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The Queer Cultural Work of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner J. Reed 9781137358233
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £105.22Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner have been partners in life and work for more than 40 years. Over those years they have been comedic pioneers in television, sound recording, film, theater, and animation... -
Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions V. Miller 9780230353985
SciFier: £46.99A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore... -
Hitchcock and Contemporary Art C. Sprengler 9780230392151
SciFier: £46.99Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. His works have the capacity to activate sophisticated... -
Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture R. Meeuf 9781137268273
SciFier: £92.99Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars as sites of cross-cultural contestation and the... -
Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication A. Niebisch 9781137276858
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £35.39Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication... -
Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches C. Perkins 9781349321209
SciFier: £46.99Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book - the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy- provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in which the trilogy form engages key issues in... -
Screening Post-1989 China: Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television W. Ho 9781137517609
SciFier: £46.99This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Contextualizing close textual readings of cinematic and... -
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror David Greven 9781137354990
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level,... -
East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage: From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea Kenneth A. Loparo 9780230116955
SciFier: £92.99How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between... -
The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches J. Chapman 9780230001695
SciFier: £46.99The first major overview of the field of film history in twenty years, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the methods, sources and approaches used by modern film historians. The key areas of... -
Cinema and Community D. McKiernan 9780230517615
SciFier: £46.99In the first book-length study of this topic, D.W. McKiernan examines the way mainstream commercial cinema represents society's complex relationship with the idea and practice of community in the... -
Mediating Memory in the Museum: Trauma, Empathy, Nostalgia S. Arnold-de-Simine 9780230368866
SciFier: £112.99Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research that is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the... -
The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections R. Koeck 9781349318315
SciFier: £92.99This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book explores... -
Feeling Theatre Martin Welton 9781349319015
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.55Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range... -
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage C. Wynne 9781137298980
SciFier: £47.18Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how... -
Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema C. Yates 9781403986214
SciFier: £46.99This study provides new insights into the link between masculinity and jealousy through a study of representations of male jealousy in modern Hollywood cinema. It argues, through examples of films... -
Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity O. Ashkenazi 9780230341364
SciFier: £46.99In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish... -
Cinema after Fascism: The Shattered Screen S. Craig 9781349288236
SciFier: £46.99Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In... -
The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches J. Chapman 9780230594487
SciFier: £46.99The first major overview of the field of film history in twenty years, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the methods, sources and approaches used by modern film historians. The key areas of... -
The Rhetoric of Violence by Kamal Abdel-Malek
SciFier: £46.99Despite the urgent need to develop understandings of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the light of the current situation in the Middle East, the role of violence and reconciliation in Palestinian... -
Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade A. Flibbert 9781403983800
SciFier: £46.99Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. Concerned with more than film content or substance, the book exposes the ongoing... -
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen G. Hong 9781137290090
SciFier: £46.99A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of... -
The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections R. Koeck 9780230243385
SciFier: £92.99This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book explores... -
Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture: From Chevy Chase to Tina Fey J. Whalley 9780230103580
SciFier: £46.99Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture sheds new light on the ways in which Saturday Night Live s confrontational, boundary-pushing approach spilled over into film production,... -
British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future J. Bignell 9781137327567
SciFier: £46.99Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry, this new edition of British Television Drama evaluates past and present TV fiction... -
Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen by John W. Frick
SciFier: £46.99No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852... -
Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film: Comedy Italian Style Andrea Bini 9781137516886
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99The 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... -
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror David Greven 9780230112513
SciFier: £46.99The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level,... -
In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage W. Tsutsui 9781403964618
SciFier: £46.99These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they shaped and influenced postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons. There are contributions from Film... -
Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood A. Winch 9780230348752
SciFier: £46.99From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, Alison Winch reveals how women are... -
From Communism to Capitalism: Nation and State in Romanian Cultural Production F. Andreescu 9781349446889
SciFier: £46.99This book offers an interdisciplinary mode of analyzing transitions from communism and planned economy to democracy and capitalism focusing on how the various social and political transformations are... -
Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication A. Niebisch 9781349446841
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £34.84Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication... -
Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema C. Yates 9781349540679
SciFier: £46.99This study provides new insights into the link between masculinity and jealousy through a study of representations of male jealousy in modern Hollywood cinema. It argues, through examples of films... -
Brands and Gaming by D. Nichols
SciFier: £46.99The computer gaming industry is bigger than the film and music industries and is growing faster than both of them put together. The industry is also changing fast. The typical computer gamer is in... -
Reading 'Bollywood': The Young Audience and Hindi Films S. Banaji 9780230001725
SciFier: £46.99This book explores representations of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in Hindi films, in the socio-political context and in terms of how young audiences in India and the UK construct them. In-depth... -
Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions S. Annett 9781137480651
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £105.37How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom... -
Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen Lisa Hopkins 9780230579552
SciFier: £46.99Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them to... -
Gaming Film: How Games are Reshaping Contemporary Cinema Jasmina Kallay 9781349442362
SciFier: £46.99Gaming Film explores the growing influence of computer games on contemporary cinema. From the type of stories told to their complex structural patterns, from the changing modes of reception to... -
Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781349515646
SciFier: £46.99This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary... -
Sinophone Cinemas by A. Yue
SciFier: £46.99Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. It showcases new screen cultures from...