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Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film Carolina Rocha 9781349440610
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £34.56This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the... -
Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back Susan A. George 9781349489619
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... -
Clean Kill by Donald A. Davis
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.74At a 15th Century castle outside of Edinburgh, Sir Geoffrey Cornwell, overseer of Task Force Trident and a former colonel, is in the process of brokering an unprecedented agreement. Prince Abdullah... -
Anahera Vianne Max 9781803780375
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.69We all imagine escaping into new worlds, but how challenging would it really be to survive? What if you were dragged through a gateway into a place filled with magic...and you had none? On... -
Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street L. Robinson 9780230298293
SciFier: £46.99The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in... -
European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life Ib Bondebjerg 9781349675562
SciFier: £92.99This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and... -
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film Carolina Rocha 9781137030863
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £34.79This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the... -
Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye G. Padva 9781349473090
SciFier: £46.99This 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... -
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence S. Simkin 9781403944115
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,... -
Beckett's Art of Absence by Ciaran Ross
SciFier: £82.99Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett's aesthetics of absence. Focusing on the first prose trilogy and Waiting for Godot, it offers a critical... -
The Princess and the Wizard Julia Donaldson 9781405090766 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £2.17"The princess may try seven times to escape By changing her colour and changing her shape." But each time Princess Eliza changes - into a blue fish, a yellow chick, a red fox or a black cat - the... -
A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television S. Panse 9781137014177
SciFier: £46.99A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television is a response to a significant increase of judgment and judgmentalism in contemporary television, film, and social media by investigating the changing... -
The Lost by Caridad Pineiro
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Adam Salvatore is no ordinary millionaire. The heir to an ancient race possessing a dark, powerful magic, he can shapeshift and create energy. His gifts make him a living weapon and have forced him... -
Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation S. Napier 9780312238636
SciFier: £92.99With the popularity of Pokemon still far from waning, Japanese animation, known as anime to its fans, has a firm hold on American pop culture. However, anime is much more than children's cartoons. It... -
Rosa By Starlight Hilary McKay 9781529074512
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £7.20From the Costa Award-winning author Hilary McKay, comes the story of a young girl looking for magic in the world, and the feline family who help her to find it.Rosa lives in a world where she... -
British Silent Cinema and the Great War M. Hammond 9780230292628
SciFier: £46.99This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so... -
Docudrama on European Television by Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
SciFier: £24.49This book explores docudrama as a creative response to troubled times. With generic characteristics formed via traditions in theatre as well as film, and with claims to fact underscored by... -
Animated Documentary Annabelle Honess Roe 9781137017451
SciFier: £83.49Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways... -
Animated Documentary Annabelle Honess Roe 9781349437092
RRP: £69.99SciFier: £67.49Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways... -
Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema by Matilda Mroz
SciFier: £113.21This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema's engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional... -
The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture A. Berger 9780230103726
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... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks Liz Greene 9781137516794
SciFier: £113.99This book bridges the existing gap between film sound and film music studies by bringing together scholars from both disciplines who challenge the constraints of their subject areas by thinking about... -
Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature T. Green 9781349448593
SciFier: £46.99Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in... -
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780230104082
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 9780230223615
SciFier: £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... -
Delirium Alexander Fisher 9781803781242
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.74The end of the virus was just the beginning... Amazonian River Fever has decimated Prague, forcing the few survivors of the savage pandemic to flee to the uninfected village of Otocka. Doctor... -
Public Service Broadcasting Online: A Comparative European Policy Study of PSB 2.0 B. Brevini 9781349451739
SciFier: £46.99This book investigates the extent to which a Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) ethos has been extended to the online world in Europe. It examines the most significant policy initiatives carried out... -
Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema A. Davies 9781349314379
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £40.11A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays... -
The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship J. Buchanan 9780230313842
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... -
Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures P. Szczepanik 9781137282170
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,... -
European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life Ib Bondebjerg 9781137356871
SciFier: £92.99This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and... -
Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street L. Robinson 9781349334438
SciFier: £46.99The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in... -
Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781137450500
SciFier: £106.21This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema. Evaluating the place of consumption within cinematic structures, Piatti-Farnell analyses how... -
An Act of Treason Jack Coughlin 9781447289128
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.24Marine sniper Kyle Swanson and his beautiful girlfriend, CIA agent Lauren Carson, are on a mission in Pakistan when their world is turned inside out. Kyle is captured and thrown in prison. Lauren is... -
Reboot Culture by William Proctor
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £35.99This book examines the reboot phenomenon from its historical emergence as a concept within the superhero comic book medium, specifically DC Comics, to its conceptual adaptation across media platforms... -
Grand Designs by Aneta Podkalicka
SciFier: £95.27This is the first academic book to examine the long running hit series Grand Designs, which occupies a significant place in the popular imagination internationally. The authors apply an empirically... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9780230579699
SciFier: £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... -
Islam, Security and Television News C. Flood 9780230241459
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... -
Genre in Asian Film and Television: New Approaches F. Chan 9780230272170
SciFier: £46.99Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments... -
Screening the Face P. Coates 9781349334650
SciFier: £46.99Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range...