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Horror Films by Subgenre by Chris Vander Kaay
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $43.99More horror movies are produced and released each year than any other film genre. While horror enjoys broad popularity, many hardcore fans voraciously consume films from their favorite subgenres... -
The Greek Film Musical by Lydia Papadimitriou
RRP: $82.42SciFier: $71.97The Greek film musical was the most popular film genre in Greece in the 1960s. The songs became instant hits, the dances were performed at parties, and the fashions were imitated by people of all... -
Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity by Dr Nadira Khatun (Assistant Professor, School of Communications, XIM University, Odisha.)
SciFier: $214.57The book joins a growing scholarship in the field of Bollywood film studies, encompassing methodological sub-groups such as discursive or narrative studies, textual analysis, audience research, and... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9780230110922
SciFier: $107.61Exploring 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... -
The Political Gesture in Pedro Costa's Films by Fiona Handyside
RRP: $103.05SciFier: $95.01This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costa's formal procedures generate a... -
The Subversive Zombie by Elizabeth Aiossa
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $45.09Zombies have changed dramatically in the new millennium. They are no longer the comical, shuffling, mindless monsters of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968). In works such as 28 Days... -
Cartomancy and Tarot in Film by Emily E. Auger
RRP: $215.15SciFier: $214.39In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy - the practice of fortune telling via playing cards - and dives deep into its invention... -
Jungian Reflections within the Cinema by James F. Iaccino
SciFier: $179.74Exploring the relevance of Jungian theory as it applies to science fiction, horror and fantasy films, this text demonstrates the remarkable correlation existing between Jung's major archetypes and... -
The Birth of the American Horror Film Gary D. Rhodes 9781474430869
RRP: $61.81SciFier: $57.73Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject for what is arguably one of the world's most... -
Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film: Comedy Italian Style Andrea Bini 9781137516886
RRP: $228.98SciFier: $212.95The most popular film genre during the golden years of Italian cinema, the Comedy Italian Style emerged after the fall of the Facist regime, narrating the identity crisis of many Italian men... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9781349293490
SciFier: $107.61Exploring 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... -
Volatile Whiteness by Martin Repinecz
RRP: $121.37SciFier: $95.38The decades spanning from the 1960s to the 1980s in Spain were marked by a series of significant changes: a flourishing economy fuelled by tourism, widespread migration from rural areas to cities,... -
Film Studies: An Introduction: Teach Yourself by Warren Buckland
RRP: $29.75SciFier: $21.09An unpretentious guide for all those who want to learn to analyse, understand and evaluate films.Film Studies: An Introduction provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including... -
Psycho Thrillers by William Indick
RRP: $57.23SciFier: $49.49Mind control, madness and altered states of reality can make for exciting nights at the movies--which explains the enduring popularity of a film genre that might be called the psycho thriller... -
Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action: A Different Tune Amanda Howell 9780367866563
SciFier: $98.15Amanda Howell offers a new perspective on the contemporary pop score as the means by which masculinities not seen-or heard-before become a part of post-World War II American cinema. Popular Film... -
Women, Film, and Law by Suzanne Bouclin
RRP: $64.10SciFier: $51.66Entertainment and profit constitute the driving forces behind most popular representations of incarcerated women. Some cinematic representations, however, and the women-in-prison genre especially,... -
The Limits of #MeToo in Hollywood by Margaret Tally
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $56.81When, in October 2017, actress Alyssa Milano sparked the #MeToo movement, the ensuing protests quickly grew to encompass far more than Harvey Weinstein and the entertainment industry. They expressed... -
Hang 'Em High by Bob Herzberg
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $56.81For more than a century the Western film has proven to be an enduring genre. At the dawn of the 20th century, in the same years that The Great Train Robbery begat a film genre, Owen Wister wrote... -
Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir Mike Chopra-Gant 9781850438380
