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New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation Betty Kaklamanidou 9780814346259
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £28.99In 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... -
The Expanse and Philosophy by Jeffery L. Nicholas (Providence College, Rhode Island)
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.40Enter The Expanse to explore questions of the meaning of human life, the concept of justice, and the nature of humanity, featuring a foreword from author James S.A. Corey The Expanse and Philosophy... -
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Bevis (Fellow in English, Keble College, University of Oxford)
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that... -
Memories from the Jungle by Tristan Garcia
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Memories from the Jungle is set in an unspecified future in which Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by pollution and war. Most humans live in orbital stations surrounding the globe, while only... -
Film Directors and Emotion by Darragh Greene
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £34.68Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority... -
Galileo's Dream Kim Stanley Robinson 9780007260324
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.42The dazzling novel from the acclaimed author of the groundbreaking MARS trilogy follows Galileo on an amazing journey from the dawn of the modern world to a future on the verge of a completely new... -
Comedy: A Critical Introduction Eli Rozik 9781845194772
SciFier: £110.27Herewith an original approach to the study of comedy. While assimilating theoretical insights from Aristotle to the present day, it contests, inter alia, the theory of comedy's ritual origin;... -
Grandville Bete Noire Bryan Talbot 9780224096249
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.94The third volume of the Grandville series - Anthropomorphic steampunk detective fiction from graphic novel master Bryan Talbot The Badger is back! Follow the Badger! At Toad Hall, lair of... -
The Complete Fables by Aesop
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.58A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables, to convey his key points. This Penguin Classics... -
Dark Thoughts by Steven Jay Schneider
SciFier: £83.49Is horror a fundamentally nihilistic genre? Why are those of us who enjoy horror films so attracted to watching things on screen that in real life we would almost certainly find repellent? Do monster... -
Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own Michael Tierno 9781501390999
SciFier: £30.99You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, "You should know more about how cinema story works." Perhaps you've heard how many successful screenwriters... -
The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present Professor Judith Roof (Rice University, USA) 9781501354885
SciFier: £36.99The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious... -
Marcel Broodthaers and Film by Steven Jacobs
SciFier: £34.98Broodthaers' oeuvre and the history of experimental filmMarcel Broodthaers, one of the key figures of the postwar avant-garde, has been recognized and extensively studied as a poet who became a... -
Cinema and the Swastika by Kenneth A. Loparo
SciFier: £92.99This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically,... -
Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own Michael Tierno (East Carolina University, USA) 9781501391002
SciFier: £98.49You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, "You should know more about how cinema story works." Perhaps you've heard how many successful screenwriters... -
Peckinpah's Tragic Westerns by John L. Simons
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81The work of Sam Peckinpah represents a high point in American cinema. This text is the first theoretical and critical attempt to place Peckinpah within the 2,000-year-old tradition of western... -
Re-Imagining Class: Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary Culture Liesbeth Francois 9789462704022
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £29.81Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and filmContemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our... -
Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy Christopher Falzon 9780415538169
SciFier: £45.46Now emulated in several competing publications, but still unsurpassed in clarity and insight, Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy, Third Edition builds on the approach that... -
The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination Eileen M. Hunt 9780812254020
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.34Beyond her most famous creation-the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein's Creature-Mary Shelley's most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her... -
The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott Adam Barkman 9781498511773
SciFier: £51.99The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the... -
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes 9780231169639
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation... -
Nancy Meyers Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton, UK) 9781501358906
SciFier: £36.99Nancy Meyers is acknowledged as the most commercially successful woman filmmaker of all time, described by Daphne Merkin in The New York Times on the release of It's Complicated as "a singular figure... -
Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them John Yorke 9780141978109
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.50'The best book on the subject I've read. Quite brilliant' Tony Jordan, creator/writer, Life on Mars, HustleWe all love stories. But why do we tell them? And why do all stories function in an eerily... -
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes 9780231169622
RRP: £84.00SciFier: £68.52Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation... -
Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen Ken Dancyger (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, NY, USA) 9781032150567
SciFier: £37.66The three-act structure is so last century! Unlike other screenwriting books, this unique storytelling guide pushes you to break free of tired, formulaic writing by bending or breaking the rules of... -
Poetics of Cinema David Bordwell 9780415977791
SciFier: £57.44Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films... -
Creative Screenwriting: Understanding Emotional Structure Christina Kallas (USA) 9780230221406
SciFier: £113.99Christina Kallas argues for and sets out a genuinely original and creative approach to writing for the screen. This textbook aims to excite the imagination, inspiring and dramatizing stories with... -
Creative Screenwriting: Understanding Emotional Structure John Howard 9780230221413
SciFier: £35.99Christina Kallas argues for and sets out a genuinely original and creative approach to writing for the screen. This textbook aims to excite the imagination, inspiring and dramatizing stories with... -
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Television and Movies Daniel P. Franklin 9781442262409
SciFier: £92.99Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and... -
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Television and Movies Daniel P. Franklin 9781442262324
SciFier: £40.99Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and... -
Screenwriting Tips, You Hack: 150 Practical Pointers for Becoming a Better Screenwriter Xander Bennett 9780240818245
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £20.85Screenwriting Tip #99Voice-over usually feels like scaffolding. You know-something you left in there when you were constructing the first draft, but really should have torn out after it served its...