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Refashioning the Renaissance by Paula Hohti
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £39.11How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of fashion for artisans and shopkeepers? Did they rely on affordable alternatives... -
The New Jew in Film by Nathan Abrams
SciFier: £38.45Jewish film characters have existed almost as long as the medium itself. But around 1990, films about Jews and their representation in cinema multiplied and took on new forms, marking a significant... -
Cinematic Homecomings: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema Dr Rebecca Prime (Independent Scholar, USA) 9781501319952
SciFier: £40.99The history of cinema charts multiple histories of exile. From the German emigres in 1930s Hollywood to today's Iranian filmmakers in Europe and the United States, these histories continue to exert a... -
American Cinema of the 1920s by Lucy Fischer
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.68During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were... -
Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands A. Gabriel Melendez 9780813561066
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £24.99Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others... -
Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes by Mary C. Beltran
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90This book explores the role film and television stardom has played in establishing, reinforcing, and challenging popular ethnic notions of Latina/os in the United States since the silent film era of... -
Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers Katarzyna Paszkiewicz 9781474425261
SciFier: £97.54'Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers' examines the significance of women's contribution to genre cinema by highlighting the work of US filmmakers within and outside Hollywood -... -
French Cinema-A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940-1958 Colin Crisp 9780253016959
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each... -
Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 1-2 by Hideo Yamamoto
Seven Seas EntertainmentRRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.21Nakoshi Susumu, age 34, is living out of his car. Between spending his days with the homeless and his nights in his vehicle, he has little to his name--but not so little that he'll agree to be the... -
Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand by Ben Goldsmith
SciFier: £48.09This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand and offers an in-depth and exciting look at the cinema produced in these two countries... -
Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy & Geography and the Art of Marcel Duchamp James Housefield 9781611689563
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £83.04Playing with Earth and Sky reveals the significance astronomy, geography, and aviation had for Marcel Duchamp-widely regarded as the most influential artist of the past fifty years. Duchamp... -
Ancient Egypt by Button Books
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.25Factology: Ancient Egypt is a fact-packed introduction to this iconic time in history, presented in maps, timelines, diagrams and statistics. Did you know that the pyramids of Giza were once covered... -
Saints and Avengers by James Chapman
SciFier: £28.99Eccentric, ironic and fantastic series like The Avengers and Danger Man, with their professional secret agents, or The Saint and The Persuaders, featuring flamboyant crime-fighters, still inspire... -
Giant Island by Doug Keith
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £12.45In this wondrous book by award-winning fantasy author Jane Yolen and award-winning fantasy illustrator Doug Keith, two children and a dog explore the coves and caves of a tiny island. Under the... -
Refocus: the Films of Richard Linklater Kim Wilkins 9781474493833
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past three decades, Linklater has directed more than twenty features, ranging from... -
The Films of Larisa Shepitko Lida Oukaderova 9781399524049
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.94Despite the brief span of her directorial career, lasting from 1963 to 1979, the Soviet Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko produced a remarkable body of work, one that received an expansive national... -
Ottoman Dress and Design in the West by Charlotte A. Jirousek
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.93Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of... -
Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands A. Gabriel Melendez 9780813561073
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £91.49Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others... -
Indiscreet Fantasies: Iberian Queer Cinema Andres Lema-Hincapie 9781684482474
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94Pedro Almodovar may have helped put queer Iberian cinema on the map, but there are multitudes of LGBTQ filmmakers from Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country who have made the... -
Framing Monsters by Joshua David Bellin
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £20.42The canon of popular cinema has long been rife with fantastic tales, yet critical studies have too often expediently mixed the fantasy genre with its kindred science fiction and horror films or... -
