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A New Guide to Italian Cinema C. Celli 9781403975652
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £46.99This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and... -
Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film by G. Cestaro
SciFier: £46.99Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. While... -
SuburbiaNation by R. Beuka
SciFier: £46.99The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in... -
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life C. Garcia 9781349495955
SciFier: £92.99This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn... -
Road Movies: From Muybridge and Melies to Lynch and Kiarostami D. Orgeron 9780230601277
SciFier: £46.99Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a... -
Linguistics and the Study of Comics by Frank Bramlett
SciFier: £92.99Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India, Turkey, and the US get their point across? What is the impact of... -
A New Guide to Italian Cinema C. Celli 9781403975607
SciFier: £46.99This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and... -
Television Audiences Across the World: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine J. Bourdon 9781349466337
SciFier: £46.99This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and... -
Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds H. Meyers 9781349279814
SciFier: £46.99This book is about creativity in business, management and many professions. The authors have interviewed well known creative people to identify how creative methods work. Their analysis shows that... -
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life C. Garcia 9781137446251
SciFier: £92.99This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn... -
Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory: Postcolonialism and Film Theory Reena Dube 9781403946294
SciFier: £46.99Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and... -
Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema Karen A. Ritzenhoff 9780230341548
SciFier: £46.99How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of "happy endings" that Hollywood has offered? The contributors utilize varying methodologies of textual... -
Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity S. Short 9781403921789
SciFier: £103.99This 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... -
Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds H. Meyers 9780230001343
SciFier: £47.99This book is about creativity in business, management and many professions. The authors have interviewed well known creative people to identify how creative methods work. Their analysis shows that... -
The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico L. Podalsky 9780230109551
SciFier: £46.99This book explores the role of emotion and affect in recent Latin American cinema (1990s-2000s) in the context of larger public debates about past traumas and current anxieties. To address this... -
Data and Doctor Doom by Mark Hibbett
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £42.25This book defines a straightforward way to analyse fictional characters through data. It shows how a data-led approach can produce rich analyses of characters, their surrounding storyworlds, and... -
Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture S. Inness 9781403964038
SciFier: £46.99Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the... -
Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture S. Inness 9781403963963
SciFier: £46.99Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the... -
The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture C. Best 9780230603769
SciFier: £46.99This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell... -
World Cinema and Cultural Memory I. Hedges 9781137465115
SciFier: £46.99Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five... -
Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory: Postcolonialism and Film Theory Reena Dube 9781349523535
SciFier: £46.99Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and... -
Acting Indie: Industry, Aesthetics, and Performance Cynthia Baron 9781137408624
SciFier: £112.99This book illustrates the many ways that actors contribute to American independent cinema. Analyzing industrial developments, it examines the impact of actors as writers, directors, and producers,... -
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods M. Williams 9781349347155
SciFier: £46.99Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for... -
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods M. Williams 9780230355446
SciFier: £46.99Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for... -
New Documentaries in Latin America Vinicius Navarro 9781349450787
SciFier: £46.99Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the... -
Defiant Itineraries by Lydia Platon Lazaro
SciFier: £46.99How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance... -
Film Restoration: The Culture and Science of Audiovisual Heritage L. Enticknap 9780230230439
SciFier: £112.99This is the first monograph-length work intended to enable readers with a humanities background and the general public to understand what the processes and techniques of film restoration do and do... -
Homosexuality and Italian Cinema by Mauro Giori
SciFier: £93.49This book is the first to establish the relevance of same-sex desires, pleasures and anxieties in the cinema of post-war Italy. It explores cinematic representations of homosexuality and their... -
Transformation of Contemporary Film Genre by Fangyi Xu
SciFier: £112.99This book is the first one focusing on Chinese mainstream films from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Based on case studies, it discusses three subgenres of mainland Chinese commercial mainstream... -
Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema Karen A. Ritzenhoff 9781349344406
SciFier: £46.99How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of "happy endings" that Hollywood has offered? The contributors utilize varying methodologies of textual... -
Media Practice in Iraq A. Al-Rawi 9780230354524
SciFier: £46.99A historical survey of the Iraqi media from its beginning up to the present day, focusing on the post-2003 media scene and the political and societal divisions that occurred in Iraq after US-led... -
Media Practice in Iraq A. Al-Rawi 9781349346516
SciFier: £46.99A historical survey of the Iraqi media from its beginning up to the present day, focusing on the post-2003 media scene and the political and societal divisions that occurred in Iraq after US-led... -
Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation Steven T. Brown 9780230606210
SciFier: £46.99This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last... -
Television Audiences Across the World: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine J. Bourdon 9781137345097
SciFier: £46.99This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and... -
New Argentine Film: Other Worlds G. Aguilar 9780230109018
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £19.24Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the "new... -
Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature T. Green 9781137282453
SciFier: £46.99Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in... -
Re-Framing the Theatrical: Interdisciplinary Landscapes for Performance A. Oddey 9780230524651
SciFier: £48.10Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of... -
Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand-Up Comedy by Richa Chilana
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £107.99This book, first of its kind in the Indian context, brings together both a theoretical understanding of various aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, and case studies of... -
British Silent Cinema and the Great War M. Hammond 9781349332373
SciFier: £46.99This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so...