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Children's and Young Adult Comics Professor Gwen Athene Tarbox (Professor, Western Michigan University, USA) 9781350009202
SciFier: $166.30A complete critical guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Children's and Young Adult Comics helps readers explore how comics have engaged with one of their most crucial audiences. ... -
Refocus: the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan by G n l D nmez-Colin
RRP: $170.10SciFier: $158.93Examines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Provides thematical analysis of Ceylan's transnational cinema with intertextual and intermedial readings of individual films, the fluidity... -
Directory of World Cinema: Finland Pietari Kaapa (University of Warwick, UK) 9781841506173
RRP: $88.74SciFier: $81.80An important addition to Intellect's popular series, Directory of World Cinema: Finland provides historical and cultural overviews of the country's cinema. Over the course of their contributions to... -
The British Official Film in South-East Asia by Ian Aitken
RRP: $207.88SciFier: $194.65This book explores the ways in which the British official film was used in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the 1970s. Aitken uncovers how the British official film, and British... -
Aesthetics of Early Sound Film: Media Change around 1930 Daniel Wiegand 9781041175292
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $82.65This volume takes a fresh look at the various aesthetics emerging globally in the early sound film era, with a focus on the films' fundamentally experimental and inventive character. By considering... -
The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholms Universitet) 9781009009980
SciFier: $46.29In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the... -
Fedor Bondarchuk: 'Stalingrad' by Stephen Norris
RRP: $47.25SciFier: $43.45KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students,... -
French Queer Cinema Nick Rees-Roberts 9780748685967
RRP: $54.79SciFier: $52.56This book looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the socio-political context informing both queer DIY video and... -
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England by Rachel Worth (Arts University Bournemouth, UK)
SciFier: $69.91In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working classes was represented visually in paintings and photographs and by the... -
Video Games between Postcolonialism and Postcommunism Andrei Nae 9783111622514
RRP: $171.99SciFier: $113.66Although in recent years there has been a growing interest in the racial politics of video games, the wider context of colonialism is yet to benefit from the same level of academic consideration... -
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells 9781554812738
RRP: $32.04SciFier: $26.03The Invisible Man stands out as possessing one of the most complicated heroes, or perhaps anti-heroes, in literature. A thoroughly unlikeable character, the Invisible Man is defined by his arrogance,... -
Children's and Young Adult Comics Professor Gwen Athene Tarbox (Professor, Western Michigan University, USA) 9781350009196
SciFier: $55.19A complete critical guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Children's and Young Adult Comics helps readers explore how comics have engaged with one of their most crucial audiences. ... -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
SciFier: $22.13Richard Schickel study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled... -
Video Culture in India by Ishita Tiwary (Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal)
SciFier: $162.77Media plays a significant role in reshaping, restructuring, and recalibrating the existing understandings of society and politics, giving birth to new cultural forms. Video, as a medium, captures not... -
Agnes Varda by Alison Smith
SciFier: $43.45The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience. Places Varda's major films in the context of her whole oeuvre and follows the development of... -
John Ford by Tag Gallagher
RRP: $58.59SciFier: $57.63This radical re-reading of Ford's work studies his films in the context of his complex character, demonstrating their immense intelligence and their profound critique of our culture.About the... -
Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films Luke White 9780824881573
RRP: $151.20SciFier: $99.62In 1978 the films Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master, both starring a young Jackie Chan, caused a stir in the Hong Kong cinema industry and changed the landscape of martial arts cinema... -
Shoe Reels by Elizabeth Ezra
RRP: $49.12SciFier: $46.10Examining the special relationship between footwear and film, Shoe Reels explores images of shoes in cinema. It questions what shoes mean in the context of narrative, aesthetics and symbolism, why... -
King Rother Robert Lichtenstein 9780807880364
SciFier: $43.45Originally published in 1962, Robert Lichtenstein's translation of King Rother made the medieval epic available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. His translation in rhymed couplets... -
The Art of Charlie Chaplin by Kyp Harness
RRP: $54.79SciFier: $46.89This thorough guide to Chaplin's films traces his acting career chronologically, from his initial appearance in 1914's ""Making a Living"" to his final starring role in 1957's ""A King in New York""... -
Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology Marcus Milwright 9781474409193
RRP: $54.79SciFier: $47.23Islamic art is justly famed for its technological sophistication, varied approaches to ornament, and innovative employment of the written word. But what do we know about the skilled artisans who... -
Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond Lina Khatib 9781845116286
SciFier: $52.90Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes... -
European Film Remakes Eduard Cuelenaere 9781474460651
RRP: $49.12SciFier: $46.10Combines historical and contemporary approaches to film remakes in Europe Investigates, next to the textual, socio-cultural and political dimensions, the often neglected industrial, financial and... -
Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star Lisa Funnell 9781438452487
SciFier: $48.74Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies CategoryBronze... -
This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life by Gabrielle M. Murray
SciFier: $148.35Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah, focusing primarily on the violence of movies such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs... -
Studying French Cinema by Isabelle Vanderschelden
SciFier: $63.90Taking a text-led approach, with the emphasis on more recent popular films, Studying French Cinema is directed at non-specialists such as students of French, Film Studies, and the general reader with... -
Celluloid Mushroom Clouds: Hollywood And Atomic Bomb Joyce Evans 9780813391410
RRP: $109.60SciFier: $99.04Celluloid Mushroom Clouds is a historical account of how the movie industry responded to specific economic and political forces over the postwar years. Joyce Evans investigates the transformation of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein Andrew Smith (University of Sheffield) 9781107450608
SciFier: $51.01The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical... -
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein Andrew Smith (University of Sheffield) 9781107086197
SciFier: $160.63The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical... -
Macbeth The Graphic Novel: Plain Text by William Shakespeare
SciFier: $30.77Witches, murder, ghosts, and madness - one of Shakespeare's finest tragedies is also a perfect fit for the graphic novel format. This compelling adaptation depicts every blood-curdling scene in... -
Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices Andrew Knight-Hill 9780367271466
SciFier: $95.75Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices brings together international artist scholars to explore diverse sound and image practices, applying critical perspectives to interrogate and evaluate both... -
Objects in Italian Life and Culture: Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality Paolo Bartoloni 9781349956630
SciFier: $91.08This book makes visible the hidden relations between things and individuals through a discussion of creative processes and cultural practices. Italian life and culture are filled with objects that... -
Re-Reading Harry Potter Suman Gupta 9780230219588
SciFier: $88.81This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media... -
The Long Winter of 1945: Tivari Anna Di Lellio 9781487543297
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $29.41In March 1945, at the end of the Second World War, hundreds of unarmed Albanian recruits were massacred by Yugoslav partisans. For too long, the memory of this massacre in Tivari - a coastal town in... -
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521772358
SciFier: $161.58The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its... -
New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus: Moving Within and Beyond the Frame Flannery Wilson 9781474405577
RRP: $54.79SciFier: $52.56Places Taiwanese cinema from the 1980s onwards in both national and transnational contexts. In the Taiwanese film industry, the dichotomy between art house and commercially viable films is heavily... -
Modern Languages Study Guides: Entre les murs: Film Study Guide for AS/A-level French Helene Beaugy 9781471891755
RRP: $29.30SciFier: $26.55Exam Board: AQA & EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: Modern LanguagesFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Film analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language... -
Spinsters, Widows and Chars: The Ageing Woman in British Film Claire Mortimer 9781474452830
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $35.31Establishes the cultural and historical contexts for representations of female ageing in British film since the 1930s Examines issues around ageing femininities using a range of case studies of... -
The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9780521776028
SciFier: $60.46The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its... -
Modern Languages Study Guides: Au revoir les enfants: Film Study Guide for AS/A-level French Karine Harrington 9781471890017
RRP: $29.30SciFier: $26.55Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel & EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: Modern LanguagesFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Film analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their...