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Children, Film and Literacy Becky Parry 9781137294326
RRP: $85.03SciFier: $84.94Children, 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: $202.21This 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... -
British Women Film Directors in the New Millennium by Stella Hockenhull
SciFier: $197.49This book focuses on the output of women film directors in the period post Millennium when the number of female directors working within the film industry rose substantially. Despite the fact that... -
Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies K. Donders 9781137017543
SciFier: $88.81Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, clustered around the themes of European and national... -
Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema A. Gronstad 9781349320646
SciFier: $88.81Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Cache, Asbjorn Gronstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9780230110922
SciFier: $88.81Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up... -
Slapstick and Comic Performance by L. Peacock
SciFier: $175.75Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the... -
Screening the Face P. Coates 9780230298477
SciFier: $88.81Coates 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... -
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices S. Tay 9780230217768
SciFier: $88.81Women 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,... -
Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen A. Sisto 9781349481866
SciFier: $179.66A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of... -
Children, Film and Literacy Becky Parry 9781349451500
SciFier: $88.81Children, 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... -
Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen A. Sisto 9781137387707
SciFier: $175.75A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of... -
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film E. Gallafent 9781137022189
SciFier: $88.81We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are... -
Multicultural Encounters by S. Sharma
SciFier: $179.91This book confronts the challenge of difference for rethinking everyday multiculture. It proposes both a theory and practice of a critical pedagogy of popular culture through an analysis of... -
Hollywood's Stephen King by T. Magistrale
SciFier: $108.85For the past three decades, Hollywood has faithfully adapted much of Stephen King's fiction into film. Of the many major films that have been made, not one has lost money. Part of this may be... -
Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema A. Gronstad 9780230248946
SciFier: $88.81Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Cache, Asbjorn Gronstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and... -
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices S. Tay 9781349304011
SciFier: $88.81Women 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,... -
Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark by Eva Novrup Redvall
SciFier: $60.46Offering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the... -
Urban Film and Everyday Practice: Bridging Divisions in Johannesburg Alexandra Parker 9781137554796
SciFier: $88.81While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress spatial boundaries, especially in in urban contexts where spatial inequalities... -
Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies K. Donders 9781349437115
SciFier: $88.81Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, clustered around the themes of European and national... -
Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film E. Gallafent 9781349437818
SciFier: $88.81We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are... -
Filmurbia: Screening the Suburbs David Forrest 9781349958566
SciFier: $107.71In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became... -
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire V. Hausmann 9781349293490
SciFier: $88.81Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up... -
New Queer Sinophone Cinema by Zoran Lee Pecic
SciFier: $88.81This book looks closely at some of the most significant films within the field of queer Sinophone cinema. Examining queerness in films produced in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the book merges the... -
Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw Steve Jones 9781349339952
RRP: $207.88SciFier: $175.75The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films,... -
Objects in Italian Life and Culture: Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality Paolo Bartoloni 9781349948741
SciFier: $88.81This 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... -
Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films K. Combe 9781349472048
SciFier: $88.81In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter of performativity... -
The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts Helen Hanson 9780230203617
SciFier: $88.81These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs,... -
Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication P. Frosh 9781349362363
SciFier: $88.81From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media... -
Public Discourses of Contemporary China: The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television Y. Shen 9781137497420
SciFier: $88.81Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual... -
German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins W. Wilms 9781349375042
SciFier: $88.81This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and constructs their meaning in a historical... -
Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films K. Combe 9781137360809
SciFier: $88.81In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter of performativity... -
Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication P. Frosh 9780230551497
SciFier: $88.81From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media... -
Eric Rohmer: Film as Theology K. Tester 9781349545469
RRP: $85.03SciFier: $78.53Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer... -
Art, Labour and American Life by Ben Hickman
SciFier: $194.65This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work's transformations... -
3-D Cinema and Trauma: Poetics of Remembrance and Loss Dor Fadlon 9783031128233
SciFier: $213.55This book examines 3D cinema across the early 1950s, the early 1980s, and from 2009 to 2014, providing for the first time not only a connection between 3D cinema and historical trauma but also a... -
Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry M. MacLaird 9781137008060
SciFier: $175.75Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed... -
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... -
Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the 'Post-Cinematic' Imagination Alistair D. Swale 9781137463340
SciFier: $157.80Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While... -
Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry M. MacLaird 9781349435456
SciFier: $179.61Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed...