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The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films Asli OEzgen 9781041187127
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective... -
Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9781032072487
SciFier: £19.48This book makes the case for unproduction studies, the study of films left unmade, unseen, or unreleased, as a radical discipline with the potential to uncover a shadow history of the American film... -
The Third Sex: Beyond a Gender Binary in Thai Culture and Films Charlin Nukul 9781636671239
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £54.49Winner of the 2022 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Media & Communication. Thailand, the "land of smiles," is often seen as a "gay paradise." But how does Thai culture understand... -
Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics: A Cinematic Exploration Patrick D. Anderson (Central State University, USA) 9781041106647
RRP: £67.99SciFier: £61.06Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film in a subtextual conversation.Synthesizing Algirdas Greimas' semiotic square... -
Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9781032072210
SciFier: £61.06This book makes the case for unproduction studies, the study of films left unmade, unseen, or unreleased, as a radical discipline with the potential to uncover a shadow history of the American film... -
Studying Fight Club by Mark Ramey
SciFier: £27.81Fight Club is, on one level, pop-culture phenomena and on another, a deeply philosophical and satirical exploration of modern life. David Fincher's 1999 film (and Chuck Palahniuk's source novel) has... -
The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics by Scott Jeffery
SciFier: £112.99This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there... -
Studying Gladiator by Sandy Irvine
SciFier: £29.78Gladiator was one of the great commercial successes of the early twenty-first century, a fascinating example of how an old genre can be resuscitated for a new generation. The film's story is not... -
Chinese Animated Film and Ideology: Tradition, Innovation, and Interculturality Olga Bobrowska 9781032197678
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £20.33This book presents a contextualized overview of the history of Chinese animated film, pointing out the most influential self-definitions of Chinese culture employed in animation art of Mao Zedong's... -
Hollywood and After: The Changing Face of American Cinema Jerzy Toeplitz 9781032642925
RRP: £33.99SciFier: £31.59First published in English in 1974, Hollywood and After presents contemporary cinema in all its complexity, describing and analyzing the various factors which, in the sixties and seventies, brought... -
Hollywood's Monstrous Moms by Kassia Krone
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £34.68From Carrie and Rosemary's Baby to Us, Hereditary, and Run, the image of the mentally ill mom as villain looms large in the horror genre. What do these movies communicate about mothers living with... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9781349293490
SciFier: £46.99Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up... -
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse David Bolt (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 9781032870984
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are... -
Cartomancy and Tarot in Film by Emily E. Auger
RRP: £93.95SciFier: £93.62In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy - the practice of fortune telling via playing cards - and dives deep into its invention... -
The Hills by Andrew Perry
SciFier: £9.99It's one thing to be young and beautiful in Laguna Beach. It's another to be young and beautiful in the city that values it most. The Hillsfollows Lauren ("LC" from Laguna Beach) as she makes the... -
Studying The Usual Suspects by Judith Gunn
SciFier: £29.78The story of The Usual Suspects has the kind of "rags to riches" back story that makes not only the film itself, but the tale of its creation a tale worth telling. Inspired by a magazine headline, it... -
Classic Chinese Animated Film and Ideology by Olga Bobrowska
SciFier: £58.18This book presents a contextualized overview of the history of Chinese animated film, pointing out the most influential self-definitions of Chinese culture employed in animation art of Mao Zedong's... -
Scenes from the Suburbs by Timotheus Vermeulen
SciFier: £93.01'The spatial sensibility of the suburb in recent US film and TV is brilliantly explored and theorized in this book. Without reducing their complexity, Vermeulen elegantly shows what suburbs do on... -
Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art Denise K. Cummings 9780870139994
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £29.16In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, and Chris Eyre have illustrated the importance of... -
Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson
SciFier: £10.22Something wicked is at work in Colorado's supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison...a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the... -
Studying The Bourne Ultimatum by Neil Archer
SciFier: £29.78At the time of its release in 2007, The Bourne Ultimatum was described by one writer as the blockbuster it was 'okay to like'. What is it about this third entry in a Hollywood action franchise that... -
The Darkest Duet Connie Glynn 9780241646205
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.95The much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling The Cursed MelodiesThe ocean is calling...With the return of the Shadowling, Astrid, Jonas and Gwen find themselves summoned by the Queen herself. They... -
Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel: Militarism and Feminism in Comics and Film Carolyn Cocca (State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, NY, USA) 9780367894696
SciFier: £61.06This book explores representations of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel in comics and film, as well as political struggles over these works, to illuminate contemporary cultural concerns about gender,... -
Fire and Forget: Don't miss the brilliant, explosive, edge-of-your-seat action thriller from Andrew Warren for 2025 Andrew Warren 9781837038657
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.49An explosive, adrenaline-pumping thriller from bestselling author Andrew Warren! Perfect for fans of Lee Child and David Baldacci 💥Betrayed, framed and hunted - could the truth set him free..... -
Fire and Forget: Don't miss the brilliant, explosive, edge-of-your-seat action thriller from Andrew Warren for 2025 Andrew Warren 9781837038671
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.99An explosive, adrenaline-pumping thriller from bestselling author Andrew Warren! Perfect for fans of Lee Child and David Baldacci 💥Betrayed, framed and hunted - could the truth set him free..... -
A Nest of Wasps: Gripping, dark and dryly funny, retired spy Felicity Jardine's second adventure Mark Ezra 9781835012468
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58Former spy Felicity Jardine is caught up in the long tentacles of an operation at the Greek Embassy in the 1980s, in this gripping new spy thriller by the author of A Sting in her Tale.After a month... -
Imagined China by Wang Haizhou
SciFier: £40.26This book explores how Chinese films constructed an image of China in the 1980s through analyzing the characters, composition of space, and conflict patterns of the films. It also examines the... -
Fire and Forget: Don't miss the brilliant, explosive, edge-of-your-seat action thriller from Andrew Warren for 2025 Andrew Warren 9781837038664
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £21.49An explosive, adrenaline-pumping thriller from bestselling author Andrew Warren! Perfect for fans of Lee Child and David Baldacci 💥Betrayed, framed and hunted - could the truth set him free..... -
Who's Who in Research: Film Studies by Intellect Books
RRP: £105.95SciFier: £105.15Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. 'Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after,' noted the online... -
Studying Chungking Express by Sean Redmond
SciFier: £29.78Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Chungking Express has quickly been recognised as one of the most important examples of 'World Cinema' in the last two decades. It explores time and desire and, on an allegorical... -
Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel: Militarism and Feminism in Comics and Film Carolyn Cocca (State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, NY, USA) 9780367557898
SciFier: £42.86This book explores representations of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel in comics and film, as well as political struggles over these works, to illuminate contemporary cultural concerns about gender,... -
The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema Iain Robert Smith 9780748677467
SciFier: £93.01This is the uncharted history of Hollywood reworkings from a Turkish Star Trek to a Bollywood Godfather. Did you know that there was a Turkish remake of The Exorcist in which Catholicism was replaced... -
The Spaghetti Western by Bert Fridlund
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of spaghetti westerns--low-budget films about the early American West mostly filmed in Italy. Though sometimes derided as excessively violent imitations of... -
A Companion to Chinese Cinema by Yingjin Zhang (University of California, San Diego, USA)
RRP: £38.95SciFier: £38.75A Companion to Chinese Cinema is a collection of original essays written by experts in a range of disciplines that provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution and current state of Chinese... -
Rehab Run by Barbra Leslie
Titan BooksRRP: £7.99SciFier: £5.87Danny Cleary is getting clean. When her twin sister was murdered and her nephews kidnapped, drug-addicted Danny crossed North America with her brother Darren pursuing those responsible-and being... -
The Routledge Companion to Film History William Guynn (Sonoma State University, USA) 9780415776578
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £37.66The Routledge Companion to Film History is an indispensable guide for anyone studying film history for the first time. The approach taken presents a substantial and readable overview of the field and... -
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Studying Tsotsi Judith Gunn 9781906733087 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £3.58Tsotsi (2005) is a life-affirming, if raw, coming-of-age story that boldly confronts the legacy of Apartheid and Africa's present struggle to overcome poverty and crime. A small film about a... -
World Cinema: Critical Approaches John Hill (Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine) 9780198742821
SciFier: £64.31'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998 international coverage ranges from pre-1930s Europe to contemporary 'Bollywood' musicals ... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181939
SciFier: £78.49What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195928
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.71Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the...