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Public Service Broadcasting Online: A Comparative European Policy Study of PSB 2.0 B. Brevini 9781137295095
SciFier: £46.99This book investigates the extent to which a Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) ethos has been extended to the online world in Europe. It examines the most significant policy initiatives carried out... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks Liz Greene 9781349703807
SciFier: £27.99This book bridges the existing gap between film sound and film music studies by bringing together scholars from both disciplines who challenge the constraints of their subject areas by thinking about... -
Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema A. Davies 9780230236202
SciFier: £46.99A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays... -
Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion by Athina Karatzogianni
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £112.99Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology. The volume provides a... -
The Melodramatic Public by R. Vasudevan
SciFier: £93.49What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer... -
Tragic Time in Drama, Film, and Videogames by Rebecca Bushnell
SciFier: £39.99This book explores how classical and Shakespearean tragedy has shaped the temporality of crisis on the stage and in time-travel films and videogames. In turn, it uncovers how performance and new... -
Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation S. Napier 9780312238629
SciFier: £92.99With the popularity of Pokemon still far from waning, Japanese animation, known as anime to its fans, has a firm hold on American pop culture. However, anime is much more than children's cartoons. It... -
Atmosphere, Architecture, Cinema by Michael Tawa
SciFier: £112.99Atmosphere, Cinema, Architecture: Thematic Reflections on Ambiance and Place explores cinema and architecture as ambient and affective settings or circumstances that can enable the emergence of... -
The Digital Television Revolution: Origins to Outcomes M. Starks 9781137273345
SciFier: £46.99This account of the global switch to digital television, from its origins to its emerging outcomes, provides an understanding of how digital television is converging with the Internet. It pictures a... -
Digital Media Worlds by Giuditta De Prato
SciFier: £46.99Digital Media Worlds tracks the evolution of the media sector on its way toward a digital world. It focuses on core economic and management issues (cost structures, value network chain, business... -
World Cinema's 'Dialogues' With Hollywood P. Cooke 9781403998958
SciFier: £46.99Paul Cooke looks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hollywood has had a huge impact on the medium -... -
Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation S. Napier 9780312238636
SciFier: £92.99With the popularity of Pokemon still far from waning, Japanese animation, known as anime to its fans, has a firm hold on American pop culture. However, anime is much more than children's cartoons. It... -
British Silent Cinema and the Great War M. Hammond 9780230292628
SciFier: £46.99This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so... -
Docudrama on European Television by Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
SciFier: £24.49This book explores docudrama as a creative response to troubled times. With generic characteristics formed via traditions in theatre as well as film, and with claims to fact underscored by... -
Animated Documentary Annabelle Honess Roe 9781137017451
SciFier: £83.49Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways... -
Animated Documentary Annabelle Honess Roe 9781349437092
RRP: £69.99SciFier: £67.49Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways... -
The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture A. Berger 9780230103726
SciFier: £46.99In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks Liz Greene 9781137516794
SciFier: £113.99This book bridges the existing gap between film sound and film music studies by bringing together scholars from both disciplines who challenge the constraints of their subject areas by thinking about... -
Linguistics and the Study of Comics by Frank Bramlett
SciFier: £92.99Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India, Turkey, and the US get their point across? What is the impact of... -
A New Guide to Italian Cinema C. Celli 9781403975607
SciFier: £46.99This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and... -
Television Audiences Across the World: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine J. Bourdon 9781349466337
SciFier: £46.99This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and... -
Creativity: Unconventional Wisdom from 20 Accomplished Minds H. Meyers 9781349279814
SciFier: £46.99This book is about creativity in business, management and many professions. The authors have interviewed well known creative people to identify how creative methods work. Their analysis shows that... -
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life C. Garcia 9781137446251
SciFier: £92.99This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn... -
Re-Framing the Theatrical: Interdisciplinary Landscapes for Performance A. Oddey 9781349357086
SciFier: £46.99Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of... -
The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture A. Berger 9780230103733
SciFier: £46.99In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer... -
Film as Philosophy by R. Read
SciFier: £61.99A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors - philosophers or film studies experts - write on a wide variety of films: classic Hollywood comedies, war films, Eastern European art films,... -
How Hollywood Projects Foreign Policy S. Totman 9780230618695
SciFier: £46.99This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in relation to these states, which promises to make a significant contribution... -
Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures P. Szczepanik 9781137282170
SciFier: £92.99Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film,... -
European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life Ib Bondebjerg 9781137356871
SciFier: £92.99This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and... -
Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street L. Robinson 9781349334438
SciFier: £46.99The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in... -
Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781137450500
SciFier: £104.91This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema. Evaluating the place of consumption within cinematic structures, Piatti-Farnell analyses how... -
Reboot Culture by William Proctor
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £36.03This book examines the reboot phenomenon from its historical emergence as a concept within the superhero comic book medium, specifically DC Comics, to its conceptual adaptation across media platforms... -
Grand Designs by Aneta Podkalicka
SciFier: £94.09This is the first academic book to examine the long running hit series Grand Designs, which occupies a significant place in the popular imagination internationally. The authors apply an empirically... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9780230579699
SciFier: £92.99A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at... -
Islam, Security and Television News C. Flood 9780230241459
SciFier: £46.99Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and... -
Genre in Asian Film and Television: New Approaches F. Chan 9780230272170
SciFier: £46.99Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments... -
Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905 by Jennifer Mooney
SciFier: £103.51Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9781349368242
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at... -
Andrei Tarkovsky by Peter Green
SciFier: £46.99A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films in the light of his own writings and life, his aesthetics of film,... -
Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art S. Dodds 9781403941459
SciFier: £95.05Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies...