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Finding the Personal Voice in Filmmaking by Erik Knudsen
SciFier: £57.58This book philosophically and creatively examines ways in which independent filmmakers may explore, through practice, the discovery and development of a personal voice in the making of their films... -
Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach Paul Fisher Davies 9783030297213
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: £112.99Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide... -
Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art: Process and Practice Bernadette Cronin 9783030251635
SciFier: £112.99This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media. Turning its attention from the 'what' to the 'how' of adaptation, it serves to re-situate the... -
Memory and Intermediality in Artists' Moving Image Sarah Durcan 9783030473983
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £30.99This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary artists' moving image installations. It situates artists' moving image in relation to the transformations of digitalization as hybrid... -
Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse Stephen Joyce 9783319939513
SciFier: £67.49This book confronts the question of why our culture is so fascinated by the apocalypse. It ultimately argues that while many see the post-apocalyptic genre as reflective of contemporary fears, it has... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise Stephen Hamrick 9783030339609
SciFier: £48.19Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th... -
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: The Rise of the Cine-fille Mary Harrod 9783030709938
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there... -
Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art Collin McKinney 9783030568191
SciFier: £112.99Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain's... -
Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth James Mairata 9783030098681
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £72.49This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883409
SciFier: £112.99Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide... -
Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse Stephen Joyce 9783030067533
SciFier: £46.99This book confronts the question of why our culture is so fascinated by the apocalypse. It ultimately argues that while many see the post-apocalyptic genre as reflective of contemporary fears, it has... -
Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama: Pause, Rewind, Record JP Kelly 9783319631172
SciFier: £93.49This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and... -
Memory and Intermediality in Artists' Moving Image Sarah Durcan 9783030473952
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £41.99This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary artists' moving image installations. It situates artists' moving image in relation to the transformations of digitalization as hybrid... -
Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh by Eamonn Jordan
SciFier: £52.70This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven... -
Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture by Miguel Cesar
SciFier: £56.91This book focuses on the theme of the transgression of life and death boundaries through its representation in Japanese contemporary visual media, more specifically in the manga Fullmetal Alchemist,... -
Graphic Novels as Pedagogy in Social Studies: How to Draw Citizenship Angelo J. Letizia 9783030442545
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book examines the study of citizenship by means of reading and creating graphic novels and comics in the social studies classroom. The author argues that utilizing graphic novels in the... -
Graphic Novels as Pedagogy in Social Studies: How to Draw Citizenship Angelo J. Letizia 9783030442514
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book examines the study of citizenship by means of reading and creating graphic novels and comics in the social studies classroom. The author argues that utilizing graphic novels in the... -
Gothic Cinema by Katharina Rein
SciFier: £26.99Gothic Cinema closes a gap in German-language film discourse: for the first time, the volume sheds light on a hitherto little-discussed film context. It considers Gothic Cinema as a form of... -
Comics and Archaeology Zena Kamash 9783030989187
SciFier: £36.99This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in... -
Who Wrote Citizen Kane? by Warren Buckland
SciFier: £112.79This book offers a solution to one of film history's major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles' and Herman J. Mankiewicz's contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay. It... -
Virtual Realities: Case Studies in Immersion and Phenomenology Stuart Marshall Bender 9783030825492
RRP: £52.99SciFier: £51.99Virtual Realities presents a ground-breaking application of phenomenology as a critical method to explore the impact of immersive media. Specific case studies examine 360-degree documentary... -
Comics and Archaeology Zena Kamash 9783030989217
SciFier: £36.99This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in... -
Computers in Art, Design and Animation by John Lansdown
SciFier: £93.49The collection of papers that makes up this book arises largely from the joint activities of two specialist groups of the British Computer Society, namely the Displays Group and the Computer Arts... -
Screen Production Research by Craig Batty
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £28.49Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like-and by doing so celebrates creative practice... -
The Rise of Victorian Caricature Ian Haywood 9783030346614
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £82.99This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in... -
Virtual Realities: Case Studies in Immersion and Phenomenology Stuart Marshall Bender 9783030825461
RRP: £54.99SciFier: £51.99Virtual Realities presents a ground-breaking application of phenomenology as a critical method to explore the impact of immersive media. Specific case studies examine 360-degree documentary... -
The Rise of Victorian Caricature Ian Haywood 9783030346584
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £82.99This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in... -
Durational Cinema: A Short History of Long Films Michael Walsh 9783030760946
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the... -
The Protagonist's Journey by Scott Myers
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.49Character drives plot. Based on this principle, this book walks aspiring writers through the fascinating world of character-driven screenwriting. When a writer engages their characters, they start a... -
Disney Stories: Getting to Digital Newton Lee 9781461421009
SciFier: £46.99Disney Stories: Getting to Digital explores how Disney, the man and the company, used technological innovation to create characters and stories that engage audiences in many different media, in... -
Almost Gave Up: A Series About Falling Apart & Finding Yourself Again Aniya Springer 9798276992518
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798276992518Author Aniya SpringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint -
The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030102753
SciFier: £56.99This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk's tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK,... -
The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783319728407
SciFier: £93.49This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk's tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK,... -
Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Helen Davies 9783319905051
SciFier: £92.99This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability... -
The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920: Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity Sam Beale 9783030479435
SciFier: £94.93This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880-1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British... -
Durational Cinema: A Short History of Long Films Michael Walsh 9783030760915
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the... -
EMI Films and the Limits of British Cinema by Paul Moody
RRP: £69.99SciFier: £67.49This book is the first of its kind to trace the development of one of the largest and most important companies in British cinema history, EMI Films. From 1969 to its eventual demise in 1986, EMI... -
Handbuch Televisuelle Serialitat Sven Grampp 9783658352844
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £98.99Seit der Diskussion um Quality TV, digitalen Streaming-Plattformen und die Emanzipation der Serie vom klassischen Programm medium Fernsehen boomt die Forschung zum seriellen Erzahlen. Eine... -
Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage Dominic Davies 9783030379971
SciFier: £103.27Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and...