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Mise en scene, Acting, and Space in Comics Geraint D'Arcy 9783030511128
RRP: $76.44SciFier: $72.27This book explores some of the less frequently questioned ideas which underpin comics creation and criticism. "Mise en scene" is a term which refers to the way in which visual elements work together... -
Gender Inequality in Screenwriting Work Natalie Wreyford 9783030070892
SciFier: $72.27This is the first book to critically examine the recruitment and working practices of screenwriters. Drawing on interviews with screenwriters and those that employ them, Natalie Wreyford provides a... -
Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Helen Davies 9783030080297
SciFier: $79.22This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability... -
The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030102753
SciFier: $79.22This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk's tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK,... -
The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783319728407
SciFier: $129.95This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk's tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK,... -
Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage Dominic Davies 9783030379971
SciFier: $142.09Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and... -
Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory: Aesthetics and Dialectics in Late Postmodernity Federico Pagello 9783030438210
SciFier: $130.59This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema. This... -
Mise en scene, Acting, and Space in Comics Geraint D'Arcy 9783030511159
RRP: $76.44SciFier: $72.27This book explores some of the less frequently questioned ideas which underpin comics creation and criticism. "Mise en scene" is a term which refers to the way in which visual elements work together... -
Gender Inequality in Screenwriting Work Natalie Wreyford 9783319957319
SciFier: $100.76This is the first book to critically examine the recruitment and working practices of screenwriters. Drawing on interviews with screenwriters and those that employ them, Natalie Wreyford provides a... -
Seeing Comics through Art History: Alternative Approaches to the Form Maggie Gray 9783030935092
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $70.88This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well... -
The Films of Arturo Ripstein: The Sinister Gaze of the World Manuel Gutierrez Silva 9783030229559
SciFier: $143.85This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collection, the first of its kind, constitutes a sustained critical engagement with the... -
Seeing Comics through Art History: Alternative Approaches to the Form Maggie Gray 9783030935061
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $70.88This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well... -
The Films of Arturo Ripstein: The Sinister Gaze of the World Manuel Gutierrez Silva 9783030229580
SciFier: $143.16This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collection, the first of its kind, constitutes a sustained critical engagement with the... -
How I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.43Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face! In 2001,... -
The Comic Everywoman in Irish Popular Theatre: Political Melodrama, 1890-1925 Susanne Colleary 9783030020071
SciFier: $66.93This book is a comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925. It maps out the performance contexts of the period, such as Irish "poor" theatre both... -
UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics: A Critical Survey Nicola Streeten 9783030363024
RRP: $111.19SciFier: $108.41This book demonstrates that since the 1970s, British feminist cartoons and comics have played an important part in the Women's Movement in Britain. A key component of this has been humour. This... -
UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics: A Critical Survey Nicola Streeten 9783030362997
RRP: $111.19SciFier: $108.41This book demonstrates that since the 1970s, British feminist cartoons and comics have played an important part in the Women's Movement in Britain. A key component of this has been humour. This... -
New Indian Nuttahs: Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India Kavyta Kay 9783030074203
SciFier: $66.93This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about... -
The Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats Michael Connerty 9783030768959
RRP: $111.19SciFier: $79.22This monograph seeks to recover and assess the critically neglected comic strip work produced by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for various British publications, including Comic Cuts, The Funny... -
Key Terms in Comics Studies by Erin La Cour
RRP: $34.74SciFier: $34.31Key Terms in Comics Studies is a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics, including those from other languages that are currently... -
The Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats Michael Connerty 9783030768928
RRP: $111.19SciFier: $108.41This monograph seeks to recover and assess the critically neglected comic strip work produced by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for various British publications, including Comic Cuts, The Funny... -
Creation, Translation, and Adaptation in Donald Duck Comics: The Dream of Three Lifetimes Peter Cullen Bryan 9783030736385
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $86.17This book examines the scope and nature of Donald Duck and his family's popularity in Germany, in contrast to the diminished role they play in America. This is achieved through examination of the... -
Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics Art John A. Lent 9783030952426
SciFier: $129.26This book explores various aspects of transnationalism and comics art in six East Asian and seven Southeast Asian countries/territories. The 14 richly illustrated chapters embrace comics, cartoons,... -
Creation, Translation, and Adaptation in Donald Duck Comics: The Dream of Three Lifetimes Peter Cullen Bryan 9783030736354
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $129.26This book examines the scope and nature of Donald Duck and his family's popularity in Germany, in contrast to the diminished role they play in America. This is achieved through examination of the... -
Understanding Genres in Comics Nicolas Labarre 9783030435561
SciFier: $79.22This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies - from early comic books to contemporary graphic novels - to understand the uses of genres in comics. It begins with the assumption... -
Understanding Genres in Comics Nicolas Labarre 9783030435530
SciFier: $79.22This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies - from early comic books to contemporary graphic novels - to understand the uses of genres in comics. It begins with the assumption... -
Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China Shenshen Cai 9789811581182
SciFier: $66.93This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC)... -
Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China Shenshen Cai 9789811581151
SciFier: $65.32This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC)... -
Python beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture Paul N. Reinsch 9783319846361
SciFier: $153.58This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances. These men are prolific creators in a variety of... -
The Politics of British Stand-up Comedy: The New Alternative Sophie Quirk 9783030011048
SciFier: $73.99This Palgrave Pivot questions how a new generation of alternative stand-up comedians and the political world continue to shape and influence each other. The Alternative Comedy Movement of the late... -
Python beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture Paul N. Reinsch 9783319513843
SciFier: $155.26This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances. These men are prolific creators in a variety of... -
Humour as Politics by Nicholas Holm
RRP: $166.79SciFier: $157.06This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic... -
Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics Johannes C.P. Schmid 9783030633028
RRP: $125.09SciFier: $115.36Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analog print phenomenon in an era shaped by... -
Local Movie Supply in the German Motion Picture Industry by Florian Kumb
SciFier: $65.32Florian Kumb provides a comprehensive review of the current state of the international literature on the motion picture industry and then applies a mix of appropriate quantitative and qualitative... -
Woman in Lars von Trier's Cinema, 1996-2014 by Ahmed Elbeshlawy
SciFier: $34.04This book discusses the figure of Woman in Lars von Trier's distinctive cinematic productions from 1996 to 2014. It takes the notorious legacy of violence against women in von Trier's cinema beyond... -
Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics Johannes C.P. Schmid 9783030633059
RRP: $125.09SciFier: $79.22Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analog print phenomenon in an era shaped by... -
Scripting the Environment: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space Geo Takach 9783319404325
SciFier: $132.27This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of scripts for... -
The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment Annie Dell'Aria 9783030659035
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $63.93This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spectacle, moving images can produce moments... -
The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment Annie Dell'Aria 9783030659066
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $86.17This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spectacle, moving images can produce moments... -
Heidegger and Future Presencing (The Black Pages) Spencer Golub 9783030318888
SciFier: $100.76This book applies Heidegger's writings to experimental fictions and film genres in order to study a being-there that performs itself beyond liveness and a future that is already here. Theatrical...