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Transnational Cinema in a Global North by Andrew Nestingen
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $46.55Scholarly writing on Nordic cinema has historically focused on such auteurs as Carl Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman. Recent work has neglected to contextualize contemporary Nordic film within the... -
Doctor Who Jim Leach 9780814333082
SciFier: $31.26This is a comprehensive account of ""Doctor Who"" as a television series and product of popular culture. ""Doctor Who"", the iconic British science-fiction series following a time-traveling alien... -
Hitchcock's British films by Maurice Yacowar
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $14.25Originally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar's Hitchcock's British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his... -
The Last Laugh by Murray Pomerance
RRP: $47.19SciFier: $43.77For critics, fans and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But... -
Britton on Film
RRP: $62.48SciFier: $43.22For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton's writings are... -
The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakolevich Propp by Sibelan Forrester
RRP: $51.36SciFier: $33.42Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's... -
Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones by Nancy L. Canepa
RRP: $51.36SciFier: $50.03The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid... -
To Change Reels: Film and Film Culture in South Africa Isabel Balseiro 9780814330012
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $38.91With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. This collection offers an exploration of a film industry that has excluded its country's black majority, in both... -
The L Word by Margaret T. McFadden
SciFier: $31.26In January 2004, Showtime debuted The L Word, the first prime-time commercial drama to centre around lesbian characters. Over the course of six seasons, the show depicted the lives and loves of an... -
Cinema and Community by Moya Luckett
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $46.55Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era, the transitional period of American cinema (1907-1917) has typically posed a problem for studies of early American film. Yet... -
Reading the Bromance by Michael DeAngelis
RRP: $45.80SciFier: $42.38In the middle of this century's first decade, "bromance" emerged as a term denoting an emotionally intense bond between straight men. Yet bromance requires an expression of intimacy that always toys... -
Writing in Light by Joanne Bernardi
RRP: $41.63SciFier: $40.30While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan's cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan's ""pure film movement"" of the 1910s is... -
Queer Mexico by Paul Julian Smith
RRP: $49.97SciFier: $45.16Explores the rich and varied LGBT cinema and television of Mexico since the new millennium.Queer Mexico: Cinema and Television since 2000 provides critical analysis of both mainstream and independent... -
Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives Victoria Aarons 9780814349151
RRP: $130.66SciFier: $123.00An exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical, and... -
Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century Melissa Weininger 9780814350591
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $34.74This thought-provoking exploration of literature and art examines contemporary Israeli works created in and about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity. Diaspora... -
Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship David A. Gerstner 9780814350201
RRP: $130.66SciFier: $123.00How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations,... -
Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship David A. Gerstner 9780814350218
RRP: $59.70SciFier: $39.21How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations,... -
Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century Melissa Weininger 9780814350607
RRP: $130.66SciFier: $123.00This thought-provoking exploration of literature and art examines contemporary Israeli works created in and about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity. Diaspora... -
Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives Victoria Aarons 9780814349144
RRP: $54.14SciFier: $34.60An exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical, and... -
The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology Shikha Jhingan 9780814350942
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $32.44Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814350942Author Shikha JhinganFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint < -
New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema Marco Abel 9780814348918
RRP: $130.66SciFier: $87.43Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814348918Author Marco AbelFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts by Marco Abel
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $31.36Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814348901Author Marco AbelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Power of a Tale by Haya Bar-Itzhak
RRP: $90.35SciFier: $86.17In The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives, editors Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Gensberg bring together a collection of fifty-three folktales celebrating the fiftieth... -
Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode Michelle Anya Anjirbag 9780814351086
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $30.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814351086Author Michelle Anya AnjirbagFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Im -
Tales for Fairies: Tracing Queer Fairy-Tale Retellings Alba Morollon Diaz-Faes 9780814350430
RRP: $108.42SciFier: $88.67A groundbreaking exploration of how classic fairy tales have been transformed to illuminate and celebrate queer identities. This scholarly account provides a trailblazing examination of how... -
Tales for Fairies: Tracing Queer Fairy-Tale Retellings Alba Morollon Diaz-Faes 9780814350423
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $32.44Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814350423Author Alba Morollon Diaz-FaesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288 -
The Second Stop Is Jupiter by Upfromsumdirt Ron Davis
RRP: $27.73SciFier: $18.39What if N. K. Jemisin or Ishmael Reed wrote Frankenstein, or if Kara Walker originally illustrated the works of the Brothers Grimm? What if, instead of modern superhero figures, the Black Panther... -
Streisand: The Mirror of Difference Garrett Stewart 9780814349090
RRP: $119.54SciFier: $78.79At every stage of her career, Barbra Streisand's genius finds its fullest measure in screen song, first in Emmy-winning TV specials, then in Hollywood blockbusters from Funny Girl to Funny Lady. She... -
Streisand: The Mirror of Difference Garrett Stewart 9780814349083
RRP: $49.97SciFier: $31.36At every stage of her career, Barbra Streisand's genius finds its fullest measure in screen song, first in Emmy-winning TV specials, then in Hollywood blockbusters from Funny Girl to Funny Lady. She... -
Ghost Writers by Keith Taylor
RRP: $27.73SciFier: $20.54Tales of the ghostly and supernatural by some of Michigan's finest fiction writers.About the AuthorKeith Taylor is the author of numerous books, including Guilty at the Rapture and a co-translation... -
Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials Jennifer Caplan 9780814347300
RRP: $130.66SciFier: $86.46In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do... -
On Michael Haneke
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $40.30This title considers the films of Michael Haneke, who has emerged as a major figure in world cinema over the last fifteen years. Austrian director Michael Haneke is recognized for films that explore... -
Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials Jennifer Caplan 9780814347317
RRP: $51.36SciFier: $32.44In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do... -
Kolchak: The Night Stalker Kendall R. Phillips 9780814349045
RRP: $23.63SciFier: $23.34Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The X-Files, there was Carl Kolchak, a world-weary Chicago newspaper reporter with a cheap, seersucker suit and a penchant for uncovering monsters lurking in every... -
The Good Place by Erin Giannini
SciFier: $31.26Pobody's nerfect" - or whatever the saying might be! As humans we are constantly worried about how our actions may come back to haunt us. The Good Place (2016-2020) is a high-concept American sitcom... -
New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation Betty Kaklamanidou 9780814346259
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $45.16In New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation, editor Betty Kaklamanidou defiantly claims that "all films are adaptations". The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and... -
New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation Betty Kaklamanidou 9780814346242
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $110.49In New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation, editor Betty Kaklamanidou defiantly claims that "all films are adaptations". The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and... -
Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini Daniel Humphrey 9780814346068
RRP: $119.54SciFier: $111.88In Archaic Modernism, Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo... -
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers Nancy L. Canepa 9780814334751
RRP: $55.53SciFier: $35.70This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In... -
Hawaii Five-O by Brian Faucette
RRP: $27.73SciFier: $23.20A lively examination of the classic 1960s American crime show.Hawaii Five-O, created by Leonard Freeman in 1968, is an American police procedural drama series that was produced by CBS Productions and...