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Empire and Film Lee Grieveson 9781844574216
SciFier: £41.88'This important new volume reconstructs the forms of production, distribution and exhibition of films made in and about the colonies. It then ties them to wider theoretical issues about film and... -
Fashion's Double: Representations of Fashion in Painting, Photography and Film Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9780857857118
SciFier: £32.46Mere clothing is transformed into desirable fashion by the way it is represented in imagery. Fashion's Double examines how meanings are projected onto garments through their representation, whether... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory Edward Branigan 9781138849150
SciFier: £53.70The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to... -
Spectacular Posthumanism: The Digital Vernacular of Visual Effects Professor Drew Ayers (Eastern Washington University, USA) 9781501373824
SciFier: £35.99Spectacular Posthumanism examines the ways in which VFX imagery fantasizes about digital disembodiment while simultaneously reasserting the importance of the lived body. Analyzing a wide range of... -
Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s Sue Clayton 9781350213128
SciFier: £36.79The innovations and debates in experimental film in the 1970s have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film... -
Greta Gerwig's Barbie: Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender Hilary Radner (University of Otago, New Zealand) 9781350523951
SciFier: £84.06This volume brings together an international array of contributors to analyse Greta Gerwig's unprecedented success, Barbie (2023), exploring how a film released in a moment of industrial crisis for... -
Greta Gerwig's Barbie: Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender Hilary Radner (University of Otago, New Zealand) 9781350523968
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.15This volume brings together an international array of contributors to analyse Greta Gerwig's unprecedented success, Barbie (2023), exploring how a film released in a moment of industrial crisis for... -
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema by Gerald Sim
SciFier: £116.64Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark... -
Every Game is an Island: Endings and Extremities in Video Games Dr. Riccardo Fassone (University of Torino, Italy) 9781501343995
SciFier: £37.99Despite the pervasive rhetorics of immersion and embodiment found in industrial and social discourses, playing a video game is an exercise in non-linearity. The pervasiveness of trial and error... -
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths 9780231161077
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.14A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the... -
Vivre Ici: Space, Place and Experience in Contemporary French Documentary Alison J. Murray Levine (Department of French, University of Virginia (United States)) 9781800855847
SciFier: £33.59Vivre Ici invites the reader on a journey through the vast viewing landscape of contemporary French documentary film, a genre that has experienced a renaissance in the past twenty years. The films... -
Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria Gabriele Mueller 9781554582259
SciFier: £74.99During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The ""cinema of consensus,"" a term coined to describe the popular and... -
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314517
RRP: £79.00SciFier: £62.90Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to... -
American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 Cynthia Lucia (Rider University, USA) 9781118475133
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £41.54This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the... -
Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema Todd Berliner 9780190658755
RRP: £64.00SciFier: £41.99Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge... -
Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime Dr Gillian McIver (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781501384769
SciFier: £97.99Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830... -
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314524
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.26Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to... -
Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema Thomas Elsaesser 9789462984899
SciFier: £66.79Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for... -
Art and the Historical Film by Dr Gillian McIver
SciFier: £31.99Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830... -
Portuguese Film, 1930-1960 by Dr. Patricia Vieira
SciFier: £40.99Portuguese Film, 1930-1960: The Staging of the New State Regime provides groundbreaking analysis of Portuguese feature films produced in the first three decades of the New State (Estado Novo), a... -
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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep H. G. Parry 9780356513775 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.71'Parry knocks it out of the park . . . Just plain wonderful' KirkusFor his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: he can bring characters from books... -
The Extraordinary Image by Robert P. Kolker
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.12Welles. Hitchcock. Kubrick. These names appear on nearly every list of the all-time greatest filmmakers. But what makes these directors so great? Despite their very different themes and... -
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep H. G. Parry 9780356513775
OrbitRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97'Parry knocks it out of the park . . . Just plain wonderful' KirkusFor his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: he can bring characters from books... -
Superhero Synergies by James N. Gilmore
SciFier: £102.99In the age of digital media, superheroes are no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels. Their stories are now featured in films, video games, digital comics, television programs, and more... -
Paolo Sorrentino's Cinema and Television Annachiara Mariani (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781789383751
RRP: £22.50SciFier: £22.40The Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has, to date, written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013. In 2016, he... -
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges Stuart Klawans 9780231207294
SciFier: £24.93In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The... -
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan Hiroshi Kitamura 9780801445996
RRP: £108.00SciFier: £28.21During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios-in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers-launched an ambitious campaign... -
Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism Malcolm Turvey 9780231193023
SciFier: £81.12Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving international box office success and attaining a... -
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan Hiroshi Kitamura 9781501713620
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £25.68During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios-in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers-launched an ambitious campaign... -
Charlie Chaplin's Red Letter Days by Fred Goodwins
SciFier: £43.99By the end of 1914, Charlie Chaplin had become the most popular actor in films, and reporters were clamoring for interviews with the comedy sensation. But no reporter had more access than Fred... -
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges Stuart Klawans 9780231207287
SciFier: £94.31In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The... -
Paolo Sorrentino's Cinema and Television Annachiara Mariani (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781789383966
RRP: £72.00SciFier: £71.90The Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has, to date, written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013. In 2016, he... -
Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy Dan Golding 9781517905415
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new ageA long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away-way back in the twenty-first century's first decade-Star Wars seemed... -
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians: The Shadow Histories, Book One H. G. Parry 9780356514703
OrbitRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97'A rich, sprawling epic full of history and magic.' Alix E. Harrow, Hugo award-winning authorA sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of... -
Unwatchable Nicholas Baer 9780813599595
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £67.47We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from... -
Unwatchable Nicholas Baer 9780813599588
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.04We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from... -
Queer Images by Harry M. Benshoff
SciFier: £51.99From Thomas Edison's first cinematic experiments to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters, Queer Images chronicles the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563824
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £99.412017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success... -
Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Paul Young 9780813563817
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.892017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success... -
Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship Slava Greenberg 9780253064493
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £43.23While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived experiences) uses a variety of techniques like clay...