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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... -
South African Cinema 1896-2010 by Martin Botha
SciFier: £36.85Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South... -
World Film Locations: London by Neil Mitchell
SciFier: £24.00An exciting and visually focused tour of the diverse range of films shot on location in London, World Film Locations: London presents contributions spanning the Victorian era, the swinging '60s and... -
Who's Who in Research: Film Studies by Intellect Books
RRP: £105.95SciFier: £105.15Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. 'Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after,' noted the online... -
Australian Film Theory and Criticism: Volume 3: Documents Deane Williams 9781783208371
SciFier: £77.38The third part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Volume 3: Documents concludes the project by gathering together the documents that were... -
World Film Locations: Glasgow by Nicola Balkind
SciFier: £24.60World Film Locations: Glasgow explores Scotland's biggest city and the many locations in which its films are viewed, set and shot. Taking in the important moments and movements in its rich cinematic... -
Montreal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion Katrina Sark (University of Victoria) 9781783206162
SciFier: £66.77Montreal is a la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and... -
Videogames and Art by Andy Clarke
SciFier: £48.09Videogames are firmly enmeshed in modern culture. Acknowledging the increasing cultural impact of this rapidly changing industry on artistic and creative practices, Videogames and Art features... -
Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes by Tom Ue (Cape Breton University, Canada)
SciFier: £24.44Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of... -
Fashion Cities Africa by Hannah Azieb Pool
SciFier: £23.26In a searing 2012 Guardian op-ed, Hannah Azieb Pool took Western fashion designers to task for their so-called African-inspired clothing. 'Dear Fashion,' she wrote, 'Africa is a continent, not a... -
The Face on the Screen by Therese Davis
SciFier: £30.16There was a time in screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image...The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the... -
Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2 by Birgit Beumers
SciFier: £48.09Soviet and Russian filmmakers have traditionally had uneasy relationships to the concept of genre. This volume rewrites that history by spotlighting some genres not commonly associated with cinema in... -
World Film Locations: Singapore Duncan Petrie 9781783203611
SciFier: £24.44A vibrant city and country nestled at the foot of the Malaysian peninsula, Singapore has long been a crossroads, a stopping point and a cultural hub where goods, inventions and ideas are shared and... -
Directory of World Cinema: Argentina by Gary M. Kramer (Independent Scholar)
SciFier: £47.44Argentina boasts one of the most popular, diverse and successful film industries in Latin America. From early films about gauchos and the tango to human rights dramas and groundbreaking experimental... -
Sam Peckinpah by Fernando Ganzo
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £20.49Director Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) never won an Oscar. His filmography is short and uneven, and his movies have never found a wide audience. Despite this, many filmmakers today - including Tarantino... -
Shooting Women by Harriet Margolis
SciFier: £41.64Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From pioneers like African American camerawoman Jessie Maple Patton... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Political Dissident by Vlastimir Sudar
RRP: £52.95SciFier: £44.11Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic (1929-1994) was one of the most significant filmmakers to come out of Socialist Yugoslavia. He was by far the most awarded director on a national level, winning three Golden... -
Touring the Screen by Alfio Leotta (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
SciFier: £30.16Following the success of prominent feature films shot on location, including Tolkien's wildly popular The Lord of the Rings, New Zealand boasts an impressive film tourism industry. This book examines... -
Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski Zachary Ingle 9781783202027
SciFier: £24.44Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski examines how this quirky movie evolved from its underwhelming debut to attract a mass following on par with that of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Contributors take a... -
Green Documentary: Environmental Documentary in theTwenty-First Century Helen Hughes 9781783201839
SciFier: £41.64During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the... -
World Film Locations: Toronto Tom Ue (Dalhousie University, Canada) 9781783201952
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26Toronto is a changing city that has been a source of reflection and inspiration to writers and artists whose work focuses on the conditions and prospects of human life. A city on the move, it demands... -
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace by Andrea Harriman
RRP: £43.95SciFier: £41.35It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats or the morbids. 'Goth' did not gain lexical currency until the... -
World Film Locations: Hong Kong by Linda Chiu-Han Lai
SciFier: £24.44The rapid development of Hong Kong has occasioned the demolition of buildings and landscapes of historic significance, but film acts as a repository for memories of lost places, vanished vistas and... -
French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film Susan Hayward 9781841503189
RRP: £35.95SciFier: £34.35When political and civil unrest threatened France's social order in the 1950s, French cinema provided audiences a unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France... -
Cindy Sherman's Office Killer by Dahlia Schweitzer
SciFier: £31.11One of the twentieth century's most significant artists, Cindy Sherman has quietly uprooted conventional understandings of portraiture and art, questioning everything from identity to feminism... -
European Media Governance by Georgios Terzis
SciFier: £24.44Media Governance today is shifting media rules and regulations from national government policies to local, regional, national, multinational and international ones and away from exclusively... -
World Film Locations: Vancouver Rachel Walls 9781841507217
SciFier: £24.44World Film Locations: Vancouver highlights the work of such Canadian filmmakers who have received less attention than they merit, whilst bringing insight into how so-called 'runaway' productions from... -
Cartomancy and Tarot in Film by Emily E. Auger
RRP: £93.95SciFier: £93.62In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy - the practice of fortune telling via playing cards - and dives deep into its invention... -
Sergei Paradjanov by Joshua First
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £20.89Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema - yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture... -
Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978-2000) by Pak Tong Cheuk
SciFier: £30.16The increasingly popular films of the Hong Kong New Wave grapple with such issues as East-West cultural conflicts, colonial politics, the divide between rich and poor, the plight of women in a... -
The Film Paintings of David Lynch by Allister Mactaggart
SciFier: £24.44One of the most distinguished filmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is firmly rooted in fine art. He was motivated to make his first film as a student because he... -
World Film Locations: Reykjavik by Jez Conolly
SciFier: £24.44Though the creative community of Reykjavik, Iceland, has earned a well-deserved reputation for its unique artistic output - most notably the popular music that has emerged from the city since the... -
Cinema and Landscape by Graeme Harper (Oakland University, USA)
SciFier: £24.00The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet,... -
The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 by Christian B. Long (The University of Queensland)
SciFier: £77.38The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of... -
Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future by Mary Debrett
SciFier: £37.55Once regarded as a system in decline, public service broadcasters have acquired renewed legitimacy in the digital environment, as drivers of digital take-up, innovators and trusted brands. Exploring... -
Neosentience by Bill Seaman (Rhode Island School of Design)
SciFier: £25.14The study addressed in this 'book' puts forward a project that is twofold. Firstly, it discusses the conceptual basis within which it would be possible for the construction of a 'neosentient' system,... -
Directory of World Cinema: Latin America by Isabel Maurer Queipo
SciFier: £56.66From the interior drama of Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman to the energetic realism of Fernando Meirelles's City of God to the frightful fantasy of Guillermo del Torro's Pan's Labyrinth and... -
Media in the Enlarged Europe by Alec Charles (University of Winchester)
SciFier: £24.44The EU is in a constant state of flux: its constitution, its institutions and especially its political, economic and regulatory borders. Media in the Enlarged Europe deals with the complexity and... -
New Zealand Film and Television by Trisha Dunleavy (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
SciFier: £37.55Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen... -
World Film Locations: Madrid by Lorenzo J Torres Hortelano
SciFier: £24.44World Film Locations: Madrid is a trip through the urban space conceived as film location. The premise is that these locations must have been protagonist of films shot in Madrid since the silent era...