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Science Fiction and Christian Theology Victoria Lorrimar (University of Notre Dame, Australia) 9781009565585
SciFier: £52.18Theologians often struggle to engage with scientific and technological proposals meaningfully in our contemporary context. This Element provides an introduction to the use of science fiction as a... -
Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music Matthew Bribitzer-Stull (University of Minnesota) 9781107098398
RRP: £114.00SciFier: £106.31The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew... -
Thrillers Martin Rubin 9780521581837
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £66.39The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre - and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar... -
The Films of Joseph Losey James Palmer 9780521383868
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £39.99The Films of Joseph Losey examines the career of the expatriot director through a close analysis of five of his most important and challenging films. When his leftist politics made him a target of... -
Film Structure and the Emotion System Greg M. Smith (Georgia State University) 9780521037358
SciFier: £20.04Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is central to the viewing of movies, film... -
Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare Steven Jay Schneider (New York University and Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521107853
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £24.22Psychoanalytic theory has been the subject of attacks from philosophers, cultural critics and scientists who have questioned the cogency of its reasoning as well as the soundness of its premises... -
Australian Documentary by Trish FitzSimons (Griffith University, Queensland)
SciFier: £42.26Drawing on interviews with leading industry sources and containing discussion of over 200 documentaries, Australian Documentary: History, Practices and Genres brings to life over a century of... -
America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) 9780521009317
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.54In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed... -
Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China Tonglin Lu (University of Iowa) 9780521037273
SciFier: £38.19This book is a cultural study of New Wave cinema that considers the experience of modernity and modernization in Taiwan and mainland China. While following separate paths, Taiwan and China have... -
Word and Image in Japanese Cinema Dennis Washburn (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) 9780521771825
RRP: £105.00SciFier: £101.77Word and Image in Japanese Cinema examines the complex relationship between the temporal order of linguistic narrative and the spatiality of visual spectacle, a dynamic that has played an important... -
The Cognitive Semiotics of Film Warren Buckland (Liverpool John Moores University) 9780521780056
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £73.86In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of... -
Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare Steven Jay Schneider (New York University and Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521825214
SciFier: £92.00Psychoanalytic theory has been the subject of attacks from philosophers, cultural critics and scientists who have questioned the cogency of its reasoning as well as the soundness of its premises... -
John Ford's Stagecoach Barry Keith Grant (Brock University, Ontario) 9780521797436
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.54Stagecoach is one of the classics of Hollywood cinema. Made in 1939, it revitalized the Western genre, served as a milestone in John Ford's career, and made John Wayne a star. This volume offers a... -
Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China Tonglin Lu (University of Iowa) 9780521806770
SciFier: £92.00This book is a cultural study of New Wave cinema that considers the experience of modernity and modernization in Taiwan and mainland China. While following separate paths, Taiwan and China have... -
Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust Annette Insdorf (Columbia University, New York) 9780521815635
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £83.63Indelible Shadows investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf provides sensitive readings of... -
Networked Bollywood by Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.30Networked Bollywood provides interdisciplinary analysis of the role of the stars in the transformation of Hindi cinema into a global entertainment industry. The first Indian film was made in 1913... -
Innovations in Digital Comics by Francesca Benatti (The Open University)
SciFier: £13.34The success of popular webcomics (comics produced and read entirely digitally) is the greatest revolution in the comics medium of the last two decades. Webcomics exploit a socio-technical convergence... -
The Taste for Beauty Eric Rohmer 9780521385923
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.71The Taste for Beauty is a collection of essays by the film-maker and critic Eric Rohmer which were originally written for the French Film review Cahiers du Cinema between 1948-1979. Rohmer, one of... -
The Films of Vincente Minnelli James Naremore (Indiana University) 9780521387705
SciFier: £20.04The Films of Vincente Minnelli, first published in 1993, examines the career of MGM's leading director of musicals, melodramas and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. Widely admired for his flamboyant... -
The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni Peter Brunette (George Mason University, Virginia) 9780521389921
SciFier: £20.04The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni provides an overview of the Italian director's life and work, and examines six of his most important and intellectually challenging films. L'avventura, La notte,... -
Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy Garth S. Jowett (University of Houston) 9780521482929
RRP: £105.00SciFier: £102.68An analysis of the first and most comprehensive study of the influence of movies on American youth, the Payne Fund Studies. First published in 1933, these studies are intrinsically important for... -
British Film by Jim Leach (Brock University, Ontario)
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.22This book explores British cinema in relation to its social political and cultural contexts. Each chapter deals with a specific topic and includes close readings of key films from different... -
Metaphor and Film by Trevor Whittock
SciFier: £32.79In Metaphor and Film, Trevor Whittock demonstrates that feature films are permeated by metaphors that were consciously introduced by directors. An examination of cinematic metaphor forces us to... -
The Films of Roberto Rossellini Peter Bondanella 9780521392365
SciFier: £86.56The Films of Roberto Rossellini traces the career of one of the most influential Italian filmmakers through close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in his evolution: The... -
Jane Campion's The Piano Jane Campion 9780521592581
SciFier: £76.58Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in the history of cinema. The film swept the world upon its release, winning awards for its performances, script, and direction,... -
Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen R. Barton Palmer (Clemson University, South Carolina) 9780521834445
SciFier: £76.58The essays in this collection analyse major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon to Toni Morrison's Beloved. During the century, films... -
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing Mark A. Reid (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, University of Florida) 9780521559546
SciFier: £16.69Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing brings together essays, specially written for this edition, that analyse this controversial film from a variety of methodological perspectives. Among the issues... -
Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost Michael Brashinsky 9780521444750
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £88.37Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost gathers together twenty-three essays written by some of Russia's most astute commentators of film and culture. Written during the 1980s and published in... -
New Chinese Cinemas by Nick Browne (University of California, Los Angeles)
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £22.54New Chinese Cinemas analyses the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular... -
Thomas Hardy on Screen T. R. Wright (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 9780521600521
SciFier: £32.79The novels of Thomas Hardy have often been regarded as cinematic in their scope and power, and they have inspired some of the most absorbing adaptations of fiction for the big screen. This collection... -
Nazi Cinema's New Women Jana F. Bruns (Long Island University, New York) 9781107405103
SciFier: £40.89This book examines the careers of three of Nazi cinema's preeminent movie actresses, painting a unique portrait of mass entertainment and stardom under Nazi rule. Bruns uses undiscovered sources and... -
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics Stephen Vaughn 9780521440806
SciFier: £86.35Ronald Reagan in Hollywood explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics through the prism of Reagan's film career at Warner Bros. During the Depression, World... -
Theorizing the Moving Image by Noel Carroll (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
RRP: £94.99SciFier: £90.55A selection of essays written by a leading film critic, this 1996 volume examines theoretical aspects of film and television through penetrating analyses of such genres as soap opera, documentary,... -
The Films of Orson Welles Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) 9780521640145
SciFier: £76.58This 2004 book offers a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles' life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker's career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted... -
The Historian and Film by Paul Smith
SciFier: £41.79Film is increasingly engaging the attention of students of history at all levels. In its manifold forms from the newsreel to the 'feature', it is a major source of evidence for, and an important... -
Chinese Clothing by Mei Hua (Tianjin Normal University, China)
SciFier: £20.04Chinese clothing has undergone continuous transformations throughout history, providing a reflection of the culture in place at any given time. A wealth of archaeological findings coupled with... -
The Gorgon's Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror Paul Coates 9780521384094
RRP: £114.00SciFier: £111.75The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War... -
The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies Ray Carney (Boston University) 9780521388153
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £20.87The first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worked outside the studio system. Providing extended critical discussion on six of his most important films (Shadows, Faces,... -
The Business of TV Production by Craig Collie (Queensland University of Technology)
SciFier: £45.76Television is the dominant mass medium of the current era. Its lifeblood in whatever form it takes is content - the programs it broadcasts to the public. This book is an insider's view of the... -
Magic on the Early English Stage Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds) 9780521153065
RRP: £43.00SciFier: £40.89Magic on the Early English Stage investigates the performance of magical tricks, illusions, effects and their staged appearance in the medieval and early English theatre. Performers who created such...