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World Film Locations: London by Neil Mitchell
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31An exciting and visually focused tour of the diverse range of films shot on location in London, World Film Locations: London presents contributions spanning the Victorian era, the swinging '60s and... -
The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 by Christian B. Long (The University of Queensland)
RRP: $103.11SciFier: $96.56The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of... -
Beijing Film Academy 2021 Journal of Beijing Film Academy 9781789389395
RRP: $147.33SciFier: $135.41The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research from the previous year, as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing... -
Montreal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion Katrina Sark (University of Victoria) 9781783206162
RRP: $88.37SciFier: $82.66Montreal is a la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and... -
Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes by Tom Ue (Cape Breton University, Canada)
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of... -
Fashion Cities Africa by Hannah Azieb Pool
RRP: $29.41SciFier: $28.89In a searing 2012 Guardian op-ed, Hannah Azieb Pool took Western fashion designers to task for their so-called African-inspired clothing. 'Dear Fashion,' she wrote, 'Africa is a continent, not a... -
Diasporas of Australian Cinema by Catherine Simpson
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49Diasporas of Australian Cinema is the first volume to focus exclusively on diasporic hybridity and cultural diversity in Australian filmmaking over the past century.Topics include post-war... -
World Film Locations: Sao Paulo by Natalia Pinazza (University of Exeter, UK)
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Sao Paulo is the largest city in South America and the powerhouse of Brazil's economy. A multi-racial metropolis with a diverse population of Asian, Arabic and European immigrants as well as migrants... -
Fan Phenomena: Mermaids by Matthieu Guitton
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Disney's Princess Ariel would give anything to be 'where the people are', but little does she know there's an ever-growing fan base of humans dying to be down in the ocean where she is. Movies like... -
Directory of World Cinema: Scotland by Bob Nowlan
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.95Scotland, its people and its history have long been a source of considerable fascination and inspiration for filmmakers, film scholars and film audiences worldwide. A significant number of critically... -
Europe and Love in Cinema by Luisa Passerini
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love-in its broadest... -
The Roots of Modern Hollywood by Nick Smedley
RRP: $48.17SciFier: $45.84In this insightful study of Hollywood cinema since 1969, film historian Nick Smedley traces the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films, showing how the more thoughtful recent cinema... -
Directory of World Cinema: India by Adam Bingham
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.01Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices. The Directory of World Cinema: India provides a broad overview of this rich variety, highlighting distinctions among India's major cinematic... -
The Cinema of Mika Kaurismaki by Pietari Kaapa (University of Warwick, UK)
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49Mika Kaurismaki's films challenge many boundaries - national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature and problematic distinctions between different... -
Danish Directors by Ib Bondebjerg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
SciFier: $24.17Profiling the canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among... -
Modern Argentine Masculinities by Carolina Rocha (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
RRP: $48.17SciFier: $45.84Modern Argentine Masculinities gathers essays that explore the social construction of gender from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors analyze literary and cinematic texts, as well as... -
Picturing the Cosmos by Iina Kohonen
RRP: $40.13SciFier: $38.67Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a... -
The Sensible Stage by Bridget Crone (Goldsmiths, University of London)
RRP: $119.19SciFier: $110.09The Sensible Stage is a collection of essays exploring the use of live performance and moving image in contemporary art practice. It engages with a global phenomenon in which elements from theatre... -
World Film Locations: Beijing John Berra (Renmin University of China) 9781841506425
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31In a series of spotlight essays and illustrated scene reviews, a cast of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices explore the vast range of films - encompassing drama, madcap comedy, martial arts... -
Sophia Loren: Moulding the Star Pauline Small 9781841502342
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31European stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars. This unique book sets out to highlight the career of... -
Historical Comedy on Screen by Hannu Salmi (University of Turku)
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31In 1893 Friedrich Engels branded history "the cruelest goddess of all." This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless... -
Perform, Repeat, Record by Amelia Jones (Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, USA)
RRP: $78.99SciFier: $75.11Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other... -
Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads by Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.)
SciFier: $16.19Dorothy's ruby slippers. Michael Myers's mask. Marilyn Monroe's billowy white dress. Indiana Jones's trusty hat. These objects are icons of popular culture synonymous with the films they appear in,... -
Twin Peaks by Franck Boulegue
RRP: $33.43SciFier: $31.48Few contemporary television shows have been subjected to the critical scrutiny that has been brought to bear on David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks since its debut in 1990. Yet the series, and... -
Aleksandr Sokurov by Birgit Beumers
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de... -
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance by Judith Rugg
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.01Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it... -
Film, Drama and the Break Up of Britain by steve Blandford
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49When the sun set on the British Empire, the resultant fragmentation of British identity emerged most tellingly in artistic works: cinematic works such as Howards End depicted a richly historical land... -
Truth or Dare by Gail Pearce
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $37.49The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form-but they have also... -
World Film Locations: Prague by Marcelline Block
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Prague - known as 'The City of Dreams', 'The Hundred-Spired City' and, most significantly for this study, 'Hollywood of the East' - has played an important role in the history of the seventh art. The... -
Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films Susan Felleman 9781783202508
RRP: $32.09SciFier: $30.31Real 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... -
Architectures of Illusion: From Motion Pictures to Navigable Interactive Environments Francois Penz 9781841500454
RRP: $29.41SciFier: $28.89The world of media production is in a state of rapid transformation. In this age of the Internet, interactivity and digital broadcasting, do traditional standards of quality apply or must we identify... -
Directory of World Cinema: Argentina 2 by Gary M. Kramer (Independent Scholar)
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.01This volume continues the exploration of contemporary Argentine cinema that began in the first book. It provides a close analysis of exciting new directors, including Marco Berger and Matias Pineiro,... -
Context Providers by Margot Lovejoy
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $38.43Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are challenging and changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of... -
Film on the Faultline by Alan Wright
RRP: $44.15SciFier: $42.26Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. The earthquake, especially, transforms our understanding of the limits and possibilities of cinema, as well as of life itself... -
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator by Alistair Rolls
RRP: $37.45SciFier: $36.29The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade - the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets - to Agatha Christie's... -
Directory of World Cinema: Africa by Blandine Stefanson (University of Adelaide, Australia)
RRP: $62.91SciFier: $59.95Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in... -
Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films by Outi Hakola
RRP: $48.17SciFier: $45.84Zombies, vampires and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence and audiences' hunger for such films tell us about American views of death? Here,... -
Lure of the Big Screen by Karina Aveyard
RRP: $77.65SciFier: $72.16Lure of the Big Screen explores film exhibition and consumption in rural parts of the UK and Australia, where film theatres are often highly valued as spaces around which isolated communities can... -
Passion of the Reel by Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe (Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas)
RRP: $103.11SciFier: $96.56Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reel provides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier... -
Photocinema by Neil Campbell
RRP: $48.17SciFier: $46.78Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema - or the interplay of the still and moving image - the photographs, interviews, and critical essays in this volume explore the ways in which the...