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Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity O. Ashkenazi 9781349344192
SciFier: £46.99In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish... -
Microbiology and Horror Cinema Larrie Dudenhoeffer 9783031943973
SciFier: £112.99This book redefines the landscape of horror cinema by exploring the intersection of microbiology and film. Microbiology and Horror Cinema delves into the chilling world of pathogens-funguses,... -
March of the Lemmings by Stewart Lee
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22'A true genius of comedy' Grayson PerryAs a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the EU referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience - and the... -
Animated Documentary Annabelle Honess Roe 9781349437092
RRP: £69.99SciFier: £67.49Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways... -
Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body Steven Allen 9781349339891
SciFier: £46.99From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight... -
Public Television in the Digital Era: Technological Challenges and New Strategies for Europe P. Iosifidis 9781349542185
SciFier: £23.49By looking at a range of different European Public Television (PTV) broadcasters, this book investigates the challenges that these broadcasters encounter in a competitive digital broadcasting... -
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... -
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0: The King's Treasure James Floyd Kelly 9781430224914
RRP: £23.50SciFier: £21.59Follow the adventures of Evan and his archaeologist uncle as they explore for treasure from an ancient kingdom. Help them succeed by building a series of five robots using LEGO's popular MINDSTORMS... -
Comedy in Crises by Chrisoula Lionis
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £112.99Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and understanding toward both the motivation and reception of humour in diverse... -
Atmosphere, Architecture, Cinema by Michael Tawa
SciFier: £112.99Atmosphere, Cinema, Architecture: Thematic Reflections on Ambiance and Place explores cinema and architecture as ambient and affective settings or circumstances that can enable the emergence of... -
Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers S. Cobb 9781349329106
SciFier: £46.99A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. The figure of the woman author comes to the fore as a... -
Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema A. Tucker 9781349481729
SciFier: £46.99The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Using film theory and close textual analysis, Tucker offers an explanation of the Internet and... -
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity A. Curtin 9781349459063
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £36.96Sound 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... -
3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences Miriam Ross 9781349478330
SciFier: £46.993D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory... -
Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism by Gillian Hannum
RRP: £79.99SciFier: £77.99This book explores the work and careers of women, trans, and third-gender artists engaged in political activism. While some artists negotiated their own political status in their indigenous... -
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781349288571
SciFier: £46.99Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from... -
Popular Trauma Culture: Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media Anne Rothe 9780813551296
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £24.99In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structure-characterized by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in the core... -
Movies That Move Us: Screenwriting and the Power of the Protagonist's Journey C. Batty 9781349326174
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £39.99From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey. His... -
Between Laughter and Satire by Conal Condren
SciFier: £112.99This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been marginal. It disputes... -
Popular Trauma Culture: Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media Anne Rothe 9780813551289
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £66.99In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structure-characterized by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in the core... -
The Post-2000 Film Western: Contexts, Transnationality, Hybridity M. Paryz 9781349506842
SciFier: £46.99This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television... -
Sociology and Popular Television by Raisa-Gabriela Zamfirescu
SciFier: £111.77This book examines representations of gender, age and identity across the Hallmark film and television output in relation to specific periods of time that pertain to changes within the specific... -
Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication A. Niebisch 9781349446841
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £34.09Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication... -
Controversial Images by Feona Attwood
SciFier: £94.98Offering a series of case studies of recent media controversies, this collection draws on new perspectives in cultural studies to consider a wide variety of images. The book suggest how we might... -
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... -
Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea I. MacDonald 9781349351916
SciFier: £46.99A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new... -
Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures P. Szczepanik 9781349448517
SciFier: £95.09Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film,... -
Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology: Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities Kara Reilly 9781349457427
SciFier: £95.16This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment... -
Penny Dreadful and Adaptation by Julie Grossman
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £112.99This edited collection is the first book-length critical study of the Showtime-Sky Atlantic television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), which also includes an analysis of Showtime's 2020 spin-off... -
Ninth Art. Bande dessinee, Books and the Gentrification of Mass Culture, 1964-1975 Sylvain Lesage 9783031170003
SciFier: £36.99In France, comics are commonly referred to as the "ninth art". What does it mean to see comics as art? This book looks at the singular status of comics in the French cultural landscape. Bandes... -
The Films of Eric Rohmer: French New Wave to Old Master L. Anderst 9781349436392
SciFier: £46.99Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the... -
Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America since 1772 by Stefan L. Brandt
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99The book explores the liminal aesthetics of U.S. cultural and literary practice. Interrogating the notion of a presumptive unity of the American experience, Moveable Designs argues that inner... -
Anglo-American Stage and Screen Drama by Mike Ingham
SciFier: £102.99Anglo-American Stage and Screen Drama analyses and discusses the contemporary role of stage and screen drama as a critical forum for progressive thinking in an increasingly polarised geopolitical... -
Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches C. Perkins 9781349321209
SciFier: £46.99Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book - the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy- provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in which the trilogy form engages key issues in... -
Documentary Films in India: Critical Aesthetics at Work Aparna Sharma 9781349484157
SciFier: £46.99This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and... -
Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation S. Napier 9780312238636
SciFier: £92.99With the popularity of Pokemon still far from waning, Japanese animation, known as anime to its fans, has a firm hold on American pop culture. However, anime is much more than children's cartoons. It... -
The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts Helen Hanson 9781349301447
SciFier: £46.99These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs,... -
Screenwriting from the Inside Out by Margaret McVeigh
SciFier: £36.99This book provides aspiring screenwriters with a practical and informed way to learn how to think and write like a "creative" (the film industry term commonly used to refer to members of the key... -
Ninth Art. Bande dessinee, Books and the Gentrification of Mass Culture, 1964-1975 Sylvain Lesage 9783031170034
SciFier: £36.99In France, comics are commonly referred to as the "ninth art". What does it mean to see comics as art? This book looks at the singular status of comics in the French cultural landscape. Bandes... -
Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making S. Plate 9781403960504
SciFier: £95.05Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata . At the same time, film production has engendered new religious...