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Pasternak: A Biography Ronald Hingley 9780367753375
SciFier: $78.30This biographical study, first published in 1985, draws on extensive newly available material and illuminates the life and work of a man who lived through one of the most turbulent periods of Russian... -
Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star Lisa Funnell 9781438452487
SciFier: $59.06Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies CategoryBronze... -
Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema D. Ging 9780230232006
SciFier: $107.61Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic... -
100 Bible Films Matthew Page (Independent scholar, UK) 9781839023521
RRP: $45.78SciFier: $40.28From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the Bible for over 120 years, from the first... -
Women in Weimar Fashion by Mila Ganeva (Customer)
RRP: $75.55SciFier: $53.56New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media... -
Hammer Goes to Hell by Kieran Foster
RRP: $194.65SciFier: $183.18Explores the production issues and cultural contexts of Hammer's unmade films Presents a previously undocumented history of one of the most famous British production companies of all time The... -
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
GollanczSciFier: $58.37The beginning of a new trilogy from perhaps the most significant SF writer of the 21st century and co-author with Terry Pratchett of the Long Earth booksThe first in a new trilogy that will chart... -
Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship Wendy Parkins 9781859735879
SciFier: $84.71With an afterword by Roger Griffin.Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this... -
Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film Craig Ian Mann 9781474441124
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $48.39Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf film Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film Reconsiders the... -
Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958-Present M. Wildermuth 9781137408884
SciFier: $107.61As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and The... -
At the Movies, Film Reviewing, and Screenwriting by Steven Maras (University of Western Australia, Australia)
RRP: $205.99SciFier: $188.31This book examines film reviewing and screenwriting as key sites of cultural mediation, providing new insights on the relationship between criticism and reviewing, as well as the way reviewers handle... -
Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958-Present M. Wildermuth 9781349488438
SciFier: $107.61As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and The... -
Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema Tejaswini Ganti (New York University, USA) 9780415583886
SciFier: $64.42'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production... -
The Films of Pawe? Pawlikowski Elzbieta Ostrowska 9781399532655
RRP: $217.55SciFier: $183.18Recognised as one of the most significant contemporary directors, Pawe? Pawlikowski achieved global acclaim with the Academy Award-winning Ida (2013). ReFocus: The Films of Pawe? Pawlikowski is the... -
Strange Travellers by Gene Wolfe
RRP: $27.46SciFier: $24.59Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the SF genre. It has been ten years since the last major Wolfe collection, so STRANGE TRAVELLERS contains a... -
Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 5 (light novel) by Natsume Akatsuki
Yen PressRRP: $29.75SciFier: $21.09In the week since Lilith arrived, the Demon Lord's army has seen significant losses, prompting an invitation to Six and the others for negotiations. But could the invite into demon territory be a... -
The Lore of New Mexico by Marta Weigle
SciFier: $121.35First published in 1988, this award-winning compendium of New Mexico's Indian, Hispanic and Anglo traditions is the state's first complete folklore volume. Using a broad range of sources from... -
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde by Bill Nichols
RRP: $66.41SciFier: $55.65Regarded as one of the founders of the postwar American independent cinema, the legendary Maya Deren was a poet, photographer, ethnographer, filmmaker and impresario. Her efforts to promote an... -
100 Bible Films Matthew Page (Independent scholar, UK) 9781839023538
RRP: $160.30SciFier: $134.56"Exhaustively researched." Total Film From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the... -
Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia, UK) 9781501354878
SciFier: $84.71This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Princess Mononoke (1997) is one of anime's most important... -
Hollywood Quarterly by Eric Smoodin
RRP: $54.96SciFier: $51.32The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire... -
Who's Who in Faeryland by John Kruse
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $27.37This book offers a series of biographies of some of the most significant and best-known of the faery folk. A lot of faeries are extremely familiar to us, being distinct characters with names and... -
Women Filmmakers in Mexico by Elissa J. Rashkin
RRP: $54.94SciFier: $44.56Women filmmakers in Mexico were rare until the 1980s and 1990s, when women began to direct feature films in unprecedented numbers. Their films have won acclaim at home and abroad, and the filmmakers... -
George Sidney: A Bio-Bibliography Eric Monder 9780313284571
SciFier: $157.99George Sidney directed a number of popular Hollywood films, such as Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Bye Bye Birdie. His revisions of traditional Hollywood product resulted in films that... -
Contemporary US Cinema Michael Allen 9780582437760
SciFier: $140.61Contemporary U.S. Cinema is a forceful exploration of the tumultuous changes that have dominated the shifting landscape of American film-making over the past three decades. From the explosive release... -
Sir Rohan's Ghost. A Romance by Harriet Prescott Spofford
RRP: $183.20SciFier: $182.33Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel 'Sir Rohan's Ghost' by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921), one of nineteenth-century America's most significant woman writers, relates the... -
Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music Melanie Fritsch 9781781791981
RRP: $57.14SciFier: $45.78The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions... -
Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock Debbie Olson 9781349501854
SciFier: $215.44Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and... -
Discovering Short Films: The History and Style of Live-Action Fiction Shorts C. Felando 9781137488473
RRP: $206.08SciFier: $190.05As film history's oldest and one of today's most prominent forms, the live-action short film has both historical and contemporary significance. Felando discusses the historical significance of the... -
Of Solids and Surds by Samuel R Delany
SciFier: $35.27In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction "Delany's prismatic output is among the most... -
Cotton by Professor Beverly Lemire
SciFier: $263.33This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and cultural enterprise, of the ties and tensions between East and West, of... -
Documentary for the Small Screen Paul Kriwaczek 9780240514727
RRP: $164.86SciFier: $163.62Film and video have grown to be as significant in our time as books, newspapers and magazines. Documentary film-making is fast becoming as important and useful a skill as the ability to write well... -
Japanese Culture Through Videogames Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware, USA) 9780367728151
SciFier: $98.15Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and... -
Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock Debbie Olson 9781137475541
SciFier: $218.12Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and... -
The Song of Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien's Themes, Symbols and Myths David Harvey 9780008184810
RRP: $22.88SciFier: $18.82Available for the first time in paperback, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend played such a significant role in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. ... -
Letter from an Unknown Woman: Max Ophuls, Director Virginia Wexman 9780813511603
SciFier: $57.23The fifth title in the Rutgers Films in Print Series, "Letter from an Unknown Woman" is directed by Max Ophuls and based on the novella by Stefan Zweig. It is the story of Lisa, a young girl who... -
Larry Cohen by Tony Williams
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $58.42This book is the second edition of the only published study devoted to Larry Cohen and explaining his significance as a great American director. Long out of print and sought after, it covers all the... -
South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, l915-l994 Timothy Barnard 9780824045746
SciFier: $214.57First Published in 1996. This text looks at the cinema from the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. Presented by country and date... -
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Currie
SciFier: $76.81Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In... -
Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music Melanie Fritsch 9781781791974
SciFier: $179.74The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions...