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World Film Locations: Venice by Michael Pigott
SciFier: $33.97This book explores the rich history of films that have used Venice as evocative backdrop and integral character. Few cities are as densely packed with picturesque cinematic locations. Extensively... -
Giant: George Stevens, a Life on Film Marilyn Ann Moss 9780299204341
RRP: $31.90SciFier: $23.80Marilyn Ann Moss's Giant examines the life of one of the most influential directors to work in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. George Stevens directed such popular and significant films as... -
Nanosciences: The Invisible Revolution by John Alexander Crisp (-)
RRP: $38.92SciFier: $35.78The nanosciences and their companion nanotechnologies are a hot topic all around the world. For some, they promise developments ranging from nanobots to revolutionary new materials. For others, they... -
Disability Media Work: Opportunities and Obstacles Katie Ellis 9781137603432
SciFier: $73.03This book interrogates trends in training and employment of people with disabilities in the media through an analysis of people with disabilities' self-representation in media employment. Improving... -
Studying TV Drama Michael Massey 9781906733049
SciFier: $47.00Graduate students of media studies have benefited from a variety of books on television genres, yet lower level students lack resources that focus specifically on TV drama. With this genre now... -
Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz 9780520239524
RRP: $98.69SciFier: $89.64Though Luis Bunuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little... -
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television M. Stewart 9781137319845
SciFier: $65.32Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and... -
Miyazaki's Animism Abroad by Eriko Ogihara-Schuck
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $18.92After winning an Oscar for Spirited Away, the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animated films were dubbed into many languages. Some of the films are saturated with religious themes distinctive to... -
Transcendence and Spirituality in Japanese Cinema: Framing Sacred Spaces Melissa Croteau 9781032361833
SciFier: $55.96This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at... -
Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability Christopher R. Smit 9780761820161
SciFier: $122.31Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet... -
Classic Questions and Contemporary Film by Dean A. Kowalski (University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, USA)
RRP: $59.70SciFier: $56.91Featuring significant revisions and updates, Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd Edition uses popular movies as a highly accessible framework for introducing... -
Gloves by Anne Green
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $29.09A captivating history of gloves both real and mythical, practical and high fashion. This beautifully illustrated history of gloves draws on examples from across the world to explore their... -
Sydney Box by Andrew Spicer
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $87.22This is an authoritative account of the career of Sydney Box, one of British cinema's most successful and significant producers. Concentrating on the period 1940-65, it highlights the crucial but... -
Movie Comedians of the 1950s by Wes D. Gehring
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $34.49The examination of 1950s film clowns suggestions this decade was the 20th century's most volatile for the genre. Besides McCarthyism and TV and their potential for the dumbing down of pictures, this... -
The Value of Games: Putting Play Back into Practice for Children Kaye Bennett Dotson 9781475846393
SciFier: $65.32This work brings together a collection of games that have been a part of childhood through the ages, games that continue to be played in various forms around the world. Many anthologies of folktales,... -
The Value of Games: Putting Play Back into Practice for Children Kaye Bennett Dotson 9781475846409
SciFier: $38.91This work brings together a collection of games that have been a part of childhood through the ages, games that continue to be played in various forms around the world. Many anthologies of folktales,... -
Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) 9783836577915
RRP: $83.40SciFier: $80.75Clothes define people. A person's attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Indeed, clothing has the power to... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema by Qi Wang
SciFier: $130.26A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing... -
Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I Michele Aaron 9780748624430
SciFier: $130.26This book examines the representation of death and dying in mainstream cinema. Death and the Moving Image reveals the ambivalent place of death in 20th and 21st century culture: the ongoing split... -
From Perversion to Purity by Prof. Lisa Downing
SciFier: $31.96Catherine Deneuve is indisputably one of the world's most celebrated actresses, both in her native France and throughout the world. Her career has spanned five decades during which she has worked... -
B-Movie Gothic by Justin D. Edwards
