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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... -
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... -
In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song in Film Richard Dyer 9780415223744
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £37.66Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs... -
Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies K. Donders 9781137017543
SciFier: £46.99Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, clustered around the themes of European and national... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9780230110922
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... -
Slapstick and Comic Performance by L. Peacock
SciFier: £92.99Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the... -
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... -
Transnational Television and Latinx Diasporic Audiences: Abrazos Electronicos in Four Global Cities Catherine L. Benamou 9783031115295
SciFier: £112.99This book is based on a mixed-method, longitudinal study of the transmission, production, and reception of Spanish- and Portuguese-language television in four global cities with expanding Latinx... -
Children, Film and Literacy Becky Parry 9781137294326
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £44.94Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and... -
Last Light by Chris Coppel
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.88WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT LAST LIGHT? Last Light will give you just enough illumination to see into the wonders and horrors that dwell deep within the darkest shadows. These tales will both entrance... -
Vanya and the Wild Hunt Sangu Mandanna 9781035044757
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21Eleven-year-old Vanya Vallen can talk to books. But more importantly, the books talk back.When her family is attacked by a monster she believed only existed in legends, Vanya discovers that her... -
Ottoline and the Purple Fox Chris Riddell 9781035067862
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.15A fun, fresh cover look for the fourth title in Chris Riddell's excellent Ottoline series. Packed with gorgeous black-and-white illustrations throughout, Ottoline and the Purple Fox is perfect for... -
Vanya and the Wild Hunt Sangu Mandanna 9781035022519
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.77Sangu Mandanna's magical adventure series begins with Vanya and the Wild Hunt, with stunning illustrations by Kristina Kister. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan, A. F. Steadman and Pari Thomson... -
Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin 9781037412035
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'It's a total mind-wrecker' - Max Porter'The book I wish I had written' - Lisa Taddeo'Utterly gripping' - The Observer'Dazzling' - Evening StandardAmanda knows she has to answer the questions. Lying... -
Lifetimes Chris Coppel 9781803780771
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.21'As he looked on in horror, the woman turned her head, giving Craig the full view of the exit wound. A piece the size of a grapefruit had been blown out of her skull. What remained within was black... -
Screening the Face P. Coates 9780230298477
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... -
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices S. Tay 9780230217768
SciFier: £46.99Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political,... -
Lunacy by Chris Coppel
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.89'Suddenly, a yellowish light became visible behind a small open hatch in the centre of what she knew to be the building's boiler. As she looked towards the iron beast with its one flickering yellow...