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Ed Wood by Will Sloan
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.58For generations, Ed Wood has been known as "the worst director of all time." This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent whose work... -
Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary Fiction Dr Daniel Cook (University of Dundee, UK) 9781350501959
SciFier: £87.99Placing Frankenstein in the critical frameworks of book history and secondary authorship, this book explores the increasing array of book-based reworkings of, and sequels to, the novel that up to... -
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance by Judith Rugg
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.28Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it... -
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318460
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.93Blending history and theory, Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. In... -
Bombay before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies Rosie Thomas 9781438456751
SciFier: £72.54Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.Bombay before Bollywood offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of... -
Beyond Bruce Lee: Chasing the Dragon Through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture Paul Bowman 9780231165280
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial... -
Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics Dr Sarah Atkinson (King's College, London, UK) 9781501353970
SciFier: £36.99Live Cinema is a term used to capture a diverse range of experiences that incorporate a 'live' element in relation to a film's exhibition. The live augmentation of cinema screenings is not a new... -
Cinema and Development in West Africa James E. Genova 9780253010025
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.39Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from... -
Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937 by Grant F. Scott
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "wordless novels" of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who has been enormously influential in the development... -
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Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318538 [USED COPY]
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £18.83Blending history and theory, Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. In... -
A Taste for Death by Peter O'Donnell (Book Reviews)
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.69* THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING MODESTY BLAISE SERIES * 'The finest escapist thrillers ever written' THE TIMES 'Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel, there... -
Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics Ryan Pierson (Assistant Professor of Film, Assistant Professor of Film, University of Calgary) 9780190949754
RRP: £98.00SciFier: £82.49How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces a powerful new method for the study of animation. By looking for... -
A Haunting in the Arctic C.J. Cooke 9780008515997
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.51Something has walked the floors of the Ormen for over a century. Something that craves revenge... *Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith... -
The Nesting by C.J. Cooke
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.51A perfect atmospheric thriller for this Halloween . . . A house stands alone in the woods. Deep in the forests of Norway, Lexi finds a fresh start with... -
Drive in Cinema by Marc James Leger (Independent Scholar)
SciFier: £41.64Drive in Cinema offers Zizek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most engaging and influential filmmakers of our time, from avant-garde directors Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Alexander... -
Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics Ryan Pierson (Assistant Professor of Film, Assistant Professor of Film, University of Calgary) 9780190949761
SciFier: £45.71How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces a powerful new method for the study of animation. By looking for... -
Isabelle Huppert: Stardom, Performance, Authorship Darren Waldron (University of Manchester, UK) 9781501348914
SciFier: £103.99Featuring a lineup of distinguished academics, this collection remedies the absence of scholarly attention to French cinematic legend Isabelle Huppert. This volume deconstructs Huppert's star persona... -
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 by Shokoofeh Azar
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.58*SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020* *LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020* "If ever there was a book that needs to be read more than once, this is it."-ArtsHub "A book... -
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City Debashree Mukherjee 9780231196154
SciFier: £25.77From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358527
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.23In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early... -
Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema Rajinder Dudrah (University of Manchester, UK) 9781138844520
RRP: £48.99SciFier: £44.60Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment... -
Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies Sarah Keller (Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Colby College) 9780231180870
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.99The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places... -
The Lumiere Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come Francesco Casetti 9780231172431
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and... -
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals L. Dovey 9781137404138
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £93.49Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival... -
Gods in the Bazaar by Kajri Jain
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.53Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as "calendar art" or "bazaar art," the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358404
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £76.13In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre Liam Burke 9781496809704
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9781349368242
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at... -
Science Fiction Audiences by Henry Jenkins
SciFier: £37.66Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television "institutions" - the series Doctor Who and ^Star Trek. Both of these programmes have survived cancellation and acquired... -
The Cinema of Extractions: Film Materials and Their Forms Brian Jacobson (University of Toronto, Innis College) 9780231213592
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.49From the petroleum used to make film stock to the carbon and tungsten needed for studio lights and theater projectors, every movie relies on extractive processes. The film industry of Hollywood,... -
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen G. Hong 9780230111622
SciFier: £46.99A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of... -
Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies Sarah Keller (Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Colby College) 9780231180863
SciFier: £94.31The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places... -
Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts Gregory Zinman 9780520302730
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £32.80Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who... -
Cypriot Cinemas: Memory, Conflict, and Identity in the Margins of Europe PhD Costas Constandinides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) 9781501319969
SciFier: £40.99Cyprus, the idyllic "island of Aphrodite," is better known as a site of conflict and division between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, rather than for its film production. Constandinides and... -
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Bilkent University, Turkey) 9781350240940
SciFier: £31.99Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual... -
Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts Gregory Zinman 9780520302723
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £66.68Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who... -
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen G. Hong 9781137290090
SciFier: £46.99A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of... -
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence Jorn Ahrens 9780826440198
SciFier: £34.99"Comics and the City" deals with possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of... -
Repair: Sustainable Design Futures Markus Berger 9781032154077
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £36.79A collection of timely new scholarship, Repair: Sustainable Design Futures investigates repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and the... -
Celluloid War Memorials by Mark Connelly
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £62.99The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. This is both a work of...