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![Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318538 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/575045/646804/9780822318538__99049.1721652749.jpg?c=1 "Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318538 [USED COPY]")
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Xudong Zhang 9780822318538 [USED COPY]
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £18.83Blending history and theory, Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. In... -
General History of Chinese Film III: 1976-2016 Ding Yaping 9781032123264
SciFier: £48.76The Reform and Opening-up of China since the late 1970s has not only transformed the economic and political situation of the country but also transformed the Chinese film industry. This volume... -
The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish: Canji Baojun De Zhangxin Yu Chong (Novel) Vol. 1 Xue Shan Fei Hu 9798888432617
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.52In this danmei/Boys' Love novel series originally released in Chinese-and coming to the English language for the first time-a man is transported into the historical world of a webnovel to win over a... -
Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique Jyotsna Kapur 9780415854146
SciFier: £47.20In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However,... -
Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas: The Reel Asian Exchange Philippa Gates 9781138641174
SciFier: £42.00This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand,... -
Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling Alexis Krasilovsky 9781138949188
SciFier: £34.19Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling is the Second Place Winner in the 2019 International Writers Awards!A vast majority of Academy Award-winning Best Pictures, television movies... -
Romanian and Chinese Cinemas by Lucian ion
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £75.90Drawing on what used to be the erstwhile internationalist cultural space of Communist Eurasia, the author reads socialist-era and postsocialist films made in Romania and China as promoting a common... -
Heritage in the Digital Era: Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause Rodanthi Tzanelli 9781138377127
RRP: £52.99SciFier: £48.06What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? 'Heritage' usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and... -
Riverbay Road Men's Dormitory (Novel) Vol. 2 by Fei Tian Ye Xiang
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £19.99SciFier: £13.59From Fei Tian Ye Xiang, the author of Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu and Dinghai Fusheng Records, comes a new modern-day romp!One famous director rents out the rooms in his house to other gay... -
Riverbay Road Men's Dormitory (Novel) Vol. 1 by Fei Tian Ye Xiang
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £19.99SciFier: £11.89From Fei Tian Ye Xiang, the author of Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu and Dinghai Fusheng Records, comes a new modern-day romp!One famous director rents out the rooms in his house to other gay... -
Beijing Graffiti Tom Dartnell 9780764360534
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £29.56A complex and contradictory graffiti culture has been brewing over the last few decades in one of the least expected settings-China's capital. Through an unparalleled collection of one local... -
Manga and the Representation of Japanese History Roman Rosenbaum (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781138857407
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £53.26This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include... -
Crossover Cinema: Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception Sukhmani Khorana 9781138243255
SciFier: £28.13Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic... -
Crossover Cinema: Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception Sukhmani Khorana 9780415630924
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £94.82Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic... -
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors Yvonne Tasker 9780415554336
SciFier: £26.15Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today's most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director's contribution to cinema,... -
Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries: Understanding the Origins of East Asian Film Networks Shuk-ting, Kinnia Yau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 9780415666244
RRP: £48.99SciFier: £44.60Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau provides a solid historical... -
These Shattered Spires Cassidy Ellis Salter 9781526682970
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £11.26In a rotten and bloody world, four magical rivals are forced to work together to avoid certain death in a deadly competition. A queer, gothic fantasy YA, perfect for fans of The Atlas Six and Gideon... -
Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema: No Film is An Island Gina Marchetti (Ithaca College/University of Hong Kong) 9780415545600
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £53.26In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and... -
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors Yvonne Tasker 9780415497664
SciFier: £108.73Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today's most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director's contribution to cinema,... -
The Origins of Leftwing Cinema in China, 1932-37 Vivian Shen 9780415650595
RRP: £50.99SciFier: £46.33This book takes a cultural studies approach to analyze and account for the ways in which related to film, literature, cultural production, ideology, social change and modernity were in raised in the... -
Cross-Cultural Issues in Art: Frames for Understanding Steven Leuthold (Northern Michigan University, USA) 9780415578004
SciFier: £50.50Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples. Steven Leuthold discusses both... -
Kaijumax Complete Collection Vol. 1 by Zander Cannon
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £24.86"This is a poignant, modern critique of culture in an easily accessible and satirical package." -Booklist"Godzilla doing time in HBO's "Oz.""-The New York TimesDiscover Zander Cannon's... -
The Making of The Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook Jiaren Wang 9781032072166
SciFier: £33.331) This is a comprehensive volume discussing various facets of one of the highest grossing Chinese science fiction film ever made, 'The Wandering Earth'.2) This translated volume provides step by... -
Kaijumax Complete Collection Vol. 3 Zander Cannon 9781637158579
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £24.16Get ready for a kaiju-size finale! Travel the vast physical, temporal, and socioeconomic distances between the corrupt Kaijumax prison, the impartial halls of cosmic justice, and the burning skies... -
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema Rey Chow (Duke University) 9780231076838
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of... -
The Great Wall: The Art of the Film by Abbie Bernstein
Titan BooksRRP: £29.99SciFier: £22.05The Great Wall: The Art of the Film chronicles the making of this landmark East-meets-West production, accompanied by insight and interviews with key cast and crew, including a foreword by director... -
These Shattered Spires Cassidy Ellis Salter 9781526682994
SciFier: £8.64In a rotten and bloody world, four magical rivals are forced to work together to avoid certain death in a deadly competition. A queer, gothic fantasy YA, perfect for fans of The Atlas Six and Gideon... -
Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion Daisy Yan Du 9780674297531
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £23.85Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation,... -
The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture: Altering Archives Peng Hsiao-yen 9780367209278
SciFier: £44.60Cinema archives memories, conserves the past, and rewrites histories. As much as the Sinophone embodies differences, contemporary Sinophone cinemas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of... -
Movie History: A Survey: Second Edition Douglas Gomery (University of Maryland, USA) 9780415775458
SciFier: £49.36How can we understand the history of film? Historical facts don't answer the basic questions of film history. History, as this fascinating book shows, is more than the simple accumulation of film... -
Redder Days by Sue Rainsford
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.10'So immense and beautiful, it's both gorgeously composed and an addictive page-turner. Sue Rainsford is an extraordinary writer' DONAL RYAN'Unnervingly, thrillingly strange . . . a masterpiece of... -
Astrolabe Rebirth (Novel) by Fei Tian Ye Xiang
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.33In a world ruled by machines, one human stumbles upon a mysterious man whose presence foreshadows an apocalypse. Sci-fi meets danmei (Boys' Love) in this brand-new story by Arise Zhang, also known as... -
Kaijumax Season 6 SC (CVR A) by Zander Cannon
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £8.84The sixth and final volume of the critically acclaimed Kaijumax series by Zander Cannon, a socially conscious comic about monsters in & out of prison. FINAL SEASON! From across the galaxy, a... -
From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China Paul G. Pickowicz 9780742554382
SciFier: £44.99This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of... -
Cixin Liu's The Village Teacher by Cixin Liu
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.49An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's - 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' (New Yorker) - award-winning... -
WHITE HORSE by Yan Ge
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.54Yun Yun lives in a small West China town with her widowed father and an uncle, aunt and older cousin who live nearby. One day, her once-secure world begins to fall apart. Through her eyes, we... -
Semiotics of Exile in Contemporary Chinese Film by H. Zeng
SciFier: £46.99Drawing on a variety of film semiotic theories, this book sheds light on works by mainland Chinese directors, Hong Kong New Wave directors, Taiwan New Cinema directors, and overseas Chinese directors... -
Disney Princess: Tales of Courage and Kindness: A stunning new Disney Princess treasury featuring 14 original illustrated stories Walt Disney 9781835870976
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.50A stunning Disney Princess title featuring 14 original stories and illustrations.This beautiful collection of stories explores the courage and kindness of all 12 Disney Princesses, as well as the two... -
Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender Sheldon Hsiao-Peng Lu 9780824818456
RRP: £30.95SciFier: £20.93With the increasing popularity of the Chinese film industry, a large amount of foreign captial has been invested in the productions. Internationalization on this scale at both the production and... -
East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations V. Lee 9780230277670
SciFier: £46.99This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and...