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Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, Inglourious Basterds P. McGee 9781349297146
SciFier: £46.99McGee 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: £46.99McGee 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: £112.99Offering 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... -
Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem K. Kessler 9781349311491
SciFier: £46.99A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this... -
Rethinking the Romance Genre: Global Intimacies in Contemporary Literary and Visual Culture E. Davis 9781137371867
SciFier: £46.99Rethinking 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... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781349459063
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £37.80Sound 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: £92.99Since 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... -
Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem K. Kessler 9780230230491
SciFier: £46.99A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781137324788
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £35.39Sound 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: £112.99Offering 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: £92.99Since 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: £46.99Over 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... -
Cinema and the Swastika by Kenneth A. Loparo
SciFier: £92.99This 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,... -
Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema D. Welch 9780230238572
SciFier: £92.99This 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,... -
Audiovisual Translation in a Global Context by Jorge Diaz Cintas
SciFier: £114.51This 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... -
Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek j. jagodzinski 9780230338555
SciFier: £46.99The 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: £46.99This 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... -
European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics E. Mazierska 9781349368181
SciFier: £46.99This 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... -
European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics E. Mazierska 9780230579545
SciFier: £46.99This 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... -
Transgender On Screen J. Phillips 9781403912428
SciFier: £46.99This 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: £46.99The 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... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context L. Grist 9780333754122
SciFier: £92.99A study of Martin Scorsese's early career, from his student short films to New York, New York. As well as discussing the films in detail, they are considered in relation both to the issue of film... -
Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre M. Gunsberg 9780333751152
SciFier: £46.99Maggie Gunsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana , peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored... -
Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre M. Gunsberg 9781349412297
SciFier: £46.99Maggie Gunsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana , peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored... -
The British Pop Music Film: The Beatles and Beyond S. Glynn 9780230392229
SciFier: £46.99The 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... -
Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse A. Hoskins 9780230229020
SciFier: £46.99The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by... -
From Pinewood to Hollywood: British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969 I. Scott 9780230229235
SciFier: £46.99This 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: £77.99In 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: £46.99This 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: £46.99The 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: £93.49Kord 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: £46.99The 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: £46.99Violence 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 Search for Meaning in Film and Television: Disenchantment at the Turn of the Millennium M. Maloney 9781349698455
SciFier: £46.99This 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... -
New Takes in Film-Philosophy H. Carel 9780230250291
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £49.55This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central issues surrounding the conjunction of film and... -
The Postmodern Fairytale: Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction Kevin Paul Smith 9780230500488
SciFier: £46.99Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why are shampoo advertisements based on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to... -
The British Pop Music Film by Stephen Glynn
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.99The 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: £44.99SciFier: £41.55Examining 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: £46.99Laura 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: £35.99SciFier: £25.39If 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...