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Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781349459063
RRP: $69.49SciFier: $52.10Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9781349303038
SciFier: $129.26Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, Inglourious Basterds P. McGee 9781349297146
SciFier: $65.32McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social... -
Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, Inglourious Basterds P. McGee 9780230116511
SciFier: $65.32McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social... -
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro A. Davies 9781349488261
SciFier: $157.06Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English... -
Cinema and the Swastika by Kenneth A. Loparo
SciFier: $129.26This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically,... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781137324788
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $48.64Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged... -
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro A. Davies 9781137407832
SciFier: $157.06Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English... -
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema A. Cameron 9780230210417
SciFier: $129.26Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising... -
Filming and Performing Renaissance History M. Burnett 9780230273436
SciFier: $65.32Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these... -
Rethinking the Romance Genre: Global Intimacies in Contemporary Literary and Visual Culture E. Davis 9781137371867
SciFier: $65.32Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging... -
Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation G. White 9781137010735
SciFier: $132.27This book asks that we consider the practices that facilitate audience participation on equal terms with other elements of the theatre maker's art; it offers a theoretical basis for this new... -
Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema D. Welch 9780230238572
SciFier: $129.26This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically,... -
European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics E. Mazierska 9781349368181
SciFier: $65.32This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This includes the... -
Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek j. jagodzinski 9780230338555
SciFier: $65.32The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as... -
Transgender On Screen J. Phillips 9781403912435
SciFier: $65.32This is an exploration of the cultural representations of transvestism and transsexuality in modern screen media against a historical background. Focussing on a dozen mainstream films and on shemale... -
Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek j. jagodzinski 9781349341559
SciFier: $65.32The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as... -
European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics E. Mazierska 9780230579545
SciFier: $65.32This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This includes the... -
Audiovisual Translation in a Global Context by Jorge Diaz Cintas
SciFier: $157.64This book offers an up-to-date survey of the present state of affairs in Audiovisual Translation, providing a thought-provoking account of some of the most representative areas currently being... -
Transgender On Screen J. Phillips 9781403912428
SciFier: $65.32This is an exploration of the cultural representations of transvestism and transsexuality in modern screen media against a historical background. Focussing on a dozen mainstream films and on shemale... -
From Pinewood to Hollywood: British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969 I. Scott 9780230229235
SciFier: $65.32This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as... -
Love, Mortality and the Moving Image E. Wilson 9780230308398
SciFier: $108.41In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study closely explores emotions and sensations... -
From Pinewood to Hollywood: British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969 I. Scott 9781349310609
SciFier: $65.32This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as... -
The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window T. Magistrale 9781349370726
SciFier: $65.32The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies... -
Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities: Gender, Genre, and Politics Susanne Kord 9780230338418
SciFier: $129.95Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in... -
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification K. Egan 9780230293694
SciFier: $65.32The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection... -
Violence and the Limits of Representation G. Matthews 9781349451913
SciFier: $65.32Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in... -
The British Pop Music Film by Stephen Glynn
RRP: $80.62SciFier: $65.32The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through... -
Smart Cinema, DVD Add-Ons and New Audience Pleasures P. Brereton 9781349328567
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $57.75Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent sensibility and how films break the classic linear narratives that have defined... -
The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light and Darkness L. Hubner 9780230007246
SciFier: $65.32Laura Hubner is one of the first critics to analyse the elements of 'illusion' in key films by Bergman and relate these to cultural and artistic influences on his creative output, the phenomenon of... -
Directing for Stage and Screen by J. Stanley
RRP: $50.03SciFier: $34.74If directing dramatic productions interests you, this book is a basic guide to show you know to apply the principles of directing to any dramatic medium - stage, television, or film. The authors, who... -
The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light and Darkness L. Hubner 9781349283200
SciFier: $65.32Laura Hubner is one of the first critics to analyse the elements of 'illusion' in key films by Bergman and relate these to cultural and artistic influences on his creative output, the phenomenon of... -
Screenwriting in a Digital Era Kathryn Millard 9781349344659
SciFier: $129.26Screenwriting in a Digital Era examines the practices of writing for the screen from early Hollywood to the new realism. Looking back to prehistories of the form, Kathryn Millard links screenwriting... -
Work in Cinema by E. Kerr
SciFier: $65.32Cinema frequently depicts various types of work, but this representation is never straightforward. It depends on and reflects many factors, especially the place and time the film is made and the type... -
The Search for Meaning in Film and Television: Disenchantment at the Turn of the Millennium M. Maloney 9781137499288
SciFier: $65.32This book is concerned with the difficulties faced by modern Westerners in their search for a meaningful life. It sheds light on this enduring cultural dilemma through a close reading of four popular... -
Television and British Cinema: Convergence and Divergence Since 1990 Hannah Andrews 9781349456857
SciFier: $65.32Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores the convergence between the two forms, at industrial,... -
Cinematic Perspectives on Digital Culture: Consorting with the Machine Norman Taylor 9781349335183
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $57.75Exploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory to discuss the affect of... -
Smart Cinema, DVD Add-Ons and New Audience Pleasures P. Brereton 9780230282773
SciFier: $65.32Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent sensibility and how films break the classic linear narratives that have defined... -
Phenomenology and the Future of Film: Rethinking Subjectivity Beyond French Cinema J. Chamarette 9780230299535
SciFier: $65.32Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Its close engagements with films and... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Europe, Australia, and Asia M. Hjort 9781349344277
SciFier: $65.32Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and...