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Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting by Brian Price (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £34.99Since we first arrived on the planet, we've been telling each other stories, whether of that morning's great saber-tooth tiger hunt or the latest installment of the Star Wars saga. And throughout our... -
Cultures of Consumption Frank Mort 9780415030526
SciFier: £37.66Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of... -
Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium Axel Bangert 9780367600662
SciFier: £42.00This book charts how visual culture at the new millennium has engaged with the Holocaust and provides insight into a number of significant trends in the production, distribution and reception of... -
Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists: 1730-1980 Mark Bryant 9781032194943
RRP: £81.99SciFier: £80.76Originally published in 1994, this dictionary provides a unique 'who's who' of the major figures in the world of British cartoons and caricatures. It was the first book to encompass the entire field... -
Photography, Temporality, and Modernity: Time Warped Kris Belden-Adams 9781032338613
SciFier: £42.00This book examines the photography's unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium's... -
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film Christine List (Chicago State University, USA) 9780415726474
SciFier: £78.19Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still... -
Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History Robert Hamilton Ball 9781138996113
SciFier: £45.30In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of... -
Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas: The Reel Asian Exchange Philippa Gates 9781138641174
SciFier: £42.00This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand,... -
Reconceptualising Film Policies Nolwenn Mingant (Universite de Nantes, France) 9780367409180
SciFier: £44.60This volume explores and interrogates the shifts and changes in both government and industry-based screen policies over the past 30 years. It covers a diverse range of film industries from different... -
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... -
On Screen Directing Edward Dmytryk 9781138584426
SciFier: £38.53With On Screen Directing, renowned filmmaker Edward Dmytryk distills a lifetime of experience as a director into a dozen short essays on the craft of directing, spanning every stage of the filmmaking... -
In a Glamourous Fashion: The Fabulous Years of Hollywood Costume Design W. Robert LaVine 9781032410937
RRP: £91.99SciFier: £90.21First published in 1981, In A Glamourous Fashion is not only a fascinating look at film fashion portraying the glamour and glitter of Hollywood's heyday; but is also an invaluable reference source... -
Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9781138109537
SciFier: £45.46Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from... -
The Turn to Ethics Marjorie Garber 9780415922265
SciFier: £37.66What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political... -
Race, Philosophy, and Film Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo 9781138921900
SciFier: £48.06This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated... -
The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film Keyan Tomaselli 9781138988903
SciFier: £45.46This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African... -
General History of Chinese Film II: 1949-1976 Ding Yaping 9781032069562
SciFier: £38.53i) It is the first book on the general history of Chinese film spanning from the end of the 19th century to the present day. ii) It collects the most significant and latest studies both in China and... -
The World of DC Comics Andrew Friedenthal 9781032092706
SciFier: £19.48The first sustained study of the DC Comics Multiverse, this book explores its history, meanings, and lasting influence. The multiverse is a unique exercise in world-building: a series of parallel and... -
Cultural Studies: Volume 7, Issue 2 Lawrence Grossberg 9780415096539
SciFier: £35.93Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically... -
Burning Down the House: Latin American Comics in the 21st Century Laura Cristina Fernandez 9781032148311
SciFier: £38.53Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Peru,... -
Consumer Culture Reborn: The Cultural Politics of Consumption Martyn J. Lee 9780415084147
SciFier: £37.66Combines the work of a diverse range of scholars including Marx, Bourdieu and Stuart HallInter-disciplinary and unusual in bringing together studies of cultural studies and political economics - two... -
Fax: Messages from a near future Jorge Wilheim 9780415847636
SciFier: £29.86'THIS SHORT BOOK IS A REVELATION AND AN INSPIRATION. USING THE SIMPLE BUT BRILLIANT DEVICE OF AN EXCHANGE OF FAXES FROM ACROSS TIME. IT REVEALS TO US WHAT THE FUTURE MAY HOLD' FROM THE FOREWORD BY... -
Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing Irv Bauer 9781138666221
SciFier: £36.79Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing takes a step-by-step approach to screenwriting, starting with a blank page and working through each element of the craft. Written in an... -
Motherless Creations by Wendy C. Nielsen
SciFier: £42.86This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless creations: Pygmalion's statue, Frankenstein's... -
Engagements with Literary Gaming Tison Pugh 9781032865638
RRP: £41.99SciFier: £38.53How is literature like a game, and how are games like literature? Engagements with Literary Gaming examines the cultural significance of these two converging forms, defining the concept of literary... -
Greek Cinema by Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK)
SciFier: £30.16Covering the silent era to the present, this wide-ranging collection of essays examines Greek cinema as an aesthetic, cultural, and political phenomenon with the potential to appeal to a diverse... -
Making the Cut at Pixar: The Art of Editing Animation Bill Kinder 9780367766146
SciFier: £35.06Join industry insiders Bill Kinder and Bobbie O'Steen as they guide readers on a journey through every stage of production on an animated film, from storyboards to virtual cameras and final animation... -
Fine Cuts: Interviews on the Practice of European Film Editing Roger Crittenden (BAFTA, UK) 9781138201996
SciFier: £39.23In the expanded second edition of Fine Cuts, Roger Crittenden reveals the experiences of the greatest European film editors through his warm and perceptive interviews. This new edition builds on the... -
Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University, United Kingdom) 9780367650704
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film,... -
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The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture Shelton Waldrep 9780415925358 [USED COPY]
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £1.93The 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... -
Spaces of the Cinematic Home: Behind the Screen Door Eleanor Andrews 9780815396383
SciFier: £48.06This book examines the ways in which the house appears in films and the modes by which it moves beyond being merely a backdrop for action. Specifically, it explores the ways that domestic spaces... -
British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler Katharine Briggs 9780415286022
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.06In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and... -
Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship Jinhee Choi (King's College London, UK) 9781138233850
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse philosophical traditions provide useful frameworks to discuss spectators'... -
The Postcolonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons Iain Chambers 9780415108584
SciFier: £37.66Brings together renowed and emerging critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the 'post-colonial'. The contributors explore the diverse cultures which are shaping our... -
Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience Iain Chambers 9781138156319
RRP: £86.99SciFier: £82.51Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban... -
Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture Heather Addison 9780415762427
SciFier: £54.14This book examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building. It presents a case study of Hollywood's impact on the American reducing... -
Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience Iain Chambers 9780415025515
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.89Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban... -
Writing for the Screen Anna Weinstein (Kennesaw State University, USA) 9781138945128
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.43Writing for the Screen is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of screenwriting. This highly accessible guide to working in film and television includes perspectives from... -
Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century Kelsey Blair 9781032231297
SciFier: £35.93Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century offers a field intervention, a series of... -
The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games Steve Horowitz 9780415706704
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £44.25The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games is a first of its kind textbook and must-have reference guide for everything you ever wanted to know about sound for...