SciFier: $129.28Explores the neglected subject of Gothic B-movies in the Americas, Europe, Asia and AfricaFollowing the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and... -
The Horned God by Michael Wheatley
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.20'...and then the music was so loud, so beautiful that I couldn't think of anything else. I was completely lost to the music, enveloped by melody which was part of Pan.' In 1894, Arthur Machen's... -
The Shadows of God Greg Keyes 9780230772274
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $18.53As the ruthless forces of Russia lay waste to the New World, English troops make landfall in the east, determined to reconquer the colonies. Trapped in between are the Native Americans, ex-slaves,... -
Religion and Science Fiction: An Introduction James H. Thrall, M.D. 9780367465100
SciFier: $51.14With cutting-edge case studies, discussion questions, lists of key terms, extensive additional resources, and suggestions for projects and essay questions, this textbook is engaging reading for... -
Bergman's Muses by Egil Tornqvist
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $34.49Bergman is a most versatile director who has devoted himself to several muses in a variety of media. Apart from being a writer of plays and screenplays, he has over the past 50 years directed about a... -
Latin American Films, 1932-1994 by Ronald Schwartz
RRP: $50.03SciFier: $43.69In 1931 Antonio Moreno completed Santa, Mexico's first true sound film. In it he established one of the foremost genres of Latin American cinema--the popular melodrama--which continues to this day... -
Hat by Drake Stutesman
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $24.31The hat is one of our most beloved pieces of clothing, appearing in virtually every society. Through the centuries, hats have represented the most important structures of culture --- governance (the... -
Nightmare: Two Ghostly Tales: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat) Berlie Doherty 9780007307906
SciFier: $11.94Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Two spooky stories from double-Carnegie-winner, Berlie Doherty. Dark and atmospheric these two tales send a... -
Fashion in the Metaverse by Bradley Quinn
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $33.68This book examines a significant moment in fashion's evolution when technological innovations are inspiring designers, brands and consumers to think beyond conventional clothing in the real world and... -
Doctor Who: Dracula! by Paul Magrs
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $9.01A vampire is on the loose!On what they hope is going to be a holiday, the Doctor and his companions arrive in a quiet, unassuming seaside town called Whitby.The terrible significance of the place... -
Beyond Bagpuss by Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $36.49Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a... -
Psycho in the Shower by Philip J. Skerry (Independent Scholar/ retired Professor, USA)
SciFier: $40.30This is a brilliant study of one scene in one movie: the shower scene from "Psycho". Every other chapter is an extended interview with someone who either worked on the original film or Gus van Sant's... -
The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema Gonul Donmez-Colin (Independent scholar, France) 9781138657694
SciFier: $77.65The first critical and analytical dictionary of Turkish Cinema, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish cinema from its beginnings to the present day.Addressing the lacuna in scholarly... -
Nollywood Central: The Nigerian Videofilm Industry Jade L. Miller (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 9781844576913
SciFier: $52.53Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning... -
Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937 by Grant F. Scott
SciFier: $55.96This 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... -
Kindred: The ground-breaking masterpiece Octavia E. Butler 9781472258229
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $9.42**MAJOR TV SERIES COMING SOON TO DISNEY+**Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo.'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' NEW YORK... -
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction Mingwei Song 9780231204422
RRP: $162.63SciFier: $131.09Winner, 2023 SFRA Book Award, Science Fiction Research AssociationA new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture... -
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The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture Shelton Waldrep 9780415925358 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.81SciFier: $2.68The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black... -
The Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIII by Maria Hayward
SciFier: $129.95Accounts providing details of the quantities and cost of clothing and other items manufactured for the first Tudor kings. By the late fifteenth century the Great Wardrobe, the section of the royal... -
The Aesthetics of Scientific Data Representation: More than Pretty Pictures Lotte Philipsen 9780367878696
SciFier: $59.58How can cartoon images aid in understanding bacterial biological processes? What prompts physicists to blur their images before showing them to biologists? Considering that the astronomer's data...