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Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures P. Szczepanik 9781349448517
SciFier: £94.94Conceptualizing 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,... -
Vampires on the Silent Screen by David Annwn Jones
SciFier: £112.99This book is the first study of the vampires in silent cinema, presenting a detailed academic yet accessible discussion of the films themselves and their sources. For the very first time, The Fire... -
Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance by D. Smith-Rowsey
SciFier: £46.99In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These untraditional-looking young men were promoted and understood as alienated and ironic... -
France, Film, and the Holocaust by F. Banaji
SciFier: £46.99This book explores the relationship between film and the Holocaust in France: how has film changed the way that this traumatic event has been inscribed in French cultural memory? And what can these... -
Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making S. Plate 9781403960511
SciFier: £94.55Religious 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... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Jeanne Willis 9781529043143
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.72Once upon a golden day, beside a silver brookAlice and her older sister sat and read a book...But when a talking rabbit runs past, Alice follows him down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, where she meet... -
Screening the Face P. Coates 9781349334650
SciFier: £46.99Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range... -
Transnational Television and Latinx Diasporic Audiences: Abrazos Electronicos in Four Global Cities Catherine L. Benamou 9783031115295
SciFier: £112.99This book is based on a mixed-method, longitudinal study of the transmission, production, and reception of Spanish- and Portuguese-language television in four global cities with expanding Latinx... -
Children, Film and Literacy Becky Parry 9781137294326
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £44.94Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and... -
Fascism and Millennial American Cinema by Leighton Grist
SciFier: £106.99This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed... -
Vanya and the Wild Hunt Sangu Mandanna 9781035044757
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Eleven-year-old Vanya Vallen can talk to books. But more importantly, the books talk back.When her family is attacked by a monster she believed only existed in legends, Vanya discovers that her... -
Ottoline and the Purple Fox Chris Riddell 9781035067862
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.15A fun, fresh cover look for the fourth title in Chris Riddell's excellent Ottoline series. Packed with gorgeous black-and-white illustrations throughout, Ottoline and the Purple Fox is perfect for... -
Vanya and the Wild Hunt Sangu Mandanna 9781035022519
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.77Sangu Mandanna's magical adventure series begins with Vanya and the Wild Hunt, with stunning illustrations by Kristina Kister. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan, A. F. Steadman and Pari Thomson... -
Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin 9781037412035
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'It's a total mind-wrecker' - Max Porter'The book I wish I had written' - Lisa Taddeo'Utterly gripping' - The Observer'Dazzling' - Evening StandardAmanda knows she has to answer the questions. Lying... -
Screening the Face P. Coates 9780230298477
SciFier: £46.99Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range... -
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices S. Tay 9780230217768
SciFier: £46.99Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political,... -
Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen A. Sisto 9781349481866
SciFier: £94.51A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of... -
Children, Film and Literacy Becky Parry 9781349451500
SciFier: £46.99Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and... -
Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen A. Sisto 9781137387707
SciFier: £95.05A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of... -
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film E. Gallafent 9781137022189
SciFier: £46.99We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are... -
Multicultural Encounters by S. Sharma
SciFier: £95.19This book confronts the challenge of difference for rethinking everyday multiculture. It proposes both a theory and practice of a critical pedagogy of popular culture through an analysis of... -
Hollywood's Stephen King by T. Magistrale
SciFier: £56.85For the past three decades, Hollywood has faithfully adapted much of Stephen King's fiction into film. Of the many major films that have been made, not one has lost money. Part of this may be... -
Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema A. Gronstad 9780230248946
SciFier: £46.99Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Cache, Asbjorn Gronstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and... -
The Eternal Kingdom by Ben Peek
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.99A nation in fragmentsOn the shores of Yeflam, Ayae struggles to keep her people together. She acts as liaison between the camp leaders and the immortals who could save them. Zaifyr's immortal... -
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices S. Tay 9781349304011
SciFier: £46.99Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political,... -
Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark by Eva Novrup Redvall
SciFier: £31.99Offering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the... -
Urban Film and Everyday Practice: Bridging Divisions in Johannesburg Alexandra Parker 9781137554796
SciFier: £46.99While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress spatial boundaries, especially in in urban contexts where spatial inequalities... -
Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies K. Donders 9781349437115
SciFier: £46.99Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, clustered around the themes of European and national... -
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film E. Gallafent 9781349437818
SciFier: £46.99We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are... -
Burning Midnight Will McIntosh 9781509803569
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.99For fans of The Maze Runner and The 5th Wave, this debut YA novel from Hugo Award-winner Will McIntosh pits four teens against an evil billionaire in the race of a lifetime. Sully is a sphere dealer... -
British Women Film Directors in the New Millennium by Stella Hockenhull
SciFier: £104.49This book focuses on the output of women film directors in the period post Millennium when the number of female directors working within the film industry rose substantially. Despite the fact that... -
Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies K. Donders 9781137017543
SciFier: £46.99Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, clustered around the themes of European and national... -
Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema A. Gronstad 9781349320646
SciFier: £46.99Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Cache, Asbjorn Gronstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9780230110922
SciFier: £46.99Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up... -
Slapstick and Comic Performance by L. Peacock
SciFier: £94.84Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the... -
Filmurbia: Screening the Suburbs David Forrest 9781349958566
SciFier: £56.99In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became... -
Empire of Dragons by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.74Anatolia, AD 260. The Roman outpost of Edessa is on its last legs after the Persian siege, and Roman Emperor Publius Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to negotiate peace. But the... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9781349293490
SciFier: £46.99Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up... -
New Queer Sinophone Cinema by Zoran Lee Pecic
SciFier: £46.99This book looks closely at some of the most significant films within the field of queer Sinophone cinema. Examining queerness in films produced in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the book merges the... -
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E A Tyler
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £24.89For all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the definitive guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages and people.The Complete Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every...