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Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
SciFier: $124.63A 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... -
Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov by Barbara Straumann
SciFier: $136.77This 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... -
Text, Knowledge, and Wonder in Early Modern France: Essays in Honour of Stephen Bamforth by Neil Kenny
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $25.03With 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... -
Badiou and Cinema by Alex Ling
RRP: $34.83SciFier: $32.68Applies 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... -
From Tartan to Tartanry by Ian Brown
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27This 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... -
Ranciere and Film by Paul Bowman
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $33.49This 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: $38.85SciFier: $37.27This 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... -
Japanese Horror Cinema by Jay McRoy
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $36.69A much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years, Japanese Horror Cinema provides an insightful examination of the... -
Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I Michele Aaron 9781474402750
SciFier: $34.13This 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: $34.83SciFier: $30.51This 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... -
Small-Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film Ryan Shand (Research Assistant, University of Glasgow) 9781399569569
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $29.40This book focuses on amateur fiction film-making. What do you understand by the term 'home movie'? Do you imagine images of babies-on-the lawn, sandcastles on the beach, or travels with the family?... -
Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity Victoria L. Evans 9781474452021
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $30.51With 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... -
Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema Steven Jacobs 9781474431705
RRP: $34.83SciFier: $30.51This 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... -
Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings John Marmysz 9781474424561
RRP: $120.60SciFier: $112.68Exposing 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 Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9781474402781
RRP: $41.54SciFier: $40.59This 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... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema by Qi Wang
SciFier: $125.57A 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... -
Media, Persuasion and Propaganda by Marshall Soules
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $30.51This is an eclectic, interdisciplinary overview of persuasive strategies and propaganda techniques. Living in a saturated media environment, we are crowded from all sides by persuasive messages and... -
Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea Dong Hoon Kim 9781474437547
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27In 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,... -
Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom Sabrina Qiong Yu 9780748645473
SciFier: $124.63This 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: $41.54SciFier: $40.59Cinematic 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... -
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition Peter Hames 9780748620821
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the... -
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition Stephen Teo 9781474400084
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27This 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... -
The Spanish Prisoner by Yannis Tzioumakis
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $25.03Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly... -
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads by Austin Fisher
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27What 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 New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9780748692507
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $23.95The 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,... -
The New Soundtrack by Professor Stephen Deutsch
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $23.95The 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,... -
Hong Kong Neo-Noir Esther Yau 9781474431989
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27The 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... -
British Film Culture in the 1970s by Sue Harper
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27This 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... -
Impossible Puzzle Films by Miklos Kiss
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $30.51Narrative 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... -
Bollywood and Postmodernism by Neelam Sidhar Wright
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $37.27Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the twenty-first century. Equipping readers... -
The American Horror Film by Reynold Humphries
RRP: $41.54SciFier: $40.59The 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... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 2 Mr Stephen Deutsch 9781474406611
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $23.60The 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... -
Masculinity and Italian Cinema by Sergio Rigoletto
SciFier: $124.63This 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... -
American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $30.51This 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... -
John Mills and British Cinema by Gill Plain
RRP: $37.51SciFier: $34.88Although 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... -
Far From Heaven by Dr. Glyn Davis
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $23.95Nominated for four Oscars, Far from Heaven earned rave reviews and won widespread cultural and critical recognition. A knowing and emotionally involving homage to the films of Douglas Sirk, this film... -
Channel 4 and British Film Culture: Journal of British Cinema and Television Volume 11, Issue 4 Paul McDonald 9780748692514
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $23.95This 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... -
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television Christopher Pullen 9781474425865
RRP: $34.83SciFier: $30.51Exploring 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 6, Issue 2 Mr Stephen Deutsch 9781474415194
RRP: $25.45SciFier: $20.09The 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... -
Exploring Visual Culture by Matthew Rampley
RRP: $41.54SciFier: $40.59An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of 'visual culture' that includes not only images, but also other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to...