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Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales Jack Zipes 9780814347850
RRP: €39.21SciFier: €25.00Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that,... -
Cannibalizing Queer: Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015 Joao Nemi Neto 9780814346105
RRP: €51.11SciFier: €38.66Puts forward a new, provocative history of queer cinema in Brazil.Through an analysis of contemporary Brazilian cinematic production,Cannibalizing Queer: Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015 discusses... -
Channeling Wonder by Pauline Greenhill
RRP: €39.21SciFier: €36.88Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and... -
Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi Matthew Bannister 9780814345337
RRP: €43.97SciFier: €39.85Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses... -
Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi Matthew Bannister 9780814345320
RRP: €109.48SciFier: €103.52Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses... -
A True Blue Idea by Marina Colasanti
RRP: €29.69SciFier: €28.55Marina Colasanti is a Brazilian journalist, visual artist, and author of over sixty volumes of short stories, poetry, essays, and children's literature. Her books have been translated into several... -
V.F. Perkins on Movies: Collected Shorter Film Criticism Douglas Pye 9780814346433
RRP: €41.59SciFier: €27.68Victor Perkins (1936-2016) was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher... -
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths Pauline Greenhill 9780814342220
RRP: €39.21SciFier: €36.28Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and... -
V.F. Perkins on Movies: Collected Shorter Film Criticism Douglas Pye 9780814346426
RRP: €101.15SciFier: €95.19Victor Perkins (1936-2016) was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher... -
Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame Sarah Keller 9780814348598
RRP: €111.86SciFier: €105.30Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame by Sarah Keller explores the career of experimental filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer. Hammer first garnered attention in the early 1970s for a... -
Beyond Method: Stella Adler and the Male Actor Scott Balcerzak 9780814342916
RRP: €33.26SciFier: €29.74Stella Adler (1901-92) trained many well-known American actors yet throughout much of her career, her influence was overshadowed by Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio. In Beyond Method:... -
Stars and Silhouettes: The History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood Joceline Andersen 9780814346907
RRP: €101.15SciFier: €94.59Stars and Silhouettes traces the history of the cameo as it emerged in twentieth-century cinema. Although the cameo has existed in film culture for over a century, Joceline Andersen explains that... -
Stars and Silhouettes: The History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood Joceline Andersen 9780814346914
RRP: €41.59SciFier: €38.66Stars and Silhouettes traces the history of the cameo as it emerged in twentieth-century cinema. Although the cameo has existed in film culture for over a century, Joceline Andersen explains that... -
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age John Alberti 9780814344910
RRP: €101.15SciFier: €94.59Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an... -
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age John Alberti 9780814342862
RRP: €33.26SciFier: €29.74Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an... -
The Berlin School and its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema Marco Abel 9780814342008
RRP: €38.02SciFier: €34.50The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art-Cinema came about in light of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)'s 2013 major exhibition of works by contemporary German directors... -
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales Julie L. J. Koehler 9780814345009
RRP: €109.48SciFier: €104.71Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales is a translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by... -
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales Julie L. J. Koehler 9780814345016
RRP: €43.97SciFier: €39.85Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales is a translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by... -
Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture Claudia Schwabe 9780814341964
RRP: €39.21SciFier: €36.28Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture analyzes supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, alterity, and... -
Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited Philippa Gates 9780814347805
RRP: €111.86SciFier: €105.90More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited, edited by Philippa... -
Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited Philippa Gates 9780814347799
RRP: €43.97SciFier: €39.85More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited, edited by Philippa... -
Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture Claudia Schwabe 9780814346013
RRP: €101.15SciFier: €95.19Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture analyzes supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, alterity, and... -
Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film Kristen Anderson Wagner 9780814345290
RRP: €101.15SciFier: €95.19Examines the social and historical significance of women's contributions to American silent Film comedy. For many people the term ""silent comedy"" conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin's Little... -
Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor Author So Mayer 9780814348536
RRP: €111.86SciFier: €105.30Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds... -
Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film Kristen Anderson Wagner 9780814341025
RRP: €35.64SciFier: €32.43Examines the social and historical significance of women's contributions to American silent film comedy.For many people the term "silent comedy" conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp,... -
Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame Sarah Keller 9780814348581
RRP: €42.78SciFier: €38.66Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame by Sarah Keller explores the career of experimental filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer. Hammer first garnered attention in the early 1970s for a... -
Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema Author Joe McElhaney 9780814348260
RRP: €111.86SciFier: €105.30In Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema, Joe McElhaney situates Visconti's films as privileged and deeply expressive instances of a trope that McElhaney identifies as the ""cinema of fabric"": a... -
Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema Author Joe McElhaney 9780814343081
RRP: €42.78SciFier: €38.66In Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema, Joe McElhaney situates Visconti's films as privileged and deeply expressive instances of a trope that McElhaney identifies as the ""cinema of fabric"": a... -
The Films of Jess Franco Antonio Lazaro-Reboll 9780814344934
RRP: €101.15SciFier: €95.19The Films of Jess Franco looks at the work of Jesus ""Jess"" Franco (1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is best known as the director of... -
Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor Author So Mayer 9780814348529
RRP: €41.59SciFier: €38.66Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds... -
The Films of Jess Franco Antonio Lazaro-Reboll 9780814343166
RRP: €35.64SciFier: €29.42The Films of Jess Franco looks at the work of Jesus ""Jess"" Franco (1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is best known as the director of... -
Performing Marginality: Humour, Gender and Cultural Critique Joanne R. Gilbert (Associate Professor of Communications, Alma College, USA) 9780814328033
RRP: €35.64SciFier: €33.31How do contemporary American female comics perform onstage, and what does this performance reveal about power relations in our culture as well as the existence of a "female" and, more specifically,... -
Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini Daniel Humphrey 9780814343104
RRP: €42.78SciFier: €38.66In Archaic Modernism, Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo... -
The Danish Directors 3 by Mette Hjort (University of Lincoln, UK)
SciFier: €30.11Emphasizing 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...