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W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway: Becoming a Comedian A. Wertheim 9781349671441
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $73.63W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores... -
Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy by M. Kavka
RRP: $211.98SciFier: $197.14Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy explains the appeal of reality television in terms of the affective power of the mediated image. In place of common objections that reality TV is 'not real',... -
Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital Era L. Conner 9781349438389
SciFier: $197.14This book offers readers an understanding of the theoretical framework for the concept of Arts Talk, provides historical background and a review of current thinking about the interpretive process,... -
The DVD and the Study of Film: The Attainable Text M. Parker 9781349292875
SciFier: $99.62Drawing on interviews with producers, directors, and scholars, and examining the DVD's supplementary features, this book explores how the format, at its best, combines the enthusiasm of a fan,... -
From Pinewood to Hollywood: British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969 I. Scott 9780230229235
SciFier: $99.62This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as... -
Love, Mortality and the Moving Image E. Wilson 9780230308398
SciFier: $165.34In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study closely explores emotions and sensations... -
From Pinewood to Hollywood: British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969 I. Scott 9781349310609
SciFier: $99.62This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as... -
The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window T. Magistrale 9781349370726
SciFier: $99.62The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies... -
Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities: Gender, Genre, and Politics Susanne Kord 9780230338418
SciFier: $198.20Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in... -
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification K. Egan 9780230293694
SciFier: $99.62The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection... -
Violence and the Limits of Representation G. Matthews 9781349451913
SciFier: $99.62Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in... -
Television and British Cinema: Convergence and Divergence Since 1990 Hannah Andrews 9781349456857
SciFier: $99.62Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores the convergence between the two forms, at industrial,... -
Cinematic Perspectives on Digital Culture: Consorting with the Machine Norman Taylor 9781349335183
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $88.09Exploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory to discuss the affect of... -
Smart Cinema, DVD Add-Ons and New Audience Pleasures P. Brereton 9780230282773
SciFier: $99.62Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent sensibility and how films break the classic linear narratives that have defined... -
Phenomenology and the Future of Film: Rethinking Subjectivity Beyond French Cinema J. Chamarette 9780230299535
SciFier: $99.62Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Its close engagements with films and... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Europe, Australia, and Asia M. Hjort 9781349344277
SciFier: $99.62Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and... -
Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism T. Nellhaus 9781349384938
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $73.16From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways... -
Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities: Gender, Genre, and Politics Susanne Kord 9781137372833
SciFier: $197.14Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in... -
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era Natalia Pinazza 9781349463343
SciFier: $99.62Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the... -
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era Natalia Pinazza 9781137336033
SciFier: $99.62Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the... -
83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary Don Brown 9780063311565
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $31.63A young adult graphic novel that captures the complexities of the war in Ukraine, focusing on the siege of Mariupol (Feb '22 - May '22) and the brave people who stayed to defend their city against... -
A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow B. Witham 9781349344314
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $45.56Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard... -
Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition A. Davis 9780230116795
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $77.99The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses of the 1930s, looks at the role comedy played in an entertainment form known... -
Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea I. MacDonald 9780230392281
SciFier: $99.62A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new... -
Amacio Mazzaropi in the Film and Culture of Brazil: After Cinema Novo E. Bueno 9781349435999
SciFier: $99.62Amacio Mazzaropi's work is a unique instance in Brazilian culture - as an artist not connected with the subsidized film industry, he developed a singular voice and represents a segment of the... -
Inner Monologue in Acting R. Roznowski 9781137354273
RRP: $95.38SciFier: $74.60What should an actor be thinking onstage? This overlooked, important question is the crux of this new book that combines psychological theory, numerous practical exercises, and a thorough and... -
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness B. Murphy 9781349469727
SciFier: $165.34The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this... -
Theodor Adorno and Film Theory: The Fingerprint of Spirit B. Wall 9781137306135
SciFier: $99.62What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art? What would that mean - can it still matter? This book introduces the thought of Theodor Adorno into... -
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture Alan Bilton 9781349437474
SciFier: $99.62This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags... -
Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Montre Aza Missouri 9781349554515
SciFier: $99.62Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author... -
Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema and Culture by J. Suarez
SciFier: $99.62An expanded translation of the groundbreaking book on Colombian cinema, this work addresses not only the inadequate distribution of criticism on Colombian cinema outside Latin America, but also... -
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict by J. Daccache
SciFier: $99.62Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet... -
Action Figures by M. Gallagher
SciFier: $99.62What accounts for the massive global popularity of action films and adventure literature? How do men and women respond to iconic screen stars such as Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve... -
Hollywood Knights by S. Aronstein
SciFier: $99.62Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as political nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority... -
Accountability and the Public Interest in Broadcasting by Kenneth A. Loparo
SciFier: $99.62Against a backdrop of great change in technology and the economics of broadcasting and new media, this timely survey of contemporary attitudes to accountability and the public interest in... -
Remembering the Occupation in French film: National Identity in Postwar Europe L. Hewitt 9780230601307
SciFier: $197.14When collective memory is a source of national debate, the public representation of history quickly becomes a locus of controversy and ideological struggle. This work shows how French film has... -
Style in British Television Drama L. Cooke 9781349443130
SciFier: $99.62This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954 and 2001. Taking dinner table scenes as a recurring motif, the study analyses... -
Style in British Television Drama L. Cooke 9781137265913
SciFier: $99.62This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954 and 2001. Taking dinner table scenes as a recurring motif, the study analyses... -
Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen by John W. Frick
SciFier: $99.62No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852... -
East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage: From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea Kenneth A. Loparo 9781349297702
SciFier: $197.14How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between...