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New Challenges for Documentary by Alan Rosenthal
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.86The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This... -
Kitsch!: Cultural Politics and Taste Ruth Holliday 9780719066153
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75From bottle gardens, the bachelor pad and Batman to designer gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a diverse range of objects to explore the changing significance of kitsch. With its unique... -
Thorold Dickinson by Philip Horne
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £67.53The films of Thorold Dickinson (1903-1984), now being rediscovered, engage with major issues including national identity, the post-colonial world, and political violence - and they also show a rare... -
Ringbearers by Tanya Krzywinska
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83Ringbearers collects together essays by established and leading figures within Game Studies, each focused on different aspects of the Massively Multiplayer Online game The Lord of the Rings Online... -
Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game by Graeme Kirkpatrick
SciFier: £20.07This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games... -
Screen/Space by Tamara Trodd
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.99Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, beyond the histories of experimental film and video... -
Michael Reeves by Benjamin Halligan
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating... -
Sydney Box by Andrew Spicer
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This is an authoritative account of the career of Sydney Box, one of British cinema's most successful and significant producers. Concentrating on the period 1940-65, it highlights the crucial but... -
Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry by Anna Henderson
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £67.53This book aims to make sense of the Bayeux Tapestry by bringing together answers to a number of questions which this famous hanging presents to the viewer.How did the embroiderers organise the... -
The British Musical Film John Mundy 9780719063206
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to... -
Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage Russell Jackson 9780719088797
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Theatres on film is an innovative contribution to the study of both theatre and film history, with its detailed discussion of popular and influential films that have taken the theatre as their... -
Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil by Luciana Martins
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Photography and documentary film in the making of modern Brazil provides a major contribution to the field of visual culture through a study of still and moving images of Brazil in the first four... -
The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face Anna G. Jonasdottir 9780719076244
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45In this new anthology, the editors of the widely acclaimed The Political Interests of Gender (1988) make a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms, fostering more... -
Contemporary German Cinema by Paul Cooke
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16German film is enjoying enormous levels of success, be success defined in terms of financial returns, popularity with audiences at home and abroad or critical acclaim. On the one hand, the 2000s saw... -
Flesh Cinema by Ara Osterweil
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.86Flesh Cinema: The corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit... -
The Food Companions by Richard Farmer
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75The introduction of rationing in January 1940 ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this... -
Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage Russell Jackson 9780719099922
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Theatres on film is an innovative contribution to the study of both theatre and film history, with its detailed discussion of popular and influential films that have taken the theatre as their... -
Film Light: Meaning and Emotion Lara Thompson 9780719086335
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45In one of the first monographs of its kind to focus on the aesthetic and emotional impact of lighting in cinema, Lara Thompson looks at the way light informs the cinematic experience, from... -
Beginning Film Studies by Andrew Dix
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £59.19Beginning film studies offers the most lucid, thorough and up-to-the-minute introduction to this popular subject. Written with verve and wit, it reviews a wealth of significant trends in the... -
Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet Paul Julian Smith 9780719075179
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and the internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital... -
Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.64One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position.. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective.. Written with detail and... -
The Art of Record by John Corner
SciFier: £15.66Documentary is a controversial and important area of media production. The art of record is a fascinating insight into the function of documentary in film and television. Its attempts to depict... -
The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism Ian Scott 9781526108715
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. From early productions like Platoon (1986) and Wall Street... -
The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism Ian Scott 9780719099168
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. From early productions like Platoon (1986) and Wall Street... -
Games are Not by David Myers
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16How do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are "just games"? How do we reconcile... -
Performance and Spanish Film by Dean Allbritton
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83Performance and Spanish film is the first book to provide a detailed study of screen acting in Spanish film. With fifteen original essays by leading scholars of Spanish film, the book casts light on... -
British Rural Landscapes on Film Paul Newland 9780719091575
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83This volume offers insights into how rural areas of Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era through both world wars and on into the twenty-first century. It is the first book to... -
Amateur Film: Meaning and Practice c. 1927-77 Heather Nicholson 9780719077739
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Amateur film: Meaning and practice 1927-77 plunges readers into the world of home movies making and reveals that behind popular perceptions of cliched family scenes shakily shot at home or by the... -
LukaCsian Film Theory and Cinema by Ian Aitken
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Lukacsian film theory and cinema explores Georg Lukacs' writings on film. The Hungarian Marxist critic Georg Lukacs is primarily known as a literary theorist, but he also wrote extensively on the... -
High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 James Moore 9781526166999
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £15.47This study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art gallery,... -
Vivien Leigh by Kate Dorney
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.16This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67). Written by experts in theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria and Albert... -
Contemporary French Cinema: An Introduction Guy Austin 9780719046117
SciFier: £19.16This introductory text analyzes 25 years of popular French film including recent developments in all genres. Reflecting French cinema's diversity since the new Wave, chapters include the Heritage... -
Spanish Popular Cinema by Antonio Lazario-Reboll
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.64This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema.Contributors from... -
The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End by Akos Farkas
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £47.19First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971... -
The War That Won't Die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema David Archibald 9780719078088
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo... -
Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock Steven Rawle 9780719095863
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £67.53This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading... -
Julien Duvivier Ben McCann 9780719091148
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films... -
The Cinema of Pedro AlmodoVar Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 9780719074424
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodovar. It shows how Almodovar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including... -
Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five Directors Todd Reeser 9781526141064
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sebastien Lifshitz and Celine Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century... -
Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist Simon Grennan 9781526133540
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £50.70Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Emilie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary...