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Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour Chiara Bucaria 9781137593375
SciFier: £102.99The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and... -
Filmurbia: Screening the Suburbs David Forrest 9781349958566
SciFier: £56.99In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became... -
Empire of Dragons by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.74Anatolia, AD 260. The Roman outpost of Edessa is on its last legs after the Persian siege, and Roman Emperor Publius Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to negotiate peace. But the... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9781349293490
SciFier: £46.99Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up... -
New Queer Sinophone Cinema by Zoran Lee Pecic
SciFier: £46.99This book looks closely at some of the most significant films within the field of queer Sinophone cinema. Examining queerness in films produced in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the book merges the... -
Dream Walker by Bruce Martin
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00Between layers of deceit and magic, nothing is as it seems. Alison Wilde is an ordinary girl in a nearly normal world, until an uncharacteristic turn of events shifts reality, as she knows it,... -
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: £103.49This 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: £36.44This 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: £92.99This 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... -
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... -
Eric Rohmer: Film as Theology K. Tester 9781403996596
SciFier: £46.99Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer... -
Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory Oliver Gruner 9781349953837
SciFier: £46.99This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and 'remembered' the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent... -
Screenwriting from the Inside Out by Margaret McVeigh
SciFier: £36.99This book provides aspiring screenwriters with a practical and informed way to learn how to think and write like a "creative" (the film industry term commonly used to refer to members of the key... -
InvestiGators: All Tide Up: A Full Colour, Laugh-Out-Loud Comic Book Adventure! John Patrick Green 9781035015429
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.39Crack the case with the InvestiGators! Join Mango and Brash in InvestiGators: All Tide Up for the seventh adventure in the laugh-out-loud full colour, comic book series perfect for fans of Bunny vs... -
The McGurk Universe by K.J. Donnelly
SciFier: £112.99This book reconsiders audiovisual culture through a focus on human perception, with recourse to ideas derived from recent neuroscience. It proceeds from the assumption that rather than simply working... -
Public Discourses of Contemporary China: The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television Y. Shen 9781349505104
SciFier: £46.99Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual... -
Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series: Murder in the Age of Chaos Barbara Pezzotti 9781349958849
SciFier: £46.99This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and... -
Gothic Modernisms A. Smith 9781349423651
SciFier: £46.99This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the... -
Sociology and Popular Television by Raisa-Gabriela Zamfirescu
SciFier: £114.42This book examines representations of gender, age and identity across the Hallmark film and television output in relation to specific periods of time that pertain to changes within the specific... -
Eric Rohmer: Film as Theology K. Tester 9781349545469
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.55Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer... -
Art, Labour and American Life by Ben Hickman
SciFier: £102.99This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work's transformations... -
Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry M. MacLaird 9781137008060
SciFier: £92.99Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed... -
The British Official Film in South-East Asia by Ian Aitken
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book explores the ways in which the British official film was used in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the 1970s. Aitken uncovers how the British official film, and British... -
Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the 'Post-Cinematic' Imagination Alistair D. Swale 9781137463340
SciFier: £83.49Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While... -
Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry M. MacLaird 9781349435456
SciFier: £92.99Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed... -
Objects in Italian Life and Culture: Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality Paolo Bartoloni 9781349956630
SciFier: £46.99This book makes visible the hidden relations between things and individuals through a discussion of creative processes and cultural practices. Italian life and culture are filled with objects that... -
Gothic Modernisms A. Smith 9780333918739
SciFier: £46.99This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the... -
Harland Miller: XXX by Harland Miller
RRP: £49.95SciFier: £34.71The first book to focus exclusively on Harland Miller's popular series of Letter PaintingsInfused with irreverent wit and shaped by his love of language, Harland Miller's playful and graphically...