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Expressionism in the Cinema Olaf Brill 9781474425872
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £27.81One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film history and aesthetics. The fifteen essays in this... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9780748692507
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema by Qi Wang
SciFier: £93.71A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing... -
Media, Persuasion and Propaganda by Marshall Soules
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This is an eclectic, interdisciplinary overview of persuasive strategies and propaganda techniques. Living in a saturated media environment, we are crowded from all sides by persuasive messages and... -
The New Soundtrack by Professor Stephen Deutsch
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 7, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9781474424387
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
Film Genre by Barry Langford
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.39Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked. The book ranges widely across... -
European Cinemas in the Television Age by Graham Roberts
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29European Cinemas in the Television Age is a radical attempt to rethink the post-war history of European cinemas. The authors approach the subject from the perspective of television's impact on the... -
Bollywood and Postmodernism by Neelam Sidhar Wright
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the twenty-first century. Equipping readers... -
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition Peter Hames 9780748620821
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the... -
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television Christopher Pullen 9780748694846
SciFier: £93.01Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the... -
Far From Heaven by Dr. Glyn Davis
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87Nominated for four Oscars, Far from Heaven earned rave reviews and won widespread cultural and critical recognition. A knowing and emotionally involving homage to the films of Douglas Sirk, this film... -
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition Peter Hames 9780748620814
SciFier: £97.54This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the... -
The Spanish Prisoner by Yannis Tzioumakis
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly... -
Film's Musical Moments Ian Conrich 9780748623440
RRP: £125.00SciFier: £115.67The scope of this collection is indicative of the breadth and diversity of music's role in cinema, as is its emphasis on musical contributions to 'non-musical' films. By bringing together chapters... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 6, Issue 2 Mr Stephen Deutsch 9781474415194
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 6, Issue 1 Mr Stephen Deutsch 9781474415187
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen... -
Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe Aga Skrodzka 9780748685943
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This is a critical analysis of magic realism in the cinema of East Central Europe. This survey explores the interlocking complexities of two concepts: magic realism and East Central Europe. Each is a... -
Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings John Marmysz 9781474431712
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Through case studies of popular films, including Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises, Dawn of the Dead and The Human Centipede, this book re-emphasises the constructive potential of cinematic nihilism... -
Far-Flung Families in Film by Daniela Berghahn
SciFier: £93.01Why have films with diasporic family narratives increased in popularity in recent years? How do representations of the diasporic family differ from those of more dominant social groups? How does... -
Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema Luca Barattoni 9780748685929
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book explores the ferments of Italian cinema from the mid-50s to the end of the 60s. Unlike France, the Czech Republic or Brazil, Italy did not have a new wave properly understood as a movement... -
Hollywood's Indies: Classics Divisions, Specialty Labels and American Independent Cinema Yannis Tzioumakis 9780748685936
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book charts three decades of specialist and independent filmmaking in Hollywood. The specialty film divisions of the major Hollywood studios were established to focus on the European arthouse... -
Post-classical Hollywood by Barry Langford
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945... -
Hong Kong Neo-Noir Esther Yau 9781474412667
SciFier: £93.01The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir... -
In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979 Simon Willmetts 9780748692996
SciFier: £93.71During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce training, reconnaissance and propaganda films. This... -
Screen Presence by Stephen Monteiro
SciFier: £93.01Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little attention. Screen Presence explores the intersections... -
ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher by Gary D. Rhodes
SciFier: £97.54One of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs, Budd Gary D. Rhodes currently serves as Boetticher was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous Postgraduate... -
East, West and Centre: Reframing Post-1989 European Cinema Michael Gott 9781474420921
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £28.51Re-examines notions of East and West in contemporary European cinemaTwenty-five years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism in Eastern Europe, and ten years have... -
Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World Christina Hellmich (Associate Professor in IR & Middle East Studies, University of Reading) 9781474416566
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01The battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 7, Issue 2 Stephen Deutsch 9781474424394
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.68Provides a new platform for discourse on how aural elements combine with moving images The New Soundtrack is a biannual journal that brings together leading edge academic and professional... -
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television Christopher Pullen 9781474425865
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9781474406598
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.87The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch,... -
French Queer Cinema Nick Rees-Roberts 9780748685967
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the socio-political context informing both queer DIY video and... -
Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema by Lisa Purse
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This book explores how film analysis can take account of the presence of digital images in cinema. Digital images are now ubiquitous elements within the cinematic frame but, as we analyse films or... -
Deleuze and Horror Film by Anna Powell
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03The horror film analysed from a Deleuzian perspective. This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror films neglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en... -
Bollywood in the Age of New Media by Basu
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This study of popular Indian cinema in an age of globalisation, new media, and metropolitan Hindu fundamentalism focuses on the period from 1991 to 2004. Popular Hindi cinema took a certain... -
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema Tom Brown 9780748683079
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book examines the role of direct address within fiction cinema. Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? It is... -
Framing Pictures by Steven Jacobs
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Edinburgh Film Studies is a series of advanced textbooks which cover core aspects of film studies for undergraduate students while, at the same time, offering valuable material for the general reader... -
Memento by Dr. Claire Molloy
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Ambiguous, complex and innovative, Christopher Nolan's Memento has intrigued audiences and critics since the day of its release. Memento is the archetypal 'puzzle film', a noir thriller about a man... -
Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom Sabrina Qiong Yu 9781474402804
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This is A study of Chinese stars and transnational stardom focussing on the career of Jet Li. Jet Li is arguably the best martial arts actor alive, and his career has crossed numerous cultural and...