SciFier: $66.39This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge... -
Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide Julian Koch 9781399558211
RRP: $217.55SciFier: $183.18Documentaries are the most common film genre representing genocide and thus significantly shape public understanding of the subject. Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide is a wide-ranging... -
Colour Films in Britain: The Eastmancolor Revolution Sarah Street (University of Bristol) 9781911239574
SciFier: $71.86The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of... -
Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation Neil Sinyard 9781138969780
SciFier: $112.05This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H... -
Outback by Brian McFarlane (Swinburne University of Technology,Melbourne)
RRP: $205.99SciFier: $204.31Focusing on the incidence of the 'Westerns' film genre in the 120-odd years of Australian cinema history, exploring how the American genre has been adapted to the changing Australian social,... -
Colour Films in Britain: The Eastmancolor Revolution Sarah Street (University of Bristol) 9781911239581
SciFier: $219.68The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of... -
Assassin's Creed: Into the Animus by Ian Nathan
Titan BooksRRP: $80.15SciFier: $54.04Become a part of history with this exploration of the art and creation of the Assassin's Creed film. Based on the highly popular game series, the fight between the Assassins and Templars comes to the... -
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema C. O'Rawe 9781137381460
SciFier: $103.03Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed... -
Deformed and Destructive Beings by George Ochoa
RRP: $50.36SciFier: $43.99Why are audiences drawn to horror films? Previous answers to that question have included everything from a need to experience fear to a hunger for psychotherapy. This critical text proposes that the... -
Mission Unaccomplished: American War Films in the Twenty-First Century Alan Nadel 9781477332610
RRP: $100.76SciFier: $84.96An analysis of how post-9/11 war movies changed from following soldiers on specific missions to chronicling war as a day-to-day occupation. In 2003, the United States began a war in Iraq without a... -
Rated A by Darshana Sreedhar Mini
RRP: $68.70SciFier: $57.09A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the 1990s, India's... -
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema C. O'Rawe 9781349479627
SciFier: $107.61Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed... -
Epic Films by Gary Allen Smith
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $58.42"Epic" films, those concerned with monumental events and larger-than-life characters, cover the period from the Creation to the A.D. 1200s and have been churned out by Hollywood and overseas... -
Outback: Westerns in Australian Cinema Brian McFarlane (Swinburne University of Technology,Melbourne) 9781835952672
RRP: $80.04SciFier: $75.07Focusing on the incidence of the 'Westerns' film genre in the 120-odd years of Australian cinema history, exploring how the American genre has been adapted to the changing Australian social,... -
The Computer-Animated Film by Christopher Holliday
RRP: $70.99SciFier: $63.68Widely credited for the revival of feature-length animated filmmaking within contemporary Hollywood, computer-animated films are today produced within a variety of national contexts and traditions... -
Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood by R. McCallum
RRP: $228.98SciFier: $212.95This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film... -
The New American Crime Film by Matthew Sorrento
RRP: $66.39SciFier: $56.81The American crime film has recently enjoyed a surge in popularity and proliferation, making it the most pervasive genre in contemporary cinema. Though it now tackles current issues, it continues... -
British National Cinema Sarah Street 9780415384223
SciFier: $88.23The first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's... -
The Western in the Global South MaryEllen Higgins 9781138548688
SciFier: $112.05The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with,... -
Film as Religion, Second Edition: Myths, Morals, and Rituals John C. Lyden 9781479811991
RRP: $57.23SciFier: $51.66Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious... -
A Guide to Films on the Korean War by Paul M. Edwards
SciFier: $224.40Written by a knowledgeable film critic and Korean War scholar, this is the only guide exclusively devoted to the study of Hollywood and television films based on the Korean War, 1950-1953. It opens... -
Terror and Everyday Life: Singular Moments in the History of the Horror Film Jonathan Lake Crane 9780803958494
SciFier: $256.46He persuasively demonstrates that horror films are not merely a manifestation of the solitary, unconscious 'I' or cultural abjection. . . . This well-crafted, insightful, and devilishly witty study...