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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... -
Lost in Translation Dr. Geoff King 9780748637461
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Elusive, subtle and atmospheric, Lost in Translation was one of the indie hits of 2004, earning widespread critical praise, awards and success at the box office. But what was the basis of its appeal... -
Italian Neorealist Cinema Torunn Haaland 9780748636129
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This title charts the birth and development of Italian neorealism. Surveying the major creative contributions to and critical receptions of this trend in Italian postwar cinema, the book begins by... -
Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom by Lin Feng
SciFier: £93.01As one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Chow's transnational and trans-regional star persona as... -
Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World Christina Hellmich 9781474437523
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77Looking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like' Zero Dark Thirty' and 'American Sniper', to documentaries like 'Kill List' and 'Dirty Wars',this book examines... -
Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums Igor Krstic 9781474425933
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.99Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a `planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen?... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 2, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch (Professor of Post-Production, Bournemouth University) 9780748649464
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.41The 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,... -
Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film Ryan Bishop 9780748643073
SciFier: £93.01This title analysis the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the... -
Cinematic Nihilism: Encounters, Confrontations, Overcomings John Marmysz 9781474424561
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £84.09Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to, rather than detract from, the value of life, Cinematic Nihilism both challenges and builds upon past... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 5, Issue 2 Mr Stephen Deutsch 9781474406611
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.61The New Soundtrack brings together leading academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch, Larry... -
From Empire to the World by Malini Guha
SciFier: £93.71Investigates London and Paris as 'migrant cities' in contemporary British and French cinema. The study of globalisation in cinema assumes many guises, from the exploration of global cinematic cities... -
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 Terence McSweeney 9781474431958
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film, written by some of the foremost scholars in American cinemaAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of... -
Impossible Puzzle Films by Miklos Kiss
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity... -
American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This title describes a new critical tradition in American filmmaking. American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and... -
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition Stephen Teo 9781474400084
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal... -
Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema Steven Jacobs 9781474410892
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.01Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema is the first book to focus on the relationship between sculpture and the silver screen. It covers a broad range of magical, mystical and phenomenological... -
Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe Aga Skrodzka 9780748639168
SciFier: £93.01This 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... -
French Queer Cinema Nick Rees-Roberts 9780748634187
SciFier: £93.01French Queer Cinema looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France. Whilst there is growing research on representations of queer sexualities in... -
The Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9780748640720
SciFier: £93.01This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film. Ian Garwood provides a comprehensive account of existing work on film narration and offers an overview... -
Exploring Visual Culture by Matthew Rampley
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of 'visual culture' that includes not only images, but also other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to... -
Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film Ryan Bishop 9780748698042
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book analyses the growth of the American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the... -
Refocus: the Films of Budd Boetticher Gary D Rhodes 9781474437530
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81An evaluation of one of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs Budd Boetticher who was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous 'Ranown' series of westerns... -
Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre and Film Sound in American Cinema Heidi Wilkins 9781474425902
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it is often perceived as perpetuating rigid, binary... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 8, Issue 1 Stephen Deutsch 9781474439367
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474439367Author Stephen DeutschFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods Sabrina Qiong Yu 9781474440974
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81From Hollywood to Bollywood, from China to Italy, and from Poland to Mexico, this collection revisits the definitions and origins of star studies, and points the way forward to new ways of... -
Pierre Batcheff and Stardom in 1920s French Cinema by Phil Powrie
SciFier: £110.78This book is the first major study of a French silent cinema star. It focuses on Pierre Batcheff, a prominent popular cinema star in the 1920s, the French Valentino, best-known to modern audiences... -
Border Crossing by Alexander Burry
SciFier: £93.71Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political, and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another,... -
Film's Musical Moments Ian Conrich 9780748623457
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £27.81The 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... -
Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain Lisa Stead 9781474431910
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £22.77Examines women's constructions of selfhood through film and literature in interwar Britain'Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain' offers a rich new... -
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 Sense of Film Narration Ian Garwood 9781474402781
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature length fiction film. The Sense of Film Narration examines films that combine different types of images and sounds in a way... -
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads by Austin Fisher
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film distribution? As this volume illustrates, the... -
The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia Ian Aitken 9781474431965
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing... -
Hong Kong Neo-Noir Esther Yau 9781474431989
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinemaThe first comprehensive collection on Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its... -
Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea Dong Hoon Kim 9781474437547
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81In this ground-breaking investigation into the seldom-studied film culture of colonial Korea (1910-1945), Dong Hoon Kim brings new perspectives to the associations between colonialism, modernity,... -
British Film Culture in the 1970s by Sue Harper
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This is an authoritative history of 1970s British Cinema. This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period. It examines the... -
Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom Sabrina Qiong Yu 9780748645473
SciFier: £93.01This is the first study of Chinese stars and their transnational stardom, examining the transnational Chinese actor Jet Li, probably the best martial arts actor alive. Jet Li's career has crossed... -
Cinematic Journeys by Dimitris Eleftheriotis
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29Cinematic Journeys explores the interconnected histories, theories and aesthetics of mobile vision and cinematic movement. It traces the links between certain types of movement of/in the frame and... -
Masculinity and Italian Cinema by Sergio Rigoletto
SciFier: £93.01This is a study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberation. Italian cinema has traditionally used the trope of an inadequate man in crisis to reflect on the... -
John Mills and British Cinema by Gill Plain
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.03Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as...