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Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film M. Tolini Finamore 9781349351176
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $148.72This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the... -
Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film M. Tolini Finamore 9780230389489
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $143.16This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the... -
Screening the Tortured Body by Mark de Valk
SciFier: $66.71Inspired by Michel Foucault's examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the 'political technology of the body' and 'the spectacle of the... -
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film Carolina Rocha 9781349440610
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $48.08This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the... -
Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back Susan A. George 9781349489619
SciFier: $65.32Through nine seasons the TV show Supernatural has delved into social, philosophical, literary, and theological themes that not only add depth to the show, but reflect our era's intellectual concerns... -
Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures P. Szczepanik 9781137282170
SciFier: $129.26Conceptualizing 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: $129.26This 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: $65.32The 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: $147.41This 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: $152.89SciFier: $50.08This 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: $132.24This 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: $129.26A 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: $65.32Focusing 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: $65.32Genre 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... -
Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures P. Szczepanik 9781349448517
SciFier: $129.26Conceptualizing 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,... -
Vampires on the Silent Screen by David Annwn Jones
RRP: $152.89SciFier: $150.15This book is the first study of the vampires in silent cinema, presenting a detailed academic yet accessible discussion of the films themselves and their sources. For the very first time, The Fire... -
Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance by D. Smith-Rowsey
SciFier: $65.32In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These untraditional-looking young men were promoted and understood as alienated and ironic... -
France, Film, and the Holocaust by F. Banaji
SciFier: $65.32This book explores the relationship between film and the Holocaust in France: how has film changed the way that this traumatic event has been inscribed in French cultural memory? And what can these... -
Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making S. Plate 9781403960511
SciFier: $132.20Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata . At the same time, film production has engendered new religious... -
Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street L. Robinson 9780230298293
SciFier: $65.32The 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... -
European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life Ib Bondebjerg 9781349675562
SciFier: $129.26This 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... -
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film Carolina Rocha 9781137030863
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $48.64This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the... -
Memories of Resistance and the Holocaust on Film by Mercedes Camino
SciFier: $116.05This book investigates cinematic representations of the murder of European Jews and civilian opposition to Nazi occupation from the war up until the twenty-first century. The study exposes a... -
Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye G. Padva 9781349473090
SciFier: $65.32This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art... -
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence S. Simkin 9781403944115
SciFier: $65.32This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death,... -
Beckett's Art of Absence by Ciaran Ross
SciFier: $115.36Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett's aesthetics of absence. Focusing on the first prose trilogy and Waiting for Godot, it offers a critical... -
A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television S. Panse 9781137014177
SciFier: $65.32A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television is a response to a significant increase of judgment and judgmentalism in contemporary television, film, and social media by investigating the changing... -
Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back Susan A. George 9781137412553
SciFier: $65.32Through nine seasons the TV show Supernatural has delved into social, philosophical, literary, and theological themes that not only add depth to the show, but reflect our era's intellectual concerns... -
Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema by Matilda Mroz
SciFier: $157.58This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema's engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional... -
Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye G. Padva 9781137363633
RRP: $125.09SciFier: $121.25This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art... -
Performing Women: Stand-Ups, Strumpets and Itinerants Alison Oddey 9781403948779
SciFier: $66.71Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth-century, telling various stories collectively... -
Trade Policy at the Crossroads: Recent Experience of Developing Countries M. Shafaeddin 9780333595596
SciFier: $129.26Analyzing the experience of developing countries in recent years and the deadlock in trade negotiation in WTO, the author argues that the theories and practices of trade and industrial policies are... -
Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art S. Dodds 9780333801451
SciFier: $129.26Dance 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... -
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence S. Simkin 9781349522392
SciFier: $65.32This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death,... -
Islam, Security and Television News C. Flood 9781349317172
SciFier: $65.32Focusing 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... -
Screening the Face P. Coates 9781349334650
SciFier: $65.32Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range... -
Transnational Television and Latinx Diasporic Audiences: Abrazos Electronicos in Four Global Cities Catherine L. Benamou 9783031115295
SciFier: $157.06This book is based on a mixed-method, longitudinal study of the transmission, production, and reception of Spanish- and Portuguese-language television in four global cities with expanding Latinx... -
Children, Film and Literacy Becky Parry 9781137294326
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $62.47Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and... -
Fascism and Millennial American Cinema by Leighton Grist
SciFier: $148.72This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed... -
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices S. Tay 9781349304011
SciFier: $65.32Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political,...