP: $79.78$67.87During recent years, literary texts in electronic and networked media have been a focal point of literary scholarship, using varying terminology. In this book, the contributions of internationally renowned scholars and authors from Germany, USA, France,... -
William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays Sarah Gleeson-White (Senior Lecturer in American Literature, Senior Lecturer in American Literature, University of Sydney) 9780190274184
RRP: $252.00$227.83William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays presents for the first time and in one volume the five screenplays Faulkner wrote while under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox in the mid 1930s and a sixth he wrote in 1952. An... -
The Moving Image: A Complete Introduction to Film Nicole Richter 9781516537488
RRP: $270.90$225.73The Moving Image: A Complete Introduction to Film provides students with an accessible and complete introduction to the world of motion pictures. The text covers the basics of how films are constructed, why they matter, and how to analyze them. It... -
Cannibalizing Queer: Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015 Joao Nemi Neto 9780814346099
$224.68Puts forward a new, provocative history of queer cinema in Brazil.Through an analysis of contemporary Brazilian cinematic production,Cannibalizing Queer: Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015 discusses which queer representations are erased and which are... -
Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers: Theory, Practice and Difference Parvati Nair 9780719083570
RRP: $189.00$155.38This volume examines the films of Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers from the 1930s to the present day. It establishes productive connections between film practices across these geographical areas by identifying common areas of concern on the part... -
Digital Uncanny Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, University of California - Davis) 9780190853990
RRP: $236.25$194.23We are now confronted with a new type of uncanny experience, an uncanny evoked by parallel processing, aggregate data, and cloud-computing. The digital uncanny does not erase the uncanny feeling we experience as deja vu or when confronted with robots... -
Animating the Science Fiction Imagination J. P. Telotte (Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780190695262
RRP: $231.00$205.78Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through analyses of early twentieth-century animations, comic strips,... -
Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory David Greven 9780190214166
RRP: $267.75$225.73Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer...