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Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction Keith M. Johnston 9781847884763
SciFier: $50.03Science Fiction Film develops a historical and cultural approach to the genre that moves beyond close readings of iconography and formal conventions. It explores how this increasingly influential... -
Textile Futures: Fashion, Design and Technology Bradley Quinn 9781845208073
SciFier: $159.84Textiles connect a variety of practices and traditions, ranging from the refined couture garments of Parisian fashion to the high-tech filaments strong enough to hoist a satellite into space... -
The Global Circulation of African Fashion by Leslie W. Rabine
SciFier: $47.51Transnational movements of people, cultural objects, images and identities have played a vital role in creating an informal global network for African fashion - from clothing designers and tailors to... -
Wartime Fashion: From Haute Couture to Homemade, 1939-1945 Geraldine Howell (University of Westminster, UK) 9780857850713
SciFier: $52.81A comprehensive analysis of Second World War dress practice and appearance, this study places dress at the forefront of a complex series of cultural chain reactions. As lives were changed by the... -
The Clothed Body Patrizia Calefato 9781859738054
SciFier: $48.64Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language and is... -
Contemporary Jewellers: Interviews with European Artists Professor Roberta Bernabei 9781845207694
SciFier: $158.45This book offers an essential reference for anyone interested in contemporary European jewellery design. Through guided conversations with the major designers of today, Roberta Bernabei reveals the... -
Games and Gaming by Larissa Hjorth
SciFier: $50.03The computer games industry has rapidly matured. Once a preoccupation only of young technophiles, games are now one of the dominant forms of global popular culture. From consoles such as Nintendo Wii... -
American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) 9781845204341
SciFier: $109.10The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood - shaking off the Depression - launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some... -
Fashion and Class Rachel Worth (Arts University Bournemouth, UK) 9781847888150
SciFier: $45.12In what ways do changing notions of social class correspond with key developments in the history of fashion? Focusing on examples ranging from 18th-century Britain to aspects of the global fashion... -
American Science Fiction Film and Television Lincoln Geraghty 9781845207960
SciFier: $40.30American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction... -
The Culture of Knitting Joanne Turney (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781845205911
SciFier: $158.45From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of... -
The Culture of Knitting Joanne Turney (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781845205928
SciFier: $52.81From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of... -
Victorian Fashion Accessories Ariel Beaujot 9781847886835
SciFier: $158.45In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress. Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian Fashion... -
The Anatomy of Fashion: Dressing the Body from the Renaissance to Today Susan J. Vincent (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, UK) 9781845207649
SciFier: $52.81Clothes take the ordinary human body and fashion it into something remarkable. Born to the same anatomical legacy, each generation has used garments to shape itself in the image of its own particular... -
Twentieth-Century American Fashion Patricia Cunningham 9781845200732
SciFier: $47.25Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. How did this come about? What changes in American... -
Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century Jean-Luc Godard 9781845201968
SciFier: $153.16Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career in... -
The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk Christine Schmidt 9780857851239
SciFier: $48.64The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk documents the modern swimsuit's trajectory from men's underwear and circus/performance wear to its unique niche in world fashion. It emphasizes the... -
Changing Fashion: A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning Annette Lynch 9781845203900
SciFier: $44.47Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change,... -
Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry Dr Joanne Entwistle 9781847881540
SciFier: $52.81The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture? This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on... -
Filming Women in the Third Reich Prof Jo Fox 9781859733967
SciFier: $51.42In 1936, Goebbels stated that 'a government that controls art will remain forever', and the German film industry became inextricably linked with National Socialist propaganda. This book is an... -
Fashion for the People: A History of Clothing at Marks & Spencer Rachel Worth (Arts University Bournemouth, UK) 9781845201746
SciFier: $43.08Marks & Spencer is an institution synonymous with quality, reliability, and customer care. But do we associate it with 'fashion'? Drawing on previously unpublished company archives, Fashion for the... -
