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Beauty and the Beast by Elisabetta Girelli
SciFier: $65.42Recent years have seen an increased interest in issues of national identity and representation, and cinema is a major medium where strands and layers of representational systems come together in... -
Politics of Contemporary European Cinema by Mike Wayne (Brunel University (UK).)
SciFier: $63.94How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of... -
World Film Locations: Istanbul by Ozlem Koksal
SciFier: $51.81From Fatih Akin's Head-On (2004) to Sydney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), World Film Locations: Istanbul offers a compelling look at many films shot on location in this multicultural... -
World Film Locations: Liverpool by Jez Conolly
SciFier: $51.81Outside of the capital London, no other British city has attracted more film-makers than Liverpool. Sometimes standing in for London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Rome or Moscow, and sometimes playing... -
Global Fashion Brands by Joseph H. Hancock II (Drexel University, USA)
SciFier: $120.18Fashion branding is more than just advertising. It helps to encourage the purchase and repurchase of consumer goods from the same company. While historically fashion branding has primarily focused on... -
The Global Road Movie by Jose Duarte (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
SciFier: $164.05The road movie is one of the most tried and true genres, a staple since the earliest days of cinema. This book looks at the road movie from a wider perspective than ever before, exploring the motif... -
Deleuze and Film Music by Gregg Redner
SciFier: $63.94The analysis of film music is emerging as one of the fastest-growing areas of interest in film studies. Yet scholarship in this up-and-coming field has been beset by the lack of a common language and... -
Recording Memories from Political Violence by Cahal McLaughlin
SciFier: $63.94Based on work the author has carried out with survivor groups in Northern Ireland and South Africa, Recording Memories from Political Violence draws on written and audiovisual texts to describe and... -
Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3 by John Berra (Renmin University of China)
SciFier: $100.47Like its predecessors, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3 endeavours to move scholarly criticism of Japanese film out of the academy and into the hands of cinephiles the world over. This volume will... -
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 3 by John Berra (Renmin University of China)
SciFier: $100.47This third volume of the successful Directory of World Cinema series to focus on American independent filmmaking presents in-depth essays on forty-four filmmakers who have primarily worked outside... -
World Film Locations: Buenos Aires by Santiago Oyarzabal
SciFier: $51.81World Film Locations: Buenos Aires explores this picturesque and passionate city (the second-largest in South America) as a stage for sociopolitical transformations and a key location in the... -
Australian Film Theory and Criticism: Volume 2: Interviews Deane Williams 9781783200375
SciFier: $89.76A three-volume project tracing key critical positions, people and institutions in Australian film, Australian Film Theory and Criticism interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but... -
Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from Central Asia Goenul Doenmez-Colin 9781841505497
SciFier: $41.85Updated collections of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia and the Middle East, these two new geospecific editions expand upon the... -
Directory of World Cinema: France by Tim Palmer (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA)
SciFier: $101.95Artistic, intellectual and appreciably avant-garde, the French film industry has, perhaps more than any other national cinema, been perennially at the centre of international filmmaking. With its... -
World Film Locations: Washington D.C. by Katherine Larsen (George Washington University, USA)
SciFier: $51.81Freedom and democracy. Bills and laws. Bureaucracy and red tape. Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, is known for many things, most of them related to the inner workings of the... -
Tech-Noir Film by Emily E. Auger
SciFier: $149.74From the postapocalyptic world of Blade Runner to theJames Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular... -
Fan Phenomena: Star Trek Bruce E. Drushel (Miami University, USA) 9781783200238
SciFier: $51.81From a decidedly inauspicious start as a low-rated television series in the 1960s that was cancelled after three seasons, Star Trek has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry of spin-off series,... -
World Film Locations: Athens Anna Poupou 9781783203598
SciFier: $51.81A filmic guidebook of the Greek capital, World Film Locations: Athens takes readers to film locations in the central historical district with excursions to the periphery of Athens - popular... -
World Film Locations: Havana by Ann Marie Stock (College of William and Mary, USA)
SciFier: $51.81Havana is among the world's leading cinematic locales. In films made beyond the island as well as those created by local cineastes, Havana is depicted as a vibrant Caribbean city. The quantity and... -
Fan Phenomena: Batman by Liam Burke (Swinburne University of Technology)
SciFier: $51.81From his debut in a six-page comic in 1939 to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world's most popular superhero. The continued... -
World Film Locations: Boston by Marcelline Block
SciFier: $51.81Founded by the Puritans in 1630 and the site of many of the American Revolution's major precursors and events (including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's midnight ride,... -
The Student Actor Prepares by Gai Jones
SciFier: $87.73The Student Actor Prepares is a practical, interactive approach to a student actor's journey. Each chapter includes acting principles, their importance to the process and workbook entries for... -
Beijing Film Academy Yearbook 2015 Journal of Beijing Film Academy 9781783206056
SciFier: $199.28The Beijing Film Academy (BFA) is one of the most revered film institutions in the world. Since 1984, the BFA's Department of Film Studies has been publishing the Journal of the Beijing Film Academy,... -
Radio Content in the Digital Age by Angeliki Gazi (Cyprus University of Technology, Greece)
RRP: $50.77SciFier: $45.58The traditional radio medium has seen significant changes in recent years as part of the current global shift toward multimedia content, with both digital and FM making significant use of new... -
Directors & Designers Christine White (De Montfort University, UK) 9781841502892
SciFier: $63.94Directors and Designers explores the practice of scenography-the creation of perspective in the design and painting of stage scenery-and offers new insight into the working relationships of the... -
Reaching Audiences: Distribution and Promotion of Alternative Moving Image Julia Knight (University of Sunderland) 9781841501574
SciFier: $51.81Through a series of case studies, this book tracks the inventive distribution and exhibition initiatives developed over the last 40 years by an array of small companies on the periphery of the... -
World Film Locations: Tokyo Chris MaGee 9781841504834
SciFier: $51.81World Film Locations: Tokyo gives readers a kaleidoscopic view of one of the world's most complex and exciting cities through the lens of world cinema. 50 scenes from classic and contemporary films... -
World Film Locations: Barcelona by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
RRP: $50.77SciFier: $47.19Barcelona is one of the world's most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaudi, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all... -
The Danish Directors 3 by Mette Hjort (University of Lincoln, UK)
SciFier: $53.30Emphasizing the new documentary cinema, this book features film-makers who belong to the generation born in the 1970s. Many of the interviewees were trained at the National Film School of Denmark's... -
Futures of Chinese Cinema by Olivia Khoo
SciFier: $63.94In 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: $78.12Taking 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: $51.81An 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
SciFier: $225.50Increasingly, 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: $164.05The 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: $51.81World 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: $141.55Montreal 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: $101.95Videogames 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: $51.81Few 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: $49.31In 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: $63.94There 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...