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East European Cinemas Aniko Imre 9780415972680
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £36.79Eastern Europe has produced rich and varied film cultures--Czech, Hungarian, and Serbian among them-whose histories have been intimately tied to the transition from Soviet domination to the... -
Classical Hollywood Comedy Kristine Brunovska Karnick 9780415906401
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.83Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.About the... -
Pervasive Animation Suzanne Buchan 9780415807241
SciFier: £50.66This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital... -
Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive Simon Brown 9780415892643
SciFier: £48.06This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color... -
Psychoanalysis and Cinema E. Ann Kaplan 9780415900294
RRP: £40.99SciFier: £37.66These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its... -
Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University) 9781138059320
SciFier: £53.10This collection of essays offers a pioneering analysis of the political and conceptual complexities of teaching transnational cinema in university classrooms around the world. In their exploration of... -
New Silent Cinema Katherine Groo 9780415735278
SciFier: £52.40With the success of Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent... -
Authorship and Film David A. Gerstner 9780415939942
SciFier: £35.93Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume of new work revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to larger issues of identity--in film,... -
New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality Anna Everett 9780415939966
SciFier: £37.66The mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of technologies like DVDs, MP3s and the Internet has freed the public from... -
Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres Christopher Holliday 9780367590741
SciFier: £41.13This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy... -
Westerns: Films through History Janet Walker 9780415924245
SciFier: £35.93The cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier. Westerns is the first book to... -
Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place Hamid Naficy 9780415919470
SciFier: £37.66Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized contexts. This... -
Landscape and Film by Martin Lefebvre (Concordia University, CANADA)
SciFier: £36.79Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This volume of new work will address fundamental questions: What kind of landscape is cinematic landscape?... -
Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive Mark Garrett Cooper 9780367589530
SciFier: £41.13The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of... -
Disney Discourse by Eric Smoodin
SciFier: £41.13Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our "Goodwill Ambassadors:" Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his empire. These essays use an... -
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Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom Eric Smoodin 9780415906166 [USED COPY]
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £3.01Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our "Goodwill Ambassadors:" Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his empire. These essays use an... -
Hollywood Puzzle Films Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780415622462
SciFier: £48.06From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques-like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time... -
Studying Chungking Express by Sean Redmond
SciFier: £27.10Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Chungking Express has quickly been recognised as one of the most important examples of 'World Cinema' in the last two decades. It explores time and desire and, on an allegorical... -
The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture Tom Brown 9780415899413
SciFier: £48.06The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored... -
Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 9780415996648
SciFier: £37.66Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action.Comprising ten new essays and a substantive... -
The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars Steven Jacobs 9780367459475
SciFier: £45.99The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative... -
Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings by A. Sargeant
SciFier: £57.39Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and... -
Media Authorship Cynthia Chris 9780415699433
SciFier: £42.00Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates... -
Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
SciFier: £44.60This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American... -
Ecocinema Theory and Practice Stephen Rust 9780415899437
SciFier: £48.06Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind-an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical...