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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... -
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... -
Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen by John W. Frick
SciFier: £46.99No 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: £92.99How 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... -
Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film: Comedy Italian Style Andrea Bini 9781137516886
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99The most popular film genre during the golden years of Italian cinema, the Comedy Italian Style emerged after the fall of the Facist regime, narrating the identity crisis of many Italian men... -
British Film Music and Film Musicals by K. Donnelly
SciFier: £46.99In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's... -
Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade A. Flibbert 9781403983800
SciFier: £46.99Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. Concerned with more than film content or substance, the book exposes the ongoing... -
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Charlie Cook's Favourite Book Julia Donaldson 9781405034692 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £1.19Celebrate the joy of books with the entertaining Charlie Cook's Favourite Book, from the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. Charlie... -
Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781349515646
SciFier: £46.99This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary... -
New Documentaries in Latin America Vinicius Navarro 9781137291332
SciFier: £46.99Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the... -
Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film by G. Cestaro
SciFier: £46.99Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. While... -
SuburbiaNation by R. Beuka
SciFier: £46.99The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in... -
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life C. Garcia 9781349495955
SciFier: £92.99This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn... -
Road Movies: From Muybridge and Melies to Lynch and Kiarostami D. Orgeron 9780230601277
SciFier: £46.99Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a... -
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Lore Olympus Rachel Smythe 9781529150445 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £4.80Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love - witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology's best-known stories.'Steamy, often... -
Linguistics and the Study of Comics by Frank Bramlett
SciFier: £92.99Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India, Turkey, and the US get their point across? What is the impact of... -
Television Audiences Across the World: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine J. Bourdon 9781349466337
SciFier: £46.99This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and... -
Conjuring Science by Sofie Lachapelle
SciFier: £112.99Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment. It follows the frictions and connections of magic and science as they occurred in the world of popular... -
Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds H. Meyers 9781349279814
SciFier: £46.99This book is about creativity in business, management and many professions. The authors have interviewed well known creative people to identify how creative methods work. Their analysis shows that... -
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life C. Garcia 9781137446251
SciFier: £92.99This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn... -
Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 9781349336722
SciFier: £46.99Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas M. Hjort 9781137032683
SciFier: £115.52Using 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... -
Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 9780230301054
SciFier: £46.99Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform... -
Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches C. Perkins 9781349321209
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... -
Screening Post-1989 China: Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television W. Ho 9781137517609
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... -
Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema J. Gwynne 9781137306838
SciFier: £92.99By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema... -
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror David Greven 9781137354990
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £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,... -
1,000 Hats by Norma Shephard
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £31.92Over 1,240 beautiful museum quality hats reveal the milliner's ingenuity from the 1790s to the 1970s. Among the styles displayed are ascots, bourrelets, bigonnets, chapeaux rouges, nurses' hats,... -
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... -
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,... -
Lore Olympus: Volume One: The multi-award winning Sunday Times bestselling Webtoon series Rachel Smythe 9781529150452
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.10Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love - witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology's best-known stories.'Steamy, often... -
Homosexuality and Italian Cinema by Mauro Giori
SciFier: £93.49This book is the first to establish the relevance of same-sex desires, pleasures and anxieties in the cinema of post-war Italy. It explores cinematic representations of homosexuality and their...