United Arrows United Arrows 9780847869688
RRP: £47.50SciFier: £45.74Founded in 1989 and based out of Tokyo, United Arrows, with over 250 stores, is one of the most influential fashion and retail brands to ever come out of Japan. This book offers a fresh and... -
The Off-Screen by Eyal Peretz
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.39From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame. The frame decontextualizes, cutting... -
Dress and Identity in British Literary Culture, 1870-1914 by Rosy Aindow
SciFier: £53.26Rosy Aindow examines the way fiction registered and responded to the emergence of a modern fashion industry during the period 1870-1914. She traces the role played by dress in the formation of... -
The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema by Sanchez-H., Jose, Sanchez-H., Jose
SciFier: £97.99In Bolivia, politics have always shaped art, particularly when it comes to film. This book presents Bolivia's most significant filmmakers largely in their own words. Since 1981, Jose Sanchez-H. has... -
Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World Professor Jane Tynan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9781350045552
SciFier: £113.99Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World examines the role uniform plays in public life and private experience. This volume explores the social, political, economic, and cultural... -
Hollywood Online: Internet Movie Marketing Before and After The Blair Witch Project Dr. Ian London (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781501374449
SciFier: £28.99Hollywood Online provides a historical account of motion picture websites from 1993 to 2008 and their marketing function as industrial advertisements for video and other media in the digital age.The... -
Responding to Call of Duty by Nate Garrelts
SciFier: £19.21Call of Duty is the most culturally significant video game franchise of the 21st century. Since the first game was released for PC in 2003, the franchise has sold over 250 million copies and been... -
Film and Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement Ian Aitken 9781138991026
SciFier: £47.20Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most... -
Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things Dick Hebdige 9780415007375
SciFier: £39.39Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals',... -
Food and Cultural Studies Bob Ashley 9780415270397
SciFier: £50.66What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information... -
Expressive Spaces in Digital 3D Cinema by Owen Weetch
SciFier: £21.49This book puts forward a more considered perspective on 3D, which is often seen as a distracting gimmick at odds with artful cinematic storytelling. Owen Weetch looks at how stereography brings added... -
Chinese Documentaries: From Dogma to Polyphony Yingchi Chu 9780415544177
RRP: £50.99SciFier: £46.33In China, unlike in Western cinema, documentary film, rather than fiction film, has been the dominant mode since 1949. In recent years, documentary TV programmes have experienced a meteoric rise... -
The Human Eradicator Vol 1 Jassim Al-Mohannadi 9781427884169
TokyopopRRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.85In the dystopian city of Pluton, a man known only as The Human Eradicator emerges as a symbol of retaliation. Haunted by the loss of his beloved daughter, who fell victim to the terrifying humanoid... -
The Nightmare Before Christmas Dr. Filipa Antunes (Lecturer in Humanities, University of East Anglia, UK) 9798765113608
SciFier: £30.99This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and history of the film from pre-production... -
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic Daisy Butcher 9780712352291
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) `killer plant' in... -
Japanese High School Films: Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline Peter C. Pugsley 9781474494618
SciFier: £93.01Japanese High School Films: Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline explores how these contemporary films capture a distinct view of Japanese adolescent life, uncovering significant links with the... -
Principles of Flat Pattern Design 4th Edition by Nora M. MacDonald
SciFier: £99.49The basic principles of the flat-pattern method are the foundation of producing effective apparel designs. Principles of Flat-Pattern Design, 4th Edition, maintains its simple and straightforward... -
Georgia's Terrific, Colorific Experiment Zoe Persico 9780762465248
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Georgia is a creative girl from a family of artists who wants to be a scientist. She decides she has to create her own unique experiment to truly be a great scientist (the way her family are all... -
The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema Judith Mayne 9780253206060
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45"[The Woman at the Keyhole is one] of the most significant contributions to feminist film theory sin ce the 1970s." -SubStance" . . . this intelligent, eminently readable volume puts women's... -
Graffiti Planet by Alan Ket
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £4.53A celebration of the creativity of graffiti artists from all over the world.Ever controversial, graffiti or street art has become a significant art form and continues to evolve and transform urban...