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Serious Play by Louise Peacock
SciFier: £24.60Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and... -
Robert Frank's 'The Americans' by Jonathan Day
SciFier: £36.85In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society. The... -
Studies in French Cinema by Will Higbee
SciFier: £30.86Studies in French Cinema looks at the development of French screen studies in the United Kingdom over the past twenty years and the ways in which innovative scholarship in the UK has helped shape the... -
Directory of World Cinema: Turkey by Eylem Atakav
SciFier: £47.44Since the 1990s, filmmakers in Turkey have increasingly explored notions of gender, genre, cultural memory, and national and transnational identity. Taking these themes as its starting point, this... -
3D Cinema and Beyond by Janine Marchessault (York University)
RRP: £40.95SciFier: £38.49This book brings together essays that engage with mainstream entertainment, experimental film and historical scholarship as part of a larger context for examining the grammar of 3D cinema, its... -
Truth or Dare by Gail Pearce
SciFier: £30.16The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form-but they have also... -
The Mobile Nation by Tatjana Pavlovic (Tulane University)
SciFier: £36.85Recent years have witnessed a surge in publications on Spanish cinema and cultural studies, but the subject of consumer culture in Spain has been neglected until now. Mobile Nation presents the first... -
World Film Locations: Prague by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £24.44Prague - known as 'The City of Dreams', 'The Hundred-Spired City' and, most significantly for this study, 'Hollywood of the East' - has played an important role in the history of the seventh art. The... -
Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films Susan Felleman 9781783202508
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26Real Objects in Unreal Situations is a lucid account of a much-neglected subject in art and cinema studies: the material significance of the art object incorporated into the fiction film. By... -
Berliner Chic by Susan Ingram (York University, Canada)
SciFier: £30.16Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style added to its already impressive cultural veneer. Once home to emperors and dictators,... -
World Film Locations: New Orleans by Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.)
SciFier: £24.44With more and more filmmakers taking advantage of its rich and varied settings, New Orleans has earned star-studded status as the 'Hollywood of the South'. From the big-screen adaptation of the stage... -
World Film Locations: Berlin Susan Ingram (York University, Canada) 9781841506319
SciFier: £24.60One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been... -
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...