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Dress and Undress by Iris Brooke
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £56.74Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress - formal and informal - from the time of Charles II to the end of the eighteenth century. Most of the illustrations are taken... -
The Conscience of Cinema: The works of Joris Ivens 1912-1989 Thomas Waugh 9781041187493
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £43.30This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist... -
Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis Peter Verstraten 9781041178354
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis is a sequel to Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film (AUP, 2016), but the two studies can be read separately. Because of the... -
Wang Bing's Filmmaking of the China Dream: Narratives, Witnesses and Marginal Spaces Elena Pollacchi 9781041190523
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across China's marginal spaces and against the backdrop of the state-sanctioned 'China Dream'. Wang Bing's cinema gives voice to the... -
Late Bresson and the Visual Arts: Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment Raymond Watkins 9781041182023
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them to be more fully realized reflections of his... -
Hollywood and After: The Changing Face of American Cinema Jerzy Toeplitz 9781032642925
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £29.86First published in English in 1974, Hollywood and After presents contemporary cinema in all its complexity, describing and analyzing the various factors which, in the sixties and seventies, brought... -
The Film Business: A History of British Cinema 1896-1972 Ernest Betts 9781032602585
SciFier: £33.16First published in 1973 The Film Business makes a factual survey of British films from their beginnings in 1896 to 1972. Ernest Betts offers character studies of men who have built the film industry... -
The 21st Century in 100 Games Aditya Deshbandhu (University of Exeter, UK) 9781032218236
SciFier: £34.19The 21st Century in 100 Games is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological retelling of the 21st century through 100 games that were announced, launched, and... -
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse David Bolt (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 9781032870984
RRP: £41.99SciFier: £38.53In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are... -
Post-war Industrial Media Culture in Sweden, 1945-1960: New Faces, New Values Mats Bjoerkin 9781041184584
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication. Ideas regarding cybernetics, systems analysis, new accounting practices, and... -
The Theological Power of Film James Lorenz 9781032575636
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This book explores the theological power of film and seeks to render a properly theological account of cinematic art. It considers: What theology and theological practice does cinematic art give rise... -
Religion and Science Fiction: An Introduction James H. Thrall, M.D. 9780367465100
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £35.06With cutting-edge case studies, discussion questions, lists of key terms, extensive additional resources, and suggestions for projects and essay questions, this textbook is engaging reading for... -
Tolkien and the Kalevala by Jyrki Korpua
RRP: £49.99SciFier: £48.06This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien's unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, compiled, edited and partly revisioned from older... -
Scriptwriting for Theatre and Screen: A Practical Guide Richard Stockwell 9781032874692
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £35.06Scriptwriting for Theatre and Screen: A Practical Guide is an introduction designed to help readers understand the nature of dramatic scriptwriting and quickly guide them to a place where they can... -
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-War Fiction Film Peter Verstraten 9781041181118
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.70Dutch cinema, when discussed, is typically treated only in terms of pre-war films or documentaries, leaving post-war fictional film largely understudied. At the same time, a Hollandse school, a term... -
Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror: Adaptations and Televisuality Stuart Richards 9781041175377
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Agatha Christie's work has been adapted extensively resulting in transformations that are both textual and cultural. While many adaptations are best known for being quaint murder mysteries, there are... -
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature by William Franke
SciFier: £50.66This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle... -
Hungarian Film, 1929-1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism and Popular Cinema Gabor Gergely 9781041181125
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £38.68What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian? People in Hungary grappled with this far-reaching question in the wake of the losses and transformation brought by World War I. Because the... -
Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism Rafael Carrion-Arias 9781032423159
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of... -
Spaces: Exploring Spatial Experiences of Representation and Reception in Screen Media Ian Christie 9781041186502
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Film has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by Andre Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally it has always been a spatial art, transporting its audiences imaginatively to... -
The Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing Daragh O'Reilly (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield, UK) 9781138385740
