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Badiou and Cinema by Alex Ling
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Applies Badiou's philosophy to films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The Matrix. Alex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film... -
Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov by Barbara Straumann
SciFier: £102.07This comparative study of Alfred Hitchcock and Vladimir Nabokov makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration... -
From Tartan to Tartanry by Ian Brown
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book considers the significance of tartan in Scottish history and culture, and the rise of tartanry in the representation of Scottishness. This is an historically and critically sound - and... -
Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
SciFier: £93.01A compelling story of father-son confrontation, Stevenson was working on this novel the day he died. This new edition is based on careful research of Stevenson's notes and drafts to continue the... -
Text, Knowledge, and Wonder in Early Modern France: Essays in Honour of Stephen Bamforth by Neil Kenny
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68With eight contributions, this volume sheds new light on text, knowledge, and wonder in early modern France, which were more fundamentally intertwined than their modern counterparts.About the... -
Ranciere and Film by Paul Bowman
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.99This is the first collection of critical essays on philosopher jacques Ranciere's recent work on film. Jacques Ranciere (1940) rose to prominence as a radical egalitarian philosopher, political... -
Temporality and Film Analysis Matilda Mroz 9780748685912
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book places the concept of duration at the centre of an understanding of cinema and spectatorship. The process of aesthetic imaging in time is a unique and fascinating characteristic of cinema... -
Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I Michele Aaron 9781474402750
SciFier: £25.47This book examines the representation of death and dying in mainstream cinema. Death and the Moving Image provides the first in depth study of the representation of death and dying in mainstream... -
Speaking in Subtitles: Revaluing Screen Translation Tessa Dwyer 9781474440998
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77This study argues that the contingencies of translation are vital to screen media's global storytelling. Through examples ranging from avant-garde dubbing to crowdsourced subtitling, it proposes that... -
Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema Steven Jacobs 9781474431705
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77This book examines key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through a series of case studies and through an extensive reference gallery of 150 different films.Book... -
Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity Victoria L. Evans 9781474452021
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77With detailed case studies of 'Final Chord' and 'All That Heaven Allows', Victoria Evans demonstrates how Sirk attempted to dissolve the boundaries of cinema by assimilating elements of avant-garde... -
The Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9781474402781
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature length fiction film. The Sense of Film Narration examines films that combine different types of images and sounds in a way... -
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads by Austin Fisher
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film distribution? As this volume illustrates, the... -
The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia Ian Aitken 9781474431965
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing... -
Hong Kong Neo-Noir Esther Yau 9781474431989
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinemaThe first comprehensive collection on Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its... -
Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea Dong Hoon Kim 9781474437547
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81In this ground-breaking investigation into the seldom-studied film culture of colonial Korea (1910-1945), Dong Hoon Kim brings new perspectives to the associations between colonialism, modernity,... -
British Film Culture in the 1970s by Sue Harper
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This is an authoritative history of 1970s British Cinema. This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period. It examines the... -
Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom Sabrina Qiong Yu 9780748645473
SciFier: £93.01This is the first study of Chinese stars and their transnational stardom, examining the transnational Chinese actor Jet Li, probably the best martial arts actor alive. Jet Li's career has crossed... -
Cinematic Journeys by Dimitris Eleftheriotis
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29Cinematic Journeys explores the interconnected histories, theories and aesthetics of mobile vision and cinematic movement. It traces the links between certain types of movement of/in the frame and... -
Masculinity and Italian Cinema by Sergio Rigoletto
SciFier: £93.01This is a study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberation. Italian cinema has traditionally used the trope of an inadequate man in crisis to reflect on the... -
John Mills and British Cinema by Gill Plain
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as... -
Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains Brian McNair 9780748634477
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of... -
Channel 4 and British Film Culture: Journal of British Cinema and Television Volume 11, Issue 4 Paul McDonald 9780748692514
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87This title considers aspects of the legacy that makes Film4 synonymous with a rejuvenated national cinema. When Channel 4 was launched in 1982 its policy of commissioning new feature films for... -
The American Horror Film by Reynold Humphries
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29The American Horror Film is the first overview of this popular genre. It moves from Dracula in 1931 to contemporary films such as Scream and The Sixth Sense. The various characters that recur in... -
French-Language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe' Michael Gott 9781474426015
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, including works... -
Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings John Marmysz 9781474424561
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £84.09Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to, rather than detract from, the value of life, Cinematic Nihilism both challenges and builds upon past... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 2 Mr Stephen Deutsch 9781474406611
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.61The New Soundtrack brings together leading academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch, Larry... -
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 Terence McSweeney 9781474431958
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film, written by some of the foremost scholars in American cinemaAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of... -
Impossible Puzzle Films by Miklos Kiss
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity... -
American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This title describes a new critical tradition in American filmmaking. American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and... -
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition Stephen Teo 9781474400084
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal... -
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television Christopher Pullen 9781474425865
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9781474406598
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
French Queer Cinema Nick Rees-Roberts 9780748685967
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the socio-political context informing both queer DIY video and... -
Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema by Lisa Purse
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.95This book explores how film analysis can take account of the presence of digital images in cinema. Digital images are now ubiquitous elements within the cinematic frame but, as we analyse films or... -
Deleuze and Horror Film by Anna Powell
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03The horror film analysed from a Deleuzian perspective. This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror films neglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en... -
Bollywood in the Age of New Media by Basu
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This study of popular Indian cinema in an age of globalisation, new media, and metropolitan Hindu fundamentalism focuses on the period from 1991 to 2004. Popular Hindi cinema took a certain... -
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema Tom Brown 9780748683079
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book examines the role of direct address within fiction cinema. Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? It is... -
Framing Pictures by Steven Jacobs
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Edinburgh Film Studies is a series of advanced textbooks which cover core aspects of film studies for undergraduate students while, at the same time, offering valuable material for the general reader... -
Memento by Dr. Claire Molloy
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Ambiguous, complex and innovative, Christopher Nolan's Memento has intrigued audiences and critics since the day of its release. Memento is the archetypal 'puzzle film', a noir thriller about a man...