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American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows Lisa Funnell 9781138305854
SciFier: £48.06Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address,... -
Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark by Eva Novrup Redvall
SciFier: £31.99Offering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the... -
It's All True by Catherine L. Benamou
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99Variously described as a work of genius, a pretentious wreck, a crucially important film, and a victim of its director's ego, among other things, "It's All True", shot in Mexico and Brazil between... -
Refocus: the Films of Susanne Bier Missy Molloy 9781474428729
SciFier: £98.24A dynamic, scholarly engagement with Susanne Bier's workThe award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving... -
American Game Studies Patrick Jagoda 9781478017257
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.60Contributors to this issue examine the role of video games in American culture, approaching games through the lenses of transpacific studies, queer historiography, cultural history, critical race and... -
Animating the Science Fiction Imagination J. P. Telotte (Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780190695279
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £28.99Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through... -
The American Fraternity by Andrew Moisey
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £22.53The American Fraternity is a mysterious photo and ritual book that lifts the veil on America's oldest and most influential male tradition. The text comes from a decaying ritual manual from a... -
French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism Peter J. Bloom 9780816646296
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.60Despite altruistic goals, humanitarianism often propagates foreign, and sometimes unjust, power structures where it is employed. Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism, Peter... -
The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch Cinema: From Raza to Pan's Labyrinth Alejandro Yarza 9780748699247
RRP: £105.00SciFier: £98.24In fascist Spain, Francoism like German and Italian fascism produced its own particular brand of kitsch. Deploying religious and historical iconography drawn from Spain's centuries-long struggle... -
Teaching World Cinema Kate Gamm 9780851709970
SciFier: £49.96IIs there such a thing as World Cinema? Is it simply cinema that isn't from Hollywood? Is British or European Cinema part of World Cinema, or is World Cinema something other than our own? These key... -
Animating the Science Fiction Imagination J. P. Telotte (Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780190695262
RRP: £110.00SciFier: £100.99Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through... -
American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture Michele Schreiber 9780748693368
SciFier: £93.01This book examines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance. In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, and their ever expanding options,... -
Romanian Capitalism on Film: Microhistories of Hope, Anxiety and Adaptation Constantin Parvulescu 9781399540162
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £84.09Romanian Capitalism on Screen examines contemporary Romanian cinema as a testimony to pivotal aspects of Romania's postsocialist economy and culture. It complements existing accounts of economic and... -
Studying Film with Andre Bazin by Blandine Joret
SciFier: £48.39The impact of French film critic Andre Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. A passionate initiator of film culture during his... -
The New Latin American Cinema by Zuzana M. Pick
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35During the 1967 festival of Latin American Cinema in Vina del Mar, Chile, a group of filmmakers who wanted to use film as an instrument of social awareness and change formed the New Latin American... -
Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity Jayson Beaster-Jones 9781138929364
SciFier: £50.66Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity provides a rich and detailed look into the unique dimensions of music in Indian film. Music is at the center of Indian cinema, and India's... -
Movie Migrations by Hye Seung Chung
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43As the two billion YouTube views for "Gangnam Style" would indicate, South Korean popular culture has begun to enjoy new prominence on the global stage. Yet, as this timely new study reveals, the... -
David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739263
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £61.99This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
Studying Fight Club by Mark Ramey
SciFier: £27.08Fight Club is, on one level, pop-culture phenomena and on another, a deeply philosophical and satirical exploration of modern life. David Fincher's 1999 film (and Chuck Palahniuk's source novel) has... -
Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis Adriana Gordejuela 9780367721312
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53Flashbacks in Film examines film flashback as a rich multimodal narrative device, analyzing the cognitive underpinnings of film flashbacks and the mechanisms that lead viewers to successfully... -
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... -
David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries Anne Jerslev 9783030739232
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries... -
Fifty Key British Films by Sarah Barrow
SciFier: £112.44In Fifty Key British Films, Britain's best known films such as Clockwork Orange, The Full Monty and Goldfinger are scrutinised for their outstanding ability to articulate the issues of the time. This... -
The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema Timothy Holland (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Film and Media, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Film and Media, Emory University) 9780197694374
SciFier: £77.51Situated at the intersection of film and media studies, literary theory, and continental philosophy, The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema provides a trenchant account of the role of cinema in the... -
Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film Professor Lucia Nagib 9781780765112
SciFier: £30.29Andre Bazin's famous article, 'Pour un cinema impur: defense de l'adaptation', was first translated into English simply as 'In Defence of Mixed Cinema', probably to avoid any uncomfortable sexual or... -
The Cinematic Footprint by Nadia Bozak
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £25.49Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today's "green" movies are ecologically unsustainable production,... -
The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema Timothy Holland 9780197694381
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £23.37Situated at the intersection of film and media studies, literary theory, and continental philosophy, The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema provides a trenchant account of the role of cinema in the... -
American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture Michele Schreiber 9781474405560
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77This book examines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance. In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, and their ever expanding options,... -
Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action: A Different Tune Amanda Howell 9780367866563
SciFier: £41.13Amanda Howell offers a new perspective on the contemporary pop score as the means by which masculinities not seen-or heard-before become a part of post-World War II American cinema. Popular Film... -
Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film Craig Ian Mann 9781474441124
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.13Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf film Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film Reconsiders the... -
Global and Local Televangelism P. Thomas 9780230348103
SciFier: £46.99An exploration of the many faces of televangelism in our world today, including Christian, Islamic and Hindu. The collection analyses the correspondences and major differences between global and... -
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[Grid< >Matrix] by Sabine Eckmann
SciFier: £12.40Shaping everyday landscapes from cities to factories, the grid - an arrangement of individual elements along perpendicular lines - has been a basic structure of modern life. The matrix, in contrast,... -
Futures of Chinese Cinema by Olivia Khoo
SciFier: £30.16In recent years, Chinese film has garnered worldwide attention, and this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints, and shifting viewing... -
On the History of a Film Aesthetic Concept: Decoupage Guido Kirsten 9789048563227
RRP: £125.00SciFier: £111.37Unlike editing, decoupage does not take place after the film has been shot, but before. The French term refers to the breakdown of a scene into a sequence of shots. In order to translate the written... -
SAW by Ben Poole
RRP: £16.49SciFier: £13.00Like all game changers within the horror genre, SAW was an independent success, a low-budget champion that flourished without the patronage of a big studio. Not bad for the most successful horror... -
Docudrama on European Television by Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
SciFier: £24.49This book explores docudrama as a creative response to troubled times. With generic characteristics formed via traditions in theatre as well as film, and with claims to fact underscored by... -
100 Years of Spanish Cinema Tatjana Pavlovic (Tulane University) 9781405184205
RRP: £79.50SciFier: £72.30100 Years of Spanish Cinema provides an in-depth look at the most important movements, films, and directors of twentieth-century Spain from the silent era to the present day. A glossary of film... -
European Identity in Cinema by Wendy Everett (University of Bath, UK)
SciFier: £24.44The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution... -
Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video by Kristin Lene Hole (Portland State University, USA)
RRP: £48.99SciFier: £47.20Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video focuses on an underexamined group of female Palestinian filmmakers, highlighting their relevance for thinking through a diverse set... -
The Commitments by Nessa Johnston
SciFier: £19.48This book examines The Commitments (Parker, 1991) for the first time as a film, rather than an adaptation of Roddy Doyle's bestselling novel, and as a significant cultural event in 1990s Ireland.A...