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Style in British Television Drama L. Cooke 9781137265913
SciFier: £46.99This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954 and 2001. Taking dinner table scenes as a recurring motif, the study analyses... -
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... -
East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage: From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea Kenneth A. Loparo 9781349297702
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... -
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... -
British Film Music and Film Musicals by K. Donnelly
SciFier: £46.99In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity O. Ashkenazi 9781349344192
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... -
Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema J. Gwynne 9781349455232
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema... -
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... -
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... -
Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches C. Perkins 9780230250314
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
Television and the Moral Imaginary: Society through the Small Screen T. Dant 9781349313624
SciFier: £92.99Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen... -
Hitchcock and Contemporary Art C. Sprengler 9781349351855
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 9781349336722
SciFier: £46.99Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas M. Hjort 9781137032683
SciFier: £115.37Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the... -
Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann Vincent M. Gaine 9780230301054
SciFier: £46.99Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform... -
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... -
Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema J. Gwynne 9781137306838
SciFier: £92.99By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema... -
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,... -
Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions S. Annett 9781137480651
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £105.45How 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... -
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... -
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... -
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 9780230245631
SciFier: £46.99Why 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... -
Television and the Moral Imaginary: Society through the Small Screen T. Dant 9780230234819
SciFier: £92.99Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen...