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The DVD and the Study of Film: The Attainable Text M. Parker 9780230110441
SciFier: £46.99Drawing 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,... -
Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition A. Davis 9781137378729
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £35.19The 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... -
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness B. Murphy 9781137353719
SciFier: £112.99The 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... -
Postmodern Chick Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film R. Garrett 9781403998194
SciFier: £92.99In this extensive analysis of the renewed popularity of the 'woman's film' in the 1990s, Roberta Garrett examines melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs , revealing the way... -
Postmodern Chick Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film R. Garrett 9781349546787
SciFier: £92.99In this extensive analysis of the renewed popularity of the 'woman's film' in the 1990s, Roberta Garrett examines melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs , revealing the way... -
Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen by Maristella Cantini
SciFier: £46.99Featuring essays by top scholars and interviews with acclaimed directors, this book examines Italian women's authorship in film and their visions of reality. The contributors use feminist film... -
House of Names Colm Toibin 9780241257692
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Unforgettable' Mary Beard'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly,... -
Data and Doctor Doom by Mark Hibbett
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £51.89This book defines a straightforward way to analyse fictional characters through data. It shows how a data-led approach can produce rich analyses of characters, their surrounding storyworlds, and... -
Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture S. Inness 9781403964038
SciFier: £46.99Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the... -
Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture S. Inness 9781403963963
SciFier: £46.99Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the... -
The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture C. Best 9780230603769
SciFier: £46.99This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell... -
World Cinema and Cultural Memory I. Hedges 9781137465115
SciFier: £46.99Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five... -
A History of the Screenplay S. Price 9780230291805
SciFier: £46.99The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical development. International in scope and placing... -
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture Alan Bilton 9781137020246
SciFier: £46.99This 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... -
Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand P. Limbrick 9780230102644
SciFier: £46.99Through a shrewd analysis of the historical experience of imperialism and settler colonialism, Limbrick draws new conclusions about their effect on cinematic production, distribution, reception and... -
British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future J. Bignell 9781137327574
SciFier: £46.99Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry, this new edition of British Television Drama evaluates past and present TV fiction... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas M. Hjort 9781349441204
SciFier: £113.16Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the... -
Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture R. Meeuf 9781349443390
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars as sites of cross-cultural contestation and the... -
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage C. Wynne 9781349452545
SciFier: £46.99Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how... -
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror David Greven 9780230112513
SciFier: £46.99The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level,... -
Screening Post-1989 China: Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television W. Ho 9781349506460
SciFier: £46.99This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Contextualizing close textual readings of cinematic and... -
Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema C. Yates 9781403986214
SciFier: £46.99This study provides new insights into the link between masculinity and jealousy through a study of representations of male jealousy in modern Hollywood cinema. It argues, through examples of films... -
Cinema after Fascism: The Shattered Screen S. Craig 9780230103849
SciFier: £46.99Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In... -
The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches J. Chapman 9780230594487
SciFier: £46.99The first major overview of the field of film history in twenty years, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the methods, sources and approaches used by modern film historians. The key areas of... -
The Rhetoric of Violence by Kamal Abdel-Malek
SciFier: £46.99Despite the urgent need to develop understandings of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the light of the current situation in the Middle East, the role of violence and reconciliation in Palestinian... -
The Apex Agenda by Tracy Todd
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.22"Goodness in Purity. Goodness in Life. Report Difference!"In a world where the Diversity Commission imprisons anyone deemed genetically 'defective,' 15-year-old Cam narrowly escapes capture, finding... -
The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections R. Koeck 9780230243385
SciFier: £92.99This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book explores... -
British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future J. Bignell 9781137327567
SciFier: £46.99Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry, this new edition of British Television Drama evaluates past and present TV fiction... -
Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity O. Ashkenazi 9781349344192
SciFier: £46.99In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish... -
Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema J. Gwynne 9781349455232
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema... -
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage C. Wynne 9781137298980
SciFier: £47.18Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how... -
A New Guide to Italian Cinema C. Celli 9781403975607
SciFier: £46.99This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and... -
Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity O. Ashkenazi 9780230341364
SciFier: £46.99In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish... -
Cinema after Fascism: The Shattered Screen S. Craig 9781349288236
SciFier: £46.99Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In... -
Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches C. Perkins 9780230250314
SciFier: £46.99Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book - the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy- provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in which the trilogy form engages key issues in... -
In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage W. Tsutsui 9781403964618
SciFier: £46.99These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they shaped and influenced postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons. There are contributions from Film... -
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen G. Hong 9781137290090
SciFier: £46.99A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of... -
Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture: From Chevy Chase to Tina Fey J. Whalley 9780230103580
SciFier: £46.99Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture sheds new light on the ways in which Saturday Night Live s confrontational, boundary-pushing approach spilled over into film production,... -
Style in British Television Drama L. Cooke 9781349443130
SciFier: £46.99This 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: £46.99This 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...