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Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen Robert A. Rushing 9780253022462
RRP: £62.00SciFier: £49.55Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films associated with epic Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Using techniques like slow motion and... -
The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media Sandra Annett 9781517911584
RRP: £89.00SciFier: £71.45How animation can reconnect us with bodily experiences Film and media studies scholarship has often argued that digital cinema and CGI provoke a sense of disembodiment in viewers; they are seen as... -
Finnish Cinema by Henry Bacon
SciFier: £24.49This book presents an expert analysis of the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history. As a small nation cinema, Finnish film culture has, even at its most nationalistic,... -
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist by Bernard Gordon
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.19The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon... -
Experimental Cinema: Structures, Systems and Strategies Simon Payne (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 9781839026485
SciFier: £28.99Experimental Cinema examines a range of structures, systems and strategies that film and video artists have developed in works spanning the late 1960s to the present, often in response to the... -
Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context Nancy Condee 9781644692707
RRP: £98.99SciFier: £70.78Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public... -
Peter Weir: Interviews John C. Tibbetts 9781617038976
SciFier: £90.99Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and... -
Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture John Powers 9780197683392
SciFier: £29.78The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental... -
Experimental Cinema: Structures, Systems and Strategies Simon Payne (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 9781839026478
SciFier: £100.44Experimental Cinema examines a range of structures, systems and strategies that film and video artists have developed in works spanning the late 1960s to the present, often in response to the... -
Jan Svankmajer Keith Leslie Johnson 9780252041471
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation,... -
Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution: Documentary Film Esthetics in the Middle East and North Africa Viola Shafik 9781032151915
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £35.93Situated within an emerging academic interest in documentary film in the Middle East and North Africa, this book studies the development of diverse documentary forms in relation to revolutionary and... -
Adaptation and the Avant-Garde: Alternative Perspectives on Adaptation Theory and Practice William Verrone 9781623562885
SciFier: £40.99Adaptations have occurred regularly since the beginning of cinema, but little recognition has been given to avant-garde adaptations of literary or other texts. This compelling study corrects such... -
Latin American Film Industries Tamara L. Falicov (University of Kansas, USA) 9781844573103
SciFier: £35.73Film production in Latin America is as old as cinema itself, but local film industries have always been in a triangulated relationship with Hollywood and European cinema. This book situates Latin... -
Voices of Labor by Michael Curtin
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Motion pictures are made, not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality-all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood's craft and... -
The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media Sandra Annett 9781517911591
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67How animation can reconnect us with bodily experiences Film and media studies scholarship has often argued that digital cinema and CGI provoke a sense of disembodiment in viewers; they are seen as... -
(Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds, UK) 9781783204069
SciFier: £77.98Formulated around a number of key thematic concerns - including new creative trends; the politics and practices of memory; auteurship, genre and stardom in a transnational age - this reassessment of... -
American Classic Screen Interviews by John C. Tibbetts
SciFier: £67.49First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and... -
Documentary's Awkward Turn: Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship Jason Middleton 9781138645554
SciFier: £42.00Despite the prominence of "awkwardness" as cultural buzzword and descriptor of a sub-genre of contemporary film and television comedy, it has yet to be adequately theorized in academic film and media... -
Jan Svankmajer Keith Leslie Johnson 9780252083020
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation,... -
Figures of Resistance by Teresa de Lauretis
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78The changing face of feminist discourse as reflected by the career of one of its preeminent scholarsFigures of Resistance brings together the unpublished lectures and little-seen essays of... -
Glasnost-Soviet Cinema Responds by Nicholas Galichenko
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23With the coming of glasnost to the Soviet Union, filmmakers began to explore previously forbidden themes, and distributors released films that were suppressed by pre-glasnost-era censors. Soviet... -
The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe Martin Flanagan (University of Salford, UK) 9781501338533
SciFier: £37.99Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond. Having announced plans... -
Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place R. Barton Palmer 9780813564098
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £99.41In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood's elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers... -
Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place R. Barton Palmer 9780813564081
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood's elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers... -
Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor Author So Mayer 9780814348529
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £28.99Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds... -
The White Ribbon by Dr. Fatima Naqvi (Customer)
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.87Explores Haneke's historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing. White ribbons and black pedagogy - Michael Haneke's award-winning film The White... -
Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Dr. Meredith C. Ward 9780520299481
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening... -
Soleil O Noah Tsika (Queens College, CUNY, USA) 9781839029592
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.69Med Hondo's debut feature, Soleil O (1970), follows an unnamed African immigrant as he travels to Paris in search of work and a better life. Instead, he faces unemployment, exploitation and a deep... -
Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor Author So Mayer 9780814348536
RRP: £94.00SciFier: £78.99Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds... -
Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture Dr. Meredith C. Ward 9780520299474
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.99In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening... -
Pretty People by Anna Everett
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood... -
The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts Sara Pesce 9781138319745
SciFier: £44.60In the age of "complex Tv", of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and TV programs raising questions about the endurance... -
Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century Shilyh Warren (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) 9781350422902
SciFier: £84.76In what innovative ways are women documentary filmmakers seeking to prioritize and promote political awareness, alternative modes of allyship, and advocacy for those most marginalized by patriarchy... -
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema Daisuke Miyao (Associate Professor of Film, Associate Professor of Film, University of Oregon) 9780190937355
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £39.99The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide... -
High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood Justin Wyatt 9780292790919
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Steven Spielberg once said, "I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good... -
Latino Images in Film by Charles Ramirez Berg
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady-these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century... -
Haunted House Short Stories by Dr. Rebecca Janicker
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.12"Another recent volume of the Gothic Fantasy series is Haunted House Short Stories, which offers another selection of excellent fiction." - Kirkus Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy... -
Introduction to Documentary, Fourth Edition Bill Nichols (San Francisco State University) 9780253070159
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The fourth edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text, Introduction to Documentary, has been vastly altered in its entirety to bring this indispensable textbook up to date and reconceptualize... -
Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence Jinhee Choi (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King's College, London) 9780190254988
RRP: £41.49SciFier: £40.99Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. With fifteen never before published... -
The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood Lutz Koepnick 9780520233119
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £24.86Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split...