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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 9780472073726
SciFier: £64.30This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground... -
The Western in the Global South MaryEllen Higgins 9781138548688
SciFier: £48.93The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with,... -
Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema: Reimagining a Field Sheldon H. Lu 9781032087894
SciFier: £42.86This edited collection explores new developments in the burgeoning field of Chinese ecocinema, examining a variety of works from local productions to global market films, spanning the Maoist era to... -
Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University, United Kingdom) 9780367650704
SciFier: £40.26Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film,... -
Toni Erdmann by Professor Gerd Gemunden (Series Editor)
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.24The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade's acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work, and death. Maren Ade's tragicomedy Toni Erdmann, a 2016 Cannes... -
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism Eli Park Sorensen 9781474481854
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.99Provides an innovative theoretical approach to sci-fi films from the late 1970s to the present Highlights the specifically political dimension of sci-fi works and demonstrates how they speak... -
Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula Steffen Hven 9781041176954
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento... -
From Empire to the World by Malini Guha
SciFier: £93.71Investigates London and Paris as 'migrant cities' in contemporary British and French cinema. The study of globalisation in cinema assumes many guises, from the exploration of global cinematic cities... -
Riddles of the Sphinx by Kimberly Lamm (Duke University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (played by Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s who is transforming her place... -
The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment Annie Dell'Aria 9783030659035
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £45.99This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spectacle, moving images can produce moments... -
The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment Annie Dell'Aria 9783030659066
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £61.99This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spectacle, moving images can produce moments... -
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 9780472053728
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.49This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground... -
Home by Salman Rushdie
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.12Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong,... -
Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History Scott Nygren 9780816647088
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.82Until 1951, when Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film... -
An Introduction to Film Geography: Foundational Frameworks and the Reel/Real Divide Chris Lukinbeal 9781041273356
RRP: £67.99SciFier: £61.06This foundational text establishes a cohesive, systematic framework for film geography. It integrates theories of transactionalism and phenomenology with core elements of communication (Source,... -
Chris Marker: Immemory by Chris Marker
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £16.66The legendary French filmmaker's labyrinthine memoir, first published by Exact Change in 2002 as a CD-ROM, now reconfigured into book form after a laborious process initiated by the artist before his... -
Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion Vit Sisler 9780367889920
SciFier: £45.46Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve... -
Art Labor, Sex Politics by Siona Wilson
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Contrary to critics who have called it the "undecade," the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art-and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a... -
Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century by Vicente Rodriguez Ortega (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
SciFier: £20.33This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films... -
Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts Holly Willis 9780231178938
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £22.63Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the twentieth century, is being reconfigured by new media in the twenty-first. Terms such as "worldbuilding," "virtual reality," and "transmedia"... -
Filmography of American History by Grant Tracey
SciFier: £73.99Containing over 200 films, this resource is ideal for students, teachers, and other viewers who are interested in using films to enhance their knowledge of American historical events and periods... -
Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts Holly Willis 9780231178921
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the twentieth century, is being reconfigured by new media in the twenty-first. Terms such as "worldbuilding," "virtual reality," and "transmedia"... -
Resonant Bodies in Contemporary European Art Cinema Emilija Talijan 9781474483469
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Provides the first consideration of sound and the body in contemporary European art cinema Offers detailed analysis of the underexplored dimension of sound in the work of some of the best-known... -
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937 Zhang Zhen 9780226982380
SciFier: £41.08Shanghai 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... -
Dis-Orienting Planets by Isiah Lavender
SciFier: £101.99Isiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surrounding the racial and ethnic dimensions of science fiction. This edited volume explores depictions of Asia and Asians in... -
Dark Places by Barry Curtis
RRP: £16.00SciFier: £12.66Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. With "Dark Places", Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted... -
Global Bollywood Anandam P. Kavoori 9780814747988
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88Bollywood is one of the most prolific film industries in the world. Based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the industry churns out hundreds of films each year-primarily melodramatic films with music and... -
Wildlife Films Derek Bouse 9780812217285
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.75If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the... -
America City Chris Beckett 9781786491541
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £11.59Arthur C. Clarke Award-Winning Author'An uneasy read that manages to feel both timely and urgent... Beckett offers an intelligent, visceral reminder that unless we change what today looks like,... -
Global Bollywood Anandam P. Kavoori 9780814747995
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.89Bollywood is one of the most prolific film industries in the world. Based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the industry churns out hundreds of films each year-primarily melodramatic films with music and... -
Noise Channels by Peter Krapp
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative... -
The Most Typical Avant-Garde by David E. James
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £32.49Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of independent cinemas: avant-garde and art cinema, ethnic and industrial films, pornography, documentaries, and many other far-flung corners of film... -
Daughter of Redwinter: A dark and atmospheric epic fantasy that's rich in folklore Ed McDonald 9781473233645
GollanczRRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.69'A real page-turner, one that kept me guessing, and pulling the rug out from under me' Novel Notions'A glorious reconfiguration of classic fantasy' David Wragg, author of The BlackhawksRaine is... -
Film Dialogue Jeff Jaeckle 9780231165624
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £71.67Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological... -
Film Dialogue Jeff Jaeckle 9780231165631
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological... -
The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film Domietta Torlasco 9780816681105
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The Heretical Archive examines the relationship between memory and creation in contemporary artworks that use digital technology while appropriating film materials. Domietta Torlasco argues that... -
Thyme Travellers by Sonia Sulaiman
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.10Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora's best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal... -
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of 'The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time' Melvyn Stokes 9780195336795
SciFier: £41.98In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet... -
Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives Dominic Davies (City, University of London, UK) 9780367660635
SciFier: £43.73Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and... -
Anathema by Rachel Deering
Titan BooksRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.04How far will one woman go for the salvation of her beloved? Mercy Barlowe's love for Sarah brings down Hell when her puritanical father discovers them together - and has his own daughter burnt at the...