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The Berlin School and its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema Marco Abel 9780814342008
RRP: €38.02SciFier: €34.50The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema came about in light of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)'s 2013 major exhibition of works by contemporary German directors... -
Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop William Solomon 9780252083945
RRP: €23.79SciFier: €23.16Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls percolated alongside literary modernism throughout the 1920s and 1930s before slapstick found explosive... -
Hieroglyphic Modernisms: Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century Jesse Schotter (Assistant Professor of English, Ohio State University) 9781474424776
RRP: €124.95SciFier: €116.07Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernism In the British Museum, one object attracts more tourists than any other: the Rosetta Stone... -
Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire Genevieve Abravanel (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Franklin & Marshall College) 9780199754458
SciFier: €122.58At the beginning of the twentieth century, many in Britain believed their nation to be a dominant world power that its former colony, the United States, could only hope to emulate. Yet by the... -
Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys: Nabokov, Joyce, and Others Jessica R. Feldman 9780813945118
RRP: €38.08SciFier: €33.47Saul Steinberg's inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century. Although the literary qualities of... -
Samuel Beckett and Cinema Anthony Paraskeva (University of Roehampton, UK) 9781350081611
SciFier: €45.21In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the... -
Francois Truffaut and Friends by Robert Stam
RRP: €36.89SciFier: €28.55One of Francois Truffaut's most poignantly memorable films, Jules and Jim, adapted a novel by the French writer and art collector Henri-Pierre Roch. The characters and events of the 1960s film were... -
Fitzgerald and Hemingway on Film by Candace Ursula Grissom
SciFier: €27.07A comprehensive guide to all major film adaptations based on the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, this is an essential volume for scholars of American modernism and of film studies... -
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War Anton Kaes 9780691008509
SciFier: €30.67Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting... -
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg Hal Foster 9780691202600
SciFier: €46.36How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how... -
Fashion and Modernism Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) 9781350175327
SciFier: €42.83Art and fashion have long gone hand in hand, but it was during the modernist period that fashion first gained equal value to - and took on the same aesthetic ideals as - painting, film, photography,... -
Gothic Modernisms A. Smith 9781349423651
SciFier: €55.92This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the... -
On a NASA Flight to Heaven by D. Seth Horton
RRP: €26.12SciFier: €19.46Set throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the stories in On a NASA Flight to Heaven explore the various ways in which the border fractures traditional narratives. Standing between North American... -
The New Man of the House by Brian Gibson
RRP: €55.92SciFier: €48.03The modern-day suburb began, and began booming, in 19th-century Britain. As suburbia spread, the New Woman arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt more besieged. Anxieties about... -
Gothic Modernisms A. Smith 9780333918739
SciFier: €55.92This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the... -
The Waste Land by Martin Rowson
RRP: €15.47SciFier: €14.49In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"... -
Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal Derek Lee 9781517918897
RRP: €24.98SciFier: €21.30Unraveling the hidden influence of the paranormal on science, literature, and belief Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely... -
Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal Derek Lee 9781517918880
RRP: €107.10SciFier: €87.88Unraveling the hidden influence of the paranormal on science, literature, and belief Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely... -
The Secret Agent (Collins Classics) Joseph Conrad 9780007420261
RRP: €4.75SciFier: €4.40HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on... -
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray Keya Ganguly 9780520262171
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €33.90Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely... -
Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain Lisa Stead 9781474431910
RRP: €30.93SciFier: €27.10Examines women's constructions of selfhood through film and literature in interwar Britain'Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain' offers a rich new... -
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray Keya Ganguly 9780520262164
RRP: €95.20SciFier: €86.86Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely... -
The Far Shore by Adam Hammond
RRP: €15.46SciFier: €10.96The genius and artistry behind Superbrothers and the making of an indie video game, from inception to its highly anticipated launch. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery was released in 2011 at the... -
Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics Ruth Heholt 9780367543389
SciFier: €52.04This is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and... -
The Common Reader by H. G. Wells
SciFier: €4.40HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain... -
The House of a Thousand Floors by Jan Weiss
SciFier: €24.17The House of a Thousand Floors is one of the earliest science-fiction novels in European literature, published first in 1929. Besides being a pioneer in its genre, the book is highly regarded for its... -
The Novel after Film by Jonathan Foltz (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Boston University)
SciFier: €104.96According to prevailing media histories, film long ago ought to have rendered the novel obsolete. The irony of this story is that the "death of the novel" at the hands of film has for a long time now... -
Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects by Marguerite Rippy
RRP: €49.92SciFier: €47.48Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective traces the impact of legendary director Orson Welles on contemporary mass media entertainment and suggests that, ironically, we... -
Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire Genevieve Abravanel (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Franklin & Marshall College) 9780190272418
SciFier: €47.16How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by... -
The Complete Fiction by Nella Larsen
RRP: €20.22SciFier: €15.36Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nell Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they... -
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by David Weir (The Cooper Union, New York, USA)
RRP: €15.46SciFier: €13.93Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy... -
The Golem, How He Came into the World by Maya Barzilai (Royalty Account)
RRP: €23.79SciFier: €22.10Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegener's great 1920 film, recognized at the time as a breakthrough in German cinema. Actor and director... -
Film and Memory in East Germany Anke Pinkert 9780253219671
RRP: €24.98SciFier: €20.37Anke Pinkert explores films produced in the Soviet Occupation Zone and East Germany from the end of World War II through the early 1960s, offering new insights into how Germans dealt with the... -
Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing Guy Woodward (Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Research Associate in the Department of English Studies, Durham University) 9780198973423
RRP: €109.48SciFier: €103.45During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a... -
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
RRP: €10.70SciFier: €8.32The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The... -
Hollywood by Blaise Cendrars
RRP: €53.55SciFier: €44.70Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper "Paris-Soir". Already a well-known poet, Cendrars was a celebrity journalist... -
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937 Zhang Zhen 9780226982380
SciFier: €48.89Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist filmmakers, and the... -
Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture S. Donovan 9781349510481
SciFier: €55.92This highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day. Drawing on original archival materials and treating... -
Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s Sarah Street 9780231179829
SciFier: €113.06The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and... -
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Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s Sarah Street 9780231179829 [USED COPY]
RRP: €104.72SciFier: €20.75The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and...