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The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face Anna G. Jonasdottir 9780719076244
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $88.20In this new anthology, the editors of the widely acclaimed The Political Interests of Gender (1988) make a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms, fostering more... -
Contemporary German Cinema by Paul Cooke
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $26.63German film is enjoying enormous levels of success, be success defined in terms of financial returns, popularity with audiences at home and abroad or critical acclaim. On the one hand, the 2000s saw... -
Flesh Cinema by Ara Osterweil
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $27.61Flesh Cinema: The corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit... -
The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933-2000 Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 9780719095740
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $31.96The British Film Institute (BFI) is one of the UK's oldest and most important government-supported cultural institutions. From a modest start in the 1930s it grew rapidly after the war to encompass... -
The Food Companions by Richard Farmer
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $87.22The introduction of rationing in January 1940 ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this... -
British Stars and Stardom by Bruce Babington
SciFier: $31.96Deals analytically with the fascinating topic of the great film stars (and some thought-provoking lesser ones) of the British cinema, from Alma Taylor and Ivor Novello in the Silent period, up to the... -
Faking it by Craig Hight
SciFier: $31.96The first major study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'. Examines mock-documentary through the specific... -
Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage Russell Jackson 9780719099922
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $26.63Theatres on film is an innovative contribution to the study of both theatre and film history, with its detailed discussion of popular and influential films that have taken the theatre as their... -
The New Avengers Jacinda Read 9780719059056
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $26.05A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the... -
The Continental Connection: German-Speaking eMigres and British Cinema, 1927-45 Tobias Hochscherf 9780719097478
SciFier: $31.96Now available in paperback, this study is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking emigres to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War II. Through a series of film... -
Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond Andy Willis 9780719056451
SciFier: $31.96Stars are central to the cinema experience, and this collection offers a variety of fresh and informed perspectives on this important but sometimes neglected area of film studies.This book takes as... -
Film Light: Meaning and Emotion Lara Thompson 9780719086335
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $88.20In one of the first monographs of its kind to focus on the aesthetic and emotional impact of lighting in cinema, Lara Thompson looks at the way light informs the cinematic experience, from... -
Film Light: Meaning and Emotion Lara Thompson 9780719086342
SciFier: $31.96A unique and wide-ranging analysis of the aesthetic and emotional impact of lighting in cinema. Lara Thompson looks at the way light informs the cinematic experience, from constructing star... -
Beginning Film Studies by Andrew Dix
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $82.27Beginning film studies offers the most lucid, thorough and up-to-the-minute introduction to this popular subject. Written with verve and wit, it reviews a wealth of significant trends in the... -
Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet Paul Julian Smith 9780719075360
SciFier: $31.96This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and the internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital... -
Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $21.74One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position.. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective.. Written with detail and... -
Approaches to Popular Film by Joanne Hollows
SciFier: $26.05An invaluable introduction to popular film and the way in which it is studied, this book brings together the critical approaches and issues that have sought to define popular film from the 1950s to... -
Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet Paul Julian Smith 9780719075179
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $87.22This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and the internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital... -
The Art of Record by John Corner
SciFier: $21.77Documentary is a controversial and important area of media production. The art of record is a fascinating insight into the function of documentary in film and television. Its attempts to depict... -
The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism Ian Scott 9781526108715
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $26.63This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. From early productions like Platoon (1986) and Wall Street... -
The Dolby Era by Gianluca Sergi
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $26.05Since the 1970s Hollywood cinema has been the site of remarkable developments in film sound. New revolutionary sound technologies have been developed, a new generation of filmmakers have learned to... -
The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism Ian Scott 9780719099168
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $87.22This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. From early productions like Platoon (1986) and Wall Street... -
Games are Not by David Myers
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $26.63How do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are "just games"? How do we reconcile... -
Performance and Spanish Film by Dean Allbritton
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $92.89Performance and Spanish film is the first book to provide a detailed study of screen acting in Spanish film. With fifteen original essays by leading scholars of Spanish film, the book casts light on... -
British Rural Landscapes on Film Paul Newland 9780719091575
RRP: $125.10SciFier: $92.89This volume offers insights into how rural areas of Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era through both world wars and on into the twenty-first century. It is the first book to... -
British Rural Landscapes on Film Paul Newland 9781526119865
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $31.96This volume offers insights into how rural areas of Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era through both world wars and on into the twenty-first century. It is the first book to... -
Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade, c. 1840-1980 Rebecca Gill 9781526188021
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $108.41This book uncovers the overlooked history of artisanal textiles in projects aimed at social uplift and moral reform. The contributors ask what the implications of this form of gendered craft... -
Bringing Modernity Home by Judy Attfield
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $108.41Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period. It... -
Amateur Film: Meaning and Practice c. 1927-77 Heather Nicholson 9780719077739
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $88.20Amateur film: Meaning and practice 1927-77 plunges readers into the world of home movies making and reveals that behind popular perceptions of cliched family scenes shakily shot at home or by the... -
Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art Richard Scully 9781526142948
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $108.41Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satirical art. Edited by leading scholars across both... -
High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 James Moore 9781526166999
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $21.50This study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art gallery,... -
Puma: By Anthony Burgess Paul Wake 9781526132734
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $26.05Puma - disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of the World News and published here for the first time in its intended format - is Anthony Burgess's lost science fiction novel. Set some... -
Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film Hollie Price 9781526138200
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $107.02Picturing home examines the depiction of domestic life in British feature films made and released in the 1940s. It explores how pictorial representations of home onscreen in this period re-imagined... -
LukaCsian Film Theory and Cinema by Ian Aitken
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $88.20Lukacsian film theory and cinema explores Georg Lukacs' writings on film. The Hungarian Marxist critic Georg Lukacs is primarily known as a literary theorist, but he also wrote extensively on the... -
Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art Richard Scully 9781526163677
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $38.68Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satirical art. Edited by leading scholars across both... -
High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 James Moore 9781784991470
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $108.41This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art... -
Contemporary French Cinema: An Introduction Guy Austin 9780719046117
SciFier: $26.63This introductory text analyzes 25 years of popular French film including recent developments in all genres. Reflecting French cinema's diversity since the new Wave, chapters include the Heritage... -
Lindsay Anderson by John Izod
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $107.02In a long and varied career, Lindsay Anderson made training films, documentaries, searing family dramas and blistering satires, including This Sporting Life, O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital... -
Vivien Leigh by Kate Dorney
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $26.63This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67). Written by experts in theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria and Albert... -
Cinemas and Cinemagoing in Wartime Britain, 1939-45: The Utility Dream Palace Richard Farmer 9780719091889
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $108.41During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Farmer provides a social and cultural history of cinemas and...