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Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand-Up Comedy by Richa Chilana
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £107.99This book, first of its kind in the Indian context, brings together both a theoretical understanding of various aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, and case studies of... -
British Silent Cinema and the Great War M. Hammond 9781349332373
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... -
Hitchcock and Contemporary Art C. Sprengler 9781349351855
SciFier: £46.99Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. His works have the capacity to activate sophisticated... -
Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling K. Kroeber 9781349534012
SciFier: £46.99This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal... -
Women and Home in Cinema by Louise Radinger Field
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £98.99This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at a range of films made between 1936 and 2013, it examines how filmmakers... -
Jane Austen and Vampires by Eric Parisot
SciFier: £36.99Jane Austen and Vampires is the first book to investigate the literary convergence of Jane Austen and vampires in Austen fanfic after the success of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005) and Seth... -
Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye G. Padva 9781349473090
SciFier: £46.99This 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... -
Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958-Present M. Wildermuth 9781349488438
SciFier: £46.99As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and The... -
Egyptian Gothic: 1884-1920 Jay Sullivan 9783031963933
SciFier: £112.99The Egyptian Gothic consists of novels and short stories about ancient Egyptian mummies returning to life to seek retribution or romance as well as cursed object tales. Now mostly forgotten, from the... -
The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media by Vanessa Ossa
SciFier: £103.27This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a... -
The Education of the Filmmaker in Europe, Australia, and Asia M. Hjort 9781349344277
SciFier: £46.99Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and... -
Besides the Screen by V. Crisp
SciFier: £31.99New media technologies impact cinema well beyond the screen. This volume speculates about the changes in modes of accessing, distributing, storing and promoting moving images and how they might... -
Art Maps and Cities by Gloria Lanci
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £102.99This book presents an original study on how contemporary artists are exploring urban spaces through mapping. Despite a long history of representations of cities in maps, and the relationships that... -
Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock Debbie Olson 9781349501854
SciFier: £95.16Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and... -
Retrospection and Revision in Modern and Contemporary Art, Literature and Music by Mette Gieskes
SciFier: £113.99This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own,... -
110 Years of Taxation from Pitt to Lloyd George by Henry Sless
SciFier: £36.99This book offers a multi-disciplinary visual analysis of British taxation history during the long nineteenth century. Focusing specifically on cartoons from the period, the book utilises the author's... -
Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies K. Donders 9781349437115
SciFier: £46.99Private 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 Post-1989 China: Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television W. Ho 9781349506460
SciFier: £46.99This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Contextualizing close textual readings of cinematic and... -
Popular Italian Cinema L. Bayman 9781349335862
SciFier: £46.99Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning... -
Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre Claire Henry 9781349490165
SciFier: £46.99Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics,... -
Building XNA 2.0 Games by John Sedlak
RRP: £31.49SciFier: £28.59Building XNA 2.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game Development is written by James Silva, who recently won the prestigious Microsoft Dream Build Play game competition with his... -
Classical Myth on Screen M. Cyrino 9781349504800
RRP: £79.99SciFier: £46.99An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume looks at specific story-patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman culture. The... -
Art History for Comics: Past, Present and Potential Futures Ian Horton 9783031073526
SciFier: £46.99This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the... -
Research-Based Art Practices in Southeast Asia by Caroline Ha Thuc
SciFier: £92.99This book is the first overall study of research-based art practices in Southeast Asia. Its objective is to examine the creative and mutual entanglement of academic and artistic research; in short,... -
Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel K. Loock 9781349442539
SciFier: £46.99A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction - remaking and remodelling - which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial,... -
Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel K. Loock 9781137263346
SciFier: £95.21A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction - remaking and remodelling - which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial,... -
Film Festivals and the Enrichment Economy by Ann Vogel
SciFier: £36.99Responding to a question of immense interdisciplinary interest, this book investigates the construction of value in the curation of film festivals and production of cultural events undertaken by... -
Art History for Comics: Past, Present and Potential Futures Ian Horton 9783031073557
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £40.20This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the... -
New Documentaries in Latin America Vinicius Navarro 9781349450787
SciFier: £46.99Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the... -
Queer Youth and Media Cultures Christopher Pullen 9781349480562
SciFier: £92.99This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media. Specific themes of investigation include the context... -
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Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016 Stewart Lee 9780571329038 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.48Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular... -
Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016 Stewart Lee 9780571329038
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.24Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular... -
Unicorn Magic: Rosymane and the Rescue Crystal by Daisy Meadows
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.48A secret world full of magic, unicorns and friendship! The brand-new series from the bestselling Daisy Meadows, author of RAINBOW MAGIC and MAGIC ANIMAL FRIENDS, and the most-borrowed author in UK... -
Filmic Sociology by Joyce Sebag
SciFier: £112.83This book is an exploration of the intellectual resources offered by the hybridisation of sociology and cinema: practicing sociology, or other human sciences, through images and sound. In the age of... -
The Musicality of Narrative Film D. Kulezic-Wilson 9781349504329
RRP: £79.99SciFier: £56.99The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's... -
Ecuadorian Cinema for the 21st Century by Maria Fernanda Mino Puga
SciFier: £112.75Ecuadorian cinema has been largely overlooked in film scholarship, usually being limited to brief descriptions in Latin American compendiums. Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century would be the... -
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema C. O'Rawe 9781349479627
SciFier: £46.99Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed... -
March of the Lemmings by Stewart Lee
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22'A true genius of comedy' Grayson PerryAs a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the EU referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience - and the... -
A New Gnosis by David M. Odorisio
SciFier: £112.99Superhero phenomena exploded into 20th- and 21st-century popular culture by way of the visual medium of comic books. In an increasingly secular (yet spiritual) culture that has largely renounced "the... -
TV Drama in the Multiplatform Era by Trisha Dunleavy
SciFier: £112.99This edited collection examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television's current multiplatform era. Fuelled by the wider international exposure that internet...