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Media Practice in Iraq A. Al-Rawi 9781349346516
SciFier: £46.99A historical survey of the Iraqi media from its beginning up to the present day, focusing on the post-2003 media scene and the political and societal divisions that occurred in Iraq after US-led... -
Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation Steven T. Brown 9780230606210
SciFier: £46.99This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last... -
Television Audiences Across the World: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine J. Bourdon 9781137345097
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... -
Meet the Mubbles Liz Pichon 9781035041695
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34A brand new, FABULOUS, all singing, all dancing book of JOY!Meet the Mubbles is the first in a hilarious brand-new, full colour graphic novel series perfect for young readers from Liz Pichon, creator... -
New Argentine Film: Other Worlds G. Aguilar 9780230109018
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £19.24Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the "new... -
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... -
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781349288571
SciFier: £46.99Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from... -
The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism Steven Price 9780230223622
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first time combines detailed study of the theory and practice... -
The Digital Television Revolution: Origins to Outcomes M. Starks 9781349445219
SciFier: £46.99This account of the global switch to digital television, from its origins to its emerging outcomes, provides an understanding of how digital television is converging with the Internet. It pictures a... -
Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean by F. Laviosa
SciFier: £46.99This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a... -
The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship J. Buchanan 9781349339341
SciFier: £46.99Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other... -
Revisiting the Mexican Student Movement of 1968 by Juan J. Rojo
SciFier: £92.99Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneous construct set on establishing the "true"... -
Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back Susan A. George 9781137412553
SciFier: £46.99Through nine seasons the TV show Supernatural has delved into social, philosophical, literary, and theological themes that not only add depth to the show, but reflect our era's intellectual concerns... -
Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye G. Padva 9781137363633
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £87.23This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art... -
Performing Women: Stand-Ups, Strumpets and Itinerants Alison Oddey 9781403948779
SciFier: £47.99Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth-century, telling various stories collectively... -
Trade Policy at the Crossroads: Recent Experience of Developing Countries M. Shafaeddin 9780333595596
SciFier: £92.99Analyzing the experience of developing countries in recent years and the deadlock in trade negotiation in WTO, the author argues that the theories and practices of trade and industrial policies are... -
Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art S. Dodds 9780333801451
SciFier: £92.99Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies... -
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence S. Simkin 9781349522392
SciFier: £46.99This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death,... -
Islam, Security and Television News C. Flood 9781349317172
SciFier: £46.99Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and... -
Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures P. Szczepanik 9781349448517
SciFier: £92.99Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film,... -
Vampires on the Silent Screen by David Annwn Jones
SciFier: £112.99This book is the first study of the vampires in silent cinema, presenting a detailed academic yet accessible discussion of the films themselves and their sources. For the very first time, The Fire... -
3-D Cinema and Trauma: Poetics of Remembrance and Loss Dor Fadlon 9783031128233
SciFier: £112.99This book examines 3D cinema across the early 1950s, the early 1980s, and from 2009 to 2014, providing for the first time not only a connection between 3D cinema and historical trauma but also a... -
Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance by D. Smith-Rowsey
SciFier: £46.99In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These untraditional-looking young men were promoted and understood as alienated and ironic... -
France, Film, and the Holocaust by F. Banaji
SciFier: £46.99This book explores the relationship between film and the Holocaust in France: how has film changed the way that this traumatic event has been inscribed in French cultural memory? And what can these... -
Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making S. Plate 9781403960511
SciFier: £92.99Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata . At the same time, film production has engendered new religious... -
Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks Persi Diaconis 9780691169774
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £17.35Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron... -
Lingering by Chris Coppel
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.21The woods looked dark and ominous. Between the trees, where the darkness was blacker than black, dozens of slanted yellow eyes flicked open and stared back towards the house. They weren't the eyes of... -
Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905 by Jennifer Mooney
SciFier: £105.66Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9781349368242
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at... -
Andrei Tarkovsky by Peter Green
SciFier: £46.99A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films in the light of his own writings and life, his aesthetics of film,... -
Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art S. Dodds 9781403941459
SciFier: £92.99Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies... -
Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making S. Plate 9781403960504
SciFier: £92.99Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata . At the same time, film production has engendered new religious... -
Re-Framing the Theatrical: Interdisciplinary Landscapes for Performance A. Oddey 9781349357086
SciFier: £46.99Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of... -
The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture A. Berger 9780230103733
SciFier: £46.99In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer... -
Film as Philosophy by R. Read
SciFier: £61.99A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors - philosophers or film studies experts - write on a wide variety of films: classic Hollywood comedies, war films, Eastern European art films,...