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The Cambridge Companion to Comics Maaheen Ahmed (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) 9781009255691
SciFier: £23.24The Cambridge Companion to Comics presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume... -
Viewing America: Twenty-First-Century Television Drama Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia) 9781107619746
SciFier: £31.79Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no... -
Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull Kevin J. Hayes (University of Central Oklahoma) 9780521536042
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.54Raging Bull (1980) represents American film making at its best. Since its initial release, the film has been called the greatest film of the 1980s, the greatest boxing film ever made, the greatest... -
Class, Language, and American Film Comedy Christopher Beach (University of California, Irvine) 9780521002097
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £37.89This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the... -
Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 John Trumpbour (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521042666
SciFier: £55.99The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. Determined to defeat such resistance, the... -
Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 John Trumpbour (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521651561
SciFier: £106.31The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. Determined to defeat such resistance, the... -
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521772358
SciFier: £77.28The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its... -
America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) 9780521810920
SciFier: £76.58In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed... -
Film Structure and the Emotion System Greg M. Smith (Georgia State University) 9780521817585
SciFier: £92.00Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is central to the viewing of movies, film... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 9781108060363
SciFier: £56.19This spy story of 1915 by John Buchan (1875-1940) is an archetype of the genre, but may be better known today through its film and television versions (especially that of Alfred Hitchcock in 1935)... -
Film and Phenomenology by Allan Casebier
SciFier: £20.04In Film and Phenomenology, Allan Casebier develops a theory of representation first indicated in the writings of the father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, and then applies it to the case of... -
Remote Control by Catharine Lumby (University of Sydney)
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £33.59This book examines the ethical challenges posed by new media formats, technologies and audiences. It considers how these emerging genres and technologies work, how they are reshaping the public... -
Australian Cinema After Mabo Felicity Collins (La Trobe University, Victoria) 9780521542562
SciFier: £34.59Australian Cinema after Mabo is a comprehensive 2005 study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how the Mabo decision, where the... -
The Gorgon's Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror Paul Coates 9780521063364
SciFier: £35.49The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War... -
Renoir on Renoir: Interviews, Essays, and Remarks Jean Renoir 9780521385930
SciFier: £29.39Renoir on Renoir is a 1990 collection of essays by, and interviews of, the legendary filmmaker Jean Renoir, who created such classics as The Grand Illusion, The River and The Rules of the Game... -
A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television Kenneth S. Rothwell (University of Vermont) 9780521543118
SciFier: £46.89A History of Shakespeare on Screen chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays from the earliest exhibitions in music halls and nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar... -
Ozu's Tokyo Story David Desser (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521482042
RRP: £74.99SciFier: £70.22Ozu's Tokyo Story is generally regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Universal in its appeal, it is also considered to be 'particularly Japanese'. Exploring its universality and cultural... -
The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies Ray Carney (Boston University) 9780521381192
SciFier: £77.28The first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worked outside the studio system. Providing extended critical discussion on six of his most important films (Shadows, Faces,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholms Universitet) 9781009009980
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £20.86In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the... -
Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation by Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.99Taking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-dum, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous... -
Magic on the Early English Stage Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds) 9780521825139
RRP: £94.00SciFier: £88.17Magic on the Early English Stage investigates the performance of magical tricks, illusions, effects and their staged appearance in the medieval and early English theatre. Performers who created such... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University, Leicester) 9780521849623
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £82.72This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from... -
The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy Oliver Double (University of Kent) 9781316518571
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £70.23Stand-up comedy is one of the simplest theatre forms in existence. The comedian stands on a (usually) bare stage, talking straight to the audience in the hope of getting laughs. Yet it has never been... -
Understanding Cinema by Per Persson
SciFier: £92.70Understanding Cinema, first published in 2003, analyzes the moving imagery of film and television from a psychological perspective. Per Persson argues that spectators perceive, think, apply... -
The Cognitive Semiotics of Film Warren Buckland (Liverpool John Moores University) 9780521037150
RRP: £46.99SciFier: £45.54In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of... -
Film in Australia by Albert Moran (Griffith University, Queensland)
SciFier: £27.56Film in Australia is a groundbreaking book that systematically addresses the wide-ranging output of Australian feature films. Adopting a genre approach, it gives a different take on Australian films... -
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521776028
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £26.59The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its... -
Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia Vera Dika 9780521815680
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £87.01The reuse of images, plots and genres from film history has become prominent in contemporary culture. In this study, Vera Dika explores this phenomenon from a broad range of critical perspectives,... -
Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate Kamilla Elliott (University of California, Berkeley) 9780521818445
SciFier: £92.70The relationship between books and film has been one of the key topics of cinema studies. Much of this criticism, however, has been inherited from eighteenth-century debates on poetry and painting... -
Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull Kevin J. Hayes (University of Central Oklahoma) 9780521829151
SciFier: £76.58Raging Bull (1980) represents American film making at its best. Since its initial release, the film has been called the greatest film of the 1980s, the greatest boxing film ever made, the greatest... -
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel Jan Baetens 9781316622209
SciFier: £31.79The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and... -
Hollywood's Overseas Campaign: The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920-1950 Ian Jarvie 9780521041430
SciFier: £46.99A history of how the American film industry succeeded in dominating the film markets of Canada and Great Britain in the period 1920-1950, this book shows how well-organised and effective the American... -
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein Andrew Smith (University of Sheffield) 9781107450608
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.54The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical... -
Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism Kenneth H. Marcus (University of la Verne, California) 9781107064997
SciFier: £106.91Schoenberg is often viewed as an isolated composer who was ill-at-ease in exile. In this book Kenneth H. Marcus shows that in fact Schoenberg's connections to Hollywood ran deep, and most of the... -
The Films of Orson Welles Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) 9780521649728
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.12This 2004 book offers a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles' life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker's career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted... -
Hollywood and Anti-Semitism by Steven Alan Carr (Purdue University, Indiana)
SciFier: £29.39This book examines the role of American Jews in the entertainment industry, from the turn of the century to the outbreak of World War II. Eastern European Jewish immigrants are often credited with... -
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde Lester D. Friedman (Syracuse University, New York) 9780521596978
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.64Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This provocative portrayal of Depression-era life... -
Science Fiction Film J. P. Telotte (Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780521593724
RRP: £74.99SciFier: £70.92Science Fiction Film examines one of the most enduring and popular genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects attitudes toward science, technology, and reason as... -
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch by Stephen Prince (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
SciFier: £15.99Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is one of the most influential films in American cinema. The intensity of its violence was unprecedented, while the director's use of multiple cameras, montage editing,... -
Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost Michael Brashinsky 9780521087674
SciFier: £30.99Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost gathers together twenty-three essays written by some of Russia's most astute commentators of film and culture. Written during the 1980s and published in...