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Experiential Spectatorship: Immersion, Participation, and Play During Times of Deep Mediatization William W. Lewis 9781032505077
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73Experiential Spectatorship offers a lens for analyzing audience experience with(in) a variety of contemporary media. Using a broad-based perspective, this media includes participatory theatre, video... -
Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship Jinhee Choi (King's College London, UK) 9781138233850
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse philosophical traditions provide useful frameworks to discuss spectators'... -
Moving Viewers by Carl Plantinga
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie watching such a compelling emotional experience? In "Moving Viewers", Carl Plantinga explores this question... -
Michael Heath's The Battle for Britain: Collections of 135 surreal and hilarious cartoons by the prolific British cartoonist, illustrator and cartoon editor of The Spectator. Michael Heath 9781925642087
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £18.33The 21st century has most cartoonists stumped. How on earth do you satirise these crazy times? Michael Heath, almost alone among his peers, has succeeded. His uncanny ability to spot emerging trends... -
Fields of Vision by Leslie Devereaux
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £28.01Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, "Fields of... -
Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image Tamsin Wilton 9780415107259
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £39.39Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image is the first collection to bring together leading film-makers, academics and activists to discuss films by, for and about lesbians and queer women... -
Film and the Imagined Image Sarah Cooper (King's College London) 9781474452793
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.13Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474452793Author Sarah CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Film and the Imagined Image by Sarah Cooper
SciFier: £92.09This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination.Book InformationISBN 9781474452786Author Sarah CooperFormat HardbackPage... -
Memory and Imagination in Film: Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch, Van Sant P. Lombardo 9780230241718
SciFier: £46.99Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo... -
The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 9780415084604
SciFier: £38.53Analyses a wide range of film and still photographs to explore culturally dominant images and how they work. Extensively illustrated, this challenging collection of essays is essential reading for... -
Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780230612327
SciFier: £46.99The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies,... -
Feminist Film Studies Karen Hollinger 9780415575287
SciFier: £55.00Feminist Film Studies is a readable, yet comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in feminist film theory and criticism. Karen Hollinger provides an accessible overview of women's... -
Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781137525031
SciFier: £46.99The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies,... -
Memory and Imagination in Film: Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch, Van Sant P. Lombardo 9781349317431
SciFier: £46.99Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo... -
Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice Shweta Kishore 9781399525671
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87While sizable literature exists on the themes, issues and voices that constitute resistance in historical Indian documentary cinema, less is known about contemporary modes of resistance in Indian... -
The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory D. N. Rodowick 9781138997813
SciFier: £45.46This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and... -
The Pulse in Cinema: The Aesthetics of Horror Sharon Jane Mee 9781474475853
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.32The Pulse in Cinema acknowledges that the pulse is "felt" in the body, yet also argues that the pulse has a wider reaching effect in cinema than simply the physiological response of the spectator to... -
The Pulse in Cinema by Sharon Mee
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £84.09Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474475846Author Sharon MeeFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint -
The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 9780816695881
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations... -
The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 9780816695843
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £71.45In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations... -
The Problematic Tyler Perry Brian C. Johnson 9781433130199
RRP: £130.55SciFier: £118.49For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as... -
Warning Shadows by Professor Anjeana K. Hans (Contributor)
SciFier: £21.94A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film. Artur Robison's... -
The Problematic Tyler Perry Brian C. Johnson 9781433130182
RRP: £33.50SciFier: £31.49For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as... -
Picturegoers by Luke McKernan
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99This book is a carefully selected, thematically arranged collection of eyewitness accounts of seeing motion pictures - from the 1890s to the present day, and from countries across the globe. Included... -
Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media Alexander N. Howe 9781501308628
SciFier: £40.99Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media is a collection of essays generated by a conference of the same title held at the University of the District of Columbia. The works gathered examine a... -
Cinema and Anachronism: The Mummy, the Crystal, the Atlas Daniele Dottorini 9781666941999
SciFier: £97.99This book establishes a starting point toward a theory of the anachronism of cinematic images through an exploration of existing films, theories, and discourses concerning the temporality of images... -
Nazi Film Melodrama by Laura Heins
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.42Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films... -
Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema by Janice Loreck
SciFier: £77.99Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to spectators, overturning ideas of 'typical' feminine subjectivity. This book explores the representation of homicidal women in contemporary art... -
The Remembered Film by Victor Burgin
SciFier: £23.71Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the inside' of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the... -
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks Rick Warner 9780810137387
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £65.87Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders... -
A Companion to Spanish Cinema by Jo Labanyi (New York University, USA)
RRP: £37.95SciFier: £37.20A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic,... -
A History of Heavy Metal: 'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman Andrew O'Neill 9781472241450
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman'One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read . . . loud and thoroughly engrossing' - Alan Moore'A man on a righteous mission to persuade... -
The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 9780816641338
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.64A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so... -
The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 9780816641321
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £78.62A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so... -
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s Neepa Majumdar 9780252076282
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa... -
Feminist Film Theorists: Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed Shohini Chaudhuri (University of Essex, UK) 9780415324335
SciFier: £23.36Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has... -
Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Marsha Kinder 9780520077768
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.99How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to... -
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s Neepa Majumdar 9780252034329
SciFier: £105.09Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa... -
Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture, 1900-1950 Maria Cristina C. Mabrey 9781032004303
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26The purpose of this edited volume is to explore the contributions of women to European, Mexican, American and Indian film industries during the years 1900 to 1950, an important period that signified... -
Feminist Film Theorists: Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed Shohini Chaudhuri (University of Essex, UK) 9780415324328
SciFier: £93.00Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has...