SciFier: £48.06The relationship between the arts and marketing has been growing ever more complex, as the proliferation of new technologies and social media has opened up new forms of communication. This book... -
Performing Brains on Screen Fernando Vidal 9781041184027
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Performing Brains on Screen deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, a belief that embodies one of the most influential modern ways... -
The Language of Food: Through the Lens of East Asian Films and Drama Jieun Kiaer 9781032258461
SciFier: £38.53The Language of Food: Through the Lens of East Asian Films and Drama invites readers into the fascinating world where food culture and language intersect, revealing how each dish communicates beyond... -
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video by Peter W. Rea (NYU Tisch School of the Arts, USA)
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £36.65Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Sixth Edition is the definitive book on producing and directing short films for the serious film student or beginning filmmaker. Its unique two-fold... -
Creating Experimental Documentary Films: Theory and Practice Beyond Convention Pablo Frasconi 9781041043768
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £35.93This book explores the continued development and practice of experimental documentary film making with evolving trends in still photography, visual arts, journalism, installation art, docudrama,... -
A History of English Costume Iris Brooke 9781032915166
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £29.86Originally published in 1937 and reprinted as a fourth edition in paperback in 1979, this is a history of dress in England from the Norman Conquest to the mid-20th century. Despite being an excellent... -
A History of English Costume Iris Brooke 9781032915111
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £56.74Originally published in 1937 and reprinted as a fourth edition in paperback in 1979, this is a history of dress in England from the Norman Conquest to the mid-20th century. Despite being an excellent... -
Beyond the Screen: The Future of Television and Advertising Frank A. Aycock 9781041037873
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £32.46Written in an accessible style, this book explores the complex future of television, across its different industries, providing professional producers with key insights and pathways to adapt and... -
Minor Platforms in Videogame History Benjamin Nicoll 9781041182900
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Videogame history is not just a history of one successful technology replacing the next. It is also a history of platforms and communities that never quite made it; that struggled to make their... -
Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema: Politics, Histories and Cultural Value Rachel Johnson 9781041179337
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema is the first systematic study of the role ideology plays in film festivals' construction of dominant ideas about art cinema. Film festivals are... -
Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion Kate Fletcher (Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, UK) 9781138232266
RRP: £52.99SciFier: £48.06The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant... -
Conversations with Women Showrunners Marygrace O'Shea 9781032287195
RRP: £32.99SciFier: £32.46Featuring over forty interviews with America's leading showrunners, this book provides unique perspectives and insights into the TV industry, demystifying the craft, backbone, skill, strategies,... -
Designing with Algorithms: A Mathematical Guide Arash Soleimani 9781032704395
RRP: £41.99SciFier: £38.53Computing is revolutionizing the creative process, transforming how designers approach ideation, prototyping, fabrication, communication, and representation. Yet many lack the foundational knowledge... -
Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema Henri Corinth 9781041175575
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Andrzej Zulawski (1940-2016) was born in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris. From 1971 to 2015 he directed thirteen feature films. Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema interprets the... -
Making European Cult Cinema: Fan Enterprise in an Alternative Economy Oliver Carter 9781041182320
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Fans of cult films don't just watch the movies they love-they frequently engage with them in other, more creative ways as well. Making European Cult Cinema explores the ways in which that fandom... -
The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion Lars Wildt 9781041188797
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such... -
Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary Dorothy Lau 9781041176633
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Recent years have witnessed the increasing visibility of Asian celebrities in activism, advocacy, diplomacy, philanthropy, and ambassadorship but this phenomenon is under-explored. This volume... -
Neurofilmology of the Moving Image: Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema Adriano D'Aloia 9781041183518
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into space, the drift of an astronaut in the void... Analysing a wide range of... -
Feature Films as History K. R. M. Short 9780415726566
SciFier: £78.19Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illustrates the breadth of methodological approaches adopted by the field and the variety of its... -
Creatives Working Together: Communication and Cooperation for Media Professionals Jeffrey Michael Bays 9781041091899
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £35.76With this book filmmaker Jeffrey Michael Bays utilizes a range of professional leadership experience with his background in creative collaboration to guide today's media practitioners in getting...