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Theoretical Perspectives on Fan Scholarship in the Franchise Era Sophie Charlotte Goor 9781041189480
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This book is a practical and theoretical guide for anyone interested in researching popular media, popular culture, audiences, and fans. Unlike most books, Theoretical Perspectives does not talk... -
List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed Liam Young 9781041182160
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00We live in an age of lists, from magazine features to online clickbait. This book situates the list in a long tradition, asking key questions about the list as a cultural and communicative form... -
Digital Gaming and the Advertising Landscape Teresa Hera 9781041178118
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00The evolution of the game industry and changes in the advertising landscape in recent years have led to a keen interest of marketers in using digital games for advertising purposes. However, despite... -
Dress and Undress: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century Iris Brooke 9781032914992
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £29.86Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress - formal and informal - from the time of Charles II to the end of the eighteenth century. Most of the illustrations are taken... -
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film Ian Aitken (Hong Kong Baptist University) 9781138107847
SciFier: £47.30The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumiere brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumiere... -
Capturing Big Ideas for Less in Feature Film: How a Limited Environment Can Serve Substantial Themes David Carren (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA) 9781032745442
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £35.06This book is an accessible guide, directed towards filmmakers with restricted resources and shortened schedules, who want to ensure their creation of riveting, fresh, and exciting projects. Whether a... -
Post-cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era Jose Moure 9781041184546
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Post-cinema designates a new way of making films. It is time to ask whether this novelty is complete or relative and to evaluate to what extent it represents a unitary or diversified current. The... -
Japanese Ikat Weaving: The Techniques of Kasuri Jun Tomita 9781032642819
SciFier: £29.83First Published in 1982, Japanese Ikat Weaving offers a professional approach to the subject, presented with great clarity and precision. Japanese Ikat weaving, also known as Kasuri, is the technique... -
David Lynch by Reba Wissner
SciFier: £51.54Director David Lynch is best known for films that channel the uncanny and the weird into a distinct "Lynchian" aesthetic, in which sound and music play a key role: Lynch not only writes his intended... -
Futurist Cinema: Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film Rossella Catanese 9781041179948
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly... -
Hollywood is Everywhere: Global Directors in the Blockbuster Era Melis Behlil 9781041180937
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Hollywood has a long tradition of bringing in emigre directors from around the world, dating back to the silent era. Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster... -
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability Gerald Sim 9781041184560
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark... -
Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film Sulgi Lie 9781041189671
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the cinema... -
Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television Jessica Gildersleeve 9781041185833
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00The persistent popularity of the detective narrative, new obsessions with psychological and supernatural disturbances, as well as the resurgence of older narratives of mystery or the Gothic all... -
Perspectives on the European Videogame Victor Navarro-Remesal 9781041184089
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00The history of European videogames has so far been overshadowed by the global impact of the Japanese and North American industries. However, European game development studios have played a major role... -
The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication Aidan McGarry 9781041187141
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and... -
Hollywood and After by Jerzy Toeplitz
SciFier: £117.34First published in English in 1974, Hollywood and After presents contemporary cinema in all its complexity, describing and analyzing the various factors which, in the sixties and seventies, brought... -
Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: Objectivists in Cinema Benoit Turquety 9781041177913
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European... -
Images of Occupation in Dutch Film: Memory, Myth, and the Cultural Legacy of War Wendy Burke 9781041181248
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00The German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II left a lasting mark on Dutch memory and culture. This book is the first to explore depictions of that period in films made a generation... -
Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth Tiago Luca 9781041184256
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70The story is now familiar. In the late 1960s humanity finally saw photographic evidence of the Earth in space for the first time. According to this narrative, the impact of such images in the... -
Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences S. V. Srinivas 9781032793672
SciFier: £37.66Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has continued to evolve and grow. However, with innovations in... -
Contemporary Post-Production: Create, Cut, Collaborate, Color, Deliver Melanie La Rosa 9781032640037
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53Contemporary Post-Production is an engaging and insightful guide through the often fraught and stressful phase of post-production. It brings the art and craft of editing to life, describes... -
Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology Julia Vassilieva 9781041176176
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined... -
Ephemeral Cinema Spaces: Stories of Reinvention, Resistance and Community Maria Velez-Serna 9781041178842
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the 2010s saw a surge in interest for screening films in other... -
Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan Rafal Zaborowski 9781041183211
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, circulation and cultural production in the digital... -
Mastering the Craft of Diverse and Inclusive Screenwriting: Find Your Screenwriting Superpower Karla Rae Fuller 9781032627069
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £35.06This accessible and informative textbook provides a guide to the craft of screenwriting with an emphasis on diverse perspectives, underrepresented groups and their screen stories. Readers will learn... -
Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful Legene 9781041183204
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage... -
Religion and Science Fiction: An Introduction James H. Thrall, M.D. 9780367465100
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £35.06With cutting-edge case studies, discussion questions, lists of key terms, extensive additional resources, and suggestions for projects and essay questions, this textbook is engaging reading for... -
Tolkien and the Kalevala by Jyrki Korpua
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £48.06This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien's unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, compiled, edited and partly revisioned from older... -
Scriptwriting for Theatre and Screen: A Practical Guide Richard Stockwell 9781032874692
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £35.06Scriptwriting for Theatre and Screen: A Practical Guide is an introduction designed to help readers understand the nature of dramatic scriptwriting and quickly guide them to a place where they can... -
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-War Fiction Film Peter Verstraten 9781041181118
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Dutch cinema, when discussed, is typically treated only in terms of pre-war films or documentaries, leaving post-war fictional film largely understudied. At the same time, a Hollandse school, a term... -
Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror: Adaptations and Televisuality Stuart Richards 9781041175377
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Agatha Christie's work has been adapted extensively resulting in transformations that are both textual and cultural. While many adaptations are best known for being quaint murder mysteries, there are... -
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature by William Franke
SciFier: £50.66This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle... -
Hungarian Film, 1929-1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism and Popular Cinema Gabor Gergely 9781041181125
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £38.68What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian? People in Hungary grappled with this far-reaching question in the wake of the losses and transformation brought by World War I. Because the... -
Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism Rafael Carrion-Arias 9781032423159
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of... -
Robert Pollok's The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age: The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic Deryl Davis 9781032523156
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £37.66This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok's religious epic The Course of Time (1827), one of the best- selling long poems of the nineteenth century, which has been almost... -
Producing Film and Television: First In, Last Out Steve Pinhay 9781032608686
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This book is about what it takes to be a producer, the person responsible for getting a project off the ground and seeing it through to a conclusion sometimes years after things got started. For this... -
Visions of Vienna: Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema Alexandra Seibel 9781041190356
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim,... -
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection Ilka Brasch 9781041179382
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialized films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring... -
Special Effects on the Screen: Faking the View from Melies to Motion Capture Martin Lefebvre 9781041186533
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Since the very first days of cinema, audiences have marveled at the special effects imagery presented on movie screens. While long relegated to the margins of film studies, special effects have...