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With Both Feet on the Clouds by Danielle Gurevitch
RRP: £91.99SciFier: £66.63Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among... -
The Comics of Asaf Hanuka by Matt Reingold
RRP: £106.99SciFier: £76.33The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories tells the story of how cartoonist Asaf Hanuka illustrates both universal and particular narratives. Through close readings of... -
Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896-1921) John MacKay 9781618117342
RRP: £105.99SciFier: £105.18Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversial position over the past sixty years as a founding... -
Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896-1921) John MacKay 9781644690116
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.74Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversial position over the past sixty years as a founding... -
Moments of Happiness by Alex Dubas
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £13.12In 2014, when the Russian-Latvian radio talk-show host Aleks Dubas started asking his celebrity guests to describe a personal "moment of happiness" in their lives, the results were unexpectedly frank... -
Aesthetics after Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of Art Winfried Menninghaus 9781644690000
RRP: £84.99SciFier: £84.43Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of "art" production not only in animals, but also in humans. The present book is the first to... -
Aesthetics after Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of the Arts Winfried Menninghaus 9781644696101
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £18.53Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of "art" production not only in animals, but also in humans. The present book is the first to... -
Sing to Victory! by Suzanne Ament
RRP: £91.99SciFier: £91.03A woman wearing a ballgown singing in the snow for returning ski troops; a technician's tears ruining a master recording of a new wartime song; fresh recruits spontaneously standing and doffing their... -
Parallel Realities in Russian and Ukrainian Contemporary Cinema Tetyana Shlikhar 9798897830145
RRP: £65.99SciFier: £47.55This book examines Russian and Ukrainian feature films to trace the roots and consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It argues that the cultural war stems from a colonial past, where Russia... -
The Russian Cinema Reader by Rimgaila Salys
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £15.83This reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema or Russian culture through film. It consists of excerpts from English language criticism and translations... -
Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context Nancy Condee 9781644692714
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £18.53Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public... -
Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context Nancy Condee 9781644692707
RRP: £98.99SciFier: £70.78Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public... -
Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick Maarten Coegnarts 9781644691120
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £23.27How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and... -
Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick Maarten Coegnarts 9781618118363
RRP: £105.99SciFier: £104.48How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning when music in essence is an abstract and... -
Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory Myroslav Shkandrij 9781618119759
RRP: £84.99SciFier: £84.43Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersburg or Kyiv, they made major contributions to... -
Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory Myroslav Shkandrij 9781644696279
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £19.22Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersburg or Kyiv, they made major contributions to... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119643
SciFier: £23.29The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the... -
Film's Feisty Femmes: Today's Polish Women Helena Goscilo 9798897830664
RRP: £91.99SciFier: £65.93It would be difficult to overestimate the importance, originality, and success of current Polish female directors, whose bold, vivid features have taken the film industry by storm. Film's Feisty... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119636
RRP: £91.99SciFier: £79.86The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the... -
The Fair Folk And Little Orphan Mary: A Tale about Gnomes Maria Konopnicka 9798887196886
RRP: £106.99SciFier: £46.99A classic children's tale about Gnomes, appealing equally, if not more so, to the adult child. Written in rich, lyrical prose, frequently shifting into the peasant dialect and interspersed with... -
The Fair Folk And Little Orphan Mary: A Tale about Gnomes Maria Konopnicka 9798887196893
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.99A classic children's tale about Gnomes, appealing equally, if not more so, to the adult child. Written in rich, lyrical prose, frequently shifting into the peasant dialect and interspersed with... -
The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Bejart Richard Goodkin 9798887198446
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £19.89The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Bejart transports readers to 17th-century France, a time when the stage was as full of intrigue as the lives of those who performed on it.At the heart of this richly...