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World Film Locations: Glasgow by Nicola Balkind
SciFier: £24.44World Film Locations: Glasgow explores Scotland's biggest city and the many locations in which its films are viewed, set and shot. Taking in the important moments and movements in its rich cinematic... -
Montreal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion Katrina Sark (University of Victoria) 9781783206162
SciFier: £66.77Montreal is a la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and... -
Videogames and Art by Andy Clarke
SciFier: £48.09Videogames are firmly enmeshed in modern culture. Acknowledging the increasing cultural impact of this rapidly changing industry on artistic and creative practices, Videogames and Art features... -
Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes by Tom Ue (Cape Breton University, Canada)
SciFier: £24.44Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of... -
Fashion Cities Africa by Hannah Azieb Pool
SciFier: £23.26In a searing 2012 Guardian op-ed, Hannah Azieb Pool took Western fashion designers to task for their so-called African-inspired clothing. 'Dear Fashion,' she wrote, 'Africa is a continent, not a... -
The Face on the Screen by Therese Davis
SciFier: £30.16There was a time in screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image...The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the... -
David Cronenberg by Mark Browning
SciFier: £30.16For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly... -
Gay Men at the Movies by Scott McKinnon
SciFier: £50.25Cinema has long played a major role in the formation of community among marginalized groups, and this book details that process for gay men in Sydney, Australia from the 1950s to the present. Scott... -
Kurt Kren by Nicky Hamlyn
SciFier: £55.74Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films-often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams-have influenced... -
Immigration Cinema in the New Europe by Isolina Ballesteros (Vassar College.)
SciFier: £33.99Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first generation immigrants and children of the diaspora... -
Aleksandr Askoldov by Marat Grinberg
SciFier: £24.44Filmed in 1966 and '67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one of the most important and compelling films of the Soviet era. Based on a short story by Vasily... -
Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from Iran and Turkey Goenul Doenmez-Colin 9781841505480
SciFier: £25.14Following an introduction delineating the histories of the film industries of the countries that make up the Middle East and Central Asia - including Iran, Turkey, and the Central Asian republics of... -
Directory of World Cinema: China 2 by Gary Bettinson (Lancaster University, UK)
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.98Since the publication of the first volume of Directory of World Cinema: China, the Chinese film industry has intensified its efforts to make inroads into the American market. The 2012 acquisition of... -
The Multisensory Film Experience by Luis Rocha Antunes
SciFier: £33.99When the lights dim in a movie theatre and the projector begins to click and whir, the light and sounds of the motion picture become the gateway to a multisensory experience. Moving beyond the... -
New Zealand Cinema by Alistair Fox
SciFier: £25.14New Zealand has produced one of the world's most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country's evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features... -
Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses by Eva Bakoy
SciFier: £40.68This edited collection focuses on the production cultures of successful small and medium-sized (SME) film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, based on a... -
Fan Phenomena: The Hunger Games by Nicola Balkind
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26An exciting dystopian fantasy thriller series, The Hunger Games began its life as a trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins, the first released in 2008. An immediate success, the first instalment had a... -
Inclusion in New Danish Cinema by Meryl Shriver-Rice (University of Miami)
SciFier: £36.85Often recognized as one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark, like its Scandinavian neighbours, is known for its progressive culture, which is also reflected in its national cinema. It is... -
World Film Locations: Rome Gabriel Solomons 9781783202003
SciFier: £24.44Rome is a city rich in history and culture and imbued with a realism and romanticism that has captured the imaginations of filmmakers throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With over... -
World Film Locations: Shanghai by John Berra (Renmin University of China)
SciFier: £24.44Celebrating Shanghai's rich cinematic history, the films covered here represent a lengthy time period, from the first Golden Age of Chinese Cinema in the 1930s to the city's status as an... -
Havana Street Style by Conner Gorry
RRP: £25.95SciFier: £23.99When it comes to fashion, few metropolitan areas are more synonymous with style than New York, London, Paris and Milan. But the couture capitals of tomorrow may be located in less likely locales... -
Fan Phenomena: Supernatural by Lynn Zubernis (West Chester University, USA)
SciFier: £31.06Supernatural premiered on September 14, 2005, on what was then called the WB Network. Creator Eric Kripke was inspired by Jack Kerouac's On The Road, putting his heroes, brothers Sam and Dean... -
The Artist as Curator Celina Jeffery (University of Ottawa) 9781783203376
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £36.83In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators and its audience is subverted and democratised... -
World Film Locations: Los Angeles Gabriel Solomons 9781841504858
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £17.05The heart of Hollywood's star-studded film industry for more than a century, Los Angeles and its abundant and ever-changing locales - from the Santa Monica Pier to the infamous and now-defunct... -
Computers and Art by Stuart Mealing
SciFier: £30.16Computers and Art provides insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use... -
World Film Locations: Chicago by Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.)
SciFier: £24.44While some call it the Second City, Chicago is no stranger to the silver screen. Director Christopher Nolan transformed Chicago into the darkly foreboding Gotham City for The Dark Knight . Ferris... -
Directors by Susan Beth Lehman
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £13.85Despite the increasing popularity of academic filmmaking programs in the United States, some of contemporary America's most exciting film directors have emerged from the theater world. Directors:... -
International Dialogues about Visual Culture, Education and Art by Teresa Eca (Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS), School of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal)
SciFier: £30.16Although art is taught around the world, art education policies and practices vary widely-and the opportunities for teachers to exchange information are few. International Dialogues about Visual... -
Crime Uncovered: Antihero by Fiona Peters
SciFier: £23.50There are few figures as captivating as the antihero: the character we can't help but root for, even as we turn away in revulsion from many of the things they do. What is it that draws us to... -
Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 by Ben Goldsmith
SciFier: £48.09Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first instalment of Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand, this volume continues the exploration of the cinema... -
The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age by Mel Alexenberg
SciFier: £42.34In The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age, artist and educator Mel Alexenberg offers a vision of a postdigital future that reveals a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of... -
Urban Cinematics by Francois Penz
SciFier: £25.14Urban Cinematics surveys the mechanisms by which cinema contributes to our understanding of cities to address two key issues: How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces, and how do urban spaces make... -
Iranian Cinema and Globalization by Shahab Esfandiary
SciFier: £30.16Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences, Iranian cinema has been the subject of lamentably few academic studies-and those have by and large been limited to... -
Queer Cinema in Europe by Robin Griffiths
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £27.53This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of... -
Don't Look Now by Paul Newland (University of Worcester, United Kingdom)
SciFier: £30.16While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don't Look Now uncovers forgotten... -
Greek Cinema by Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK)
SciFier: £30.16Covering the silent era to the present, this wide-ranging collection of essays examines Greek cinema as an aesthetic, cultural, and political phenomenon with the potential to appeal to a diverse... -
Reframing Reality by Alison Frank
SciFier: £24.44Marcel Duchamp's urinal re-named 'fountain' and placed in an art gallery. The classic image that can be seen as a duck or a rabbit, depending on how you look at it. A random object that grabs your... -
Beijing Film Academy 2021 Journal of Beijing Film Academy 9781789389395
RRP: £109.95SciFier: £100.14The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research from the previous year, as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing... -
Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £24.44Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn Monroe was an actress, singer and sex symbol whose influence far outlasted her short life. Contributors to Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe situate the platinum... -
Sensing the City through Television by Peter Billingham
SciFier: £24.44An investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama, assessing their political, sociological and cultural implications. The book draws...