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The Great Irish Famine: Visual and Material Culture Marguerite Corporaal (Department of English, Radboud University (Netherlands)) 9781786941602
SciFier: €37.00The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research has revealed. Less well documented and explored, however, is... -
On Story-Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films by Barbara Morgan
RRP: €19.03SciFier: €15.74"On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime's worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages." -Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the... -
Necromedia Marcel O'Gorman 9780816695713
RRP: €26.17SciFier: €21.30In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O'Gorman takes aim at "the collusion of death and technology," drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to... -
Life Lessons from Slasher Films by Jessica Robinson
SciFier: €73.77Horror and slasher films are often dismissed for their apparent lack of sophistication and dearth of redeemable values. However, despite criticism from film snobs who turn up their noses and... -
Lemonade Code by Jarod Rhys Pratt
RRP: €16.65SciFier: €11.70Robbie Reynolds isn't just a genius. He's a super SUPER genius! But he doesn't have the cash to fund his ultimate (and top secret) project. That's why he's opening a lemonade stand. Not just any... -
Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects by Marguerite Rippy
RRP: €49.92SciFier: €47.64Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective traces the impact of legendary director Orson Welles on contemporary mass media entertainment and suggests that, ironically, we... -
Performing Moving Images by Senta Siewert
SciFier: €132.53Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned... -
The Mighty Zodiac Volume 1 by J. Torres
RRP: €16.65SciFier: €11.70One dark and quiet night in Gaya, six stars fall from the sky. Master Long, the ailing leader of the Mighty Zodiac, sends his warriors out to collect the stars before the Moon Rabbit Army can get... -
Necromedia Marcel O'Gorman 9780816695706
RRP: €85.68SciFier: €68.38In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O'Gorman takes aim at "the collusion of death and technology," drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to... -
The Military-Entertainment Complex by Tim Lenoir
RRP: €45.16SciFier: €38.83With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games continues to blur. In this book, the authors trace how the realities of war are deeply inflected by their... -
Differences in the Dark by Michael Gilmore
RRP: €59.50SciFier: €41.92George Bernard Shaw once quipped that America and England are two cultures separated by a common language. In this innovative attempt to place the movies and theater in the larger context of American... -
Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady Dominic McHugh (Lecturer in Music, Lecturer in Music, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom) 9780199381005
SciFier: €38.07Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady. Sitting in the middle of an era dominated by such seminal figures as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, and... -
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence Nora M. Alter 9780231215503
RRP: €35.70SciFier: €29.67Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred... -
Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 Gerd Gemunden 9780231166782
SciFier: €112.23Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia,... -
The Queen's Mirror by Shawn C. Jarvis
RRP: €38.08SciFier: €30.56This exciting and comprehensive anthology-the first anthology of German women's fairy tales in English-presents a variety of published and archival fairy tales from 1780 to 1900. These authors of... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822338
RRP: €35.64SciFier: €23.67Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even... -
The Contemporary Superhero Film by Terence McSweeney
RRP: €21.41SciFier: €18.91Audiences around the globe continue to flock to see the latest releases from Marvel and DC studios, making it clear that superhero films resonate with the largest global audience that Hollywood has... -
Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage Amit S. Rai 9780822343943 [USED COPY]
RRP: €115.43SciFier: €27.60Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In... -
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory Elsie Walker (Associate Professor of Film Studies, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland) 9780199896301
RRP: €151.73SciFier: €132.08Until recently, most scholars neglected the power of hearing cinema as well as seeing it. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational... -
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory Elsie Walker (Associate Professor of Film Studies, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland) 9780199896325
SciFier: €54.13Until recently, most scholars neglected the power of hearing cinema as well as seeing it. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational... -
Bernardo Bertolucci by Fabien S. Gerard
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €23.16Collected here are forty years of the thoughts of one of the most influential filmmakers of our time. Although the winner of nine Academy Awards for his The Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci may... -
The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot Patrick Maille 9781496833006
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €19.87Tarot cards have been around since the Renaissance and have become increasingly popular in recent years, often due to their prevalence in popular culture. While Tarot means many different things to... -
'Grease Is the Word' by Oliver Gruner
SciFier: €30.27Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, 'Grease Is the Word' analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. With essays covering everything from the film's... -
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World Sidney Perkowitz 9780231142816
RRP: €33.32SciFier: €22.72Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and... -
Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 Gerd Gemunden 9780231166799
SciFier: €28.01Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia,... -
The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America David Sterritt 9780231172004
RRP: €83.30SciFier: €68.76He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful... -
Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence Nora M. Alter 9780231215497
RRP: €139.23SciFier: €112.23Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred... -
Su Friedrich: Interviews Sonia Misra 9781496838162
RRP: €122.57SciFier: €85.98Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian... -
The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot Patrick Maille 9781496832993
RRP: €108.29SciFier: €108.28Tarot cards have been around since the Renaissance and have become increasingly popular in recent years, often due to their prevalence in popular culture. While Tarot means many different things to... -
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Jessica Balanzategui 9789462986510
SciFier: €133.36The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential... -
Ronald Colman by Sam Frank
RRP: €76.16SciFier: €67.52One of the most enchanting figures of the silver screen, Ronald Colman appeared in such classic films as Beau Geste, The Prisoner of Zenda, Lost Horizon, and A Tale of Two Cities. He was nominated... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822284
RRP: €108.29SciFier: €86.81Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even... -
The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha Ethan Warren 9780231204583
RRP: €119.00SciFier: €96.53Paul Thomas Anderson's evolution from a brash, self-anointed "Indiewood" auteur to one of his generation's most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable career trajectories in recent... -
Su Friedrich: Interviews Sonia Misra 9781496838179
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €22.62Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian... -
Pig Boy by Michael Harvey
RRP: €14.27SciFier: €11.15Cursed with love by his step-mother, Culhwch (Pig Boy) is condemned to love and marry Olwen, the daughter of the Hawthorn Giant-pitiless, violent and huge. So begins the quest-first to the court of... -
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) Christina Brennan 9781836243526
SciFier: €57.16At the 1989 Sydney Film Festival, George Sluizer's little-known independent film, Spoorloos (The Vanishing), was an unexpected hit, winning the festival's audience award and gaining accolades at... -
The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack Daniel Bishop (Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Indiana University) 9780190932695
SciFier: €41.41The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the... -
The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America David Sterritt 9780231172011
RRP: €26.18SciFier: €22.57He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful... -
The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack Daniel Bishop (Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Indiana University) 9780190932688
SciFier: €129.70The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the... -
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) Christina Brennan 9781836243533
RRP: €29.75SciFier: €28.00At the 1989 Sydney Film Festival, George Sluizer's little-known independent film, Spoorloos (The Vanishing), was an unexpected hit, winning the festival's audience award and gaining accolades at...