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James Cameron Alexandra Keller (Smith College, Northampton, USA) 9780415288521
SciFier: $58.28Featuring excerpts from interviews and frame-by-frame analysis of important scenes from films such as Terminator, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic, Alexandra Keller provides the first critical study of... -
Cultural Studies: Volume 4, Issue 2 Lawrence Grossberg 9780415052764
SciFier: $86.24This issue of Cultural Studies will deal with the broad range of subjects that typify this journal.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice Radway, Andrew TolsonBook InformationISBN... -
Directors and Directions: Cinema for the Seventies John Russell Taylor (NFA Statement returned, we have bank details on SAP requested up to date address) 9781138967731
SciFier: $100.14This is a study of nine key film-makers who came into prominence in the early '70s: Claude Chabrol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lindsay Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, Satyajit... -
Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies Dana Och 9781138549005
SciFier: $106.10This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror... -
The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self Marco Bohr 9780367592202
SciFier: $96.18This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that... -
Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory by Nick Jones
SciFier: $102.13"This is a timely and pertinent contribution to the study of action cinema. Drawing insights from human geographers, sociologists and philosophers as well as film theorists, Jones offers a... -
The Everyday in Visual Culture: Slices of Lives Francois Penz 9780367619695
SciFier: $84.25An array of visual cultural artefacts from countries around the world and a range of analytical/practical approaches are brought together, rendering the book suitable reading not only for such... -
Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema Glen O. Gabbard 9780415428170
SciFier: $88.23Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. This theme is... -
Art in the Asia-Pacific: Intimate Publics Larissa Hjorth 9781138961166
SciFier: $106.10As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together... -
Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone's Trilogy Lane Roth 9781138969773
SciFier: $104.10Semiotics offers a systematic approach to analysing the stylistic structure of film. When this study was originally published in 1983 this was a recent addition to the methods of film study and it... -
The Photographic Image in Digital Culture Martin Lister 9780415535298
SciFier: $106.10This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially... -
Video Production: Disciplines and Techniques James C. Foust (Bowling Green State University, USA) 9781032511030
RRP: $176.31SciFier: $175.92This seminal text, now in its thirteenth edition, provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the operations underlying video production.It provides thorough coverage of the theory and... -
Theatre and Society: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama Haiping Yan 9780765603081
SciFier: $102.13Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific... -
Exploring Esports: Players, Fans, and the Esports Industry Hee Jung Hong (University of Stirling, UK) 9781032665177
RRP: $96.16SciFier: $88.23This fascinating new book lifts the lid on the rapidly growing esports industry to examine its human dimension, exploring the career paths, performance and wellbeing of esports players, as well as... -
The GoFaSt Guide To Screenwriting: The Goals, Failures, and Stakes Model of Narrative Storytelling Greg Takoudes (The New School, USA) 9780367693695
RRP: $84.71SciFier: $82.28Creator of the GoFaSt Model, author Greg Takoudes introduces a comprehensive study of the structural models of screenwriting and provides readers with an adaptive framework for writing successful... -
Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear: Some Key Film-makers of the Sixties John Russell Taylor (NFA Statement returned, we have bank details on SAP requested up to date address) 9781138991316
SciFier: $100.14Since the cinema first began to be taken seriously as an art form, there has been a constant debate on the question: who is the real creator of the film, the writer or the director? This study of a... -
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture Jon Lewis 9780415726801
SciFier: $174.36This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and... -
James Cameron Alexandra Keller (Smith College, Northampton, USA) 9780415288514
SciFier: $257.49Featuring excerpts from interviews and frame-by-frame analysis of important scenes from films such as Terminator, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic, Alexandra Keller provides the first critical study of... -
The Location of Culture Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University, USA) 9780415336390
SciFier: $48.91Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by... -
Dostoyevsky: His Life and Work Ronald Hingley 9780367753177
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $60.85This book, first published in 1978, demonstrates how Dostoyevsky's novels grew directly out of the pressures of their creator's tormented experience and personality. Ronald Hingley draws upon... -
Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century Ronald Hingley 9780367776022
SciFier: $68.38This book, first published in 1977, begins with a close look at the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers, and at the problems of their profession. It then examines their environment in its... -
Flashbacks in Film: Memory & History Maureen Turim 9781138974371
SciFier: $104.10The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author's wide-ranging account of this single device reveals it to be an... -
Swordsmen of the Screen: From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University, UK.University of Lancaster, UK.) 9781138996663
SciFier: $101.74This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors,... -
New Left Comics: Revolution, Socialism and International Solidarity in Swedish Comics Robert Aman (Linkoeping University, Sweden) 9781032972466
RRP: $96.16SciFier: $88.23Why does Johan Vilde testify about Sweden's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade? Why do the young Stockholm sons, Stefan and Sacho, in Mystiska 2:an discuss class society and commercialism... -
Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium Paul Crowther 9781032338910
SciFier: $96.18Is art created with computers really art? This book answers 'yes.' Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern... -
Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age Daniel Rubinstein 9781032240169
SciFier: $96.18Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice. Beyond understanding the image as a static representation of reality, it shows... -
Videogames and the Gothic Ewan Kirkland (University of Brighton, UK.) 9781032073989
RRP: $89.29SciFier: $88.23This book will be a key contribution to both Gothic and digital game scholarship as it argues for close proximity between Gothic culture and the videogame medium itselfThis book explores the many... -
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death Susan D. Moeller 9780415920988
SciFier: $84.25First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorSusan D. Moeller is Director of the Journalism Program and Associate Professor of American... -
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture Lawrence Grossberg 9780415903301
SciFier: $95.79Bringing together cultural, political and economic analyses, Lawrence Grossberg offers an original and bold interpretation of the contemporary politics of both rock and popular culture.About the... -
The Cinema Ideal: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies of the Film Spectator Harriet E. Margolis 9781138988897
SciFier: $101.74This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the... -
Shaping the Landscape: Celebrating Dance in Australia Stephanie Burridge 9781138660083
SciFier: $111.66This, the fourth book in the series 'Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific', explores the current dance scene in Australia from a wide perspective that mirrors the creative engagement of artists... -
Australian Cinema in the 1990s Ian Craven 9780714649740
RRP: $240.45SciFier: $217.14This study is a collection of critical and scholarly analyses of the organisation of the Australian Film Industry since 1990. Particular emphasis is put on globalisation, authorship, national... -
Young Soviet Film Makers Jeanne Vronskaya 9781032877808
RRP: $73.26SciFier: $68.38Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre. Drawing... -
Pop Art and Popular Music: Jukebox Modernism Melissa L. Mednicov 9781032339078
SciFier: $96.18This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a... -
The Real Chekhov: An Introduction to Chekhov's Last Plays David Magarshack 9780367726515
SciFier: $68.38What is Chekhov's method of ensuring audience participation? What does his stage direction 'through tears' mean? What happens between the first and second acts of The Seagull? Is there any reason for... -
Book of Sides: Original, One-Page Scenes for Actors and Directors Dave Kost (Professor at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Orange, CA) 9781138022263
RRP: $84.71SciFier: $82.65Looking for fresh, original scenes for your fast-paced acting or directing class? Tired of the same old material everyone recognizes? Want the flexibility to play any character in any scene? Book of... -
International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture Masami Toku 9781138549036
SciFier: $110.06This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It... -
Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film Andrew Tudor (University of York, UK) 9781138992368
SciFier: $100.14This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the... -
Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre, Cosplay, Film, and TV Mary C. McClung (Professor of Costume Design, West Virginia University.) 9781032379913
RRP: $84.71SciFier: $68.68Features step by step instructions on how to create a variety of different masksDetailed full-color photographs illustrate each stepCovers a wide range of materials, including latex, paper and fabric... -
Storytelling in Luxury Fashion: Brands, Visual Cultures, and Technologies Amanda Sikarskie 9780367638054
SciFier: $97.78This book examines the ways in which luxury fashion brands use their heritage in their digital storytelling and marketing.With chapters from authors in China and Macau (PRC), India, Romania, Turkey,...