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Women Scientists in Fifties Science Fiction Films Bonnie Noonan 9780786421305
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21In the 1950s, science was rapidly advancing, and so were scientific opportunities for women. Modern science fiction films reflected these simultaneous social developments. This book proposes that... -
Film as Religion, Second Edition: Myths, Morals, and Rituals John C. Lyden 9781479802074
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £58.25Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious... -
Kaiju Unleashed: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Strange Beasts Shawn Pryor 9780760392898
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.67Celebrate the world of movie monsters and beasts with Kaiju Unleashed, a complete reference guide to strange creatures in film and how they came to be.Kaiju (Japanese for "strange creature") is a... -
Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash Dr. Hilaria Loyo (former Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain) 9781501388163
SciFier: £31.99The financial collapse of 2008 extended and deepened a prolonged, multilayered crisis that has transformed, often in unexpected ways, how we think about all aspects of social life. Amid these... -
Teen Film: A Critical Introduction Catherine Driscoll 9781847886866
SciFier: £35.99What makes a film a teen film? And why, when it represents such powerful and enduring ideas about youth and adolescence, is teen film usually viewed as culturally insignificant?Teen film is usually... -
Martian Pictures by O'Brien Stanley,
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £31.43Mars has long served as a screen upon which we project our dreams, hopes and fears. Each chapter of this text takes a different concept; such as the depiction of women, othering, fears of government... -
More than a Method by Cynthia L. Baron
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £22.56Though it is often neglected in cinema scholarship, screen performance is a crucial element in the ideological and emotional impact of films. More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary... -
Independent Cinema by D K Holm
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Just what is 'independent' cinema? D. K. Holm aims to define a term all too carelessly used both by media commentators and marketers, and distinguish it from categories such as avant-garde,... -
The Cowboy Way by Robert J. Higgs
SciFier: £78.49Analyzing a sample of 25 films, including such notables as Red River, Shane, Unforgiven, The Wild Bunch, Wyatt Earp, and Dances with Wolves, this work examines traditional leadership theories as... -
Cinema Genre Raphaelle Moine (Universite Paris X, Nanterre) 9781405156509
RRP: £84.95SciFier: £79.87Genre - or 'type' - is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production... -
Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre by Jay Beck
SciFier: £22.99This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema. Providing a variety of critical perspectives, the collection gives the... -
Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites Jurgen Muller 9783754404089
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £26.72Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. This film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir... -
Critical Perspectives on the Western by Lee Broughton
SciFier: £87.99For decades, the Western film has been considered a dying breed of cinema, yet filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Ethan and Joel Coen find new ways to reinvigorate the genre. As Westerns continue... -
Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-fi by Sloan De Forest
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £16.67Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind-bending movies ever made... -
The Curse of Frankenstein by Marcus Harmes
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: The Curse of Frankenstein was big business. The 1957 film is the first to bring together in... -
All about Almodovar by Brad Epps
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodovar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and-above all-entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst onto the... -
Film Noir: A Critical Introduction Dr Ian Brookes (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781780933139
SciFier: £31.99What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study,... -
Driving Visions by David Laderman
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01From the visionary rebellion of Easy Rider to the reinvention of home in The Straight Story, the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide... -
Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space: Comedy, Italian Style Natalie Fullwood 9781137403568
SciFier: £92.99Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy from 1958-70, examines the genre's representation of... -
Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame Tereska Ciecko Anne 9781845202378
SciFier: £33.99Asia produces more films than any other part of the world. With chapters on Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Korea, Mainland China,... -
Uncanny Bodies by Robert Spadoni
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93In 1931 Universal Pictures released "Dracula" and "Frankenstein", two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition... -
Blood on Satan's Claw: or, The Devil's Skin Robert Wynne-Simmons 9781800182769
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.00Beware the buried skull underfoot and watch out for children with fur on their backs...Blood on Satan's Claw is widely regarded as part of the 'unholy trinity' of cult classics which gave birth to... -
3 Women Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781839026027
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977) was seen as an intimate drama from director Robert... -
Film Noir: A Critical Introduction Dr Ian Brookes (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781780933269
SciFier: £104.49What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study,... -
The Cinema of Hockey: Four Decades of the Game on Screen Iri Cermak 9781476666259
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51Ice hockey has featured in North American films since the early days. Hockey's sizable cinematic repertoire explores different views of the sport, including the role of aggression, the business of... -
Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006 Rikke Schubart 9780786429240
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21With actress Pam Grier's breakthroughs in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films - genres that had previously been considered the domain of... -
Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £67.49Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as... -
Good Movies as Old Books by Matt Stevens
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £15.84Imagine your favorite movies as vintage books! This clever collection features iconic films, cult classics, and box office hits brilliantly designed to look like original book covers-a delight for... -
Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9780851709222
SciFier: £37.99A framework for understanding the distinctiveness of Indian cinema as a national cinema within a global context dominated by Hollywood is proposed by this book. With its sudden explosions into... -
Alien Zone II by Annette Kuhn
SciFier: £28.19Science fiction, more than any other film genre, allows cinema to exhibit its own distinctive matters of expression. Whether these be the state-of-the-art special effects technologies of 2001: A... -
The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema by Gerry Turvey
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £81.49This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company - also known as 'B&C'- in the years... -
Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space: Comedy, Italian Style Natalie Fullwood 9781349487042
SciFier: £92.99Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy from 1958-70, examines the genre's representation of... -
Russian War Films: On the Cinema Front, 1914-2005 Denise Youngblood 9780700617616
RRP: £27.95SciFier: £24.30War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, ""cinema front"" was used to describe the film industry itself... -
The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood: A Social Semiotics of Bodies and Worlds Evdokia Stefanopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 9781501380204
SciFier: £27.99The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood focuses on the American science fiction (SF) film during the period 2001-2020, in order to provide a theoretical mapping of the genre in the context... -
The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9781032084206
SciFier: £44.60The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema offers an overview of the field of cult cinema - films at the margin of popular culture and art that have received exceptional cultural visibility and status... -
Queer Horror by Sean Abley
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £46.05From the very beginnings of the artform, horror has been part of the cinema landscape. Despite some of the earliest iconic genre films being created by gay directors such as F.W. Murnau... -
Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film Michael Dear 9780520391932
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands-and how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an... -
Columbia Pictures by Bernard F. Dick
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.96The recent $3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's worst scandals under David Begelman, as well as ownership... -
Populism and the Capra Legacy by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £61.99Traditionally identified with screwball comedies, Frank Capra has seldom been considered a conduit for populist concerns and issues. In this book, Gehring examines the influence of both Will Rogers... -
Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film Michael Dear 9780520391949
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands-and how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an...