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Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage Russell Jackson 9780719088797
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Theatres 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... -
Trash or Treasure: Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties Kate Egan 9780719072338
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74Trash or treasure is a wide-ranging historical study of the British circulation of the video nasties - a term that was originally coined to ban a group of horror videos in Britain in the 1980s but... -
The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face Anna G. Jonasdottir 9780719076251
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.33In 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... -
Ringbearers by Tanya Krzywinska
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83Ringbearers collects together essays by established and leading figures within Game Studies, each focused on different aspects of the Massively Multiplayer Online game The Lord of the Rings Online... -
Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game by Graeme Kirkpatrick
SciFier: £20.07This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games... -
Screen/Space by Tamara Trodd
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.99Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, beyond the histories of experimental film and video... -
Moving Images by David Buckingham
SciFier: £22.99Concerns about the effects of television on young children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. Yet amid all the anxiety, children's voices are rarely heard. In this book, one of Britain's... -
Films and British National Identity by Jeffrey Richards
SciFier: £23.99Jeffrey Richards is a regular radio and television commentator on popular culture. Covers the period from Ealing Studios to Dad's Army. A great read.About the AuthorJeffrey Richards is Professor of... -
Michael Reeves by Benjamin Halligan
SciFier: £22.99Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating... -
Sydney Box by Andrew Spicer
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This is an authoritative account of the career of Sydney Box, one of British cinema's most successful and significant producers. Concentrating on the period 1940-65, it highlights the crucial but... -
When Hollywood Loved Britain by Mark Glancy
SciFier: £22.99Many of the most popular and memorable films of Hollywood's studio era were 'British' films; that is, American films that were set in Britain, based on British literature or history and included the... -
Approaches to Popular Film by Joanne Hollows
SciFier: £18.74An 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: £80.00SciFier: £62.75This 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: £19.99SciFier: £15.64One 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... -
Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet Paul Julian Smith 9780719075360
SciFier: £22.99This 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: £15.66Documentary 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 Dolby Era by Gianluca Sergi
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.74Since 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: £80.00SciFier: £62.75This 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 Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism Ian Scott 9781526108715
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16This 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: £19.99SciFier: £19.16How 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: £90.00SciFier: £81.49Performance 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: £90.00SciFier: £66.83This 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: £25.00SciFier: £22.99This 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... -
Bringing Modernity Home by Judy Attfield
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £77.99Bringing 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: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Amateur 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... -
Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade, c. 1840-1980 Rebecca Gill 9781526188021
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £78.49This 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... -
High Culture and Tall Chimneys: Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 James Moore 9781526166999
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £15.47This 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: £20.00SciFier: £19.27Puma - 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... -
Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art Richard Scully 9781526163677
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.49Comic 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: £85.00SciFier: £77.99This 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... -
LukaCsian Film Theory and Cinema by Ian Aitken
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £63.45Lukacsian 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... -
Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film Hollie Price 9781526138200
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Picturing 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... -
Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art Richard Scully 9781526142948
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £77.99Comic 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... -
Contemporary French Cinema: An Introduction Guy Austin 9780719046117
SciFier: £19.16This 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: £85.00SciFier: £76.99In 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: £25.00SciFier: £19.16This 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... -
A Sense of Place by Lez Cooke
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which... -
Spanish Popular Cinema by Antonio Lazario-Reboll
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.64This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema.Contributors from... -
Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock Steven Rawle 9780719095863
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £67.53This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading... -
There is No Soundtrack: Rethinking Art, Media, and the Audio-Visual Contract Ming-Yuen S. Ma 9781526163844
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £22.99There is no soundtrack is a study of how sound and image produce meaning in contemporary experimental media art by artists ranging from Chantal Akerman to Nam June Paik to Tanya Tagaq. It...