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Exploring Seriality on Screen: Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television Ariane Hudelet 9780367491475
SciFier: $59.58This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book... -
Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy Christopher Falzon 9780415538169
SciFier: $63.19Now emulated in several competing publications, but still unsurpassed in clarity and insight, Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy, Third Edition builds on the approach that... -
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World Jane Batkin (University of Lincoln, UK) 9780367758561
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in animated cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy.The image of the child is often a... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195935
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $32.71Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
New Approaches to Islam in Film Kristian Petersen 9780367723408
SciFier: $55.96Many global film industries fail in expanding the role of Muslims on screen. Too often they produce a dichotomy between "good" and "bad" Muslims, limiting the narrative domain to issues of national... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181939
SciFier: $109.10What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film... -
Screening American Independent Film Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781032160627
SciFier: $51.14The first collection to provide close readings of individual films, written specifically to support film screenings. The essays are clearly written offering students a great model for their own... -
Popular Hindi Cinema: Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen Ronie Parciack 9780367875183
SciFier: $61.99The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world. This book analyses the pivotal visual and narrative conventions employed in... -
Snared: Escape to the Above by Adam Jay Epstein
SciFier: $22.09As trapsmith of the Carrion Tomb, Wily Snare spends all day every day inventing traps to keep plunderers at bay. While bored with his lot, he's proud that no one has ever outwitted his snares - until... -
The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology Thomas Elsaesser 9780415968126
SciFier: $54.75This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser's intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades.In order to answer what the mind-game film... -
Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas K. Gokulsing 9781138311480
SciFier: $71.39India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalization by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the... -
Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film Jonathan Kemp (University of Central Lancashire, UK) 9781138603806
SciFier: $55.96Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film is an accessible guide to making video captured on a camcorder, DSLR camera, smartphone, action camera or cinema camera look like it... -
Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries Sylvia Li-chun Lin 9780415736862
SciFier: $77.65To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic analysis of the genre. Each... -
Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming-Animated Sylvie Bissonnette 9780367660376
SciFier: $60.55This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual... -
The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $13.21Sight & Sound's #1 Film Book of 2020Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the... -
Honeyland by Jaimie Baron
SciFier: $28.26The fourth volume in the Docalogue series, this book explores the significance of the documentary Honeyland (2019) in relation to documentary ethics, the representation of human and animal relations,... -
Chinese Film Theory by Xia Hong
SciFier: $109.10This is the first collection of translations of Chinese film theory to be published in English. By using translations rather than summaries, as other works have done, Chinese Film Theory provides... -
The Art of Writing Animation: Storytelling Craft for Writers & Animators Alizee Musson 9780857306173
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $18.75Is animation written with words or pictures? How do writers and animators turn ideas into animated films or series? What's the animation development process? Are animated stories only for kids? What... -
Film Stardom and the Ancient Past by Michael Williams
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $129.95This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era. It engages with debates on historical reception, gender and... -
Foreign Devils by Frank Beaver
RRP: $89.79SciFier: $81.30Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through the films of Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, and Conrad Veidt. This book dispels the assumption that by... -
The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts Helen Hanson 9781349301447
SciFier: $65.32These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs,... -
Cracked by Barbra Leslie
Titan BooksRRP: $11.11SciFier: $8.16After her stormy marriage ends, Danny Cleary jumps down the rabbit hole into a world of crack cocaine - delivered to her door by a polite but slightly deranged dealer. But when Danny's twin sister... -
Midnight Curse by Melissa F. Olson
SciFier: $14.28Scarlett Bernard is used to cleaning up messes. As a human who cancels out any magic around her, Scarlett's job is to keep the supernatural world hidden-at any cost. But on the eve of the Vampire... -
Serial Killers in Contemporary Television by Brett A.B. Robinson (Brock University, Canada)
SciFier: $55.96This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical... -
City Boy by Greg Pak
DC ComicsRRP: $20.84SciFier: $13.89Explore the DC Universe like never before alongside City Boy, in a major series in DC s We Are Legends initiative, starring all-new legendary Asian-American heroes! We Are Legends expands the DC... -
Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making S. Plate 9781403960504
SciFier: $130.62Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata . At the same time, film production has engendered new religious... -
Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China Shuyu Kong (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 9781138629219
RRP: $70.88SciFier: $64.40Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also... -
On Location: A Guide to Visiting the UK and Ireland's Best Film and TV Sights Peter Naldrett 9781844866335
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $24.39For popular-culture vultures, there really is no better guide to Britain's best TV and film locations than On Location. With their historical charm, scenic beauty and diverse cities, the United... -
The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan Eric Cazdyn 9780822329398
SciFier: $32.33The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a... -
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RRP: $134.83SciFier: $18.71The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a... -
The Films of Terrence Malick by James Morrison
SciFier: $86.17Despite overwhelming acclaim for his work, director Terrence Malick remains an under-examined figure of an era of filmmaking that also produced such notables as Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola,... -
The Lightstruck: The action-packed, gripping sequel to The Darkening Sunya Mara 9781529355543
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $8.48In the captivating sequel to The Darkening, Vesper and Dalca face their fiercest battle yet to save their besieged city from the Great King and his ominous army.'Will ensnare you from the first page'... -
Virginia Hall by Samantha Feriolla Chow
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $10.17An action-packed graphic novel about Virginia Hall, known as one of the most courageous spies of World War II. In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into... -
Sirens of Modernity by Samhita Sunya
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.65A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic... -
Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989 Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre 9781032685366
SciFier: $77.65The creations of female animation filmmakers are recognized all over the world while being, paradoxically, unknown to the general public. Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National... -
Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies Blair Davis 9781138590663
SciFier: $64.40Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a whole... -
The Contemporary Femme Fatale: Gender, Genre and American Cinema Katherine Farrimond (University of Sussex) 9780367878115
SciFier: $59.58The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly... -
Adapting Endings from Book to Screen: Last Pages, Last Shots Armelle Parey 9781032177380
SciFier: $59.58This book offers a new perspective on adaptation of books to the screen; by focusing on endings, new light is shed on this key facet of film and television studies. The authors look at a broad range... -
Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music Neil Fox (Falmouth University, UK) 9781839023439
SciFier: $41.56In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess... -
Su Friedrich: Interviews Sonia Misra 9781496838179
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $25.60Su 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...