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The 100 Greatest Superhero Films and TV Shows by Zachary Ingle
SciFier: €47.59This book celebrates the 100 greatest superhero films and tv shows from the early 1940s to the present. Each entry includes a plot summary, background information, production details, critical... -
The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context L. Grist 9780312229917
SciFier: €110.66A study of Martin Scorsese's early career, from his student short films to New York, New York. As well as discussing the films in detail, they are considered in relation both to the issue of film... -
Bakhtin and the Movies: New Ways of Understanding Hollywood Film M. Flanagan 9780230202962
SciFier: €110.66Martin Flanagan uses Bakhtin's notions of dialogism, chronotope and polyphony to address fundamental questions about film form and reception, focussing particularly on the way cinematic narrative... -
Neurofilmology of the Moving Image: Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema Adriano D'Aloia 9781041183518
RRP: €54.73SciFier: €49.98A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into space, the drift of an astronaut in the void... Analysing a wide range of... -
Cinema on Sundays: Legalising British Cinema Exhibition Peter Niehoff 9781399534369
RRP: €113.05SciFier: €104.46Often referred to as the first day of the week, Sunday was the last frontier for cinemagoing access in Britain and represented complex perspectives on the cultural turbulence of the period. This book... -
Film and Cinema Spectatorship: Melodrama and Mimesis Jan Campbell (University of Birmingham) 9780745629308
RRP: €21.41SciFier: €20.12Film and Cinema Spectatorship provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to different debates and traditions of viewing cinema. In this new book, Jan Campbell offers a comprehensive account of... -
Distribution Revolution: Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television Michael Curtin 9780520283251
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €25.10Distribution Revolution is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems are transforming the entertainment business. These... -
Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place Hamid Naficy 9780415919470
SciFier: €44.82Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized contexts. This... -
The Science of Sci-Fi Cinema by Vincent Piturro
RRP: €34.50SciFier: €29.52Science fiction films present hypothetical futures, featuring imagined technological advancements--not yet realized but perhaps (more or less) plausible. Yet how much of what audiences see is within... -
Film and Cinema Spectatorship: Melodrama and Mimesis Jan Campbell (University of Birmingham) 9780745629292
RRP: €65.45SciFier: €59.27Film and Cinema Spectatorship provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to different debates and traditions of viewing cinema. In this new book, Jan Campbell offers a comprehensive account of... -
Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games: Cognitive Approaches Kathrin Fahlenbrach 9780815386520
SciFier: €58.02In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in... -
Teaching Film Censorship and Controversy Mark Readman 9781844570799
SciFier: €59.45Provides a much-needed summary of the complex issues surrounding film censorship and controversy; offers some practical suggestions for teaching about the determining factors in, and ideological... -
Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896-1921) John MacKay 9781618117342
RRP: €126.13SciFier: €125.16Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversial position over the past sixty years as a founding... -
The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard Douglas Morrey 9781554589203
SciFier: €52.35The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty years and yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, not only on French... -
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition Peter Hames 9780748620814
SciFier: €116.07This 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... -
Distribution Revolution: Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television Michael Curtin 9780520283244
RRP: €59.50SciFier: €54.73Distribution Revolution is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems are transforming the entertainment business. These... -
Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896-1921) John MacKay 9781644690116
RRP: €29.74SciFier: €28.25Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversial position over the past sixty years as a founding... -
Studying Indian Cinema Omar Ahmed 9781906733681
SciFier: €109.80This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in... -
Emotion Pictures: Movies and Feelings Lucy Fischer 9781032037844
RRP: €47.59SciFier: €45.85This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion - be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety - to examine cinematic emotion in depth.Drawing on... -
From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896 Stuart Hanson 9780719069451
SciFier: €27.36Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in... -
The Blair Witch Project by Peter Turner
RRP: €27.36SciFier: €25.89Few films have had the influence and impact of The Blair Witch Project (1999). Its arrival was a horror cinema palette cleanser after a decade of serial killers and postmodern intertextuality, a bare... -
From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896 Stuart Hanson 9780719069444
RRP: €101.15SciFier: €74.67Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in... -
French-Language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe' Michael Gott 9781474426015
RRP: €30.93SciFier: €27.10Over 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... -
Studying Indian Cinema Omar Ahmed 9781906733674
SciFier: €42.89This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in... -
How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies Robert B. Ray 9780253214386
RRP: €19.03SciFier: €15.74How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural StudiesRobert B. RayForeword by James NaremoreChallenges accepted ideas about film and cultural studies.In the 1920s, when film criticism... -
A Philosophy of the Screenplay Ted Nannicelli 9781138210219
SciFier: €52.04Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines-including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies-have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay... -
Beijing Film Academy Yearbook 2015 Journal of Beijing Film Academy 9781783206056
RRP: €111.80SciFier: €110.57The Beijing Film Academy (BFA) is one of the most revered film institutions in the world. Since 1984, the BFA's Department of Film Studies has been publishing the Journal of the Beijing Film Academy,... -
Critical Perspectives on Dario Argento Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 9781666973648
SciFier: €110.66This edited volume provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date analysis of the entire filmography of Dario Argento, one of the most renowned directors from the world of Euro-Horror... -
1968 and Global Cinema Christina Gerhardt 9780814342930
RRP: €38.02SciFier: €29.74Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave... -
Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif Stefano Baschiera 9781474428934
RRP: €30.93SciFier: €29.02Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, DispositifEdited by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De RosaAlthough film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of... -
Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film Dr. Alix Beeston 9780520381469
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €77.80This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects-abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended-as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply... -
Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada Darrell Varga 9781552382486
RRP: €47.54SciFier: €47.11This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies - an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture. Zoe Druick, School of... -
1968 and Global Cinema Christina Gerhardt 9780814345429
RRP: €102.34SciFier: €86.26Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarship exists on the late 1950s and 1960s New Wave... -
Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 Weihong Bao 9780816681341
RRP: €28.55SciFier: €23.16What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system of aesthetic code. It was, in Weihong... -
Cinema in the Arab World by Ifdal Elsaket (Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Egypt)
SciFier: €38.07Cinema in the Arab world has been the subject of varied and rigorous studies, but most have focused on films as text, providing in-depth analyses of plot, style, ideologies, or examination of the... -
Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film Dr. Alix Beeston 9780520381476
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects-abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended-as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply... -
Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films Susan Felleman 9781783202508
RRP: €28.50SciFier: €26.49Real Objects in Unreal Situations is a lucid account of a much-neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By... -
The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit Scott Bukatman 9780520265721
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €27.54In "The Poetics of Slumberland", Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in... -
David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739263
RRP: €118.99SciFier: €73.77This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
Studying Fight Club by Mark Ramey
SciFier: €32.23Fight Club is, on one level, pop-culture phenomena and on another, a deeply philosophical and satirical exploration of modern life. David Fincher's 1999 film (and Chuck Palahniuk's source novel) has...