Fashion and Textiles: An Overview Jasbir Kaur 9781859738184
SciFier: $47.25This essential book provides the first comprehensive overview of the symbiotic relationship that exists between fashion and textiles. Because textiles represent a central ingredient of fashion (as... -
The Hollywood Interviews John Flower 9781845204419
SciFier: $34.74"There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors." Francois Truffaut's famous statement defined a new way of seeing cinema as an art form and its directors as artists or auteurs. The... -
Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts Michael Grenfell 9781845202347
SciFier: $50.03Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as one of the key contemporary critics of culture and the visual arts. Art Rules analyses Bourdieu's work on the visual arts to provide the first overview of his... -
Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life Marybeth C. Stalp 9781845206550
SciFier: $48.64Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global phenomenon, international multi-billion dollar industry and means of... -
Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television Peter McNeil (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) 9781847883575
SciFier: $56.98Fashion in Fiction examines the ways in which dress 'performs' in a wide range of contemporary and historical literary texts. Essays by North American, European and Australian scholars explore the... -
Chinese Fashion: From Mao to Now Juanjuan Wu 9781845207786
SciFier: $158.45How has fashion mirrored the social and cultural changes that have taken place in modern China? To what extent has fashion contributed to those changes? This book provides the first comprehensive... -
American Cinema of the 1980s by Stephen Prince
SciFier: $37.52During the 1980s, American cinema underwent enormous transformations. Blockbusters like Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and The Empire Strikes Back earned huge sums for the studios. At the same time,... -
Gender and German Cinema - Vol I: Feminist Interventions Sandra Frieden 9780854962433
SciFier: $61.15Volume I - Gender and Representation in New German CinemaVolume II - German Film History / German History on FilmInternational film has received some of its most original impulses from German film... -
Fashion Under the Occupation Miriam Kochan 9781859735480
SciFier: $51.42Before the outbreak of WWII, French fashion represented the very pinnacle of style, and French women the epitome of chic. At home and abroad, couturiers wealthy clients eagerly awaited the latest... -
The Textile Book Jasbir Kaur 9781859735077
RRP: $139.00SciFier: $134.40Textiles are central to our lives and are at the heart of the world's largest industries. In recent years there has been a dynamic shift in attitudes toward textiles, fuelled in part by explosive... -
Gender and German Cinema - Vol II: Feminist Interventions Sandra Frieden 9780854963249
SciFier: $61.15Volume I - Gender and Representation in New German CinemaVolume II - German Film History / German History on FilmInternational film has received some of its most original impulses from German film... -
Fashion and Class Rachel Worth (Arts University Bournemouth, UK) 9781847888167
SciFier: $136.21In what ways do changing notions of social class correspond with key developments in the history of fashion? Focusing on examples ranging from 18th-century Britain to aspects of the global fashion... -
Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History Toby Slade 9781847882530
SciFier: $157.06Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan... -
Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress Sandra Niessen 9781859735398
SciFier: $51.42When Hong Kong entrepreneur David Tang opened his Shanghai Tang boutique on New York's Madison Avenue, it was not an isolated example of the globalization of Asian fashion. Further evidence is... -
Visual Research Methods in Fashion Professor Julia Gaimster (London College of Fashion) 9781847883810
SciFier: $63.93The ability to analyze and interpret visual information is essential in fashion. However, students tend to struggle with the concept of visual research, as well as with the application of that... -
Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style David Muggleton 9781859733479
RRP: $139.00SciFier: $134.40What motivates people to dress in a manner that marks them out as different to the conventional norm? Is it true that, with dress, 'anything goes' in our mix-and-match postmodern culture? Have easily... -
Felt Willow Mullins 9781845204396
SciFier: $62.54From nomads' tents to poodle skirts, from car parts to Christmas tree ornaments, felt is one of the world's oldest and most understated textiles. Felt has developed simultaneously in multiple... -
Italian Cinema Mary Wood 9781845201616
RRP: $166.80SciFier: $144.13Italian Cinema presents an overview and analysis of one of the most prolific and influential of national cinemas. Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themes - from ancient... -
American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) 9781845204358
SciFier: $40.30The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood - shaking off the Depression - launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some...